diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index afa92e1..88a4f50 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

An application that can toll quarters, on the hour, show random Bible verses, remind the user of Christian feasts and... reproduce semantron drumming sounds. Dedicated to bell lovers and Christians.

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Church Bells Tower - screenshot

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Church Bells Tower - screenshot

Downloaded latest version (compiled for x64/x32, Windows binary)

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  • strike quarter-hours
  • strike on the hour once... or the number of hours
  • toll distinctively every six hours [early morning, at noon, in the evening and at midnight]
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  • tick/tock background sound
  • options to automatically limit chimes if music is playing in the background or if videos play in full-screen
  • easy to configure intervals to chime or to keep silent
  • option to display time when it chimes/strikes/toll ;-)
  • ... with an analog clock display (optional)
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  • display a random Bible verse in English, French or Spanish, at a specified interval (e.g., every three hours)
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  • informs you about equinoxes and solstices, and how much of the current day or year has elapsed
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  • tick/tock background sound
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  • display a Bible verse in English, French or Spanish, at a specified interval (e.g., every three hours)
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  • informs you about moon phases, equinoxes and solstices, and how much of the current day or year has elapsed
  • option to display / observe Christian feast days - for Orthodox and Catholic worshippers; automatically calculates the dates for Easter and related celebrations
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  • options to set an alarm or a timer
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  • stopwatch - dedicated panel to help you track activities
  • secular list of celebrations and option to add personal events to the list
  • option to regularly play semantron drumming sounds on days of feast in Christianity
  • option to start at boot [if compiled]
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    Developed by Marius Șucan.

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    I coded the application as an AHK script for AutoHotkey_H v1.1.27. To execute/compile the source code one needs AutoHotkey_H v1.1+.

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    I coded the application as an AHK script for AutoHotkey_L v1.1.30. To execute/compile the source code one needs AutoHotkey_L v1.1.3+.

    diff --git a/analog-clock-display.ahk b/analog-clock-display.ahk deleted file mode 100644 index e3af6b5..0000000 --- a/analog-clock-display.ahk +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1729 +0,0 @@ -; from https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/34692-examplesminituts-the-gdi-examplecodes-thread/#entry219089 -; GDI+ ahk analogue clock example written by derRaphael -; posted on 17 November 2008 - 06:15 PM. -; extensively modified by Marius Șucan in January 2019 -; Parts based on examples from Tic's GDI+ Tutorials and of course on his GDIP.ahk - -; This code has been licensed under the terms of EUPL 1.0 - -#SingleInstance, Force -#NoEnv -#NoTrayIcon -CoordMode, Mouse, Screen -SetBatchLines, -1 -Global MainExe := AhkExported() - , isAnalogClockFile := 1 - -If (!pToken := Gdip_Startup()) -{ - isAnalogClockFile := 0 - MainExe.ahkassign("isAnalogClockFile", isAnalogClockFile) - Sleep, 10 - ExitApp -} - -Global faceBgrColor := "eeEEee" - , faceElements := "001100" - , mainOSDopacity:= 230 - , faceOpacity := 254 - , faceOpacityBgr:= Round(faceOpacity/1.25) - , ClockPosX := 30 - , ClockPosY := 90 - , ClockDiameter := 480 - , ClockWinSize := ClockDiameter + 2 - , ClockCenter := Round(ClockWinSize/2) - , roundedCsize := Round(ClockDiameter/4) - , hFaceClock - , G, pPen, hbm, hdc, obm, pBrush - , ClockVisibility := 0 - , isAnalogClockFile := 1 - , analogDisplay := 0 - , analogDisplayScale := 1 - , constantAnalogClock := 0 - , DisplayTime := 0 - , lastShowTime := 1 - , moduleInit := 0 - , PrefOpen := 0 - , tickTockNoise := 0 - -OnMessage(0x200, "WM_MOUSEMOVE") -OnExit, OnHEXit -InitClockFace() -Return - -InitClockFace() { - Critical, on - If (moduleInit!=1 || PrefOpen=1) - { - ClockPosX := MainExe.ahkgetvar.ClockGuiX - ClockPosY := MainExe.ahkgetvar.ClockGuiY - } - - tickTockNoise := MainExe.ahkgetvar.tickTockNoise - analogDisplayScale := MainExe.ahkgetvar.analogDisplayScale - analogDisplay := MainExe.ahkgetvar.analogDisplay - constantAnalogClock := MainExe.ahkgetvar.constantAnalogClock - OSDmarginSides := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDmarginSides - OSDmarginBottom := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDmarginBottom - OSDmarginTop := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDmarginTop - DisplayTime := MainExe.ahkgetvar.DisplayTime - DisplayTime := Ceil(DisplayTime * 1.25) + 2500 - mainOSDopacity := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDalpha - FontSize := MainExe.ahkgetvar.FontSize - faceElements := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDbgrColor - faceBgrColor := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDtextColor - OSDroundCorners := MainExe.ahkgetvar.OSDroundCorners - ClockDiameter := Round(FontSize * 4 * analogDisplayScale) - ClockWinSize := ClockDiameter + Round((OSDmarginBottom//2 + OSDmarginTop//2 + OSDmarginSides//2) * analogDisplayScale) - roundedCsize := MainExe.ahkgetvar.roundCornerSize - roundedCsize := Round(roundedCsize * (analogDisplayScale/1.5)) - If (ClockDiameter<=80) - { - ClockDiameter := 80 - ClockWinSize := 90 - roundedCsize := 20 - } - ClockCenter := Round(ClockWinSize/2) - If (OSDroundCorners!=1) - roundedCsize := 1 - - SetFormat, Integer, H - faceOpacity+=0 - faceOpacityBgr+=0 - SetFormat, Integer, D - - Width := Height := ClockWinSize + 2 ; make width and height slightly bigger to avoid cut away edges - Gui, ClockGui: Destroy - Sleep, 25 - Gui, ClockGui: -DPIScale -Caption +E0x80000 +LastFound +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow +OwnDialogs +hwndHfaceClock - Gui, ClockGui: Show, NoActivate x%ClockPosX% y%ClockPosY% w%Width% h%height% - Gui, ClockGui: Hide - ; WinSet, Region, 0-0 R%roundedCsize%-%roundedCsize% w%Width% h%Height%, ahk_id %hFaceClock% - CenterX := CenterY := ClockCenter - -; Prepare our pGraphic so we have a 'canvas' to work upon - hbm := CreateDIBSection(Width, Height), hdc := CreateCompatibleDC() - obm := SelectObject(hdc, hbm), G := Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC(hdc) - Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(G, 4) - Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(G, 7) - -; Draw outer circle - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter * 1.35) - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacityBgr faceElements) ; clock face background - Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle(G, pBrush, 0, 0, ClockWinSize, ClockWinSize, roundedCsize) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - - Diameter := ClockDiameter - 2*Floor((ClockDiameter//100)*1.2) - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xaa" faceElements, floor((ClockDiameter/100)*1.2)) - Gdip_DrawEllipse(G, pPen, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - -; Draw inner circle - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.04, 2) + Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.2, 2) ; white border - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacity faceBgrColor) - Gdip_FillEllipse(G, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - -; Draw Second Marks - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.08, 2) ; inner circle is 8 % smaller than clock's diameter - R1 := Diameter/2-1 ; outer position - R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.08, 2) ; inner position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xaa" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*1.2) ; 1.2 % of total diameter is our pen width - If (ClockDiameter>=100) - DrawClockMarks(60, R1, R2) ; we have 60 seconds - Else If (ClockDiameter>=50) - DrawClockMarks(24, R1, R2+0.1) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - - R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.04, 2) ; inner position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x88" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*0.7) ; 1.2 % of total diameter is our pen width - If (ClockDiameter>250) - DrawClockMarks(120, R1, R2) ; we have 60 seconds - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - -; Draw Hour Marks - R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.2, 2) ; inner position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xff" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*2.3) ; 2.3 % of total diameter is our pen width - DrawClockMarks(12, R1, R2) ; we have 12 hours - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.17, 2) ; inner circle is 17 % smaller than clock's diameter - R1 := Diameter/2-1 ; outer position - R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.2, 2) ; inner position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xff" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*4) ; 4 % of total diameter is our pen width - If (ClockDiameter>250) - DrawClockMarks(4, R1, R2) ; we have 4 quarters - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - - UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, hdc, , , , , mainOSDopacity) - moduleInit := 1 - Return -} - -animateAppeareance() { - Loop, - { - alphaLevel := A_Index*15 - If (alphaLevel>mainOSDopacity) - Break - UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, hdc, , , , , alphaLevel) - Sleep, 1 - } -} - -animateHiding() { - Loop, - { - alphaLevel := mainOSDopacity - A_Index*15 - If (alphaLevel<5) - Break - UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, hdc, , , , , alphaLevel) - Sleep, 1 - } -} - -UpdateEverySecond() { - CenterX := CenterY := ClockCenter - -; prepare to empty previously drawn stuff - Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(G, 1) ; turn off aliasing - Gdip_SetCompositingMode(G, 1) ; set to overdraw - -; delete previous graphic and redraw background - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.22, 2) ; 18 % less than clock's outer diameter - - ; delete whatever has been drawn here - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(0x00000000) ; fully transparent brush 'eraser' - Gdip_FillEllipse(G, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - - Gdip_SetCompositingMode(G, 0) ; switch off overdraw - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacityBgr faceElements) - Gdip_FillEllipse(G, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacity faceBgrColor) - Gdip_FillEllipse(G, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.08, 2) - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid("0x66" faceElements) - Gdip_FillEllipse(G, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - - Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.04, 2) - pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid("0x95" faceElements) - Gdip_FillEllipse(G, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - -; Draw HoursPointer - Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(G, 4) ; turn on antialiasing - t := (A_Hour*360//12) + ((A_Min//15*15)*360//60)//12 + 90 - R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.50, 2) ; outer position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xaa" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*3.3, 2)) - Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen, CenterX, CenterY - , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) - , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - - R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.45, 2) ; outer position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xcc" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.6, 2)) - Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen, CenterX, CenterY - , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) - , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - -; Draw MinutesPointer - t := Round(A_Min*360/60+90, 2) - R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.35, 2) ; outer position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x55" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*2.8, 2)) - Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen, CenterX, CenterY - , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) - , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - -; Draw SecondsPointer - t := Round(A_Sec*360/60+90, 2) - R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.25, 2) ; outer position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x99" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.3, 2)) - Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen, CenterX, CenterY - , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) - , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - -; Draw SecondsPointer end stick - R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.75, 2) ; outer position - pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x99" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.3, 2)) - Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen, CenterX, CenterY - , Round(CenterX + (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) - , Round(CenterY + (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) - Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) - - UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, hdc, , , , , mainOSDopacity) - Return -} - -DrawClockMarks(items, R1, R2) { - CenterX := CenterY := ClockCenter - Loop, %items% - { - Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen - , CenterX - Round(R1 * Cos(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2) - , CenterY - Round(R1 * Sin(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2) - , CenterX - Round(R2 * Cos(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2) - , CenterY - Round(R2 * Sin(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2)) - } -} - -hideClock() { - If (ClockVisibility!=1) - Return - If (PrefOpen=0) - animateHiding() - Gui, ClockGui: Hide - SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, Off - ClockVisibility := 0 - MainExe.ahkassign("ClockVisibility", ClockVisibility) - Return -} - -showClock() { - constantAnalogClock := MainExe.ahkgetvar.constantAnalogClock - If (ClockVisibility!=0) - Return - lastShowTime := A_TickCount - Gui, ClockGui: Show, NoActivate - UpdateEverySecond() - SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, 1000 - If (PrefOpen=0) - animateAppeareance() - ClockVisibility := 1 - MainExe.ahkassign("ClockVisibility", ClockVisibility) - If (analogDisplay=1 && constantAnalogClock=0 && PrefOpen=0) - SetTimer, hideClock, % -DisplayTime - lastShowTime := A_TickCount - Return -} - -OnHEXit: - If (PrefOpen=0) - animateHiding() - SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, Off - Gui, ClockGui: Destroy - ClockVisibility := 0 - SelectObject(hdc, obm) - DeleteObject(hbm) - DeleteDC(hdc) - Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) - Gdip_Shutdown(pToken) - ExitApp -Return - - -WM_MOUSEMOVE(wP, lP, msg, hwnd) { -; Function by Drugwash - Global - Local A - SetFormat, Integer, H - hwnd+=0, A := WinExist("A"), hwnd .= "", A .= "" - SetFormat, Integer, D - If (constantAnalogClock=1 && A=hFaceClock && (wP&0x1)) - { - PostMessage, 0xA1, 2,,, ahk_id %hFaceClock% - SetTimer, trackMouseDragging, -25 - } Else If (constantAnalogClock=0 || PrefOpen=1 && (wP&0x1)) && (A_TickCount - lastShowTime>950) - { - hideClock() - SetTimer, showClock, -900 - } -} - -trackMouseDragging() { - defAnalogClockPosChanged := 1 - ; MainExe.ahkassign("defAnalogClockPosChanged", defAnalogClockPosChanged) - WinGetPos, ClockPosX, ClockPosY,,, ahk_id %hFaceClock% - MainExe.ahkPostFunction["saveAnalogClockPosition", ClockPosX, ClockPosY] - GetKeyState, already_down_state, LButton - If (already_down_state = "D") - SetTimer, trackMouseDragging, -25 -} - -ClockGuiGuiContextMenu(GuiHwnd, CtrlHwnd, EventInfo, IsRightClick, X, Y) { - Static menuGenerated, lastInvoked := 1 - If (CtrlHwnd && IsRightClick=1) - || ((A_TickCount-lastInvoked>250) && IsRightClick=0) - { - lastInvoked := A_TickCount - Return - } - Menu, ContextMenu, UseErrorLevel - Menu, ContextMenu, Delete - Sleep, 25 - If (menuGenerated!=1) - { - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 0.25x, ChangeClockSize - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 0.50x, ChangeClockSize - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 1.00x, ChangeClockSize - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 1.50x, ChangeClockSize - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 2.00x, ChangeClockSize - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 3.00x, ChangeClockSize - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 4.00x, ChangeClockSize - menuGenerated := 1 - } - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Check, %analogDisplayScale%x - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Sc&ale, :ClockSizesMenu - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Hide the clock, HideClockNow - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, - If (PrefOpen=0) - { - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Tick/tock sounds, ToggleTicks - If (tickTockNoise=1) - Menu, ContextMenu, Check, &Tick/tock sounds - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Settings, ShowSettings - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &About, ShowAbout - } - Menu, ContextMenu, Add - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Close menu, dummy - Menu, ContextMenu, Show - lastInvoked := A_TickCount - Return -} - -HideClockNow() { - MainExe.ahkPostFunction["toggleAnalogClock"] -} - -ShowSettings() { - MainExe.ahkPostFunction["ShowSettings"] -} - -ShowAbout() { - MainExe.ahkPostFunction["AboutWindow"] -} - -ToggleTicks() { - MainExe.ahkPostFunction["ToggleTickTock"] -} - -SynchSecTimer() { - SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, Off - SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, 1000 -} - -ChangeClockSize() { - Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Uncheck, %analogDisplayScale%x - StringLeft, newSize, A_ThisMenuItem, 4 - MainExe.ahkPostFunction["ChangeClockSize", newSize] -} - -dummy() { - Return -} - -;##################################################################################### -; Gdip standard library v1.45 by tic (Tariq Porter) 07/09/11 -; Modifed by Rseding91 using fincs 64 bit compatible Gdip library 5/1/2013 -; Supports: Basic, _L ANSi, _L Unicode x86 and _L Unicode x64 -; taken https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=6517 - -UpdateLayeredWindow(hwnd, hdc, x="", y="", w="", h="", Alpha=255) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - if ((x != "") && (y != "")) - VarSetCapacity(pt, 8), NumPut(x, pt, 0, "UInt"), NumPut(y, pt, 4, "UInt") - - if (w = "") ||(h = "") - WinGetPos,,, w, h, ahk_id %hwnd% - - return DllCall("UpdateLayeredWindow" - , Ptr, hwnd - , Ptr, 0 - , Ptr, ((x = "") && (y = "")) ? 0 : &pt - , "int64*", w|h<<32 - , Ptr, hdc - , "int64*", 0 - , "uint", 0 - , "UInt*", Alpha<<16|1<<24 - , "uint", 2) -} - -BitBlt(ddc, dx, dy, dw, dh, sdc, sx, sy, Raster="") { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - return DllCall("gdi32\BitBlt" - , Ptr, dDC - , "int", dx, "int", dy - , "int", dw, "int", dh - , Ptr, sDC - , "int", sx, "int", sy - , "uint", Raster ? Raster : 0x00CC0020) -} - -StretchBlt(ddc, dx, dy, dw, dh, sdc, sx, sy, sw, sh, Raster="") { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - return DllCall("gdi32\StretchBlt" - , Ptr, ddc - , "int", dx, "int", dy - , "int", dw, "int", dh - , Ptr, sdc - , "int", sx, "int", sy - , "int", sw, "int", sh - , "uint", Raster ? Raster : 0x00CC0020) -} - -SetStretchBltMode(hdc, iStretchMode=4) { - return DllCall("gdi32\SetStretchBltMode" - , A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hdc - , "int", iStretchMode) -} - -SetImage(hwnd, hBitmap) { - SendMessage, 0x172, 0x0, hBitmap,, ahk_id %hwnd% - E := ErrorLevel - DeleteObject(E) - return E -} - -SetSysColorToControl(hwnd, SysColor=15) { - WinGetPos,,, w, h, ahk_id %hwnd% - bc := DllCall("GetSysColor", "Int", SysColor, "UInt") - pBrushClear := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(0xff000000 | (bc >> 16 | bc & 0xff00 | (bc & 0xff) << 16)) - pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(w, h), G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap) - Gdip_FillRectangle(G, pBrushClear, 0, 0, w, h) - hBitmap := Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(pBitmap) - SetImage(hwnd, hBitmap) - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrushClear) - Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G), Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap), DeleteObject(hBitmap) - return 0 -} - -Gdip_BitmapFromScreen(Screen=0, Raster="") { - if (Screen = 0) - { - Sysget, x, 76 - Sysget, y, 77 - Sysget, w, 78 - Sysget, h, 79 - } else if (SubStr(Screen, 1, 5) = "hwnd:") - { - Screen := SubStr(Screen, 6) - if !WinExist( "ahk_id " Screen) - return -2 - WinGetPos,,, w, h, ahk_id %Screen% - x := y := 0 - hhdc := GetDCEx(Screen, 3) - } else if (Screen&1 != "") - { - Sysget, M, Monitor, %Screen% - x := MLeft, y := MTop, w := MRight-MLeft, h := MBottom-MTop - } else - { - StringSplit, S, Screen, | - x := S1, y := S2, w := S3, h := S4 - } - - if (x = "") || (y = "") || (w = "") || (h = "") - Return -1 - - chdc := CreateCompatibleDC(), hbm := CreateDIBSection(w, h, chdc), obm := SelectObject(chdc, hbm), hhdc := hhdc ? hhdc : GetDC() - BitBlt(chdc, 0, 0, w, h, hhdc, x, y, Raster) - ReleaseDC(hhdc) - - pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hbm) - SelectObject(chdc, obm), DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(hhdc), DeleteDC(chdc) - Return pBitmap -} - -Gdip_BitmapFromHWND(hwnd) { - WinGetPos,,, Width, Height, ahk_id %hwnd% - hbm := CreateDIBSection(Width, Height), hdc := CreateCompatibleDC(), obm := SelectObject(hdc, hbm) - PrintWindow(hwnd, hdc) - pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hbm) - SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(hdc) - return pBitmap -} - -CreateRectF(ByRef RectF, x, y, w, h) { - VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16) - NumPut(x, RectF, 0, "float"), NumPut(y, RectF, 4, "float"), NumPut(w, RectF, 8, "float"), NumPut(h, RectF, 12, "float") -} - -CreateRect(ByRef Rect, x, y, w, h) { - VarSetCapacity(Rect, 16) - NumPut(x, Rect, 0, "uint"), NumPut(y, Rect, 4, "uint"), NumPut(w, Rect, 8, "uint"), NumPut(h, Rect, 12, "uint") -} - -CreateSizeF(ByRef SizeF, w, h) { - VarSetCapacity(SizeF, 8) - NumPut(w, SizeF, 0, "float"), NumPut(h, SizeF, 4, "float") -} - -CreatePointF(ByRef PointF, x, y) { - VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8) - NumPut(x, PointF, 0, "float"), NumPut(y, PointF, 4, "float") -} - -CreateDIBSection(w, h, hdc="", bpp=32, ByRef ppvBits=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - hdc2 := hdc ? hdc : GetDC() - VarSetCapacity(bi, 40, 0) - - NumPut(w, bi, 4, "uint") - , NumPut(h, bi, 8, "uint") - , NumPut(40, bi, 0, "uint") - , NumPut(1, bi, 12, "ushort") - , NumPut(0, bi, 16, "uInt") - , NumPut(bpp, bi, 14, "ushort") - - hbm := DllCall("CreateDIBSection" - , Ptr, hdc2 - , Ptr, &bi - , "uint", 0 - , A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", ppvBits - , Ptr, 0 - , "uint", 0, Ptr) - - if !hdc - ReleaseDC(hdc2) - return hbm -} - -PrintWindow(hwnd, hdc, Flags=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("PrintWindow", Ptr, hwnd, Ptr, hdc, "uint", Flags) -} - -DestroyIcon(hIcon) { - return DllCall("DestroyIcon", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hIcon) -} - -PaintDesktop(hdc) { - return DllCall("PaintDesktop", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hdc) -} - -CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdc, w, h) { - return DllCall("gdi32\CreateCompatibleBitmap", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hdc, "int", w, "int", h) -} - -CreateCompatibleDC(hdc=0) { - return DllCall("CreateCompatibleDC", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hdc) -} - -SelectObject(hdc, hgdiobj) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("SelectObject", Ptr, hdc, Ptr, hgdiobj) -} - -DeleteObject(hObject) { - return DllCall("DeleteObject", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hObject) -} - -GetDC(hwnd=0) { - return DllCall("GetDC", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hwnd) -} - -GetDCEx(hwnd, flags=0, hrgnClip=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("GetDCEx", Ptr, hwnd, Ptr, hrgnClip, "int", flags) -} - -ReleaseDC(hdc, hwnd=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("ReleaseDC", Ptr, hwnd, Ptr, hdc) -} - -DeleteDC(hdc) { - return DllCall("DeleteDC", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hdc) -} - -Gdip_BitmapFromBRA(ByRef BRAFromMemIn, File, Alternate=0) { - Static FName = "ObjRelease" - - if !BRAFromMemIn - return -1 - Loop, Parse, BRAFromMemIn, `n - { - if (A_Index = 1) - { - StringSplit, Header, A_LoopField, | - if (Header0 != 4 || Header2 != "BRA!") - return -2 - } else if (A_Index = 2) - { - StringSplit, Info, A_LoopField, | - if (Info0 != 3) - return -3 - } else - break - } - if !Alternate - StringReplace, File, File, \, \\, All - RegExMatch(BRAFromMemIn, "mi`n)^" (Alternate ? File "\|.+?\|(\d+)\|(\d+)" : "\d+\|" File "\|(\d+)\|(\d+)") "$", FileInfo) - if !FileInfo - return -4 - - hData := DllCall("GlobalAlloc", "uint", 2, Ptr, FileInfo2, Ptr) - pData := DllCall("GlobalLock", Ptr, hData, Ptr) - DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", Ptr, pData, Ptr, &BRAFromMemIn+Info2+FileInfo1, Ptr, FileInfo2) - DllCall("GlobalUnlock", Ptr, hData) - DllCall("ole32\CreateStreamOnHGlobal", Ptr, hData, "int", 1, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pStream) - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromStream", Ptr, pStream, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pBitmap) - If (A_PtrSize) - %FName%(pStream) - Else - DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(1*pStream)+8), "uint", pStream) - return pBitmap -} - - -Gdip_DrawRectangle(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawRectangle", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pPen, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) -} - -Gdip_DrawRoundedRectangle(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, r) { - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - E := Gdip_DrawRectangle(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h) - Gdip_ResetClip(pGraphics) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-(2*r), y+r, w+(4*r), h-(2*r), 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+r, y-(2*r), w-(2*r), h+(4*r), 4) - Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x+w-(2*r), y, 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x, y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x+w-(2*r), y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_ResetClip(pGraphics) - return E -} - -Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawEllipse", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pPen, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) -} - -Gdip_DrawBezier(pGraphics, pPen, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawBezier" - , Ptr, pgraphics - , Ptr, pPen - , "float", x1, "float", y1 - , "float", x2, "float", y2 - , "float", x3, "float", y3 - , "float", x4, "float", y4) -} - -Gdip_DrawArc(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawArc" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, pPen - , "float", x, "float", y - , "float", w, "float", h - , "float", StartAngle - , "float", SweepAngle) -} - -Gdip_DrawPie(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawPie", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pPen, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "float", StartAngle, "float", SweepAngle) -} - -Gdip_DrawLine(pGraphics, pPen, x1, y1, x2, y2) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawLine" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, pPen - , "float", x1, "float", y1 - , "float", x2, "float", y2) -} - -Gdip_DrawLines(pGraphics, pPen, Points) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - StringSplit, Points, Points, | - VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8*Points0) - Loop, %Points0% - { - StringSplit, Coord, Points%A_Index%, `, - NumPut(Coord1, PointF, 8*(A_Index-1), "float"), NumPut(Coord2, PointF, (8*(A_Index-1))+4, "float") - } - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawLines", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pPen, Ptr, &PointF, "int", Points0) -} - -Gdip_FillRectangle(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillRectangle" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, pBrush - , "float", x, "float", y - , "float", w, "float", h) -} - -Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h, r) { - Region := Gdip_GetClipRegion(pGraphics) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) - E := Gdip_FillRectangle(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h) - Gdip_SetClipRegion(pGraphics, Region, 0) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-(2*r), y+r, w+(4*r), h-(2*r), 4) - Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+r, y-(2*r), w-(2*r), h+(4*r), 4) - Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x+w-(2*r), y, 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x+w-(2*r), y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) - Gdip_SetClipRegion(pGraphics, Region, 0) - Gdip_DeleteRegion(Region) - return E -} - -Gdip_FillPolygon(pGraphics, pBrush, Points, FillMode=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - StringSplit, Points, Points, | - VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8*Points0) - Loop, %Points0% - { - StringSplit, Coord, Points%A_Index%, `, - NumPut(Coord1, PointF, 8*(A_Index-1), "float"), NumPut(Coord2, PointF, (8*(A_Index-1))+4, "float") - } - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillPolygon", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pBrush, Ptr, &PointF, "int", Points0, "int", FillMode) -} - -Gdip_FillPie(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillPie" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, pBrush - , "float", x, "float", y - , "float", w, "float", h - , "float", StartAngle - , "float", SweepAngle) -} - -Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillEllipse", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pBrush, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) -} - -Gdip_FillRegion(pGraphics, pBrush, Region) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillRegion", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pBrush, Ptr, Region) -} - -Gdip_FillPath(pGraphics, pBrush, Path) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillPath", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pBrush, Ptr, Path) -} - -Gdip_DrawImagePointsRect(pGraphics, pBitmap, Points, sx="", sy="", sw="", sh="", Matrix=1) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - StringSplit, Points, Points, | - VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8*Points0) - Loop, %Points0% - { - StringSplit, Coord, Points%A_Index%, `, - NumPut(Coord1, PointF, 8*(A_Index-1), "float"), NumPut(Coord2, PointF, (8*(A_Index-1))+4, "float") - } - - if (Matrix&1 = "") - ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) - else if (Matrix != 1) - ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix("1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|" Matrix "|0|0|0|0|0|1") - - if (sx = "" && sy = "" && sw = "" && sh = "") - { - sx := 0, sy := 0 - sw := Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) - sh := Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) - } - - E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImagePointsRect" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, pBitmap - , Ptr, &PointF - , "int", Points0 - , "float", sx, "float", sy - , "float", sw, "float", sh - , "int", 2 - , Ptr, ImageAttr - , Ptr, 0 - , Ptr, 0) - if ImageAttr - Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) - return E -} - -Gdip_DrawImage(pGraphics, pBitmap, dx="", dy="", dw="", dh="", sx="", sy="", sw="", sh="", Matrix=1) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - if (Matrix&1 = "") - ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) - else if (Matrix != 1) - ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix("1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|" Matrix "|0|0|0|0|0|1") - - if (sx = "" && sy = "" && sw = "" && sh = "") - { - if (dx = "" && dy = "" && dw = "" && dh = "") - { - sx := dx := 0, sy := dy := 0 - sw := dw := Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) - sh := dh := Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) - } - else - { - sx := sy := 0 - sw := Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) - sh := Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) - } - } - - E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImageRectRect" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, pBitmap - , "float", dx, "float", dy - , "float", dw, "float", dh - , "float", sx, "float", sy - , "float", sw, "float", sh - , "int", 2 - , Ptr, ImageAttr - , Ptr, 0 - , Ptr, 0) - if ImageAttr - Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) - return E -} - -Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - VarSetCapacity(ColourMatrix, 100, 0) - Matrix := RegExReplace(RegExReplace(Matrix, "^[^\d-\.]+([\d\.])", "$1", "", 1), "[^\d-\.]+", "|") - StringSplit, Matrix, Matrix, | - Loop, 25 - { - Matrix := (Matrix%A_Index% != "") ? Matrix%A_Index% : Mod(A_Index-1, 6) ? 0 : 1 - NumPut(Matrix, ColourMatrix, (A_Index-1)*4, "float") - } - rezA := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateImageAttributes", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", ImageAttr) - rezB := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesColorMatrix", Ptr, ImageAttr, "int", 1, "int", 1, Ptr, &ColourMatrix, Ptr, 0, "int", 0) - return ImageAttr -} - -Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageGraphicsContext", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pGraphics) - return pGraphics -} - -Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC(hdc) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFromHDC", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hdc, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pGraphics) - return pGraphics -} - -Gdip_GetDC(pGraphics) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetDC", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", hdc) - return hdc -} - -Gdip_ReleaseDC(pGraphics, hdc) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipReleaseDC", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, hdc) -} - -Gdip_GraphicsClear(pGraphics, ARGB=0x00ffffff) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGraphicsClear", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "int", ARGB) -} - -Gdip_BlurBitmap(pBitmap, Blur) { - if (Blur > 100) || (Blur < 1) - return -1 - - sWidth := Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap), sHeight := Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) - dWidth := sWidth//Blur, dHeight := sHeight//Blur - - pBitmap1 := Gdip_CreateBitmap(dWidth, dHeight) - G1 := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap1) - Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(G1, 7) - Gdip_DrawImage(G1, pBitmap, 0, 0, dWidth, dHeight, 0, 0, sWidth, sHeight) - - Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G1) - - pBitmap2 := Gdip_CreateBitmap(sWidth, sHeight) - G2 := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap2) - Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(G2, 7) - Gdip_DrawImage(G2, pBitmap1, 0, 0, sWidth, sHeight, 0, 0, dWidth, dHeight) - - Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G2) - Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1) - return pBitmap2 -} - -Gdip_SaveBitmapToFile(pBitmap, sOutput, Quality=75) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - SplitPath, sOutput,,, Extension - if Extension not in BMP,DIB,RLE,JPG,JPEG,JPE,JFIF,GIF,TIF,TIFF,PNG - return -1 - Extension := "." Extension - - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageEncodersSize", "uint*", nCount, "uint*", nSize) - VarSetCapacity(ci, nSize) - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageEncoders", "uint", nCount, "uint", nSize, Ptr, &ci) - if !(nCount && nSize) - return -2 - - If (A_IsUnicode){ - StrGet_Name := "StrGet" - Loop, %nCount% - { - sString := %StrGet_Name%(NumGet(ci, (idx := (48+7*A_PtrSize)*(A_Index-1))+32+3*A_PtrSize), "UTF-16") - if !InStr(sString, "*" Extension) - continue - - pCodec := &ci+idx - break - } - } else { - Loop, %nCount% - { - Location := NumGet(ci, 76*(A_Index-1)+44) - nSize := DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", Location, "int", -1, "uint", 0, "int", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) - VarSetCapacity(sString, nSize) - DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", Location, "int", -1, "str", sString, "int", nSize, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) - if !InStr(sString, "*" Extension) - continue - - pCodec := &ci+76*(A_Index-1) - break - } - } - - if !pCodec - return -3 - - if (Quality != 75) - { - Quality := (Quality < 0) ? 0 : (Quality > 100) ? 100 : Quality - if Extension in .JPG,.JPEG,.JPE,.JFIF - { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetEncoderParameterListSize", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, pCodec, "uint*", nSize) - VarSetCapacity(EncoderParameters, nSize, 0) - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetEncoderParameterList", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, pCodec, "uint", nSize, Ptr, &EncoderParameters) - Loop, % NumGet(EncoderParameters, "UInt") ;% - { - elem := (24+(A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4))*(A_Index-1) + 4 + (pad := A_PtrSize = 8 ? 4 : 0) - if (NumGet(EncoderParameters, elem+16, "UInt") = 1) && (NumGet(EncoderParameters, elem+20, "UInt") = 6) - { - p := elem+&EncoderParameters-pad-4 - NumPut(Quality, NumGet(NumPut(4, NumPut(1, p+0)+20, "UInt")), "UInt") - break - } - } - } - } - - if (!A_IsUnicode) - { - nSize := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sOutput, "int", -1, Ptr, 0, "int", 0) - VarSetCapacity(wOutput, nSize*2) - DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sOutput, "int", -1, Ptr, &wOutput, "int", nSize) - VarSetCapacity(wOutput, -1) - if !VarSetCapacity(wOutput) - return -4 - E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSaveImageToFile", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, &wOutput, Ptr, pCodec, "uint", p ? p : 0) - } - else - E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSaveImageToFile", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, &sOutput, Ptr, pCodec, "uint", p ? p : 0) - return E ? -5 : 0 -} - -Gdip_GetPixel(pBitmap, x, y) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapGetPixel", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, "int", x, "int", y, "uint*", ARGB) - return ARGB -} - -Gdip_SetPixel(pBitmap, x, y, ARGB) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapSetPixel", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, "int", x, "int", y, "int", ARGB) -} - -Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageWidth", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, "uint*", Width) - return Width -} - -Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageHeight", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, "uint*", Height) - return Height -} - -Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, ByRef Width, ByRef Height) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - rezA := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageWidth", Ptr, pBitmap, "uint*", Width) - rezB := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageHeight", Ptr, pBitmap, "uint*", Height) -} - -Gdip_GetDimensions(pBitmap, ByRef Width, ByRef Height) { - Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, Width, Height) -} - -Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImagePixelFormat", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", Format) - return Format -} - -Gdip_GetDpiX(pGraphics) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetDpiX", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "uint", pGraphics, "float*", dpix) - return Round(dpix) -} - -Gdip_GetDpiY(pGraphics) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetDpiY", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "uint", pGraphics, "float*", dpiy) - return Round(dpiy) -} - -Gdip_GetImageHorizontalResolution(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageHorizontalResolution", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "uint", pBitmap, "float*", dpix) - return Round(dpix) -} - -Gdip_GetImageVerticalResolution(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageVerticalResolution", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "uint", pBitmap, "float*", dpiy) - return Round(dpiy) -} - -Gdip_BitmapSetResolution(pBitmap, dpix, dpiy) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapSetResolution", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "uint", pBitmap, "float", dpix, "float", dpiy) -} - -Gdip_CreateBitmapFromFile(sFile, IconNumber=1, IconSize="") { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - PtrA := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*" - - SplitPath, sFile,,, ext - if ext in exe,dll - { - Sizes := IconSize ? IconSize : 256 "|" 128 "|" 64 "|" 48 "|" 32 "|" 16 - BufSize := 16 + (2*(A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4)) - - VarSetCapacity(buf, BufSize, 0) - Loop, Parse, Sizes, | - { - DllCall("PrivateExtractIcons", "str", sFile, "int", IconNumber-1, "int", A_LoopField, "int", A_LoopField, PtrA, hIcon, PtrA, 0, "uint", 1, "uint", 0) - - if !hIcon - continue - - if !DllCall("GetIconInfo", Ptr, hIcon, Ptr, &buf) - { - DestroyIcon(hIcon) - continue - } - - hbmMask := NumGet(buf, 12 + ((A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4) - 4)) - hbmColor := NumGet(buf, 12 + ((A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4) - 4) + (A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4)) - if !(hbmColor && DllCall("GetObject", Ptr, hbmColor, "int", BufSize, Ptr, &buf)) - { - DestroyIcon(hIcon) - continue - } - break - } - if !hIcon - return -1 - - Width := NumGet(buf, 4, "int"), Height := NumGet(buf, 8, "int") - hbm := CreateDIBSection(Width, -Height), hdc := CreateCompatibleDC(), obm := SelectObject(hdc, hbm) - if !DllCall("DrawIconEx", Ptr, hdc, "int", 0, "int", 0, Ptr, hIcon, "uint", Width, "uint", Height, "uint", 0, Ptr, 0, "uint", 3) - { - DestroyIcon(hIcon) - return -2 - } - - VarSetCapacity(dib, 104) - DllCall("GetObject", Ptr, hbm, "int", A_PtrSize = 8 ? 104 : 84, Ptr, &dib) ; sizeof(DIBSECTION) = 76+2*(A_PtrSize=8?4:0)+2*A_PtrSize - Stride := NumGet(dib, 12, "Int"), Bits := NumGet(dib, 20 + (A_PtrSize = 8 ? 4 : 0)) ; padding - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0", "int", Width, "int", Height, "int", Stride, "int", 0x26200A, Ptr, Bits, PtrA, pBitmapOld) - pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(Width, Height) - G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap) - , Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmapOld, 0, 0, Width, Height, 0, 0, Width, Height) - SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(hdc) - Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G), Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmapOld) - DestroyIcon(hIcon) - } else - { - if (!A_IsUnicode) - { - VarSetCapacity(wFile, 1024) - DllCall("kernel32\MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sFile, "int", -1, Ptr, &wFile, "int", 512) - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromFile", Ptr, &wFile, PtrA, pBitmap) - } else - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromFile", Ptr, &sFile, PtrA, pBitmap) - } - - return pBitmap -} - -Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hBitmap, Palette=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromHBITMAP", Ptr, hBitmap, Ptr, Palette, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", pBitmap) - return pBitmap -} - -Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(pBitmap, Background=0xffffffff) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", hbm, "int", Background) - return hbm -} - -Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHICON(hIcon) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromHICON", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hIcon, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", pBitmap) - return pBitmap -} - -Gdip_CreateHICONFromBitmap(pBitmap) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateHICONFromBitmap", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", hIcon) - return hIcon -} - -Gdip_CreateBitmap(Width, Height, Format=0x26200A) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0", "int", Width, "int", Height, "int", 0, "int", Format, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", 0, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", pBitmap) - Return pBitmap -} - -Gdip_CreateBitmapFromClipboard() { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - if !DllCall("OpenClipboard", Ptr, 0) - return -1 - if !DllCall("IsClipboardFormatAvailable", "uint", 8) - return -2 - if !hBitmap := DllCall("GetClipboardData", "uint", 2, Ptr) - return -3 - if !pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hBitmap) - return -4 - if !DllCall("CloseClipboard") - return -5 - DeleteObject(hBitmap) - return pBitmap -} - -Gdip_SetBitmapToClipboard(pBitmap) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - off1 := A_PtrSize = 8 ? 52 : 44, off2 := A_PtrSize = 8 ? 32 : 24 - hBitmap := Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(pBitmap) - DllCall("GetObject", Ptr, hBitmap, "int", VarSetCapacity(oi, A_PtrSize = 8 ? 104 : 84, 0), Ptr, &oi) - hdib := DllCall("GlobalAlloc", "uint", 2, Ptr, 40+NumGet(oi, off1, "UInt"), Ptr) - pdib := DllCall("GlobalLock", Ptr, hdib, Ptr) - DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", Ptr, pdib, Ptr, &oi+off2, Ptr, 40) - DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", Ptr, pdib+40, Ptr, NumGet(oi, off2 - (A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4), Ptr), Ptr, NumGet(oi, off1, "UInt")) - DllCall("GlobalUnlock", Ptr, hdib) - DllCall("DeleteObject", Ptr, hBitmap) - DllCall("OpenClipboard", Ptr, 0) - DllCall("EmptyClipboard") - DllCall("SetClipboardData", "uint", 8, Ptr, hdib) - DllCall("CloseClipboard") -} - -Gdip_CloneBitmapArea(pBitmap, x, y, w, h, Format=0x26200A) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneBitmapArea" - , "float", x, "float", y - , "float", w, "float", h - , "int", Format - , A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap - , A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pBitmapDest) - return pBitmapDest -} - -Gdip_CreatePen(ARGB, w) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePen1", "UInt", ARGB, "float", w, "int", 2, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pPen) - return pPen -} - -Gdip_CreatePenFromBrush(pBrush, w) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePen2", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBrush, "float", w, "int", 2, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pPen) - return pPen -} - -Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(ARGB=0xff000000) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", ARGB, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pBrush) - return pBrush -} - -Gdip_BrushCreateHatch(ARGBfront, ARGBback, HatchStyle=0) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateHatchBrush", "int", HatchStyle, "UInt", ARGBfront, "UInt", ARGBback, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pBrush) - return pBrush -} - -Gdip_CreateTextureBrush(pBitmap, WrapMode=1, x=0, y=0, w="", h="") { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - , PtrA := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*" - - if !(w && h) - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateTexture", Ptr, pBitmap, "int", WrapMode, PtrA, pBrush) - else - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateTexture2", Ptr, pBitmap, "int", WrapMode, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, PtrA, pBrush) - return pBrush -} - -Gdip_CreateLineBrush(x1, y1, x2, y2, ARGB1, ARGB2, WrapMode=1) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - CreatePointF(PointF1, x1, y1), CreatePointF(PointF2, x2, y2) - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateLineBrush", Ptr, &PointF1, Ptr, &PointF2, "Uint", ARGB1, "Uint", ARGB2, "int", WrapMode, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", LGpBrush) - return LGpBrush -} - -Gdip_CreateLineBrushFromRect(x, y, w, h, ARGB1, ARGB2, LinearGradientMode=1, WrapMode=1) { - CreateRectF(RectF, x, y, w, h) - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateLineBrushFromRect", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", &RectF, "int", ARGB1, "int", ARGB2, "int", LinearGradientMode, "int", WrapMode, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", LGpBrush) - return LGpBrush -} - -Gdip_CloneBrush(pBrush) { - rez := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneBrush", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBrush, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", pBrushClone) - return pBrushClone -} - -Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeletePen", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pPen) -} - -Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteBrush", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBrush) -} - -Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDisposeImage", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap) -} - -Gdip_DeleteGraphics(pGraphics) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteGraphics", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics) -} - -Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDisposeImageAttributes", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", ImageAttr) -} - -Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteFont", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hFont) -} - -Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hFormat) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteStringFormat", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hFormat) -} - -Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFamily) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteFontFamily", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hFamily) -} - -Gdip_DeleteMatrix(Matrix) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteMatrix", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", Matrix) -} - -Gdip_TextToGraphics(pGraphics, Text, Options, Font="Arial", Width="", Height="", Measure=0) { - IWidth := Width, IHeight:= Height - - RegExMatch(Options, "i)X([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", xpos) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)Y([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", ypos) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)W([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", Width) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)H([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", Height) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)C(?!(entre|enter))([a-f\d]+)", Colour) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)Top|Up|Bottom|Down|vCentre|vCenter", vPos) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)NoWrap", NoWrap) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)R(\d)", Rendering) - RegExMatch(Options, "i)S(\d+)(p*)", Size) - - if !Gdip_DeleteBrush(Gdip_CloneBrush(Colour2)) - PassBrush := 1, pBrush := Colour2 - - if !(IWidth && IHeight) && (xpos2 || ypos2 || Width2 || Height2 || Size2) - return -1 - - Style := 0, Styles := "Regular|Bold|Italic|BoldItalic|Underline|Strikeout" - Loop, Parse, Styles, | - { - if RegExMatch(Options, "\b" A_loopField) - Style |= (A_LoopField != "StrikeOut") ? (A_Index-1) : 8 - } - - Align := 0, Alignments := "Near|Left|Centre|Center|Far|Right" - Loop, Parse, Alignments, | - { - if RegExMatch(Options, "\b" A_loopField) - Align |= A_Index//2.1 ; 0|0|1|1|2|2 - } - - xpos := (xpos1 != "") ? xpos2 ? IWidth*(xpos1/100) : xpos1 : 0 - ypos := (ypos1 != "") ? ypos2 ? IHeight*(ypos1/100) : ypos1 : 0 - Width := Width1 ? Width2 ? IWidth*(Width1/100) : Width1 : IWidth - Height := Height1 ? Height2 ? IHeight*(Height1/100) : Height1 : IHeight - if !PassBrush - Colour := "0x" (Colour2 ? Colour2 : "ff000000") - Rendering := ((Rendering1 >= 0) && (Rendering1 <= 5)) ? Rendering1 : 4 - Size := (Size1 > 0) ? Size2 ? IHeight*(Size1/100) : Size1 : 12 - - hFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(Font) - hFont := Gdip_FontCreate(hFamily, Size, Style) - FormatStyle := NoWrap ? 0x4000 | 0x1000 : 0x4000 - hFormat := Gdip_StringFormatCreate(FormatStyle) - pBrush := PassBrush ? pBrush : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(Colour) - if !(hFamily && hFont && hFormat && pBrush && pGraphics) - return !pGraphics ? -2 : !hFamily ? -3 : !hFont ? -4 : !hFormat ? -5 : !pBrush ? -6 : 0 - - CreateRectF(RC, xpos, ypos, Width, Height) - Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(hFormat, Align) - Gdip_SetTextRenderingHint(pGraphics, Rendering) - ReturnRC := Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hFormat, RC) - - if vPos - { - StringSplit, ReturnRC, ReturnRC, | - - if (vPos = "vCentre") || (vPos = "vCenter") - ypos += (Height-ReturnRC4)//2 - else if (vPos = "Top") || (vPos = "Up") - ypos := 0 - else if (vPos = "Bottom") || (vPos = "Down") - ypos := Height-ReturnRC4 - - CreateRectF(RC, xpos, ypos, Width, ReturnRC4) - ReturnRC := Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hFormat, RC) - } - - if !Measure - E := Gdip_DrawString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hFormat, pBrush, RC) - - if !PassBrush - Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) - Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hFormat) - Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) - Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFamily) - return E ? E : ReturnRC -} - -Gdip_DrawString(pGraphics, sString, hFont, hFormat, pBrush, ByRef RectF) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - if (!A_IsUnicode) - { - nSize := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sString, "int", -1, Ptr, 0, "int", 0) - VarSetCapacity(wString, nSize*2) - DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sString, "int", -1, Ptr, &wString, "int", nSize) - } - - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawString" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, A_IsUnicode ? &sString : &wString - , "int", -1 - , Ptr, hFont - , Ptr, &RectF - , Ptr, hFormat - , Ptr, pBrush) -} - -Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, sString, hFont, hFormat, ByRef RectF) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - VarSetCapacity(RC, 16) - if !A_IsUnicode - { - nSize := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sString, "int", -1, "uint", 0, "int", 0) - VarSetCapacity(wString, nSize*2) - DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &sString, "int", -1, Ptr, &wString, "int", nSize) - } - - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMeasureString" - , Ptr, pGraphics - , Ptr, A_IsUnicode ? &sString : &wString - , "int", -1 - , Ptr, hFont - , Ptr, &RectF - , Ptr, hFormat - , Ptr, &RC - , "uint*", Chars - , "uint*", Lines) - - return &RC ? NumGet(RC, 0, "float") "|" NumGet(RC, 4, "float") "|" NumGet(RC, 8, "float") "|" NumGet(RC, 12, "float") "|" Chars "|" Lines : 0 -} - -Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(hFormat, Align) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatAlign", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hFormat, "int", Align) -} - -Gdip_StringFormatCreate(Format=0, Lang=0) { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateStringFormat", "int", Format, "int", Lang, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", hFormat) - return hFormat -} - -Gdip_FontCreate(hFamily, Size, Style=0) { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFont", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", hFamily, "float", Size, "int", Style, "int", 0, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", hFont) - return hFont -} - -Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(Font) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - if (!A_IsUnicode) - { - nSize := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &Font, "int", -1, "uint", 0, "int", 0) - VarSetCapacity(wFont, nSize*2) - DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, Ptr, &Font, "int", -1, Ptr, &wFont, "int", nSize) - } - - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFontFamilyFromName" - , Ptr, A_IsUnicode ? &Font : &wFont - , "uint", 0 - , A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", hFamily) - - return hFamily -} - -Gdip_CreateAffineMatrix(m11, m12, m21, m22, x, y) { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateMatrix2", "float", m11, "float", m12, "float", m21, "float", m22, "float", x, "float", y, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", Matrix) - return Matrix -} - -Gdip_CreateMatrix() { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateMatrix", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", Matrix) - return Matrix -} - -Gdip_CreatePath(BrushMode=0) { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePath", "int", BrushMode, A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "UInt*", Path) - return Path -} - -Gdip_AddPathEllipse(Path, x, y, w, h) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathEllipse", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", Path, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) -} - -Gdip_AddPathPolygon(Path, Points) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - StringSplit, Points, Points, | - VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8*Points0) - Loop, %Points0% - { - StringSplit, Coord, Points%A_Index%, `, - NumPut(Coord1, PointF, 8*(A_Index-1), "float"), NumPut(Coord2, PointF, (8*(A_Index-1))+4, "float") - } - - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathPolygon", Ptr, Path, Ptr, &PointF, "int", Points0) -} - -Gdip_DeletePath(Path) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeletePath", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", Path) -} - -Gdip_SetTextRenderingHint(pGraphics, RenderingHint) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetTextRenderingHint", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "int", RenderingHint) -} - -Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(pGraphics, InterpolationMode) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetInterpolationMode", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "int", InterpolationMode) -} - -Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(pGraphics, SmoothingMode) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetSmoothingMode", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "int", SmoothingMode) -} - -Gdip_SetCompositingMode(pGraphics, CompositingMode=0) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetCompositingMode", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "int", CompositingMode) -} - -Gdip_Startup() { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - if !DllCall("GetModuleHandle", "str", "gdiplus", Ptr) - DllCall("LoadLibrary", "str", "gdiplus") - VarSetCapacity(si, A_PtrSize = 8 ? 24 : 16, 0), si := Chr(1) - DllCall("gdiplus\GdiplusStartup", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr*" : "uint*", pToken, Ptr, &si, Ptr, 0) - return pToken -} - -Gdip_Shutdown(pToken) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - - DllCall("gdiplus\GdiplusShutdown", Ptr, pToken) - if hModule := DllCall("GetModuleHandle", "str", "gdiplus", Ptr) - DllCall("FreeLibrary", Ptr, hModule) - return 0 -} - -Gdip_RotateWorldTransform(pGraphics, Angle, MatrixOrder=0) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotateWorldTransform", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "float", Angle, "int", MatrixOrder) -} - -Gdip_ScaleWorldTransform(pGraphics, x, y, MatrixOrder=0) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScaleWorldTransform", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "float", x, "float", y, "int", MatrixOrder) -} - -Gdip_TranslateWorldTransform(pGraphics, x, y, MatrixOrder=0) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateWorldTransform", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "float", x, "float", y, "int", MatrixOrder) -} - -Gdip_ResetWorldTransform(pGraphics) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetWorldTransform", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics) -} - -Gdip_GetRotatedTranslation(Width, Height, Angle, ByRef xTranslation, ByRef yTranslation) { - pi := 3.14159, TAngle := Angle*(pi/180) - - Bound := (Angle >= 0) ? Mod(Angle, 360) : 360-Mod(-Angle, -360) - if ((Bound >= 0) && (Bound <= 90)) - xTranslation := Height*Sin(TAngle), yTranslation := 0 - else if ((Bound > 90) && (Bound <= 180)) - xTranslation := (Height*Sin(TAngle))-(Width*Cos(TAngle)), yTranslation := -Height*Cos(TAngle) - else if ((Bound > 180) && (Bound <= 270)) - xTranslation := -(Width*Cos(TAngle)), yTranslation := -(Height*Cos(TAngle))-(Width*Sin(TAngle)) - else if ((Bound > 270) && (Bound <= 360)) - xTranslation := 0, yTranslation := -Width*Sin(TAngle) -} - -Gdip_GetRotatedDimensions(Width, Height, Angle, ByRef RWidth, ByRef RHeight) { - pi := 3.14159, TAngle := Angle*(pi/180) - if !(Width && Height) - return -1 - RWidth := Ceil(Abs(Width*Cos(TAngle))+Abs(Height*Sin(TAngle))) - RHeight := Ceil(Abs(Width*Sin(TAngle))+Abs(Height*Cos(Tangle))) -} - -Gdip_ImageRotateFlip(pBitmap, RotateFlipType=1) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageRotateFlip", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pBitmap, "int", RotateFlipType) -} - -Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x, y, w, h, CombineMode=0) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipRect", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "int", CombineMode) -} - -Gdip_SetClipPath(pGraphics, Path, CombineMode=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipPath", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, Path, "int", CombineMode) -} - -Gdip_ResetClip(pGraphics) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetClip", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics) -} - -Gdip_GetClipRegion(pGraphics) { - Region := Gdip_CreateRegion() - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetClip", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", pGraphics, "UInt*", Region) - return Region -} - -Gdip_SetClipRegion(pGraphics, Region, CombineMode=0) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipRegion", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, Region, "int", CombineMode) -} - -Gdip_CreateRegion() { - DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateRegion", "UInt*", Region) - return Region -} - -Gdip_DeleteRegion(Region) { - return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteRegion", A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt", Region) -} - -Gdip_LockBits(pBitmap, x, y, w, h, ByRef Stride, ByRef Scan0, ByRef BitmapData, LockMode = 3, PixelFormat = 0x26200a) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - CreateRect(Rect, x, y, w, h) - VarSetCapacity(BitmapData, 16+2*(A_PtrSize ? A_PtrSize : 4), 0) - E := DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipBitmapLockBits", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, &Rect, "uint", LockMode, "int", PixelFormat, Ptr, &BitmapData) - Stride := NumGet(BitmapData, 8, "Int") - Scan0 := NumGet(BitmapData, 16, Ptr) - return E -} - -Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap, ByRef BitmapData) { - Ptr := A_PtrSize ? "UPtr" : "UInt" - return DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipBitmapUnlockBits", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, &BitmapData) -} - -Gdip_SetLockBitPixel(ARGB, Scan0, x, y, Stride) { - Numput(ARGB, Scan0+0, (x*4)+(y*Stride), "UInt") -} - -Gdip_GetLockBitPixel(Scan0, x, y, Stride) { - return NumGet(Scan0+0, (x*4)+(y*Stride), "UInt") -} - -Gdip_ToARGB(A, R, G, B) { - return (A << 24) | (R << 16) | (G << 8) | B -} - -Gdip_FromARGB(ARGB, ByRef A, ByRef R, ByRef G, ByRef B) { - A := (0xff000000 & ARGB) >> 24 - R := (0x00ff0000 & ARGB) >> 16 - G := (0x0000ff00 & ARGB) >> 8 - B := 0x000000ff & ARGB -} - -Gdip_AFromARGB(ARGB) { - return (0xff000000 & ARGB) >> 24 -} - -Gdip_RFromARGB(ARGB) { - return (0x00ff0000 & ARGB) >> 16 -} - - -Gdip_GFromARGB(ARGB) { - return (0x0000ff00 & ARGB) >> 8 -} - -Gdip_BFromARGB(ARGB) { - return 0x000000ff & ARGB -} - -StrGetB(Address, Length=-1, Encoding=0) { - ; Flexible parameter handling: - if Length is not integer - Encoding := Length, Length := -1 - - ; Check for obvious errors. - if (Address+0 < 1024) - return - - ; Ensure 'Encoding' contains a numeric identifier. - if Encoding = UTF-16 - Encoding = 1200 - else if Encoding = UTF-8 - Encoding = 65001 - else if SubStr(Encoding,1,2)="CP" - Encoding := SubStr(Encoding,3) - - if !Encoding ; "" or 0 - { - ; No conversion necessary, but we might not want the whole string. - if (Length == -1) - Length := DllCall("lstrlen", "uint", Address) - VarSetCapacity(String, Length) - DllCall("lstrcpyn", "str", String, "uint", Address, "int", Length + 1) - } - else if Encoding = 1200 ; UTF-16 - { - char_count := DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0x400, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) - VarSetCapacity(String, char_count) - DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0x400, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "str", String, "int", char_count, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) - } - else if Encoding is integer - { - ; Convert from target encoding to UTF-16 then to the active code page. - char_count := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", Encoding, "uint", 0, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "uint", 0, "int", 0) - VarSetCapacity(String, char_count * 2) - char_count := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", Encoding, "uint", 0, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "uint", &String, "int", char_count * 2) - String := StrGetB(&String, char_count, 1200) - } - - return String -} diff --git a/bells-tower-change-log.txt b/bells-tower-change-log.txt index 12a24cc..759f1a6 100644 --- a/bells-tower-change-log.txt +++ b/bells-tower-change-log.txt @@ -1,10 +1,20 @@ ; Church Bells Tower - version history ; site: https://github.com/marius-sucan/ChurchBellsTower ; by Marius Șucan - http://marius.sucan.ro/ -; ==================================== +; ====================================================== Work began on this project in late August 2018. +v3.0.0 - 2021 / 09 / 20 + - [new] set alarm and timer options, with personalized messages + - [new] stopwatch panel; feature meant to help users track activities + - [new] moon phases information in the About window; these are also depicted in the «Analog click» display + - [new] ability to right-click on panel controls in order to display the text even larger on screen [for people with poor eyesight] + - [new] ability to show Bible quotes in an ordered fashion, not only random + - [new] added more menu items in the system tray menu to facilitate direct access to various features + - drastically reduced system resources required by this application and improved responsiveness + - many bug fixes + v2.8.6 - 2021 / 09 / 14 - bug fixes related to «observe feasts/celebrations» option diff --git a/bells-tower.ahk b/bells-tower.ahk index fcb469a..bc04154 100644 --- a/bells-tower.ahk +++ b/bells-tower.ahk @@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ ; Compilation directives; include files in binary and set file properties ; =========================================================== ; -;@Ahk2Exe-AddResource LIB analog-clock-display.ahk ;@Ahk2Exe-SetName Church Bells Tower ;@Ahk2Exe-SetCopyright Marius Şucan (2017-2018) ;@Ahk2Exe-SetCompanyName http://marius.sucan.ro ;@Ahk2Exe-SetDescription Church Bells Tower -;@Ahk2Exe-SetVersion 2.8.6 +;@Ahk2Exe-SetVersion 3.0.0 ;@Ahk2Exe-SetOrigFilename bells-tower.ahk ;@Ahk2Exe-SetMainIcon bells-tower.ico @@ -37,8 +36,11 @@ #SingleInstance Force #NoEnv #MaxMem 256 - #Include, Class_ImageButton.ahk - #Include, va.ahk ; vista audio APIs wrapper by Lexikos + #Include, Lib\Class_ImageButton.ahk + #Include, Lib\va.ahk ; vista audio APIs wrapper by Lexikos + #Include, Lib\mci.ahk + #Include, Lib\gdip_all.ahk + #Include, Lib\analog-clock-display.ahk DetectHiddenWindows, On ComObjError(false) @@ -50,7 +52,6 @@ Critical, On ; Default Settings - Global IniFile := "bells-tower.ini" , LargeUIfontValue := 13 , tollQuarters := 1 @@ -73,11 +74,14 @@ , makeScreenDark := 1 , BibleQuotesInterval := 5 , noBibleQuoteMhidden := 1 + , userBibleStartPoint := 1 + , orderedBibleQuotes := 0 , UserReligion := 1 , SemantronHoliday := 0 , ObserveHolidays := 0 , ObserveSecularDays := 1 , ObserveReligiousDays := 1 + , userMuteAllSounds := 0 , PreferSecularDays := 0 , noTollingWhenMhidden := 0 , noTollingBgrSounds := 0 @@ -86,11 +90,12 @@ , showTimeIdleAfter := 5 ; [in minutes] ; OSD settings - , displayTimeFormat := 1 +Global displayTimeFormat := 1 , DisplayTimeUser := 3 ; in seconds , displayClock := 1 , analogDisplay := 0 , analogDisplayScale := 0.3 + , analogMoonPhases := 1 , constantAnalogClock := 0 , GuiX := 40 , GuiY := 250 @@ -109,14 +114,39 @@ , OSDmarginSides := 25 , maxBibleLength := 55 +; Timers and alarms + , userMustDoTimer := 0 + , userTimerHours := 1 + , userTimerMins := 30 + , userMustDoAlarm := 0 + , userTimerMsg := "What is the purpose of God?" + , userAlarmMsg := "Why do people anthropomorphize God?" + , userAlarmHours := 12 + , userAlarmMins := 30 + , AlarmersDarkScreen := 1 + , userAlarmSound := 1 + +; Analog clock stuff + , faceBgrColor := "eeEEee" + , faceElements := "001100" + , mainOSDopacity:= 230 + , faceOpacity := 254 + , faceOpacityBgr:= Round(faceOpacity/1.25) + , ClockPosX := 30 + , ClockPosY := 90 + , ClockDiameter := 480 + , ClockWinSize := ClockDiameter + 2 + , ClockCenter := Round(ClockWinSize/2) + , roundedCsize := Round(ClockDiameter/4) + ; Release info , ThisFile := A_ScriptName - , Version := "2.8.6" - , ReleaseDate := "2021 / 09 / 14" + , Version := "3.0.0" + , ReleaseDate := "2021 / 09 / 20" , storeSettingsREG := FileExist("win-store-mode.ini") && A_IsCompiled && InStr(A_ScriptFullPath, "WindowsApps") ? 1 : 0 , ScriptInitialized, FirstRun := 1 , QuotesAlreadySeen := "" - , LastNoon := 0, appName := "Church Bells Tower" + , LastNoonAudio := 0, appName := "Church Bells Tower" , APPregEntry := "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\" appName "\v1-1" If !A_IsCompiled @@ -150,9 +180,10 @@ Global CSthin := "░" ; light gray , bibleQuoteFreq := BibleQuotesInterval * 3600000 ; hours , ShowPreview := 0 , ShowPreviewDate := 0 - , LastNoonSound := 1 + , LastNoonZeitSound := 1 , OSDprefix, OSDsuffix - , stopStrikesNow := 0 + , windowManageCeleb := 0 + , stopStrikesNow := 0, mouseToolTipWinCreated := 0 , ClockVisibility := 0, quoteDisplayTime := 100 , stopAdditionalStrikes := 0 , strikingBellsNow := 0 @@ -169,41 +200,54 @@ Global CSthin := "░" ; light gray , celebYear := A_Year , isHolidayToday := 0 , TypeHolidayOccured := 0 - , hMain := A_ScriptHwnd - , lastOSDredraw := 1 - , semtr2play := 0 + , hMain := A_ScriptHwnd, stopWatchIntervalRecords := [] + , lastOSDredraw := 1, stopWatchHumanStartTime := 0 + , semtr2play := 0, stopWatchRealStartZeit := 0 + , stopWatchBeginZeit := 0, stopWatchLapBeginZeit := 0 + , stopWatchPauseZeit := 0.001, stopWatchLapPauseZeit := 0.001 , aboutTheme, GUIAbgrColor, AboutTitleColor, hoverBtnColor, BtnTxtColor, GUIAtxtColor - , attempts2Quit := 0 + , attempts2Quit := 0, OSDfadedColor := "" , roundCornerSize := Round(FontSize/2) + Round(OSDmarginSides/5) , StartRegPath := "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" , tickTockSound := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\ticktock.wav" , hBibleTxt, hBibleOSD, hSetWinGui, ColorPickerHandles , CCLVO := "-E0x200 +Border -Hdr -Multi +ReadOnly Report AltSubmit gsetColors" , hWinMM := DllCall("kernel32\LoadLibraryW", "Str", "winmm.dll", "Ptr") - , sndChanQ, sndChanH, sndChanA, sndChanJ, sndChanN, sndChanS - , analogClockThread, isAnalogClockFile + , SNDmedia_ticktok, quartersTotalTime := 0, hoursTotalTime := 0 + , SNDmedia_auxil_bell, SNDmedia_japan_bell, SNDmedia_christmas + , SNDmedia_evening, SNDmedia_midnight, SNDmedia_morning + , SNDmedia_noon1, SNDmedia_noon2, SNDmedia_noon3, SNDmedia_noon4 + , SNDmedia_orthodox_chimes1, SNDmedia_orthodox_chimes2 + , SNDmedia_semantron1, SNDmedia_semantron2, SNDmedia_hours12, SNDmedia_hours11 + , SNDmedia_quarters1, SNDmedia_quarters2, SNDmedia_quarters3, SNDmedia_quarters4 + , SNDmedia_hours1, SNDmedia_hours2, SNDmedia_hours3, SNDmedia_hours4, SNDmedia_hours5 + , SNDmedia_hours6, SNDmedia_hours7, SNDmedia_hours8, SNDmedia_hours9, SNDmedia_hours10 + , hFaceClock, lastShowTime := 1, pToken, scriptStartZeit := A_TickCount + , globalG, globalhbm, globalhdc, globalobm + , moduleAnalogClockInit := 0 If (roundCornerSize<20) roundCornerSize := 20 -; Initializations of the core components and functionality +; Initialization of the core components and functionality -If (A_IsCompiled && storeSettingsREG=0) - VerifyFiles() +; If (A_IsCompiled && storeSettingsREG=0) +; VerifyFiles() -Sleep, 5 -InitAHKhThreads() -Sleep, 5 +Sleep, 1 SetMyVolume(1) InitializeTray() +InitSoundChannels() +decideFadeColor() hCursM := DllCall("user32\LoadCursorW", "Ptr", NULL, "Int", 32646, "Ptr") ; IDC_SIZEALL hCursH := DllCall("user32\LoadCursorW", "Ptr", NULL, "Int", 32649, "Ptr") ; IDC_HAND +OnMessage(0x205, "WM_RBUTTONUP") OnMessage(0x200, "WM_MouseMove") OnMessage(0x404, "AHK_NOTIFYICON") -Sleep, 5 +Sleep, 1 theChimer() -Sleep, 30 +Sleep, 1 testCelebrations() ScriptInitialized := 1 ; the end of the autoexec section and INIT If (tickTockNoise=1) @@ -213,21 +257,71 @@ If !isHolidayToday CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt()) If (AdditionalStrikes=1) - SetTimer, AdditionalStriker, %AdditionalStrikeFreq% + SetTimer, AdditionalStrikerPerformer, %AdditionalStrikeFreq% + If (showBibleQuotes=1) SetTimer, InvokeBibleQuoteNow, %bibleQuoteFreq% -SetTimer, analogClockStarter, % -DisplayTime + 2000 +If (analogDisplay=1 || constantAnalogClock=1) + InitClockFace() + +If (constantAnalogClock=1) + SetTimer, analogClockStarter, -1000 If (NoWelcomePopupInfo!=1) ShowWelcomeWindow() +If (userMustDoAlarm=1) + startAlarmTimer() + If (showTimeWhenIdle=1) SetTimer, TimerShowOSDidle, 1500 Return ; the end of auto-exec section +InitSoundChannels() { + SNDfile_auxil_bell := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3" + SNDfile_christmas := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\christmas.mp3" + SNDfile_evening := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\evening.mp3" + SNDfile_hours := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\hours.mp3" + SNDfile_japan_bell := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\japanese-bell.mp3" + SNDfile_midnight := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\midnight.mp3" + SNDfile_morning := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\morning.mp3" + SNDfile_noon1 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\noon1.mp3" + SNDfile_noon2 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\noon2.mp3" + SNDfile_noon3 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\noon3.mp3" + SNDfile_noon4 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\noon4.mp3" + SNDfile_chimes1 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\orthodox-chimes1.mp3" + SNDfile_chimes2 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\orthodox-chimes2.mp3" + SNDfile_quarters := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\quarters.mp3" + SNDfile_semantron1 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\semantron1.mp3" + SNDfile_semantron2 := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\semantron2.mp3" + SNDfile_ticktok := A_ScriptDir "\sounds\ticktock.wav" + + Loop, 12 + SNDmedia_hours%A_Index% := MCI_Open(SNDfile_hours) + Loop, 4 + SNDmedia_quarters%A_Index% := MCI_Open(SNDfile_quarters) + + SNDmedia_auxil_bell := MCI_Open(SNDfile_auxil_bell) + SNDmedia_christmas := MCI_Open(SNDfile_christmas) + SNDmedia_evening := MCI_Open(SNDfile_evening) + SNDmedia_japan_bell := MCI_Open(SNDfile_japan_bell) + SNDmedia_midnight := MCI_Open(SNDfile_midnight) + SNDmedia_morning := MCI_Open(SNDfile_morning) + SNDmedia_noon1 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_noon1) + SNDmedia_noon2 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_noon2) + SNDmedia_noon3 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_noon3) + SNDmedia_noon4 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_noon4) + SNDmedia_orthodox_chimes1 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_chimes1) + SNDmedia_orthodox_chimes2 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_chimes2) + SNDmedia_semantron1 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_semantron1) + SNDmedia_semantron2 := MCI_Open(SNDfile_semantron2) + SNDmedia_ticktok := MCI_Open(SNDfile_ticktok) +} + TimerShowOSDidle() { + Static isThisIdle := 0 If (constantAnalogClock=1) || (analogDisplay=1 && ClockVisibility=1) || (PrefOpen=1) || (A_IsSuspended) Return @@ -236,6 +330,7 @@ TimerShowOSDidle() { If (showTimeWhenIdle=1 && (A_TimeIdle > userIdleAfter) && mouseHidden!=1) { + isThisIdle := 1 DoGuiFader := 0 If (BibleGuiVisible!=1) CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt(0, 1) "-") @@ -243,16 +338,19 @@ TimerShowOSDidle() { GuiControl, BibleGui:, BibleGuiTXT, % generateDateTimeTxt(0, 1) SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, Delete DoGuiFader := 1 - } Else If (showTimeWhenIdle=1 && BibleGuiVisible=1) + } Else If (showTimeWhenIdle=1 && BibleGuiVisible=1 && isThisIdle=1) + { + isThisIdle := 0 SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, -500 + } Else isThisIdle := 0 } ShowWelcomeWindow() { - If (PrefOpen=1 || AnyWindowOpen=1) + If reactWinOpened(A_ThisFunc, 2) Return Global BtnSilly0, BtnSilly1, BtnSilly2 - SettingsGUI() + GenericPanelGUI() AnyWindowOpen := 2 Gui, Font, s20 Bold, Arial, -wrap Gui, Add, Picture, x15 y15 w55 h-1 +0x3 Section hwndhIcon, bell-image.png @@ -270,20 +368,21 @@ ShowWelcomeWindow() { } Gui, Add, Text, xs y+10 w%txtWid%, %appName% is currently running in background. To configure it or exit, please locate its icon in the system tray area, next to the system clock in the taskbar. To access the settings double click or right click on the bell icon. - Gui, Add, Button, xs y+10 w%btnWid% gShowSettings, &Settings panel + Gui, Add, Button, xs y+10 w%btnWid% h30 gShowSettings, &Settings panel Gui, Add, Checkbox, x+5 w%btnWid% hp +0x1000 gToggleLargeFonts Checked%PrefsLargeFonts% vPrefsLargeFonts, Large UI font sizes - Gui, Add, Button, xs y+10 w%btnWid% gAboutWindow, &About today + Gui, Add, Button, xs y+10 w%btnWid% hp gPanelAboutWindow, &About today Gui, Add, Checkbox, x+5 w%btnWid% hp +0x1000 gToggleAnalogClock Checked%constantAnalogClock% vconstantAnalogClock, &Analog clock display - Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+10 gToggleWelcomeInfos Checked%NoWelcomePopupInfo% vNoWelcomePopupInfo, &Never show this window + Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+10 hp gToggleWelcomeInfos Checked%NoWelcomePopupInfo% vNoWelcomePopupInfo, &Never show this window Gui, Show, AutoSize, Welcome to %appName% v%Version% } ToggleWelcomeInfos() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, NoWelcomePopupInfo ; NoWelcomePopupInfo := !NoWelcomePopupInfo INIaction(1, "NoWelcomePopupInfo", "SavedSettings") CloseWindow() - Sleep, 50 + Sleep, 10 If (NoWelcomePopupInfo=1) { MsgBox, 52, %appName%, Do you want to keep the welcome window open for now? @@ -293,86 +392,91 @@ ToggleWelcomeInfos() { } analogClockStarter() { - If (constantAnalogClock=1 && isAnalogClockFile) + If (constantAnalogClock=1) { - ClockVisibility := 1 - DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) - analogClockThread.ahkFunction["showClock"] + If (moduleAnalogClockInit!=1) + InitClockFace() + ; ClockVisibility := 1 + ; DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) + showAnalogClock() } } VerifyFiles() { - Loop, Files, sounds\*.wav - countFiles++ + countFiles := 0 Loop, Files, sounds\*.mp3 countFiles++ - Sleep, 50 + + If (countFiles>=16) + Return + + Sleep, 10 FileCreateDir, sounds - FileInstall, bell-image.png, bell-image.png - FileInstall, bells-tower-change-log.txt, bells-tower-change-log.txt - FileInstall, bible-quotes-eng.txt, bible-quotes-eng.txt - FileInstall, bible-quotes-fra.txt, bible-quotes-fra.txt - FileInstall, bible-quotes-esp.txt, bible-quotes-esp.txt - FileInstall, paypal.png, paypal.png - FileInstall, sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3, sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\christmas.mp3, sounds\christmas.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\evening.mp3, sounds\evening.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\hours.mp3, sounds\hours.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\japanese-bell.mp3, sounds\japanese-bell.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\midnight.mp3, sounds\midnight.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\morning.mp3, sounds\morning.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\noon1.mp3, sounds\noon1.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\noon2.mp3, sounds\noon2.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\noon3.mp3, sounds\noon3.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\noon4.mp3, sounds\noon4.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\orthodox-chimes1.mp3, sounds\orthodox-chimes1.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\orthodox-chimes2.mp3, sounds\orthodox-chimes2.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\quarters.mp3, sounds\quarters.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\semantron1.mp3, sounds\semantron1.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\semantron2.mp3, sounds\semantron2.mp3 - FileInstall, sounds\ticktock.wav, sounds\ticktock.wav + ; FileInstall, bell-image.png, bell-image.png + ; FileInstall, bells-tower-change-log.txt, bells-tower-change-log.txt + ; FileInstall, bible-quotes-eng.txt, bible-quotes-eng.txt + ; FileInstall, bible-quotes-fra.txt, bible-quotes-fra.txt + ; FileInstall, bible-quotes-esp.txt, bible-quotes-esp.txt + ; FileInstall, paypal.png, paypal.png + ; FileInstall, sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3, sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\christmas.mp3, sounds\christmas.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\evening.mp3, sounds\evening.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\hours.mp3, sounds\hours.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\japanese-bell.mp3, sounds\japanese-bell.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\midnight.mp3, sounds\midnight.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\morning.mp3, sounds\morning.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\noon1.mp3, sounds\noon1.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\noon2.mp3, sounds\noon2.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\noon3.mp3, sounds\noon3.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\noon4.mp3, sounds\noon4.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\orthodox-chimes1.mp3, sounds\orthodox-chimes1.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\orthodox-chimes2.mp3, sounds\orthodox-chimes2.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\quarters.mp3, sounds\quarters.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\semantron1.mp3, sounds\semantron1.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\semantron2.mp3, sounds\semantron2.mp3 + ; FileInstall, sounds\ticktock.wav, sounds\ticktock.wav Sleep, 300 } AHK_NOTIFYICON(wParam, lParam, uMsg, hWnd) { - If (PrefOpen=1 || A_IsSuspended) + If (PrefOpen=1 || A_IsSuspended) || (A_TickCount - scriptStartZeit < 950) Return Static LastInvoked := 1, LastInvoked2 := 1 - If (lParam = 0x201) || (lParam = 0x204) + If (lParam = 0x201) || (lParam = 0x204) ; /rl-click { stopStrikesNow := 1 strikingBellsNow := 0 DoGuiFader := 0 - If (ClockVisibility=0 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1 && ClockVisibility=1) && (lParam=0x201 && ScriptInitialized=1) ; left click + ; If (ClockVisibility=0 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1 && ClockVisibility=1) && (lParam=0x201 && ScriptInitialized=1) ; left click + If (ScriptInitialized=1) CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt()) DoGuiFader := 1 - If (A_TickCount-lastInvoked2>7000) - FreeAhkResources(1) LastInvoked2 := A_TickCount } Else If (lParam = 0x207) && (strikingBellsNow=0) ; middle click { - If (A_TickCount-lastInvoked2>7000) - FreeAhkResources(1) LastInvoked2 := A_TickCount If (AnyWindowOpen=1) stopStrikesNow := 0 SetMyVolume(1) DoGuiFader := 0 - If (ClockVisibility=0 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1 && ClockVisibility=1) + ; If (ClockVisibility=0 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1 && ClockVisibility=1) + If (ScriptInitialized=1) CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt()) If (tollQuarters=1) - strikeQuarters() + strikeQuarters(1) If (tollHours=1 || tollHoursAmount=1) - strikeHours() + strikeHours(1) DoGuiFader := 1 } Else If (BibleGuiVisible=0 && strikingBellsNow=0) && (A_TickCount-lastInvoked>2000) && (A_TickCount-lastFaded>1500) { LastInvoked := A_TickCount - DoGuiFader := 1 - If (ClockVisibility=0 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1 && ClockVisibility=1) && (ScriptInitialized=1) + DoGuiFader := 0 + ; If (ClockVisibility=0 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1 && ClockVisibility=1) && (ScriptInitialized=1) + If (ScriptInitialized=1) CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt(0)) + DoGuiFader := 1 } } @@ -380,13 +484,8 @@ strikeJapanBell() { If (noTollingBgrSounds>=2) isSoundPlayingNow() - If (stopAdditionalStrikes=1) - Return SetMyVolume(1) - If !sndChanJ - sndChanJ := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nSoundPlay, sounds\japanese-bell.mp3, 1") - Else - sndChanJ.ahkReload[] + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_japan_bell) } InvokeBibleQuoteNow() { @@ -427,10 +526,18 @@ InvokeBibleQuoteNow() { } } - If (PrefOpen!=1) + If (orderedBibleQuotes=1) + { + Line2Read := (userBibleStartPoint + 1, 1, countLines, 1) + userBibleStartPoint := Line2Read + INIaction(1, "userBibleStartPoint", "SavedSettings") + If (PrefOpen=1) + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, userBibleStartPoint, % userBibleStartPoint + } Else If (PrefOpen!=1) { If !countLines - countLines := st_count(bibleQuotesFile, "`n") + 1 + countLines := ST_Count(bibleQuotesFile, "`n") + 1 + Loop { Random, Line2Read, 1, %countLines% @@ -447,7 +554,7 @@ InvokeBibleQuoteNow() { bibleQuote := lineArr[2] } - If st_count(bibleQuote, """")=1 + If (ST_Count(bibleQuote, """")=1) StringReplace, bibleQuote, bibleQuote, " If (BibleQuotesLang=1) @@ -457,41 +564,38 @@ InvokeBibleQuoteNow() { bibleQuote := RegExReplace(bibleQuote, "i)(\sand.?)$") bibleQuote := RegExReplace(bibleQuote, "i)(\sbut)$") } - bibleQuote := RegExReplace(bibleQuote, "i)(\;|\,|\:)$") - LastBibleMsg := bibleQuote - QuotesAlreadySeen .= "a" Line2Read "a" - StringReplace, QuotesAlreadySeen, QuotesAlreadySeen, aa, a - StringRight, QuotesAlreadySeen, QuotesAlreadySeen, 91550 + bibleQuote := RegExReplace(bibleQuote, "i)(\;|\,|\:)$") If (StrLen(bibleQuote)>6) { + LastBibleMsg := bibleQuote + QuotesAlreadySeen .= "a" Line2Read "a" + StringReplace, QuotesAlreadySeen, QuotesAlreadySeen, aa, a + StringRight, QuotesAlreadySeen, QuotesAlreadySeen, 91550 LastBibleQuoteDisplay := LastBibleQuoteDisplay2 := A_TickCount Sleep, 2 CreateBibleGUI(bibleQuote, 1, 1) - } - If (PrefOpen!=1) - { - If (menuAdded!=1) + If (PrefOpen!=1) { - menuAdded := 1 - Menu, Tray, Enable, Show previous Bible "e - } - SetMyVolume(1) - INIaction(1, "QuotesAlreadySeen", "SavedSettings") - If (mouseHidden!=1) - strikeJapanBell() - } Else SoundPlay, sounds\japanese-bell.mp3 - - quoteDisplayTime := 1200 + StrLen(bibleQuote) * 123 - If (quoteDisplayTime>120100) - quoteDisplayTime := 120100 - Else If (PrefOpen=1) - quoteDisplayTime := quoteDisplayTime/2 + DisplayTime - - LastBibleQuoteDisplay := A_TickCount - SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, % -quoteDisplayTime - SetTimer, InvokeBibleQuoteNow, %bibleQuoteFreq% + SetMyVolume(1) + INIaction(1, "QuotesAlreadySeen", "SavedSettings") + If (mouseHidden!=1) + strikeJapanBell() + } Else strikeJapanBell() + + quoteDisplayTime := 1200 + StrLen(bibleQuote) * 123 + If (quoteDisplayTime>120100) + quoteDisplayTime := 120100 + Else If (PrefOpen=1) + quoteDisplayTime := quoteDisplayTime/2 + DisplayTime + + LastBibleQuoteDisplay := A_TickCount + SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, % -quoteDisplayTime + If (showBibleQuotes=1) + SetTimer, InvokeBibleQuoteNow, %bibleQuoteFreq% + } Else If (showBibleQuotes=1) + SetTimer, InvokeBibleQuoteNow, % bibleQuoteFreq//2 } DestroyBibleGui(funcu:=0, forced:=0) { @@ -504,7 +608,7 @@ DestroyBibleGui(funcu:=0, forced:=0) { SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, -50 Return } - + ; SoundBeep ; ToolTip, % funcu , , , 2 GuiFader("ChurchTowerBibleWin","hide", OSDalpha) Gui, BibleGui: Destroy @@ -524,16 +628,20 @@ ShowLastBibleMsg() { strikeJapanBell() quoteDisplayTime := 1500 + StrLen(LastBibleMsg) * 123 SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, % -quoteDisplayTime - } + } Else + CreateBibleGUI("No Bible quote previously displayed", 0, 0, 1) } SetMyVolume(noRestore:=0) { Static mustRestoreVol, LastInvoked := 1 - If (PrefOpen=1) + If (PrefOpen=1 && hSetWinGui) + { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, DynamicVolume - Else If (AnyWindowOpen>0) - CloseWindow() + } + ; Else If (AnyWindowOpen>0) + ; CloseWindow() If (DynamicVolume=0) { @@ -548,7 +656,7 @@ SetMyVolume(noRestore:=0) { Return } - If (A_TickCount - LastNoonSound<150000) && (PrefOpen=0 && noTollingBgrSounds=2) + If (A_TickCount - LastNoonZeitSound<150000) && (PrefOpen=0 && noTollingBgrSounds=2) Return If (ScriptInitialized=1 && AutoUnmute=1 && BeepsVolume>3 @@ -592,6 +700,7 @@ SetMyVolume(noRestore:=0) { actualVolume := 99 If (cutVolumeHalf=1) actualVolume := Floor(actualVolume/2.5) + SetVolume(actualVolume) Return mustRestoreVol } @@ -604,6 +713,7 @@ SetVolume(val:=100,r:="") { volSlider() { Critical, Off + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, result , , BeepsVolume, GuiControlGet, tollQuarters GuiControlGet, tollHours @@ -614,12 +724,11 @@ volSlider() { BeepsVolume := result SetMyVolume(1) VerifyTheOptions() - GuiControl, , volLevel, % (result<2) ? "Audio: [ MUTE ]" : "Audio volume: " result " % " + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, volLevel, % (result<2) ? "Audio: [ MUTE ]" : "Audio volume: " result " % " If (tollQuarters=1) - strikeQuarters() - - If (tollHours=1 || tollHoursAmount=1) - strikeHours() + strikeQuarters(1) + Else If (tollHours=1 || tollHoursAmount=1) + strikeHours(1) } RandomNumberCalc(minVariation:=100,maxVariation:=250) { @@ -631,104 +740,169 @@ RandomNumberCalc(minVariation:=100,maxVariation:=250) { If (newNumber - lastNumber > minVariation) || (lastNumber - newNumber > minVariation) allGood := 1 } Until (allGood=1 || A_Index>90000) + lastNumber := newNumber Return newNumber } -strikeQuarters() { - If (stopStrikesNow=1) - Return - - sleepDelay := RandomNumberCalc() - sndChanQ := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nSoundPlay, sounds\quarters.mp3, 1") - - If (PrefOpen!=1) - Sleep, % strikeInterval + sleepDelay - Else - Sleep, 600 -} - -strikeHours() { - If (stopStrikesNow=1) - Return - - sleepDelay := RandomNumberCalc() - sndChanH := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nSoundPlay, sounds\hours.mp3, 1") - If (PrefOpen!=1) - Sleep, % strikeInterval + sleepDelay +strikeQuarters(beats, delayu:=0) { + quartersTotalTime := 0 + Loop, %beats% + { + randomDelay := RandomNumberCalc() + fn := Func("MCXI_Play").Bind(SNDmedia_quarters%A_Index%) + thisDelay := strikeInterval * (A_Index - 1) + randomDelay//2 + delayu + quartersTotalTime := thisDelay + 2500 + SetTimer, % fn, % -thisDelay + } } -playSemantronDummy() { - playSemantron() +strikeHours(beats, delayu:=0) { + hoursTotalTime := 0 + Loop, %beats% + { + randomDelay := RandomNumberCalc() + fn := Func("MCXI_Play").Bind(SNDmedia_hours%A_Index%) + thisDelay := strikeInterval * (A_Index - 1) + randomDelay//2 + delayu + ; If (A_Index>1) + ; thisDelay += 4000 + + hoursTotalTime := thisDelay + 5500 + SetTimer, % fn, % -thisDelay + } } -playSemantron(snd:=1) { - If (stopStrikesNow=1) - Return - +playSemantron(snd:=1, delayu:=1) { If (snd=1) semtr2play := "semantron1" Else If (snd=2) semtr2play := "semantron2" Else If (snd=3) - semtr2play := "orthodox-chimes2" + semtr2play := "orthodox_chimes2" Else If (snd=4) - semtr2play := "orthodox-chimes1" + semtr2play := "orthodox_chimes1" + Else + Return - sleepDelay := RandomNumberCalc() * 2 - Sleep, %sleepDelay% + sleepDelay := RandomNumberCalc() + fn := Func("MCXI_Play").Bind(SNDmedia_%semtr2play%) + SetTimer, % fn, % -(delayu + sleepDelay*2) + Global LastNoonZeitSound := A_TickCount +} - If !sndChanS - sndChanS := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nMEx:=AhkExported()`nsmd:=MEx.ahkgetvar.semtr2play`nSoundPlay, sounds\%smd%.mp3, 1") - Else - sndChanS.ahkReload[] +tollGivenNoon(snd, delayu) { + If (noTollingBgrSounds=2) + SetMyVolume(1) + + If !snd + { + ; INIaction(0, "LastNoonAudio", "SavedSettings") + choice := clampInRange(LastNoonAudio + 1, 1, 4, 1) + LastNoonAudio := choice + INIaction(1, "LastNoonAudio", "SavedSettings") + } Else choice := snd - Global LastNoonSound := A_TickCount + ToolTip, % "Noon audio playing: " choice + sleepDelay := RandomNumberCalc() + fn := Func("MCXI_Play").Bind(SNDmedia_noon%choice%) + SetTimer, % fn, % -(strikeInterval//2 + sleepDelay//2 + delayu) + Global LastNoonZeitSound := A_TickCount + SetTimer, removeTooltip, -1000 +} + + +clampInRange(value, min, max, reverse:=0) { + If (reverse=1) + { + If (value>max) + value := min + Else If (valuemax) + value := max + Else If (value=2) isSoundPlayingNow() If (AnyWindowOpen=1) stopStrikesNow := 0 - If (stopStrikesNow=1 || PrefOpen=1) - || ((A_TickCount - lastToll<100000) && (AnyWindowOpen=1)) + If (PrefOpen=1) ; || ((A_TickCount - lastToll<100000) && (AnyWindowOpen=1)) Return - Global LastNoonSound := A_TickCount - Sleep, 50 + If (stopStrikesNow=1) + Return + + Global LastNoonZeitSound := A_TickCount + Sleep, 2 If (noTollingBgrSounds=2) SetMyVolume(1) - If !sndChanN - sndChanN := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nRandom, choice, 1, 4`nSoundPlay, sounds\noon%choice%.mp3, 1") - Else - sndChanN.ahkReload[] - lastToll := A_TickCount + ; Random, snd, 1, 4 + tollGivenNoon(0, 250) + ; lastToll := A_TickCount } -AdditionalStriker() { +AdditionalStrikerPerformer() { If (noTollingBgrSounds>=2) isSoundPlayingNow() If (noTollingWhenMhidden=1) mouseHidden := checkMcursorState() - If (stopAdditionalStrikes=1 || mouseHidden=1 || A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1 || strikingBellsNow=1) + If (mouseHidden=1 || A_IsSuspended || strikingBellsNow=1) Return + SetMyVolume(1) - If !sndChanA - sndChanA := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nSoundPlay, sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3, 1") - Else - sndChanA.ahkReload[] + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_auxil_bell) +} + +PlayAlarmedBell() { + Static indexu := 0, bu := 0 + SetMyVolume(1) + If (userAlarmSound=1) + { + bu := !bu + If bu + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_auxil_bell) + } Else If (userAlarmSound=2) + { + indexu := clampInRange(indexu + 1, 1, 4, 1) + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_quarters%indexu%) + } Else If (userAlarmSound=3) + { + indexu := clampInRange(indexu + 1, 1, 4, 1) + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_hours%indexu%) + } Else If (userAlarmSound=4) + { + bu := !bu + If bu + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_japan_bell) + } +} + +MCXI_Play(hSND) { + If (stopAdditionalStrikes=1 || stopStrikesNow=1 || userMuteAllSounds=1) + Return + + MCI_SendString("seek " hSND " to 1 wait") + MCI_Play(hSND) } readjustBibleTimer() { SetTimer, InvokeBibleQuoteNow, Off - Sleep, 25 + Sleep, 5 SetTimer, InvokeBibleQuoteNow, %bibleQuoteFreq% } @@ -736,12 +910,11 @@ theChimer() { Critical, on Static lastChimed, todayTest FormatTime, CurrentTime,, hh:mm - SetTimer, FreeAhkResources, Off If (lastChimed=CurrentTime || A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1) mustEndNow := 1 + FormatTime, exactTime,, HH:mm FormatTime, HoursIntervalTest,, H ; 0-23 format - If (noTollingBgrSounds>=2) { testBgrNoise := isSoundPlayingNow() @@ -751,9 +924,7 @@ theChimer() { If (todayTest!=A_MDay) && (ScriptInitialized=1) { - If (A_WDay=2 || A_WDay=5) - FreeAhkResources(1,1) - Sleep, 100 + Sleep, 10 testCelebrations() } @@ -781,55 +952,49 @@ theChimer() { stopStrikesNow := stopAdditionalStrikes := 0 strikingBellsNow := 1 Random, delayRandNoon, 950, 5050 - + NoonTollQuartersDelay := 0 If (InStr(exactTime, "06:00") && tollNoon=1) { + NoonTollQuartersDelay := 7500 volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - SoundPlay, sounds\morning.mp3, 1 - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, %delayRandNoon% + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_morning) } Else If (InStr(exactTime, "18:00") && tollNoon=1) { + NoonTollQuartersDelay := 18500 volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() If (BeepsVolume>1) - SoundPlay, sounds\evening.mp3, 1 - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, %delayRandNoon% + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_evening) + If (StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3 && SemantronHoliday=0 && TypeHolidayOccured>1) - SetTimer, TollExtraNoon, -51000 + tollGivenNoon(0, 51000 + delayRandNoon + NoonTollQuartersDelay) } Else If (InStr(exactTime, "00:00") && tollNoon=1) { + NoonTollQuartersDelay := 6500 volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() If (BeepsVolume>1) - SoundPlay, sounds\midnight.mp3, 1 - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, %delayRandNoon% + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_midnight) } + quartersTotalTime := 0 + hoursTotalTime := 0 If (InStr(CurrentTime, ":15") && tollQuarters=1) { volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - strikeQuarters() + strikeQuarters(1, NoonTollQuartersDelay) } Else If (InStr(CurrentTime, ":30") && tollQuarters=1) { volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - Loop, 2 - strikeQuarters() + strikeQuarters(2, NoonTollQuartersDelay) } Else If (InStr(CurrentTime, ":45") && tollQuarters=1) { volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - Loop, 3 - { - strikeQuarters() - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, % A_Index * 160 - } + strikeQuarters(3, NoonTollQuartersDelay) } Else If InStr(CurrentTime, ":00") { FormatTime, countHours2beat,, h ; 0-12 format @@ -837,110 +1002,103 @@ theChimer() { { volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - Loop, 4 - { - strikeQuarters() - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, % A_Index * 140 - } + strikeQuarters(4, NoonTollQuartersDelay) } + Random, delayRand, 900, 1600 - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, %delayRand% If (countHours2beat="00") || (countHours2beat=0) countHours2beat := 12 + If (tollHoursAmount=1 && tollHours=1) { volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - Loop, %countHours2beat% - { - strikeHours() - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, % A_Index * 85 - } + strikeHours(countHours2beat, delayRand//2 + quartersTotalTime) } Else If (tollHours=1) { volumeAction := SetMyVolume() showTimeNow() - strikeHours() + strikeHours(1, delayRand//2 + quartersTotalTime) } If (InStr(exactTime, "12:0") && tollNoon=1) { - Random, delayRand, 2000, 8500 - If (stopStrikesNow=0) - Sleep, %delayRand% + Random, delayRand2, 2000, 8500 volumeAction := SetMyVolume() - choice := (LastNoon=4) ? 1 : LastNoon + 1 - If (storeSettingsREG=0) - IniWrite, %choice%, %IniFile%, SavedSettings, LastNoon - Else - RegWrite, REG_SZ, %APPregEntry%, LastNoon, %choice% - If (tollHours=0) showTimeNow() - If (stopStrikesNow=0 && ScriptInitialized=1 && volumeAction>0 && BeepsVolume>1) - { - Global LastNoonSound := A_TickCount - SoundPlay, sounds\noon%choice%.mp3, 1 - Global LastNoonSound := A_TickCount - } Else If (stopStrikesNow=0 && BeepsVolume>1) + If (stopStrikesNow=0 && BeepsVolume>1) { - Random, newDelay, 49000, 99000 - Global LastNoonSound := A_TickCount - SoundPlay, sounds\noon%choice%.mp3 - Global LastNoonSound := A_TickCount - If (A_WDay=1 || StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3) ; on Sundays or holidays - SetTimer, TollExtraNoon, % -newDelay + tollGivenNoon(0, delayRand2 + hoursTotalTime) + If InStr(isHolidayToday, "easter") ; on Easter + { + Random, newDelay, 1500, 6000 + tollGivenNoon(0, delayRand2 + newDelay + hoursTotalTime) + Random, newDelay, 3500, 4000 + tollGivenNoon(0, delayRand2 + newDelay + hoursTotalTime) + Random, newDelay, 2500, 5000 + tollGivenNoon(0, delayRand2 + newDelay + hoursTotalTime) + } Else If (A_WDay=1 || StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3) ; on Sundays or holidays + { + Random, newDelay, 49000, 99000 + tollGivenNoon(0, delayRand2 + newDelay + hoursTotalTime) + } } } } - If (SemantronHoliday=1 && StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3) + If (stopStrikesNow=0 && SemantronHoliday=1 && StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3 && InStr(exactTime, ":45")) { If InStr(exactTime, "09:45") - playSemantron(1) + playSemantron(1, quartersTotalTime) Else If InStr(exactTime, "17:45") - playSemantron(2) + playSemantron(2, quartersTotalTime) Else If InStr(exactTime, "22:45") - playSemantron(3) - - If (InStr(exactTime, "11:45") && (A_WDay=1 || A_WDay=7)) + playSemantron(3, quartersTotalTime) + Else If (InStr(exactTime, "11:45") && (A_WDay=1 || A_WDay=7)) { - SetTimer, playSemantronDummy, -60000 - playSemantron(4) + Random, newDelay, 55100, 65100 + playSemantron(4, quartersTotalTime) + playSemantron(1, quartersTotalTime + newDelay) } - } Else If (StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3 && TypeHolidayOccured=1) && (tollNoon=1 || tollQuarters=1) + } Else If (StrLen(isHolidayToday)>3 && SemantronHoliday=0 && TypeHolidayOccured=1) && (tollNoon=1 || tollQuarters=1) { Random, newDelay, 39000, 89000 If (InStr(exactTime, "09:45") || InStr(exactTime, "17:45")) - SetTimer, TollExtraNoon, % -newDelay + tollGivenNoon(0, newDelay) } - If (AutoUnmute=1 && volumeAction>0) - { - If (volumeAction=1 || volumeAction=3) - SoundSet, 1, , mute - If (volumeAction=2 || volumeAction=3) - SoundSet, %master_vol% - } + ; If (AutoUnmute=1 && volumeAction>0) + ; { + ; If (volumeAction=1 || volumeAction=3) + ; SoundSet, 1, , mute + ; If (volumeAction=2 || volumeAction=3) + ; SoundSet, %master_vol% + ; } + strikingBellsNow := 0 lastChimed := CurrentTime SetTimer, theChimer, % calcNextQuarter() - SetTimer, FreeAhkResources, -350100, 950 } showTimeNow() { - If (displayClock=0) + If (displayClock=0) || (A_TickCount - scriptStartZeit<1500) Return - If (analogDisplay=1 && isAnalogClockFile) + If (analogDisplay=1) { - analogClockThread.ahkPostFunction["showClock"] - DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) - } Else CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt(1,1)) + ClockPosX := GuiX + ClockPosY := GuiY + If (moduleAnalogClockInit!=1) + InitClockFace() + showAnalogClock() + ; DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) + } Else If (BibleGuiVisible!=1) + { + CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt(1,1)) + SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, % - (DisplayTime + 50) + } } calcNextQuarter() { @@ -1064,7 +1222,7 @@ GuiFader(guiName,toggle,alphaLevel) { lastEvent := toggle } -CreateBibleGUI(msg2Display, isBibleQuote:=0, centerMsg:=0,noAdds:=0) { +CreateBibleGUI(msg2Display, isBibleQuote:=0, centerMsg:=0, noAdds:=0) { Critical, On lastOSDredraw := A_TickCount bibleQuoteVisible := (isBibleQuote=1) ? 1 : 0 @@ -1104,10 +1262,19 @@ CreateBibleGUI(msg2Display, isBibleQuote:=0, centerMsg:=0,noAdds:=0) { Gui, BibleGui: Show, NoActivate AutoSize Hide x%GuiX% y%GuiY%, ChurchTowerBibleWin WinSet, Transparent, 1, ChurchTowerBibleWin WinGetPos,,, mainWid, mainHeig, ahk_id %hBibleOSD% + + If (isBibleQuote=0 && InStr(msg2Display, ":")) + { + percentileDay := Round(getPercentOfToday() * 100) "%" + hu := Ceil(mainHeig*0.04 + 1) + Gui, BibleGui: Add, Progress, x0 y0 w%mainWid% h%hu% c%OSDfadedColor% background%OSDbgrColor%, % percentileDay + } + If (centerMsg=1) { If (makeScreenDark=1) ScreenBlocker(0,1) + ActiveMon := MWAGetMonitorMouseIsIn() If ActiveMon { @@ -1127,6 +1294,7 @@ CreateBibleGUI(msg2Display, isBibleQuote:=0, centerMsg:=0,noAdds:=0) { Final_x := GuiX Final_y := GuiY } + Gui, BibleGui: Show, NoActivate AutoSize x%Final_x% y%Final_y%, ChurchTowerBibleWin If (isBibleQuote=1) CreateShareButton() @@ -1149,6 +1317,7 @@ CreateBibleGUI(msg2Display, isBibleQuote:=0, centerMsg:=0,noAdds:=0) { Gui, BibleGui: Show, NoActivate x%Final_x% y%Final_y%, ChurchTowerBibleWin } + WinSet, Transparent, 1, ChurchTowerBibleWin WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, On, ChurchTowerBibleWin BibleGuiVisible := 1 @@ -1215,7 +1384,7 @@ CreateShareButton() { Gui, ShareBtnGui: Margin, %marginz%, %marginz% Gui, ShareBtnGui: Color, c%OSDtextColor% Gui, ShareBtnGui: Font, %OSDbgrColor% s%FontSizeMin% Bold, - Gui, ShareBtnGui: Add, Text, c%OSDbgrColor% gCopyLastQuote, Copy && share quote + Gui, ShareBtnGui: Add, Text, c%OSDbgrColor% gCopyLastQuote, Copy and share quote ActiveMon := MWAGetMonitorMouseIsIn() If ActiveMon { @@ -1248,6 +1417,17 @@ CopyLastQuote() { ToolTip } +ResetAnalogClickPosition() { + If (constantAnalogClock!=1) + Return + + ClockPosX := ClockPosY := 1 + Gui, ClockGui: Show, NoActivate x%ClockPosX% y%ClockPosY% + saveAnalogClockPosition("no") + If (constantAnalogClock!=1) + Gui, ClockGui: Hide +} + WM_MouseMove(wP, lP, msg, hwnd) { ; Function by Drugwash Global @@ -1259,7 +1439,19 @@ WM_MouseMove(wP, lP, msg, hwnd) { If (A_TickCount - LastBibleQuoteDisplay950) + ; { + ; hideAnalogClock() + ; SetTimer, showAnalogClock, -900 + } Else If InStr(hBibleOSD, hwnd) { If (PrefOpen=0) DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc, 1) @@ -1285,8 +1477,15 @@ WM_MouseMove(wP, lP, msg, hwnd) { DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc, 1) } + +trackMouseAnalogClockDragging() { + defAnalogClockPosChanged := 1 + WinGetPos, ClockPosX, ClockPosY,,, ahk_id %hFaceClock% + ; SetTimer, trackMouseDragging, -150 + SetTimer, saveAnalogClockPosition, -150 +} + trackMouseDragging() { -; Function by Drugwash Global If (PrefOpen!=1) @@ -1304,7 +1503,10 @@ trackMouseDragging() { WinActivate, ahk_id %hAWin% } If (bibleQuoteVisible=0) - saveGuiPositions() + SetTimer, saveGuiPositions, -150 + + If (GetKeyState("LButton", "P") && PrefOpen=0) + SetTimer, trackMouseDragging, -150 } saveGuiPositions() { @@ -1312,31 +1514,56 @@ saveGuiPositions() { If (PrefOpen=0) { - Sleep, 700 + Sleep, 300 SetTimer, DestroyBibleGui, -1500 INIaction(1, "GuiX", "OSDprefs") INIaction(1, "GuiY", "OSDprefs") - } Else If (PrefOpen=1) + } Else ; If (PrefOpen=1) { GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, GuiX, %GuiX% GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, GuiY, %GuiY% } } -saveAnalogClockPosition(mX, mY) { +saveAnalogClockPosition(dummy:=0) { ; function called after dragging the OSD to a new position defAnalogClockPosChanged := 1 - ClockGuiY := mY - ClockGuiX := mX - INIaction(1, "ClockGuiX", "OSDprefs") - INIaction(1, "ClockGuiY", "OSDprefs") - Sleep, 10 + If (dummy!="no") + WinGetPos, ClockPosX, ClockPosY, , , ahk_id %hFaceClock% + + ClockGuiY := ClockPosY, ClockGuiX := ClockPosX + If (PrefOpen=1) + { + GuiX := ClockPosX, GuiY := ClockPosY + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, GuiX, %GuiX% + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, GuiY, %GuiY% + } Else + { + INIaction(1, "ClockGuiX", "OSDprefs") + INIaction(1, "ClockGuiY", "OSDprefs") + Sleep, 10 + } + If GetKeyState("LButton", "P") + SetTimer, saveAnalogClockPosition, -150 +} + +GetWindowRectum(hwnd) { + size := VarSetCapacity(rect, 16, 0) + DllCall("GetWindowRect", "UPtr", hwnd, "UPtr", &rect, "UInt") + r := [] + r.x1 := NumGet(rect, 0, "Int"), r.y1 := NumGet(rect, 4, "Int") + r.x2 := NumGet(rect, 8, "Int"), r.y2 := NumGet(rect, 12, "Int") + r.w := Abs(max(r.x1, r.x2) - min(r.x1, r.x2)) + r.h := Abs(max(r.y1, r.y2) - min(r.y1, r.y2)) + + Return r } SetStartUp() { If (A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1) { SoundBeep, 300, 900 + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% Return } @@ -1352,18 +1579,18 @@ SetStartUp() { Return } RegWrite, REG_SZ, %StartRegPath%, %appName%, %regEntry% - Menu, Tray, Check, Sta&rt at boot + Menu, Tray, Check, Start at boot CreateBibleGUI("Enabled Start at Boot",,,1) } Else { RegDelete, %StartRegPath%, %appName% - Menu, Tray, Uncheck, Sta&rt at boot + Menu, Tray, Uncheck, Start at boot CreateBibleGUI("Disabled Start at Boot",,,1) } } SuspendScriptNow() { - SuspendScript(0) + SuspendScript(0) } SuspendScript(partially:=0) { @@ -1376,9 +1603,9 @@ SuspendScript(partially:=0) { SoundBeep, 300, 900 Return } + sillySoundHack() GuiFader("ChurchTowerBibleWin","hide", OSDalpha) - FreeAhkResources(1) If !A_IsSuspended { stopStrikesNow := 1 @@ -1386,8 +1613,8 @@ SuspendScript(partially:=0) { SetTimer, theChimer, Off Menu, Tray, Uncheck, &%appName% activated SoundLoop("") - If (constantAnalogClock=1 && isAnalogClockFile) - analogClockThread.ahkFunction["hideClock"] + If (constantAnalogClock=1) + hideAnalogClock() } Else { If (partially=1) @@ -1408,6 +1635,7 @@ SuspendScript(partially:=0) { If (ClockVisibility!=1 || defAnalogClockPosChanged=1) CreateBibleGUI(appName friendlyName,,,1) } + stopStrikesNow := 1 Sleep, 20 Suspend } @@ -1422,43 +1650,54 @@ ReloadScriptNow() { InitializeTray() { Menu, Tray, NoStandard - If (ShowBibleQuotes=1) - { - Menu, Tray, Add, Show previous Bible "e, ShowLastBibleMsg - Menu, Tray, Disable, Show previous Bible "e - } Menu, Tray, Add, &Customize, ShowSettings - Menu, Tray, Add, L&arge UI fonts, ToggleLargeFonts + Menu, Tray, Add, Large UI &fonts, ToggleLargeFonts If (storeSettingsREG=0) - Menu, Tray, Add, Sta&rt at boot, SetStartUp - - Menu, Tray, Add + Menu, Tray, Add, Start at boot, SetStartUp RegRead, currentReg, %StartRegPath%, %appName% If (StrLen(currentReg)>5 && storeSettingsREG=0) - Menu, Tray, Check, Sta&rt at boot + Menu, Tray, Check, Start at boot If (PrefsLargeFonts=1) - Menu, Tray, Check, L&arge UI fonts + Menu, Tray, Check, Large UI &fonts + Menu, Tray, Add RunType := A_IsCompiled ? "" : " [script]" If FileExist(tickTockSound) + { Menu, Tray, Add, Tick/Toc&k sound, ToggleTickTock - If isAnalogClockFile - Menu, Tray, Add, Analo&g clock display (constantly), toggleAnalogClock + If (tickTockNoise=1) + Menu, Tray, Check, Tick/Toc&k sound + } + + Menu, Tray, Add, Analo&g clock display, toggleAnalogClock + Menu, Tray, Add, Reset analog clock position, ResetAnalogClickPosition + Menu, Tray, Add, Set &alarm or timer, PanelSetAlarm + Menu, Tray, Add, Stop&watch, PanelStopWatch + If (ObserveHolidays=1) + { + Menu, Tray, Add, Celebrations / &holidays, PanelIncomingCelebrations + ; Menu, Tray, Add, Mana&ge celebrations, OpenListCelebrationsBtn + } + + If (ShowBibleQuotes=1) + Menu, Tray, Add, Show pre&vious Bible quote, ShowLastBibleMsg + Menu, Tray, Add, Show a Bible "e now, InvokeBibleQuoteNow Menu, Tray, Add Menu, Tray, Add, &%appName% activated, SuspendScriptNow Menu, Tray, Check, &%appName% activated + Menu, Tray, Add, &Mute all sounds, ToggleAllMuteSounds + If (userMuteAllSounds=1) + Menu, Tray, Check, &Mute all sounds Menu, Tray, Add, &Restart, ReloadScriptNow Menu, Tray, Add - Menu, Tray, Add, &About, AboutWindow + Menu, Tray, Add, Abou&t, PanelAboutWindow Menu, Tray, Add Menu, Tray, Add, E&xit, KillScript, P50 Menu, Tray, Tip, %appName% v%Version%%RunType% - Menu, Tray, Default, &About - Menu, Tray, % (constantAnalogClock=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), Analo&g clock display (constantly) - If (tickTockNoise=1) - Menu, Tray, Check, Tick/Toc&k sound + Menu, Tray, Default, Abou&t + Menu, Tray, % (constantAnalogClock=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), Analo&g clock display } ToggleLargeFonts() { @@ -1466,29 +1705,47 @@ ToggleLargeFonts() { LargeUIfontValue := 13 INIaction(1, "PrefsLargeFonts", "SavedSettings") INIaction(1, "LargeUIfontValue", "SavedSettings") - Menu, Tray, % (PrefsLargeFonts=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), L&arge UI fonts + Menu, Tray, % (PrefsLargeFonts=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), Large UI &fonts If (PrefOpen=1) { SwitchPreferences(1) - } Else If (AnyWindowOpen=1) - { - CloseWindow() - AboutWindow() - } Else If (AnyWindowOpen=2) - { - CloseWindow() + Return + } + + o_win := AnyWindowOpen + CloseWindow() + Sleep, 50 + If (o_win=1) + PanelAboutWindow() + Else If (o_win=2) ShowWelcomeWindow() - } Else If (AnyWindowOpen=3) - { - CloseWindow() + Else If (o_win=3) PanelIncomingCelebrations() + Else If (o_win=4) + PanelSetAlarm() + Else If (o_win=5) + PanelStopWatch() + Else If (windowManageCeleb=1) + { + CloseCelebListWin() + PanelManageCelebrations() } } +ToggleAllMuteSounds() { + userMuteAllSounds := !userMuteAllSounds + INIaction(1, "userMuteAllSounds", "SavedSettings") + Menu, Tray, % (userMuteAllSounds=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), &Mute all sounds + If (tickTockNoise=1) + ToggleTickTock() +} + ToggleTickTock() { If (A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1) { SoundBeep, 300, 900 + If (PrefOpen=1) + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% Return } @@ -1502,20 +1759,25 @@ ToggleTickTock() { SoundLoop("") If (constantAnalogClock=1) - { - analogClockThread.ahkassign("tickTockNoise", tickTockNoise) - analogClockThread.ahkPostFunction("SynchSecTimer") - } + SynchSecTimer() If (noTollingBgrSounds>=2) isSoundPlayingNow() + SetMyVolume(1) } +toggleMoonPhasesAnalog() { + analogMoonPhases := !analogMoonPhases + INIaction(1, "analogMoonPhases", "SavedSettings") +} + ChangeClockSize(newSize) { If (A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1) { SoundBeep, 300, 900 + If (PrefOpen=1) + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% Return } @@ -1525,19 +1787,28 @@ ChangeClockSize(newSize) { } toggleAnalogClock() { - If (A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1) - { - SoundBeep, 300, 900 - Return - } + If (A_IsSuspended || PrefOpen=1) + { + SoundBeep, 300, 900 + If (PrefOpen=1) + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% + Return + } + o_constantAnalogClock := constantAnalogClock constantAnalogClock := !constantAnalogClock + If (o_constantAnalogClock && hFaceClock) + saveAnalogClockPosition() + + If (constantAnalogClock=1 && moduleAnalogClockInit!=1) + InitClockFace() + INIaction(1, "constantAnalogClock", "OSDprefs") - Menu, Tray, % (constantAnalogClock=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), Analo&g clock display (constantly) + Menu, Tray, % (constantAnalogClock=0 ? "Uncheck" : "Check"), Analo&g clock display If (constantAnalogClock=1) - analogClockThread.ahkPostFunction["showClock"] + showAnalogClock() Else - analogClockThread.ahkPostFunction["hideClock"] + hideAnalogClock() } ForceReloadNow() { @@ -1563,6 +1834,7 @@ ReloadScript(silent:=1) { CloseSettings() Return } + DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) If FileExist(ThisFile) { @@ -1630,7 +1902,7 @@ KillScript(showMSG:=1) { ; various functions used in the UI. ;================================================================ -SettingsGUI(themed:=0) { +GenericPanelGUI(themed:=0) { Global If (themed=1) determineUIcolors() @@ -1675,7 +1947,7 @@ initSettingsWindow() { SuspendScript(1) PrefOpen := 1 - SettingsGUI() + GenericPanelGUI() } verifySettingsWindowSize(noCheckLargeUI:=0) { @@ -1728,23 +2000,16 @@ verifySettingsWindowSize(noCheckLargeUI:=0) { } SwitchPreferences(forceReopenSame:=0) { - testPrefWind := (forceReopenSame=1) ? "lol" : CurrentPrefWindow - GuiControlGet, CurrentPrefWindow - If (testPrefWind=CurrentPrefWindow) - Return - PrefOpen := 0 + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, ApplySettingsBTN, Enabled Gui, Submit Gui, SettingsGUIA: Destroy Sleep, 25 - SettingsGUI() + GenericPanelGUI() CheckSettings() - If (CurrentPrefWindow=5) - { - ShowSettings() - VerifyTheOptions(ApplySettingsBTN) - } + ShowSettings() + VerifyTheOptions(ApplySettingsBTN) } ApplySettings() { @@ -1752,22 +2017,24 @@ ApplySettings() { CheckSettings() PrefOpen := 0 INIsettings(1) - Sleep, 100 + Sleep, 50 ReloadScript() } CloseWindow() { AnyWindowOpen := 0 + ResetStopWatchCounter() If (tickTockNoise!=1) SoundLoop("") Gui, SettingsGUIA: Destroy + hSetWinGui := "" } CloseSettings() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, ApplySettingsBTN, Enabled PrefOpen := 0 - analogClockThread.ahkassign("PrefOpen", PrefOpen) CloseWindow() If (ApplySettingsBTN=0) { @@ -1784,15 +2051,16 @@ CloseSettings() { SettingsGUIAGuiContextMenu(GuiHwnd, CtrlHwnd, EventInfo, IsRightClick, X, Y) { Static lastInvoked := 1 - If (CtrlHwnd && IsRightClick=1) + Menu, ContextMenu, UseErrorLevel + Menu, ContextMenu, Delete + Sleep, 25 + If (CtrlHwnd && IsRightClick=1) || (mouseToolTipWinCreated=1) || ((A_TickCount-lastInvoked>250) && IsRightClick=0) { lastInvoked := A_TickCount Return } - Menu, ContextMenu, UseErrorLevel - Menu, ContextMenu, Delete - Sleep, 25 + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, L&arge UI fonts, ToggleLargeFonts Menu, ContextMenu, Add, If (PrefsLargeFonts=1) @@ -1801,14 +2069,16 @@ SettingsGUIAGuiContextMenu(GuiHwnd, CtrlHwnd, EventInfo, IsRightClick, X, Y) { If (PrefOpen=0) Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Settings, ShowSettings Menu, ContextMenu, Add + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Donate now, DonateNow Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Restart %appName%, ReloadScriptNow - Menu, ContextMenu, Add - Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Close menu, dummy Menu, ContextMenu, Show lastInvoked := A_TickCount Return } +CelebrationsGuiaGuiContextMenu(GuiHwnd, CtrlHwnd, EventInfo, IsRightClick, X, Y) { + SettingsGUIAGuiContextMenu(GuiHwnd, CtrlHwnd, EventInfo, IsRightClick, X, Y) +} SettingsGUIAGuiEscape: If (PrefOpen=1) @@ -1876,7 +2146,7 @@ setColors(hC, event, c, err=0) { r := %ctrl% := hexRGB(Dlg_Color(%ctrl%, hC)) Critical, %oc% GuiControl, %g%:+Background%r%, %ctrl% - GuiControl, Enable, ApplySettingsBTN + GuiControl, %g%:Enable, ApplySettingsBTN Sleep, 100 OSDpreview() } @@ -1897,7 +2167,7 @@ OSDpreview() { { DoGuiFader := 1 If (ClockVisibility=1) - analogClockThread.ahkPostFunction["hideClock"] + hideAnalogClock() DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) Return } @@ -1905,9 +2175,9 @@ OSDpreview() { If (analogDisplay=0 || ShowPreviewDate=1) { If (ClockVisibility=1) - analogClockThread.ahkPostFunction["hideClock"] + hideAnalogClock() CreateBibleGUI(generateDateTimeTxt(1, !ShowPreviewDate)) - } Else If (A_TickCount - lastInvoked > 200) && (PrefOpen=1) + } Else If (A_TickCount - lastInvoked > 200) && (PrefOpen=1 && !GetKeyState("LButton", "P")) { reInitializeAnalogClock() lastInvoked := A_TickCount @@ -1927,14 +2197,14 @@ OSDpreview() { } reInitializeAnalogClock() { - analogClockThread.ahkFunction["hideClock"] + hideAnalogClock() Sleep, 2 - analogClockThread.ahkFunction["OnHEXit"] + exitAnalogClock() Sleep, 2 - analogClockThread.ahkFunction["InitClockFace"] + InitClockFace() DestroyBibleGui(A_ThisFunc) Sleep, 2 - analogClockThread.ahkFunction["showClock"] + showAnalogClock() } generateDateTimeTxt(LongD:=1, noDate:=0) { @@ -1965,33 +2235,39 @@ editsOSDwin() { } checkBoxStrikeQuarter() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, tollQuarters stopStrikesNow := 0 VerifyTheOptions() If (tollQuarters=1) - strikeQuarters() + strikeQuarters(1) } checkBoxStrikeHours() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, tollHours stopStrikesNow := 0 VerifyTheOptions() If (tollHours=1) - strikeHours() + strikeHours(1) } checkBoxStrikeAdditional() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default GuiControlGet, AdditionalStrikes stopStrikesNow := 0 VerifyTheOptions() If (AdditionalStrikes=1) - SoundPlay, sounds\auxilliary-bell.mp3 + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_auxil_bell) } ShowSettings() { doNotOpen := initSettingsWindow() If (doNotOpen=1) + { + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% Return + } Global CurrentPrefWindow := 5 Global DoNotRepeatTimer := A_TickCount @@ -2001,7 +2277,6 @@ ShowSettings() { editFieldWid := 220 btnWid := 90 - analogClockThread.ahkassign("PrefOpen", PrefOpen) If (PrefsLargeFonts=1) { Gui, Font, s%LargeUIfontValue% @@ -2010,7 +2285,6 @@ ShowSettings() { columnBpos1 := columnBpos2 := columnBpos2 + 90 } columnBpos1b := columnBpos1 + 20 - Gui, Add, Tab3, -Background +hwndhTabs, Bells|Extras|Restrictions|OSD options Gui, Tab, 1 ; general @@ -2030,24 +2304,29 @@ ShowSettings() { Gui, Add, Edit, x+5 w65 geditsOSDwin r1 limit5 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF37, %strikeInterval% Gui, Add, UpDown, gVerifyTheOptions vstrikeInterval Range900-5500, %strikeInterval% + wu := (PrefsLargeFonts=1) ? 125:95 + vu := (PrefsLargeFonts=1) ? 55:45 Gui, Tab, 2 ; extras Gui, Add, Checkbox, x+15 y+15 Section gVerifyTheOptions Checked%showBibleQuotes% vshowBibleQuotes, Show a Bible verse every (in hours) Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 w65 geditsOSDwin r1 limit2 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF40, %BibleQuotesInterval% Gui, Add, UpDown, gVerifyTheOptions vBibleQuotesInterval Range1-12, %BibleQuotesInterval% Gui, Add, DropDownList, xs+15 y+7 w270 gVerifyTheOptions AltSubmit Choose%BibleQuotesLang% vBibleQuotesLang, World English Bible (2000)|Français: Louis Segond (1910)|Español: Reina Valera (1909) Gui, Add, Text, xs+15 y+10 vTxt10, Font size - Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 w55 geditsOSDwin r1 limit3 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF73, %FontSizeQuotes% + Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 w%vu% geditsOSDwin r1 limit3 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF73, %FontSizeQuotes% Gui, Add, UpDown, gVerifyTheOptions vFontSizeQuotes Range10-200, %FontSizeQuotes% - Gui, Add, Button, x+10 hp w120 gInvokeBibleQuoteNow vBtn2, Preview verse + Gui, Add, Button, x+10 hp w%wu% gInvokeBibleQuoteNow vBtn2, Preview verse + Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 w%vu% r1 limit5 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF4, % userBibleStartPoint + Gui, Add, UpDown, gVerifyTheOptions vuserBibleStartPoint Range1-27400, % userBibleStartPoint + Gui, Add, Checkbox, x+5 gVerifyTheOptions Checked%orderedBibleQuotes% vorderedBibleQuotes, Define start point Gui, Add, Text, xs+15 y+10 vTxt4, Maximum line length (in characters) - Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 w55 geditsOSDwin r1 limit3 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF60, %maxBibleLength% + Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 w%vu% geditsOSDwin r1 limit3 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF60, %maxBibleLength% Gui, Add, UpDown, vmaxBibleLength gVerifyTheOptions Range20-130, %maxBibleLength% Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs+15 y+10 gVerifyTheOptions Checked%makeScreenDark% vmakeScreenDark, Dim the screen when displaying Bible verses Gui, Add, Checkbox, y+10 gVerifyTheOptions Checked%noBibleQuoteMhidden% vnoBibleQuoteMhidden, Do not show Bible verses when the mouse cursor is hidden`n(e.g., when watching videos on full-screen) Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+20 gVerifyTheOptions Checked%ObserveHolidays% vObserveHolidays, Observe Christian and/or secular holidays Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+7 gVerifyTheOptions Checked%SemantronHoliday% vSemantronHoliday, Mark days of feast by regular semantron drumming - Gui, Add, Button, xs+15 y+7 h25 gOpenListCelebrationsBtn vBtn3, Manage list of holidays + Gui, Add, Button, xs+15 y+7 h30 gOpenListCelebrationsBtn vBtn3, Manage list of holidays Gui, Tab, 3 ; restrictions Gui, Add, Text, x+15 y+15 Section, When other sounds are playing (e.g., music or movies) @@ -2098,7 +2377,7 @@ ShowSettings() { Gui, Add, UpDown, gVerifyTheOptions vFontSize Range12-295, %FontSize% Gui, Add, Edit, xp yp+30 w55 hp geditsOSDwin r1 limit2 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF99, %showTimeIdleAfter% Gui, Add, UpDown, vshowTimeIdleAfter gVerifyTheOptions Range1-950, %showTimeIdleAfter% - Gui, Add, Text, x+5 vtxt100, idle after (in min.) + Gui, Add, Text, x+5 vtxt100, idle time (in min.) Gui, Add, Edit, xs yp+30 w55 hp geditsOSDwin r1 limit2 -multi number -wantCtrlA -wantReturn -wantTab -wrap veditF6, %DisplayTimeUser% Gui, Add, UpDown, vDisplayTimeUser gVerifyTheOptions Range1-99, %DisplayTimeUser% Gui, Add, Checkbox, x+10 hp gVerifyTheOptions Checked%OSDroundCorners% vOSDroundCorners, Round corners @@ -2112,7 +2391,7 @@ ShowSettings() { fontNameInstalled := FontList[A_Index] If (fontNameInstalled ~= "i)(@|oem|extb|symbol|marlett|wst_|glyph|reference specialty|system|terminal|mt extra|small fonts|cambria math|this font is not|fixedsys|emoji|hksc| mdl|wingdings|webdings)") || (fontNameInstalled=FontName) Continue - GuiControl, , FontName, %fontNameInstalled% + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, FontName, %fontNameInstalled% } Gui, Tab @@ -2142,6 +2421,8 @@ VerifyTheOptions(EnableApply:=1,forceNoPreview:=0) { GuiControlGet, analogDisplay GuiControlGet, showTimeIdleAfter GuiControlGet, showTimeWhenIdle + GuiControlGet, userBibleStartPoint + GuiControlGet, orderedBibleQuotes GuiControl, % (EnableApply=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), ApplySettingsBTN GuiControl, % (AdditionalStrikes=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), editF38 @@ -2153,6 +2434,9 @@ VerifyTheOptions(EnableApply:=1,forceNoPreview:=0) { GuiControl, % (showBibleQuotes=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), makeScreenDark GuiControl, % (showBibleQuotes=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), BibleQuotesLang GuiControl, % (showBibleQuotes=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), noBibleQuoteMhidden + GuiControl, % (showBibleQuotes=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), orderedBibleQuotes + GuiControl, % (showBibleQuotes=0 || orderedBibleQuotes-1) ? "Disable" : "Enable", userBibleStartPoint + GuiControl, % (showBibleQuotes=0 || orderedBibleQuotes-1) ? "Disable" : "Enable", editF4 GuiControl, % (displayClock=0 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), analogDisplay GuiControl, % (silentHours=1 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), silentHoursA GuiControl, % (silentHours=1 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), silentHoursB @@ -2175,12 +2459,6 @@ VerifyTheOptions(EnableApply:=1,forceNoPreview:=0) { If (forceNoPreview=1) Return - If !isAnalogClockFile - { - analogDisplay := 0 - GuiControl, % (isAnalogClockFile!=1 ? "Disable" : "Enable"), analogDisplay - } - If (A_TickCount - LastInvoked>250) || (BibleGuiVisible=0 && ShowPreview=1) || (BibleGuiVisible=1 && ShowPreview=0) { @@ -2222,14 +2500,14 @@ MWAGetMonitorMouseIsIn(coordX:=0,coordY:=0) { SysGet, MonitorCount, 80 ; monitorcount, so we know how many monitors there are, and the number of loops we need to do Loop, %MonitorCount% { - SysGet, mon%A_Index%, Monitor, %A_Index% ; "Monitor" will get the total desktop space of the monitor, including taskbars + SysGet, mon%A_Index%, Monitor, %A_Index% ; "Monitor" will get the total desktop space of the monitor, including taskbars - If (Mx>=mon%A_Index%left) && (Mx=mon%A_Index%top) && (My=mon%A_Index%left) && (Mx=mon%A_Index%top) && (My=10) Return + celebYear-- updateHolidaysLVs() } @@ -3142,6 +3432,7 @@ PrevYearList() { NextYearList() { If (celebYear - A_Year>=10) Return + celebYear++ updateHolidaysLVs() } @@ -3149,29 +3440,59 @@ NextYearList() { ResetYearList() { If (celebYear=A_Year) Return + celebYear := A_Year updateHolidaysLVs() } AutoDestroyCelebList() { CurrWin := WinExist("A"), - If (CurrWin=hSetWinGui) + If (CurrWin=hSetWinGui && PrefOpen=1 && hSetWinGui) CloseCelebListWin() } CloseCelebListWin() { celebYear := A_Year + Gui, CelebrationsGuia: Default + If (windowManageCeleb=1) + { + GuiControlGet, ObserveSecularDays + GuiControlGet, ObserveReligiousDays + GuiControlGet, PreferSecularDays + GuiControlGet, UserReligion + } + SetTimer, AutoDestroyCelebList, Off Gui, CelebrationsGuia: Destroy Sleep, 50 - WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% + If (PrefOpen=1 && hSetWinGui) + { + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% + } Else + { + If (windowManageCeleb=1) + { + INIaction(1, "ObserveSecularDays", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "ObserveReligiousDays", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "PreferSecularDays", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "UserReligion", "SavedSettings") + } + testCelebrations() + } + + If (windowManageCeleb=2) + mustReopen := 1 + + windowManageCeleb := 0 + If (mustReopen=1) + PanelManageCelebrations() } CancelNewEntryBtn() { celebYear := A_Year WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% Sleep, 50 - PanelListCelebrations(4) + PanelManageCelebrations(4) } compareYearDays(givenDay, CurrentDay) { @@ -3237,20 +3558,10 @@ testEquiSols() { } PanelIncomingCelebrations() { - If (PrefOpen=1) - { - SoundBeep, 300, 900 - Return - } - - If (AnyWindowOpen=1) - { - CloseWindow() - SetTimer, PanelIncomingCelebrations, -100 + If reactWinOpened(A_ThisFunc, 3) Return - } - SettingsGUI(1) + GenericPanelGUI(1) AnyWindowOpen := 3 btnWid := 100 txtWid := 360 @@ -3298,12 +3609,11 @@ PanelIncomingCelebrations() { Gui, Add, Button, xs+1 y+15 w1 h1, L Gui, Add, Edit, xp+1 yp+1 ReadOnly r15 w%txtWid%, % listu Gui, Font, Normal - Gui, Add, Button, xs+0 y+20 h%btnH% w%btnW1% Default gAboutWindow hwndhBtn1, Back + Gui, Add, Button, xs+0 y+20 h%btnH% w%btnW1% Default gOpenListCelebrationsBtn hwndhBtn1, Manage Gui, Add, Button, x+5 hp wp+15 gShowSettings hwndhBtn2, Settings Gui, Add, Button, x+5 hp wp-15 gCloseWindow hwndhBtn3, Close - Gui, Show, AutoSize, Celebrations list - + Gui, Show, AutoSize, Celebrations list: %appName% Opt1 := [0, "0xff" AboutTitleColor, , "0xff" BtnTxtColor, 15, "0x" GUIAbgrColor, , 0] Opt2 := [ , "0xef" hoverBtnColor] Opt3 := [ , "0xff" BtnTxtColor, , "0xff" hoverBtnColor] @@ -3312,20 +3622,379 @@ PanelIncomingCelebrations() { ImageButton.Create(hBtn3, Opt1, Opt2, Opt3) } -AboutWindow() { - If (PrefOpen=1) +reactWinOpened(funcu, idu) { + If (PrefOpen=1 || AnyWindowOpen=idu) { - SoundBeep, 300, 900 - Return + If (PrefOpen=1) + SoundBeep, 300, 900 + WinActivate, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% + Return 1 + } Else If AnyWindowOpen + { + CloseWindow() + Sleep, 25 + } Else If windowManageCeleb + { + CloseCelebListWin() + Sleep, 25 } - If (AnyWindowOpen=1) + ; If IsFunc(funcu) + ; %funcu%() +} + +PanelSetAlarm() { + If reactWinOpened(A_ThisFunc, 4) + Return + + INIaction(0, "userTimerMins", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(0, "userTimerHours", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(0, "userTimerMsg", "SavedSettings") + + GenericPanelGUI(0) + AnyWindowOpen := 4 + btnWid := 100 + txtWid := 360 + Global btn1, editF1, editF2, editF4 + If (PrefsLargeFonts=1) { - CloseWindow() + btnWid := btnWid + 50 + txtWid := txtWid + 105 + Gui, Font, s%LargeUIfontValue% + } + + btnW1 := (PrefsLargeFonts=1) ? 105 : 80 + btnH := (PrefsLargeFonts=1) ? 35 : 28 + Gui, Add, Text, x15 y15 Section, Alarm and timer options + Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+10 Section gupdateUIalarmsPanel Checked%userMustDoTimer% vuserMustDoTimer, Set timer duration (in hours`, mins): + Gui, Add, Edit, xs+15 y+10 w70 number -multi limit2 veditF1, % userTimerHours + Gui, Add, UpDown, vuserTimerHours Range0-12, % userTimerHours + Gui, Add, Edit, x+5 w70 number -multi limit2 veditF2, % userTimerMins + Gui, Add, UpDown, vuserTimerMins Range0-59, % userTimerMins + Gui, Add, Edit, xs+15 y+10 w255 -multi limit512 vuserTimerMsg, % userTimerMsg + + Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+20 gupdateUIalarmsPanel Checked%userMustDoAlarm% vuserMustDoAlarm, Set alarm at (hours`, minutes): + Gui, Add, Edit, xs+15 y+10 w70 number -multi limit2 veditF3, % userAlarmHours + Gui, Add, UpDown, vuserAlarmHours Range0-23, % userAlarmHours + Gui, Add, Edit, x+5 w70 number -multi limit2 veditF4, % userAlarmMins + Gui, Add, UpDown, vuserAlarmMins Range0-59, % userAlarmMins + Gui, Add, Edit, xs+15 y+10 w255 -multi limit512 vuserAlarmMsg, % userAlarmMsg + + Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+20 gupdateUIalarmsPanel Checked%AlarmersDarkScreen% vAlarmersDarkScreen, Flash dark screen on alerts + Gui, Add, DropDownList, xs y+7 wp AltSubmit Choose%userAlarmSound% vuserAlarmSound, Auxilliary bell|Quarters bell|Hours bell|Gong|No sound alert + Gui, Add, Button, xs+0 y+20 h%btnH% w%btnW1% Default gBtnApplyAlarms, &Apply + Gui, Add, Button, x+5 hp wp-15 gCloseWindow , &Cancel + + Gui, Show, AutoSize, Alarm and timer: %appName% + SetTimer, updateUIalarmsPanel, -150 +} + +PanelStopWatch() { + If reactWinOpened(A_ThisFunc, 5) Return + + GenericPanelGUI(0) + AnyWindowOpen := 5 + btnWid := 100 + txtWid := 360 + Global btn1, editF1, editF2, editF4, UIstopWatchLabel, UserStopWatchListZeits, UIstopWatchInfos, setAlwaysOnTop, UIstopWatchInterval + setAlwaysOnTop := 0 + If (PrefsLargeFonts=1) + { + btnWid := btnWid + 50 + txtWid := txtWid + 105 + Gui, Font, s%LargeUIfontValue% } - SettingsGUI(1) + stopWatchBeginZeit := 0 + stopWatchPauseZeit := 0.001 + stopWatchLapBeginZeit := 0 + stopWatchLapPauseZeit := 0.001 + stopWatchRealStartZeit := 0 + btnW1 := (PrefsLargeFonts=1) ? 105 : 80 + btnH := (PrefsLargeFonts=1) ? 35 : 28 + Gui, Add, Text, x15 y15 Section, Time is here and there... + Gui, Font, s22 + Gui, Add, Text, y+10 vUIstopWatchLabel gstartStopWatchCounter, 00:00:00.00 + Gui, Font + If (PrefsLargeFonts=1) + Gui, Font, s%LargeUIfontValue% + Gui, Add, Text, y+5 vUIstopWatchInfos gstartStopWatchCounter, 00:00:00 - 00:00:00 + Gui, Add, ComboBox, xs y+10 wp+55 vUserStopWatchListZeits, No records|| + Gui, Add, Text, x+5 wp-80 hp vUIstopWatchInterval gRecordStopWatchInterval, 00:00:00.00 + Gui, Add, Checkbox, xs y+15 wp+25 gToggleAlwaysOnTopSettingsWindow Checked%setAlwaysOnTop% vsetAlwaysOnTop, Always on top + Gui, Add, Button, xs+0 y+5 h30 wp Default gstartStopWatchCounter, &Start / Pause + Gui, Add, Button, x+5 h30 wp gRecordStopWatchInterval, &Record interval + Gui, Add, Button, xs+0 y+5 hp wp gResetStopWatchCounter, &Reset + Gui, Add, Button, x+5 hp wp gCloseWindow, &Cancel + + Gui, Show, AutoSize, Stopwatch: %appName% +} + +ToggleAlwaysOnTopSettingsWindow() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default + GuiControlGet, setAlwaysOnTop + If (setAlwaysOnTop=1) + WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, On, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% + Else + WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, Off, ahk_id %hSetWinGui% +} + +RecordStopWatchInterval() { + If (AnyWindowOpen=5 && stopWatchBeginZeit && stopWatchPauseZeit) + { + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchInterval, 00:00:00.0 + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchBeginZeit)/1000 + stopWatchPauseZeit/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + Hrz := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), SubStr(Sec, 1, InStr(Sec, ".") - 1)) + SecB := SubStr(Sec, InStr(Sec, ".") + 1) + + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchRealStartZeit)/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + HrzA := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), Round(Sec)) + + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchLapBeginZeit)/1000 + stopWatchLapPauseZeit/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + HrzB := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), SubStr(Sec, 1, InStr(Sec, ".") - 1)) + SecC := SubStr(Sec, InStr(Sec, ".") + 1) + finalu := HrzB "." SecC " / " Hrz "." SecB " / " HrzA + stopWatchIntervalRecords.Push(finalu) + Loop, % stopWatchIntervalRecords.Count() + listu .= stopWatchIntervalRecords[A_Index] "|" + listu := "|" Trim(listu, "|") "||" + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UserStopWatchListZeits, % listu + stopWatchLapPauseZeit := 0.001 + stopWatchLapBeginZeit := A_TickCount + } +} + +ResetStopWatchCounter() { + stopWatchBeginZeit := 0 + stopWatchPauseZeit := 0.001 + stopWatchLapBeginZeit := 0 + stopWatchLapPauseZeit := 0.001 + stopWatchRealStartZeit := 0 + SetTimer, uiStopWatchUpdater, Off + SetTimer, uiStopWatchPausedUpdater, Off + If (AnyWindowOpen=5) + { + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchInfos, 00:00:00 - 00:00:00 + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchLabel, 00:00:00.0 + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchInterval, 00:00:00.0 + } +} + +startStopWatchCounter() { + If stopWatchBeginZeit + { + SetTimer, uiStopWatchUpdater, Off + stopWatchPauseZeit += A_TickCount - stopWatchBeginZeit + stopWatchBeginZeit := 0 + stopWatchLapPauseZeit += A_TickCount - stopWatchLapBeginZeit + stopWatchLapBeginZeit := 0 + If stopWatchRealStartZeit + SetTimer, uiStopWatchPausedUpdater, 50 + Return + } + + SetTimer, uiStopWatchPausedUpdater, Off + stopWatchBeginZeit := A_TickCount + stopWatchLapBeginZeit := A_TickCount + If (stopWatchPauseZeit<2) + { + FormatTime, CurrentTime,, H:mm:ss + stopWatchHumanStartTime := CurrentTime + stopWatchRealStartZeit := A_TickCount + } + SetTimer, uiStopWatchUpdater, 50 +} + +uiStopWatchUpdater() { + If (AnyWindowOpen!=5) + { + ResetStopWatchCounter() + Return + } + + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchBeginZeit)/1000 + stopWatchPauseZeit/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + Hrz := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), SubStr(Sec, 1, InStr(Sec, ".") - 1)) + SecB := SubStr(Sec, InStr(Sec, ".") + 1) + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchLabel, %hrz%.%SecB% ; :%mins%:%sec% + + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchRealStartZeit)/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + Hrz := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), Round(Sec)) + ; Mins := Format("{:02}", Mins) + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchInfos, %stopWatchHumanStartTime% - %hrz% ; :%mins%:%sec% + + ; ToolTip, % stopWatchLapBeginZeit "`n" stopWatchLapPauseZeit , , , 2 + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchLapBeginZeit)/1000 + stopWatchLapPauseZeit/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + Hrz := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), SubStr(Sec, 1, InStr(Sec, ".") - 1)) + SecB := SubStr(Sec, InStr(Sec, ".") + 1) + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchInterval, %hrz%.%SecB% ; :%mins%:%sec% +} + +uiStopWatchPausedUpdater() { + If (AnyWindowOpen!=5) + { + ResetStopWatchCounter() + Return + } + + coreSecToHHMMSS((A_TickCount - stopWatchRealStartZeit)/1000, hrs, mins, sec) + Hrz := Format("{:02}:{:02}:{:02}", Trim(Hrs), Trim(Mins), Round(Sec)) + ; Mins := Format("{:02}", Mins) + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA:, UIstopWatchInfos, %stopWatchHumanStartTime% - %hrz% ; :%mins%:%sec% +} + +coreSecToHHMMSS(Seco, ByRef Hrs, ByRef Min, ByRef Sec) { + OldFormat := A_FormatFloat + SetFormat, Float, 2.00 + Hrs := Seco//3600/1 + Min := Mod(Seco//60, 60)/1 + SetFormat, Float, %OldFormat% + Sec := Round(Mod(Seco, 60), 1) +} + +updateUIalarmsPanel() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default + GuiControlGet, OutputVarA, SettingsGUIA:, userMustDoTimer + GuiControlGet, OutputVarB, SettingsGUIA:, userMustDoAlarm + act := (OutputVarB=1) ? "Enable" : "Disable" + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, userAlarmHours + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, userAlarmMins + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, userAlarmMsg + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, editF3 + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, editF4 + + act := (OutputVarA=1) ? "Enable" : "Disable" + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, userTimerHours + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, userTimerMins + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, userTimerMsg + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, editF1 + GuiControl, SettingsGUIA: %act%, editF2 +} + +BtnApplyAlarms() { + Gui, SettingsGUIA: Default + GuiControlGet, AlarmersDarkScreen + GuiControlGet, userMustDoTimer + GuiControlGet, userTimerHours + GuiControlGet, userTimerMins + GuiControlGet, userTimerMsg + GuiControlGet, userMustDoAlarm + GuiControlGet, userAlarmHours + GuiControlGet, userAlarmMins + GuiControlGet, userAlarmMsg + GuiControlGet, userAlarmSound + + userTimerMsg := Trim(userTimerMsg) + userAlarmMsg := Trim(userAlarmMsg) + + INIaction(1, "userMustDoAlarm", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "AlarmersDarkScreen", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userAlarmSound", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userAlarmMsg", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userAlarmHours", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userAlarmMins", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userTimerMins", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userTimerHours", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(1, "userTimerMsg", "SavedSettings") + If (userMustDoTimer=1 && (userTimerHours || userTimerMins)) + { + delayu := MCI_ToMilliseconds(userTimerHours, userTimerMins, 0) + SetTimer, doUserTimerAlert, % -delayu + } Else + { + userMustDoTimer := 0 + SetTimer, doUserTimerAlert, Off + } + + If (userMustDoAlarm=1 && (userAlarmMins || userAlarmHours)) + { + startAlarmTimer() + } Else + { + userMustDoAlarm := 0 + INIaction(1, "userMustDoAlarm", "SavedSettings") + } + + CloseWindow() +} + +doUserTimerAlert() { + userMustDoTimer := 0 + stopStrikesNow := stopAdditionalStrikes := 0 + If (userAlarmSound!=4) + strikeJapanBell() + thisMsg := Trim(userTimerMsg) ? "`n" Trim(userTimerMsg) : "NONE" + If (AlarmersDarkScreen=1) + ScreenBlocker(0,1) + + WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, Off, ScreenShader + showTimeNow() + If (userAlarmSound<5) + SetTimer, PlayAlarmedBell, 1500 + + MsgBox, 4, Timer: %appName%, % "Timer message: " thisMsg "`n`nPress Yes to repeat timer." + IfMsgBox, Yes + { + userMustDoTimer := 1 + delayu := MCI_ToMilliseconds(userTimerHours, userTimerMins, 0) + SetTimer, doUserTimerAlert, % -delayu + } + SetTimer, PlayAlarmedBell, Off +} + +doUserAlarmAlert() { + stopStrikesNow := stopAdditionalStrikes := 0 + If (userAlarmSound!=4) + { + strikeJapanBell() + SetTimer, strikeJapanBell, -1500 + } + thisMsg := Trim(userAlarmMsg) ? "`n" Trim(userAlarmMsg) : "NONE" + If (AlarmersDarkScreen=1) + ScreenBlocker(0,1) + + showTimeNow() + If (userAlarmSound<5) + SetTimer, PlayAlarmedBell, 1500 + + MsgBox, 4, Alarm: %appName%, % "Alarm message: " thisMsg "`n`nPress Yes to repeat the alarm next day." + IfMsgBox, Yes + { + userMustDoAlarm := 1 + startAlarmTimer() + } Else userMustDoAlarm := 0 + + SetTimer, PlayAlarmedBell, Off + INIaction(1, "userMustDoAlarm", "SavedSettings") +} + +startAlarmTimer() { + nowu := SubStr(A_Now, 1, 12) + tH := StrLen(userAlarmHours)!=2 ? "0" . userAlarmHours : userAlarmHours + tM := StrLen(userAlarmMins)!=2 ? "0" . userAlarmMins : userAlarmMins + newu := A_Year A_Mon A_DD tH tM + If (nowu>=newu) + newu += 1, Days + + ; ToolTip, % nowu "`n" newu , , , 2 + newu -= nowu, SS + SetTimer, doUserAlarmAlert, % -newu*1000 +} + +getPercentOfToday(ByRef minsPassed:=0) { + FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyyMMddHHmm + FormatTime, CurrentDay,, yyyyMMdd + FirstMinOfDay := CurrentDay "0001" + EnvSub, CurrentDateTime, %FirstMinOfDay%, Minutes + minsPassed := CurrentDateTime + 1 + Return minsPassed/1450 +} + +PanelAboutWindow() { + If reactWinOpened(A_ThisFunc, 1) + Return + + GenericPanelGUI(1) AnyWindowOpen := 1 btnWid := 100 txtWid := 360 @@ -3365,13 +4034,7 @@ AboutWindow() { FormatTime, CurrentYear,, yyyy NextYear := CurrentYear + 1 - FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyyMMddHHmm - FormatTime, CurrentDay,, yyyyMMdd - FirstMinOfDay := CurrentDay "0001" - EnvSub, CurrentDateTime, %FirstMinOfDay%, Minutes - minsPassed := CurrentDateTime + 1 - percentileDay := Round(minsPassed/1450*100) "%" - + percentileDay := Round(getPercentOfToday(minsPassed) * 100) "%" Gui, Add, Text, x15 y+10 w%txtWid% Section, Dedicated to Christians, church-goers and bell lovers. If (MarchEquinox ~= "until|here") Gui, Font, Bold @@ -3393,6 +4056,7 @@ AboutWindow() { If !InStr(DecSolstice, "hide") Gui, Add, Text, y+7 w%txtWid%, %DecSolstice% Gui, Font, Normal + weeksPassed := Floor(A_YDay/7) weeksPlural := (weeksPassed>1) ? "weeks" : "week" weeksPlural2 := (weeksPassed>1) ? "have" : "has" @@ -3421,6 +4085,7 @@ AboutWindow() { holidayMsg := "Today's event: " isHolidayToday "." Gui, Add, Text, y+7 w%txtWid%, %holidayMsg% } + testFeast := A_Mon "." A_MDay If (testFeast="01.01") || (testFeast="02.01") { @@ -3436,6 +4101,7 @@ AboutWindow() { Gui, Add, Text, y+7, The days are getting shorter until the winter solstice, in December. Else If (A_YDay>356 || A_YDay<167) Gui, Add, Text, y+7, The days are getting longer until the summer solstice, in June. + If (A_OSVersion="WIN_XP") { Gui, Font,, Arial ; only as backup, doesn't have all characters on XP @@ -3445,8 +4111,12 @@ AboutWindow() { Gui, Font,, DejaVu LGC Sans } + moonPhase := MoonPhaseCalculator(A_Year, A_Mon, A_MDay) + moonPhaseN := moonPhase[1] + moonPhaseF := Round(moonPhase[3] * 100) Gui, Add, Text, xp+30 y+15 Section, % CurrentYear " {" CalcTextHorizPrev(A_YDay, 366) "} " NextYear Gui, Add, Text, xp+15 y+5, %weeksPassed% %weeksPlural% (%percentileYear%) of %CurrentYear% %weeksPlural2% elapsed. + Gui, Add, Text, xs y+10, Moon phase: %moonPhaseN% (%moonPhaseF%`% of the cycle). Gui, Add, Text, xs y+10, % "0h {" CalcTextHorizPrev(minsPassed, 1440, 0, 22) "} 24h " Gui, Add, Text, xp+15 y+5, %minsPassed% minutes (%percentileDay%) of today have elapsed. If (A_OSVersion="WIN_XP") @@ -3491,7 +4161,7 @@ AboutWindow() { LinkUseDefaultColor(hLink2) verifySettingsWindowSize() If InStr(isHolidayToday, "Christmas") && (stopAdditionalStrikes=0) - sndChanQ := AhkThread("#NoTrayIcon`nSoundPlay, sounds\christmas.mp3, 1") + MCXI_Play(SNDmedia_christmas) } CloseWindowAbout() { @@ -3572,6 +4242,7 @@ INIsettings(a) { INIaction(a, "tollHours", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "tollHoursAmount", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "displayClock", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "analogMoonPhases", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "silentHours", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "silentHoursA", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "silentHoursB", "SavedSettings") @@ -3581,9 +4252,11 @@ INIsettings(a) { INIaction(a, "BeepsVolume", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "DynamicVolume", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "AutoUnmute", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userAlarmSound", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userMuteAllSounds", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "tickTockNoise", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "strikeInterval", "SavedSettings") - INIaction(a, "LastNoon", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "LastNoonAudio", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "AdditionalStrikes", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "strikeEveryMin", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "QuotesAlreadySeen", "SavedSettings") @@ -3591,6 +4264,8 @@ INIsettings(a) { INIaction(a, "BibleQuotesLang", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "noBibleQuoteMhidden", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "BibleQuotesInterval", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userBibleStartPoint", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "orderedBibleQuotes", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "SemantronHoliday", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "ObserveHolidays", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "ObserveSecularDays", "SavedSettings") @@ -3600,6 +4275,11 @@ INIsettings(a) { INIaction(a, "noTollingWhenMhidden", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "noTollingBgrSounds", "SavedSettings") INIaction(a, "NoWelcomePopupInfo", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userMustDoAlarm", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userAlarmMsg", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userAlarmHours", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "userAlarmMins", "SavedSettings") + INIaction(a, "AlarmersDarkScreen", "SavedSettings") ; OSD settings INIaction(a, "DisplayTimeUser", "OSDprefs") @@ -3679,6 +4359,11 @@ CheckSettings() { BinaryVar(PreferSecularDays, 0) BinaryVar(showTimeWhenIdle, 0) BinaryVar(OSDroundCorners, 1) + BinaryVar(userMuteAllSounds, 1) + BinaryVar(userMustDoAlarm, 1) + BinaryVar(userMustDoTimer, 1) + BinaryVar(userBibleStartPoint, 1) + BinaryVar(AlarmersDarkScreen, 1) ; verify numeric values: min, max and default values If (InStr(analogDisplayScale, "err") || !analogDisplayScale) @@ -3703,7 +4388,7 @@ CheckSettings() { MinMaxVar(silentHours, 1, 3, 1) MinMaxVar(silentHoursA, 0, 23, 12) MinMaxVar(silentHoursB, 0, 23, 14) - MinMaxVar(LastNoon, 1, 4, 2) + MinMaxVar(LastNoonAudio, 1, 4, 2) MinMaxVar(showTimeIdleAfter, 1, 950, 5) MinMaxVar(LargeUIfontValue, 10, 18, 13) MinMaxVar(UserReligion, 1, 2, 1) @@ -3712,6 +4397,7 @@ CheckSettings() { MinMaxVar(maxBibleLength, 20, 130, 55) MinMaxVar(noTollingBgrSounds, 1, 3, 1) MinMaxVar(OSDalpha, 75, 252, 230) + MinMaxVar(userAlarmSound, 1, 5, 4) If (silentHoursB15) - { - If (tollNoon=1) - ahkthread_free(sndChanN), sndChanN := "" - If (SemantronHoliday=1) - ahkthread_free(sndChanS), sndChanS := "" - If (AdditionalStrikes=1) - ahkthread_free(sndChanA), sndChanA := "" - If (ShowBibleQuotes=1) - ahkthread_free(sndChanJ), sndChanJ := "" - } - Sleep, 100 - timesCleaned++ - } - lastExec := A_TickCount - - If (bumpExec=1) - timesExec++ - If (timesExec>4) - ReloadScript() + Sleep, 0 + Return } sillySoundHack() { ; this helps mitigate issues caused by apps like Team Viewer @@ -4100,85 +4750,6 @@ sillySoundHack() { ; this helps mitigate issues caused by apps like Team Viewe Return Result } -InitAHKhThreads() { - Static func2exec := "ahkThread" - If IsFunc(func2exec) && StrLen(A_GlobalStruct)>4 - { - If A_IsCompiled - { - If GetRes(data, 0, "ANALOG-CLOCK-DISPLAY.AHK", "LIB") - { - analogClockThread := %func2exec%(StrGet(&data)) - While !isAnalogClockFile := analogClockThread.ahkgetvar.isAnalogClockFile - Sleep, 10 - } - VarSetCapacity(data, 0) - } Else - { - isAnalogClockFile := FileExist("analog-clock-display.ahk") - If isAnalogClockFile - analogClockThread := %func2exec%(" #Include *i analog-clock-display.ahk ") - } - } Else (NoAhkH := 1) -} - -GetRes(ByRef bin, lib, res, type) { - hL := 0 - If lib - hM := DllCall("kernel32\GetModuleHandleW", "Str", lib, "Ptr") - - If !lib - { - hM := 0 ; current module - } Else If !hM - { - If (!hL := hM := DllCall("kernel32\LoadLibraryW", "Str", lib, "Ptr")) - Return - } - - dt := (type+0 != "") ? "UInt" : "Str" - hR := DllCall("kernel32\FindResourceW" - , "Ptr" , hM - , "Str" , res - , dt , type - , "Ptr") - - If !hR - { - OutputDebug, % FormatMessage(A_ThisFunc "(" lib ", " res ", " type ", " l ")", A_LastError) - Return - } - - hD := DllCall("kernel32\LoadResource" - , "Ptr" , hM - , "Ptr" , hR - , "Ptr") - hB := DllCall("kernel32\LockResource" - , "Ptr" , hD - , "Ptr") - sz := DllCall("kernel32\SizeofResource" - , "Ptr" , hM - , "Ptr" , hR - , "UInt") - If !sz - { - OutputDebug, Error: resource size 0 in %A_ThisFunc%(%lib%, %res%, %type%) - DllCall("kernel32\FreeResource", "Ptr" , hD) - If hL - DllCall("kernel32\FreeLibrary", "Ptr", hL) - Return - } - - VarSetCapacity(bin, 0), VarSetCapacity(bin, sz, 0) - DllCall("ntdll\RtlMoveMemory", "Ptr", &bin, "Ptr", hB, "UInt", sz) - DllCall("kernel32\FreeResource", "Ptr" , hD) - - If hL - DllCall("kernel32\FreeLibrary", "Ptr", hL) - - Return sz -} - checkMcursorState() { ; thanks to Drugwash ; modified a lot by Marius Șucan @@ -4207,6 +4778,9 @@ checkMcursorState() { isSoundPlayingNow(looped:=0) { ; source: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/21984-vista-audio-control-functions/ + If (A_OSVersion="WIN_XP" || A_OSVersion="WIN_2000") + Return + If (tickTockNoise=1) SoundLoop("") @@ -4236,11 +4810,8 @@ isSoundPlayingNow(looped:=0) { Sleep, % devicePeriod * 10 } - If (looped=0 && c>0 && ScriptInitialized=1) - { - Sleep, 1500 - z := isSoundPlayingNow(1) - } + ; If (looped=0 && c>0 && ScriptInitialized=1) + ; SetTimer, dummyDoLoopisSoundPlayingNow, -1500 If (c>1 && noTollingBgrSounds=2) cutVolumeHalf := 1 @@ -4255,3 +4826,324 @@ isSoundPlayingNow(looped:=0) { Else Return 0 } + +dummyDoLoopisSoundPlayingNow() { + isSoundPlayingNow(1) +} + +MoonPhaseCalculator(year, month, day) { + ; based on https://gist.github.com/endel/dfe6bb2fbe679781948c + ; by Endel + + c := e := jd := b := 0 + if (month<3) + { + year-- + month += 12 + } + day += Round(getPercentOfToday(), 3) + month++ + c := 365.25 * year + e := 30.6 * month + jd := c + e + day - 694039.09 ; jd is total days elapsed + jd := jd/29.5305882 ; divide by the moon cycle + b := Floor(jd) ; int(jd) -> b, take integer part of jd + jd -= b ; subtract integer part to leave fractional part of original jd + b := jd * 8 ; scale fraction from 0-8 + if (b>=8) + b := 0 ; 0 and 8 are the same so turn 8 into 0 + perc := b/8 + Static phaseNames := {0:"〇 New Moon", 1:"Waxing Crescent Moon", 2:"◐ First Quarter Moon", 3:"Waxing Gibbous Moon", 4:"⚫ Full Moon", 5:"Waning Gibbous Moon", 6:"◑ Last Quarter Moon", 7:"Waning Crescent Moon"} + z := Round(b) + thisPhase := phaseNames[z] + return [thisPhase, b, perc] + +} + +MixARGB(color1, color2, t := 0.5, gamma := 1) { + rgamma := 1/gamma + a1 := (color1 >> 24) & 0xff, r1 := (color1 >> 16) & 0xff, g1 := (color1 >> 8) & 0xff, b1 := (color1 >> 0) & 0xff + a2 := (color2 >> 24) & 0xff, r2 := (color2 >> 16) & 0xff, g2 := (color2 >> 8) & 0xff, b2 := (color2 >> 0) & 0xff + + ga1 := (a1 / 255) ** gamma, gr1 := (r1 / 255) ** gamma, gg1 := (g1 / 255) ** gamma, gb1 := (b1 / 255) ** gamma + ga2 := (a2 / 255) ** gamma, gr2 := (r2 / 255) ** gamma, gg2 := (g2 / 255) ** gamma, gb2 := (b2 / 255) ** gamma + + ma := ga1 * (1-t) + ga2 * t, mr := gr1 * (1-t) + gr2 * t, mg := gg1 * (1-t) + gg2 * t, mb := gb1 * (1-t) + gb2 * t + mga := 255 * (ma ** rgamma), mgr := 255 * (mr ** rgamma), mgg := 255 * (mg ** rgamma), mgb := 255 * (mb ** rgamma) + + thisColor := Gdip_ToARGB(mga, mgr, mgg, mgb) + Return thisColor := Format("{1:#x}", thisColor) +} + +decideFadeColor() { + newColor := MixARGB("0xFF" OSDbgrColor, "0xFF" OSDtextColor) + OSDfadedColor := SubStr(newColor, 5) +} + + +GetWindowBounds(hWnd) { + ; function by GeekDude: https://gist.github.com/G33kDude/5b7ba418e685e52c3e6507e5c6972959 + ; W10 compatible function to find a window's visible boundaries + ; modified by Marius Șucan to return an array + size := VarSetCapacity(rect, 16, 0) + er := DllCall("dwmapi\DwmGetWindowAttribute" + , "UPtr", hWnd ; HWND hwnd + , "UInt", 9 ; DWORD dwAttribute (DWMWA_EXTENDED_FRAME_BOUNDS) + , "UPtr", &rect ; PVOID pvAttribute + , "UInt", size ; DWORD cbAttribute + , "UInt") ; HRESULT + + If er + DllCall("GetWindowRect", "UPtr", hwnd, "UPtr", &rect, "UInt") + + r := [] + r.x1 := NumGet(rect, 0, "Int"), r.y1 := NumGet(rect, 4, "Int") + r.x2 := NumGet(rect, 8, "Int"), r.y2 := NumGet(rect, 12, "Int") + r.w := Abs(max(r.x1, r.x2) - min(r.x1, r.x2)) + r.h := Abs(max(r.y1, r.y2) - min(r.y1, r.y2)) + ; ToolTip, % r.w " --- " r.h , , , 2 + Return r +} + +GetWinClientSize(ByRef w, ByRef h, hwnd, mode) { +; by Lexikos http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-170475.html +; modified by Marius Șucan + Static prevW, prevH, prevHwnd, lastInvoked := 1 + If (A_TickCount - lastInvoked<95) && (prevHwnd=hwnd) + { + W := prevW, H := prevH + Return + } + + prevHwnd := hwnd + VarSetCapacity(rc, 16, 0) + If (mode=1) + { + r := GetWindowBounds(hwnd) + prevW := W := r.w + prevH := H := r.h + lastInvoked := A_TickCount + Return + } Else DllCall("GetClientRect", "uint", hwnd, "uint", &rc) + + prevW := W := NumGet(rc, 8, "int") + prevH := H := NumGet(rc, 12, "int") + lastInvoked := A_TickCount +} + +mouseTurnOFFtooltip() { + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Destroy + mouseToolTipWinCreated := 0 +} + +mouseCreateOSDinfoLine(msg:=0, largus:=0) { + Critical, On + Static prevMsg, lastInvoked := 1 + Global TippyMsg + + thisHwnd := hSetWinGui + If (StrLen(msg)<3) || (prevMsg=msg && mouseToolTipWinCreated=1) || (A_TickCount - lastInvoked<100) || !thisHwnd + Return + + lastInvoked := A_TickCount + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Destroy + thisFntSize := (largus=1) ? Round(LargeUIfontValue*1.55) : LargeUIfontValue + If (thisFntSize<12) + thisFntSize := 12 + bgrColor := OSDbgrColor + txtColor := OSDtextColor + Sleep, 25 + + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: -DPIScale -Caption +Owner%thisHwnd% +ToolWindow +hwndhGuiTip + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Margin, % thisFntSize, % thisFntSize + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Color, c%bgrColor% + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Font, s%thisFntSize% Bold Q5, %FontName% + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Add, Text, 0x80 c%txtColor% gmouseTurnOFFtooltip vTippyMsg, %msg% + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Show, NoActivate AutoSize Hide x1 y1, QPVOguiTipsWin + + GetPhysicalCursorPos(mX, mY) + tipX := mX + 15 + tipY := mY + 15 + ResWidth := adjustWin2MonLimits(hGuiTip, tipX, tipY, Final_x, Final_y, Wid, Heig) + MaxWidth := Floor(ResWidth*0.85) + If (MaxWidth10) + { + GuiControl, mouseToolTipGuia: Move, TippyMsg, w1 h1 + GuiControl, mouseToolTipGuia:, TippyMsg, + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Add, Text, 0x80 xp yp c%txtColor% gmouseTurnOFFtooltip w%MaxWidth%, %msg% + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Show, NoActivate AutoSize Hide x1 y1, QPVguiTipsWin + ResWidth := adjustWin2MonLimits(hGuiTip, tipX, tipY, Final_x, Final_y, Wid, Heig) + } + + prevMsg := msg + mouseToolTipWinCreated := 1 + WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, On, ahk_id %hGuiTip% + WinSet, Transparent, 225, ahk_id %hGuiTip% + Gui, mouseToolTipGuia: Show, NoActivate AutoSize x%Final_x% y%Final_y%, QPVguiTipsWin + delayu := StrLen(msg) * 70 + 900 + If (delayu0 + info .= "`n" + + If (posuk := InStr(value, "&")) + hotkeyu := "`nAlt+" SubStr(value, posuk + 1, 1) + Else If (posuk := InStr(A_GuiControl, "&")) + hotkeyu := "`nAlt+" SubStr(A_GuiControl, posuk + 1, 1) + + StringUpper, hotkeyu, hotkeyu + value := StrReplace(value, "&") + ctrlu := StrReplace(A_GuiControl, "&") + If (ctrlu=value) + value := "" + + ; btnType := GetButtonType(hwnd) + If StrLen(value)>0 + { + thisValueNumber := isNumber(Trim(value)) + value .= " = " + } + + MouseGetPos, , , id, controla, 2 + If !hwnd + ControlGetText, info, , ahk_id %controla% + + If !hotkeyu + { + If (posuk := InStr(info, "&")) + hotkeyu := "`nAlt+" SubStr(info, posuk + 1, 1) + } + + info := StrReplace(info, "&") + WinGetClass, OutputVar, ahk_id %hwnd% + If OutputVar + { + If InStr(OutputVar, "_trackbar") + { + SendMessage, 0x0401,,,, ahk_id %hwnd% ; TBM_GETRANGEMIN + minu := ErrorLevel + SendMessage, 0x0402,,,, ahk_id %hwnd% ; TBM_GETRANGEMAX + maxu := ErrorLevel + OutputVar := "Slider: " minu "; " maxu + } Else If (InStr(OutputVar, "Button") && thisValueNumber=1 && InStr(value, "=")) + OutputVar := "Checkbox" + Else If InStr(OutputVar, "_updown") + { + SendMessage, 0x0400+102,,,, ahk_id %hwnd% ; UDM_GETRANGE + UDM_GETRANGE := ErrorLevel + minu := UDM_GETRANGE >> 16 + maxu := UDM_GETRANGE & 0xFFFF + OutputVar := "Up/Down range: " minu "; " maxu + } Else If InStr(OutputVar, "edit") + { + OutputVar := "Edit field" + } Else If (InStr(OutputVar, "static") && value) + { + OutputVar := "Clickable" ; value " - " ctrlu + controlType := "`n[" OutputVar "]" + } + If !InStr(OutputVar, "static") + controlType := "`n[" OutputVar "]" + } + + msg2show := info value ctrlu controlType hotkeyu + ; ToolTip, % A_DefaultGUI "===" msg2show , , , 2 + ; If (ctrlActiveState!=1 && StrLen(msg2show)>2 && btnType) + ; msg2show .= "`n[CONTROL DISABLED]" + If StrLen(listBoxOptions)>3 + { + countListBoxOptions := ST_Count(listBoxOptions, "`n") + 1 + If (countListBoxOptions>10) + listBoxOptions := "[too many to list]" + msg2show .= "`n`nLIST OPTIONS: " countListBoxOptions "`n" listBoxOptions + } + + ; If (!value && btnType) + ; msg2show .= "`n`nCONTROL TYPE:`n" btnType + If InStr(msg2show, "lib\") || InStr(msg2show, "a href=") + Return + + mouseCreateOSDinfoLine(msg2show, PrefsLargeFonts) + Return msg2show +} + diff --git a/bible-quotes-eng.txt b/bible-quotes-eng.txt index c6482f5..7827054 100644 --- a/bible-quotes-eng.txt +++ b/bible-quotes-eng.txt @@ -1,28133 +1,2281 @@ -Psalm 118:05-06 | When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? +1 Chronicles 10:04 | Then Saul said to his armour bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me." But his armour bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. +1 Chronicles 10:05 | When his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. +1 Chronicles 10:06 | So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together. +1 Chronicles 10:07 | When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. +1 Chronicles 10:09 | They stripped him, and took his head and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. +1 Chronicles 10:10 | They put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. +1 Chronicles 12:21 | They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the army. +1 Chronicles 12:22 | For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army. +1 Chronicles 12:23 | These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the Lord’s word. +1 Chronicles 12:38 | All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king. +1 Chronicles 12:39 | They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them. +1 Chronicles 13:02 | David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of the Lord our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us. +1 Chronicles 13:03 | Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul." +1 Chronicles 13:04 | All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. +1 Chronicles 13:07 | They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart. +1 Chronicles 13:08 | David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets. +1 Chronicles 13:10 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God. +1 Chronicles 13:11 | David was displeased, because the Lord had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day. +1 Chronicles 13:12 | David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How can I bring God’s ark home to me?" +1 Chronicles 13:14 | God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had. +1 Chronicles 14:08 | When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them. +1 Chronicles 14:10 | David enquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" The Lord said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand." +1 Chronicles 14:11 | So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim. +1 Chronicles 14:12 | They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burnt with fire. +1 Chronicles 14:14 | David enquired again of God; and God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees. +1 Chronicles 14:15 | When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines." +1 Chronicles 14:16 | David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. +1 Chronicles 14:17 | The fame of David went out into all lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him on all nations. +1 Chronicles 15:01 | David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it. +1 Chronicles 15:02 | Then David said, "No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For the Lord has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever." +1 Chronicles 15:12 | and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it. +1 Chronicles 15:13 | For because you didn’t carry it at first, the Lord our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance." +1 Chronicles 15:14 | So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Chronicles 15:15 | The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to the Lord’s word. +1 Chronicles 15:16 | David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy. +1 Chronicles 15:25 | So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. +1 Chronicles 15:26 | When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. +1 Chronicles 15:27 | David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him. +1 Chronicles 15:28 | Thus all Israel brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps. +1 Chronicles 15:29 | As the ark of the Lord’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart. +1 Chronicles 16:01 | They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. +1 Chronicles 16:02 | When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the Lord’s name. +1 Chronicles 16:03 | He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. +1 Chronicles 16:04 | He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the Lord’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel: +1 Chronicles 16:07 | Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to the Lord, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. +1 Chronicles 16:08 | Oh give thanks to the Lord. Call on his name. Make what he has done known amongst the peoples. +1 Chronicles 16:09 | Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvellous works. +1 Chronicles 16:10 | Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice. +1 Chronicles 16:11 | Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face forever more. 1 Chronicles 16:11 | Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His presence continually! +1 Chronicles 16:12 | Remember his marvellous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth, +1 Chronicles 16:13 | you offspring of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. +1 Chronicles 16:14 | He is the Lord our God. His judgements are in all the earth. +1 Chronicles 16:15 | Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, +1 Chronicles 16:16 | the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac. +1 Chronicles 16:17 | He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying, +1 Chronicles 16:18 | "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance," +1 Chronicles 16:19 | when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. +1 Chronicles 16:20 | They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. +1 Chronicles 16:21 | He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, +1 Chronicles 16:22 | "Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!" +1 Chronicles 16:23 | Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day. +1 Chronicles 16:24 | Declare his glory amongst the nations, and his marvellous works amongst all the peoples. +1 Chronicles 16:25 | For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. +1 Chronicles 16:26 | For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. +1 Chronicles 16:27 | Honour and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. +1 Chronicles 16:28 | Ascribe to the Lord, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength! +1 Chronicles 16:29 | Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship the Lord in holy array. +1 Chronicles 16:30 | Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved. +1 Chronicles 16:31 | Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say amongst the nations, "The Lord reigns!" +1 Chronicles 16:32 | Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is in it! +1 Chronicles 16:33 | Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. +1 Chronicles 16:34 | Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. +1 Chronicles 16:35 | Say, "Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise." +1 Chronicles 16:36 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, "Amen," and praised the Lord. +1 Chronicles 16:37 | So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required; +1 Chronicles 16:40 | to offer burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the Lord’s law, which he commanded to Israel; +1 Chronicles 16:41 | and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his loving kindness endures forever; +1 Chronicles 16:43 | All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house. +1 Chronicles 17:01 | When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the Lord’s covenant is in a tent." +1 Chronicles 17:02 | Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you." +1 Chronicles 17:04 | "Go and tell David my servant, ‘The Lord says, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; +1 Chronicles 17:05 | for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. +1 Chronicles 17:06 | In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’"’ +1 Chronicles 17:07 | "Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘The Lord of Armies says, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel. +1 Chronicles 17:08 | I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. +1 Chronicles 17:09 | I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first, +1 Chronicles 17:10 | and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the Lord will build you a house. +1 Chronicles 17:11 | It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. +1 Chronicles 17:12 | He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. +1 Chronicles 17:13 | I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you; +1 Chronicles 17:14 | but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever." +1 Chronicles 17:15 | According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. +1 Chronicles 17:16 | Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord; and he said, "Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? +1 Chronicles 17:17 | This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Lord God. +1 Chronicles 17:18 | What can David say yet more to you concerning the honour which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. +1 Chronicles 17:19 | Lord, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. +1 Chronicles 17:20 | Lord, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. +1 Chronicles 17:21 | What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt? +1 Chronicles 17:22 | For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Lord, became their God. +1 Chronicles 17:23 | Now, Lord, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. +1 Chronicles 17:24 | Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’ +1 Chronicles 17:25 | For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. +1 Chronicles 17:26 | Now, Lord, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant. +1 Chronicles 17:27 | Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord, have blessed, and it is blessed forever." +1 Chronicles 18:04 | David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots. +1 Chronicles 18:05 | When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians. +1 Chronicles 18:06 | Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. +1 Chronicles 18:07 | David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +1 Chronicles 18:08 | From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze. +1 Chronicles 18:09 | When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, +1 Chronicles 18:10 | he sent Hadoram his son to king David to Greet him and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze. +1 Chronicles 18:11 | King David also dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek. +1 Chronicles 18:13 | He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. +1 Chronicles 18:14 | David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people. +1 Chronicles 19:02 | David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him. +1 Chronicles 19:03 | But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David honours your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?" +1 Chronicles 19:04 | So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away. +1 Chronicles 19:10 | Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. +1 Chronicles 19:12 | He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. +1 Chronicles 19:13 | Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the Lord do that which seems good to him." +1 Chronicles 19:15 | When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. +1 Chronicles 19:16 | When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them. +1 Chronicles 19:17 | David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. +1 Chronicles 19:18 | The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army. +1 Chronicles 19:19 | When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more. +1 Chronicles 20:01 | At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. +1 Chronicles 20:02 | David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city. +1 Chronicles 20:03 | He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. +1 Chronicles 20:08 | These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. +1 Chronicles 21:01 | Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel. +1 Chronicles 21:02 | David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are." +1 Chronicles 21:03 | Joab said, "May the Lord make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?" +1 Chronicles 21:04 | Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem. +1 Chronicles 21:06 | But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin amongst them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab. +1 Chronicles 21:07 | God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. +1 Chronicles 21:08 | David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." +1 Chronicles 21:10 | "Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The Lord says, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you." +1 Chronicles 21:11 | So Gad came to David, and said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Take your choice: +1 Chronicles 21:12 | either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the Lord’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’" +1 Chronicles 21:13 | David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the Lord’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand." +1 Chronicles 21:14 | So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. +1 Chronicles 21:15 | God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the Lord saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough. Now withdraw your hand." the Lord’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. +1 Chronicles 21:16 | David lifted up his eyes, and saw the Lord’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. +1 Chronicles 21:17 | David said to God, "Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued." +1 Chronicles 21:18 | Then the Lord’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. +1 Chronicles 21:19 | David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the Lord’s name. +1 Chronicles 21:20 | Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. +1 Chronicles 21:21 | As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. +1 Chronicles 21:22 | Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the Lord on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people." +1 Chronicles 21:23 | Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all." +1 Chronicles 21:24 | King David said to Ornan, "No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the Lord, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing." +1 Chronicles 21:25 | So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. +1 Chronicles 21:26 | David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the Lord; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. +1 Chronicles 21:27 | Then The Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. +1 Chronicles 21:28 | At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. +1 Chronicles 21:29 | For the Lord’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. +1 Chronicles 21:30 | But David couldn’t go before it to enquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the Lord’s angel. +1 Chronicles 22:01 | Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel." +1 Chronicles 22:02 | David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house. +1 Chronicles 22:03 | David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight; +1 Chronicles 22:04 | and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. +1 Chronicles 22:05 | David said, "Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it." So David prepared abundantly before his death. +1 Chronicles 22:06 | Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Chronicles 22:07 | David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God. +1 Chronicles 22:08 | But the Lord’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. +1 Chronicles 22:09 | Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days. +1 Chronicles 22:10 | He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’ +1 Chronicles 22:11 | Now, my son, may the Lord be with you and prosper you, and build the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you. +1 Chronicles 22:12 | May the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of the Lord your God. +1 Chronicles 22:13 | Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. +1 Chronicles 22:14 | Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the Lord’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them. +1 Chronicles 22:15 | There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skilful in every kind of work; +1 Chronicles 22:18 | "Isn’t the Lord your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people. +1 Chronicles 22:19 | Now set your heart and your soul to follow the Lord your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the Lord’s name." +1 Chronicles 23:01 | Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. +1 Chronicles 23:02 | He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. +1 Chronicles 23:03 | The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. +1 Chronicles 23:04 | David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the Lord’s house, six thousand were officers and judges, +1 Chronicles 23:24 | These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the Lord’s house, from twenty years old and upward. +1 Chronicles 23:25 | For David said, "The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever. +1 Chronicles 23:26 | Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service." +1 Chronicles 23:27 | For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward. +1 Chronicles 23:28 | For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the Lord’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house; +1 Chronicles 23:29 | for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size; +1 Chronicles 23:30 | and to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise in the evening; +1 Chronicles 23:31 | and to offer all burnt offerings to the Lord, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before the LORD; +1 Chronicles 23:32 | and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the Lord’s house. +1 Chronicles 24:19 | This was their ordering in their service, to come into the Lord’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him. +1 Chronicles 24:20 | Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. +1 Chronicles 24:31 | These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother. +1 Chronicles 25:01 | Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was: +1 Chronicles 28:02 | Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building. +1 Chronicles 28:03 | But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’ +1 Chronicles 28:04 | However the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and amongst the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. +1 Chronicles 28:05 | Of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the Lord’s kingdom over Israel. +1 Chronicles 28:06 | He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. +1 Chronicles 28:07 | I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’ +1 Chronicles 28:08 | Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the Lord’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever. +1 Chronicles 28:09 | You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. +1 Chronicles 28:10 | Take heed now; for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it." +1 Chronicles 28:11 | Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat; +1 Chronicles 28:12 | and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the Lord’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things; +1 Chronicles 28:13 | also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of the Lord’s house, and for all the vessels of service in the Lord’s house; +1 Chronicles 28:14 | of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service; +1 Chronicles 28:15 | by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand; +1 Chronicles 28:16 | and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver; +1 Chronicles 28:17 | and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl; +1 Chronicles 28:18 | and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of the Lord’s covenant. +1 Chronicles 28:19 | "All this", David said, "I have been made to understand in writing from the Lord’s hand, even all the works of this pattern." +1 Chronicles 28:20 | David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the Lord’s house is finished. +1 Chronicles 28:21 | Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command." +1 Chronicles 29:01 | David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God. +1 Chronicles 29:02 | Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colours, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. +1 Chronicles 29:03 | In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, +1 Chronicles 29:04 | even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses; +1 Chronicles 29:05 | of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to the LORD?" +1 Chronicles 29:07 | and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents. +1 Chronicles 29:08 | People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the Lord’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. +1 Chronicles 29:09 | Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. +1 Chronicles 29:10 | Therefore David blessed the Lord before all the assembly; and David said, "You are blessed, Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. +1 Chronicles 29:11 | Yours, Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. +1 Chronicles 29:12 | Both riches and honour come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all! +1 Chronicles 29:13 | Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. +1 Chronicles 29:14 | But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own. +1 Chronicles 29:15 | For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining. +1 Chronicles 29:16 | Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own. +1 Chronicles 29:17 | I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you. +1 Chronicles 29:18 | Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you; +1 Chronicles 29:19 | and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision." +1 Chronicles 29:20 | Then David said to all the assembly, "Now bless the Lord your God!" All the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and the king. +1 Chronicles 29:21 | They sacrificed sacrifices to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings to the Lord, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, +1 Chronicles 29:22 | and ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before the Lord to be prince, and Zadok to be priest. +1 Chronicles 29:23 | Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. +1 Chronicles 29:24 | All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king. +1 Chronicles 29:25 | The Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel. +1 Chronicles 29:27 | The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. +1 Chronicles 29:28 | He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour; and Solomon his son reigned in his place. +1 Chronicles 29:29 | Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer, +1 Corinthians 01:01 | Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, +1 Corinthians 01:02 | to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: +1 Corinthians 01:03 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +1 Corinthians 01:04 | I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; +1 Corinthians 01:05 | that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; +1 Corinthians 01:06 | even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: +1 Corinthians 01:07 | so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; +1 Corinthians 01:08 | who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. +1 Corinthians 01:09 | God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. +1 Corinthians 01:10 | Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions amongst you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement. +1 Corinthians 01:11 | For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions amongst you. +1 Corinthians 01:12 | Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ." +1 Corinthians 01:13 | Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptised into the name of Paul? +1 Corinthians 01:14 | I thank God that I baptised none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, +1 Corinthians 01:15 | so that no one should say that I had baptised you into my own name. +1 Corinthians 01:16 | (I also baptised the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptised any other.) +1 Corinthians 01:17 | For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void. +1 Corinthians 01:18 | For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. +1 Corinthians 01:19 | For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." +1 Corinthians 01:20 | Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world? +1 Corinthians 01:21 | For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. +1 Corinthians 01:22 | For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, +1 Corinthians 01:23 | but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, +1 Corinthians 01:24 | but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God; +1 Corinthians 01:25 | because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. +1 Corinthians 01:26 | For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; +1 Corinthians 01:27 | but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. +1 Corinthians 01:28 | God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, +1 Corinthians 01:29 | that no flesh should boast before God. +1 Corinthians 01:30 | Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: +1 Corinthians 01:31 | that, as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." +1 Corinthians 02:01 | When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. +1 Corinthians 02:02 | For I determined not to know anything amongst you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. +1 Corinthians 02:03 | I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. +1 Corinthians 02:04 | My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, +1 Corinthians 02:05 | that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. +1 Corinthians 02:06 | We speak wisdom, however, amongst those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. +1 Corinthians 02:07 | But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, +1 Corinthians 02:08 | which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. +1 Corinthians 02:09 | But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him." +1 Corinthians 02:09 | It is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived"; the things God has prepared for those who love Him. +1 Corinthians 02:10 | But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. +1 Corinthians 02:11 | For who amongst men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit. +1 Corinthians 02:12 | But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. +1 Corinthians 02:13 | We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. +1 Corinthians 02:14 | Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. +1 Corinthians 02:15 | But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. +1 Corinthians 02:16 | "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ’s mind. +1 Corinthians 03:01 | Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. +1 Corinthians 03:02 | I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, +1 Corinthians 03:03 | for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions amongst you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? +1 Corinthians 03:04 | For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren’t you fleshly? +1 Corinthians 03:05 | Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him? +1 Corinthians 03:06 | I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. +1 Corinthians 03:07 | So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. +1 Corinthians 03:08 | Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labour. +1 Corinthians 03:09 | For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building. +1 Corinthians 03:10 | According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. +1 Corinthians 03:11 | For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. +1 Corinthians 03:12 | But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble, +1 Corinthians 03:13 | each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. +1 Corinthians 03:14 | If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. +1 Corinthians 03:15 | If any man’s work is burnt, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. +1 Corinthians 03:16 | Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? +1 Corinthians 03:17 | If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are. +1 Corinthians 03:17 | If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. +1 Corinthians 03:18 | Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise amongst you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. +1 Corinthians 03:18-19 | Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become "fools" so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness". +1 Corinthians 03:19 | For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness." +1 Corinthians 03:20 | And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless." +1 Corinthians 03:21 | Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, +1 Corinthians 03:22 | whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, +1 Corinthians 03:23 | and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. +1 Corinthians 04:01 | So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. +1 Corinthians 04:02 | Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. +1 Corinthians 04:03 | But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgement. Yes, I don’t judge my own self. +1 Corinthians 04:04 | For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. +1 Corinthians 04:05 | Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God. +1 Corinthians 04:06 | Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. +1 Corinthians 04:07 | For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? +1 Corinthians 04:08 | You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. +1 Corinthians 04:09 | For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. +1 Corinthians 04:10 | We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honour, but we have dishonour. +1 Corinthians 04:11 | Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. +1 Corinthians 04:12 | We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. +1 Corinthians 04:12-13 | We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us. We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash–right up to the present moment. +1 Corinthians 04:13 | Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. +1 Corinthians 04:14 | I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. +1 Corinthians 04:15 | For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News. +1 Corinthians 04:16 | I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. +1 Corinthians 04:17 | Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly. +1 Corinthians 04:18 | Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. +1 Corinthians 04:19 | But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. +1 Corinthians 04:20 | For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power. +1 Corinthians 04:21 | What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? +1 Corinthians 05:01 | It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality amongst you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named amongst the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. +1 Corinthians 05:01 | We know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in Heaven, not built by human hands. +1 Corinthians 05:02 | You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from amongst you. +1 Corinthians 05:03 | For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. +1 Corinthians 05:04 | In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, +1 Corinthians 05:05 | are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. +1 Corinthians 05:06 | Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? +1 Corinthians 05:07 | Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. +1 Corinthians 05:08 | Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. +1 Corinthians 05:09 | I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; +1 Corinthians 05:10 | yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. +1 Corinthians 05:11 | But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. +1 Corinthians 05:12 | For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within? +1 Corinthians 05:13 | But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from amongst yourselves." +1 Corinthians 06:01 | Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? +1 Corinthians 06:02 | Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? +1 Corinthians 06:03 | Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? +1 Corinthians 06:04 | If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? +1 Corinthians 06:05 | I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man amongst you who would be able to decide between his brothers? +1 Corinthians 06:06 | But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! +1 Corinthians 06:07 | Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? +1 Corinthians 06:08 | No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers. +1 Corinthians 06:09 | Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, +1 Corinthians 06:09-10 | Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. +1 Corinthians 06:10 | nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. +1 Corinthians 06:11 | Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. +1 Corinthians 06:12 | "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything. +1 Corinthians 06:12 | "I have the right to do anything," you say, but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything", but I will not be mastered by anything. +1 Corinthians 06:13 | "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. +1 Corinthians 06:14 | Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. +1 Corinthians 06:15 | Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! +1 Corinthians 06:16 | Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two", he says, "will become one flesh." +1 Corinthians 06:17 | But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. +1 Corinthians 06:18 | Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. +1 Corinthians 06:18 | Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. +1 Corinthians 06:19 | Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, +1 Corinthians 06:19-20 | Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. +1 Corinthians 06:20 | for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. +1 Corinthians 07:01 | Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. +1 Corinthians 07:02 | But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. +1 Corinthians 07:03 | Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. +1 Corinthians 07:03-04 | The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. +1 Corinthians 07:04 | The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife. +1 Corinthians 07:05 | Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control. +1 Corinthians 07:06 | But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. +1 Corinthians 07:07 | Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. +1 Corinthians 07:08 | But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. +1 Corinthians 07:09 | But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn. +1 Corinthians 07:10 | But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband +1 Corinthians 07:11 | (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. +1 Corinthians 07:12 | But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. +1 Corinthians 07:13 | The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. +1 Corinthians 07:14 | For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. +1 Corinthians 07:15 | Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. +1 Corinthians 07:16 | For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? +1 Corinthians 07:17 | Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. +1 Corinthians 07:18 | Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. +1 Corinthians 07:19 | Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. +1 Corinthians 07:20 | Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. +1 Corinthians 07:21 | Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. +1 Corinthians 07:22 | For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant. +1 Corinthians 07:23 | You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men. +1 Corinthians 07:24 | Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God. +1 Corinthians 07:25 | Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgement as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. +1 Corinthians 07:26 | Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is. +1 Corinthians 07:27 | Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. +1 Corinthians 07:28 | But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. +1 Corinthians 07:29 | But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; +1 Corinthians 07:30 | and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess; +1 Corinthians 07:31 | and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away. +1 Corinthians 07:32 | But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; +1 Corinthians 07:33 | but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. +1 Corinthians 07:34 | There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. +1 Corinthians 07:35 | This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction. +1 Corinthians 07:36 | But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately towards his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. +1 Corinthians 07:37 | But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well. +1 Corinthians 07:38 | So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better. +1 Corinthians 07:39 | 39 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. +1 Corinthians 07:39 | A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. +1 Corinthians 07:40 | But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgement, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit. +1 Corinthians 08:01 | Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. +1 Corinthians 08:02 | But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know. +1 Corinthians 08:03 | But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. +1 Corinthians 08:04 | Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. +1 Corinthians 08:05 | For though there are things that are called "gods", whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords"; +1 Corinthians 08:06 | yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him. +1 Corinthians 08:07 | However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. +1 Corinthians 08:08 | But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. +1 Corinthians 08:09 | But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. +1 Corinthians 08:10 | For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? +1 Corinthians 08:11 | And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. +1 Corinthians 08:12 | Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. +1 Corinthians 08:13 | Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble. +1 Corinthians 09:01 | Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? +1 Corinthians 09:02 | If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. +1 Corinthians 09:04 | Have we no right to eat and to drink? +1 Corinthians 09:05 | Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? +1 Corinthians 09:06 | Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? +1 Corinthians 09:07 | What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk? +1 Corinthians 09:08 | Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing? +1 Corinthians 09:09 | For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares, +1 Corinthians 09:10 | or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. +1 Corinthians 09:11 | If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? +1 Corinthians 09:12 | If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ. +1 Corinthians 09:13 | Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? +1 Corinthians 09:14 | Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News. +1 Corinthians 09:15 | But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void. +1 Corinthians 09:16 | For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News. +1 Corinthians 09:17 | For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. +1 Corinthians 09:18 | What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News. +1 Corinthians 09:19 | For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. +1 Corinthians 09:20 | To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; +1 Corinthians 09:21 | to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law towards God, but under law towards Christ), that I might win those who are without law. +1 Corinthians 09:22 | To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. +1 Corinthians 09:23 | Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. +1 Corinthians 09:24 | Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. +1 Corinthians 09:25 | Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. +1 Corinthians 09:26 | I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, +1 Corinthians 09:27 | but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. +1 Corinthians 10:01 | Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; +1 Corinthians 10:02 | and were all baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; +1 Corinthians 10:04 | and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. +1 Corinthians 10:05 | However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. +1 Corinthians 10:06 | Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. +1 Corinthians 10:07 | Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." +1 Corinthians 10:08 | Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 1 Corinthians 10:08 | We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did - in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. +1 Corinthians 10:09 | Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 1 Corinthians 10:09 | We should not test Christ, as some of them did - and were killed by snakes. +1 Corinthians 10:10 | Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. +1 Corinthians 10:11 | Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. +1 Corinthians 10:12 | Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. 1 Corinthians 10:13 | No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. -1 Corinthians 10:24 | No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. -1 Corinthians 10:25 | Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it." -1 Corinthians 10:31 | Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. -1 Corinthians 11:03 | I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. -1 Corinthians 11:04-05 | Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head — it is the same as having her head shaved. -1 Corinthians 11:07-09 | A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. -1 Corinthians 11:11-12 | Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. -1 Corinthians 11:18 | I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. +1 Corinthians 10:13 | No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. +1 Corinthians 10:14 | Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. +1 Corinthians 10:15 | I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. +1 Corinthians 10:16 | The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ? +1 Corinthians 10:17 | Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. +1 Corinthians 10:18 | Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? +1 Corinthians 10:19 | What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? +1 Corinthians 10:20 | But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. +1 Corinthians 10:21 | You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. +1 Corinthians 10:22 | Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? +1 Corinthians 10:23 | "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up. +1 Corinthians 10:24 | Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbour’s good. +1 Corinthians 10:24 | No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. +1 Corinthians 10:25 | Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it." +1 Corinthians 10:25 | Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, +1 Corinthians 10:26 | for "the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness." +1 Corinthians 10:27 | But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. +1 Corinthians 10:28 | But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness." +1 Corinthians 10:29 | Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? +1 Corinthians 10:30 | If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for? +1 Corinthians 10:31 | Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. +1 Corinthians 10:31 | Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. +1 Corinthians 10:32 | Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; +1 Corinthians 10:33 | even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. +1 Corinthians 11:01 | Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. +1 Corinthians 11:02 | Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. +1 Corinthians 11:03 | But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. +1 Corinthians 11:03 | I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. +1 Corinthians 11:04 | Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head. +1 Corinthians 11:04-05 | Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head — it is the same as having her head shaved. +1 Corinthians 11:05 | But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonours her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. +1 Corinthians 11:06 | For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered. +1 Corinthians 11:07 | For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. +1 Corinthians 11:07-09 | A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. +1 Corinthians 11:08 | For man is not from woman, but woman from man; +1 Corinthians 11:09 | for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man. +1 Corinthians 11:10 | For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels. +1 Corinthians 11:11 | Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. +1 Corinthians 11:11-12 | Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. +1 Corinthians 11:12 | For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God. +1 Corinthians 11:13 | Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? +1 Corinthians 11:14 | Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonour to him? +1 Corinthians 11:15 | But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. +1 Corinthians 11:16 | But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies. +1 Corinthians 11:17 | But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. +1 Corinthians 11:18 | For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist amongst you, and I partly believe it. +1 Corinthians 11:18 | I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. +1 Corinthians 11:19 | For there also must be factions amongst you, that those who are approved may be revealed amongst you. +1 Corinthians 11:20 | When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. +1 Corinthians 11:21 | For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. +1 Corinthians 11:22 | What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you. +1 Corinthians 11:23 | For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. +1 Corinthians 11:24 | When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." +1 Corinthians 11:25 | In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." +1 Corinthians 11:26 | For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. +1 Corinthians 11:27 | Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. +1 Corinthians 11:28 | But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. +1 Corinthians 11:29 | For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgement to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body. +1 Corinthians 11:30 | For this cause many amongst you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. +1 Corinthians 11:31 | For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged. +1 Corinthians 11:32 | But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. +1 Corinthians 11:33 | Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. +1 Corinthians 11:34 | But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgement. The rest I will set in order whenever I come. +1 Corinthians 12:01 | Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. +1 Corinthians 12:02 | You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led. +1 Corinthians 12:03 | Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit. +1 Corinthians 12:04 | Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:04-06 | There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone, it is the same God at work. +1 Corinthians 12:05 | There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord. +1 Corinthians 12:06 | There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all. +1 Corinthians 12:07 | But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. +1 Corinthians 12:08 | For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; +1 Corinthians 12:09 | to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit; +1 Corinthians 12:10 | and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. +1 Corinthians 12:11 | But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. +1 Corinthians 12:12 | For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. +1 Corinthians 12:13 | For in one Spirit we were all baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit. +1 Corinthians 12:14 | For the body is not one member, but many. +1 Corinthians 12:15 | If the foot would say, "Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body. +1 Corinthians 12:16 | If the ear would say, "Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body," it’s not therefore not part of the body. +1 Corinthians 12:17 | If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? +1 Corinthians 12:18 | But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. +1 Corinthians 12:19 | If they were all one member, where would the body be? +1 Corinthians 12:20 | But now they are many members, but one body. +1 Corinthians 12:21 | The eye can’t tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." +1 Corinthians 12:22 | No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. +1 Corinthians 12:23 | Those parts of the body which we think to be less honourable, on those we bestow more abundant honour; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety; +1 Corinthians 12:24 | whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honour to the inferior part, +1 Corinthians 12:25 | that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. +1 Corinthians 12:26 | When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it. +1 Corinthians 12:27 | Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. +1 Corinthians 12:28 | God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. +1 Corinthians 12:29 | Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? +1 Corinthians 12:30 | Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret? +1 Corinthians 12:31 | But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you. +1 Corinthians 13:01 | If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:02 | If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. +1 Corinthians 13:02 | If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. +1 Corinthians 13:03 | If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. +1 Corinthians 13:04 | Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 1 Corinthians 13:04-05 | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. +1 Corinthians 13:05 | doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; +1 Corinthians 13:06 | doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; +1 Corinthians 13:07 | bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. +1 Corinthians 13:08 | Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. +1 Corinthians 13:09 | For we know in part and we prophesy in part; +1 Corinthians 13:10 | but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. +1 Corinthians 13:11 | When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 | When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. +1 Corinthians 13:12 | For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:13 | And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. +1 Corinthians 13:13 | But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. +1 Corinthians 14:01 | Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. +1 Corinthians 14:02 | For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. +1 Corinthians 14:03 | But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation. +1 Corinthians 14:04 | He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. +1 Corinthians 14:05 | Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up. +1 Corinthians 14:06 | But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? +1 Corinthians 14:07 | Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? +1 Corinthians 14:08 | For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? +1 Corinthians 14:09 | So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. +1 Corinthians 14:10 | There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning. +1 Corinthians 14:11 | If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. +1 Corinthians 14:12 | So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly. +1 Corinthians 14:13 | Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. +1 Corinthians 14:14 | For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. +1 Corinthians 14:15 | What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. +1 Corinthians 14:16 | Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say? +1 Corinthians 14:17 | For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up. +1 Corinthians 14:18 | I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all. +1 Corinthians 14:19 | However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. 1 Corinthians 14:20 | Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. +1 Corinthians 14:20 | Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. +1 Corinthians 14:21 | In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord." +1 Corinthians 14:22 | Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. +1 Corinthians 14:23 | If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy? +1 Corinthians 14:24 | But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. +1 Corinthians 14:25 | And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is amongst you indeed. +1 Corinthians 14:26 | What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. +1 Corinthians 14:27 | If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. +1 Corinthians 14:28 | But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God. +1 Corinthians 14:29 | Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern. +1 Corinthians 14:30 | But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent. +1 Corinthians 14:31 | For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted. +1 Corinthians 14:32 | The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, +1 Corinthians 14:33 | for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. +1 Corinthians 14:34 | Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says, 1 Corinthians 14:34 | Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. +1 Corinthians 14:35 | if they desire to learn anything. "Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly." 1 Corinthians 14:35 | If women want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. +1 Corinthians 14:36 | What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone? +1 Corinthians 14:37 | If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognise the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord. +1 Corinthians 14:38 | But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. +1 Corinthians 14:39 | Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages. +1 Corinthians 14:40 | Let all things be done decently and in order. +1 Corinthians 15:01 | Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, +1 Corinthians 15:02 | by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. +1 Corinthians 15:03 | For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, +1 Corinthians 15:04 | that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, +1 Corinthians 15:05 | and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. +1 Corinthians 15:06 | Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. +1 Corinthians 15:07 | Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, +1 Corinthians 15:08 | and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. +1 Corinthians 15:09 | For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. +1 Corinthians 15:10 | But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. +1 Corinthians 15:11 | Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. +1 Corinthians 15:12 | Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some amongst you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? +1 Corinthians 15:13 | But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. +1 Corinthians 15:14 | If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. +1 Corinthians 15:15 | Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised. +1 Corinthians 15:16 | For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised. +1 Corinthians 15:17 | If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. +1 Corinthians 15:18 | Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. +1 Corinthians 15:19 | If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. +1 Corinthians 15:20 | But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep. +1 Corinthians 15:21 | For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. +1 Corinthians 15:22 | For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:22 | Just as in Adam all of us died, so too in Christ all of us will be brought to life. +1 Corinthians 15:23 | But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming. +1 Corinthians 15:24 | Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. +1 Corinthians 15:25 | For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. +1 Corinthians 15:26 | The last enemy that will be abolished is death. +1 Corinthians 15:27 | For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection", it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. +1 Corinthians 15:28 | When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all. +1 Corinthians 15:29 | Or else what will they do who are baptised for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptised for the dead? +1 Corinthians 15:30 | Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? +1 Corinthians 15:31 | I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. +1 Corinthians 15:32 | If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." +1 Corinthians 15:33 | Don’t be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals." 1 Corinthians 15:33-34 | Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character". Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God. +1 Corinthians 15:34 | Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. +1 Corinthians 15:35 | But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?" +1 Corinthians 15:36 | You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies. 1 Corinthians 15:36-37 | What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed [...] +1 Corinthians 15:37 | That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. +1 Corinthians 15:38 | But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. +1 Corinthians 15:39 | All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. +1 Corinthians 15:40 | There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial. +1 Corinthians 15:41 | There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. +1 Corinthians 15:42 | So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 | So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. +1 Corinthians 15:43 | It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. +1 Corinthians 15:44 | It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. +1 Corinthians 15:45 | So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. +1 Corinthians 15:46 | However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:46-47 | The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the Earth. The second man is of Heaven. +1 Corinthians 15:47 | The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. +1 Corinthians 15:48 | As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. +1 Corinthians 15:49 | As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly. +1 Corinthians 15:50 | Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. +1 Corinthians 15:51 | Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, +1 Corinthians 15:52 | in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. +1 Corinthians 15:53 | For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. +1 Corinthians 15:54 | But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." 1 Corinthians 15:54-56 | When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" +1 Corinthians 15:55 | "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" +1 Corinthians 15:56 | The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. +1 Corinthians 15:57 | But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. +1 Corinthians 15:58 | Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58 | Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. +1 Corinthians 16:01 | Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. +1 Corinthians 16:02 | On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come. +1 Corinthians 16:03 | When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem. +1 Corinthians 16:04 | If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. +1 Corinthians 16:05 | But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia. +1 Corinthians 16:06 | But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go. +1 Corinthians 16:07 | For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits. +1 Corinthians 16:08 | But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, +1 Corinthians 16:09 | for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. +1 Corinthians 16:10 | Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. +1 Corinthians 16:11 | Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers. +1 Corinthians 16:12 | Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. 1 Corinthians 16:13 | Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. +1 Corinthians 16:13 | Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! 1 Corinthians 16:14 | Do everything in love. -1 Corinthians 2:09 | It is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived"; the things God has prepared for those who love Him. -1 Corinthians 3:17 | If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. -1 Corinthians 3:18-19 | Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become "fools" so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness". -1 Corinthians 4:12-13 | We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us. We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash–right up to the present moment. -1 Corinthians 5:01 | We know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in Heaven, not built by human hands. -1 Corinthians 6:09-10 | Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. -1 Corinthians 6:12 | "I have the right to do anything," you say, but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything", but I will not be mastered by anything. -1 Corinthians 6:18 | Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. -1 Corinthians 6:19-20 | Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. -1 Corinthians 7:03-04 | The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. -1 Corinthians 7:39 | 39 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. -1 John 2:04 | Whoever says, "I know Him", but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. -1 John 2:06 | Whoever claims to live in Him must live as Jesus did. -1 John 2:15-16 | Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – comes not from the Father but from the world. -1 John 3:01-03 | See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure. -1 John 3:22 | Whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. -1 John 4:12 | No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. -1 John 4:16 | And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. -1 John 4:20 | Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. -1 Peter 1:23-25 | You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for "all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever." -1 Peter 2:07 | The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. -1 Peter 2:09-10 | You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. -1 Peter 2:11 | Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. -1 Peter 2:16 | Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. -1 Peter 3:07 | In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered. -1 Peter 4:08 | Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. -1 Peter 5:07 | Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. -1 Peter 5:10 | The God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. -1 Thessalonians 5:11 | Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. -2 Chronicles 7:14 | If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. -2 Corinthians 12:09 | My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. -2 Corinthians 1:03-04 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. -2 Corinthians 4:16-18 | So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. -2 Corinthians 5:06-09 | So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him. -2 Corinthians 8:07 | Since you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you — see that you also excel in this grace of giving. -2 Corinthians 9:06 | Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. -2 Corinthians 9:07 | Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. -2 Corinthians 9:09 | They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever. -2 Thessalonians 3:03 | The Lord is faithful and He will strengthen, and protect you from the evil one. -2 Thessalonians 3:10 | While we were with you, we gave you the order: "Whoever doesn’t want to work shouldn’t be allowed to eat." -2 Thessalonians 3:16 | Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. -2 Timothy 1:07 | God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. -2 Timothy 2:06-07 | Hardworking farmers should be the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you understand all these things. -2 Timothy 3:01-05 | Mark this! There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. -2 Timothy 4:07-08 | I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. -Acts 17:24-25 | The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. -Acts 17:28 | In Him we live and move and have our being. -Acts 17:29 | Since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone – an image made by human design and skill. -Acts 17:31 | He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead. -Acts 1:6b-8a | "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority". You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. -Acts 20:28c-30 | Be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. -Acts 20:35 | [Paul] In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." -Acts 2:17 | In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. -Acts 2:36 | Let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah. -Acts 2:38 | Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. -Acts 3:19 | Repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. -Acts 4:11 | Jesus is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. -Acts 4:12 | Salvation is found in no one else but Jesus, for there is no other name under Heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. -Acts 7:49-50 | "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me?" says the Lord. "Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things?" -Amos 4:13 | He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals His thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the Earth - the Lord God Almighty is His name. -Amos 5:06 | Seek the Lord and live, or He will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. -Amos 5:07 | There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground. -Amos 5:10 | There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth. -Amos 5:12-13 | I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins are. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts. Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil. -Amos 5:14-15 | Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say He is. Hate evil, love good and maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph. -Amos 5:18 | Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. -Amos 5:18,22b,23 | I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. -Amos 7:14-15 | Amos answered Amaziah, "I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel." -Amos 8:11-13 | "The days are coming!" declares the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land, not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it." In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst." -Colossians 3:09-10 | Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. -Colossians 3:12,14 | As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. -Colossians 3:13 | Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. -Colossians 3:15 | Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. -Colossians 3:16 | Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. -Colossians 3:17 | Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. -Colossians 3:18-19 | Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. -Colossians 3:21 | Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. -Colossians 3:23-24 | Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ. -Daniel 10:12 | Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. -Daniel 10:19 | "Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed" he said. "Peace! Be strong now, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength." -Daniel 2:20b-23 | Daniel praised the God of heaven and said: "Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His. He changes times and seasons, He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things, He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him. I thank and praise You, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, You have made known to me what we asked of You. You have made known to us the dream of the king." -Daniel 3:17-18 | If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and He will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if He does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. -Daniel 3:29 | Then Nebuchadnezzar said, "I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way." -Daniel 6:26b-27 | He is the living God and He endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed, His dominion will never end. He rescues and He saves; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions. -Daniel 9:22-23 | He instructed me and said to me, "Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision." -Deuteronomy 20:16-17 | In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – as the Lord your God has commanded you. -Deuteronomy 31:06 | Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. -Deuteronomy 31:06-08 | Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. -Deuteronomy 31:08 | It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. -Deuteronomy 33:27 | The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. -Ecclesiastes 10:01 | As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. -Ecclesiastes 10:03 | Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are. -Ecclesiastes 10:12 | Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips. -Ecclesiastes 10:15 | The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town. -Ecclesiastes 10:18 | Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks. -Ecclesiastes 11:04 | Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. -Ecclesiastes 11:06 | Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. -Ecclesiastes 11:09-10 | You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless. -Ecclesiastes 12:01 | Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them". -Ecclesiastes 1:03-04 | What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. -Ecclesiastes 1:09-10 | What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? -Ecclesiastes 1:14 | I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind... -Ecclesiastes 1:18 | With much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. -Ecclesiastes 2:13 | I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. -Ecclesiastes 2:14 | The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness, but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both... -Ecclesiastes 2:16 | The wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die! -Ecclesiastes 3:01-04 | There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the Heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. -Ecclesiastes 3:11 | He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. -Ecclesiastes 3:12 | I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. -Ecclesiastes 3:18-19 | I also said to myself, "As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. -Ecclesiastes 4:02-03 | I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 4:05-06 | Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves. Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. -Ecclesiastes 4:08 | There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. "For whom am I toiling," he asked, "and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?" -Ecclesiastes 4:09 | Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? -Ecclesiastes 4:12 | Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. -Ecclesiastes 5:02 | Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in Heaven and you are on Earth, so let your words be few. -Ecclesiastes 5:05-06 | It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it. Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. -Ecclesiastes 5:10 | Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. -Ecclesiastes 5:11 | As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them? -Ecclesiastes 5:15 | Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands. -Ecclesiastes 6:07-08 | Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied. What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others? -Ecclesiastes 6:10-11 | Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger. The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone? -Ecclesiastes 7:01 | A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. -Ecclesiastes 7:02 | It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. -Ecclesiastes 7:03 | Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. -Ecclesiastes 7:04 | The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure. -Ecclesiastes 7:07 | Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. -Ecclesiastes 7:08 | The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. -Ecclesiastes 7:10 | Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" For it is not wise to ask such questions. -Ecclesiastes 7:11-12 | Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun. Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it. -Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 | Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise... why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool - why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes. -Ecclesiastes 7:20 | Indeed, there is no one on Earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins. -Ecclesiastes 7:28 | While I was still searching, but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:05-06 | The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 9:09 | Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life... -Ecclesiastes 9:10 | Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. -Ecclesiastes 9:12 | As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them. -Ecclesiastes 9:16 | So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded. -Ecclesiastes 9:17 | The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. -Ecclesiastes 9:18 | Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. -Ephesians 2:08-09 | It is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. -Ephesians 4:02 | Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. -Ephesians 4:02-03 | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. -Ephesians 4:26 | In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry. -Ephesians 4:29 | Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. -Ephesians 4:32 | Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. -Ephesians 5:14 | Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. -Ephesians 5:20 | Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Ephesians 5:21 | Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. -Ephesians 5:22 | Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. -Ephesians 5:25-26 | Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through The Word. -Ephesians 5:28 | Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. -Ephesians 6:12 | Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. -Exodus 15:02 | The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him! -Exodus 20:02 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. -Exodus 20:03 | You shall have no other gods before Me. -Exodus 20:04-05 | You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God... -Exodus 20:07 | You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name. -Exodus 20:08-09 | Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. -Exodus 20:12 | Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. -Exodus 20:14 | You shall never commit adultery. -Exodus 20:15 | You shall not steal. -Exodus 20:16 | You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. -Exodus 20:17b | Thou shalt not covet neighbour's wife. -Exodus 20:20 | Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning." -Exodus 33:14 | My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. -Ezekiel 23:19-20 | She became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. -Galatians 2:20 | I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. -Galatians 3:26-28 | So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. -Galatians 5:14-15 | The entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself". If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. -Galatians 5:22-23 | The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. -Galatians 6:03 | If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. -Genesis 12:01-03 | The Lord had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on Earth will be blessed through you." -Genesis 14:20 | Praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand. -Genesis 18:18-19 | Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on Earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him. -Genesis 18:26 | The Lord said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." -Genesis 19:24 | Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. -Genesis 19:34,36 | The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father". So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. -Genesis 1:01-03 | In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. -Genesis 1:03-05 | And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day. -Genesis 1:09-10 | And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1:27-28 | So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the Heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." -Genesis 1:28 | Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the Heavens and over every living thing that moves on the Earth. -Genesis 24:27 | Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives. -Genesis 26:12 | Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. -Genesis 29:18-21 | Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." So Jacob served seven years for Rachel... -Genesis 2:03 | God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done. -Genesis 2:18,21-22 | The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.". So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while He was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man. -Genesis 2:23 | The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man." -Genesis 30:1,3-5 | When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her." So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she became pregnant and bore him a son. -Genesis 31:49b | May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. -Genesis 38:08-10 | Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfil your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother." But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to avoid providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also. -Genesis 3:04 | "You will not certainly die" the serpent said to the woman. -Genesis 3:16 | To the woman He said: "I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." -Genesis 3:19 | By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. -Genesis 3:20 | Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. -Genesis 3:22 | And God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." -Genesis 4:06-07 | The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it." -Genesis 6:03 | "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years." -Genesis 6:11,17 | Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. "I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish." -Genesis 6:11-13 | Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth". -Genesis 8:21 | The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. -Genesis 9:06 | Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God, has God made mankind. -Habakkuk 2:01 | I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. -Habakkuk 3:17-18 | Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. -Haggai 1:05-06 | The Lord Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it." -Hebrews 10:19-23 | Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. -Hebrews 10:24-25 | Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. -Hebrews 12:01-02 | Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 4:12 | The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. -Hebrews 4:16 | We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. -Hosea 10:12 | Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and showers His righteousness on you. -Hosea 1:02 | When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, "Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord." -Hosea 2:13 | "I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot Me." declares the Lord. -Hosea 3:01 | The Lord said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes." -Hosea 4:06-07 | Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as My priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. The more priests there were, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. -Hosea 5:04 | Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord. -Hosea 5:15 | I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face in their misery they will earnestly seek me. -Hosea 6:01 | Come, let us return to the Lord! He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us. He has injured us, but He will bind up our wounds. -Hosea 6:02 | After two days He will revive us, on the third day He will restore us, that we may live in His presence. -Hosea 6:03 | Let us acknowledge the Lord! Let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear, He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. -Hosea 6:06 | I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. -Isaiah 10:01-02 | Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people. -Isaiah 10:03 | What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? -Isaiah 12:02 | Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. -Isaiah 25:12 | He will bring down your high fortified wall and lay them low, He will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust. -Isaiah 26:03 | You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. -Isaiah 26:03-04 | Those of steadfast mind You keep in peace, because they trust in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God, you have an everlasting rock. -Isaiah 29:13-14 | The Lord says: "These people come near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish." -Isaiah 29:15 | Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" -Isaiah 30:01 | "Woe to the obstinate children," declares the Lord, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by My Spirit, heaping sin upon sin". -Isaiah 30:15 | In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength. -Isaiah 33:02 | Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. -Isaiah 40:28 | Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. -Isaiah 40:29 | He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. -Isaiah 40:31 | Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. -Isaiah 41:10 | Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. -Isaiah 41:13 | I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear, I will help you. -Isaiah 43:01-03 | Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. -Isaiah 43:02 | When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. -Isaiah 43:25 | I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. -Isaiah 45:02-03 | I will go before you and will level the mountains, I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. -Isaiah 45:05 | I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, -Isaiah 45:07 | I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things. -Isaiah 46:04 | Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. -Isaiah 46:05 | With whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared? -Isaiah 49:15 | Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! -Isaiah 50:04 | The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed. -Isaiah 51:04 | Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. -Isaiah 51:07 | Hear Me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken My instruction to heart. Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults. -Isaiah 54:05 | Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is His name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole Earth He is called. -Isaiah 54:10 | "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you. -Isaiah 54:13 | All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. -Isaiah 54:14 | In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. -Isaiah 55:02 | Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. -Isaiah 55:06 | Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call on Him while He is near! -Isaiah 55:07 | Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. -Isaiah 55:08-09 | "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the Lord. "As the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. -Isaiah 55:12 | You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. -Isaiah 56:01 | The Lord says: "Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is close at hand and My righteousness will soon be revealed." -Isaiah 57:01-02 | The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. -Isaiah 57:15-16 | This is what the high and exalted One says: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of Me, the very people I have created." -Isaiah 57:21 | "There is no peace" says my God, "for the wicked." -Isaiah 58:04 | Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. -Isaiah 58:10 | If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. -Isaiah 59:03 | Your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. -Isaiah 59:09 | Justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. -Isaiah 59:12 | Our offenses are many in Your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities. -Isaiah 8:20 | Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. -Isaiah 9:02-03 | The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before You as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder. -Isaiah 9:06 | To us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. -James 1:02-04 | Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. -James 1:12 | Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him. -James 1:21-22 | Get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. -James 1:22-24 | Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word, but does not do what it says, is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror nd, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. -James 1:23-24 | Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. -James 1:26 | Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. -James 2:14 | What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? -James 2:17 | In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. -James 2:19-20 | You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that — and shudder. You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless ? -James 2:26 | As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. -James 3:01 | Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. -Jeremiah 20:07 | You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. -Jeremiah 20:13 | Sing to the Lord! Give praise to the Lord! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked. -Jeremiah 20:18 | Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame? -Jeremiah 23:11 | "Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness," declares the Lord. -Job 1:21 | And he said, "Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." -Job 8:13 | Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless. -John 10:27-29 | My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. -John 11:25-26 | Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" -John 14:01-03 | Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. -John 14:27 | Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. -John 15:12 | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. -John 15:13 | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. -John 16:33 | I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. -John 2:01-05 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. -John 2:06-09 | There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. -John 3:16 | God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. -John 8:12 | I am the light of the world! He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. -Joshua 1:07 | Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. -Joshua 1:09 | Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. -Jousha 6:17 | The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. -Jousha 6:21 | They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. -Lamentations 3:22-23 | The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. -Leviticus 15:07 | Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. -Leviticus 15:19 | When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. -Leviticus 19:11 | Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another. -Leviticus 19:14 | Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. -Leviticus 19:15 | Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. -Leviticus 19:18 | Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. -Leviticus 19:19 | Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. -Leviticus 19:29 | Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness. -Leviticus 19:31 | Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:35 | Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. -Leviticus 20:13 | If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. -Leviticus 20:15 | If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed. -Leviticus 21:16-21 | The Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a crippled foot or hand, or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. -Leviticus 21:22-23 | He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food, yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the Lord, who makes them holy. -Luke 12:02 | There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. -Luke 12:25-26 | Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life. Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? -Luke 16:10 | Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. -Luke 16:13 | No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. -Luke 16:15 | He said to them: you are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight. -Luke 20:46 | Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. -Luke 6:37 | Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. -Luke 6:38 | Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. -Luke 6:41 | Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? -Luke 6:42 | How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye" when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. -Luke 6:46 | Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord" and do not do what I say? -Malachi 1:04-05 | Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But the Lord Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord. You will see it with your own eyes and say, «Great is the Lord even beyond the borders of Israel!»" -Malachi 1:06 | "A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the Lord Almighty. "It is you priests who show contempt for my name." But you ask: "How have we shown contempt for your name?" -Malachi 1:08 | When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the Lord Almighty. -Malachi 2:01-03 | "And now, you priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name," says the Lord Almighty, "I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. [...] Because of you, I will rebuke your descendants. I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it." -Malachi 2:07-08 | "For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the Lord. -Malachi 2:14 | You ask, "Why?". It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. -Malachi 2:15-16 | Has not the one God made you? You belong to Him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. "The man who hates and divorces his wife, does violence to the one he should protect," says the Lord Almighty. -Malachi 3:07 | "Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you" says the Lord Almighty. "But you ask, «How are we to return?»" -Malachi 3:10 | "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this" says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it." -Malachi 3:16b-18 | A scroll of remembrance was written in His presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His name. "On the day when I act," says the Lord Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not." -Malachi 4:02-03 | "For you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act" says the Lord Almighty. -Mark 10:09 | Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. -Mark 10:27 | Jesus looked at them and said, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God." -Mark 7:06 | He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites". These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. -Matthew 10:16 | I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. -Matthew 10:22 | You will be hated by everyone because of Me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. -Matthew 10:24-25a | The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. -Matthew 10:28 | Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. -Matthew 10:32-33 | Whoever acknowledges Me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in Heaven. But whoever disowns Me before others, I will disown before my Father in Heaven. -Matthew 10:34 | Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. -Matthew 10:37,39 | Anyone who loves their father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. -Matthew 11:06 | Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of Me. -Matthew 11:25 | Jesus said: "I praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children." -Matthew 11:28 | Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. -Matthew 11:28-30 | Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. -Matthew 12:30-31 | Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. -Matthew 12:32 | Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. -Matthew 12:35 | A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. -Matthew 12:36-37 | I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. -Matthew 12:50 | Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is My brother, and sister, and mother. -Matthew 13:12 | Whoever has, will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. -Matthew 13:14 | You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. -Matthew 13:16 | Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. -Matthew 1:20-21 | After he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said: "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." -Matthew 1:21 | You shall call his name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. -Matthew 1:23 | "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us"). -Matthew 23:13 | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. -Matthew 23:27 | Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. -Matthew 23:28 | On the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. -Matthew 24:07 | Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. -Matthew 4:03-04 | The tempter came to Him and said: "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." -Matthew 5:04 | Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. -Matthew 5:05 | Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. -Matthew 5:06 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. -Matthew 5:07 | Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. -Matthew 5:08 | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. -Matthew 5:09 | Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. -Matthew 5:10 | Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:11 | Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. -Matthew 5:25 | Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. -Matthew 5:28 | I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. -Matthew 5:30 | If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. -Matthew 5:39-41 | Do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. -Matthew 5:42 | Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. -Matthew 5:44 | I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. -Matthew 6:01 | Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in Heaven. -Matthew 6:02 | When you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. -Matthew 6:03 | When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. -Matthew 6:05 | When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. -Matthew 6:06 | When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. -Matthew 6:07-08 | When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. -Matthew 6:14 | If you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. -Matthew 6:15 | If you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. -Matthew 6:16 | When you fast, do not look sombre as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. -Matthew 6:17-18 | When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. -Matthew 6:19-21 | Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. -Matthew 6:22-23 | The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! -Matthew 6:25 | Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? -Matthew 6:27 | Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? -Matthew 6:31,33-34 | Do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. -Matthew 6:34 | Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. -Matthew 7:01 | Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. -Matthew 7:02 | In the same way as you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. -Matthew 7:03 | Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? -Matthew 7:05 | You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. -Matthew 7:06 | Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. -Matthew 7:07-08 | Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. -Matthew 7:12 | In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. -Matthew 7:13-14 | Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. -Matthew 7:21-22 | Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord" will enter The Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven. -Matthew 7:24 | Everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. -Micah 4:05 | All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. -Micah 6:08 | He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. -Nahum 1:07 | The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. -Nehemiah 8:10 | Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. -Numbers 21:02-03 | Israel made this vow to the Lord: If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities. The Lord listened to Israel’s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns. -Philippians 1:21-23 | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. -Philippians 2:14 | Do everything without grumbling or arguing. -Philippians 3:07-09 | Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. -Philippians 3:20-21 | Our commonwealth is in Heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. -Philippians 4:06-07 | Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:08 | Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. -Philippians 4:12-13 | I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation... I can do everything through him who gives me strength. -Philippians 4:13 | I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. -Philippians 4:19 | My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. -Proverbs 10:04-05 | Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. -Proverbs 12:22 | The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy. -Proverbs 12:24 | Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor. -Proverbs 12:28 | In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death. -Proverbs 13:04 | Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. -Proverbs 13:05 | The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves. -Proverbs 13:11 | Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow. -Proverbs 14:05 | An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies. -Proverbs 14:23-24 | All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly. -Proverbs 17:04 | A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue. -Proverbs 17:05 | Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished. -Proverbs 17:07 | Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool, how much worse lying lips to a ruler! -Proverbs 17:12 | Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly. -Proverbs 17:16 | One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor. -Proverbs 17:17 | A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. -Proverbs 17:22 | A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. -Proverbs 17:23 | The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice. -Proverbs 17:25 | A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth. -Proverbs 18:09 | A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things. -Proverbs 18:10 | The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. -Proverbs 20:13 | If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat! -Proverbs 28:19-20 | A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty. The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble. -Proverbs 30:18-19 | There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don't understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman. -Proverbs 31:10: Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. -Proverbs 3:03-04 | Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. -Proverbs 3:05-06 | Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths. -Proverbs 4:14-17 | Do not take the path of the wicked; do not follow those who do evil. Stay away from that path; do not even go near it. Turn around and go another way. The wicked cannot sleep until they have done something evil. They will not rest until they bring someone down. Evil and violence are their food and drink. -Proverbs 4:23 | Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. -Proverbs 6:07-08 | Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. -Psalm 112:01 | Praise the Lord! -Psalm 112:05 | Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice. -Psalm 112:1,7-8 | Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord. They are not afraid of evil tidings; their hearts are firm, secure in the Lord. Their hearts are steady, they will not be afraid. -Psalm 116:15 | Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. -Psalm 118:14-16 | The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!" -Psalm 119:114-115 | You are my hiding place and my shield;I hope in your word. Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. -Psalm 119:143 | Trouble and distress have come upon me, but Your commands give me delight. -Psalm 119:163 | I hate and detest falsehood but I love Your law. -Psalm 119:50 | This is my comfort in my affliction, that Your promise gives me life. -Psalm 120:01 | In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. -Psalm 127:01-02 | Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. -Psalm 138:03 | When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted. -Psalm 139:01-02 | You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. -Psalm 139:14 | I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful. -Psalm 139:17 | How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! -Psalm 139:21-22 | Do I not hate those who hate You, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against You? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. -Psalm 143:08 | Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I entrust my life. -Psalm 145:18-19 | The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him and He hears their cry and saves them. -Psalm 149:06 | The Lord takes pleasure in His people and He adorns the humble with salvation. -Psalm 16:08 | I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. -Psalm 16:08-11 | I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your Holy One see corruption.. You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. -Psalm 23:04 | Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. -Psalm 27:01-03 | The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident. -Psalm 27:04 | One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. -Psalm 31:24 | Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! -Psalm 32:07-08 | You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. -Psalm 34:04 | I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. -Psalm 34:04-05 | I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. -Psalm 34:08 | Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! -Psalm 34:10 | Those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. -Psalm 34:17 | When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. -Psalm 34:18 | The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. -Psalm 40:08 | I desire to do Your will, my God. Your law is within my heart. -Psalm 46:01-02 | God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea. -Psalm 46:01-03 | God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. -Psalm 46:07 | The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. -Psalm 55:22 | Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you, He will never permit the righteous to be moved. -Psalm 62:01-02 | My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken. -Psalm 62:06 | He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. -Psalm 73:25-26 | Whom have I in Heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. -Psalm 91:01-02 | You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress; my God in whom I trust." -Psalm 9:09-10 | The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. -Revelation 14:13 | I heard a voice from Heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."; "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!" -Revelation 17:14 | These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful. -Revelation 1:17-18 | When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades." -Revelation 21:01 | Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. -Revelation 21:04 | He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. -Revelation 22:15 | Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. -Revelation 2:02-03 | I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. -Romans 10:03 | Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. -Romans 10:04 | Christ is the culmination of The Law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. -Romans 10:09-10 | If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. -Romans 11:33-34 | Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and His paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counsellor? -Romans 11:36 | From Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory for ever! -Romans 12:01 | I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true and proper worship. -Romans 12:02 | Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will. -Romans 12:03 | By the grace given me, I say to every one of you: do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. -Romans 12:09-10 | Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves. -Romans 12:10 | Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. -Romans 12:11-12 | Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. -Romans 12:12-13 | Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practise hospitality. -Romans 12:14-15 | Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. -Romans 12:16 | Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. -Romans 12:17 | Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. -Romans 12:19 | Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay" says the Lord. -Romans 12:20 | If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. -Romans 12:21 | Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. -Romans 13:02 | Whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. -Romans 13:05 | It is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. -Romans 13:07 | Give to everyone what you owe them: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour. -Romans 13:08 | Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. -Romans 13:13-14 | Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh. -Romans 14:01-02 | Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarrelling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. -Romans 14:05 | One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. -Romans 14:08-09 | If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. -Romans 14:13 | Let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling-block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. -Romans 14:14 | I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. -Romans 14:16 | Do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. -Romans 14:19 | Let us make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. -Romans 15:01 | We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. -Romans 15:07 | Accept one another, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. -Romans 15:13 | May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. -Romans 1:16 | I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. -Romans 2:01 | You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. -Romans 3:20 | No one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. -Romans 3:25 | God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood — to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness. -Romans 5:03-04 | [...] we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. -Romans 6:04 | We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. -Romans 6:09 | We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. -Romans 6:12-13 | Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of righteousness. -Romans 6:20-21 | When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? -Romans 6:23 | The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 8:05 | Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. -Romans 8:06 | The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. -Romans 8:08 | Those who live in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. -Romans 8:10 | If Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. -Romans 8:14-15 | Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. -Romans 8:26-27 | [...] the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. -Romans 8:28 | We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. -Romans 8:31 | What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? -Romans 8:38-39 | I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 9:15 | I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. -Romans 9:15-16 | I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. -Romans 9:17 | I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth. -Romans 9:19-20 | One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist His will?" But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" -Ruth 1:16-17 | Ruth replied, "Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me." -Ruth 2:12 | May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge. -Song of Solomon 1:01 | Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love is more delightful than wine. -Song of Solomon 1:10 | Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. -Song of Solomon 1:16 | How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. -Song of Solomon 2:03 | Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. -Song of Solomon 3:01-02 | All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves [...] -Song of Solomon 4:09 | You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. -Song of Solomon 5:03 | I have taken off my robe, must I put it on again? I have washed my feet, must I soil them again? -Song of Solomon 5:10 | My beloved is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. -Song of Solomon 6:05-06 | Turn your eyes from me, darling; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing [...] -Song of Solomon 7:02-04 | Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes [...] -Song of Solomon 7:07 | Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. -Song of Solomon 8:06-07 | Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. -Song of Solomon 8:07 | Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. -Song of Solomon 8:10 | I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment. -Thessalonians 4:13-14 | Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. -Titus 1:16 | They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. -Zechariah 13:06 | If someone asks, "What are these wounds on your body?" they will answer, "The wounds I was given at the house of my friends." -Zechariah 2:05 | "I myself will be a wall of fire around it" declares the Lord, "and I will be its glory within." -Zechariah 2:08 | The Lord Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you, for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye." -Zechariah 3:07 | The Lord says: "If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here." -Zechariah 7:12-13 | They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to The Law or to the words that the Lord had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Almighty was very angry. "When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen" says the Lord Almighty. -Zechariah 8:14-15 | the Lord Almighty says: "Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me, now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid." -Zephaniah 3:08 | "Therefore wait for Me," declares the Lord, "For the day when I rise up as a witness indeed, My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them My indignation, all My burning anger; for all the Earth will be devoured by the fire of My zeal. -Zephaniah 3:17 | The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. -Zephaniah 8:16-17 | "These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this!" declares the Lord. -1 Chronicles 10:04 | Then Saul said to his armour bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me." But his armour bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. -1 Chronicles 10:05 | When his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. -1 Chronicles 10:06 | So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together. -1 Chronicles 10:07 | When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. -1 Chronicles 10:09 | They stripped him, and took his head and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. -1 Chronicles 10:10 | They put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. -1 Chronicles 12:21 | They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the army. -1 Chronicles 12:22 | For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army. -1 Chronicles 12:23 | These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the Lord’s word. -1 Chronicles 12:38 | All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king. -1 Chronicles 12:39 | They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them. -1 Chronicles 13:02 | David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of the Lord our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us. -1 Chronicles 13:03 | Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul." -1 Chronicles 13:04 | All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. -1 Chronicles 13:07 | They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart. -1 Chronicles 13:08 | David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets. -1 Chronicles 13:10 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God. -1 Chronicles 13:11 | David was displeased, because the Lord had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day. -1 Chronicles 13:12 | David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How can I bring God’s ark home to me?" -1 Chronicles 13:14 | God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had. -1 Chronicles 14:08 | When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them. -1 Chronicles 14:10 | David enquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" The Lord said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand." -1 Chronicles 14:11 | So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim. -1 Chronicles 14:12 | They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burnt with fire. -1 Chronicles 14:14 | David enquired again of God; and God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees. -1 Chronicles 14:15 | When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines." -1 Chronicles 14:16 | David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. -1 Chronicles 14:17 | The fame of David went out into all lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him on all nations. -1 Chronicles 15:01 | David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it. -1 Chronicles 15:02 | Then David said, "No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For the Lord has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever." -1 Chronicles 15:12 | and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it. -1 Chronicles 15:13 | For because you didn’t carry it at first, the Lord our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance." -1 Chronicles 15:14 | So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Chronicles 15:15 | The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to the Lord’s word. -1 Chronicles 15:16 | David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy. -1 Chronicles 15:25 | So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. -1 Chronicles 15:26 | When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. -1 Chronicles 15:27 | David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him. -1 Chronicles 15:28 | Thus all Israel brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps. -1 Chronicles 15:29 | As the ark of the Lord’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart. -1 Chronicles 16:01 | They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. -1 Chronicles 16:02 | When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the Lord’s name. -1 Chronicles 16:03 | He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. -1 Chronicles 16:04 | He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the Lord’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel: -1 Chronicles 16:07 | Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to the Lord, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. -1 Chronicles 16:08 | Oh give thanks to the Lord. Call on his name. Make what he has done known amongst the peoples. -1 Chronicles 16:09 | Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvellous works. -1 Chronicles 16:10 | Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice. -1 Chronicles 16:11 | Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face forever more. -1 Chronicles 16:12 | Remember his marvellous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth, -1 Chronicles 16:13 | you offspring of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. -1 Chronicles 16:14 | He is the Lord our God. His judgements are in all the earth. -1 Chronicles 16:15 | Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, -1 Chronicles 16:16 | the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac. -1 Chronicles 16:17 | He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying, -1 Chronicles 16:18 | "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance," -1 Chronicles 16:19 | when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. -1 Chronicles 16:20 | They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. -1 Chronicles 16:21 | He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, -1 Chronicles 16:22 | "Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!" -1 Chronicles 16:23 | Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day. -1 Chronicles 16:24 | Declare his glory amongst the nations, and his marvellous works amongst all the peoples. -1 Chronicles 16:25 | For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. -1 Chronicles 16:26 | For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. -1 Chronicles 16:27 | Honour and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. -1 Chronicles 16:28 | Ascribe to the Lord, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength! -1 Chronicles 16:29 | Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship the Lord in holy array. -1 Chronicles 16:30 | Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved. -1 Chronicles 16:31 | Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say amongst the nations, "The Lord reigns!" -1 Chronicles 16:32 | Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is in it! -1 Chronicles 16:33 | Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. -1 Chronicles 16:34 | Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. -1 Chronicles 16:35 | Say, "Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise." -1 Chronicles 16:36 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, "Amen," and praised the Lord. -1 Chronicles 16:37 | So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required; -1 Chronicles 16:40 | to offer burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the Lord’s law, which he commanded to Israel; -1 Chronicles 16:41 | and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his loving kindness endures forever; -1 Chronicles 16:43 | All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house. -1 Chronicles 17:01 | When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the Lord’s covenant is in a tent." -1 Chronicles 17:02 | Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you." -1 Chronicles 17:04 | "Go and tell David my servant, ‘The Lord says, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; -1 Chronicles 17:05 | for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. -1 Chronicles 17:06 | In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’"’ -1 Chronicles 17:07 | "Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘The Lord of Armies says, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel. -1 Chronicles 17:08 | I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. -1 Chronicles 17:09 | I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first, -1 Chronicles 17:10 | and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the Lord will build you a house. -1 Chronicles 17:11 | It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. -1 Chronicles 17:12 | He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. -1 Chronicles 17:13 | I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you; -1 Chronicles 17:14 | but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever." -1 Chronicles 17:15 | According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. -1 Chronicles 17:16 | Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord; and he said, "Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? -1 Chronicles 17:17 | This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Lord God. -1 Chronicles 17:18 | What can David say yet more to you concerning the honour which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. -1 Chronicles 17:19 | Lord, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. -1 Chronicles 17:20 | Lord, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. -1 Chronicles 17:21 | What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt? -1 Chronicles 17:22 | For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Lord, became their God. -1 Chronicles 17:23 | Now, Lord, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. -1 Chronicles 17:24 | Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’ -1 Chronicles 17:25 | For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. -1 Chronicles 17:26 | Now, Lord, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant. -1 Chronicles 17:27 | Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord, have blessed, and it is blessed forever." -1 Chronicles 18:04 | David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots. -1 Chronicles 18:05 | When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians. -1 Chronicles 18:06 | Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. -1 Chronicles 18:07 | David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. -1 Chronicles 18:08 | From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze. -1 Chronicles 18:09 | When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, -1 Chronicles 18:10 | he sent Hadoram his son to king David to Greet him and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze. -1 Chronicles 18:11 | King David also dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek. -1 Chronicles 18:13 | He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. -1 Chronicles 18:14 | David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people. -1 Chronicles 19:02 | David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him. -1 Chronicles 19:03 | But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David honours your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?" -1 Chronicles 19:04 | So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away. -1 Chronicles 19:10 | Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. -1 Chronicles 19:12 | He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. -1 Chronicles 19:13 | Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the Lord do that which seems good to him." -1 Chronicles 19:15 | When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. -1 Chronicles 19:16 | When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them. -1 Chronicles 19:17 | David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. -1 Chronicles 19:18 | The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army. -1 Chronicles 19:19 | When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more. -1 Chronicles 20:01 | At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. -1 Chronicles 20:02 | David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city. -1 Chronicles 20:03 | He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. -1 Chronicles 20:08 | These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. -1 Chronicles 21:01 | Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel. -1 Chronicles 21:02 | David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are." -1 Chronicles 21:03 | Joab said, "May the Lord make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?" -1 Chronicles 21:04 | Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem. -1 Chronicles 21:06 | But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin amongst them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab. -1 Chronicles 21:07 | God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. -1 Chronicles 21:08 | David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." -1 Chronicles 21:10 | "Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The Lord says, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you." -1 Chronicles 21:11 | So Gad came to David, and said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Take your choice: -1 Chronicles 21:12 | either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the Lord’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’" -1 Chronicles 21:13 | David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the Lord’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand." -1 Chronicles 21:14 | So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. -1 Chronicles 21:15 | God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the Lord saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough. Now withdraw your hand." the Lord’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. -1 Chronicles 21:16 | David lifted up his eyes, and saw the Lord’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. -1 Chronicles 21:17 | David said to God, "Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued." -1 Chronicles 21:18 | Then the Lord’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. -1 Chronicles 21:19 | David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the Lord’s name. -1 Chronicles 21:20 | Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. -1 Chronicles 21:21 | As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. -1 Chronicles 21:22 | Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the Lord on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people." -1 Chronicles 21:23 | Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all." -1 Chronicles 21:24 | King David said to Ornan, "No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the Lord, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing." -1 Chronicles 21:25 | So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. -1 Chronicles 21:26 | David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the Lord; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. -1 Chronicles 21:27 | Then The Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. -1 Chronicles 21:28 | At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. -1 Chronicles 21:29 | For the Lord’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. -1 Chronicles 21:30 | But David couldn’t go before it to enquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the Lord’s angel. -1 Chronicles 22:01 | Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel." -1 Chronicles 22:02 | David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house. -1 Chronicles 22:03 | David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight; -1 Chronicles 22:04 | and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. -1 Chronicles 22:05 | David said, "Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it." So David prepared abundantly before his death. -1 Chronicles 22:06 | Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Chronicles 22:07 | David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God. -1 Chronicles 22:08 | But the Lord’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. -1 Chronicles 22:09 | Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days. -1 Chronicles 22:10 | He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’ -1 Chronicles 22:11 | Now, my son, may the Lord be with you and prosper you, and build the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you. -1 Chronicles 22:12 | May the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of the Lord your God. -1 Chronicles 22:13 | Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. -1 Chronicles 22:14 | Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the Lord’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them. -1 Chronicles 22:15 | There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skilful in every kind of work; -1 Chronicles 22:18 | "Isn’t the Lord your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people. -1 Chronicles 22:19 | Now set your heart and your soul to follow the Lord your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the Lord’s name." -1 Chronicles 23:01 | Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. -1 Chronicles 23:02 | He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. -1 Chronicles 23:03 | The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. -1 Chronicles 23:04 | David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the Lord’s house, six thousand were officers and judges, -1 Chronicles 23:24 | These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the Lord’s house, from twenty years old and upward. -1 Chronicles 23:25 | For David said, "The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever. -1 Chronicles 23:26 | Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service." -1 Chronicles 23:27 | For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward. -1 Chronicles 23:28 | For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the Lord’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house; -1 Chronicles 23:29 | for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size; -1 Chronicles 23:30 | and to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise in the evening; -1 Chronicles 23:31 | and to offer all burnt offerings to the Lord, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before the LORD; -1 Chronicles 23:32 | and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the Lord’s house. -1 Chronicles 24:19 | This was their ordering in their service, to come into the Lord’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him. -1 Chronicles 24:20 | Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. -1 Chronicles 24:31 | These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother. -1 Chronicles 25:01 | Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was: -1 Chronicles 28:02 | Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building. -1 Chronicles 28:03 | But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’ -1 Chronicles 28:04 | However the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and amongst the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. -1 Chronicles 28:05 | Of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the Lord’s kingdom over Israel. -1 Chronicles 28:06 | He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. -1 Chronicles 28:07 | I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’ -1 Chronicles 28:08 | Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the Lord’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever. -1 Chronicles 28:09 | You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. -1 Chronicles 28:10 | Take heed now; for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it." -1 Chronicles 28:11 | Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat; -1 Chronicles 28:12 | and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the Lord’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things; -1 Chronicles 28:13 | also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of the Lord’s house, and for all the vessels of service in the Lord’s house; -1 Chronicles 28:14 | of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service; -1 Chronicles 28:15 | by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand; -1 Chronicles 28:16 | and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver; -1 Chronicles 28:17 | and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl; -1 Chronicles 28:18 | and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of the Lord’s covenant. -1 Chronicles 28:19 | "All this", David said, "I have been made to understand in writing from the Lord’s hand, even all the works of this pattern." -1 Chronicles 28:20 | David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the Lord’s house is finished. -1 Chronicles 28:21 | Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command." -1 Chronicles 29:01 | David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God. -1 Chronicles 29:02 | Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colours, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. -1 Chronicles 29:03 | In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, -1 Chronicles 29:04 | even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses; -1 Chronicles 29:05 | of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to the LORD?" -1 Chronicles 29:07 | and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents. -1 Chronicles 29:08 | People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the Lord’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. -1 Chronicles 29:09 | Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. -1 Chronicles 29:10 | Therefore David blessed the Lord before all the assembly; and David said, "You are blessed, Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. -1 Chronicles 29:11 | Yours, Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. -1 Chronicles 29:12 | Both riches and honour come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all! -1 Chronicles 29:13 | Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. -1 Chronicles 29:14 | But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own. -1 Chronicles 29:15 | For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining. -1 Chronicles 29:16 | Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own. -1 Chronicles 29:17 | I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you. -1 Chronicles 29:18 | Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you; -1 Chronicles 29:19 | and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision." -1 Chronicles 29:20 | Then David said to all the assembly, "Now bless the Lord your God!" All the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and the king. -1 Chronicles 29:21 | They sacrificed sacrifices to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings to the Lord, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, -1 Chronicles 29:22 | and ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before the Lord to be prince, and Zadok to be priest. -1 Chronicles 29:23 | Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. -1 Chronicles 29:24 | All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king. -1 Chronicles 29:25 | The Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel. -1 Chronicles 29:27 | The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. -1 Chronicles 29:28 | He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour; and Solomon his son reigned in his place. -1 Chronicles 29:29 | Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer, -1 Corinthians 10:01 | Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; -1 Corinthians 10:02 | and were all baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; -1 Corinthians 10:04 | and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. -1 Corinthians 10:05 | However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. -1 Corinthians 10:06 | Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. -1 Corinthians 10:07 | Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." -1 Corinthians 10:08 | Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. -1 Corinthians 10:09 | Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. -1 Corinthians 10:10 | Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. -1 Corinthians 10:11 | Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. -1 Corinthians 10:12 | Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. -1 Corinthians 10:13 | No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. -1 Corinthians 10:14 | Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. -1 Corinthians 10:15 | I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. -1 Corinthians 10:16 | The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ? -1 Corinthians 10:17 | Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. -1 Corinthians 10:18 | Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? -1 Corinthians 10:19 | What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? -1 Corinthians 10:20 | But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. -1 Corinthians 10:21 | You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. -1 Corinthians 10:22 | Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? -1 Corinthians 10:23 | "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up. -1 Corinthians 10:24 | Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbour’s good. -1 Corinthians 10:25 | Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, -1 Corinthians 10:26 | for "the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness." -1 Corinthians 10:27 | But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. -1 Corinthians 10:28 | But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness." -1 Corinthians 10:29 | Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? -1 Corinthians 10:30 | If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for? -1 Corinthians 10:31 | Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. -1 Corinthians 10:32 | Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; -1 Corinthians 10:33 | even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. -1 Corinthians 11:01 | Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. -1 Corinthians 11:02 | Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. -1 Corinthians 11:03 | But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. -1 Corinthians 11:04 | Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head. -1 Corinthians 11:05 | But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonours her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. -1 Corinthians 11:06 | For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered. -1 Corinthians 11:07 | For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. -1 Corinthians 11:08 | For man is not from woman, but woman from man; -1 Corinthians 11:09 | for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man. -1 Corinthians 11:10 | For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels. -1 Corinthians 11:11 | Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. -1 Corinthians 11:12 | For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God. -1 Corinthians 11:13 | Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? -1 Corinthians 11:14 | Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonour to him? -1 Corinthians 11:15 | But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. -1 Corinthians 11:16 | But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies. -1 Corinthians 11:17 | But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. -1 Corinthians 11:18 | For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist amongst you, and I partly believe it. -1 Corinthians 11:19 | For there also must be factions amongst you, that those who are approved may be revealed amongst you. -1 Corinthians 11:20 | When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. -1 Corinthians 11:21 | For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. -1 Corinthians 11:22 | What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you. -1 Corinthians 11:23 | For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. -1 Corinthians 11:24 | When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." -1 Corinthians 11:25 | In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." -1 Corinthians 11:26 | For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. -1 Corinthians 11:27 | Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. -1 Corinthians 11:28 | But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. -1 Corinthians 11:29 | For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgement to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body. -1 Corinthians 11:30 | For this cause many amongst you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. -1 Corinthians 11:31 | For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged. -1 Corinthians 11:32 | But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. -1 Corinthians 11:33 | Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. -1 Corinthians 11:34 | But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgement. The rest I will set in order whenever I come. -1 Corinthians 12:01 | Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. -1 Corinthians 12:02 | You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led. -1 Corinthians 12:03 | Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit. -1 Corinthians 12:04 | Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. -1 Corinthians 12:05 | There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord. -1 Corinthians 12:06 | There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all. -1 Corinthians 12:07 | But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. -1 Corinthians 12:08 | For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; -1 Corinthians 12:09 | to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit; -1 Corinthians 12:10 | and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. -1 Corinthians 12:11 | But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. -1 Corinthians 12:12 | For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. -1 Corinthians 12:13 | For in one Spirit we were all baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit. -1 Corinthians 12:14 | For the body is not one member, but many. -1 Corinthians 12:15 | If the foot would say, "Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body. -1 Corinthians 12:16 | If the ear would say, "Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body," it’s not therefore not part of the body. -1 Corinthians 12:17 | If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? -1 Corinthians 12:18 | But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. -1 Corinthians 12:19 | If they were all one member, where would the body be? -1 Corinthians 12:20 | But now they are many members, but one body. -1 Corinthians 12:21 | The eye can’t tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." -1 Corinthians 12:22 | No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. -1 Corinthians 12:23 | Those parts of the body which we think to be less honourable, on those we bestow more abundant honour; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety; -1 Corinthians 12:24 | whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honour to the inferior part, -1 Corinthians 12:25 | that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. -1 Corinthians 12:26 | When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it. -1 Corinthians 12:27 | Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. -1 Corinthians 12:28 | God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. -1 Corinthians 12:29 | Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? -1 Corinthians 12:30 | Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret? -1 Corinthians 12:31 | But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you. -1 Corinthians 13:01 | If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. -1 Corinthians 13:02 | If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. -1 Corinthians 13:03 | If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. -1 Corinthians 13:04 | Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, -1 Corinthians 13:05 | doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; -1 Corinthians 13:06 | doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; -1 Corinthians 13:07 | bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. -1 Corinthians 13:08 | Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. -1 Corinthians 13:09 | For we know in part and we prophesy in part; -1 Corinthians 13:10 | but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. -1 Corinthians 13:11 | When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. -1 Corinthians 13:12 | For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. -1 Corinthians 13:13 | But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 14:01 | Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. -1 Corinthians 14:02 | For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. -1 Corinthians 14:03 | But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation. -1 Corinthians 14:04 | He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. -1 Corinthians 14:05 | Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up. -1 Corinthians 14:06 | But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? -1 Corinthians 14:07 | Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? -1 Corinthians 14:08 | For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? -1 Corinthians 14:09 | So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. -1 Corinthians 14:10 | There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning. -1 Corinthians 14:11 | If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. -1 Corinthians 14:12 | So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly. -1 Corinthians 14:13 | Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. -1 Corinthians 14:14 | For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. -1 Corinthians 14:15 | What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. -1 Corinthians 14:16 | Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say? -1 Corinthians 14:17 | For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up. -1 Corinthians 14:18 | I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all. -1 Corinthians 14:19 | However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. -1 Corinthians 14:20 | Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. -1 Corinthians 14:21 | In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord." -1 Corinthians 14:22 | Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. -1 Corinthians 14:23 | If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy? -1 Corinthians 14:24 | But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. -1 Corinthians 14:25 | And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is amongst you indeed. -1 Corinthians 14:26 | What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. -1 Corinthians 14:27 | If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. -1 Corinthians 14:28 | But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God. -1 Corinthians 14:29 | Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern. -1 Corinthians 14:30 | But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent. -1 Corinthians 14:31 | For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted. -1 Corinthians 14:32 | The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, -1 Corinthians 14:33 | for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. -1 Corinthians 14:34 | Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says, -1 Corinthians 14:35 | if they desire to learn anything. "Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly." -1 Corinthians 14:36 | What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone? -1 Corinthians 14:37 | If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognise the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord. -1 Corinthians 14:38 | But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. -1 Corinthians 14:39 | Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages. -1 Corinthians 14:40 | Let all things be done decently and in order. -1 Corinthians 15:01 | Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, -1 Corinthians 15:02 | by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. -1 Corinthians 15:03 | For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, -1 Corinthians 15:04 | that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, -1 Corinthians 15:05 | and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. -1 Corinthians 15:06 | Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. -1 Corinthians 15:07 | Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, -1 Corinthians 15:08 | and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. -1 Corinthians 15:09 | For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. -1 Corinthians 15:10 | But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. -1 Corinthians 15:11 | Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. -1 Corinthians 15:12 | Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some amongst you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? -1 Corinthians 15:13 | But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. -1 Corinthians 15:14 | If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. -1 Corinthians 15:15 | Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised. -1 Corinthians 15:16 | For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised. -1 Corinthians 15:17 | If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. -1 Corinthians 15:18 | Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. -1 Corinthians 15:19 | If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. -1 Corinthians 15:20 | But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep. -1 Corinthians 15:21 | For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. -1 Corinthians 15:22 | For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. -1 Corinthians 15:23 | But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming. -1 Corinthians 15:24 | Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. -1 Corinthians 15:25 | For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. -1 Corinthians 15:26 | The last enemy that will be abolished is death. -1 Corinthians 15:27 | For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection", it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. -1 Corinthians 15:28 | When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all. -1 Corinthians 15:29 | Or else what will they do who are baptised for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptised for the dead? -1 Corinthians 15:30 | Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? -1 Corinthians 15:31 | I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. -1 Corinthians 15:32 | If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." -1 Corinthians 15:33 | Don’t be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals." -1 Corinthians 15:34 | Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. -1 Corinthians 15:35 | But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?" -1 Corinthians 15:36 | You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies. -1 Corinthians 15:37 | That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. -1 Corinthians 15:38 | But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. -1 Corinthians 15:39 | All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. -1 Corinthians 15:40 | There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial. -1 Corinthians 15:41 | There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. -1 Corinthians 15:42 | So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. -1 Corinthians 15:43 | It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. -1 Corinthians 15:44 | It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. -1 Corinthians 15:45 | So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. -1 Corinthians 15:46 | However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual. -1 Corinthians 15:47 | The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. -1 Corinthians 15:48 | As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. -1 Corinthians 15:49 | As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly. -1 Corinthians 15:50 | Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. -1 Corinthians 15:51 | Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, -1 Corinthians 15:52 | in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. -1 Corinthians 15:53 | For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. -1 Corinthians 15:54 | But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." -1 Corinthians 15:55 | "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" -1 Corinthians 15:56 | The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. -1 Corinthians 15:57 | But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Corinthians 15:58 | Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. -1 Corinthians 16:01 | Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. -1 Corinthians 16:02 | On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come. -1 Corinthians 16:03 | When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem. -1 Corinthians 16:04 | If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. -1 Corinthians 16:05 | But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia. -1 Corinthians 16:06 | But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go. -1 Corinthians 16:07 | For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits. -1 Corinthians 16:08 | But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, -1 Corinthians 16:09 | for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. -1 Corinthians 16:10 | Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. -1 Corinthians 16:11 | Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers. -1 Corinthians 16:12 | Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. -1 Corinthians 16:13 | Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! -1 Corinthians 16:14 | Let all that you do be done in love. -1 Corinthians 16:15 | Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints— -1 Corinthians 16:16 | that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labours. -1 Corinthians 16:17 | I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. -1 Corinthians 16:18 | For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that. -1 Corinthians 16:19 | The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house. -1 Corinthians 16:20 | All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. -1 Corinthians 16:21 | This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand. -1 Corinthians 16:22 | If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord! -1 Corinthians 16:23 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. -1 Corinthians 16:24 | My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. -1 Corinthians 1:01 | Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, -1 Corinthians 1:02 | to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: -1 Corinthians 1:03 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Corinthians 1:04 | I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; -1 Corinthians 1:05 | that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; -1 Corinthians 1:06 | even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: -1 Corinthians 1:07 | so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; -1 Corinthians 1:08 | who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Corinthians 1:09 | God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. -1 Corinthians 1:10 | Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions amongst you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement. -1 Corinthians 1:11 | For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions amongst you. -1 Corinthians 1:12 | Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ." -1 Corinthians 1:13 | Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptised into the name of Paul? -1 Corinthians 1:14 | I thank God that I baptised none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, -1 Corinthians 1:15 | so that no one should say that I had baptised you into my own name. -1 Corinthians 1:16 | (I also baptised the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptised any other.) -1 Corinthians 1:17 | For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void. -1 Corinthians 1:18 | For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. -1 Corinthians 1:19 | For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." -1 Corinthians 1:20 | Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world? -1 Corinthians 1:21 | For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. -1 Corinthians 1:22 | For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, -1 Corinthians 1:23 | but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, -1 Corinthians 1:24 | but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God; -1 Corinthians 1:25 | because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -1 Corinthians 1:26 | For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; -1 Corinthians 1:27 | but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. -1 Corinthians 1:28 | God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, -1 Corinthians 1:29 | that no flesh should boast before God. -1 Corinthians 1:30 | Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: -1 Corinthians 1:31 | that, as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." -1 Corinthians 2:01 | When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. -1 Corinthians 2:02 | For I determined not to know anything amongst you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. -1 Corinthians 2:03 | I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. -1 Corinthians 2:04 | My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, -1 Corinthians 2:05 | that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. -1 Corinthians 2:06 | We speak wisdom, however, amongst those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. -1 Corinthians 2:07 | But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, -1 Corinthians 2:08 | which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. -1 Corinthians 2:09 | But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him." -1 Corinthians 2:10 | But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. -1 Corinthians 2:11 | For who amongst men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit. -1 Corinthians 2:12 | But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. -1 Corinthians 2:13 | We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. -1 Corinthians 2:14 | Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. -1 Corinthians 2:15 | But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. -1 Corinthians 2:16 | "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ’s mind. -1 Corinthians 3:01 | Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. -1 Corinthians 3:02 | I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, -1 Corinthians 3:03 | for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions amongst you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? -1 Corinthians 3:04 | For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren’t you fleshly? -1 Corinthians 3:05 | Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him? -1 Corinthians 3:06 | I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. -1 Corinthians 3:07 | So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. -1 Corinthians 3:08 | Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labour. -1 Corinthians 3:09 | For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building. -1 Corinthians 3:10 | According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. -1 Corinthians 3:11 | For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. -1 Corinthians 3:12 | But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble, -1 Corinthians 3:13 | each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. -1 Corinthians 3:14 | If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. -1 Corinthians 3:15 | If any man’s work is burnt, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. -1 Corinthians 3:16 | Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? -1 Corinthians 3:17 | If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are. -1 Corinthians 3:18 | Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise amongst you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. -1 Corinthians 3:19 | For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness." -1 Corinthians 3:20 | And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless." -1 Corinthians 3:21 | Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, -1 Corinthians 3:22 | whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, -1 Corinthians 3:23 | and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. -1 Corinthians 4:01 | So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. -1 Corinthians 4:02 | Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. -1 Corinthians 4:03 | But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgement. Yes, I don’t judge my own self. -1 Corinthians 4:04 | For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. -1 Corinthians 4:05 | Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God. -1 Corinthians 4:06 | Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. -1 Corinthians 4:07 | For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? -1 Corinthians 4:08 | You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. -1 Corinthians 4:09 | For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. -1 Corinthians 4:10 | We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honour, but we have dishonour. -1 Corinthians 4:11 | Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. -1 Corinthians 4:12 | We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. -1 Corinthians 4:13 | Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. -1 Corinthians 4:14 | I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. -1 Corinthians 4:15 | For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News. -1 Corinthians 4:16 | I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. -1 Corinthians 4:17 | Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly. -1 Corinthians 4:18 | Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. -1 Corinthians 4:19 | But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. -1 Corinthians 4:20 | For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power. -1 Corinthians 4:21 | What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? -1 Corinthians 5:01 | It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality amongst you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named amongst the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. -1 Corinthians 5:02 | You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from amongst you. -1 Corinthians 5:03 | For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. -1 Corinthians 5:04 | In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, -1 Corinthians 5:05 | are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. -1 Corinthians 5:06 | Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? -1 Corinthians 5:07 | Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. -1 Corinthians 5:08 | Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. -1 Corinthians 5:09 | I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; -1 Corinthians 5:10 | yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. -1 Corinthians 5:11 | But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. -1 Corinthians 5:12 | For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within? -1 Corinthians 5:13 | But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from amongst yourselves." -1 Corinthians 6:01 | Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? -1 Corinthians 6:02 | Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? -1 Corinthians 6:03 | Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? -1 Corinthians 6:04 | If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? -1 Corinthians 6:05 | I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man amongst you who would be able to decide between his brothers? -1 Corinthians 6:06 | But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! -1 Corinthians 6:07 | Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? -1 Corinthians 6:08 | No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers. -1 Corinthians 6:09 | Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, -1 Corinthians 6:10 | nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. -1 Corinthians 6:11 | Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. -1 Corinthians 6:12 | "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything. -1 Corinthians 6:13 | "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. -1 Corinthians 6:14 | Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. -1 Corinthians 6:15 | Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! -1 Corinthians 6:16 | Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two", he says, "will become one flesh." -1 Corinthians 6:17 | But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. -1 Corinthians 6:18 | Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. -1 Corinthians 6:19 | Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, -1 Corinthians 6:20 | for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. -1 Corinthians 7:01 | Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. -1 Corinthians 7:02 | But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. -1 Corinthians 7:03 | Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. -1 Corinthians 7:04 | The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife. -1 Corinthians 7:05 | Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control. -1 Corinthians 7:06 | But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. -1 Corinthians 7:07 | Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. -1 Corinthians 7:08 | But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. -1 Corinthians 7:09 | But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn. -1 Corinthians 7:10 | But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband -1 Corinthians 7:11 | (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. -1 Corinthians 7:12 | But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. -1 Corinthians 7:13 | The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. -1 Corinthians 7:14 | For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. -1 Corinthians 7:15 | Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. -1 Corinthians 7:16 | For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? -1 Corinthians 7:17 | Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. -1 Corinthians 7:18 | Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. -1 Corinthians 7:19 | Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. -1 Corinthians 7:20 | Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. -1 Corinthians 7:21 | Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. -1 Corinthians 7:22 | For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant. -1 Corinthians 7:23 | You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men. -1 Corinthians 7:24 | Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God. -1 Corinthians 7:25 | Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgement as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. -1 Corinthians 7:26 | Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is. -1 Corinthians 7:27 | Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. -1 Corinthians 7:28 | But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. -1 Corinthians 7:29 | But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; -1 Corinthians 7:30 | and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess; -1 Corinthians 7:31 | and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away. -1 Corinthians 7:32 | But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; -1 Corinthians 7:33 | but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. -1 Corinthians 7:34 | There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. -1 Corinthians 7:35 | This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction. -1 Corinthians 7:36 | But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately towards his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. -1 Corinthians 7:37 | But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well. -1 Corinthians 7:38 | So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better. -1 Corinthians 7:39 | A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. -1 Corinthians 7:40 | But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgement, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit. -1 Corinthians 8:01 | Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. -1 Corinthians 8:02 | But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know. -1 Corinthians 8:03 | But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. -1 Corinthians 8:04 | Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. -1 Corinthians 8:05 | For though there are things that are called "gods", whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords"; -1 Corinthians 8:06 | yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him. -1 Corinthians 8:07 | However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. -1 Corinthians 8:08 | But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. -1 Corinthians 8:09 | But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. -1 Corinthians 8:10 | For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? -1 Corinthians 8:11 | And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. -1 Corinthians 8:12 | Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. -1 Corinthians 8:13 | Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble. -1 Corinthians 9:01 | Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? -1 Corinthians 9:02 | If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. -1 Corinthians 9:04 | Have we no right to eat and to drink? -1 Corinthians 9:05 | Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? -1 Corinthians 9:06 | Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? -1 Corinthians 9:07 | What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk? -1 Corinthians 9:08 | Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing? -1 Corinthians 9:09 | For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares, -1 Corinthians 9:10 | or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. -1 Corinthians 9:11 | If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? -1 Corinthians 9:12 | If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ. -1 Corinthians 9:13 | Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? -1 Corinthians 9:14 | Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News. -1 Corinthians 9:15 | But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void. -1 Corinthians 9:16 | For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News. -1 Corinthians 9:17 | For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. -1 Corinthians 9:18 | What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News. -1 Corinthians 9:19 | For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. -1 Corinthians 9:20 | To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; -1 Corinthians 9:21 | to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law towards God, but under law towards Christ), that I might win those who are without law. -1 Corinthians 9:22 | To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. -1 Corinthians 9:23 | Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. -1 Corinthians 9:24 | Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. -1 Corinthians 9:25 | Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. -1 Corinthians 9:26 | I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, -1 Corinthians 9:27 | but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. -1 John 1:01 | That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life -1 John 1:02 | (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us); -1 John 1:03 | that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. -1 John 1:04 | And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled. -1 John 1:05 | This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. -1 John 1:06 | If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. -1 John 1:07 | But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. -1 John 1:08 | If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. -1 John 1:09 | If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. -1 John 1:10 | If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. -1 John 2:01 | My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counsellor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. -1 John 2:02 | And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. -1 John 2:03 | This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. -1 John 2:04 | One who says, "I know him," and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. -1 John 2:05 | But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: -1 John 2:06 | he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked. -1 John 2:07 | Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. -1 John 2:08 | Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines. -1 John 2:09 | He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now. -1 John 2:10 | He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. -1 John 2:11 | But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. -1 John 2:12 | I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. -1 John 2:13 | I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father. -1 John 2:14 | I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. -1 John 2:15 | Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. -1 John 2:16 | For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. -1 John 2:17 | The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever. -1 John 2:18 | Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour. -1 John 2:19 | They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us. -1 John 2:20 | You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. -1 John 2:21 | I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. -1 John 2:22 | Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. -1 John 2:23 | Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. -1 John 2:24 | Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father. -1 John 2:25 | This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. -1 John 2:26 | These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray. -1 John 2:27 | As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him. -1 John 2:28 | Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. -1 John 2:29 | If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. -1 John 3:01 | See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. -1 John 3:02 | Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. -1 John 3:03 | Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. -1 John 3:04 | Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. -1 John 3:05 | You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him. -1 John 3:06 | Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him. -1 John 3:07 | Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. -1 John 3:08 | He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil. -1 John 3:09 | Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. -1 John 3:10 | In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother. -1 John 3:11 | For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; -1 John 3:12 | unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous. -1 John 3:13 | Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. -1 John 3:14 | We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death. -1 John 3:15 | Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. -1 John 3:16 | By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. -1 John 3:17 | But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? -1 John 3:18 | My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. -1 John 3:19 | And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, -1 John 3:20 | because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. -1 John 3:21 | Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness towards God; -1 John 3:22 | so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. -1 John 3:23 | This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. -1 John 3:24 | He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us. -1 John 4:01 | Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. -1 John 4:02 | By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, -1 John 4:03 | and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already. -1 John 4:04 | You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. -1 John 4:05 | They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. -1 John 4:06 | We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. -1 John 4:07 | Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. -1 John 4:08 | He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. -1 John 4:09 | By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him. -1 John 4:10 | In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. -1 John 4:11 | Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. -1 John 4:12 | No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. -1 John 4:13 | By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. -1 John 4:14 | We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world. -1 John 4:15 | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. -1 John 4:16 | We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. -1 John 4:17 | In this, love has been made perfect amongst us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement, because as he is, even so we are in this world. -1 John 4:18 | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. -1 John 4:19 | We love him, because he first loved us. -1 John 4:20 | If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? -1 John 4:21 | This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. -1 John 5:01 | Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. -1 John 5:02 | By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. -1 John 5:03 | For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. -1 John 5:04 | For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. -1 John 5:05 | Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? -1 John 5:06 | This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. -1 John 5:07 | For there are three who testify: -1 John 5:08 | the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one. -1 John 5:09 | If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son. -1 John 5:10 | He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. -1 John 5:11 | The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. -1 John 5:12 | He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. -1 John 5:13 | These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. -1 John 5:14 | This is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. -1 John 5:15 | And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. -1 John 5:16 | If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this. -1 John 5:17 | All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. -1 John 5:18 | We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him. -1 John 5:19 | We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. -1 John 5:20 | We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. -1 John 5:21 | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. -1 Kings 10:01 | When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the Lord’s name, she came to test him with hard questions. -1 Kings 10:02 | She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart. -1 Kings 10:03 | Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her. -1 Kings 10:04 | When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, -1 Kings 10:05 | the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the Lord’s house; there was no more spirit in her. -1 Kings 10:06 | She said to the king, "It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. -1 Kings 10:07 | However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. -1 Kings 10:08 | Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom. -1 Kings 10:09 | Blessed is the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness." -1 Kings 10:10 | She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. -1 Kings 10:11 | The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones. -1 Kings 10:12 | The king made of the almug trees pillars for the Lord’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day. -1 Kings 10:13 | King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants. -1 Kings 10:14 | Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, -1 Kings 10:15 | in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country. -1 Kings 10:16 | King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler. -1 Kings 10:17 | he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. -1 Kings 10:18 | Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. -1 Kings 10:19 | There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. -1 Kings 10:20 | Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom. -1 Kings 10:21 | All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon. -1 Kings 10:22 | For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. -1 Kings 10:23 | So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. -1 Kings 10:24 | All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. -1 Kings 10:25 | Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armour, spices, horses, and mules. -1 Kings 10:26 | Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. -1 Kings 10:27 | The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. -1 Kings 10:28 | The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. -1 Kings 10:29 | A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria. -1 Kings 11:01 | Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; -1 Kings 11:02 | of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go amongst them, neither shall they come amongst you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon joined to these in love. -1 Kings 11:03 | He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away. -1 Kings 11:04 | When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father was. -1 Kings 11:05 | For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. -1 Kings 11:06 | Solomon did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and didn’t go fully after the Lord, as David his father did. -1 Kings 11:07 | Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. -1 Kings 11:08 | So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods. -1 Kings 11:09 | The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, -1 Kings 11:10 | and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which the Lord commanded. -1 Kings 11:11 | Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. -1 Kings 11:12 | Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand. -1 Kings 11:13 | However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen." -1 Kings 11:14 | The Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom. -1 Kings 11:15 | For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom -1 Kings 11:16 | (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom); -1 Kings 11:17 | Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child. -1 Kings 11:18 | They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land. -1 Kings 11:19 | Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. -1 Kings 11:20 | The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house amongst the sons of Pharaoh. -1 Kings 11:21 | When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country." -1 Kings 11:22 | Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?" He answered, "Nothing, however only let me depart." -1 Kings 11:23 | God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. -1 Kings 11:24 | He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus. -1 Kings 11:25 | He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria. -1 Kings 11:26 | Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king. -1 Kings 11:27 | This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city. -1 Kings 11:28 | The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labour of the house of Joseph. -1 Kings 11:29 | At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field. -1 Kings 11:30 | Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces. -1 Kings 11:31 | He said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces; for the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you -1 Kings 11:32 | (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel); -1 Kings 11:33 | because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did. -1 Kings 11:34 | "‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes; -1 Kings 11:35 | but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes. -1 Kings 11:36 | I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there. -1 Kings 11:37 | I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. -1 Kings 11:38 | It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. -1 Kings 11:39 | I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’" -1 Kings 11:40 | Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. -1 Kings 11:41 | Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon? -1 Kings 11:42 | The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. -1 Kings 11:43 | Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. -1 Kings 12:04 | "Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you." -1 Kings 12:05 | He said to them, "Depart for three days, then come back to me." So the people departed. -1 Kings 12:06 | King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to answer these people?" -1 Kings 12:07 | They replied, "If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever." -1 Kings 12:08 | But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. -1 Kings 12:09 | He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’" -1 Kings 12:10 | The young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. -1 Kings 12:11 | Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’" -1 Kings 12:12 | So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day." -1 Kings 12:13 | The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, -1 Kings 12:14 | and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." -1 Kings 12:15 | So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from the Lord, that he might establish his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. -1 Kings 12:16 | When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents. -1 Kings 12:17 | But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. -1 Kings 12:18 | Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labour; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. -1 Kings 12:19 | So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day. -1 Kings 12:20 | When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only. -1 Kings 12:21 | When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. -1 Kings 12:24 | ‘The Lord says, "You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me." So they listened to the Lord’s word, and returned and went their way, according to the Lord’s word. -1 Kings 12:25 | Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel. -1 Kings 12:26 | Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to David’s house. -1 Kings 12:27 | If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah." -1 Kings 12:28 | So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" -1 Kings 12:29 | He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. -1 Kings 12:30 | This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there. -1 Kings 12:31 | He made houses of high places, and made priests from amongst all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. -1 Kings 12:32 | Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. -1 Kings 12:33 | He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense. -1 Kings 13:01 | Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the Lord’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. -1 Kings 13:02 | He cried against the altar by the Lord’s word, and said, "Altar! Altar! the Lord says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’" -1 Kings 13:03 | He gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the Lord has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out." -1 Kings 13:04 | When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself. -1 Kings 13:05 | The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the Lord’s word. -1 Kings 13:06 | The king answered the man of God, "Now intercede for the favour of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again." The man of God interceded with the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before. -1 Kings 13:07 | The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." -1 Kings 13:08 | The man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; -1 Kings 13:09 | for so was it commanded me by the Lord’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’" -1 Kings 13:10 | So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel. -1 Kings 13:11 | Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king. -1 Kings 13:12 | Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah. -1 Kings 13:13 | He said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it. -1 Kings 13:14 | He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am." -1 Kings 13:15 | Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread." -1 Kings 13:16 | He said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place. -1 Kings 13:17 | For it was said to me by the Lord’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’" -1 Kings 13:18 | He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the Lord’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’" He lied to him. -1 Kings 13:19 | So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water. -1 Kings 13:20 | As they sat at the table, the Lord’s word came to the prophet who brought him back; -1 Kings 13:21 | and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "The Lord says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to the Lord’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you, -1 Kings 13:22 | but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water" your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’" -1 Kings 13:23 | After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. -1 Kings 13:24 | When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body. -1 Kings 13:25 | Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. -1 Kings 13:26 | When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the Lord’s mouth. Therefore the Lord has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke to him." -1 Kings 13:27 | He said to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me," and they saddled it. -1 Kings 13:28 | He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey. -1 Kings 13:29 | The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him. -1 Kings 13:30 | He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" -1 Kings 13:31 | After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. -1 Kings 13:32 | For the saying which he cried by the Lord’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen." -1 Kings 13:33 | After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from amongst all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. -1 Kings 13:34 | This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth. -1 Kings 14:01 | At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. -1 Kings 14:02 | Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognised as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people. -1 Kings 14:03 | Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child." -1 Kings 14:04 | Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. -1 Kings 14:05 | The Lord said to Ahijah, "Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to enquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman." -1 Kings 14:06 | So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news. -1 Kings 14:07 | Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘The Lord, the God of Israel, says: "Because I exalted you from amongst the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, -1 Kings 14:08 | and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, -1 Kings 14:09 | but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back; -1 Kings 14:10 | therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone. -1 Kings 14:11 | The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for the Lord has spoken it."’ -1 Kings 14:12 | Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die. -1 Kings 14:13 | All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. -1 Kings 14:14 | Moreover the Lord will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now. -1 Kings 14:15 | For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger. -1 Kings 14:16 | He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin." -1 Kings 14:22 | Judah did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. -1 Kings 14:23 | For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. -1 Kings 14:24 | There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord drove out before the children of Israel. -1 Kings 14:25 | In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, -1 Kings 14:26 | and he took away the treasures of the Lord’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made. -1 Kings 17:03 | "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. -1 Kings 17:04 | You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." -1 Kings 17:05 | So he went and did according to the Lord’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. -1 Kings 17:06 | The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. -1 Kings 17:07 | After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. -1 Kings 17:09 | "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you." -1 Kings 17:10 | So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink." -1 Kings 17:11 | As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." -1 Kings 17:12 | She said, "As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." -1 Kings 17:13 | Elijah said to her, "Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. -1 Kings 17:14 | For the Lord, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.’" -1 Kings 17:15 | She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days. -1 Kings 17:16 | The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke by Elijah. -1 Kings 17:17 | After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. -1 Kings 17:18 | She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!" -1 Kings 17:19 | He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. -1 Kings 17:20 | He cried to the Lord, and said, "LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?" -1 Kings 17:21 | He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said, "LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again." -1 Kings 17:22 | The Lord listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. -1 Kings 17:23 | Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives." -1 Kings 17:24 | The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the Lord’s word in your mouth is truth." -1 Kings 18:01 | After many days, the Lord’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth." -1 Kings 18:02 | Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. -1 Kings 18:03 | Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly; -1 Kings 18:04 | for when Jezebel cut off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) -1 Kings 18:05 | Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals." -1 Kings 18:06 | So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. -1 Kings 18:07 | As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognised him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?" -1 Kings 18:08 | He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’" -1 Kings 18:09 | He said, "How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? -1 Kings 18:10 | As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you. -1 Kings 18:11 | Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."’ -1 Kings 18:12 | It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the Lord’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord from my youth. -1 Kings 18:13 | Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the Lord’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of the Lord’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? -1 Kings 18:14 | Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here".’ He will kill me." -1 Kings 18:15 | Elijah said, "As the Lord of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today." -1 Kings 18:16 | So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. -1 Kings 18:17 | When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?" -1 Kings 18:18 | He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the Lord’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals. -1 Kings 18:19 | Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred and fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table." -1 Kings 18:20 | So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. -1 Kings 18:21 | Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people didn’t say a word. -1 Kings 18:22 | Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left as a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. -1 Kings 18:23 | Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. -1 Kings 18:24 | You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the Lord’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "What you say is good." -1 Kings 18:25 | Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it." -1 Kings 18:26 | They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, "Baal, hear us!" But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leapt about the altar which was made. -1 Kings 18:27 | At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened." -1 Kings 18:28 | They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. -1 Kings 18:29 | When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention. -1 Kings 18:30 | Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me!"; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the Lord’s altar that had been thrown down. -1 Kings 18:31 | Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord’s word came, saying, "Israel shall be your name." -1 Kings 18:32 | With the stones he built an altar in the Lord’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed. -1 Kings 18:33 | He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood." -1 Kings 18:34 | He said, "Do it a second time" and they did it the second time. He said, "Do it a third time" and they did it the third time. -1 Kings 18:35 | The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water. -1 Kings 18:36 | At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. -1 Kings 18:37 | Hear me, Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you, Lord, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again." -1 Kings 18:38 | Then the Lord’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. -1 Kings 18:39 | When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "The Lord, he is God! the Lord, he is God!" -1 Kings 18:40 | Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!" They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. -1 Kings 18:41 | Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain." -1 Kings 18:42 | So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. -1 Kings 18:43 | He said to his servant, "Go up now, and look towards the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times. -1 Kings 18:44 | On the seventh time, he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’" -1 Kings 18:45 | In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. -1 Kings 18:46 | The Lord’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. -1 Kings 19:01 | Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. -1 Kings 19:02 | Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!" -1 Kings 19:03 | When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. -1 Kings 19:04 | But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." -1 Kings 19:05 | He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat!" -1 Kings 19:06 | He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. -1 Kings 19:07 | The Lord’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." -1 Kings 19:08 | He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain. -1 Kings 19:09 | He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, the Lord’s word came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" -1 Kings 19:10 | He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." -1 Kings 19:11 | He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord." Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. -1 Kings 19:12 | After the earthquake a fire passed; but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice. -1 Kings 19:13 | When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" -1 Kings 19:14 | He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." -1 Kings 19:15 | The Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. -1 Kings 19:16 | Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place. -1 Kings 19:17 | He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. -1 Kings 19:18 | Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him." -1 Kings 19:19 | So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him. -1 Kings 19:20 | Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?" -1 Kings 19:21 | He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him. -1 Kings 1:01 | Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm. -1 Kings 1:02 | Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm." -1 Kings 1:03 | So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. -1 Kings 1:04 | The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately. -1 Kings 1:05 | Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. -1 Kings 1:06 | His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom. -1 Kings 1:07 | He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him. -1 Kings 1:08 | But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. -1 Kings 1:09 | Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants; -1 Kings 1:10 | but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother. -1 Kings 1:11 | Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it? -1 Kings 1:12 | Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life. -1 Kings 1:13 | Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, "Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?" Why then does Adonijah reign?’ -1 Kings 1:14 | Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words." -1 Kings 1:15 | Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king. -1 Kings 1:16 | Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, "What would you like?" -1 Kings 1:17 | She said to him, "My lord, you swore by the Lord your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’ -1 Kings 1:18 | Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it. -1 Kings 1:19 | He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant. -1 Kings 1:20 | You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. -1 Kings 1:21 | Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals." -1 Kings 1:22 | Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. -1 Kings 1:23 | They told the king, saying, "Behold, Nathan the prophet!" When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. -1 Kings 1:24 | Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’ -1 Kings 1:25 | For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’ -1 Kings 1:26 | But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon. -1 Kings 1:27 | Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?" -1 Kings 1:28 | Then king David answered, "Call Bathsheba in to me." She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king. -1 Kings 1:29 | The king swore, and said, "As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, -1 Kings 1:30 | most certainly as I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today." -1 Kings 1:31 | Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!" -1 Kings 1:32 | King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king. -1 Kings 1:33 | The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. -1 Kings 1:34 | Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’ -1 Kings 1:35 | Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah." -1 Kings 1:36 | Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "Amen. May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so. -1 Kings 1:37 | As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David." -1 Kings 1:38 | So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. -1 Kings 1:39 | Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live king Solomon!" -1 Kings 1:40 | All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound. -1 Kings 1:41 | Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?" -1 Kings 1:42 | While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, "Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news." -1 Kings 1:43 | Jonathan answered Adonijah, "Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king. -1 Kings 1:44 | The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule. -1 Kings 1:45 | Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard. -1 Kings 1:47 | Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed. -1 Kings 1:48 | Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’" -1 Kings 1:49 | All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way. -1 Kings 1:50 | Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar. -1 Kings 1:51 | Solomon was told, "Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’" -1 Kings 1:52 | Solomon said, "If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die." -1 Kings 1:53 | So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." -1 Kings 20:01 | Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. -1 Kings 20:03 | ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’" -1 Kings 20:04 | The king of Israel answered, "It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have." -1 Kings 20:05 | The messengers came again, and said, "Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, "You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; -1 Kings 20:06 | but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away." -1 Kings 20:07 | Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him." -1 Kings 20:08 | All the elders and all the people said to him, "Don’t listen, and don’t consent." -1 Kings 20:09 | Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, "Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’" The messengers departed, and brought him back the message. -1 Kings 20:10 | Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me." -1 Kings 20:11 | The king of Israel answered, "Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armour brag like he who takes it off.’" -1 Kings 20:12 | When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, "Prepare to attack!" So they prepared to attack the city. -1 Kings 20:13 | Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, "The Lord says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’" -1 Kings 20:14 | Ahab said, "By whom?" He said, "The Lord says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’" Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" He answered, "You." -1 Kings 20:15 | Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. -1 Kings 20:16 | They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him. -1 Kings 20:17 | The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out from Samaria." -1 Kings 20:18 | He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive." -1 Kings 20:19 | So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them. -1 Kings 20:20 | They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. -1 Kings 20:21 | The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. -1 Kings 20:22 | The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you." -1 Kings 20:23 | The servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they. -1 Kings 20:24 | Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place. -1 Kings 20:25 | Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are." He listened to their voice, and did so. -1 Kings 20:26 | At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. -1 Kings 20:27 | The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country. -1 Kings 20:28 | A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, "The Lord says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, "The Lord is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys" therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’" -1 Kings 20:29 | They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day. -1 Kings 20:30 | But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room. -1 Kings 20:31 | His servants said to him, "See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life." -1 Kings 20:32 | So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’" He said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother." -1 Kings 20:33 | Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, "Your brother Ben Hadad." Then he said, "Go, bring him." Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. -1 Kings 20:34 | Ben Hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." "I", said Ahab, "will let you go with this covenant." So he made a covenant with him, and let him go. -1 Kings 20:35 | A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the Lord’s word, "Please strike me!" The man refused to strike him. -1 Kings 20:36 | Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the Lord’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you." As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him. -1 Kings 20:37 | Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him and wounded him. -1 Kings 20:38 | So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. -1 Kings 20:39 | As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’ -1 Kings 20:40 | As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgement be. You yourself have decided it." -1 Kings 20:41 | He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognised that he was one of the prophets. -1 Kings 20:42 | He said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’" -1 Kings 20:43 | The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria. -1 Kings 21:01 | After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. -1 Kings 21:02 | Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money." -1 Kings 21:03 | Naboth said to Ahab, "May the Lord forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!" -1 Kings 21:04 | Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. -1 Kings 21:05 | But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?" -1 Kings 21:06 | He said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’" -1 Kings 21:07 | Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." -1 Kings 21:08 | So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. -1 Kings 21:09 | She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high amongst the people. -1 Kings 21:10 | Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death." -1 Kings 21:11 | The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them. -1 Kings 21:12 | They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high amongst the people. -1 Kings 21:13 | The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones. -1 Kings 21:14 | Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned, and is dead." -1 Kings 21:15 | When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead." -1 Kings 21:16 | When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. -1 Kings 21:18 | "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. -1 Kings 21:19 | You shall speak to him, saying, ‘The Lord says, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘The Lord says, "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours." -1 Kings 21:20 | Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the Lord’s sight. -1 Kings 21:21 | Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. -1 Kings 21:22 | I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin." -1 Kings 21:23 | The Lord also spoke of Jezebel, saying, "The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. -1 Kings 21:24 | The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field." -1 Kings 21:25 | But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. -1 Kings 21:26 | He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. -1 Kings 21:27 | When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. -1 Kings 21:29 | "See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day." -1 Kings 22:02 | In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. -1 Kings 22:03 | The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?" -1 Kings 22:04 | He said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?" Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." -1 Kings 22:05 | Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please enquire first for the Lord’s word." -1 Kings 22:06 | Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?" They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." -1 Kings 22:07 | But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there here a prophet of the Lord, that we may enquire of him?" -1 Kings 22:08 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don’t let the king say so." -1 Kings 22:09 | Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah." -1 Kings 22:10 | Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. -1 Kings 22:11 | Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, "The Lord says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’" -1 Kings 22:12 | All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." -1 Kings 22:13 | The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good." -1 Kings 22:14 | Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak." -1 Kings 22:15 | When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" He answered him, "Go up and prosper; and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." -1 Kings 22:16 | The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the Lord’s name?" -1 Kings 22:17 | He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. The Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’" -1 Kings 22:18 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" -1 Kings 22:19 | Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the Lord’s word. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. -1 Kings 22:20 | The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another. -1 Kings 22:21 | A spirit came out and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ -1 Kings 22:22 | The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’ -1 Kings 22:23 | Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you." -1 Kings 22:24 | Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Lord’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?" -1 Kings 22:25 | Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself." -1 Kings 22:26 | The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son. -1 Kings 22:27 | Say, ‘The king says, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." -1 Kings 22:28 | Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!" -1 Kings 22:29 | So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. -1 Kings 22:30 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes." The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. -1 Kings 22:31 | Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel." -1 Kings 22:32 | When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely that is the king of Israel!" and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out. -1 Kings 22:33 | When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. -1 Kings 22:34 | A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armour. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded." -1 Kings 22:35 | The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. -1 Kings 22:36 | A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!" -1 Kings 22:37 | So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. -1 Kings 22:38 | They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the Lord’s word which he spoke. -1 Kings 22:39 | Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? -1 Kings 22:40 | So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. -1 Kings 22:41 | Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. -1 Kings 22:42 | Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. -1 Kings 22:43 | He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in the Lord’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. -1 Kings 22:44 | Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. -1 Kings 22:45 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? -1 Kings 22:46 | The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. -1 Kings 22:47 | There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled. -1 Kings 22:48 | Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber. -1 Kings 22:49 | Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not. -1 Kings 22:50 | Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place. -1 Kings 22:51 | Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. -1 Kings 22:52 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin. -1 Kings 22:53 | He served Baal and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so. -1 Kings 2:02 | "I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; -1 Kings 2:03 | and keep the instruction of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. -1 Kings 2:04 | Then the Lord may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’ -1 Kings 2:05 | "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet. -1 Kings 2:06 | Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his grey head go down to Sheol in peace. -1 Kings 2:07 | But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be amongst those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother. -1 Kings 2:08 | "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’ -1 Kings 2:09 | Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his grey head down to Sheol with blood." -1 Kings 2:10 | David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city. -1 Kings 2:11 | The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. -1 Kings 2:12 | Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established. -1 Kings 2:14 | He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on." -1 Kings 2:15 | He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from the Lord. -1 Kings 2:16 | Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me." She said to him, "Say on." -1 Kings 2:17 | He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife." -1 Kings 2:20 | Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me." The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you." -1 Kings 2:21 | She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife." -1 Kings 2:22 | King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah." -1 Kings 2:23 | Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. -1 Kings 2:24 | Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today." -1 Kings 2:25 | King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died. -1 Kings 2:26 | To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord GOD’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted." -1 Kings 2:27 | So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfil the Lord’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. -1 Kings 2:28 | This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the Lord’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar. -1 Kings 2:29 | King Solomon was told, "Joab has fled to the Lord’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him." -1 Kings 2:30 | Benaiah came to the Lord’s Tent, and said to him, "The king says, ‘Come out!’" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me." -1 Kings 2:31 | The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house. -1 Kings 2:32 | The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. -1 Kings 2:33 | So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from the Lord." -1 Kings 2:34 | Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. -1 Kings 2:35 | The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar. -1 Kings 2:36 | The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else. -1 Kings 2:37 | For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head." -1 Kings 2:38 | Shimei said to the king, "What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. -1 Kings 2:39 | At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your slaves are in Gath." -1 Kings 2:40 | Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath. -1 Kings 2:41 | Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again. -1 Kings 2:42 | The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Didn’t I adjure you by the Lord, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’ -1 Kings 2:43 | Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?" -1 Kings 2:44 | The king said moreover to Shimei, "You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord will return your wickedness on your own head. -1 Kings 2:45 | But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the Lord forever." -1 Kings 2:46 | So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. -1 Kings 3:01 | Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, the Lord’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem. -1 Kings 3:02 | However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the Lord’s name. -1 Kings 3:03 | Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. -1 Kings 3:04 | The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. -1 Kings 3:05 | In Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask for what I should give you." -1 Kings 3:06 | Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. -1 Kings 3:07 | Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. -1 Kings 3:08 | Your servant is amongst your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. -1 Kings 3:09 | Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?" -1 Kings 3:10 | This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. -1 Kings 3:11 | God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; -1 Kings 3:12 | behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you. -1 Kings 3:13 | I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honour, so that there will not be any amongst the kings like you for all your days. -1 Kings 3:14 | If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days." -1 Kings 3:15 | Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. -1 Kings 3:16 | Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. -1 Kings 3:17 | The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. -1 Kings 3:18 | The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. -1 Kings 3:19 | This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. -1 Kings 3:20 | She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. -1 Kings 3:21 | When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore." -1 Kings 3:22 | The other woman said, "No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." The first one said, "No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." They argued like this before the king. -1 Kings 3:23 | Then the king said, "One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’" -1 Kings 3:24 | The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king. -1 Kings 3:25 | The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other." -1 Kings 3:26 | Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!" But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him." -1 Kings 3:27 | Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother." -1 Kings 3:28 | All Israel heard of the judgement which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice. -1 Kings 4:21 | Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. -1 Kings 4:24 | For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him. -1 Kings 4:25 | Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. -1 Kings 4:27 | Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking. -1 Kings 4:28 | They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty. -1 Kings 4:29 | God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. -1 Kings 4:30 | Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. -1 Kings 4:31 | For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around. -1 Kings 4:32 | He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand and five. -1 Kings 4:33 | He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. -1 Kings 4:34 | People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. -1 Kings 5:01 | Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David. -1 Kings 5:03 | "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the Lord put his enemies under the soles of his feet. -1 Kings 5:04 | But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence. -1 Kings 5:05 | Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’ -1 Kings 5:07 | When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed is the Lord today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people." -1 Kings 5:08 | Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber. -1 Kings 5:09 | My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household." -1 Kings 5:11 | Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. -1 Kings 5:12 | The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together. -1 Kings 6:01 | In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the Lord’s house. -1 Kings 6:12 | "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. -1 Kings 6:13 | I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel." -1 Kings 6:19 | He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of the Lord’s covenant there. -1 Kings 7:48 | Solomon made all the vessels that were in the Lord’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold; -1 Kings 7:51 | Thus all the work that king Solomon did in the Lord’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the Lord’s house. -1 Kings 8:01 | Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. -1 Kings 8:02 | All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. -1 Kings 8:03 | All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark. -1 Kings 8:04 | They brought up the Lord’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up. -1 Kings 8:05 | King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. -1 Kings 8:06 | The priests brought in the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings. -1 Kings 8:07 | For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. -1 Kings 8:08 | The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day. -1 Kings 8:09 | There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. -1 Kings 8:10 | It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the Lord’s house, -1 Kings 8:11 | so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the Lord’s glory filled the Lord’s house. -1 Kings 8:12 | Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. -1 Kings 8:13 | I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever." -1 Kings 8:14 | The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. -1 Kings 8:16 | ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ -1 Kings 8:17 | "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Kings 8:18 | But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. -1 Kings 8:19 | Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ -1 Kings 8:20 | The Lord has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Kings 8:21 | There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the Lord’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt." -1 Kings 8:22 | Solomon stood before the Lord’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven; -1 Kings 8:23 | and he said, "LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart; -1 Kings 8:24 | who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. -1 Kings 8:25 | Now therefore, may Lord, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ -1 Kings 8:26 | "Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. -1 Kings 8:27 | But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built! -1 Kings 8:28 | Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today; -1 Kings 8:29 | that your eyes may be open towards this house night and day, even towards the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays towards this place. -1 Kings 8:30 | Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray towards this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. -1 Kings 8:31 | "If a man sins against his neighbour, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house; -1 Kings 8:32 | then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. -1 Kings 8:33 | "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house; -1 Kings 8:34 | then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. -1 Kings 8:35 | "When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray towards this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, -1 Kings 8:36 | then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. -1 Kings 8:37 | "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; -1 Kings 8:38 | whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands towards this house, -1 Kings 8:39 | then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men); -1 Kings 8:40 | that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. -1 Kings 8:41 | "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake -1 Kings 8:42 | (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays towards this house; -1 Kings 8:43 | hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. -1 Kings 8:44 | "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord towards the city which you have chosen, and towards the house which I have built for your name; -1 Kings 8:45 | then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. -1 Kings 8:46 | If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; -1 Kings 8:47 | yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’ -1 Kings 8:48 | if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you towards their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; -1 Kings 8:49 | then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; -1 Kings 8:50 | and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them -1 Kings 8:51 | (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace); -1 Kings 8:52 | that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. -1 Kings 8:53 | For you separated them from amongst all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD." -1 Kings 8:54 | It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out towards heaven. -1 Kings 8:56 | "Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. -1 Kings 8:57 | May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us; -1 Kings 8:58 | that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. -1 Kings 8:59 | Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires; -1 Kings 8:60 | that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord himself is God. There is no one else. -1 Kings 8:61 | "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today." -1 Kings 8:62 | The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord. -1 Kings 8:63 | Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the Lord’s house. -1 Kings 8:64 | The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the Lord’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. -1 Kings 8:65 | So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days. -1 Kings 8:66 | On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people. -1 Kings 9:01 | When Solomon had finished the building of the Lord’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, -1 Kings 9:02 | The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. -1 Kings 9:03 | The Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. -1 Kings 9:04 | As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; -1 Kings 9:05 | then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ -1 Kings 9:06 | But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; -1 Kings 9:07 | then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples. -1 Kings 9:08 | Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’ -1 Kings 9:09 | and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshipped them, and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this evil on them.’" -1 Kings 9:10 | At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house -1 Kings 9:11 | (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. -1 Kings 9:12 | Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him. -1 Kings 9:13 | He said, "What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" He called them the land of Cabul to this day. -1 Kings 9:15 | This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the Lord’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. -1 Kings 9:16 | Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burnt it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. -1 Kings 9:19 | all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. -1 Kings 9:21 | their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. -1 Kings 9:24 | But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo. -1 Kings 9:25 | Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house. -1 Kings 9:26 | King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. -1 Kings 9:27 | Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. -1 Kings 9:28 | They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. -1 Peter 1:02 | according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. -1 Peter 1:03 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, -1 Peter 1:04 | to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, -1 Peter 1:05 | who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. -1 Peter 1:06 | Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials, -1 Peter 1:07 | that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ— -1 Peter 1:08 | whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, -1 Peter 1:09 | receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. -1 Peter 1:10 | Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you, -1 Peter 1:11 | searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. -1 Peter 1:12 | To them it was revealed, that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into. -1 Peter 1:13 | Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— -1 Peter 1:14 | as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, -1 Peter 1:15 | but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behaviour; -1 Peter 1:17 | If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, -1 Peter 1:18 | knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, -1 Peter 1:19 | but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, -1 Peter 1:20 | who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake, -1 Peter 1:21 | who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God. -1 Peter 1:22 | Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently, -1 Peter 1:23 | having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. -1 Peter 1:24 | For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; -1 Peter 1:25 | but the Lord’s word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you. -1 Peter 2:01 | Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, -1 Peter 2:02 | as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, -1 Peter 2:03 | if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: -1 Peter 2:04 | coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. -1 Peter 2:05 | You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. -1 Peter 2:06 | Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed." -1 Peter 2:07 | For you who believe therefore is the honour, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone," -1 Peter 2:08 | and, "a stumbling stone and a rock of offence." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. -1 Peter 2:09 | But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. -1 Peter 2:10 | In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. -1 Peter 2:11 | Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; -1 Peter 2:12 | having good behaviour amongst the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation. -1 Peter 2:13 | Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; -1 Peter 2:14 | or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well. -1 Peter 2:15 | For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: -1 Peter 2:16 | as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. -1 Peter 2:17 | Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. -1 Peter 2:18 | Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. -1 Peter 2:19 | For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience towards God. -1 Peter 2:20 | For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God. -1 Peter 2:21 | For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, -1 Peter 2:22 | who didn’t sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." -1 Peter 2:23 | When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously. -1 Peter 2:24 | He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds. -1 Peter 2:25 | For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. -1 Peter 3:01 | In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behaviour of their wives without a word, -1 Peter 3:02 | seeing your pure behaviour in fear. -1 Peter 3:03 | Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; -1 Peter 3:04 | but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. -1 Peter 3:05 | For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands. -1 Peter 3:06 | So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. -1 Peter 3:07 | You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. -1 Peter 3:08 | Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, -1 Peter 3:09 | not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. -1 Peter 3:10 | For, "He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. -1 Peter 3:11 | Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. -1 Peter 3:12 | For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." -1 Peter 3:13 | Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good? -1 Peter 3:14 | But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. "Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled." -1 Peter 3:15 | But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear, -1 Peter 3:16 | having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ. -1 Peter 3:17 | For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. -1 Peter 3:18 | Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, -1 Peter 3:19 | in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, -1 Peter 3:20 | who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. -1 Peter 3:21 | This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, -1 Peter 3:22 | who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him. -1 Peter 4:01 | Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, -1 Peter 4:02 | that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. -1 Peter 4:03 | For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. -1 Peter 4:04 | They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming. -1 Peter 4:05 | They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. -1 Peter 4:06 | For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit. -1 Peter 4:07 | But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. -1 Peter 4:08 | And above all things be earnest in your love amongst yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. -1 Peter 4:09 | Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. -1 Peter 4:10 | As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. -1 Peter 4:11 | If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. -1 Peter 4:12 | Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. -1 Peter 4:13 | But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. -1 Peter 4:14 | If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. -1 Peter 4:15 | For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters. -1 Peter 4:16 | But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. -1 Peter 4:17 | For the time has come for judgement to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God? -1 Peter 4:18 | "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?" -1 Peter 4:19 | Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator. -1 Peter 5:01 | Therefore I exhort the elders amongst you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed: -1 Peter 5:02 | Shepherd the flock of God which is amongst you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; -1 Peter 5:03 | not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock. -1 Peter 5:04 | When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away. -1 Peter 5:05 | Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." -1 Peter 5:06 | Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, -1 Peter 5:07 | casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. -1 Peter 5:08 | Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. -1 Peter 5:09 | Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. -1 Peter 5:10 | But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. -1 Peter 5:11 | To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. -1 Peter 5:12 | Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. -1 Peter 5:13 | She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son. -1 Peter 5:14 | Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen. -1 Samuel 10:01 | Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on his head, then kissed him and said, "Hasn’t the Lord anointed you to be prince over his inheritance? -1 Samuel 10:02 | When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do for my son?"’ -1 Samuel 10:03 | "Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel: one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine. -1 Samuel 10:04 | They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand. -1 Samuel 10:05 | "After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying. -1 Samuel 10:06 | Then the Lord’s Spirit will come mightily on you, then you will prophesy with them and will be turned into another man. -1 Samuel 10:07 | Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you. -1 Samuel 10:08 | "Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you and show you what you are to do." -1 Samuel 10:09 | It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day. -1 Samuel 10:10 | When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied amongst them. -1 Samuel 10:11 | When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, "What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also amongst the prophets?" -1 Samuel 10:12 | One from the same place answered, "Who is their father?" Therefore it became a proverb, "Is Saul also amongst the prophets?" -1 Samuel 10:13 | When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place. -1 Samuel 10:14 | Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" He said, "To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel." -1 Samuel 10:15 | Saul’s uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you." -1 Samuel 10:16 | Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys were found." But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him. -1 Samuel 10:17 | Samuel called the people together to the Lord to Mizpah; -1 Samuel 10:18 | and he said to the children of Israel, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’ -1 Samuel 10:19 | But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands." -1 Samuel 10:20 | So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen. -1 Samuel 10:21 | He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found. -1 Samuel 10:22 | Therefore they asked of the Lord further, "Is there yet a man to come here?" The Lord answered, "Behold, he has hidden himself amongst the baggage." -1 Samuel 10:23 | They ran and got him there. When he stood amongst the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. -1 Samuel 10:24 | Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him amongst all the people?" All the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!" -1 Samuel 10:25 | Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. -1 Samuel 10:26 | Saul also went to his house in Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched. -1 Samuel 10:27 | But certain worthless fellows said, "How could this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace. -1 Samuel 11:01 | Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you." -1 Samuel 11:02 | Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonour all Israel." -1 Samuel 11:03 | The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you." -1 Samuel 11:04 | Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept. -1 Samuel 11:05 | Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh. -1 Samuel 11:06 | God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burnt hot. -1 Samuel 11:07 | He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." The dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out as one man. -1 Samuel 11:08 | He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. -1 Samuel 11:09 | They said to the messengers who came, "Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’" The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. -1 Samuel 11:10 | Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you." -1 Samuel 11:11 | On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together. -1 Samuel 11:12 | The people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!" -1 Samuel 11:13 | Saul said, "No man shall be put to death today; for today the Lord has rescued Israel." -1 Samuel 11:14 | Then Samuel said to the people, "Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there." -1 Samuel 11:15 | All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. -1 Samuel 12:01 | Samuel said to all Israel, "Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. -1 Samuel 12:02 | Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and grey-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day. -1 Samuel 12:03 | Here I am. Witness against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you." -1 Samuel 12:04 | They said, "You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand." -1 Samuel 12:05 | He said to them, "The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand." They said, "He is witness." -1 Samuel 12:06 | Samuel said to the people, "It is the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. -1 Samuel 12:07 | Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers. -1 Samuel 12:08 | "When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place. -1 Samuel 12:09 | But they forgot the Lord their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them. -1 Samuel 12:10 | They cried to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ -1 Samuel 12:11 | The Lord sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety. -1 Samuel 12:12 | "When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king. -1 Samuel 12:13 | Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen and whom you have asked for. Behold, the Lord has set a king over you. -1 Samuel 12:14 | If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of the Lord your God. -1 Samuel 12:15 | But if you will not listen to the Lord’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the Lord’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers. -1 Samuel 12:16 | "Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. -1 Samuel 12:17 | Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the Lord’s sight, in asking for a king." -1 Samuel 12:18 | So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. -1 Samuel 12:19 | All the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king." -1 Samuel 12:20 | Samuel said to the people, "Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. -1 Samuel 12:21 | Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain. -1 Samuel 12:22 | For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself. -1 Samuel 12:23 | Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. -1 Samuel 12:24 | Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you. -1 Samuel 12:25 | But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king." -1 Samuel 13:01 | Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years. -1 Samuel 13:02 | Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents. -1 Samuel 13:03 | Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear!" -1 Samuel 13:04 | All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal. -1 Samuel 13:05 | The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. -1 Samuel 13:06 | When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits. -1 Samuel 13:07 | Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. -1 Samuel 13:08 | He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. -1 Samuel 13:09 | Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings." He offered the burnt offering. -1 Samuel 13:10 | It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. -1 Samuel 13:11 | Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash, -1 Samuel 13:12 | therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favour of the Lord.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering." -1 Samuel 13:13 | Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you; for now the Lord would have established your kingdom on Israel forever. -1 Samuel 13:14 | But now your kingdom will not continue. The Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and the Lord has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which the Lord commanded you." -1 Samuel 13:15 | Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. -1 Samuel 13:16 | Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. -1 Samuel 13:17 | The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; -1 Samuel 13:18 | another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim towards the wilderness. -1 Samuel 13:19 | Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears"; -1 Samuel 13:20 | but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own ploughshare, mattock, axe, and sickle. -1 Samuel 13:21 | The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, ploughshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads. -1 Samuel 13:22 | So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them. -1 Samuel 13:23 | The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. -1 Samuel 14:01 | Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armour, "Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side." But he didn’t tell his father. -1 Samuel 14:02 | Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men, -1 Samuel 14:03 | including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone. -1 Samuel 14:04 | Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. -1 Samuel 14:05 | The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. -1 Samuel 14:06 | Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armour, "Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for there is no restraint on the Lord to save by many or by few." -1 Samuel 14:07 | His armour bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according to your heart." -1 Samuel 14:08 | Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them. -1 Samuel 14:09 | If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. -1 Samuel 14:10 | But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up, for the Lord has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us." -1 Samuel 14:11 | Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, "Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!" -1 Samuel 14:12 | The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armour bearer, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you something!" Jonathan said to his armour bearer, "Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel." -1 Samuel 14:13 | Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armour bearer after him, and they fell before Jonathan; and his armour bearer killed them after him. -1 Samuel 14:14 | That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land. -1 Samuel 14:15 | There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and amongst all the people; the garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling. -1 Samuel 14:16 | The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered. -1 Samuel 14:17 | Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count now, and see who is missing from us." When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armour bearer were not there. -1 Samuel 14:18 | Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring God’s ark here." For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time. -1 Samuel 14:19 | While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!" -1 Samuel 14:20 | Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in very great confusion. -1 Samuel 14:21 | Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before and who went up with them into the camp from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. -1 Samuel 14:22 | Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. -1 Samuel 14:23 | So the Lord saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven. -1 Samuel 14:24 | The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food. -1 Samuel 14:25 | All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground. -1 Samuel 14:26 | When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. -1 Samuel 14:27 | But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened. -1 Samuel 14:28 | Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’" So the people were faint. -1 Samuel 14:29 | Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. -1 Samuel 14:30 | How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter amongst the Philistines." -1 Samuel 14:31 | They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint; -1 Samuel 14:32 | and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. -1 Samuel 14:33 | Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!" -1 Samuel 14:34 | Saul said, "Disperse yourselves amongst the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against the Lord in eating meat with the blood.’" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there. -1 Samuel 14:35 | Saul built an altar to the Lord. This was the first altar that he built to the Lord. -1 Samuel 14:36 | Saul said, "Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder amongst them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let’s draw near here to God." -1 Samuel 14:37 | Saul asked counsel of God: "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn’t answer him that day. -1 Samuel 14:38 | Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today. -1 Samuel 14:39 | For as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man amongst all the people who answered him. -1 Samuel 14:40 | Then he said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." The people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you." -1 Samuel 14:41 | Therefore Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, "Show the right." Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped. -1 Samuel 14:42 | Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Jonathan was selected. -1 Samuel 14:43 | Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die." -1 Samuel 14:44 | Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan." -1 Samuel 14:45 | The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today!" So the people rescued Jonathan, so he didn’t die. -1 Samuel 14:46 | Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place. -1 Samuel 14:47 | Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them. -1 Samuel 14:48 | He did valiantly and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. -1 Samuel 14:49 | Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. -1 Samuel 14:50 | The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. -1 Samuel 14:51 | Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. -1 Samuel 14:52 | There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he took him into his service. -1 Samuel 15:01 | Samuel said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the Lord’s words. -1 Samuel 15:02 | The Lord of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt. -1 Samuel 15:03 | Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’" -1 Samuel 15:04 | Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah. -1 Samuel 15:05 | Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley. -1 Samuel 15:06 | Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from amongst the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from amongst the Amalekites. -1 Samuel 15:07 | Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt. -1 Samuel 15:08 | He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. -1 Samuel 15:09 | But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. -1 Samuel 15:11 | "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night. -1 Samuel 15:12 | Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal." -1 Samuel 15:13 | Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the Lord." -1 Samuel 15:14 | Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?" -1 Samuel 15:15 | Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to the Lord your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest." -1 Samuel 15:16 | Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on." -1 Samuel 15:17 | Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel; -1 Samuel 15:18 | and the Lord sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ -1 Samuel 15:19 | Why then didn’t you obey the Lord’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight?" -1 Samuel 15:20 | Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the Lord’s voice, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. -1 Samuel 15:21 | But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal." -1 Samuel 15:22 | Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the Lord’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. -1 Samuel 15:23 | For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the Lord’s word, he has also rejected you from being king." -1 Samuel 15:24 | Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. -1 Samuel 15:25 | Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord." -1 Samuel 15:26 | Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the Lord’s word, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel." -1 Samuel 15:27 | As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore. -1 Samuel 15:28 | Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you. -1 Samuel 15:29 | Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent." -1 Samuel 15:30 | Then he said, "I have sinned; yet please honour me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God." -1 Samuel 15:31 | So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshipped the Lord. -1 Samuel 15:32 | Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!" Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." -1 Samuel 15:33 | Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless amongst women!" Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal. -1 Samuel 15:34 | Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. -1 Samuel 15:35 | Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. The Lord grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel. -1 Samuel 16:01 | The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself amongst his sons." -1 Samuel 16:02 | Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." The Lord said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. -1 Samuel 16:03 | Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you." -1 Samuel 16:04 | Samuel did that which the Lord spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?" -1 Samuel 16:05 | He said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. -1 Samuel 16:06 | When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, "Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him." -1 Samuel 16:07 | But the Lord said to Samuel, "Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." -1 Samuel 16:08 | Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, "The Lord has not chosen this one, either." -1 Samuel 16:09 | Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, "The Lord has not chosen this one, either." -1 Samuel 16:10 | Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these." -1 Samuel 16:11 | Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?" He said, "There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here." -1 Samuel 16:12 | He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. The Lord said, "Arise! Anoint him, for this is he." -1 Samuel 16:13 | Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then the Lord’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. -1 Samuel 16:14 | Now the Lord’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. -1 Samuel 16:15 | Saul’s servants said to him, "See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you. -1 Samuel 16:16 | Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skilful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well." -1 Samuel 16:17 | Saul said to his servants, "Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me." -1 Samuel 16:18 | Then one of the young men answered and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skilful in playing, a mighty man of valour, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and the Lord is with him." -1 Samuel 16:19 | Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep." -1 Samuel 16:20 | Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul. -1 Samuel 16:21 | David came to Saul and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armour bearer. -1 Samuel 16:22 | Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me, for he has found favour in my sight." -1 Samuel 16:23 | When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. -1 Samuel 17:01 | Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephesdammim. -1 Samuel 17:02 | Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. -1 Samuel 17:03 | The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. -1 Samuel 17:04 | A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out. -1 Samuel 17:05 | He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. -1 Samuel 17:06 | He had bronze shin armour on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. -1 Samuel 17:07 | The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him. -1 Samuel 17:08 | He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. -1 Samuel 17:09 | If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us." -1 Samuel 17:10 | The Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!" -1 Samuel 17:11 | When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. -1 Samuel 17:12 | Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul. -1 Samuel 17:13 | The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. -1 Samuel 17:14 | David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul. -1 Samuel 17:15 | Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. -1 Samuel 17:16 | The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. -1 Samuel 17:17 | Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers; -1 Samuel 17:19 | Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. -1 Samuel 17:20 | David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle. -1 Samuel 17:21 | Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army. -1 Samuel 17:22 | David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. -1 Samuel 17:23 | As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them. -1 Samuel 17:24 | All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were terrified. -1 Samuel 17:25 | The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel." -1 Samuel 17:26 | David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" -1 Samuel 17:27 | The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him." -1 Samuel 17:28 | Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burnt against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle." -1 Samuel 17:29 | David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?" -1 Samuel 17:30 | He turned away from him towards another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way. -1 Samuel 17:32 | David said to Saul, "Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." -1 Samuel 17:33 | Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." -1 Samuel 17:34 | David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, -1 Samuel 17:35 | I went out after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, struck him, and killed him. -1 Samuel 17:36 | Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God." -1 Samuel 17:37 | David said, "The Lord, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go! The Lord will be with you." -1 Samuel 17:38 | Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. -1 Samuel 17:39 | David strapped his sword on his clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, "I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them." Then David took them off. -1 Samuel 17:40 | He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine. -1 Samuel 17:41 | The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him. -1 Samuel 17:42 | When the Philistine looked around and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face. -1 Samuel 17:43 | The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" The Philistine cursed David by his gods. -1 Samuel 17:44 | The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and to the animals of the field." -1 Samuel 17:45 | Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. -1 Samuel 17:46 | Today, the Lord will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the wild animals of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, -1 Samuel 17:47 | and that all this assembly may know that the Lord doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hand." -1 Samuel 17:48 | When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine. -1 Samuel 17:49 | David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. -1 Samuel 17:50 | So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword David’s hand. -1 Samuel 17:51 | Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. -1 Samuel 17:52 | The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron. -1 Samuel 17:53 | The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp. -1 Samuel 17:54 | David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armour in his tent. -1 Samuel 17:55 | When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell." -1 Samuel 17:56 | The king said, "Enquire whose son the young man is!" -1 Samuel 17:57 | As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. -1 Samuel 17:58 | Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." -1 Samuel 18:01 | When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. -1 Samuel 18:02 | Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. -1 Samuel 18:03 | Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. -1 Samuel 18:04 | Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash. -1 Samuel 18:05 | David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. -1 Samuel 18:06 | As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. -1 Samuel 18:07 | The women sang to one another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." -1 Samuel 18:08 | Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, "They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?" -1 Samuel 18:09 | Saul watched David from that day and forward. -1 Samuel 18:10 | On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; -1 Samuel 18:11 | and Saul threw the spear, for he said, "I will pin David to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice. -1 Samuel 18:12 | Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and had departed from Saul. -1 Samuel 18:13 | Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. -1 Samuel 18:14 | David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him. -1 Samuel 18:15 | When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. -1 Samuel 18:16 | But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. -1 Samuel 18:17 | Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles." For Saul said, "Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him." -1 Samuel 18:18 | David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" -1 Samuel 18:19 | But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. -1 Samuel 18:20 | Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. -1 Samuel 18:21 | Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall today be my son-in-law." -1 Samuel 18:22 | Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’" -1 Samuel 18:23 | Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and little known?" -1 Samuel 18:24 | The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this." -1 Samuel 18:25 | Saul said, "Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’" Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. -1 Samuel 18:26 | When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline, -1 Samuel 18:27 | David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. -1 Samuel 18:28 | Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him. -1 Samuel 18:29 | Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually. -1 Samuel 18:30 | Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. -1 Samuel 19:01 | Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. -1 Samuel 19:02 | Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself. -1 Samuel 19:03 | I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you." -1 Samuel 19:04 | Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good towards you; -1 Samuel 19:05 | for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?" -1 Samuel 19:06 | Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, "As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death." -1 Samuel 19:07 | Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before. -1 Samuel 19:08 | There was war again. David went out and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. -1 Samuel 19:09 | An evil spirit from the Lord was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand. -1 Samuel 19:10 | Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night. -1 Samuel 19:11 | Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, "If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." -1 Samuel 19:12 | So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. -1 Samuel 19:13 | Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes. -1 Samuel 19:14 | When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." -1 Samuel 19:15 | Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." -1 Samuel 19:16 | When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. -1 Samuel 19:17 | Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’" -1 Samuel 19:18 | Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. -1 Samuel 19:19 | Saul was told, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah." -1 Samuel 19:20 | Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied. -1 Samuel 19:21 | When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. -1 Samuel 19:22 | Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" One said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." -1 Samuel 19:23 | He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. -1 Samuel 19:24 | He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also amongst the prophets?" -1 Samuel 1:03 | This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the Lord, were there. -1 Samuel 1:04 | When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters; -1 Samuel 1:05 | but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up her womb. -1 Samuel 1:06 | Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had shut up her womb. -1 Samuel 1:07 | So year by year, when she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat. -1 Samuel 1:08 | Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?" -1 Samuel 1:09 | So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple. -1 Samuel 1:10 | She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly. -1 Samuel 1:11 | She vowed a vow, and said, "The Lord of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head." -1 Samuel 1:12 | As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli saw her mouth. -1 Samuel 1:13 | Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. -1 Samuel 1:14 | Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!" -1 Samuel 1:15 | Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the Lord. -1 Samuel 1:16 | Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation." -1 Samuel 1:17 | Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him." -1 Samuel 1:18 | She said, "Let your servant find favour in your sight." So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more. -1 Samuel 1:19 | They rose up in the morning early and worshipped the Lord, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her. -1 Samuel 1:20 | When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked him of the Lord." -1 Samuel 1:21 | The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and his vow. -1 Samuel 1:22 | But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and stay there forever." -1 Samuel 1:23 | Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the Lord establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him. -1 Samuel 1:24 | When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to the Lord’s house in Shiloh. The child was young. -1 Samuel 1:25 | They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. -1 Samuel 1:26 | She said, "Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the Lord. -1 Samuel 1:27 | I prayed for this child, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of him. -1 Samuel 1:28 | Therefore I have also given him to the Lord. As long as he lives he is given to the Lord." He worshipped the Lord there. -1 Samuel 20:01 | David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" -1 Samuel 20:02 | He said to him, "Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so." -1 Samuel 20:03 | David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favour in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death." -1 Samuel 20:04 | Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you." -1 Samuel 20:05 | David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. -1 Samuel 20:06 | If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’ -1 Samuel 20:07 | If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him. -1 Samuel 20:08 | Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?" -1 Samuel 20:09 | Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?" -1 Samuel 20:10 | Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?" -1 Samuel 20:11 | Jonathan said to David, "Come! Let’s go out into the field." They both went out into the field. -1 Samuel 20:12 | Jonathan said to David, "By the Lord, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good towards David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you? -1 Samuel 20:13 | The Lord do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father. -1 Samuel 20:14 | You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the Lord while I still live, that I not die; -1 Samuel 20:15 | but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth." -1 Samuel 20:16 | So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, "The Lord will require it at the hand of David’s enemies." -1 Samuel 20:17 | Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. -1 Samuel 20:18 | Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. -1 Samuel 20:19 | When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel. -1 Samuel 20:20 | I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark. -1 Samuel 20:21 | Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come, for there is peace to you and no danger, as the Lord lives. -1 Samuel 20:22 | But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for the Lord has sent you away. -1 Samuel 20:23 | Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever." -1 Samuel 20:24 | So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food. -1 Samuel 20:25 | The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty. -1 Samuel 20:26 | Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean." -1 Samuel 20:27 | On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?" -1 Samuel 20:28 | Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. -1 Samuel 20:29 | He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favour in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table." -1 Samuel 20:30 | Then Saul’s anger burnt against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? -1 Samuel 20:31 | For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!" -1 Samuel 20:32 | Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" -1 Samuel 20:33 | Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. -1 Samuel 20:34 | So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully. -1 Samuel 20:35 | In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. -1 Samuel 20:36 | He said to his boy, "Run, find now the arrows which I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. -1 Samuel 20:37 | When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, "Isn’t the arrow beyond you?" -1 Samuel 20:38 | Jonathan cried after the boy, "Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!" Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. -1 Samuel 20:39 | But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. -1 Samuel 20:40 | Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, "Go, carry them to the city." -1 Samuel 20:41 | As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most. -1 Samuel 20:42 | Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the Lord’s name, saying, ‘The Lord is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city. -1 Samuel 21:01 | Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?" -1 Samuel 21:02 | David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’ -1 Samuel 21:03 | Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available." -1 Samuel 21:04 | The priest answered David, and said, "I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." -1 Samuel 21:05 | David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?" -1 Samuel 21:06 | So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the Lord, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away. -1 Samuel 21:07 | Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul. -1 Samuel 21:08 | David said to Ahimelech, "Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste." -1 Samuel 21:09 | The priest said, "Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me." -1 Samuel 21:10 | David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. -1 Samuel 21:11 | The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’" -1 Samuel 21:12 | David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. -1 Samuel 21:13 | He changed his behaviour before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard. -1 Samuel 21:14 | Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me? -1 Samuel 21:15 | Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?" -1 Samuel 22:01 | David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. -1 Samuel 22:02 | Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men. -1 Samuel 22:03 | David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out to you, until I know what God will do for me." -1 Samuel 22:04 | He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. -1 Samuel 22:05 | The prophet Gad said to David, "Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth. -1 Samuel 22:06 | Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. -1 Samuel 22:07 | Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds? -1 Samuel 22:08 | Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?" -1 Samuel 22:09 | Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. -1 Samuel 22:10 | He enquired of the Lord for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." -1 Samuel 22:11 | Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king. -1 Samuel 22:12 | Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord." -1 Samuel 22:13 | Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?" -1 Samuel 22:14 | Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who amongst all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honoured in your house? -1 Samuel 22:15 | Have I today begun to enquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more." -1 Samuel 22:16 | The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house." -1 Samuel 22:17 | The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the Lord. -1 Samuel 22:18 | The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. -1 Samuel 22:19 | He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. -1 Samuel 22:20 | One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. -1 Samuel 22:21 | Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests. -1 Samuel 22:22 | David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house. -1 Samuel 22:23 | Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. You will be safe with me." -1 Samuel 23:01 | David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors." -1 Samuel 23:02 | Therefore David enquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" The Lord said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah." -1 Samuel 23:03 | David’s men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?" -1 Samuel 23:04 | Then David enquired of the Lord yet again. The Lord answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand." -1 Samuel 23:05 | David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. -1 Samuel 23:06 | When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand. -1 Samuel 23:07 | Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars." -1 Samuel 23:08 | Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men. -1 Samuel 23:09 | David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." -1 Samuel 23:10 | Then David said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. -1 Samuel 23:11 | Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Lord, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." The Lord said, "He will come down." -1 Samuel 23:12 | Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" The Lord said, "They will deliver you up." -1 Samuel 23:13 | Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there. -1 Samuel 23:14 | David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand. -1 Samuel 23:15 | David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods. -1 Samuel 23:16 | Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God. -1 Samuel 23:17 | He said to him, "Don’t be afraid, for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also." -1 Samuel 23:18 | They both made a covenant before the Lord. Then David stayed in the woods and Jonathan went to his house. -1 Samuel 23:19 | Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? -1 Samuel 23:20 | Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand." -1 Samuel 23:21 | Saul said, "You are blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me. -1 Samuel 23:22 | Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning. -1 Samuel 23:23 | See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out amongst all the thousands of Judah." -1 Samuel 23:24 | They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. -1 Samuel 23:25 | Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. -1 Samuel 23:26 | Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them. -1 Samuel 23:27 | But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!" -1 Samuel 23:28 | So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth. -1 Samuel 24:01 | When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi." -1 Samuel 24:02 | Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. -1 Samuel 24:03 | He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave. -1 Samuel 24:04 | David’s men said to him, "Behold, the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’" Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly. -1 Samuel 24:05 | Afterward, David’s heart struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt. -1 Samuel 24:06 | He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed." -1 Samuel 24:07 | So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. -1 Samuel 24:08 | David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect. -1 Samuel 24:09 | David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’ -1 Samuel 24:10 | Behold, today your eyes have seen how the Lord had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’ -1 Samuel 24:11 | Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it. -1 Samuel 24:12 | May the Lord judge between me and you, and may the Lord avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you. -1 Samuel 24:13 | As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you. -1 Samuel 24:14 | Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? -1 Samuel 24:15 | May the Lord therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand." -1 Samuel 24:16 | It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice and wept. -1 Samuel 24:17 | He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you. -1 Samuel 24:18 | You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when the Lord had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me. -1 Samuel 24:19 | For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the Lord reward you good for that which you have done to me today. -1 Samuel 24:20 | Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. -1 Samuel 24:21 | Swear now therefore to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house." -1 Samuel 24:22 | David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. -1 Samuel 25:01 | Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. -1 Samuel 25:02 | There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. -1 Samuel 25:03 | Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb. -1 Samuel 25:04 | David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. -1 Samuel 25:05 | David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. -1 Samuel 25:06 | Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have! -1 Samuel 25:07 | Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel. -1 Samuel 25:08 | Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favour in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’" -1 Samuel 25:09 | When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited. -1 Samuel 25:10 | Nabal answered David’s servants and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days. -1 Samuel 25:11 | Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?" -1 Samuel 25:12 | So David’s young men turned on their way and went back, and came and told him all these words. -1 Samuel 25:13 | David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage. -1 Samuel 25:14 | But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master; and he insulted them. -1 Samuel 25:15 | But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields. -1 Samuel 25:16 | They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. -1 Samuel 25:17 | Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him." -1 Samuel 25:18 | Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. -1 Samuel 25:19 | She said to her young men, "Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you." But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal. -1 Samuel 25:20 | As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down towards her, and she met them. -1 Samuel 25:21 | Now David had said, "Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good. -1 Samuel 25:22 | God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall." -1 Samuel 25:23 | When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground. -1 Samuel 25:24 | She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant. -1 Samuel 25:25 | Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent. -1 Samuel 25:26 | Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. -1 Samuel 25:27 | Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. -1 Samuel 25:28 | Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the Lord’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days. -1 Samuel 25:29 | Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket. -1 Samuel 25:30 | It will come to pass, when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel, -1 Samuel 25:31 | that this shall be no grief to you, nor offence of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant." -1 Samuel 25:32 | David said to Abigail, "Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me! -1 Samuel 25:33 | Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand. -1 Samuel 25:34 | For indeed, as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall." -1 Samuel 25:35 | So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice and have granted your request." -1 Samuel 25:36 | Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light. -1 Samuel 25:37 | In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. -1 Samuel 25:38 | About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, so that he died. -1 Samuel 25:39 | When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. The Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife. -1 Samuel 25:40 | When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife." -1 Samuel 25:41 | She arose and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, "Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." -1 Samuel 25:42 | Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. -1 Samuel 25:43 | David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives. -1 Samuel 25:44 | Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. -1 Samuel 26:01 | The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?" -1 Samuel 26:02 | Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. -1 Samuel 26:03 | Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. -1 Samuel 26:04 | David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come. -1 Samuel 26:05 | Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him. -1 Samuel 26:06 | Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?" Abishai said, "I will go down with you." -1 Samuel 26:07 | So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him. -1 Samuel 26:08 | Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time." -1 Samuel 26:09 | David said to Abishai, "Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?" -1 Samuel 26:10 | David said, "As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish. -1 Samuel 26:11 | The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go." -1 Samuel 26:12 | So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them. -1 Samuel 26:13 | Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain far away, a great space being between them; -1 Samuel 26:14 | and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don’t you answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who calls to the king?" -1 Samuel 26:15 | David said to Abner, "Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy your lord the king. -1 Samuel 26:16 | This thing isn’t good that you have done. As the Lord lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head." -1 Samuel 26:17 | Saul recognised David’s voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king." -1 Samuel 26:18 | He said, "Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand? -1 Samuel 26:19 | Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that the Lord has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before the Lord; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to the Lord’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’ -1 Samuel 26:20 | Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains." -1 Samuel 26:21 | Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." -1 Samuel 26:22 | David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and get it. -1 Samuel 26:23 | The Lord will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because the Lord delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. -1 Samuel 26:24 | Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the Lord’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression." -1 Samuel 26:25 | Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. -1 Samuel 27:01 | David said in his heart, "I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand." -1 Samuel 27:02 | David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. -1 Samuel 27:03 | David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife. -1 Samuel 27:04 | Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him. -1 Samuel 27:05 | David said to Achish, "If now I have found favour in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?" -1 Samuel 27:06 | Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day. -1 Samuel 27:07 | The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. -1 Samuel 27:08 | David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. -1 Samuel 27:09 | David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish. -1 Samuel 27:10 | Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites." -1 Samuel 27:11 | David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’" -1 Samuel 27:12 | Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever." -1 Samuel 28:01 | In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men." -1 Samuel 28:02 | David said to Achish, "Therefore you will know what your servant can do." Achish said to David, "Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever." -1 Samuel 28:03 | Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. -1 Samuel 28:04 | The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa. -1 Samuel 28:05 | When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. -1 Samuel 28:06 | When Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets. -1 Samuel 28:07 | Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and enquire of her." His servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor." -1 Samuel 28:08 | Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, "Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you." -1 Samuel 28:09 | The woman said to him, "Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?" -1 Samuel 28:10 | Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying, "As the Lord lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing." -1 Samuel 28:11 | Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up to you?" He said, "Bring Samuel up for me." -1 Samuel 28:12 | When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, "Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!" -1 Samuel 28:13 | The king said to her, "Don’t be afraid! What do you see?" The woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth." -1 Samuel 28:14 | He said to her, "What does he look like?" She said, "An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe." Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect. -1 Samuel 28:15 | Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do." -1 Samuel 28:16 | Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has departed from you and has become your adversary? -1 Samuel 28:17 | The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me. The Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour, even to David. -1 Samuel 28:18 | Because you didn’t obey the Lord’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you today. -1 Samuel 28:19 | Moreover the Lord will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The Lord will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines." -1 Samuel 28:20 | Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long. -1 Samuel 28:21 | The woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, "Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me. -1 Samuel 28:22 | Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way." -1 Samuel 28:23 | But he refused, and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed. -1 Samuel 28:24 | The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it. -1 Samuel 28:25 | She brought it before Saul and before his servants, and they ate. Then they rose up and went away that night. -1 Samuel 29:01 | Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel. -1 Samuel 29:02 | The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish. -1 Samuel 29:03 | Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today." -1 Samuel 29:04 | But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men? -1 Samuel 29:05 | Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’" -1 Samuel 29:06 | Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the Lord lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favour you. -1 Samuel 29:07 | Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines." -1 Samuel 29:08 | David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" -1 Samuel 29:09 | Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’ -1 Samuel 29:10 | Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart." -1 Samuel 29:11 | So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel. -1 Samuel 2:01 | Hannah prayed, and said: "My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. -1 Samuel 2:02 | There is no one as holy as the Lord, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God. -1 Samuel 2:03 | "Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed. -1 Samuel 2:04 | "The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength. -1 Samuel 2:05 | Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. -1 Samuel 2:06 | "The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up. -1 Samuel 2:07 | The Lord makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. -1 Samuel 2:08 | He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s. He has set the world on them. -1 Samuel 2:09 | He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength. -1 Samuel 2:10 | Those who strive with the Lord shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed." -1 Samuel 2:11 | Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the Lord before Eli the priest. -1 Samuel 2:12 | Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the Lord. -1 Samuel 2:13 | The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; -1 Samuel 2:14 | and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh. -1 Samuel 2:15 | Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw." -1 Samuel 2:16 | If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burnt first, and then take as much as your soul desires" then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force." -1 Samuel 2:17 | The sin of the young men was very great before the Lord; for the men despised the Lord’s offering. -1 Samuel 2:18 | But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod. -1 Samuel 2:19 | Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. -1 Samuel 2:20 | Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "May The Lord give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of the Lord." Then they went to their own home. -1 Samuel 2:21 | The Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the Lord. -1 Samuel 2:22 | Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -1 Samuel 2:23 | He said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. -1 Samuel 2:24 | No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the Lord’s people disobey. -1 Samuel 2:25 | If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who will intercede for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because the Lord intended to kill them. -1 Samuel 2:26 | The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favour both with the Lord and also with men. -1 Samuel 2:27 | A man of God came to Eli and said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house? -1 Samuel 2:28 | Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? -1 Samuel 2:29 | Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honour your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’ -1 Samuel 2:30 | "Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honour me I will honour, and those who despise me will be cursed. -1 Samuel 2:31 | Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house. -1 Samuel 2:32 | You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever. -1 Samuel 2:33 | The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age. -1 Samuel 2:34 | This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die. -1 Samuel 2:35 | I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever. -1 Samuel 2:36 | It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, "Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread." -1 Samuel 30:01 | When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burnt it with fire, -1 Samuel 30:02 | and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way. -1 Samuel 30:03 | When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive. -1 Samuel 30:04 | Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. -1 Samuel 30:05 | David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. -1 Samuel 30:06 | David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. -1 Samuel 30:07 | David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod here to me." Abiathar brought the ephod to David. -1 Samuel 30:08 | David enquired of the Lord, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all." -1 Samuel 30:09 | So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. -1 Samuel 30:10 | But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor. -1 Samuel 30:11 | They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. -1 Samuel 30:12 | They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights. -1 Samuel 30:13 | David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick. -1 Samuel 30:14 | We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burnt Ziklag with fire." -1 Samuel 30:15 | David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop." -1 Samuel 30:16 | When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. -1 Samuel 30:17 | David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. -1 Samuel 30:18 | David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. -1 Samuel 30:19 | There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back. -1 Samuel 30:20 | David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David’s plunder." -1 Samuel 30:21 | David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them. -1 Samuel 30:22 | Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, "Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart." -1 Samuel 30:23 | Then David said, "Do not do so, my brothers, with that which the Lord has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. -1 Samuel 30:24 | Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike." -1 Samuel 30:25 | It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day. -1 Samuel 30:26 | When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you from the plunder of the Lord’s enemies." -1 Samuel 31:04 | Then Saul said to his armour bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!" But his armour bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it. -1 Samuel 31:05 | When his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. -1 Samuel 31:06 | So Saul died with his three sons, his armour bearer, and all his men that same day together. -1 Samuel 31:07 | When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. -1 Samuel 31:08 | On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. -1 Samuel 31:09 | They cut off his head, stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people. -1 Samuel 31:10 | They put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. -1 Samuel 31:12 | all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burnt them there. -1 Samuel 31:13 | They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. -1 Samuel 3:01 | The child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. The Lord’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then. -1 Samuel 3:02 | At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see), -1 Samuel 3:03 | and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in the Lord’s temple where God’s ark was, -1 Samuel 3:04 | The Lord called Samuel. He said, "Here I am." -1 Samuel 3:05 | He ran to Eli and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He said, "I didn’t call. Lie down again." He went and lay down. -1 Samuel 3:06 | The Lord called yet again, "Samuel!" Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He answered, "I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again." -1 Samuel 3:07 | Now Samuel didn’t yet know the Lord, neither was the Lord’s word yet revealed to him. -1 Samuel 3:08 | The Lord called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am; for you called me." Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child. -1 Samuel 3:09 | Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, the Lord; for your servant hears.’" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. -1 Samuel 3:10 | The Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" Then Samuel said, "Speak; for your servant hears." -1 Samuel 3:11 | The Lord said to Samuel, "Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. -1 Samuel 3:12 | In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. -1 Samuel 3:13 | For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them. -1 Samuel 3:14 | Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever." -1 Samuel 3:15 | Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the Lord’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision. -1 Samuel 3:16 | Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" He said, "Here I am." -1 Samuel 3:17 | He said, "What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you." -1 Samuel 3:18 | Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, "It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him." -1 Samuel 3:19 | Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. -1 Samuel 3:20 | All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord. -1 Samuel 3:21 | The Lord appeared again in Shiloh; for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the Lord’s word. -1 Samuel 4:01 | The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. -1 Samuel 4:02 | The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field. -1 Samuel 4:03 | When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come amongst us and save us out of the hand of our enemies." -1 Samuel 4:04 | So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. -1 Samuel 4:05 | When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded. -1 Samuel 4:06 | When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" They understood that the Lord’s ark had come into the camp. -1 Samuel 4:07 | The Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp." They said, "Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before. -1 Samuel 4:08 | Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness. -1 Samuel 4:09 | Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!" -1 Samuel 4:10 | The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell. -1 Samuel 4:11 | God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. -1 Samuel 4:12 | A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. -1 Samuel 4:13 | When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out. -1 Samuel 4:14 | When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, "What does the noise of this tumult mean?" The man hurried, and came and told Eli. -1 Samuel 4:16 | The man said to Eli, "I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army." He said, "How did the matter go, my son?" -1 Samuel 4:17 | He who brought the news answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter amongst the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured." -1 Samuel 4:18 | When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. -1 Samuel 4:19 | His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her. -1 Samuel 4:20 | About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son." But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it. -1 Samuel 4:21 | She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. -1 Samuel 4:22 | She said, "The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken." -1 Samuel 5:04 | When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the Lord’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact. -1 Samuel 5:05 | Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. -1 Samuel 5:06 | But the Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumours, even Ashdod and its borders. -1 Samuel 5:07 | When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god." -1 Samuel 5:08 | They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath." They carried the ark of the God of Israel there. -1 Samuel 5:09 | It was so, that after they had carried it there, the Lord’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumours broke out on them. -1 Samuel 5:10 | So they sent God’s ark to Ekron. As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people." -1 Samuel 5:11 | They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, "Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people." For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there. -1 Samuel 5:12 | The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumours; and the cry of the city went up to heaven. -1 Samuel 6:01 | The Lord’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months. -1 Samuel 6:02 | The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the Lord’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place." -1 Samuel 6:03 | They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you." -1 Samuel 6:04 | Then they said, "What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumours and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. -1 Samuel 6:05 | Therefore you shall make images of your tumours and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land. -1 Samuel 6:06 | Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully amongst them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed? -1 Samuel 6:07 | "Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; -1 Samuel 6:08 | and take the Lord’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go. -1 Samuel 6:09 | Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us." -1 Samuel 6:10 | The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. -1 Samuel 6:11 | They put the Lord’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumours. -1 Samuel 6:12 | The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh. -1 Samuel 6:13 | The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. -1 Samuel 6:14 | The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to the Lord. -1 Samuel 6:15 | The Levites took down the Lord’s ark and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to the Lord. -1 Samuel 6:16 | When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day. -1 Samuel 6:17 | These are the golden tumours which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; -1 Samuel 6:18 | and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down the Lord’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. -1 Samuel 6:19 | He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the Lord’s ark, he struck fifty thousand and seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter. -1 Samuel 6:20 | The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?" -1 Samuel 6:21 | They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the Lord’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves." -1 Samuel 7:01 | The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took the Lord’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the Lord’s ark. -1 Samuel 7:02 | From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. -1 Samuel 7:03 | Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from amongst you, and direct your hearts to the Lord, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." -1 Samuel 7:04 | Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only. -1 Samuel 7:05 | Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you." -1 Samuel 7:06 | They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the Lord." Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah. -1 Samuel 7:07 | When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. -1 Samuel 7:08 | The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don’t stop crying to the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines." -1 Samuel 7:09 | Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. -1 Samuel 7:10 | As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel. -1 Samuel 7:11 | The men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and struck them until they came under Beth Kar. -1 Samuel 7:12 | Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, "The Lord helped us until now." -1 Samuel 7:13 | So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. The Lord’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. -1 Samuel 7:14 | The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites. -1 Samuel 7:15 | Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. -1 Samuel 7:16 | He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. -1 Samuel 7:17 | His return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to the Lord there. -1 Samuel 8:01 | When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. -1 Samuel 8:02 | Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba. -1 Samuel 8:03 | His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice. -1 Samuel 8:04 | Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah. -1 Samuel 8:05 | They said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." -1 Samuel 8:06 | But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to the Lord. -1 Samuel 8:07 | The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them. -1 Samuel 8:08 | According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do to you. -1 Samuel 8:09 | Now therefore, listen to their voice. However, you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them." -1 Samuel 8:10 | Samuel told all the Lord’s words to the people who asked him for a king. -1 Samuel 8:11 | He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots. -1 Samuel 8:12 | He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plough his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots. -1 Samuel 8:13 | He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers. -1 Samuel 8:14 | He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants. -1 Samuel 8:15 | He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants. -1 Samuel 8:16 | He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work. -1 Samuel 8:17 | He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants. -1 Samuel 8:18 | You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and the Lord will not answer you in that day." -1 Samuel 8:19 | But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No, but we will have a king over us, -1 Samuel 8:20 | that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." -1 Samuel 8:21 | Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord. -1 Samuel 8:22 | The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Everyone go to your own city." -1 Samuel 9:01 | Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour. -1 Samuel 9:02 | He had a son whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not amongst the children of Israel a more handsome person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people. -1 Samuel 9:03 | The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, "Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys." -1 Samuel 9:04 | He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them. -1 Samuel 9:05 | When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys and be anxious for us." -1 Samuel 9:06 | The servant said to him, "Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honour. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go." -1 Samuel 9:07 | Then Saul said to his servant, "But behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?" -1 Samuel 9:08 | The servant answered Saul again and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way." -1 Samuel 9:09 | (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, he said, "Come! Let’s go to the seer" for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.) -1 Samuel 9:10 | Then Saul said to his servant, "Well said. Come! Let’s go." So they went to the city where the man of God was. -1 Samuel 9:11 | As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?" -1 Samuel 9:12 | They answered them and said, "He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place. -1 Samuel 9:13 | As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find him." -1 Samuel 9:14 | They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out towards them to go up to the high place. -1 Samuel 9:16 | "Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me." -1 Samuel 9:17 | When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people." -1 Samuel 9:18 | Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, "Please tell me where the seer’s house is." -1 Samuel 9:19 | Samuel answered Saul and said, "I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart. -1 Samuel 9:20 | As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them, for they have been found. For whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you and all your father’s house?" -1 Samuel 9:21 | Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?" -1 Samuel 9:22 | Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place amongst those who were invited, who were about thirty persons. -1 Samuel 9:23 | Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’" -1 Samuel 9:24 | The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, "Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have invited the people.’" So Saul ate with Samuel that day. -1 Samuel 9:25 | When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop. -1 Samuel 9:26 | They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, "Get up, that I may send you away." Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together. -1 Samuel 9:27 | As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to go on ahead of us." He went ahead, then Samuel said, "But stand still first, that I may cause you to hear God’s message." -1 Thessalonians 1:01 | Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Thessalonians 1:02 | We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, -1 Thessalonians 1:03 | remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. -1 Thessalonians 1:04 | We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen, -1 Thessalonians 1:05 | and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be amongst you for your sake. -1 Thessalonians 1:06 | You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, -1 Thessalonians 1:07 | so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. -1 Thessalonians 1:08 | For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything. -1 Thessalonians 1:09 | For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, -1 Thessalonians 1:10 | and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. -1 Thessalonians 2:01 | For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, -1 Thessalonians 2:02 | but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict. -1 Thessalonians 2:03 | For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. -1 Thessalonians 2:04 | But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. -1 Thessalonians 2:05 | For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), -1 Thessalonians 2:06 | nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. -1 Thessalonians 2:07 | But we were gentle amongst you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. -1 Thessalonians 2:08 | Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. -1 Thessalonians 2:09 | For you remember, brothers, our labour and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God. -1 Thessalonians 2:10 | You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves towards you who believe. -1 Thessalonians 2:11 | As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, -1 Thessalonians 2:12 | to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory. -1 Thessalonians 2:13 | For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. -1 Thessalonians 2:14 | For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews -1 Thessalonians 2:15 | who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men, -1 Thessalonians 2:16 | forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. -1 Thessalonians 2:17 | But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire, -1 Thessalonians 2:18 | because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us. -1 Thessalonians 2:19 | For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? -1 Thessalonians 2:20 | For you are our glory and our joy. -1 Thessalonians 3:01 | Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, -1 Thessalonians 3:02 | and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith, -1 Thessalonians 3:03 | that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. -1 Thessalonians 3:04 | For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. -1 Thessalonians 3:05 | For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour would have been in vain. -1 Thessalonians 3:06 | But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you, -1 Thessalonians 3:07 | for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. -1 Thessalonians 3:08 | For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. -1 Thessalonians 3:09 | For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God, -1 Thessalonians 3:10 | night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? -1 Thessalonians 3:11 | Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. -1 Thessalonians 3:12 | May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another, and towards all men, even as we also do towards you, -1 Thessalonians 3:13 | to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. -1 Thessalonians 4:01 | Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. -1 Thessalonians 4:02 | For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. -1 Thessalonians 4:03 | For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, -1 Thessalonians 4:04 | that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honour, -1 Thessalonians 4:05 | not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, -1 Thessalonians 4:06 | that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. -1 Thessalonians 4:07 | For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. -1 Thessalonians 4:08 | Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. -1 Thessalonians 4:09 | But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, -1 Thessalonians 4:10 | for indeed you do it towards all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; -1 Thessalonians 4:11 | and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; -1 Thessalonians 4:12 | that you may walk properly towards those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. -1 Thessalonians 4:13 | But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. -1 Thessalonians 4:14 | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. -1 Thessalonians 4:15 | For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. -1 Thessalonians 4:16 | For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, -1 Thessalonians 4:17 | then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. -1 Thessalonians 4:18 | Therefore comfort one another with these words. -1 Thessalonians 5:01 | But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. -1 Thessalonians 5:02 | For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. -1 Thessalonians 5:03 | For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. -1 Thessalonians 5:04 | But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. -1 Thessalonians 5:05 | You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, -1 Thessalonians 5:06 | so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. -1 Thessalonians 5:07 | For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. -1 Thessalonians 5:08 | But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. -1 Thessalonians 5:09 | For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, -1 Thessalonians 5:10 | who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. -1 Thessalonians 5:11 | Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. -1 Thessalonians 5:12 | But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labour amongst you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, -1 Thessalonians 5:13 | and to respect and honour them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace amongst yourselves. -1 Thessalonians 5:14 | We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient towards all. -1 Thessalonians 5:15 | See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all. -1 Thessalonians 5:16 | Always rejoice. -1 Thessalonians 5:17 | Pray without ceasing. -1 Thessalonians 5:18 | In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you. -1 Thessalonians 5:19 | Don’t quench the Spirit. -1 Thessalonians 5:21 | Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. -1 Thessalonians 5:22 | Abstain from every form of evil. -1 Thessalonians 5:23 | May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Thessalonians 5:24 | He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. -1 Thessalonians 5:26 | Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. -1 Thessalonians 5:27 | I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers. -1 Thessalonians 5:28 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. -1 Timothy 1:01 | Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Saviour and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope; -1 Timothy 1:02 | to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. -1 Timothy 1:03 | As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, -1 Timothy 1:04 | and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith— -1 Timothy 1:05 | but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith, -1 Timothy 1:06 | from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking, -1 Timothy 1:07 | desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm. -1 Timothy 1:08 | But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully, -1 Timothy 1:09 | as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, -1 Timothy 1:10 | for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine, -1 Timothy 1:11 | according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. -1 Timothy 1:12 | I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service; -1 Timothy 1:13 | although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. -1 Timothy 1:14 | The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. -1 Timothy 1:15 | The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. -1 Timothy 1:16 | However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life. -1 Timothy 1:17 | Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honour and glory forever and ever. Amen. -1 Timothy 1:18 | I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare, -1 Timothy 1:19 | holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith, -1 Timothy 1:20 | of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme. -1 Timothy 2:01 | I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men: -1 Timothy 2:02 | for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. -1 Timothy 2:03 | For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, -1 Timothy 2:04 | who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. -1 Timothy 2:05 | For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, -1 Timothy 2:06 | who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times, -1 Timothy 2:07 | to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. -1 Timothy 2:08 | I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. -1 Timothy 2:09 | In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing, -1 Timothy 2:10 | but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness. -1 Timothy 2:11 | Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission. -1 Timothy 2:12 | But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. -1 Timothy 2:13 | For Adam was formed first, then Eve. -1 Timothy 2:14 | Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; -1 Timothy 2:15 | but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety. -1 Timothy 3:01 | This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work. -1 Timothy 3:02 | The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; -1 Timothy 3:03 | not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; -1 Timothy 3:04 | one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; -1 Timothy 3:05 | (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?) -1 Timothy 3:06 | not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. -1 Timothy 3:07 | Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. -1 Timothy 3:08 | Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money, -1 Timothy 3:09 | holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. -1 Timothy 3:10 | Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless. -1 Timothy 3:11 | Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things. -1 Timothy 3:12 | Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. -1 Timothy 3:13 | For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. -1 Timothy 3:14 | These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; -1 Timothy 3:15 | but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. -1 Timothy 3:16 | Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached amongst the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. -1 Timothy 4:01 | But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, -1 Timothy 4:02 | through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron, -1 Timothy 4:03 | forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. -1 Timothy 4:04 | For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. -1 Timothy 4:05 | For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. -1 Timothy 4:06 | If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed. -1 Timothy 4:07 | But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself towards godliness. -1 Timothy 4:08 | For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come. -1 Timothy 4:09 | This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance. -1 Timothy 4:10 | For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those who believe. -1 Timothy 4:12 | Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. -1 Timothy 4:13 | Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching. -1 Timothy 4:14 | Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders. -1 Timothy 4:15 | Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all. -1 Timothy 4:16 | Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. -1 Timothy 5:01 | Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; -1 Timothy 5:02 | the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. -1 Timothy 5:03 | Honour widows who are widows indeed. -1 Timothy 5:04 | But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God. -1 Timothy 5:05 | Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day. -1 Timothy 5:06 | But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives. -1 Timothy 5:07 | Also command these things, that they may be without reproach. -1 Timothy 5:08 | But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. -1 Timothy 5:09 | Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, -1 Timothy 5:10 | being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work. -1 Timothy 5:11 | But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, -1 Timothy 5:12 | having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge. -1 Timothy 5:13 | Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. -1 Timothy 5:14 | I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting. -1 Timothy 5:15 | For already some have turned away after Satan. -1 Timothy 5:16 | If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed. -1 Timothy 5:17 | Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and in teaching. -1 Timothy 5:18 | For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The labourer is worthy of his wages." -1 Timothy 5:19 | Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses. -1 Timothy 5:20 | Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear. -1 Timothy 5:21 | I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. -1 Timothy 5:22 | Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure. -1 Timothy 5:23 | Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities. -1 Timothy 5:24 | Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgement, and some also follow later. -1 Timothy 5:25 | In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden. -1 Timothy 6:01 | Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. -1 Timothy 6:02 | Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things. -1 Timothy 6:03 | If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, -1 Timothy 6:04 | he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, -1 Timothy 6:05 | constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such. -1 Timothy 6:06 | But godliness with contentment is great gain. -1 Timothy 6:07 | For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. -1 Timothy 6:08 | But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. -1 Timothy 6:09 | But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. -1 Timothy 6:10 | For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. -1 Timothy 6:11 | But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. -1 Timothy 6:12 | Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. -1 Timothy 6:13 | I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession, -1 Timothy 6:14 | that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, -1 Timothy 6:15 | which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. -1 Timothy 6:16 | He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and eternal power. Amen. -1 Timothy 6:17 | Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; -1 Timothy 6:18 | that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; -1 Timothy 6:19 | laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life. -1 Timothy 6:20 | Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge, -1 Timothy 6:21 | which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. -2 Chronicles 10:04 | "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you." -2 Chronicles 10:05 | He said to them, "Come again to me after three days." So the people departed. -2 Chronicles 10:06 | King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?" -2 Chronicles 10:07 | They spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." -2 Chronicles 10:08 | But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. -2 Chronicles 10:09 | He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’" -2 Chronicles 10:10 | The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. -2 Chronicles 10:11 | Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’" -2 Chronicles 10:12 | So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day." -2 Chronicles 10:13 | The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men, -2 Chronicles 10:14 | and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." -2 Chronicles 10:15 | So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that the Lord might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. -2 Chronicles 10:16 | When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents. -2 Chronicles 10:17 | But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. -2 Chronicles 10:18 | Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labour; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 10:19 | So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day. -2 Chronicles 11:01 | When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. -2 Chronicles 11:04 | ‘The Lord says, "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me." So they listened to the Lord’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam. -2 Chronicles 11:11 | He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine. -2 Chronicles 11:12 | He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. -2 Chronicles 11:13 | The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory. -2 Chronicles 11:14 | For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to the Lord. -2 Chronicles 11:15 | He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. -2 Chronicles 11:16 | After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 11:17 | So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon. -2 Chronicles 11:19 | She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. -2 Chronicles 11:20 | After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. -2 Chronicles 11:23 | He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them. -2 Chronicles 12:01 | When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the Lord’s law, and all Israel with him. -2 Chronicles 12:02 | In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the Lord, -2 Chronicles 12:04 | He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 12:05 | Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "The Lord says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’" -2 Chronicles 12:06 | Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The Lord is righteous." -2 Chronicles 12:07 | When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the Lord’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. -2 Chronicles 12:08 | Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." -2 Chronicles 13:05 | Ought you not to know that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? -2 Chronicles 13:07 | Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them. -2 Chronicles 13:08 | "Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you. -2 Chronicles 13:09 | Haven’t you driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods. -2 Chronicles 13:10 | "But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work; -2 Chronicles 13:11 | and they burn to the Lord every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken him. -2 Chronicles 13:12 | Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper." -2 Chronicles 13:14 | When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. -2 Chronicles 13:15 | Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. -2 Chronicles 13:16 | The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. -2 Chronicles 13:18 | Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the Lord, the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 13:20 | Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. The Lord struck him, and he died. -2 Chronicles 14:02 | Asa did that which was good and right in the Lord his God’s eyes; -2 Chronicles 14:04 | and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command. -2 Chronicles 14:05 | Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him. -2 Chronicles 14:06 | He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because the Lord had given him rest. -2 Chronicles 14:07 | For he said to Judah, "Let’s build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought the Lord our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered. -2 Chronicles 14:08 | Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valour. -2 Chronicles 14:09 | Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah. -2 Chronicles 14:10 | Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. -2 Chronicles 14:11 | Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, "LORD, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Lord our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Lord, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you." -2 Chronicles 14:12 | So the Lord struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. -2 Chronicles 14:13 | Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord and before his army; and they carried away very much booty. -2 Chronicles 14:14 | They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of the Lord came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them. -2 Chronicles 14:15 | They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 15:01 | The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: -2 Chronicles 15:02 | and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. -2 Chronicles 15:03 | Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law. -2 Chronicles 15:04 | But when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them. -2 Chronicles 15:05 | In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. -2 Chronicles 15:06 | They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity. -2 Chronicles 15:07 | But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded." -2 Chronicles 15:08 | When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the Lord’s altar that was before the Lord’s porch. -2 Chronicles 15:09 | He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. -2 Chronicles 15:12 | They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; -2 Chronicles 15:13 | and that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. -2 Chronicles 15:14 | They swore to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets. -2 Chronicles 15:15 | All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then the Lord gave them rest all around. -2 Chronicles 15:16 | Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. -2 Chronicles 15:17 | But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. -2 Chronicles 15:18 | He brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house. -2 Chronicles 15:19 | There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign. -2 Chronicles 16:03 | "Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." -2 Chronicles 16:05 | When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease. -2 Chronicles 16:07 | At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, "Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand. -2 Chronicles 16:08 | Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your hand. -2 Chronicles 16:09 | For the Lord’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars." -2 Chronicles 16:10 | Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. -2 Chronicles 16:12 | In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord, but just the physicians. -2 Chronicles 16:14 | They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him. -2 Chronicles 17:03 | The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals, -2 Chronicles 17:04 | but sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel. -2 Chronicles 17:05 | Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honour in abundance. -2 Chronicles 17:06 | His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah. -2 Chronicles 17:09 | They taught in Judah, having the book of the Lord’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught amongst the people. -2 Chronicles 17:10 | The fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. -2 Chronicles 18:03 | Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?" He answered him, "I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war." -2 Chronicles 18:04 | Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please enquire first for the Lord’s word." -2 Chronicles 18:05 | Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king." -2 Chronicles 18:06 | But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we may enquire of him?" -2 Chronicles 18:07 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the Lord; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla." Jehoshaphat said, "Don’t let the king say so." -2 Chronicles 18:08 | Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly." -2 Chronicles 18:09 | Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. -2 Chronicles 18:10 | Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, "The Lord says, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’" -2 Chronicles 18:11 | All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." -2 Chronicles 18:12 | The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good." -2 Chronicles 18:13 | Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, I will say what my God says." -2 Chronicles 18:14 | When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" He said, "Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand." -2 Chronicles 18:15 | The king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the Lord’s name?" -2 Chronicles 18:16 | He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. The Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’" -2 Chronicles 18:17 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" -2 Chronicles 18:18 | Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the Lord’s word: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. -2 Chronicles 18:19 | The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way. -2 Chronicles 18:20 | A spirit came out, stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ "The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ -2 Chronicles 18:21 | "He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ "He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’ -2 Chronicles 18:22 | "Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you." -2 Chronicles 18:23 | Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Lord’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?" -2 Chronicles 18:24 | Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself." -2 Chronicles 18:25 | The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; -2 Chronicles 18:26 | and say, ‘The king says, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace." -2 Chronicles 18:27 | Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, you people, all of you!" -2 Chronicles 18:28 | So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. -2 Chronicles 18:29 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle. -2 Chronicles 18:30 | Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel." -2 Chronicles 18:31 | When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is the king of Israel!" Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; and God moved them to depart from him. -2 Chronicles 18:32 | When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. -2 Chronicles 18:33 | A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armour. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded." -2 Chronicles 18:34 | The battle increased that day. However the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and at about sunset, he died. -2 Chronicles 19:01 | Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 19:02 | Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the Lord. -2 Chronicles 19:03 | Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God." -2 Chronicles 19:04 | Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again amongst the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 19:05 | He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, -2 Chronicles 19:06 | and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for the Lord; and he is with you in the judgement. -2 Chronicles 19:07 | Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes." -2 Chronicles 19:08 | Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgement of the Lord, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 19:09 | He commanded them, saying, "You shall do this in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. -2 Chronicles 19:10 | Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards the Lord, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty. -2 Chronicles 19:11 | Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may the Lord be with the good." -2 Chronicles 1:01 | Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great. -2 Chronicles 1:02 | Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households. -2 Chronicles 1:03 | So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which the Lord’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness. -2 Chronicles 1:04 | But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 1:05 | Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the Lord’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there. -2 Chronicles 1:06 | Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it. -2 Chronicles 1:07 | That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for what you want me to give you." -2 Chronicles 1:08 | Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place. -2 Chronicles 1:09 | Now, Lord God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. -2 Chronicles 1:10 | Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?" -2 Chronicles 1:11 | God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honour, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king, -2 Chronicles 1:12 | therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you, and none after you will have." -2 Chronicles 1:13 | So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel. -2 Chronicles 1:14 | Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 1:15 | The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. -2 Chronicles 1:16 | The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue. -2 Chronicles 1:17 | They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty. They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian kings. -2 Chronicles 20:01 | After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. -2 Chronicles 20:02 | Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi). -2 Chronicles 20:03 | Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to the Lord. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. -2 Chronicles 20:04 | Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from the Lord. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek the Lord. -2 Chronicles 20:05 | Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the Lord’s house, before the new court; -2 Chronicles 20:06 | and he said, "LORD, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you. -2 Chronicles 20:07 | Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever? -2 Chronicles 20:09 | ‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgement, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ -2 Chronicles 20:10 | Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them; -2 Chronicles 20:11 | behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. -2 Chronicles 20:12 | Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you." -2 Chronicles 20:13 | All Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. -2 Chronicles 20:14 | Then the Lord’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the middle of the assembly; -2 Chronicles 20:15 | and he said, "Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. The Lord says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. -2 Chronicles 20:16 | Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. -2 Chronicles 20:17 | You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.’" -2 Chronicles 20:18 | Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshipping the Lord. -2 Chronicles 20:19 | The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice. -2 Chronicles 20:20 | They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper." -2 Chronicles 20:21 | When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the Lord; for his loving kindness endures forever." -2 Chronicles 20:22 | When they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. -2 Chronicles 20:23 | For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other. -2 Chronicles 20:24 | When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. -2 Chronicles 20:25 | When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found amongst them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much. -2 Chronicles 20:26 | On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed the Lord. Therefore the name of that place was called "Beracah Valley" to this day. -2 Chronicles 20:27 | Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies. -2 Chronicles 20:28 | They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 20:29 | The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel. -2 Chronicles 20:30 | So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around. -2 Chronicles 20:31 | Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. -2 Chronicles 20:32 | He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in the Lord’s eyes. -2 Chronicles 20:33 | However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 20:34 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel. -2 Chronicles 20:37 | Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, the Lord has destroyed your works." The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish. -2 Chronicles 21:01 | Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. -2 Chronicles 21:02 | He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. -2 Chronicles 21:03 | Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. -2 Chronicles 21:04 | Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel. -2 Chronicles 21:05 | Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 21:06 | He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. -2 Chronicles 21:07 | However the Lord would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always. -2 Chronicles 21:08 | In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. -2 Chronicles 21:09 | Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots. -2 Chronicles 21:10 | So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers. -2 Chronicles 21:11 | Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray. -2 Chronicles 21:12 | A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "the Lord, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, -2 Chronicles 21:13 | but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself, -2 Chronicles 21:14 | behold, the Lord will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions; -2 Chronicles 21:15 | and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’" -2 Chronicles 21:16 | The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians; -2 Chronicles 21:17 | and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. -2 Chronicles 21:18 | After all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. -2 Chronicles 21:19 | In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. -2 Chronicles 21:20 | He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings. -2 Chronicles 22:01 | The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. -2 Chronicles 22:02 | Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. -2 Chronicles 22:03 | He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counsellor in acting wickedly. -2 Chronicles 22:04 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction. -2 Chronicles 22:05 | He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. -2 Chronicles 22:06 | He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. -2 Chronicles 22:07 | Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house. -2 Chronicles 22:09 | He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart." The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom. -2 Chronicles 22:10 | Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah. -2 Chronicles 22:12 | He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land. -2 Chronicles 23:02 | They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 23:03 | All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, "Behold, the king’s son must reign, as the Lord has spoken concerning the sons of David. -2 Chronicles 23:04 | This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds. -2 Chronicles 23:05 | A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 23:06 | But let no one come into the Lord’s house, except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow the Lord’s instructions. -2 Chronicles 23:07 | The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out." -2 Chronicles 23:08 | So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift. -2 Chronicles 23:09 | Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house. -2 Chronicles 23:10 | He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king. -2 Chronicles 23:11 | Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king!" -2 Chronicles 23:12 | When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 23:13 | Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! treason!" -2 Chronicles 23:14 | Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Don’t kill her in the Lord’s house." -2 Chronicles 23:15 | So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there. -2 Chronicles 23:16 | Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord’s people. -2 Chronicles 23:17 | All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. -2 Chronicles 23:18 | Jehoiada appointed the officers of the Lord’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the Lord’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered. -2 Chronicles 23:19 | He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the Lord’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in. -2 Chronicles 23:20 | He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the Lord’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. -2 Chronicles 23:21 | So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword. -2 Chronicles 24:01 | Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. -2 Chronicles 24:02 | Joash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest. -2 Chronicles 24:04 | After this, Joash intended to restore the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 24:05 | He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn’t do it right away. -2 Chronicles 24:06 | The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, "Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?" -2 Chronicles 24:07 | For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the Lord’s house to the Baals. -2 Chronicles 24:08 | So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 24:09 | They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. -2 Chronicles 24:10 | All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it. -2 Chronicles 24:11 | Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. -2 Chronicles 24:12 | The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the Lord’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the Lord’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 24:13 | So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it. -2 Chronicles 24:14 | When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the Lord’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the Lord’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada. -2 Chronicles 24:15 | But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred and thirty years old when he died. -2 Chronicles 24:16 | They buried him in David’s city amongst the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and towards God and his house. -2 Chronicles 24:17 | Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. -2 Chronicles 24:18 | They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. -2 Chronicles 24:19 | Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the Lord, and they testified against them; but they would not listen. -2 Chronicles 24:20 | The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, "God says, ‘Why do you disobey the Lord’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has also forsaken you.’" -2 Chronicles 24:21 | They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 24:22 | Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May the Lord look at it, and repay it." -2 Chronicles 24:23 | At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from amongst the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus. -2 Chronicles 24:24 | For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgement on Joash. -2 Chronicles 24:25 | When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings. -2 Chronicles 24:26 | These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. -2 Chronicles 24:27 | Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place. -2 Chronicles 25:01 | Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 25:02 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart. -2 Chronicles 25:03 | Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. -2 Chronicles 25:04 | But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin." -2 Chronicles 25:05 | Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield. -2 Chronicles 25:06 | He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. -2 Chronicles 25:07 | A man of God came to him, saying, "O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim. -2 Chronicles 25:08 | But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow." -2 Chronicles 25:09 | Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this." -2 Chronicles 25:10 | Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger. -2 Chronicles 25:11 | Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir. -2 Chronicles 28:11 | Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is on you." -2 Chronicles 28:13 | and said to them, "You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against the Lord, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel." -2 Chronicles 28:14 | So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly. -2 Chronicles 28:15 | The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked amongst them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. -2 Chronicles 28:16 | At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. -2 Chronicles 28:17 | For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives. -2 Chronicles 28:19 | For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against the Lord. -2 Chronicles 28:20 | Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. -2 Chronicles 28:21 | For Ahaz took away a portion out of the Lord’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him. -2 Chronicles 28:22 | In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the Lord, this same king Ahaz. -2 Chronicles 29:04 | He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east, -2 Chronicles 29:05 | and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place. -2 Chronicles 29:06 | For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the Lord our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs. -2 Chronicles 29:07 | Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. -2 Chronicles 29:08 | Therefore the Lord’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. -2 Chronicles 29:09 | For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. -2 Chronicles 29:10 | Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. -2 Chronicles 29:11 | My sons, don’t be negligent now; for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense." -2 Chronicles 29:15 | They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the Lord’s words, to cleanse the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 29:16 | The priests went into the inner part of the Lord’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the Lord’s temple into the court of the Lord’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron. -2 Chronicles 29:17 | Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the Lord’s porch. They sanctified the Lord’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. -2 Chronicles 29:18 | Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, "We have cleansed all the Lord’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels. -2 Chronicles 29:19 | Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which king Ahaz threw away in his reign, when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before the Lord’s altar." -2 Chronicles 29:20 | Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 29:21 | They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the Lord’s altar. -2 Chronicles 29:22 | So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. -2 Chronicles 29:23 | They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them. -2 Chronicles 29:24 | Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. -2 Chronicles 29:25 | He set the Levites in the Lord’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the Lord by his prophets. -2 Chronicles 29:26 | The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets. -2 Chronicles 29:27 | Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the Lord’s song also began, along with the trumpets and instruments of David king of Israel. -2 Chronicles 29:28 | All the assembly worshipped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. -2 Chronicles 29:29 | When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped. -2 Chronicles 2:01 | Now Solomon decided to build a house for the Lord’s name, and a house for his kingdom. -2 Chronicles 2:02 | Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. -2 Chronicles 2:03 | Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me. -2 Chronicles 2:04 | Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel. -2 Chronicles 2:05 | "The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods. -2 Chronicles 2:06 | But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him? -2 Chronicles 2:07 | "Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skilful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. -2 Chronicles 2:08 | "Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants, -2 Chronicles 2:09 | even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful. -2 Chronicles 2:10 | Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." -2 Chronicles 2:11 | Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them." -2 Chronicles 2:12 | Huram continued, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for the Lord, and a house for his kingdom. -2 Chronicles 2:13 | Now I have sent a skilful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi, -2 Chronicles 2:14 | the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David your father. -2 Chronicles 2:15 | "Now therefore the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants; -2 Chronicles 2:16 | and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem." -2 Chronicles 2:17 | Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred. -2 Chronicles 2:18 | He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to assign the people their work. -2 Chronicles 30:01 | Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the Lord’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. -2 Chronicles 30:02 | For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month. -2 Chronicles 30:03 | For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 30:04 | The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. -2 Chronicles 30:05 | So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written. -2 Chronicles 30:06 | So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, "You children of Israel, turn again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. -2 Chronicles 30:07 | Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. -2 Chronicles 30:08 | Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. -2 Chronicles 30:09 | For if you turn again to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him." -2 Chronicles 30:10 | So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them. -2 Chronicles 30:11 | Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 30:12 | Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the Lord’s word. -2 Chronicles 30:13 | Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. -2 Chronicles 30:14 | They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron. -2 Chronicles 30:15 | Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 30:16 | They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites. -2 Chronicles 30:17 | For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord. -2 Chronicles 30:18 | For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good the Lord pardon everyone -2 Chronicles 30:19 | who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary." -2 Chronicles 30:20 | The Lord listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. -2 Chronicles 30:21 | The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments to the Lord. -2 Chronicles 30:22 | Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of the Lord. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord, the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 30:23 | The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness. -2 Chronicles 30:24 | For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. -2 Chronicles 30:25 | All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced. -2 Chronicles 30:26 | So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 30:27 | Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven. -2 Chronicles 31:01 | Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. -2 Chronicles 31:02 | Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the Lord’s camp. -2 Chronicles 31:03 | He also appointed the king’s portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the Lord’s law. -2 Chronicles 31:04 | Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Lord’s law. -2 Chronicles 31:05 | As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly. -2 Chronicles 31:06 | The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps. -2 Chronicles 31:07 | In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. -2 Chronicles 31:08 | When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel. -2 Chronicles 31:09 | Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps. -2 Chronicles 31:10 | Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, "Since people began to bring the offerings into the Lord’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store." -2 Chronicles 31:11 | Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the Lord’s house, and they prepared them. -2 Chronicles 32:01 | After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself. -2 Chronicles 32:02 | When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem, -2 Chronicles 32:03 | he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him. -2 Chronicles 32:04 | So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?" -2 Chronicles 32:05 | He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance. -2 Chronicles 32:07 | "Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. -2 Chronicles 32:08 | An arm of flesh is with him, but the Lord our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles." The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. -2 Chronicles 32:11 | Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’ -2 Chronicles 32:12 | Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’ -2 Chronicles 32:13 | Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? -2 Chronicles 32:14 | Who was there amongst all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? -2 Chronicles 32:15 | Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?" -2 Chronicles 32:16 | His servants spoke yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. -2 Chronicles 32:17 | He also wrote letters insulting the Lord, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand." -2 Chronicles 32:18 | They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. -2 Chronicles 32:19 | They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands. -2 Chronicles 32:20 | Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. -2 Chronicles 32:21 | The Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword. -2 Chronicles 32:22 | Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. -2 Chronicles 32:23 | Many brought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on. -2 Chronicles 32:24 | In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to the Lord; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. -2 Chronicles 32:25 | But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 32:26 | Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the Lord’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah. -2 Chronicles 32:27 | Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honour. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; -2 Chronicles 32:28 | also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds. -2 Chronicles 32:29 | Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions. -2 Chronicles 33:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. -2 Chronicles 33:03 | For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them. -2 Chronicles 33:04 | He built altars in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." -2 Chronicles 33:05 | He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 33:06 | He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practised sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. -2 Chronicles 33:07 | He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. -2 Chronicles 33:08 | I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses." -2 Chronicles 33:09 | Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. -2 Chronicles 33:10 | The Lord spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen. -2 Chronicles 33:11 | Therefore the Lord brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. -2 Chronicles 33:12 | When he was in distress, he begged the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. -2 Chronicles 33:13 | He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God. -2 Chronicles 33:14 | Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. -2 Chronicles 33:15 | He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the Lord’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the Lord’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. -2 Chronicles 33:16 | He built up the Lord’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. -2 Chronicles 33:17 | Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to the Lord their God. -2 Chronicles 33:18 | Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are written amongst the acts of the kings of Israel. -2 Chronicles 33:19 | His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. -2 Chronicles 33:22 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. -2 Chronicles 33:23 | He didn’t humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. -2 Chronicles 33:24 | His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. -2 Chronicles 34:01 | Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 34:02 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. -2 Chronicles 34:03 | For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images. -2 Chronicles 34:04 | They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. -2 Chronicles 34:05 | He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 34:06 | He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. -2 Chronicles 34:07 | He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 34:08 | Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. -2 Chronicles 34:09 | They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 34:10 | They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the Lord’s house; and the workmen who laboured in the Lord’s house gave it to mend and repair the house. -2 Chronicles 34:11 | They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders, to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. -2 Chronicles 34:12 | The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skilful with musical instruments. -2 Chronicles 34:13 | Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. -2 Chronicles 34:14 | When they brought out the money that was brought into the Lord’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the Lord’s law given by Moses. -2 Chronicles 34:15 | Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s house." So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. -2 Chronicles 34:16 | Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, "All that was committed to your servants, they are doing. -2 Chronicles 34:17 | They have emptied out the money that was found in the Lord’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen." -2 Chronicles 34:18 | Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book." Shaphan read from it to the king. -2 Chronicles 34:19 | When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. -2 Chronicles 34:21 | "Go enquire of the Lord for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the Lord’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the Lord’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book." -2 Chronicles 34:22 | So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect. -2 Chronicles 34:23 | She said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, -2 Chronicles 34:24 | "The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. -2 Chronicles 34:25 | Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’"’ -2 Chronicles 34:26 | But to the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, you shall tell him this, ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says: "About the words which you have heard, -2 Chronicles 34:27 | because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you," says the Lord. -2 Chronicles 34:28 | "Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants." They brought back word to the king. -2 Chronicles 34:29 | Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 34:30 | The king went up to the Lord’s house, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 34:31 | The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. -2 Chronicles 34:32 | He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 34:33 | Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. -2 Chronicles 35:01 | Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. -2 Chronicles 35:02 | He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 35:03 | He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God, and his people Israel. -2 Chronicles 35:04 | Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. -2 Chronicles 35:05 | Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites. -2 Chronicles 35:06 | Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the Lord’s word by Moses." -2 Chronicles 35:07 | Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance. -2 Chronicles 35:08 | His princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle. -2 Chronicles 35:09 | Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle. -2 Chronicles 35:10 | So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment. -2 Chronicles 35:11 | They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites skinned them. -2 Chronicles 35:12 | They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. -2 Chronicles 35:13 | They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. -2 Chronicles 35:14 | Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron. -2 Chronicles 35:15 | The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them. -2 Chronicles 35:16 | So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the Lord’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah. -2 Chronicles 35:17 | The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. -2 Chronicles 35:18 | There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 35:19 | This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah. -2 Chronicles 35:20 | After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him. -2 Chronicles 35:21 | But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, "What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you." -2 Chronicles 35:22 | Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. -2 Chronicles 35:23 | The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!" -2 Chronicles 35:24 | So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. -2 Chronicles 35:25 | Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations. -2 Chronicles 35:26 | Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the Lord’s law, -2 Chronicles 35:27 | and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. -2 Chronicles 36:01 | Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 36:02 | Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 36:03 | The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. -2 Chronicles 36:04 | The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. -2 Chronicles 36:05 | Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the Lord his God’s sight. -2 Chronicles 36:06 | Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. -2 Chronicles 36:07 | Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the Lord’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. -2 Chronicles 36:08 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. -2 Chronicles 36:09 | Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. -2 Chronicles 36:10 | At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the Lord’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 36:11 | Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 36:12 | He did that which was evil in the Lord his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the Lord’s mouth. -2 Chronicles 36:13 | He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel. -2 Chronicles 36:14 | Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the Lord’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 36:15 | The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; -2 Chronicles 36:16 | but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy. -2 Chronicles 36:17 | Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or grey-headed. He gave them all into his hand. -2 Chronicles 36:18 | All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. -2 Chronicles 36:19 | They burnt God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels. -2 Chronicles 36:20 | He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, -2 Chronicles 36:21 | to fulfil the Lord’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfil seventy years. -2 Chronicles 3:01 | Then Solomon began to build the Lord’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. -2 Chronicles 3:02 | He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. -2 Chronicles 3:03 | Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. -2 Chronicles 3:04 | The porch that was in front, its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. -2 Chronicles 3:05 | He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. -2 Chronicles 3:06 | He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim. -2 Chronicles 3:07 | He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. -2 Chronicles 3:08 | He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. -2 Chronicles 3:09 | The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold. -2 Chronicles 3:10 | In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving; and they overlaid them with gold. -2 Chronicles 3:11 | The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. -2 Chronicles 3:12 | The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub. -2 Chronicles 3:13 | The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were towards the house. -2 Chronicles 3:14 | He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim. -2 Chronicles 3:15 | Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. -2 Chronicles 3:16 | He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. -2 Chronicles 3:17 | He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. -2 Chronicles 4:01 | Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. -2 Chronicles 4:02 | Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. -2 Chronicles 4:03 | Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. -2 Chronicles 4:04 | It stood on twelve oxen, three looking towards the north, and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards the south, and three looking towards the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. -2 Chronicles 4:05 | It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths. -2 Chronicles 4:06 | He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. -2 Chronicles 4:07 | He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. -2 Chronicles 4:08 | He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold. -2 Chronicles 4:09 | Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze. -2 Chronicles 4:10 | He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, towards the south. -2 Chronicles 4:11 | Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house: -2 Chronicles 4:12 | the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, -2 Chronicles 4:13 | and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. -2 Chronicles 4:14 | He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases; -2 Chronicles 4:16 | Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for the Lord’s house, of bright bronze. -2 Chronicles 4:17 | The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. -2 Chronicles 4:18 | Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the bronze could not be determined. -2 Chronicles 4:19 | Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them; -2 Chronicles 4:20 | and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; -2 Chronicles 4:21 | and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold; -2 Chronicles 4:22 | and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold. -2 Chronicles 5:01 | Thus all the work that Solomon did for the Lord’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house. -2 Chronicles 5:02 | Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. -2 Chronicles 5:03 | So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month. -2 Chronicles 5:04 | All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark; -2 Chronicles 5:05 | and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the Levitical priests brought up. -2 Chronicles 5:06 | King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. -2 Chronicles 5:07 | The priests brought in the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. -2 Chronicles 5:08 | For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. -2 Chronicles 5:09 | The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day. -2 Chronicles 5:10 | There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. -2 Chronicles 5:11 | When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions; -2 Chronicles 5:12 | also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets); -2 Chronicles 5:13 | when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!" then the house was filled with a cloud, even the Lord’s house, -2 Chronicles 5:14 | so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the Lord’s glory filled God’s house. -2 Chronicles 6:01 | Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. -2 Chronicles 6:02 | But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever." -2 Chronicles 6:03 | The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. -2 Chronicles 6:05 | ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel; -2 Chronicles 6:06 | but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ -2 Chronicles 6:07 | Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. -2 Chronicles 6:08 | But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart; -2 Chronicles 6:09 | nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ -2 Chronicles 6:10 | "The Lord has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. -2 Chronicles 6:11 | There I have set the ark, in which is the Lord’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel." -2 Chronicles 6:12 | He stood before the Lord’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands -2 Chronicles 6:13 | (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven) -2 Chronicles 6:14 | and he said, "LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; -2 Chronicles 6:15 | who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. -2 Chronicles 6:16 | "Now therefore, Lord, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’ -2 Chronicles 6:17 | Now therefore, Lord, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David. -2 Chronicles 6:18 | "But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built! -2 Chronicles 6:19 | Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; -2 Chronicles 6:20 | that your eyes may be open towards this house day and night, even towards the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray towards this place. -2 Chronicles 6:21 | Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray towards this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive. -2 Chronicles 6:22 | "If a man sins against his neighbour, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house; -2 Chronicles 6:23 | then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. -2 Chronicles 6:24 | "If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; -2 Chronicles 6:25 | then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers. -2 Chronicles 6:26 | "When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray towards this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them; -2 Chronicles 6:27 | then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. -2 Chronicles 6:28 | "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; -2 Chronicles 6:29 | whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands towards this house; -2 Chronicles 6:30 | then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men) -2 Chronicles 6:31 | that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. -2 Chronicles 6:32 | "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they come and pray towards this house; -2 Chronicles 6:33 | then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. -2 Chronicles 6:34 | "If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you towards this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; -2 Chronicles 6:35 | then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. -2 Chronicles 6:36 | "If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; -2 Chronicles 6:37 | yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’ -2 Chronicles 6:38 | if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray towards their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and towards the house which I have built for your name; -2 Chronicles 6:39 | then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. -2 Chronicles 6:40 | "Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. -2 Chronicles 6:41 | "Now therefore arise, Lord God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. -2 Chronicles 6:42 | "LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant." -2 Chronicles 7:01 | Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the Lord’s glory filled the house. -2 Chronicles 7:02 | The priests could not enter into the Lord’s house, because the Lord’s glory filled the Lord’s house. -2 Chronicles 7:03 | All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the Lord’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshipped, and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever." -2 Chronicles 7:04 | Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. -2 Chronicles 7:05 | King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house. -2 Chronicles 7:06 | The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the Lord, which David the king had made to give thanks to the Lord, when David praised by their ministry, saying "For his loving kindness endures forever." The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. -2 Chronicles 7:07 | Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before the Lord’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat. -2 Chronicles 7:08 | So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. -2 Chronicles 7:09 | On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. -2 Chronicles 7:10 | On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the Lord had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people. -2 Chronicles 7:11 | Thus Solomon finished the Lord’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the Lord’s house and in his own house. -2 Chronicles 7:12 | The Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice. -2 Chronicles 7:13 | "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence amongst my people; -2 Chronicles 7:14 | if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. -2 Chronicles 7:15 | Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place. -2 Chronicles 7:16 | For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. -2 Chronicles 7:17 | "As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; -2 Chronicles 7:18 | then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’ -2 Chronicles 7:19 | But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; -2 Chronicles 7:20 | then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples. -2 Chronicles 7:21 | This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this house?’ -2 Chronicles 7:22 | They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshipped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’" -2 Chronicles 8:01 | At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the Lord’s house and his own house, -2 Chronicles 8:02 | Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. -2 Chronicles 8:03 | Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it. -2 Chronicles 8:04 | He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath. -2 Chronicles 8:05 | Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; -2 Chronicles 8:06 | and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. -2 Chronicles 8:07 | As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; -2 Chronicles 8:08 | of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labour to this day. -2 Chronicles 8:09 | But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. -2 Chronicles 8:10 | These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people. -2 Chronicles 8:11 | Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the Lord’s ark has come are holy." -2 Chronicles 8:12 | Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the Lord’s altar, which he had built before the porch, -2 Chronicles 8:13 | even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths. -2 Chronicles 8:14 | He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded. -2 Chronicles 8:15 | They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. -2 Chronicles 8:16 | Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of the Lord’s house until it was finished. So the Lord’s house was completed. -2 Chronicles 8:17 | Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. -2 Chronicles 8:18 | Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. -2 Chronicles 9:01 | When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart. -2 Chronicles 9:02 | Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her. -2 Chronicles 9:03 | When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, -2 Chronicles 9:04 | the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the Lord’s house; there was no more spirit in her. -2 Chronicles 9:05 | She said to the king, "It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. -2 Chronicles 9:06 | However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard! -2 Chronicles 9:07 | Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. -2 Chronicles 9:08 | Blessed be the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness." -2 Chronicles 9:09 | She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. -2 Chronicles 9:10 | The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones. -2 Chronicles 9:11 | The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for the Lord’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah. -2 Chronicles 9:12 | King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants. -2 Chronicles 9:13 | Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, -2 Chronicles 9:14 | in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. -2 Chronicles 9:15 | King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one buckler. -2 Chronicles 9:16 | He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. -2 Chronicles 9:17 | Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. -2 Chronicles 9:18 | There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. -2 Chronicles 9:19 | Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom. -2 Chronicles 9:20 | All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. -2 Chronicles 9:21 | For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. -2 Chronicles 9:22 | So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. -2 Chronicles 9:23 | All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. -2 Chronicles 9:24 | They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armour, spices, horses, and mules every year. -2 Chronicles 9:25 | Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. -2 Chronicles 9:26 | He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. -2 Chronicles 9:27 | The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. -2 Chronicles 9:28 | They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands. -2 Chronicles 9:29 | Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? -2 Chronicles 9:30 | Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. -2 Chronicles 9:31 | Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. -2 Corinthians 10:01 | Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly amongst you, but being absent am bold towards you. -2 Corinthians 10:02 | Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh. -2 Corinthians 10:03 | For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; -2 Corinthians 10:04 | for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, -2 Corinthians 10:05 | throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, -2 Corinthians 10:06 | and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full. -2 Corinthians 10:07 | Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s. -2 Corinthians 10:08 | For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed, -2 Corinthians 10:09 | that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. -2 Corinthians 10:10 | For, "His letters", they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised." -2 Corinthians 10:11 | Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. -2 Corinthians 10:12 | For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. -2 Corinthians 10:13 | But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. -2 Corinthians 10:14 | For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ, -2 Corinthians 10:15 | not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labours, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, -2 Corinthians 10:16 | so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done. -2 Corinthians 10:17 | But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." -2 Corinthians 10:18 | For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends. -2 Corinthians 11:01 | I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. -2 Corinthians 11:02 | For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. -2 Corinthians 11:03 | But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. -2 Corinthians 11:04 | For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different "good news", which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough. -2 Corinthians 11:05 | For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. -2 Corinthians 11:06 | But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. -2 Corinthians 11:07 | Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? -2 Corinthians 11:08 | I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. -2 Corinthians 11:09 | When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. -2 Corinthians 11:10 | As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. -2 Corinthians 11:11 | Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows. -2 Corinthians 11:12 | But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we. -2 Corinthians 11:13 | For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. -2 Corinthians 11:14 | And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. -2 Corinthians 11:15 | It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. -2 Corinthians 11:16 | I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. -2 Corinthians 11:17 | That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. -2 Corinthians 11:18 | Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. -2 Corinthians 11:19 | For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. -2 Corinthians 11:20 | For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face. -2 Corinthians 11:21 | I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. -2 Corinthians 11:22 | Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I. -2 Corinthians 11:23 | Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often. -2 Corinthians 11:24 | Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. -2 Corinthians 11:25 | Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. -2 Corinthians 11:26 | I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils amongst false brothers; -2 Corinthians 11:27 | in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. -2 Corinthians 11:28 | Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. -2 Corinthians 11:29 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation? -2 Corinthians 11:30 | If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. -2 Corinthians 11:31 | The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. -2 Corinthians 11:32 | In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me. -2 Corinthians 11:33 | I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands. -2 Corinthians 12:01 | It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. -2 Corinthians 12:02 | I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. -2 Corinthians 12:03 | I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows), -2 Corinthians 12:04 | how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. -2 Corinthians 12:05 | On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. -2 Corinthians 12:06 | For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me. -2 Corinthians 12:07 | By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. -2 Corinthians 12:08 | Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. -2 Corinthians 12:09 | He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. -2 Corinthians 12:10 | Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong. -2 Corinthians 12:11 | I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. -2 Corinthians 12:12 | Truly the signs of an apostle were worked amongst you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works. -2 Corinthians 12:13 | For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong. -2 Corinthians 12:14 | Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. -2 Corinthians 12:15 | I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? -2 Corinthians 12:16 | Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. "But, being crafty, I caught you with deception." -2 Corinthians 12:17 | Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you? -2 Corinthians 12:18 | I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps? -2 Corinthians 12:19 | Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying. -2 Corinthians 12:20 | For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots, -2 Corinthians 12:21 | that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed. -2 Corinthians 13:01 | This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." -2 Corinthians 13:02 | I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare; -2 Corinthians 13:03 | seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who towards you is not weak, but is powerful in you. -2 Corinthians 13:04 | For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God towards you. -2 Corinthians 13:05 | Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. -2 Corinthians 13:06 | But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified. -2 Corinthians 13:07 | Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honourable, though we are as reprobate. -2 Corinthians 13:08 | For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. -2 Corinthians 13:09 | For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect. -2 Corinthians 13:10 | For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down. -2 Corinthians 13:11 | Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. -2 Corinthians 13:12 | Greet one another with a holy kiss. -2 Corinthians 13:13 | All the saints greet you. -2 Corinthians 13:14 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. -2 Corinthians 1:01 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: -2 Corinthians 1:02 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -2 Corinthians 1:03 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; -2 Corinthians 1:04 | who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. -2 Corinthians 1:05 | For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. -2 Corinthians 1:06 | But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. -2 Corinthians 1:07 | Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort. -2 Corinthians 1:08 | For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. -2 Corinthians 1:09 | Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, -2 Corinthians 1:10 | who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; -2 Corinthians 1:11 | you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf. -2 Corinthians 1:12 | For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you. -2 Corinthians 1:13 | For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end, -2 Corinthians 1:14 | as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. -2 Corinthians 1:15 | In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit, -2 Corinthians 1:16 | and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. -2 Corinthians 1:17 | When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" -2 Corinthians 1:18 | But as God is faithful, our word towards you was not "Yes and no." -2 Corinthians 1:19 | For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached amongst you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes." -2 Corinthians 1:20 | For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen", to the glory of God through us. -2 Corinthians 1:21 | Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, -2 Corinthians 1:22 | who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. -2 Corinthians 1:23 | But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you. -2 Corinthians 1:24 | We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith. -2 Corinthians 2:01 | But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. -2 Corinthians 2:02 | For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me? -2 Corinthians 2:03 | And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you. -2 Corinthians 2:04 | For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. -2 Corinthians 2:05 | But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. -2 Corinthians 2:06 | This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one; -2 Corinthians 2:07 | so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. -2 Corinthians 2:08 | Therefore I beg you to confirm your love towards him. -2 Corinthians 2:09 | For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. -2 Corinthians 2:10 | Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, -2 Corinthians 2:11 | that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. -2 Corinthians 2:12 | Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, -2 Corinthians 2:13 | I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia. -2 Corinthians 2:14 | Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. -2 Corinthians 2:15 | For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish: -2 Corinthians 2:16 | to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? -2 Corinthians 2:17 | For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ. -2 Corinthians 3:01 | Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? -2 Corinthians 3:02 | You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, -2 Corinthians 3:03 | being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. -2 Corinthians 3:04 | Such confidence we have through Christ towards God, -2 Corinthians 3:05 | not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, -2 Corinthians 3:06 | who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. -2 Corinthians 3:07 | But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away, -2 Corinthians 3:08 | won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory? -2 Corinthians 3:09 | For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. -2 Corinthians 3:10 | For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses. -2 Corinthians 3:11 | For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. -2 Corinthians 3:12 | Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, -2 Corinthians 3:13 | and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away. -2 Corinthians 3:14 | But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. -2 Corinthians 3:15 | But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. -2 Corinthians 3:16 | But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. -2 Corinthians 3:17 | Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. -2 Corinthians 3:18 | But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit. -2 Corinthians 4:01 | Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. -2 Corinthians 4:02 | But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. -2 Corinthians 4:03 | Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying, -2 Corinthians 4:04 | in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. -2 Corinthians 4:05 | For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake, -2 Corinthians 4:06 | seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. -2 Corinthians 4:07 | But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. -2 Corinthians 4:08 | We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; -2 Corinthians 4:09 | pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; -2 Corinthians 4:10 | always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. -2 Corinthians 4:11 | For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. -2 Corinthians 4:12 | So then death works in us, but life in you. -2 Corinthians 4:13 | But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke." We also believe, and therefore we also speak; -2 Corinthians 4:14 | knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you. -2 Corinthians 4:15 | For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. -2 Corinthians 4:16 | Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day. -2 Corinthians 4:17 | For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, -2 Corinthians 4:18 | while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. -2 Corinthians 5:01 | For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. -2 Corinthians 5:02 | For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, -2 Corinthians 5:03 | if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked. -2 Corinthians 5:04 | For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. -2 Corinthians 5:05 | Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. -2 Corinthians 5:06 | Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; -2 Corinthians 5:07 | for we walk by faith, not by sight. -2 Corinthians 5:08 | We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. -2 Corinthians 5:09 | Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. -2 Corinthians 5:10 | For we must all be revealed before the judgement seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. -2 Corinthians 5:11 | Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences. -2 Corinthians 5:12 | For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart. -2 Corinthians 5:13 | For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. -2 Corinthians 5:14 | For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. -2 Corinthians 5:15 | He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again. -2 Corinthians 5:16 | Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. -2 Corinthians 5:17 | Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. -2 Corinthians 5:18 | But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; -2 Corinthians 5:19 | namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. -2 Corinthians 5:20 | We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. -2 Corinthians 5:21 | For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. -2 Corinthians 6:01 | Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain, -2 Corinthians 6:02 | for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. -2 Corinthians 6:03 | We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed, -2 Corinthians 6:04 | but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, -2 Corinthians 6:05 | in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; -2 Corinthians 6:06 | in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love, -2 Corinthians 6:07 | in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, -2 Corinthians 6:08 | by glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; -2 Corinthians 6:09 | as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed; -2 Corinthians 6:10 | as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. -2 Corinthians 6:11 | Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. -2 Corinthians 6:12 | You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. -2 Corinthians 6:13 | Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts. -2 Corinthians 6:14 | Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? -2 Corinthians 6:15 | What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever? -2 Corinthians 6:16 | What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people." -2 Corinthians 6:17 | Therefore "‘Come out from amongst them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. -2 Corinthians 6:18 | I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty." -2 Corinthians 7:01 | Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. -2 Corinthians 7:02 | Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one. -2 Corinthians 7:03 | I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together. -2 Corinthians 7:04 | Great is my boldness of speech towards you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction. -2 Corinthians 7:05 | For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside. -2 Corinthians 7:06 | Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus, -2 Corinthians 7:07 | and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. -2 Corinthians 7:08 | For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while. -2 Corinthians 7:09 | I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. -2 Corinthians 7:10 | For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death. -2 Corinthians 7:11 | For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defence, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter. -2 Corinthians 7:12 | So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God. -2 Corinthians 7:13 | Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. -2 Corinthians 7:14 | For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth. -2 Corinthians 7:15 | His affection is more abundantly towards you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him. -2 Corinthians 7:16 | I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you. -2 Corinthians 8:01 | Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, -2 Corinthians 8:02 | how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity. -2 Corinthians 8:03 | For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, -2 Corinthians 8:04 | begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints. -2 Corinthians 8:05 | This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. -2 Corinthians 8:06 | So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace. -2 Corinthians 8:07 | But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace. -2 Corinthians 8:08 | I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. -2 Corinthians 8:09 | For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich. -2 Corinthians 8:10 | I give a judgement in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing. -2 Corinthians 8:11 | But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability. -2 Corinthians 8:12 | For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have. -2 Corinthians 8:13 | For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed, -2 Corinthians 8:14 | but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality. -2 Corinthians 8:15 | As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack." -2 Corinthians 8:16 | But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. -2 Corinthians 8:17 | For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord. -2 Corinthians 8:18 | We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies. -2 Corinthians 8:19 | Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. -2 Corinthians 8:20 | We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us. -2 Corinthians 8:21 | Having regard for honourable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. -2 Corinthians 8:22 | We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. -2 Corinthians 8:23 | As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ. -2 Corinthians 8:24 | Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf. -2 Corinthians 9:01 | It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, -2 Corinthians 9:02 | for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. -2 Corinthians 9:03 | But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, -2 Corinthians 9:04 | lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting. -2 Corinthians 9:05 | I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. -2 Corinthians 9:06 | Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. -2 Corinthians 9:07 | Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. -2 Corinthians 9:08 | And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. -2 Corinthians 9:09 | As it is written, "He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever." -2 Corinthians 9:10 | Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, -2 Corinthians 9:11 | you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. -2 Corinthians 9:12 | For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack amongst the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God, -2 Corinthians 9:13 | seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all, -2 Corinthians 9:14 | while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. -2 Corinthians 9:15 | Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift! -2 John 1:01 | The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth, -2 John 1:02 | for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: -2 John 1:03 | Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. -2 John 1:04 | I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father. -2 John 1:05 | Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. -2 John 1:06 | This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. -2 John 1:07 | For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. -2 John 1:08 | Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward. -2 John 1:09 | Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. -2 John 1:10 | If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him, -2 John 1:11 | for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds. -2 John 1:12 | Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. -2 John 1:13 | The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen. -2 Kings 10:02 | "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armour, -2 Kings 10:03 | Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house." -2 Kings 10:04 | But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?" -2 Kings 10:05 | He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes." -2 Kings 10:06 | Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time." Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. -2 Kings 10:07 | When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel. -2 Kings 10:08 | A messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king’s sons." He said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning." -2 Kings 10:09 | In the morning, he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? -2 Kings 10:10 | Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of the Lord’s word, which the Lord spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For the Lord has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah." -2 Kings 10:11 | So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining. -2 Kings 10:12 | He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way, -2 Kings 10:13 | Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?" They answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen." -2 Kings 10:14 | He said, "Take them alive!" They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them. -2 Kings 10:15 | When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" Jehonadab answered, "It is." "If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. -2 Kings 10:16 | He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord." So they made him ride in his chariot. -2 Kings 10:17 | When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke to Elijah. -2 Kings 10:18 | Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. -2 Kings 10:19 | Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live." But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshippers of Baal. -2 Kings 10:20 | Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!" So they proclaimed it. -2 Kings 10:21 | Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another. -2 Kings 10:22 | He said to him who kept the wardrobe, "Bring out robes for all the worshippers of Baal!" So he brought robes out to them. -2 Kings 10:30 | The Lord said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." -2 Kings 11:03 | He was with her hidden in the Lord’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land. -2 Kings 11:04 | In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the Lord’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the Lord’s house, and showed them the king’s son. -2 Kings 11:05 | He commanded them, saying, "This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; -2 Kings 11:06 | a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. -2 Kings 11:07 | The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the Lord’s house around the king. -2 Kings 11:08 | You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in." -2 Kings 11:09 | The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. -2 Kings 11:10 | The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 11:11 | The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king. -2 Kings 11:12 | Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!" -2 Kings 11:13 | When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the Lord’s house: -2 Kings 11:14 | and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!" -2 Kings 11:15 | Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword." For the priest said, "Don’t let her be slain in the Lord’s house." -2 Kings 11:16 | So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there. -2 Kings 11:17 | Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; also between the king and the people. -2 Kings 11:18 | All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 11:19 | He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the Lord’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings. -2 Kings 11:20 | So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house. -2 Kings 12:01 | Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. -2 Kings 12:02 | Jehoash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. -2 Kings 12:03 | However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. -2 Kings 12:04 | Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the Lord’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the Lord’s house, -2 Kings 12:05 | let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found." -2 Kings 12:06 | But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. -2 Kings 12:07 | Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, "Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house." -2 Kings 12:08 | The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house. -2 Kings 12:09 | But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the Lord’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the Lord’s house into it. -2 Kings 12:10 | When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 12:11 | They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the Lord’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the Lord’s house, -2 Kings 12:12 | and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. -2 Kings 12:13 | But there were not made for the Lord’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the Lord’s house; -2 Kings 12:14 | for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the Lord’s house with it. -2 Kings 12:15 | Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. -2 Kings 12:16 | The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the Lord’s house. It was the priests’. -2 Kings 12:17 | Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. -2 Kings 12:18 | Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the Lord’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem. -2 Kings 12:19 | Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? -2 Kings 12:20 | His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. -2 Kings 12:21 | For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. -2 Kings 17:17 | They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. -2 Kings 17:18 | Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only. -2 Kings 17:19 | Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. -2 Kings 17:20 | The Lord rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight. -2 Kings 17:21 | For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin. -2 Kings 17:22 | The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them -2 Kings 17:23 | until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. -2 Kings 17:24 | The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities. -2 Kings 17:25 | So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions amongst them, which killed some of them. -2 Kings 17:26 | Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions amongst them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land." -2 Kings 17:27 | Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land." -2 Kings 17:28 | So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord. -2 Kings 17:29 | However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. -2 Kings 17:30 | The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, -2 Kings 17:31 | and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. -2 Kings 17:32 | So they feared the Lord, and also made from amongst themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. -2 Kings 17:33 | They feared the Lord, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from amongst whom they had been carried away. -2 Kings 17:34 | To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; -2 Kings 17:35 | with whom the Lord had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; -2 Kings 17:36 | but you shall fear the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him. -2 Kings 17:37 | The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods. -2 Kings 17:38 | You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods. -2 Kings 17:39 | But you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies." -2 Kings 17:40 | However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before. -2 Kings 17:41 | So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day. -2 Kings 18:01 | Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. -2 Kings 18:02 | He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. -2 Kings 18:03 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done. -2 Kings 18:04 | He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. -2 Kings 18:05 | He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him amongst all the kings of Judah, nor amongst them that were before him. -2 Kings 18:06 | For he joined with the Lord. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. -2 Kings 18:07 | The Lord was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him. -2 Kings 18:08 | He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. -2 Kings 18:09 | In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. -2 Kings 18:10 | At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. -2 Kings 18:11 | The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, -2 Kings 18:12 | because they didn’t obey the Lord their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear it or do it. -2 Kings 18:13 | Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. -2 Kings 18:15 | Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the Lord’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house. -2 Kings 18:16 | At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the Lord’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. -2 Kings 18:17 | The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. -2 Kings 18:18 | When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them. -2 Kings 18:19 | Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, "What confidence is this in which you trust? -2 Kings 18:20 | You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? -2 Kings 18:21 | Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him. -2 Kings 18:22 | But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’ -2 Kings 18:23 | Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. -2 Kings 18:24 | How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? -2 Kings 18:25 | Have I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? the Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’" -2 Kings 18:26 | Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." -2 Kings 18:27 | But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?" -2 Kings 18:28 | Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. -2 Kings 18:29 | The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. -2 Kings 18:30 | Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." -2 Kings 18:31 | Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern; -2 Kings 18:32 | until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "The Lord will deliver us." -2 Kings 18:33 | Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? -2 Kings 18:34 | Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? -2 Kings 18:35 | Who are they amongst all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’" -2 Kings 18:36 | But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, "Don’t answer him." -2 Kings 19:01 | When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 19:02 | He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. -2 Kings 19:03 | They said to him, "Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. -2 Kings 19:04 | It may be the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’" -2 Kings 19:06 | Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master this: ‘The Lord says, "Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. -2 Kings 19:07 | Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." -2 Kings 19:10 | ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: "Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. -2 Kings 19:11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? -2 Kings 19:12 | Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? -2 Kings 19:13 | Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?" -2 Kings 19:14 | Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s house, and spread it before the Lord. -2 Kings 19:15 | Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, "LORD, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. -2 Kings 19:16 | Incline your ear, Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, Lord, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. -2 Kings 19:17 | Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, -2 Kings 19:18 | and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. -2 Kings 19:19 | Now therefore, Lord our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are God alone." -2 Kings 19:20 | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you. -2 Kings 19:21 | This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. -2 Kings 19:22 | Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! -2 Kings 19:23 | By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. -2 Kings 19:24 | I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet." -2 Kings 19:25 | Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. -2 Kings 19:26 | Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up. -2 Kings 19:27 | But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. -2 Kings 19:28 | Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’ -2 Kings 19:29 | "This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. -2 Kings 19:30 | The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. -2 Kings 19:31 | For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The Lord’s zeal will perform this. -2 Kings 19:32 | "Therefore the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. -2 Kings 19:33 | He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says the Lord. -2 Kings 19:34 | ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’" -2 Kings 19:35 | That night, the Lord’s angel went out, and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. -2 Kings 19:37 | As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. -2 Kings 1:02 | Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, "Go, enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness." -2 Kings 1:03 | But the Lord’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? -2 Kings 1:04 | Now therefore the Lord says, "You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die." Then Elijah departed. -2 Kings 1:05 | The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why is it that you have returned?" -2 Kings 1:06 | They said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, "The Lord says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’" -2 Kings 1:07 | He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?" -2 Kings 1:08 | They answered him, "He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist." He said, "It’s Elijah the Tishbite." -2 Kings 1:09 | Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’" -2 Kings 1:10 | Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. -2 Kings 1:11 | Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’" -2 Kings 1:12 | Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. -2 Kings 1:13 | Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight. -2 Kings 1:14 | Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight." -2 Kings 1:15 | The Lord’s angel said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him." Then he arose, and went down with him to the king. -2 Kings 1:16 | He said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’" -2 Kings 1:17 | So he died according to the Lord’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son. -2 Kings 20:03 | "Remember now, Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. -2 Kings 20:05 | "Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘The Lord, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 20:06 | I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake." -2 Kings 20:07 | Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. -2 Kings 20:08 | Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the Lord’s house the third day?" -2 Kings 20:09 | Isaiah said, "This will be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?" -2 Kings 20:10 | Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps." -2 Kings 20:11 | Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz. -2 Kings 20:12 | At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. -2 Kings 20:13 | Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them. -2 Kings 20:14 | Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, even from Babylon." -2 Kings 20:15 | He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them." -2 Kings 20:17 | ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. -2 Kings 20:18 | ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’" -2 Kings 20:19 | Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The Lord’s word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?" -2 Kings 20:20 | Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? -2 Kings 20:21 | Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place. -2 Kings 21:01 | Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. -2 Kings 21:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. -2 Kings 21:03 | For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them. -2 Kings 21:04 | He built altars in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem." -2 Kings 21:05 | He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 21:06 | He made his son to pass through the fire, practised sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. -2 Kings 21:07 | He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever; -2 Kings 21:08 | I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them." -2 Kings 21:09 | But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. -2 Kings 21:11 | "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols; -2 Kings 21:12 | therefore the Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. -2 Kings 21:13 | I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. -2 Kings 21:14 | I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies, -2 Kings 21:15 | because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’" -2 Kings 21:16 | Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. -2 Kings 22:02 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. -2 Kings 22:05 | Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the Lord’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the Lord’s house, to repair the damage to the house, -2 Kings 22:06 | to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. -2 Kings 22:07 | However no accounting shall be made with them of the money delivered into their hand; for they deal faithfully." -2 Kings 22:08 | Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s house." Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. -2 Kings 22:09 | Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of the Lord’s house." -2 Kings 22:10 | Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me." Then Shaphan read it before the king. -2 Kings 22:11 | When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. -2 Kings 22:13 | "Go enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us." -2 Kings 22:14 | So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her. -2 Kings 22:15 | She said to them, "The Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, -2 Kings 22:16 | "The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. -2 Kings 22:17 | Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’" -2 Kings 22:18 | But to the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of The Lord, tell him, "the Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard, -2 Kings 22:19 | because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says the Lord. -2 Kings 22:20 | ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’" So they brought this message back to the king. -2 Kings 23:01 | The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. -2 Kings 23:02 | The king went up to the Lord’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 23:03 | The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant. -2 Kings 23:04 | The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burnt them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. -2 Kings 23:05 | He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burnt incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. -2 Kings 23:06 | He brought out the Asherah from the Lord’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. -2 Kings 23:07 | He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the Lord’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. -2 Kings 23:08 | He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city. -2 Kings 23:09 | Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread amongst their brothers. -2 Kings 23:10 | He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. -2 Kings 23:11 | He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the Lord’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burnt the chariots of the sun with fire. -2 Kings 23:12 | The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the Lord’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. -2 Kings 23:13 | The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon. -2 Kings 23:14 | He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones. -2 Kings 23:15 | Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burnt the high place and beat it to dust, and burnt the Asherah. -2 Kings 23:16 | As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burnt them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the Lord’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. -2 Kings 23:17 | Then he said, "What monument is that which I see?" The men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel." -2 Kings 23:18 | He said, "Let him be! Let no one move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. -2 Kings 23:19 | All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. -2 Kings 23:20 | He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burnt men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem. -2 Kings 23:21 | The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant." -2 Kings 23:22 | Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; -2 Kings 23:23 | but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem. -2 Kings 23:24 | Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the Lord’s house. -2 Kings 23:25 | There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him. -2 Kings 23:26 | Notwithstanding, the Lord didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burnt against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. -2 Kings 23:27 | The Lord said, "I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’" -2 Kings 24:03 | Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, -2 Kings 24:04 | and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon. -2 Kings 2:01 | When the Lord was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. -2 Kings 2:02 | Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel." Elisha said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel. -2 Kings 2:03 | The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from your head today?" He said, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace." -2 Kings 2:04 | Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho." He said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho. -2 Kings 2:05 | The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from your head today?" He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace." -2 Kings 2:06 | Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." Then they both went on. -2 Kings 2:07 | Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan. -2 Kings 2:08 | Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground. -2 Kings 2:09 | When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me." -2 Kings 2:10 | He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so." -2 Kings 2:11 | As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. -2 Kings 2:12 | Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. -2 Kings 2:13 | He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. -2 Kings 2:14 | He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?" When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over. -2 Kings 2:15 | When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. -2 Kings 2:16 | They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Lord’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley." He said, "Don’t send them." -2 Kings 2:17 | When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, "Send them." Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him. -2 Kings 2:18 | They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’" -2 Kings 2:19 | The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren." -2 Kings 2:20 | He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." Then they brought it to him. -2 Kings 2:21 | He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "The Lord says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’" -2 Kings 2:22 | So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke. -2 Kings 2:23 | He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!" -2 Kings 2:24 | He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the Lord’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths. -2 Kings 2:25 | He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. -2 Kings 3:01 | Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. -2 Kings 3:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. -2 Kings 3:03 | Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them. -2 Kings 3:04 | Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams. -2 Kings 3:05 | But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. -2 Kings 3:06 | King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. -2 Kings 3:07 | He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?" He said, "I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." -2 Kings 3:08 | He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom." -2 Kings 3:09 | So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them. -2 Kings 3:10 | The king of Israel said, "Alas! For the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab." -2 Kings 3:11 | But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there a prophet of the Lord here, that we may enquire of the Lord by him?" One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here." -2 Kings 3:12 | Jehoshaphat said, "The Lord’s word is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. -2 Kings 3:13 | Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab." -2 Kings 3:14 | Elisha said, "As the Lord of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look towards you, nor see you. -2 Kings 3:15 | But now bring me a musician." When the musician played, the Lord’s hand came on him. -2 Kings 3:16 | He said, "The Lord says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ -2 Kings 3:17 | For the Lord says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals. -2 Kings 3:18 | This is an easy thing in the Lord’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. -2 Kings 3:19 | You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’" -2 Kings 3:20 | In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. -2 Kings 3:21 | Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armour, young and old, and stood on the border. -2 Kings 3:22 | They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. -2 Kings 3:23 | They said, "This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!" -2 Kings 3:24 | When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites. -2 Kings 3:25 | They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it. -2 Kings 3:26 | When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. -2 Kings 3:27 | Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land. -2 Kings 4:01 | Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves." -2 Kings 4:02 | Elisha said to her, "What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil." -2 Kings 4:03 | Then he said, "Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbours. Don’t borrow just a few containers. -2 Kings 4:04 | Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full." -2 Kings 4:05 | So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil. -2 Kings 4:06 | When the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn’t another container." Then the oil stopped flowing. -2 Kings 4:07 | Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest." -2 Kings 4:08 | One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. -2 Kings 4:09 | She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually. -2 Kings 4:10 | Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there." -2 Kings 4:11 | One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there. -2 Kings 4:12 | He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him. -2 Kings 4:13 | He said to him, "Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’" She answered, "I dwell amongst my own people." -2 Kings 4:14 | He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old." -2 Kings 4:15 | He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door. -2 Kings 4:16 | He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant." -2 Kings 4:17 | The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her. -2 Kings 4:18 | When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers. -2 Kings 4:19 | He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother." -2 Kings 4:20 | When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. -2 Kings 4:21 | She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out. -2 Kings 4:22 | She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again." -2 Kings 4:23 | He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath." She said, "It’s all right." -2 Kings 4:24 | Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to." -2 Kings 4:25 | So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite. -2 Kings 4:26 | Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’" She answered, "It is well." -2 Kings 4:27 | When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me." -2 Kings 4:28 | Then she said, "Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?" -2 Kings 4:29 | Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face." -2 Kings 4:30 | The child’s mother said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So he arose, and followed her. -2 Kings 4:31 | Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, "The child has not awakened." -2 Kings 4:32 | When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed. -2 Kings 4:33 | He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to the Lord. -2 Kings 4:34 | He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm. -2 Kings 4:35 | Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. -2 Kings 4:36 | He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son." -2 Kings 4:37 | Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out. -2 Kings 4:38 | Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets." -2 Kings 4:39 | One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognise them. -2 Kings 4:40 | So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it. -2 Kings 4:41 | But he said, "Then bring meal." He threw it into the pot; and he said, "Serve it to the people, that they may eat." And there was nothing harmful in the pot. -2 Kings 4:42 | A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat." -2 Kings 4:43 | His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for the Lord says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’" -2 Kings 4:44 | So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the Lord’s word. -2 Kings 5:02 | The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. -2 Kings 5:03 | She said to her mistress, "I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy." -2 Kings 5:04 | Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, "The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this." -2 Kings 5:05 | The king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing. -2 Kings 5:06 | He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy." -2 Kings 5:07 | When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me." -2 Kings 5:08 | It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." -2 Kings 5:09 | So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. -2 Kings 5:10 | Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean." -2 Kings 5:11 | But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’ -2 Kings 5:12 | Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. -2 Kings 5:13 | His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’" -2 Kings 5:14 | Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. -2 Kings 5:15 | He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant." -2 Kings 5:16 | But he said, "As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none." He urged him to take it; but he refused. -2 Kings 5:17 | Naaman said, "If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord. -2 Kings 5:18 | In this thing may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant in this thing." -2 Kings 5:19 | He said to him, "Go in peace." So he departed from him a little way. -2 Kings 5:20 | But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him, and take something from him." -2 Kings 5:21 | So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?" -2 Kings 5:22 | He said, "All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’" -2 Kings 5:23 | Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him. -2 Kings 5:24 | When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. -2 Kings 5:25 | But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, "Where did you come from, Gehazi?" He said, "Your servant went nowhere." -2 Kings 5:26 | He said to him, "Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? -2 Kings 5:27 | Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever." He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow. -2 Kings 6:01 | The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us. -2 Kings 6:02 | Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live." He answered, "Go!" -2 Kings 6:03 | One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go." -2 Kings 6:04 | So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. -2 Kings 6:05 | But as one was cutting down a tree, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed." -2 Kings 6:06 | The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. -2 Kings 6:07 | He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it. -2 Kings 6:08 | Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place." -2 Kings 6:09 | The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there." -2 Kings 6:10 | The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice. -2 Kings 6:11 | The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, "Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?" -2 Kings 6:12 | One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom." -2 Kings 6:13 | He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." He was told, "Behold, he is in Dothan." -2 Kings 6:14 | Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city. -2 Kings 6:15 | When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" -2 Kings 6:16 | He answered, "Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." -2 Kings 6:17 | Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD, please open his eyes, that he may see." the Lord opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. -2 Kings 6:18 | When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to Elisha’s word. -2 Kings 6:19 | Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria. -2 Kings 6:20 | When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, "LORD, open these men’s eyes, that they may see." The Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria. -2 Kings 6:21 | The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?" -2 Kings 6:22 | He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master." -2 Kings 6:23 | He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel. -2 Kings 6:24 | After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. -2 Kings 6:25 | There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. -2 Kings 6:26 | As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!" -2 Kings 6:27 | He said, "If the Lord doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" -2 Kings 6:28 | The king said to her, "What is your problem?" She answered, "This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ -2 Kings 6:29 | So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son." -2 Kings 6:30 | When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body. -2 Kings 6:31 | Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today." -2 Kings 6:32 | But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?" -2 Kings 6:33 | While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Behold, this evil is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?" -2 Kings 7:01 | Elisha said, "Hear the Lord’s word. The Lord says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’" -2 Kings 7:02 | Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if the Lord made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it." -2 Kings 7:03 | Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, "Why do we sit here until we die? -2 Kings 7:04 | If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die." -2 Kings 7:05 | They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there. -2 Kings 7:06 | For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us." -2 Kings 7:07 | Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. -2 Kings 7:08 | When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them. -2 Kings 7:09 | Then they said to one another, "We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household." -2 Kings 7:10 | So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were." -2 Kings 7:11 | He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king’s household within. -2 Kings 7:12 | The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’" -2 Kings 7:13 | One of his servants answered, "Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let’s send and see." -2 Kings 7:14 | Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see." -2 Kings 7:15 | They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king. -2 Kings 7:16 | The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the Lord’s word. -2 Kings 7:17 | The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. -2 Kings 7:18 | It happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria" -2 Kings 7:19 | and that captain answered the man of God, and said, "Now, behold, if the Lord made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?" and he said, "Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it." -2 Kings 7:20 | It happened like that to him; for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died. -2 Kings 8:01 | Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years." -2 Kings 8:02 | The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. -2 Kings 8:03 | At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land. -2 Kings 8:04 | Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done." -2 Kings 8:05 | As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life." -2 Kings 8:06 | When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now." -2 Kings 8:07 | Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, "The man of God has come here." -2 Kings 8:08 | The king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’" -2 Kings 8:09 | So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’" -2 Kings 8:10 | Elisha said to him, "Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however the Lord has shown me that he will surely die." -2 Kings 8:11 | He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept. -2 Kings 8:12 | Hazael said, "Why do you weep, my lord?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women." -2 Kings 8:13 | Hazael said, "But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Syria." -2 Kings 9:04 | So the young man, even the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. -2 Kings 9:05 | When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, "I have a message for you, captain." Jehu said, "To which of us all?" He said, "To you, O captain." -2 Kings 9:06 | He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel. -2 Kings 9:07 | You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel. -2 Kings 9:08 | For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. -2 Kings 9:09 | I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. -2 Kings 9:10 | The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’" Then he opened the door and fled. -2 Kings 9:12 | They said, "That is a lie. Tell us now." He said, "He said to me, ‘The Lord says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’" -2 Kings 9:13 | Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, "Jehu is king." -2 Kings 9:17 | Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’" -2 Kings 9:18 | So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, "the king says, ‘Is it peace?’" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" The watchman said, "The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back." -2 Kings 9:19 | Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, "The king says, ‘Is it peace?’" Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" -2 Kings 9:20 | The watchman said, "He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." -2 Kings 9:21 | Joram said, "Get ready!" They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land. -2 Kings 9:22 | When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?" -2 Kings 9:23 | Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, "This is treason, Ahaziah!" -2 Kings 9:24 | Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. -2 Kings 9:25 | Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden on him: -2 Kings 9:26 | ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the Lord’s word." -2 Kings 9:27 | But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, "Strike him also in the chariot!" They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. -2 Kings 9:28 | His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city. -2 Kings 9:31 | As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, "Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?" -2 Kings 9:32 | He lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. -2 Kings 9:33 | He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot. -2 Kings 9:34 | When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter." -2 Kings 9:35 | They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands. -2 Kings 9:36 | Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, "This is the Lord’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel, -2 Kings 9:37 | and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, "This is Jezebel." -2 Peter 1:01 | Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ: -2 Peter 1:02 | Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, -2 Peter 1:03 | seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, -2 Peter 1:04 | by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. -2 Peter 1:05 | Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; -2 Peter 1:06 | and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; -2 Peter 1:07 | and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. -2 Peter 1:08 | For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. -2 Peter 1:09 | For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. -2 Peter 1:10 | Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. -2 Peter 1:11 | For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. -2 Peter 1:12 | Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. -2 Peter 1:13 | I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, -2 Peter 1:14 | knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. -2 Peter 1:15 | Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure. -2 Peter 1:16 | For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. -2 Peter 1:17 | For he received from God the Father honour and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." -2 Peter 1:18 | We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. -2 Peter 1:19 | We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts: -2 Peter 1:20 | knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. -2 Peter 1:21 | For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit. -2 Peter 2:01 | But false prophets also arose amongst the people, as false teachers will also be amongst you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. -2 Peter 2:02 | Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. -2 Peter 2:03 | In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. -2 Peter 2:04 | For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgement; -2 Peter 2:05 | and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; -2 Peter 2:06 | and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way; -2 Peter 2:07 | and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked -2 Peter 2:08 | (for that righteous man dwelling amongst them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): -2 Peter 2:09 | the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement, -2 Peter 2:10 | but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; -2 Peter 2:11 | whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgement against them before the Lord. -2 Peter 2:12 | But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, -2 Peter 2:13 | receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, revelling in their deceit while they feast with you; -2 Peter 2:14 | having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; -2 Peter 2:15 | forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; -2 Peter 2:16 | but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. -2 Peter 2:17 | These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. -2 Peter 2:18 | For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; -2 Peter 2:19 | promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him. -2 Peter 2:20 | For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. -2 Peter 2:21 | For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. -2 Peter 2:22 | But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire." -2 Peter 3:01 | This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you -2 Peter 3:02 | that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: -2 Peter 3:03 | knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts -2 Peter 3:04 | and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." -2 Peter 3:05 | For this they wilfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God, -2 Peter 3:06 | by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished. -2 Peter 3:07 | But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgement and destruction of ungodly men. -2 Peter 3:08 | But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. -2 Peter 3:09 | The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. -2 Peter 3:10 | But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burnt up. -2 Peter 3:11 | Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, -2 Peter 3:12 | looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? -2 Peter 3:13 | But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. -2 Peter 3:14 | Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight. -2 Peter 3:15 | Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, -2 Peter 3:16 | as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. -2 Peter 3:17 | You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. -2 Peter 3:18 | But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. -2 Samuel 10:01 | After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. -2 Samuel 10:02 | David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. -2 Samuel 10:03 | But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honours your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" -2 Samuel 10:04 | So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. -2 Samuel 10:05 | When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return." -2 Samuel 10:06 | When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men. -2 Samuel 10:07 | When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. -2 Samuel 10:08 | The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. -2 Samuel 10:09 | Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. -2 Samuel 10:10 | The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. -2 Samuel 10:11 | He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. -2 Samuel 10:12 | Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him." -2 Samuel 10:13 | So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. -2 Samuel 10:14 | When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 10:15 | When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. -2 Samuel 10:16 | Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. -2 Samuel 10:17 | David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. -2 Samuel 10:18 | The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there. -2 Samuel 10:19 | When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more. -2 Samuel 11:01 | At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 11:02 | At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at. -2 Samuel 11:03 | David sent and enquired after the woman. One said, "Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?" -2 Samuel 11:04 | David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. -2 Samuel 11:05 | The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child." -2 Samuel 11:06 | David sent to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David. -2 Samuel 11:07 | When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. -2 Samuel 11:08 | David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him. -2 Samuel 11:09 | But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house. -2 Samuel 11:10 | When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn’t go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?" -2 Samuel 11:11 | Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!" -2 Samuel 11:12 | David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day. -2 Samuel 11:13 | When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house. -2 Samuel 11:14 | In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. -2 Samuel 11:15 | He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die." -2 Samuel 11:16 | When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. -2 Samuel 11:17 | The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also. -2 Samuel 11:20 | it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall? -2 Samuel 11:21 | Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’" -2 Samuel 11:22 | So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. -2 Samuel 11:23 | The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate. -2 Samuel 11:24 | The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead." -2 Samuel 11:25 | Then David said to the messenger, "Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him." -2 Samuel 11:26 | When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. -2 Samuel 11:27 | When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. -2 Samuel 12:01 | The Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. -2 Samuel 12:03 | but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him. -2 Samuel 12:04 | A traveller came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him." -2 Samuel 12:05 | David’s anger burnt hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die! -2 Samuel 12:06 | He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!" -2 Samuel 12:07 | Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. -2 Samuel 12:08 | I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things. -2 Samuel 12:09 | Why have you despised the Lord’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. -2 Samuel 12:10 | Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’ -2 Samuel 12:11 | "This is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbour, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. -2 Samuel 12:12 | For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’" -2 Samuel 12:13 | David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin. You will not die. -2 Samuel 12:14 | However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the Lord’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die." -2 Samuel 12:15 | Nathan departed to his house. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick. -2 Samuel 12:16 | David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground. -2 Samuel 12:17 | The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them. -2 Samuel 12:18 | On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?" -2 Samuel 12:19 | But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead." -2 Samuel 12:20 | Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the Lord’s house, and worshipped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate. -2 Samuel 12:21 | Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread." -2 Samuel 12:22 | He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ -2 Samuel 12:23 | But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me." -2 Samuel 12:24 | David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The Lord loved him; -2 Samuel 12:28 | Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name." -2 Samuel 12:29 | David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. -2 Samuel 12:30 | He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city. -2 Samuel 12:31 | He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 13:02 | Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her. -2 Samuel 13:03 | But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. -2 Samuel 13:04 | He said to him, "Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister." -2 Samuel 13:05 | Jonadab said to him, "Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’" -2 Samuel 13:06 | So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand." -2 Samuel 13:07 | Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him." -2 Samuel 13:08 | So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. -2 Samuel 13:09 | She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, "Have all men leave me." Then every man went out from him. -2 Samuel 13:10 | Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand." Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother. -2 Samuel 13:11 | When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!" -2 Samuel 13:12 | She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly. -2 Samuel 13:13 | As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you." -2 Samuel 13:14 | However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her. -2 Samuel 13:15 | Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, "Arise, be gone!" -2 Samuel 13:16 | She said to him, "Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!" But he would not listen to her. -2 Samuel 13:17 | Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her." -2 Samuel 13:18 | She had a garment of various colours on her; for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her. -2 Samuel 13:19 | Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colours that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went. -2 Samuel 13:20 | Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart." So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house. -2 Samuel 13:21 | But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry. -2 Samuel 13:22 | Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. -2 Samuel 13:23 | After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons. -2 Samuel 13:24 | Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant." -2 Samuel 13:25 | The king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him. -2 Samuel 13:26 | Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" -2 Samuel 13:27 | But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him. -2 Samuel 13:28 | Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!" -2 Samuel 13:29 | The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled. -2 Samuel 13:30 | While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, "Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!" -2 Samuel 13:31 | Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn. -2 Samuel 13:32 | Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, "Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar. -2 Samuel 13:33 | Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead." -2 Samuel 13:34 | But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him. -2 Samuel 13:35 | Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king’s sons are coming! It is as your servant said." -2 Samuel 13:36 | As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly. -2 Samuel 13:39 | King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead. -2 Samuel 14:01 | Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was towards Absalom. -2 Samuel 14:02 | Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, "Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead. -2 Samuel 14:03 | Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth. -2 Samuel 14:04 | When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, "Help, O king!" -2 Samuel 14:05 | The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. -2 Samuel 14:06 | Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him. -2 Samuel 14:07 | Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth." -2 Samuel 14:08 | The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you." -2 Samuel 14:09 | The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless." -2 Samuel 14:10 | The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more." -2 Samuel 14:11 | Then she said, "Please let the king remember the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth." -2 Samuel 14:12 | Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on." -2 Samuel 14:13 | The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one. -2 Samuel 14:14 | For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him. -2 Samuel 14:15 | Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’ -2 Samuel 14:16 | For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. -2 Samuel 14:17 | Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the Lord, your God, be with you.’" -2 Samuel 14:18 | Then the king answered the woman, "Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak." -2 Samuel 14:19 | The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant. -2 Samuel 14:20 | Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth." -2 Samuel 14:21 | The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back." -2 Samuel 14:22 | Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favour in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant." -2 Samuel 14:23 | So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 14:24 | The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face. -2 Samuel 14:25 | Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him. -2 Samuel 14:26 | When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight. -2 Samuel 14:27 | Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face. -2 Samuel 14:28 | Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face. -2 Samuel 14:29 | Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come. -2 Samuel 14:30 | Therefore he said to his servants, "Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire. -2 Samuel 14:31 | Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?" -2 Samuel 14:32 | Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me." -2 Samuel 14:33 | So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom. -2 Samuel 15:01 | After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him. -2 Samuel 15:02 | Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgement, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel." -2 Samuel 15:03 | Absalom said to him, "Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you." -2 Samuel 15:04 | Absalom said moreover, "Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!" -2 Samuel 15:05 | It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. -2 Samuel 15:06 | Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgement. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. -2 Samuel 15:07 | At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron. -2 Samuel 15:08 | For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the Lord shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’" -2 Samuel 15:09 | The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron. -2 Samuel 15:10 | But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’" -2 Samuel 15:11 | Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything. -2 Samuel 15:12 | Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. -2 Samuel 15:13 | A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom." -2 Samuel 15:14 | David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword." -2 Samuel 15:15 | The king’s servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses." -2 Samuel 15:16 | The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. -2 Samuel 15:17 | The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak. -2 Samuel 15:18 | All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. -2 Samuel 15:19 | Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place. -2 Samuel 15:20 | Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you." -2 Samuel 15:21 | Ittai answered the king, and said, "As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also." -2 Samuel 15:22 | David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him. -2 Samuel 15:23 | All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness. -2 Samuel 15:24 | Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city. -2 Samuel 15:25 | The king said to Zadok, "Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favour in the Lord’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation; -2 Samuel 15:26 | but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him." -2 Samuel 15:27 | The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. -2 Samuel 15:28 | Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me." -2 Samuel 15:29 | Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there. -2 Samuel 15:30 | David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. -2 Samuel 15:31 | Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is amongst the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness." -2 Samuel 15:32 | When David had come to the top, where God was worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head. -2 Samuel 15:33 | David said to him, "If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me; -2 Samuel 15:34 | but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ -2 Samuel 15:35 | Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. -2 Samuel 15:36 | Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them." -2 Samuel 15:37 | So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 16:01 | When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine. -2 Samuel 16:02 | The king said to Ziba, "What do you mean by these?" Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink." -2 Samuel 16:03 | The king said, "Where is your master’s son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’" -2 Samuel 16:04 | Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours." Ziba said, "I bow down. Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, O king." -2 Samuel 16:05 | When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came. -2 Samuel 16:06 | He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. -2 Samuel 16:07 | Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow! -2 Samuel 16:08 | The Lord has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! The Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!" -2 Samuel 16:09 | Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head." -2 Samuel 16:10 | The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’" -2 Samuel 16:11 | David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord has invited him. -2 Samuel 16:12 | It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me good for the cursing of me today." -2 Samuel 16:13 | So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust. -2 Samuel 16:14 | The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there. -2 Samuel 16:15 | Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. -2 Samuel 16:16 | When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!" -2 Samuel 16:17 | Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?" -2 Samuel 16:18 | Hushai said to Absalom, "No; but whomever the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him. -2 Samuel 16:19 | Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence." -2 Samuel 16:20 | Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel what we shall do." -2 Samuel 16:21 | Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong." -2 Samuel 16:22 | So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. -2 Samuel 16:23 | The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man enquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom. -2 Samuel 17:01 | Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight. -2 Samuel 17:02 | I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, -2 Samuel 17:03 | and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace." -2 Samuel 17:04 | The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. -2 Samuel 17:05 | Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says." -2 Samuel 17:06 | When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up." -2 Samuel 17:07 | Hushai said to Absalom, "The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good." -2 Samuel 17:08 | Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. -2 Samuel 17:09 | Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter amongst the people who follow Absalom!’ -2 Samuel 17:10 | Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. -2 Samuel 17:11 | But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. -2 Samuel 17:12 | So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him. -2 Samuel 17:13 | Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there." -2 Samuel 17:14 | Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil on Absalom. -2 Samuel 17:16 | Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’" -2 Samuel 17:17 | Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city. -2 Samuel 17:18 | But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there. -2 Samuel 17:19 | The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known. -2 Samuel 17:20 | Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 17:21 | After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, "Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you." -2 Samuel 17:22 | Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan. -2 Samuel 17:23 | When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father. -2 Samuel 17:25 | Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. -2 Samuel 17:27 | When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, -2 Samuel 18:01 | David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. -2 Samuel 18:02 | David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will also surely go out with you myself." -2 Samuel 18:03 | But the people said, "You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city." -2 Samuel 18:04 | The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. -2 Samuel 18:05 | The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom." All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom. -2 Samuel 18:06 | So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. -2 Samuel 18:07 | The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. -2 Samuel 18:08 | For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. -2 Samuel 18:09 | Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on. -2 Samuel 18:10 | A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak." -2 Samuel 18:11 | Joab said to the man who told him, "Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash." -2 Samuel 18:12 | The man said to Joab, "Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’ -2 Samuel 18:13 | Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me." -2 Samuel 18:14 | Then Joab said, "I’m not going to wait like this with you." He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak. -2 Samuel 18:15 | Ten young men who bore Joab’s armour surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him. -2 Samuel 18:16 | Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back. -2 Samuel 18:17 | They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent. -2 Samuel 18:18 | Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day. -2 Samuel 18:19 | Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me now run and carry the king news, how the Lord has avenged him of his enemies." -2 Samuel 18:20 | Joab said to him, "You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead." -2 Samuel 18:21 | Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen!" The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran. -2 Samuel 18:22 | Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, "But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab said, "Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?" -2 Samuel 18:23 | "But come what may," he said, "I will run." He said to him, "Run!" Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. -2 Samuel 18:24 | Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. -2 Samuel 18:25 | The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, "If he is alone, there is news in his mouth." He came closer and closer. -2 Samuel 18:26 | The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, "Behold, a man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings news." -2 Samuel 18:27 | The watchman said, "I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." The king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good news." -2 Samuel 18:28 | Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, "All is well." He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed is the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!" -2 Samuel 18:29 | The king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was." -2 Samuel 18:30 | The king said, "Come and stand here." He came, and stood still. -2 Samuel 18:31 | Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, "News for my lord the king, for the Lord has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you." -2 Samuel 18:32 | The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" The Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is." -2 Samuel 18:33 | The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!" -2 Samuel 19:01 | Joab was told, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom." -2 Samuel 19:02 | The victory that day was turned into mourning amongst all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son." -2 Samuel 19:03 | The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. -2 Samuel 19:04 | The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!" -2 Samuel 19:05 | Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines; -2 Samuel 19:06 | in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and we had all died today, then it would have pleased you well. -2 Samuel 19:07 | Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the Lord, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now." -2 Samuel 19:08 | Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent. -2 Samuel 19:09 | All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom. -2 Samuel 19:10 | Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?" -2 Samuel 19:11 | King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house. -2 Samuel 19:12 | You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’ -2 Samuel 19:13 | Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’" -2 Samuel 19:14 | He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants." -2 Samuel 19:15 | So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. -2 Samuel 19:17 | There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king. -2 Samuel 19:18 | A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan. -2 Samuel 19:19 | He said to the king, "Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. -2 Samuel 19:20 | For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king." -2 Samuel 19:21 | But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?" -2 Samuel 19:22 | David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?" -2 Samuel 19:23 | The king said to Shimei, "You will not die." The king swore to him. -2 Samuel 19:24 | Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. -2 Samuel 19:25 | When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?" -2 Samuel 19:26 | He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame. -2 Samuel 19:27 | He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes. -2 Samuel 19:28 | For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant amongst those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?" -2 Samuel 19:29 | The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land." -2 Samuel 19:30 | Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house." -2 Samuel 19:31 | Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan. -2 Samuel 19:32 | Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. -2 Samuel 19:33 | The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem." -2 Samuel 19:34 | Barzillai said to the king, "How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? -2 Samuel 19:35 | I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king? -2 Samuel 19:36 | Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? -2 Samuel 19:37 | Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you." -2 Samuel 19:38 | The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you." -2 Samuel 19:39 | All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place. -2 Samuel 19:40 | So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel. -2 Samuel 19:41 | Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?" -2 Samuel 19:42 | All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?" -2 Samuel 19:43 | The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. -2 Samuel 1:01 | After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; -2 Samuel 1:02 | on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect. -2 Samuel 1:03 | David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel." -2 Samuel 1:04 | David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also." -2 Samuel 1:05 | David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?" -2 Samuel 1:06 | The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him. -2 Samuel 1:07 | When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’ -2 Samuel 1:08 | He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ -2 Samuel 1:09 | He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’ -2 Samuel 1:10 | So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord." -2 Samuel 1:11 | Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise. -2 Samuel 1:12 | They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword. -2 Samuel 1:13 | David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite." -2 Samuel 1:14 | David said to him, "Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?" -2 Samuel 1:15 | David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and cut him down!" He struck him so that he died. -2 Samuel 1:16 | David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain the Lord’s anointed.’" -2 Samuel 1:17 | David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son -2 Samuel 1:18 | (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar): -2 Samuel 1:19 | "Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! -2 Samuel 1:20 | Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. -2 Samuel 1:21 | You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil. -2 Samuel 1:22 | From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty. -2 Samuel 1:23 | Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions. -2 Samuel 1:24 | You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing. -2 Samuel 1:25 | How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places. -2 Samuel 1:26 | I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. -2 Samuel 1:27 | How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!" -2 Samuel 20:01 | There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!" -2 Samuel 20:02 | So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 20:03 | David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood. -2 Samuel 20:04 | Then the king said to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present." -2 Samuel 20:05 | So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him. -2 Samuel 20:06 | David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight." -2 Samuel 20:07 | Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. -2 Samuel 20:08 | When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out. -2 Samuel 20:09 | Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. -2 Samuel 20:10 | But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. -2 Samuel 20:11 | One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, "He who favours Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!" -2 Samuel 20:12 | Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still. -2 Samuel 20:13 | When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. -2 Samuel 20:14 | He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him. -2 Samuel 20:15 | They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. -2 Samuel 20:16 | Then a wise woman cried out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’" -2 Samuel 20:17 | He came near to her; and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Hear the words of your servant." He answered, "I’m listening." -2 Samuel 20:18 | Then she spoke, saying, "They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter. -2 Samuel 20:19 | I am amongst those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?" -2 Samuel 20:20 | Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. -2 Samuel 20:21 | The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall." -2 Samuel 20:22 | Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. -2 Samuel 20:24 | Adoram was over the men subject to forced labour, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder, -2 Samuel 20:25 | Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests, -2 Samuel 21:01 | There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death." -2 Samuel 21:02 | The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah); -2 Samuel 21:03 | and David said to the Gibeonites, "What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the Lord’s inheritance?" -2 Samuel 21:04 | The Gibeonites said to him, "It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." He said, "I will do for you whatever you say." -2 Samuel 21:05 | They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, -2 Samuel 21:06 | let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord." The king said, "I will give them." -2 Samuel 21:08 | But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. -2 Samuel 21:09 | He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. -2 Samuel 21:11 | David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. -2 Samuel 21:12 | So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; -2 Samuel 21:13 | and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged. -2 Samuel 21:14 | They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land. -2 Samuel 21:20 | There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand, and six toes on every foot, twenty four in count; and he also was born to the giant. -2 Samuel 21:21 | When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him. -2 Samuel 22:01 | David spoke to the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, -2 Samuel 22:02 | and he said: "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; -2 Samuel 22:03 | God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My saviour, you save me from violence. -2 Samuel 22:04 | I call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. -2 Samuel 22:05 | For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. -2 Samuel 22:06 | The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. -2 Samuel 22:07 | In my distress, I called on the Lord. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears. -2 Samuel 22:08 | Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. -2 Samuel 22:09 | Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. -2 Samuel 22:10 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. -2 Samuel 22:11 | He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. -2 Samuel 22:12 | He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. -2 Samuel 22:13 | At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. -2 Samuel 22:14 | The Lord thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. -2 Samuel 22:15 | He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them. -2 Samuel 22:16 | Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the Lord’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. -2 Samuel 22:17 | He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters. -2 Samuel 22:18 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. -2 Samuel 22:19 | They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. -2 Samuel 22:20 | He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. -2 Samuel 22:21 | The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. -2 Samuel 22:22 | For I have kept the Lord’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God. -2 Samuel 22:23 | For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them. -2 Samuel 22:24 | I was also perfect towards him. I kept myself from my iniquity. -2 Samuel 22:25 | Therefore the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight. -2 Samuel 22:26 | With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. -2 Samuel 22:27 | With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. -2 Samuel 22:28 | You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down. -2 Samuel 22:29 | For you are my lamp, Lord. The Lord will light up my darkness. -2 Samuel 22:30 | For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. -2 Samuel 22:31 | As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. -2 Samuel 22:32 | For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God? -2 Samuel 22:33 | God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. -2 Samuel 22:34 | He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places. -2 Samuel 22:35 | He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. -2 Samuel 22:36 | You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great. -2 Samuel 22:37 | You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. -2 Samuel 22:38 | I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed. -2 Samuel 22:39 | I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. -2 Samuel 22:40 | For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. -2 Samuel 22:41 | You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. -2 Samuel 22:42 | They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the Lord, but he didn’t answer them. -2 Samuel 22:43 | Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. -2 Samuel 22:44 | You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. -2 Samuel 22:45 | The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. -2 Samuel 22:46 | The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. -2 Samuel 22:47 | The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, -2 Samuel 22:48 | even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me, -2 Samuel 22:49 | who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. -2 Samuel 22:50 | Therefore I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the nations, and will sing praises to your name. -2 Samuel 22:51 | He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more." -2 Samuel 23:02 | "The Lord’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. -2 Samuel 23:03 | The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, -2 Samuel 23:04 | shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’ -2 Samuel 23:05 | Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow. -2 Samuel 23:06 | But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand. -2 Samuel 23:07 | The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burnt with fire in their place." -2 Samuel 23:08 | These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time. -2 Samuel 23:10 | He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and the Lord worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder. -2 Samuel 23:11 | After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. -2 Samuel 23:12 | But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the Lord worked a great victory. -2 Samuel 23:13 | Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. -2 Samuel 23:14 | David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. -2 Samuel 23:15 | David longed, and said, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!" -2 Samuel 23:16 | The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord. -2 Samuel 23:17 | He said, "Be it far from me, Lord, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?" Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things. -2 Samuel 23:18 | Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name amongst the three. -2 Samuel 23:19 | Wasn’t he most honourable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three. -2 Samuel 23:20 | Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow. -2 Samuel 23:21 | He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. -2 Samuel 24:01 | Again the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, count Israel and Judah." -2 Samuel 24:02 | The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people." -2 Samuel 24:03 | Joab said to the king, "Now may the Lord your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?" -2 Samuel 24:04 | Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel. -2 Samuel 24:09 | Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. -2 Samuel 24:10 | David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the Lord, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." -2 Samuel 24:12 | "Go and speak to David, ‘The Lord says, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you." -2 Samuel 24:13 | So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me." -2 Samuel 24:14 | David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into the Lord’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand." -2 Samuel 24:15 | So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba. -2 Samuel 24:16 | When the angel stretched out his hand towards Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now withdraw your hand." The Lord’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. -2 Samuel 24:17 | David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house." -2 Samuel 24:18 | Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." -2 Samuel 24:19 | David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the Lord commanded. -2 Samuel 24:20 | Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. -2 Samuel 24:21 | Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people." -2 Samuel 24:22 | Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. -2 Samuel 24:24 | The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. -2 Samuel 24:25 | David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel. -2 Samuel 2:01 | After this, David enquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" The Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "Where shall I go up?" He said, "To Hebron." -2 Samuel 2:02 | So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. -2 Samuel 2:03 | David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron. -2 Samuel 2:04 | The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul." -2 Samuel 2:05 | David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, "Blessed are you by the Lord, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. -2 Samuel 2:06 | Now may the Lord show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing. -2 Samuel 2:07 | Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them." -2 Samuel 2:13 | Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. -2 Samuel 2:14 | Abner said to Joab, "Please let the young men arise and play before us!" Joab said, "Let them arise!" -2 Samuel 2:15 | Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants. -2 Samuel 2:16 | They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim. -2 Samuel 2:17 | The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants. -2 Samuel 2:19 | Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner. -2 Samuel 2:20 | Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Is that you, Asahel?" He answered, "It is." -2 Samuel 2:21 | Abner said to him, "Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armour." But Asahel would not turn away from following him. -2 Samuel 2:22 | Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?" -2 Samuel 2:23 | However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still. -2 Samuel 2:24 | But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. -2 Samuel 2:25 | The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. -2 Samuel 2:26 | Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?" -2 Samuel 2:27 | Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother." -2 Samuel 2:28 | So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more. -2 Samuel 2:29 | Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim. -2 Samuel 2:30 | Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing. -2 Samuel 2:31 | But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred and sixty men died. -2 Samuel 2:32 | They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron. -2 Samuel 3:01 | Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker. -2 Samuel 3:02 | Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; -2 Samuel 3:06 | While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house. -2 Samuel 3:07 | Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?" -2 Samuel 3:08 | Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, "Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman! -2 Samuel 3:09 | God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the Lord has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him; -2 Samuel 3:10 | to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba." -2 Samuel 3:11 | He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him. -2 Samuel 3:12 | Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?" and saying, "Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you." -2 Samuel 3:13 | He said, "Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face." -2 Samuel 3:14 | David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines." -2 Samuel 3:15 | Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish. -2 Samuel 3:16 | Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go! Return!" and he returned. -2 Samuel 3:17 | Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you. -2 Samuel 3:18 | Now then do it; for the Lord has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’" -2 Samuel 3:19 | Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin. -2 Samuel 3:21 | Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires." David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. -2 Samuel 3:22 | Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. -2 Samuel 3:23 | When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace." -2 Samuel 3:24 | Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone? -2 Samuel 3:25 | You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do." -2 Samuel 3:26 | When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it. -2 Samuel 3:27 | When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. -2 Samuel 3:28 | Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. -2 Samuel 3:29 | Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread." -2 Samuel 3:31 | David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner." King David followed the bier. -2 Samuel 3:32 | They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept. -2 Samuel 3:33 | The king lamented for Abner, and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies? -2 Samuel 3:34 | Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him. -2 Samuel 3:35 | All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down." -2 Samuel 3:36 | All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people. -2 Samuel 3:37 | So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. -2 Samuel 3:38 | The king said to his servants, "Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel? -2 Samuel 3:39 | I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May the Lord reward the evildoer according to his wickedness." -2 Samuel 4:01 | When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. -2 Samuel 4:03 | and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today). -2 Samuel 4:04 | Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. -2 Samuel 4:06 | They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. -2 Samuel 4:07 | Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. -2 Samuel 4:08 | They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! The Lord has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring." -2 Samuel 4:09 | David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, -2 Samuel 4:10 | when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. -2 Samuel 4:11 | How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?" -2 Samuel 4:12 | David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron. -2 Samuel 5:01 | Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. -2 Samuel 5:02 | In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. The Lord said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’" -2 Samuel 5:03 | So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over Israel. -2 Samuel 5:04 | David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. -2 Samuel 5:05 | In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. -2 Samuel 5:06 | The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, "The blind and the lame will keep you out of here" thinking, "David can’t come in here." -2 Samuel 5:07 | Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city. -2 Samuel 5:08 | David said on that day, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul." Therefore they say, "The blind and the lame can’t come into the house." -2 Samuel 5:09 | David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward. -2 Samuel 5:10 | David grew greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of Armies, was with him. -2 Samuel 5:11 | Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. -2 Samuel 5:12 | David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake. -2 Samuel 5:13 | David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David. -2 Samuel 5:17 | When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. -2 Samuel 5:18 | Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. -2 Samuel 5:19 | David enquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" The Lord said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand." -2 Samuel 5:20 | David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, "The Lord has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. -2 Samuel 5:21 | They left their images there; and David and his men took them away. -2 Samuel 5:22 | The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. -2 Samuel 5:23 | When David enquired of the Lord, he said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees. -2 Samuel 5:24 | When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines." -2 Samuel 5:25 | David did so, as the Lord commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer. -2 Samuel 6:01 | David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. -2 Samuel 6:02 | David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the Lord of Armies who sits above the cherubim. -2 Samuel 6:03 | They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. -2 Samuel 6:04 | They brought it out of Abinadab’s house, which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark. -2 Samuel 6:05 | David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals. -2 Samuel 6:06 | When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled. -2 Samuel 6:07 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark. -2 Samuel 6:08 | David was displeased, because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. -2 Samuel 6:09 | David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, "How could the Lord’s ark come to me?" -2 Samuel 6:10 | So David would not move the Lord’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house. -2 Samuel 6:11 | The Lord’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his house. -2 Samuel 6:12 | King David was told, "The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark." So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy. -2 Samuel 6:13 | When those who bore the Lord’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. -2 Samuel 6:14 | David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. -2 Samuel 6:15 | So David and all the house of Israel brought up the Lord’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. -2 Samuel 6:16 | As the Lord’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. -2 Samuel 6:17 | They brought in the Lord’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. -2 Samuel 6:18 | When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Armies. -2 Samuel 6:19 | He gave to all the people, even amongst the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house. -2 Samuel 6:20 | Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" -2 Samuel 6:21 | David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before the Lord. -2 Samuel 6:22 | I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honour me." -2 Samuel 6:23 | Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. -2 Samuel 7:01 | When the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around, -2 Samuel 7:02 | the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains." -2 Samuel 7:03 | Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for the Lord is with you." -2 Samuel 7:05 | "Go and tell my servant David, ‘The Lord says, "Should you build me a house for me to dwell in? -2 Samuel 7:06 | For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. -2 Samuel 7:07 | In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’"’ -2 Samuel 7:08 | Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘The Lord of Armies says, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel. -2 Samuel 7:09 | I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. -2 Samuel 7:10 | I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first, -2 Samuel 7:11 | and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover the Lord tells you that the Lord will make you a house. -2 Samuel 7:12 | When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. -2 Samuel 7:13 | He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. -2 Samuel 7:14 | I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; -2 Samuel 7:15 | but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. -2 Samuel 7:16 | Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever." -2 Samuel 7:17 | Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision. -2 Samuel 7:18 | Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord; and he said, "Who am I, Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? -2 Samuel 7:19 | This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this amongst men, Lord GOD! -2 Samuel 7:20 | What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD. -2 Samuel 7:21 | For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. -2 Samuel 7:22 | Therefore you are great, Lord God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. -2 Samuel 7:23 | What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods? -2 Samuel 7:24 | You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Lord, became their God. -2 Samuel 7:25 | Now, Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken. -2 Samuel 7:26 | Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’ -2 Samuel 7:27 | For you, Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. -2 Samuel 7:28 | "Now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. -2 Samuel 7:29 | Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord GOD, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing." -2 Samuel 8:01 | After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines. -2 Samuel 8:04 | David took from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. -2 Samuel 8:05 | When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians. -2 Samuel 8:06 | Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. -2 Samuel 8:07 | David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. -2 Samuel 8:11 | King David also dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued; -2 Samuel 8:13 | David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt. -2 Samuel 8:14 | He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. -2 Samuel 8:15 | David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people. -2 Samuel 9:01 | David said, "Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?" -2 Samuel 9:02 | There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "I am your servant." -2 Samuel 9:03 | The king said, "Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet." -2 Samuel 9:04 | The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar." -2 Samuel 9:05 | Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. -2 Samuel 9:06 | Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, "Mephibosheth." He answered, "Behold, your servant!" -2 Samuel 9:07 | David said to him, "Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually." -2 Samuel 9:08 | He bowed down, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?" -2 Samuel 9:09 | Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son. -2 Samuel 9:10 | Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. -2 Samuel 9:11 | Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons. -2 Thessalonians 1:02 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -2 Thessalonians 1:03 | We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds, -2 Thessalonians 1:04 | so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. -2 Thessalonians 1:05 | This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgement of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer. -2 Thessalonians 1:06 | Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, -2 Thessalonians 1:07 | and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, -2 Thessalonians 1:08 | punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, -2 Thessalonians 1:09 | who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, -2 Thessalonians 1:10 | when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired amongst all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. -2 Thessalonians 1:11 | To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, -2 Thessalonians 1:12 | that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. -2 Thessalonians 2:01 | Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you -2 Thessalonians 2:02 | not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come. -2 Thessalonians 2:03 | Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, -2 Thessalonians 2:04 | he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. -2 Thessalonians 2:05 | Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? -2 Thessalonians 2:06 | Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. -2 Thessalonians 2:07 | For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. -2 Thessalonians 2:08 | Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; -2 Thessalonians 2:09 | even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, -2 Thessalonians 2:10 | and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. -2 Thessalonians 2:11 | Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; -2 Thessalonians 2:12 | that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. -2 Thessalonians 2:13 | But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth, -2 Thessalonians 2:14 | to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. -2 Thessalonians 2:15 | So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter. -2 Thessalonians 2:16 | Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, -2 Thessalonians 2:17 | comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. -2 Thessalonians 3:01 | Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you, -2 Thessalonians 3:02 | and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith. -2 Thessalonians 3:03 | But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. -2 Thessalonians 3:04 | We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command. -2 Thessalonians 3:05 | May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ. -2 Thessalonians 3:06 | Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. -2 Thessalonians 3:07 | For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously amongst you, -2 Thessalonians 3:08 | neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labour and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, -2 Thessalonians 3:09 | not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us. -2 Thessalonians 3:10 | For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat." -2 Thessalonians 3:11 | For we hear of some who walk amongst you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies. -2 Thessalonians 3:12 | Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread. -2 Thessalonians 3:13 | But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right. -2 Thessalonians 3:14 | If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. -2 Thessalonians 3:15 | Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. -2 Thessalonians 3:16 | Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. -2 Thessalonians 3:17 | The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write. -2 Thessalonians 3:18 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. -2 Timothy 1:01 | Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, -2 Timothy 1:02 | to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. -2 Timothy 1:03 | I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day -2 Timothy 1:04 | longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; -2 Timothy 1:05 | having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also. -2 Timothy 1:06 | For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. -2 Timothy 1:07 | For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. -2 Timothy 1:08 | Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, -2 Timothy 1:09 | who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, -2 Timothy 1:10 | but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News. -2 Timothy 1:11 | For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. -2 Timothy 1:12 | For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day. -2 Timothy 1:13 | Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. -2 Timothy 1:14 | That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. -2 Timothy 1:15 | This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. -2 Timothy 1:16 | May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, -2 Timothy 1:17 | but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me -2 Timothy 1:18 | (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well. -2 Timothy 2:01 | You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. -2 Timothy 2:02 | The things which you have heard from me amongst many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. -2 Timothy 2:03 | You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. -2 Timothy 2:04 | No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. -2 Timothy 2:05 | Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules. -2 Timothy 2:06 | The farmer who labours must be the first to get a share of the crops. -2 Timothy 2:07 | Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. -2 Timothy 2:08 | Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News, -2 Timothy 2:09 | in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained. -2 Timothy 2:10 | Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. -2 Timothy 2:11 | This saying is trustworthy: "For if we died with him, we will also live with him. -2 Timothy 2:12 | If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. -2 Timothy 2:13 | If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself." -2 Timothy 2:14 | Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear. -2 Timothy 2:15 | Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. -2 Timothy 2:16 | But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, -2 Timothy 2:17 | and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus: -2 Timothy 2:18 | men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some. -2 Timothy 2:19 | However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness." -2 Timothy 2:20 | Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honour, and some for dishonour. -2 Timothy 2:21 | If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honour, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work. -2 Timothy 2:22 | Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. -2 Timothy 2:23 | But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. -2 Timothy 2:24 | The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, -2 Timothy 2:25 | in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, -2 Timothy 2:26 | and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will. -2 Timothy 3:01 | But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. -2 Timothy 3:02 | For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, -2 Timothy 3:03 | without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, -2 Timothy 3:04 | traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, -2 Timothy 3:05 | holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. -2 Timothy 3:06 | For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, -2 Timothy 3:07 | always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. -2 Timothy 3:08 | Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected. -2 Timothy 3:09 | But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. -2 Timothy 3:10 | But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, -2 Timothy 3:11 | persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. -2 Timothy 3:12 | Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. -2 Timothy 3:13 | But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. -2 Timothy 3:14 | But you remain in the things which you have learnt and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learnt them. -2 Timothy 3:15 | From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. -2 Timothy 3:16 | Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, -2 Timothy 3:17 | that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. -2 Timothy 4:01 | I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: -2 Timothy 4:02 | preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching. -2 Timothy 4:03 | For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, -2 Timothy 4:04 | and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables. -2 Timothy 4:05 | But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfil your ministry. -2 Timothy 4:06 | For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. -2 Timothy 4:07 | I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. -2 Timothy 4:08 | From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing. -2 Timothy 4:09 | Be diligent to come to me soon, -2 Timothy 4:10 | for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia. -2 Timothy 4:11 | Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service. -2 Timothy 4:13 | Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments. -2 Timothy 4:14 | Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds, -2 Timothy 4:15 | of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words. -2 Timothy 4:16 | At my first defence, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. -2 Timothy 4:17 | But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. -2 Timothy 4:18 | And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. -2 Timothy 4:19 | Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. -2 Timothy 4:20 | Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick. -2 Timothy 4:21 | Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers. -2 Timothy 4:22 | The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. -3 John 1:01 | The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. -3 John 1:02 | Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. -3 John 1:03 | For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. -3 John 1:04 | I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. -3 John 1:05 | Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. -3 John 1:06 | They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God, -3 John 1:07 | because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. -3 John 1:08 | We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth. -3 John 1:09 | I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first amongst them, doesn’t accept what we say. -3 John 1:10 | Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly. -3 John 1:11 | Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God. -3 John 1:12 | Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true. -3 John 1:13 | I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; -3 John 1:14 | but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. -Acts 10:02 | a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God. -Acts 10:03 | At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!" -Acts 10:04 | He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God. -Acts 10:06 | He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside. -Acts 10:07 | When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually. -Acts 10:08 | Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. -Acts 10:09 | Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon. -Acts 10:10 | He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. -Acts 10:11 | He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, -Acts 10:12 | in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky. -Acts 10:13 | A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!" -Acts 10:14 | But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." -Acts 10:15 | A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean." -Acts 10:16 | This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven. -Acts 10:17 | Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made enquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate, -Acts 10:18 | and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there. -Acts 10:19 | While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you. -Acts 10:20 | But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them." -Acts 10:21 | Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?" -Acts 10:22 | They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say." -Acts 10:23 | So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. -Acts 10:24 | On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends. -Acts 10:25 | When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. -Acts 10:26 | But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man." -Acts 10:27 | As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together. -Acts 10:28 | He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean. -Acts 10:29 | Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?" -Acts 10:30 | Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, -Acts 10:31 | and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God. -Acts 10:32 | Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’ -Acts 10:33 | Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God." -Acts 10:34 | Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favouritism; -Acts 10:35 | but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. -Acts 10:36 | The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all— -Acts 10:37 | you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; -Acts 10:38 | even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. -Acts 10:39 | We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree. -Acts 10:40 | God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, -Acts 10:41 | not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. -Acts 10:42 | He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead. -Acts 10:43 | All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins." -Acts 10:44 | While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. -Acts 10:45 | They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. -Acts 10:46 | For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, -Acts 10:47 | "Can anyone forbid these people from being baptised with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us." -Acts 10:48 | He commanded them to be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days. -Acts 11:01 | Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. -Acts 11:02 | When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him, -Acts 11:05 | "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me. -Acts 11:06 | When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. -Acts 11:07 | I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’ -Acts 11:08 | But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’ -Acts 11:09 | But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’ -Acts 11:10 | This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven. -Acts 11:11 | Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me. -Acts 11:12 | The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house. -Acts 11:13 | He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter, -Acts 11:14 | who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’ -Acts 11:15 | As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. -Acts 11:16 | I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptised in water, but you will be baptised in the Holy Spirit.’ -Acts 11:17 | If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?" -Acts 11:18 | When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!" -Acts 11:19 | They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only. -Acts 11:20 | But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. -Acts 11:21 | The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. -Acts 11:22 | The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch, -Acts 11:23 | who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord. -Acts 11:24 | For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord. -Acts 11:26 | When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. -Acts 11:27 | Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. -Acts 11:28 | One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius. -Acts 11:29 | As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea; -Acts 11:30 | which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. -Acts 12:01 | Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. -Acts 12:02 | He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. -Acts 12:03 | When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread. -Acts 12:04 | When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. -Acts 12:05 | Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him. -Acts 12:06 | The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison. -Acts 12:07 | And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off his hands. -Acts 12:08 | The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak and follow me." -Acts 12:09 | And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. -Acts 12:10 | When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. -Acts 12:11 | When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting." -Acts 12:12 | Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. -Acts 12:13 | When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. -Acts 12:14 | When she recognised Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate. -Acts 12:15 | They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel." -Acts 12:16 | But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. -Acts 12:17 | But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place. -Acts 12:18 | Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir amongst the soldiers about what had become of Peter. -Acts 12:19 | When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there. -Acts 12:20 | Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food. -Acts 12:21 | On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them. -Acts 12:22 | The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!" -Acts 12:23 | Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died. -Acts 12:24 | But the word of God grew and multiplied. -Acts 12:25 | Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark. -Acts 13:01 | Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. -Acts 13:02 | As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them." -Acts 13:03 | Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. -Acts 13:04 | So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. -Acts 13:05 | When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant. -Acts 13:06 | When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus, -Acts 13:07 | who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God. -Acts 13:08 | But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. -Acts 13:09 | But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, -Acts 13:10 | and said, "You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? -Acts 13:11 | Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand. -Acts 13:12 | Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. -Acts 13:13 | Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. -Acts 13:14 | But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. -Acts 13:15 | After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak." -Acts 13:16 | Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen. -Acts 13:17 | The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it. -Acts 13:18 | For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. -Acts 13:19 | When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. -Acts 13:20 | After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. -Acts 13:21 | Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. -Acts 13:22 | When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ -Acts 13:23 | From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise, -Acts 13:24 | before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel. -Acts 13:25 | As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’ -Acts 13:26 | Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those amongst you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you. -Acts 13:27 | For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. -Acts 13:28 | Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed. -Acts 13:29 | When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. -Acts 13:30 | But God raised him from the dead, -Acts 13:31 | and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. -Acts 13:32 | We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, -Acts 13:33 | that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’ -Acts 13:34 | "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’ -Acts 13:35 | Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’ -Acts 13:36 | For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. -Acts 13:37 | But he whom God raised up saw no decay. -Acts 13:38 | Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, -Acts 13:39 | and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. -Acts 13:40 | Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets: -Acts 13:41 | ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’" -Acts 13:42 | So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. -Acts 13:43 | Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. -Acts 13:44 | The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God. -Acts 13:45 | But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed. -Acts 13:46 | Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. -Acts 13:47 | For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’" -Acts 13:48 | As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed. -Acts 13:49 | The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region. -Acts 13:50 | But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders. -Acts 13:51 | But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium. -Acts 13:52 | The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. -Acts 14:01 | In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. -Acts 14:02 | But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. -Acts 14:03 | Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. -Acts 14:04 | But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles. -Acts 14:05 | When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, -Acts 14:06 | they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region. -Acts 14:08 | At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked. -Acts 14:09 | He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, -Acts 14:10 | said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leapt up and walked. -Acts 14:11 | When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" -Acts 14:12 | They called Barnabas "Jupiter", and Paul "Mercury", because he was the chief speaker. -Acts 14:13 | The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes. -Acts 14:14 | But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, -Acts 14:15 | "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; -Acts 14:16 | who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. -Acts 14:17 | Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." -Acts 14:18 | Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them. -Acts 14:19 | But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. -Acts 14:20 | But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe. -Acts 14:21 | When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, -Acts 14:22 | strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom. -Acts 14:23 | When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed. -Acts 14:24 | They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia. -Acts 14:25 | When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. -Acts 14:26 | From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled. -Acts 14:27 | When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations. -Acts 14:28 | They stayed there with the disciples for a long time. -Acts 15:01 | Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved." -Acts 15:02 | Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. -Acts 15:03 | They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers. -Acts 15:04 | When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them. -Acts 15:05 | But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses." -Acts 15:06 | The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter. -Acts 15:07 | When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice amongst you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe. -Acts 15:08 | God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us. -Acts 15:09 | He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. -Acts 15:10 | Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? -Acts 15:11 | But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are." -Acts 15:12 | All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done amongst the nations through them. -Acts 15:13 | After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me. -Acts 15:14 | Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name. -Acts 15:15 | This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written, -Acts 15:16 | ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up -Acts 15:17 | that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’ -Acts 15:18 | "All of God’s works are known to him from eternity. -Acts 15:19 | Therefore my judgement is that we don’t trouble those from amongst the Gentiles who turn to God, -Acts 15:20 | but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. -Acts 15:21 | For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath." -Acts 15:22 | Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men amongst the brothers. -Acts 15:23 | They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings. -Acts 15:24 | Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment; -Acts 15:25 | it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, -Acts 15:26 | men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Acts 15:27 | We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth. -Acts 15:28 | For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: -Acts 15:29 | that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell." -Acts 15:30 | So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter. -Acts 15:31 | When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement. -Acts 15:32 | Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them. -Acts 15:33 | After they had spent some time there, they were dismissed in peace from the brothers to the apostles. -Acts 15:35 | But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. -Acts 15:36 | After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing." -Acts 15:37 | Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also. -Acts 15:38 | But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work. -Acts 15:39 | Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, -Acts 15:40 | but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God. -Acts 15:41 | He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. -Acts 16:01 | He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. -Acts 16:02 | The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him. -Acts 16:03 | Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. -Acts 16:04 | As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. -Acts 16:05 | So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. -Acts 16:06 | When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. -Acts 16:07 | When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them. -Acts 16:09 | A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us." -Acts 16:10 | When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them. -Acts 16:11 | Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; -Acts 16:12 | and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city. -Acts 16:13 | On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. -Acts 16:14 | A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshipped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. -Acts 16:15 | When she and her household were baptised, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." So she persuaded us. -Acts 16:16 | As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. -Acts 16:17 | Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!" -Acts 16:18 | She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour. -Acts 16:19 | But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. -Acts 16:20 | When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city -Acts 16:21 | and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans." -Acts 16:22 | The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods. -Acts 16:23 | When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, -Acts 16:24 | who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. -Acts 16:25 | But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. -Acts 16:26 | Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. -Acts 16:27 | The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. -Acts 16:28 | But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!" -Acts 16:29 | He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, -Acts 16:30 | brought them out, and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" -Acts 16:31 | They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." -Acts 16:32 | They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. -Acts 16:33 | He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptised, he and all his household. -Acts 16:34 | He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God. -Acts 16:35 | But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go." -Acts 16:36 | The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace." -Acts 16:37 | But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!" -Acts 16:38 | The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, -Acts 16:39 | and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city. -Acts 16:40 | They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed. -Acts 17:01 | Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. -Acts 17:02 | Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, -Acts 17:03 | explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ." -Acts 17:04 | Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women. -Acts 17:05 | But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. -Acts 17:06 | When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, -Acts 17:07 | whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!" -Acts 17:08 | The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. -Acts 17:09 | When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. -Acts 17:10 | The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. -Acts 17:11 | Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. -Acts 17:12 | Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. -Acts 17:13 | But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. -Acts 17:14 | Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. -Acts 17:15 | But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed. -Acts 17:16 | Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. -Acts 17:17 | So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. -Acts 17:18 | Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. -Acts 17:19 | They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about? -Acts 17:20 | For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean." -Acts 17:21 | Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. -Acts 17:22 | Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. -Acts 17:23 | For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you. -Acts 17:24 | The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands. -Acts 17:25 | He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. -Acts 17:26 | He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, -Acts 17:27 | that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. -Acts 17:28 | ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ -Acts 17:29 | Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man. -Acts 17:30 | The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, -Acts 17:31 | because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead." -Acts 17:32 | Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this." -Acts 17:34 | But certain men joined with him and believed, amongst whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. -Acts 18:01 | After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. -Acts 18:02 | He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them, -Acts 18:03 | and because he practised the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. -Acts 18:04 | He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks. -Acts 18:05 | But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. -Acts 18:06 | When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!" -Acts 18:07 | He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. -Acts 18:08 | Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptised. -Acts 18:09 | The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent; -Acts 18:10 | for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city." -Acts 18:11 | He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God amongst them. -Acts 18:12 | But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgement seat, saying, -Acts 18:13 | "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law." -Acts 18:14 | But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; -Acts 18:15 | but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters." -Acts 18:17 | Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgement seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things. -Acts 18:18 | Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. -Acts 18:19 | He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. -Acts 18:20 | When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined; -Acts 18:21 | but taking his leave of them, he said, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills." Then he set sail from Ephesus. -Acts 18:22 | When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch. -Acts 18:23 | Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples. -Acts 18:24 | Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. -Acts 18:25 | This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. -Acts 18:26 | He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately. -Acts 18:27 | When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace; -Acts 18:28 | for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. -Acts 19:01 | While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples. -Acts 19:02 | He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." -Acts 19:03 | He said, "Into what then were you baptised?" They said, "Into John’s baptism." -Acts 19:04 | Paul said, "John indeed baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus." -Acts 19:05 | When they heard this, they were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. -Acts 19:06 | When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied. -Acts 19:08 | He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom. -Acts 19:09 | But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. -Acts 19:10 | This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. -Acts 19:11 | God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, -Acts 19:12 | so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out. -Acts 19:13 | But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." -Acts 19:14 | There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this. -Acts 19:15 | The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" -Acts 19:16 | The man in whom the evil spirit was leapt on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. -Acts 19:17 | This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. -Acts 19:18 | Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. -Acts 19:19 | Many of those who practised magical arts brought their books together and burnt them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. -Acts 19:20 | So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty. -Acts 19:21 | Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome." -Acts 19:22 | Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. -Acts 19:23 | About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way. -Acts 19:24 | For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, -Acts 19:25 | whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. -Acts 19:26 | You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands. -Acts 19:27 | Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships." -Acts 19:28 | When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" -Acts 19:29 | The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel. -Acts 19:30 | When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him. -Acts 19:31 | Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theatre. -Acts 19:32 | Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together. -Acts 19:33 | They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defence to the people. -Acts 19:34 | But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" -Acts 19:35 | When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus? -Acts 19:36 | Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash. -Acts 19:37 | For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess. -Acts 19:38 | If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another. -Acts 19:39 | But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly. -Acts 19:40 | For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion." -Acts 19:41 | When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly. -Acts 1:01 | The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, -Acts 1:02 | until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. -Acts 1:03 | To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom. -Acts 1:04 | Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. -Acts 1:05 | For John indeed baptised in water, but you will be baptised in the Holy Spirit not many days from now." -Acts 1:06 | Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?" -Acts 1:07 | He said to them, "It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. -Acts 1:08 | But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth." -Acts 1:09 | When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. -Acts 1:10 | While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, -Acts 1:11 | who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky." -Acts 1:12 | Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away. -Acts 1:13 | When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. -Acts 1:14 | All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. -Acts 1:15 | In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred and twenty), and said, -Acts 1:16 | "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus. -Acts 1:17 | For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry. -Acts 1:18 | Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out. -Acts 1:19 | It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’ -Acts 1:20 | For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’ -Acts 1:21 | "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst us, -Acts 1:22 | beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection." -Acts 1:23 | They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. -Acts 1:24 | They prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen -Acts 1:25 | to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place." -Acts 1:26 | They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles. -Acts 20:01 | After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. -Acts 20:02 | When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece. -Acts 20:03 | When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia. -Acts 20:04 | These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. -Acts 20:05 | But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas. -Acts 20:06 | We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days. -Acts 20:07 | On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight. -Acts 20:08 | There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together. -Acts 20:09 | A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead. -Acts 20:10 | Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him." -Acts 20:11 | When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed. -Acts 20:12 | They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted. -Acts 20:13 | But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land. -Acts 20:14 | When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene. -Acts 20:15 | Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus. -Acts 20:16 | For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. -Acts 20:17 | From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly. -Acts 20:18 | When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time, -Acts 20:19 | serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews; -Acts 20:20 | how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, -Acts 20:21 | testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus. -Acts 20:22 | Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; -Acts 20:23 | except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me. -Acts 20:24 | But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God. -Acts 20:25 | "Now, behold, I know that you all, amongst whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more. -Acts 20:26 | Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men, -Acts 20:27 | for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. -Acts 20:28 | Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood. -Acts 20:29 | For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in amongst you, not sparing the flock. -Acts 20:30 | Men will arise from amongst your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. -Acts 20:31 | Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. -Acts 20:32 | Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance amongst all those who are sanctified. -Acts 20:33 | I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing. -Acts 20:34 | You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. -Acts 20:35 | In all things I gave you an example, that so labouring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’" -Acts 20:36 | When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. -Acts 20:37 | They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him, -Acts 20:38 | sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship. -Acts 21:01 | When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. -Acts 21:02 | Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail. -Acts 21:03 | When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo. -Acts 21:04 | Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem. -Acts 21:05 | When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed. -Acts 21:06 | After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again. -Acts 21:07 | When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day. -Acts 21:08 | On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. -Acts 21:09 | Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. -Acts 21:10 | As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. -Acts 21:11 | Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’" -Acts 21:12 | When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. -Acts 21:13 | Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." -Acts 21:14 | When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord’s will be done." -Acts 21:15 | After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem. -Acts 21:16 | Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay. -Acts 21:17 | When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. -Acts 21:18 | The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present. -Acts 21:19 | When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked amongst the Gentiles through his ministry. -Acts 21:20 | They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are amongst the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law. -Acts 21:21 | They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are amongst the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs. -Acts 21:22 | What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come. -Acts 21:23 | Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow. -Acts 21:24 | Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law. -Acts 21:25 | But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality." -Acts 21:26 | Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfilment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them. -Acts 21:27 | When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him, -Acts 21:28 | crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!" -Acts 21:29 | For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. -Acts 21:30 | All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut. -Acts 21:31 | As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. -Acts 21:32 | Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul. -Acts 21:33 | Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and enquired who he was and what he had done. -Acts 21:34 | Some shouted one thing, and some another, amongst the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks. -Acts 21:35 | When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; -Acts 21:36 | for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!" -Acts 21:37 | As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek? -Acts 21:38 | Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?" -Acts 21:39 | But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people." -Acts 22:01 | "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." -Acts 22:02 | When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said, -Acts 22:03 | "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today. -Acts 22:04 | I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, -Acts 22:05 | as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and travelled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished. -Acts 22:06 | As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky. -Acts 22:07 | I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ -Acts 22:08 | I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’ -Acts 22:09 | "Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me. -Acts 22:10 | I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’ -Acts 22:11 | When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus. -Acts 22:12 | One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus, -Acts 22:13 | came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him. -Acts 22:14 | He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. -Acts 22:15 | For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard. -Acts 22:16 | Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptised, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’ -Acts 22:17 | "When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance, -Acts 22:18 | and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’ -Acts 22:19 | I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you. -Acts 22:20 | When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’ -Acts 22:21 | "He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’" -Acts 22:22 | They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!" -Acts 22:23 | As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air, -Acts 22:24 | the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that. -Acts 22:25 | When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?" -Acts 22:26 | When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!" -Acts 22:27 | The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes." -Acts 22:28 | The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman." -Acts 22:29 | Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realised that he was a Roman, because he had bound him. -Acts 22:30 | But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them. -Acts 23:01 | Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today." -Acts 23:02 | The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. -Acts 23:03 | Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?" -Acts 23:04 | Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God’s high priest?" -Acts 23:05 | Paul said, "I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’" -Acts 23:06 | But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!" -Acts 23:07 | When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided. -Acts 23:08 | For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these. -Acts 23:09 | A great clamour arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!" -Acts 23:10 | When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from amongst them, and bring him into the barracks. -Acts 23:11 | The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome." -Acts 23:12 | When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. -Acts 23:13 | There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. -Acts 23:14 | They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. -Acts 23:15 | Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near." -Acts 23:16 | But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul. -Acts 23:17 | Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him." -Acts 23:18 | So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you." -Acts 23:19 | The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?" -Acts 23:20 | He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to enquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. -Acts 23:21 | Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you." -Acts 23:22 | So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me." -Acts 23:23 | He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night." -Acts 23:24 | He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor. -Acts 23:26 | "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings. -Acts 23:27 | "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learnt that he was a Roman. -Acts 23:28 | Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council. -Acts 23:29 | I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment. -Acts 23:30 | When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell." -Acts 23:31 | So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. -Acts 23:32 | But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks. -Acts 23:33 | When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. -Acts 23:34 | When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said, -Acts 23:35 | "I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace. -Acts 24:01 | After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul. -Acts 24:02 | When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight, -Acts 24:03 | we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. -Acts 24:04 | But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words. -Acts 24:05 | For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections amongst all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. -Acts 24:06 | He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him. -Acts 24:08 | By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him." -Acts 24:09 | The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so. -Acts 24:10 | When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defence, -Acts 24:11 | seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem. -Acts 24:12 | In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city. -Acts 24:13 | Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me. -Acts 24:14 | But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets; -Acts 24:15 | having hope towards God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. -Acts 24:16 | In this I also practise always having a conscience void of offence towards God and men. -Acts 24:17 | Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings; -Acts 24:18 | amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil. -Acts 24:19 | They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me. -Acts 24:20 | Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council, -Acts 24:21 | unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing amongst them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’" -Acts 24:22 | But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case." -Acts 24:23 | He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him. -Acts 24:24 | But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. -Acts 24:25 | As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgement to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you." -Acts 24:26 | Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him. -Acts 24:27 | But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favour with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds. -Acts 25:01 | Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. -Acts 25:02 | Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him, -Acts 25:03 | asking a favour against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way. -Acts 25:04 | However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly. -Acts 25:05 | "Let them therefore", he said, "that are in power amongst you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him." -Acts 25:06 | When he had stayed amongst them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgement seat, and commanded Paul to be brought. -Acts 25:07 | When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove, -Acts 25:08 | while he said in his defence, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all." -Acts 25:09 | But Festus, desiring to gain favour with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?" -Acts 25:10 | But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar’s judgement seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well. -Acts 25:11 | For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!" -Acts 25:12 | Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go." -Acts 25:13 | Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus. -Acts 25:14 | As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix; -Acts 25:15 | about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him. -Acts 25:16 | I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defence concerning the matter laid against him. -Acts 25:17 | When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgement seat and commanded the man to be brought. -Acts 25:18 | When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed; -Acts 25:19 | but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. -Acts 25:20 | Being perplexed how to enquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters. -Acts 25:21 | But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar." -Acts 25:22 | Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him." -Acts 25:23 | So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. -Acts 25:24 | Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. -Acts 25:25 | But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him, -Acts 25:26 | of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write. -Acts 25:27 | For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him." -Acts 26:01 | Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defence. -Acts 26:02 | "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defence before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews, -Acts 26:03 | especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are amongst the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently. -Acts 26:04 | "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning amongst my own nation and at Jerusalem; -Acts 26:05 | having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. -Acts 26:06 | Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, -Acts 26:07 | which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa! -Acts 26:08 | Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? -Acts 26:09 | "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. -Acts 26:10 | I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. -Acts 26:11 | Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. -Acts 26:12 | "Whereupon as I travelled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, -Acts 26:13 | at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who travelled with me. -Acts 26:14 | When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ -Acts 26:15 | "I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ "He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. -Acts 26:16 | But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; -Acts 26:17 | delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, -Acts 26:18 | to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance amongst those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ -Acts 26:19 | "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, -Acts 26:20 | but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. -Acts 26:21 | For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. -Acts 26:22 | Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen, -Acts 26:23 | how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles." -Acts 26:24 | As he thus made his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!" -Acts 26:25 | But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness. -Acts 26:26 | For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner. -Acts 26:27 | King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe." -Acts 26:28 | Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?" -Acts 26:29 | Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds." -Acts 26:30 | The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them. -Acts 26:31 | When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds." -Acts 26:32 | Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar." -Acts 27:01 | When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. -Acts 27:02 | Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. -Acts 27:03 | The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself. -Acts 27:04 | Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. -Acts 27:05 | When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. -Acts 27:06 | There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board. -Acts 27:07 | When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone. -Acts 27:08 | With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea. -Acts 27:09 | When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them -Acts 27:10 | and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives." -Acts 27:11 | But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul. -Acts 27:12 | Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest. -Acts 27:13 | When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore. -Acts 27:14 | But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. -Acts 27:15 | When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. -Acts 27:16 | Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat. -Acts 27:17 | After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along. -Acts 27:18 | As we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. -Acts 27:19 | On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands. -Acts 27:20 | When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away. -Acts 27:21 | When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss. -Acts 27:22 | Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life amongst you, but only of the ship. -Acts 27:23 | For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve, saying, -Acts 27:24 | ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ -Acts 27:25 | Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me. -Acts 27:26 | But we must run aground on a certain island." -Acts 27:27 | But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land. -Acts 27:28 | They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms. -Acts 27:29 | Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. -Acts 27:30 | As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, -Acts 27:31 | Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved." -Acts 27:32 | Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off. -Acts 27:33 | While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. -Acts 27:34 | Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads." -Acts 27:35 | When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat. -Acts 27:36 | Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. -Acts 27:37 | In all, we were two hundred and seventy-six souls on the ship. -Acts 27:38 | When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. -Acts 27:39 | When it was day, they didn’t recognise the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it. -Acts 27:40 | Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach. -Acts 27:41 | But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves. -Acts 27:42 | The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape. -Acts 27:43 | But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go towards the land; -Acts 27:44 | and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land. -Acts 28:01 | When we had escaped, then they learnt that the island was called Malta. -Acts 28:02 | The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold. -Acts 28:03 | But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. -Acts 28:04 | When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live." -Acts 28:05 | However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed. -Acts 28:06 | But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. -Acts 28:07 | Now in the neighbourhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days. -Acts 28:08 | The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him. -Acts 28:09 | Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured. -Acts 28:10 | They also honoured us with many honours, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed. -Acts 28:11 | After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was "The Twin Brothers." -Acts 28:12 | Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days. -Acts 28:13 | From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli, -Acts 28:14 | where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome. -Acts 28:15 | From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage. -Acts 28:16 | When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him. -Acts 28:17 | After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, -Acts 28:18 | who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me. -Acts 28:19 | But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation. -Acts 28:20 | For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain." -Acts 28:21 | They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you. -Acts 28:22 | But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against." -Acts 28:23 | When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening. -Acts 28:24 | Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved. -Acts 28:25 | When they didn’t agree amongst themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying, -Acts 28:26 | ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive. -Acts 28:27 | For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’ -Acts 28:28 | "Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen." -Acts 28:29 | When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute amongst themselves. -Acts 28:30 | Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him, -Acts 28:31 | preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance. -Acts 2:01 | Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. -Acts 2:02 | Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. -Acts 2:03 | Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. -Acts 2:04 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. -Acts 2:05 | Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky. -Acts 2:06 | When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. -Acts 2:07 | They were all amazed and marvelled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans? -Acts 2:08 | How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? -Acts 2:09 | Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, -Acts 2:10 | Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, -Acts 2:11 | Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!" -Acts 2:12 | They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" -Acts 2:13 | Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine." -Acts 2:14 | But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words. -Acts 2:15 | For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day. -Acts 2:16 | But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: -Acts 2:17 | ‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. -Acts 2:18 | Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. -Acts 2:19 | I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. -Acts 2:20 | The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. -Acts 2:21 | It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ -Acts 2:22 | "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him amongst you, even as you yourselves know, -Acts 2:23 | him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; -Acts 2:24 | whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it. -Acts 2:25 | For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. -Acts 2:26 | Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope; -Acts 2:27 | because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. -Acts 2:28 | You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ -Acts 2:29 | "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. -Acts 2:30 | Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, -Acts 2:31 | he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay. -Acts 2:32 | This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses. -Acts 2:33 | Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear. -Acts 2:34 | For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand -Acts 2:36 | "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." -Acts 2:37 | Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" -Acts 2:38 | Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. -Acts 2:39 | For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself." -Acts 2:40 | With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!" -Acts 2:41 | Then those who gladly received his word were baptised. There were added that day about three thousand souls. -Acts 2:42 | They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. -Acts 2:43 | Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. -Acts 2:44 | All who believed were together, and had all things in common. -Acts 2:45 | They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need. -Acts 2:46 | Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, -Acts 2:47 | praising God, and having favour with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved. -Acts 3:01 | Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. -Acts 3:02 | A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple. -Acts 3:03 | Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy. -Acts 3:04 | Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at us." -Acts 3:05 | He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them. -Acts 3:06 | But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" -Acts 3:07 | He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. -Acts 3:08 | Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. -Acts 3:10 | They recognised him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. -Acts 3:11 | As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. -Acts 3:12 | When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? -Acts 3:13 | The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. -Acts 3:14 | But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, -Acts 3:15 | and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. -Acts 3:16 | By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. -Acts 3:17 | "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. -Acts 3:18 | But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. -Acts 3:19 | "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, -Acts 3:20 | and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, -Acts 3:21 | whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. -Acts 3:22 | For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from amongst your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. -Acts 3:23 | It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from amongst the people.’ -Acts 3:24 | Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. -Acts 3:25 | You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’ -Acts 3:26 | God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness." -Acts 4:01 | As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, -Acts 4:02 | being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. -Acts 4:03 | They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening. -Acts 4:04 | But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand. -Acts 4:05 | In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. -Acts 4:06 | Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest. -Acts 4:07 | When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they enquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?" -Acts 4:08 | Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, -Acts 4:09 | if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, -Acts 4:10 | may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him. -Acts 4:11 | He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’ -Acts 4:12 | There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given amongst men, by which we must be saved!" -Acts 4:13 | Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled. They recognised that they had been with Jesus. -Acts 4:14 | Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. -Acts 4:15 | But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred amongst themselves, saying, -Acts 4:16 | "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it. -Acts 4:17 | But so that this spreads no further amongst the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name." -Acts 4:18 | They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. -Acts 4:19 | But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves, -Acts 4:20 | for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard." -Acts 4:21 | When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done. -Acts 4:22 | For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old. -Acts 4:23 | Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. -Acts 4:24 | When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; -Acts 4:25 | who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? -Acts 4:26 | The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’ -Acts 4:27 | "For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, -Acts 4:28 | to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen. -Acts 4:29 | Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, -Acts 4:30 | while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus." -Acts 4:31 | When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. -Acts 4:32 | The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. -Acts 4:33 | With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all. -Acts 4:34 | For neither was there amongst them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, -Acts 4:35 | and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need. -Acts 4:36 | Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race, -Acts 4:37 | having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet. -Acts 5:01 | But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, -Acts 5:02 | and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. -Acts 5:03 | But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? -Acts 5:04 | While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God." -Acts 5:05 | Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things. -Acts 5:06 | The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him. -Acts 5:07 | About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. -Acts 5:08 | Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." She said, "Yes, for so much." -Acts 5:09 | But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out." -Acts 5:10 | She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband. -Acts 5:11 | Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things. -Acts 5:12 | By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done amongst the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch. -Acts 5:13 | None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honoured them. -Acts 5:14 | More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women. -Acts 5:15 | They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at least his shadow might overshadow some of them. -Acts 5:16 | The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed. -Acts 5:17 | But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy -Acts 5:18 | and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody. -Acts 5:20 | "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." -Acts 5:21 | When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. -Acts 5:22 | But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported, -Acts 5:23 | "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!" -Acts 5:24 | Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this. -Acts 5:25 | One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people." -Acts 5:26 | Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them. -Acts 5:28 | "Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us." -Acts 5:29 | But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. -Acts 5:30 | The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. -Acts 5:31 | God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. -Acts 5:32 | We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him." -Acts 5:33 | But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them. -Acts 5:34 | But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honoured by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while. -Acts 5:35 | He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do. -Acts 5:36 | For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing. -Acts 5:37 | After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrolment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad. -Acts 5:38 | Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. -Acts 5:39 | But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!" -Acts 5:40 | They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. -Acts 5:41 | They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for Jesus’ name. -Acts 5:42 | Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ. -Acts 6:01 | Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. -Acts 6:02 | The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables. -Acts 6:03 | Therefore select from amongst you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. -Acts 6:04 | But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word." -Acts 6:05 | These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch; -Acts 6:06 | whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. -Acts 6:07 | The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. -Acts 6:08 | Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs amongst the people. -Acts 6:09 | But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines", and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen. -Acts 6:10 | They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. -Acts 6:11 | Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." -Acts 6:12 | They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council, -Acts 6:13 | and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. -Acts 6:14 | For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us." -Acts 6:15 | All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel. -Acts 7:01 | The high priest said, "Are these things so?" -Acts 7:02 | He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, -Acts 7:03 | and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’ -Acts 7:04 | Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. -Acts 7:05 | He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child. -Acts 7:06 | God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. -Acts 7:07 | ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’ -Acts 7:08 | He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. -Acts 7:09 | "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him, -Acts 7:10 | and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. -Acts 7:11 | Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. -Acts 7:12 | But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. -Acts 7:13 | On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh. -Acts 7:14 | Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. -Acts 7:15 | Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers, -Acts 7:16 | and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem. -Acts 7:17 | "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, -Acts 7:18 | until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph. -Acts 7:19 | The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive. -Acts 7:20 | At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house. -Acts 7:21 | When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son. -Acts 7:22 | Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. -Acts 7:23 | But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. -Acts 7:24 | Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. -Acts 7:25 | He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand. -Acts 7:26 | "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’ -Acts 7:27 | But he who did his neighbour wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? -Acts 7:28 | Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ -Acts 7:29 | Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. -Acts 7:30 | "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. -Acts 7:31 | When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him, -Acts 7:32 | ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look. -Acts 7:33 | The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground. -Acts 7:34 | I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’ -Acts 7:35 | "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. -Acts 7:36 | This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. -Acts 7:37 | This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from amongst your brothers, like me.’ -Acts 7:38 | This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us, -Acts 7:39 | to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, -Acts 7:40 | saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ -Acts 7:41 | They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. -Acts 7:42 | But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? -Acts 7:43 | You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’ -Acts 7:44 | "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen; -Acts 7:45 | which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, -Acts 7:46 | who found favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. -Acts 7:48 | However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says, -Acts 7:49 | ‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest? -Acts 7:50 | Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ -Acts 7:51 | "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. -Acts 7:52 | Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. -Acts 7:53 | You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!" -Acts 7:54 | Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. -Acts 7:55 | But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, -Acts 7:56 | and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" -Acts 7:57 | But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord. -Acts 7:58 | They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. -Acts 7:59 | They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" -Acts 7:60 | He knelt down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep. -Acts 8:01 | Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. -Acts 8:02 | Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him. -Acts 8:03 | But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison. -Acts 8:04 | Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word. -Acts 8:05 | Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ. -Acts 8:06 | The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did. -Acts 8:07 | For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralysed and lame were healed. -Acts 8:09 | But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practise sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one, -Acts 8:10 | to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God." -Acts 8:11 | They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries. -Acts 8:12 | But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women. -Acts 8:13 | Simon himself also believed. Being baptised, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed. -Acts 8:14 | Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, -Acts 8:15 | who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit; -Acts 8:16 | for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptised in the name of Christ Jesus. -Acts 8:17 | Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. -Acts 8:18 | Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, -Acts 8:19 | "Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit." -Acts 8:20 | But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! -Acts 8:21 | You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God. -Acts 8:22 | Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. -Acts 8:23 | For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." -Acts 8:24 | Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me." -Acts 8:25 | They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans. -Acts 8:26 | But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go towards the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert." -Acts 8:27 | He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. -Acts 8:28 | He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. -Acts 8:29 | The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot." -Acts 8:30 | Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" -Acts 8:31 | He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. -Acts 8:32 | Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth. -Acts 8:33 | In his humiliation, his judgement was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth." -Acts 8:34 | The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?" -Acts 8:35 | Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus. -Acts 8:36 | As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptised?" -Acts 8:38 | He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him. -Acts 8:39 | When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing. -Acts 8:40 | But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea. -Acts 9:01 | But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest -Acts 9:02 | and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. -Acts 9:03 | As he travelled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. -Acts 9:04 | He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" -Acts 9:05 | He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. -Acts 9:06 | But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do." -Acts 9:07 | The men who travelled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one. -Acts 9:08 | Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. -Acts 9:09 | He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank. -Acts 9:10 | Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it’s me, Lord." -Acts 9:11 | The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, -Acts 9:12 | and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight." -Acts 9:13 | But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem. -Acts 9:14 | Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name." -Acts 9:15 | But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. -Acts 9:16 | For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake." -Acts 9:17 | Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." -Acts 9:18 | Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptised. -Acts 9:19 | He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus. -Acts 9:20 | Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God. -Acts 9:21 | All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!" -Acts 9:22 | But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. -Acts 9:23 | When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him, -Acts 9:24 | but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him, -Acts 9:25 | but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket. -Acts 9:26 | When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. -Acts 9:27 | But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. -Acts 9:28 | He was with them entering into Jerusalem, -Acts 9:29 | preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him. -Acts 9:30 | When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus. -Acts 9:31 | So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. -Acts 9:32 | As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. -Acts 9:33 | There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralysed. -Acts 9:34 | Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose. -Acts 9:35 | All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. -Acts 9:36 | Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did. -Acts 9:37 | In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. -Acts 9:38 | As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. -Acts 9:39 | Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. -Acts 9:40 | Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. -Acts 9:41 | He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive. -Acts 9:42 | This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. -Acts 9:43 | He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon. -Amos 1:01 | The words of Amos, who was amongst the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. -Amos 1:02 | He said: "The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither." -Amos 1:03 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; -Amos 1:04 | but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. -Amos 1:05 | I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says the Lord. -Amos 1:06 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom; -Amos 1:07 | but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its palaces. -Amos 1:08 | I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord GOD. -Amos 1:09 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant; -Amos 1:10 | but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces." -Amos 1:11 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever; -Amos 1:12 | but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah." -Amos 1:13 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. -Amos 1:14 | But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind; -Amos 1:15 | and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together," says the Lord. -Amos 2:01 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime; -Amos 2:02 | but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; -Amos 2:03 | and I will cut off the judge from amongst them, and will kill all its princes with him," says the Lord. -Amos 2:04 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the Lord’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; -Amos 2:05 | but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem." -Amos 2:06 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; -Amos 2:07 | They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name; -Amos 2:08 | and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined. -Amos 2:09 | Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. -Amos 2:10 | Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. -Amos 2:11 | I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?" says the Lord. -Amos 2:12 | "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’ -Amos 2:13 | Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain. -Amos 2:14 | Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; -Amos 2:15 | neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself; -Amos 2:16 | and he who is courageous amongst the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says the Lord. -Amos 3:02 | "I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins." -Amos 3:03 | Do two walk together, unless they have agreed? -Amos 3:04 | Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing? -Amos 3:05 | Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch? -Amos 3:06 | Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the Lord hasn’t done it? -Amos 3:07 | Surely the Lord God will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets. -Amos 3:08 | The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken. Who can but prophesy? -Amos 3:09 | Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is amongst them." -Amos 3:10 | "Indeed they don’t know to do right," says the Lord, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces." -Amos 3:11 | Therefore the Lord God says: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered." -Amos 3:12 | The Lord says: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed." -Amos 3:13 | "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies. -Amos 3:14 | "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground. -Amos 3:15 | I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says the Lord. -Amos 4:01 | Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!" -Amos 4:02 | The Lord God has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks. -Amos 4:03 | You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says the Lord. -Amos 4:04 | "Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, -Amos 4:05 | offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord GOD. -Amos 4:06 | "I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. -Amos 4:07 | "I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered. -Amos 4:08 | So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. -Amos 4:09 | "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. -Amos 4:10 | "I sent plagues amongst you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. -Amos 4:11 | "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. -Amos 4:12 | "Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. -Amos 4:13 | For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness and treads on the high places of the earth: The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name." -Amos 5:01 | Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. -Amos 5:02 | "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." -Amos 5:03 | For the Lord God says: "The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." -Amos 5:04 | For the Lord says to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live; -Amos 5:05 | but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. -Amos 5:06 | Seek the Lord, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel. -Amos 5:07 | You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: -Amos 5:08 | seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name, -Amos 5:09 | who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress. -Amos 5:10 | They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly. -Amos 5:11 | Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. -Amos 5:12 | For I know how many are your offences, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts. -Amos 5:13 | Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time. -Amos 5:14 | Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. -Amos 5:15 | Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph." -Amos 5:16 | Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: "Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skilful in lamentation to wailing. -Amos 5:17 | In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you," says the Lord. -Amos 5:18 | "Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light. -Amos 5:19 | As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. -Amos 5:20 | Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? -Amos 5:21 | I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. -Amos 5:22 | Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. -Amos 5:23 | Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. -Amos 5:24 | But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream. -Amos 5:25 | "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? -Amos 5:26 | You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. -Amos 5:27 | Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is the God of Armies. -Amos 6:01 | Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! -Amos 6:02 | Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border? -Amos 6:03 | Alas for those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near, -Amos 6:04 | who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall, -Amos 6:05 | who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; -Amos 6:06 | who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. -Amos 6:07 | Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end. -Amos 6:08 | "The Lord God has sworn by himself," says the Lord, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. -Amos 6:09 | It will happen that if ten men remain in one house, they will die. -Amos 6:10 | "When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention the Lord’s name.’ -Amos 6:11 | "For, behold, the Lord commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. -Amos 6:12 | Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plough there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness; -Amos 6:13 | you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’ -Amos 6:14 | For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says the Lord, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah." -Amos 7:01 | Thus the Lord God showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest. -Amos 7:02 | When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." -Amos 7:03 | The Lord relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says the Lord. -Amos 7:04 | Thus the Lord God showed me and behold, the Lord God called for judgement by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. -Amos 7:05 | Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." -Amos 7:06 | The Lord relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord GOD. -Amos 7:07 | Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. -Amos 7:08 | The Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. -Amos 7:09 | The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." -Amos 7:10 | Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. -Amos 7:11 | For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’" -Amos 7:12 | Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: -Amos 7:13 | but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!" -Amos 7:14 | Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs; -Amos 7:15 | and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ -Amos 7:16 | Now therefore listen to the Lord’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’ -Amos 7:17 | Therefore the Lord says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’" -Amos 8:01 | Thus the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. -Amos 8:02 | He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. -Amos 8:03 | The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day," says the Lord GOD. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence. -Amos 8:04 | Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, -Amos 8:05 | Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; -Amos 8:06 | that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’" -Amos 8:07 | The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works. -Amos 8:08 | Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. -Amos 8:09 | It will happen in that day," says the Lord GOD, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. -Amos 8:10 | I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day. -Amos 8:11 | Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Lord’s words. -Amos 8:12 | They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the Lord’s word, and will not find it. -Amos 8:13 | In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst. -Amos 8:14 | Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again." -Amos 9:01 | I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. -Amos 9:02 | Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. -Amos 9:03 | Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. -Amos 9:04 | Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. -Amos 9:05 | For the Lord, the Lord of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. -Amos 9:06 | It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; the Lord is his name. -Amos 9:07 | Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says the Lord. "Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? -Amos 9:08 | Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says the Lord. -Amos 9:09 | "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel amongst all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. -Amos 9:10 | All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’ -Amos 9:11 | In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; -Amos 9:12 | that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says the Lord who does this. -Amos 9:13 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills. -Amos 9:14 | I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit. -Amos 9:15 | I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says the Lord your God. -Colossians 1:01 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, -Colossians 1:02 | to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -Colossians 1:03 | We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, -Colossians 1:04 | having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have towards all the saints, -Colossians 1:05 | because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News -Colossians 1:06 | which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth, -Colossians 1:07 | even as you learnt of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf, -Colossians 1:08 | who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. -Colossians 1:09 | For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, -Colossians 1:10 | that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, -Colossians 1:11 | strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy, -Colossians 1:12 | giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, -Colossians 1:13 | who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, -Colossians 1:14 | in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. -Colossians 1:15 | He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. -Colossians 1:16 | For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. -Colossians 1:17 | He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. -Colossians 1:18 | He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. -Colossians 1:19 | For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him, -Colossians 1:20 | and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross. -Colossians 1:21 | You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds, -Colossians 1:22 | yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him, -Colossians 1:23 | if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant. -Colossians 1:24 | Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly, -Colossians 1:25 | of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me towards you to fulfil the word of God, -Colossians 1:26 | the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, -Colossians 1:27 | to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery amongst the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. -Colossians 1:28 | We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; -Colossians 1:29 | for which I also labour, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily. -Colossians 2:01 | For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; -Colossians 2:02 | that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, -Colossians 2:03 | in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. -Colossians 2:04 | Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. -Colossians 2:05 | For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. -Colossians 2:06 | As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, -Colossians 2:07 | rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. -Colossians 2:08 | Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. -Colossians 2:09 | For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, -Colossians 2:10 | and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. -Colossians 2:11 | In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, -Colossians 2:12 | having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. -Colossians 2:13 | You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, -Colossians 2:14 | wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. -Colossians 2:15 | Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. -Colossians 2:16 | Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, -Colossians 2:17 | which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. -Colossians 2:18 | Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, -Colossians 2:19 | and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth. -Colossians 2:20 | If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, -Colossians 2:22 | (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? -Colossians 2:23 | These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. -Colossians 3:01 | If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. -Colossians 3:02 | Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. -Colossians 3:03 | For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. -Colossians 3:04 | When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory. -Colossians 3:05 | Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. -Colossians 3:06 | For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. -Colossians 3:07 | You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; -Colossians 3:08 | but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. -Colossians 3:09 | Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, -Colossians 3:10 | and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, -Colossians 3:11 | where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all. -Colossians 3:12 | Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; -Colossians 3:13 | bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. -Colossians 3:14 | Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. -Colossians 3:15 | And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. -Colossians 3:16 | Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. -Colossians 3:17 | Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. -Colossians 3:18 | Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. -Colossians 3:19 | Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them. -Colossians 3:20 | Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. -Colossians 3:21 | Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged. -Colossians 3:22 | Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. -Colossians 3:23 | And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, -Colossians 3:24 | knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. -Colossians 3:25 | But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality. -Colossians 4:01 | Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. -Colossians 4:02 | Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving, -Colossians 4:03 | praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds, -Colossians 4:04 | that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. -Colossians 4:05 | Walk in wisdom towards those who are outside, redeeming the time. -Colossians 4:06 | Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. -Colossians 4:07 | All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. -Colossians 4:08 | I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts, -Colossians 4:09 | together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here. -Colossians 4:10 | Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"), -Colossians 4:11 | and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me. -Colossians 4:12 | Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. -Colossians 4:13 | For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis. -Colossians 4:14 | Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you. -Colossians 4:15 | Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house. -Colossians 4:16 | When this letter has been read amongst you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea. -Colossians 4:17 | Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfil it." -Colossians 4:18 | The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. -Daniel 10:01 | In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. -Daniel 10:02 | In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. -Daniel 10:03 | I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled. -Daniel 10:04 | In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, -Daniel 10:05 | I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz. -Daniel 10:06 | His body also was like beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude. -Daniel 10:07 | I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves. -Daniel 10:08 | So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength. -Daniel 10:09 | Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face towards the ground. -Daniel 10:10 | Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands. -Daniel 10:11 | He said to me, "Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now." When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling. -Daniel 10:12 | Then he said to me, "Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake. -Daniel 10:13 | But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia. -Daniel 10:14 | Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days." -Daniel 10:15 | When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face towards the ground, and was mute. -Daniel 10:16 | Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, "My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength. -Daniel 10:17 | For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me." -Daniel 10:18 | Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me. -Daniel 10:19 | He said, "Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me." -Daniel 10:20 | Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. -Daniel 10:21 | But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince. -Daniel 11:01 | "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. -Daniel 11:02 | "Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece. -Daniel 11:03 | A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. -Daniel 11:04 | When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided towards the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these. -Daniel 11:05 | "The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion. -Daniel 11:06 | At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times. -Daniel 11:07 | "But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail. -Daniel 11:08 | He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north. -Daniel 11:09 | He will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land. -Daniel 11:10 | His sons will wage war, and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through. They will return and wage war, even to his fortress. -Daniel 11:11 | "The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand. -Daniel 11:12 | The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail. -Daniel 11:13 | The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance. -Daniel 11:14 | "In those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the children of the violent amongst your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will fall. -Daniel 11:15 | So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand. -Daniel 11:16 | But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand. -Daniel 11:17 | He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand, and won’t be for him. -Daniel 11:18 | After this he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many; but a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn on him. -Daniel 11:19 | Then he will turn his face towards the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found. -Daniel 11:20 | "Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle. -Daniel 11:21 | "In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honour of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries. -Daniel 11:22 | The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant. -Daniel 11:23 | After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people. -Daniel 11:24 | In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter amongst them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time. -Daniel 11:25 | "He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him. -Daniel 11:26 | Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain. -Daniel 11:27 | As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time. -Daniel 11:28 | Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land. -Daniel 11:29 | "He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former. -Daniel 11:30 | For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant. -Daniel 11:31 | "Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate. -Daniel 11:32 | He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action. -Daniel 11:33 | "Those who are wise amongst the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days. -Daniel 11:34 | Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries. -Daniel 11:35 | Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed. -Daniel 11:36 | "The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvellous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done. -Daniel 11:37 | He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all. -Daniel 11:38 | But in his place he will honour the god of fortresses. He will honour a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things. -Daniel 11:39 | He will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for a price. -Daniel 11:40 | "At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through. -Daniel 11:41 | He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. -Daniel 11:42 | He will also stretch out his hand on the countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape. -Daniel 11:43 | But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps. -Daniel 11:44 | But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many. -Daniel 11:45 | He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him. -Daniel 12:01 | "At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book. -Daniel 12:02 | Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. -Daniel 12:03 | Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever. -Daniel 12:04 | But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased." -Daniel 12:05 | Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side. -Daniel 12:06 | One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, "How long will it be to the end of these wonders?" -Daniel 12:07 | I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished. -Daniel 12:08 | I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?" -Daniel 12:09 | He said, "Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. -Daniel 12:10 | Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand. -Daniel 12:11 | "From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand and two hundred and ninety days. -Daniel 12:12 | Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand and three hundred and thirty-five days. -Daniel 12:13 | "But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days." -Daniel 1:01 | In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. -Daniel 1:04 | youths in whom was no defect, but well-favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans. -Daniel 1:05 | The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king. -Daniel 1:08 | But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. -Daniel 1:09 | Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. -Daniel 1:10 | The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king." -Daniel 1:11 | Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: -Daniel 1:12 | "Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink. -Daniel 1:13 | Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants." -Daniel 1:15 | At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties. -Daniel 1:16 | So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they were given to drink, and gave them vegetables. -Daniel 1:17 | Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. -Daniel 1:18 | At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. -Daniel 1:19 | The king talked with them; and amongst them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king. -Daniel 1:20 | In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. -Daniel 1:21 | Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus. -Daniel 2:02 | Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. -Daniel 2:03 | The king said to them, "I have dreamt a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream." -Daniel 2:04 | Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." -Daniel 2:05 | The king answered the Chaldeans, "The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill. -Daniel 2:06 | But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honour. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation." -Daniel 2:07 | They answered the second time and said, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." -Daniel 2:08 | The king answered, "I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me. -Daniel 2:09 | But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation." -Daniel 2:10 | The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, "There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, enchanter, or Chaldean. -Daniel 2:11 | It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh." -Daniel 2:12 | Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. -Daniel 2:13 | So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain. -Daniel 2:14 | Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. -Daniel 2:15 | He answered Arioch the king’s captain, "Why is the decree so urgent from the king?" Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. -Daniel 2:16 | Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation. -Daniel 2:17 | Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: -Daniel 2:18 | that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. -Daniel 2:19 | Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. -Daniel 2:20 | Daniel answered, "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his. -Daniel 2:21 | He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding. -Daniel 2:22 | He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. -Daniel 2:23 | I thank you and praise you, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter." -Daniel 2:24 | Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: "Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation." -Daniel 2:25 | Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: "I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation." -Daniel 2:26 | The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?" -Daniel 2:27 | Daniel answered before the king, and said, "The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers; -Daniel 2:28 | but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: -Daniel 2:29 | "As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen. -Daniel 2:30 | But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart. -Daniel 2:31 | "You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying. -Daniel 2:32 | As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, -Daniel 2:33 | its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. -Daniel 2:34 | You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. -Daniel 2:35 | Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. -Daniel 2:36 | "This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king. -Daniel 2:37 | You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory. -Daniel 2:38 | Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold. -Daniel 2:39 | "After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. -Daniel 2:40 | The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush. -Daniel 2:41 | Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. -Daniel 2:42 | As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken. -Daniel 2:43 | Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay. -Daniel 2:44 | "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. -Daniel 2:45 | Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure." -Daniel 2:46 | Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours to him. -Daniel 2:47 | The king answered to Daniel, and said, "Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealler of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret." -Daniel 2:48 | Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. -Daniel 2:49 | Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate. -Daniel 3:01 | Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. -Daniel 3:02 | Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. -Daniel 3:03 | Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. -Daniel 3:04 | Then the herald cried aloud, "To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages, -Daniel 3:05 | that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. -Daniel 3:06 | Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour." -Daniel 3:07 | Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. -Daniel 3:08 | Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews. -Daniel 3:09 | They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, "O king, live for ever! -Daniel 3:10 | You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music shall fall down and worship the golden image; -Daniel 3:11 | and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. -Daniel 3:12 | There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up." -Daniel 3:13 | Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king. -Daniel 3:14 | Nebuchadnezzar answered them, "Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? -Daniel 3:15 | Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god who will deliver you out of my hands?" -Daniel 3:16 | Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, "Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. -Daniel 3:17 | If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. -Daniel 3:18 | But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up." -Daniel 3:19 | Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. -Daniel 3:20 | He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. -Daniel 3:21 | Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. -Daniel 3:22 | Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. -Daniel 3:23 | These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. -Daniel 3:24 | Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counsellors, "Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king." -Daniel 3:25 | He answered, "Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods." -Daniel 3:26 | Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire. -Daniel 3:27 | The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them. -Daniel 3:28 | Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. -Daniel 3:29 | Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this." -Daniel 3:30 | Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon. -Daniel 4:01 | Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. -Daniel 4:02 | It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked towards me. -Daniel 4:03 | How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation. -Daniel 4:04 | I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. -Daniel 4:05 | I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. -Daniel 4:06 | Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. -Daniel 4:07 | Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation. -Daniel 4:09 | "Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation. -Daniel 4:10 | These were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great. -Daniel 4:11 | The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth. -Daniel 4:12 | Its leaves were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. -Daniel 4:13 | "I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky. -Daniel 4:14 | He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches. -Daniel 4:15 | Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth. -Daniel 4:16 | Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him. -Daniel 4:17 | "‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’ -Daniel 4:18 | "This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you." -Daniel 4:19 | Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, "Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you." Belteshazzar answered, "My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries. -Daniel 4:20 | The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth; -Daniel 4:21 | whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation: -Daniel 4:22 | it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth. -Daniel 4:23 | "Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.’ -Daniel 4:24 | "This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king: -Daniel 4:25 | that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will. -Daniel 4:26 | Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule. -Daniel 4:27 | Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity." -Daniel 4:29 | At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. -Daniel 4:30 | The king spoke and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?" -Daniel 4:31 | While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, "O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you. -Daniel 4:32 | You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’" -Daniel 4:33 | This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. -Daniel 4:34 | At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation. -Daniel 4:35 | All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and amongst the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, "What are you doing?" -Daniel 4:36 | At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counsellors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me. -Daniel 4:37 | Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase. -Daniel 5:01 | Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. -Daniel 5:02 | Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. -Daniel 5:03 | Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. -Daniel 5:04 | They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone. -Daniel 5:05 | In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote. -Daniel 5:06 | Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another. -Daniel 5:07 | The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." -Daniel 5:08 | Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation. -Daniel 5:09 | Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed. -Daniel 5:10 | The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, "O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed. -Daniel 5:11 | There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king, Nebuchadnezzar, your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, -Daniel 5:12 | because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation." -Daniel 5:13 | Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? -Daniel 5:14 | I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you. -Daniel 5:15 | Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing. -Daniel 5:16 | But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." -Daniel 5:17 | Then Daniel answered before the king, "Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. -Daniel 5:18 | "To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty. -Daniel 5:19 | Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to. -Daniel 5:20 | But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. -Daniel 5:21 | He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will. -Daniel 5:22 | "You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, -Daniel 5:23 | but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways. -Daniel 5:24 | Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed. -Daniel 5:25 | "This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’ -Daniel 5:26 | "This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end. -Daniel 5:27 | TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. -Daniel 5:28 | PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." -Daniel 5:29 | Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. -Daniel 5:30 | In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. -Daniel 5:31 | Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. -Daniel 6:01 | It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; -Daniel 6:02 | and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss. -Daniel 6:03 | Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. -Daniel 6:04 | Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him. -Daniel 6:05 | Then these men said, "We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God." -Daniel 6:06 | Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, "King Darius, live forever! -Daniel 6:07 | All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. -Daniel 6:08 | Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter." -Daniel 6:09 | Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. -Daniel 6:10 | When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room towards Jerusalem) and he knelt on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before. -Daniel 6:11 | Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. -Daniel 6:12 | Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: "Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered, "This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter." -Daniel 6:13 | Then they answered and said before the king, "That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day." -Daniel 6:14 | Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he laboured until the going down of the sun to rescue him. -Daniel 6:15 | Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed." -Daniel 6:16 | Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you." -Daniel 6:17 | A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. -Daniel 6:18 | Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. -Daniel 6:19 | Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions. -Daniel 6:20 | When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?" -Daniel 6:21 | Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever! -Daniel 6:22 | My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm." -Daniel 6:23 | Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. -Daniel 6:24 | The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den. -Daniel 6:25 | Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: "Peace be multiplied to you. -Daniel 6:26 | "I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; "for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end. -Daniel 6:27 | He delivers and rescues. He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions." -Daniel 6:28 | So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. -Daniel 7:01 | In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. -Daniel 7:02 | Daniel spoke and said, "I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea. -Daniel 7:03 | Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another. -Daniel 7:04 | "The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it. -Daniel 7:05 | "Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’ -Daniel 7:06 | "After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it. -Daniel 7:07 | "After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns. -Daniel 7:08 | "I considered the horns, and behold, there came up amongst them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. -Daniel 7:09 | "I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire. -Daniel 7:10 | A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgement was set. The books were opened. -Daniel 7:11 | "I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burnt with fire. -Daniel 7:12 | As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. -Daniel 7:13 | "I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. -Daniel 7:14 | Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom one that which will not be destroyed. -Daniel 7:15 | "As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. -Daniel 7:16 | I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. "So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. -Daniel 7:17 | ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth. -Daniel 7:18 | But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’ -Daniel 7:19 | "Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; -Daniel 7:20 | and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows. -Daniel 7:21 | I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them, -Daniel 7:22 | until the ancient of days came, and judgement was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. -Daniel 7:23 | "So he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces. -Daniel 7:24 | As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings. -Daniel 7:25 | He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. -Daniel 7:26 | "‘But the judgement will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end. -Daniel 7:27 | The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’ -Daniel 7:28 | "Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart." -Daniel 8:01 | In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. -Daniel 8:02 | I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. -Daniel 8:03 | Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a ram which had two horns stood before the river. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. -Daniel 8:04 | I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself. -Daniel 8:05 | As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes. -Daniel 8:06 | He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. -Daniel 8:07 | I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand. -Daniel 8:08 | The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns towards the four winds of the sky. -Daniel 8:09 | Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the glorious land. -Daniel 8:10 | It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them. -Daniel 8:11 | Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. -Daniel 8:12 | The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered. -Daniel 8:13 | Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, "How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?" -Daniel 8:14 | He said to me, "To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed." -Daniel 8:15 | When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man. -Daniel 8:16 | I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision." -Daniel 8:17 | So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, "Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end." -Daniel 8:18 | Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face towards the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. -Daniel 8:19 | He said, "Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end. -Daniel 8:20 | The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. -Daniel 8:21 | The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. -Daniel 8:22 | As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power. -Daniel 8:23 | "In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up. -Daniel 8:24 | His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people. -Daniel 8:25 | Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand. -Daniel 8:26 | "The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come." -Daniel 8:27 | I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it. -Daniel 9:01 | In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, -Daniel 9:02 | in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. -Daniel 9:03 | I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. -Daniel 9:04 | I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, "Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, -Daniel 9:05 | we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances. -Daniel 9:06 | We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. -Daniel 9:07 | "Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. -Daniel 9:08 | Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. -Daniel 9:09 | To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him. -Daniel 9:10 | We haven’t obeyed the Lord our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. -Daniel 9:11 | Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. "Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him. -Daniel 9:12 | He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem. -Daniel 9:13 | As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favour of the Lord our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth. -Daniel 9:14 | Therefore the Lord has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice. -Daniel 9:15 | "Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly. -Daniel 9:16 | Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us. -Daniel 9:17 | "Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. -Daniel 9:18 | My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. -Daniel 9:19 | Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name." -Daniel 9:20 | While I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, -Daniel 9:21 | yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. -Daniel 9:22 | He instructed me and talked with me, and said, "Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding. -Daniel 9:23 | At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision. -Daniel 9:24 | "Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. -Daniel 9:25 | "Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. -Daniel 9:26 | After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined. -Daniel 9:27 | He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate." -Deuteronomy 10:01 | At that time the Lord said to me, "Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. -Deuteronomy 10:02 | I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark." -Deuteronomy 10:03 | So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. -Deuteronomy 10:04 | He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. -Deuteronomy 10:05 | I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord commanded me. -Deuteronomy 10:06 | (The children of Israel travelled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place. -Deuteronomy 10:07 | From there they travelled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. -Deuteronomy 10:08 | At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. -Deuteronomy 10:09 | Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord your God spoke to him.) -Deuteronomy 10:10 | I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord would not destroy you. -Deuteronomy 10:11 | The Lord said to me, "Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them." -Deuteronomy 10:12 | Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, -Deuteronomy 10:13 | to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good? -Deuteronomy 10:14 | Behold, to the Lord your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein. -Deuteronomy 10:15 | Only the Lord had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today. -Deuteronomy 10:16 | Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. -Deuteronomy 10:17 | For the Lord your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes. -Deuteronomy 10:18 | He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing. -Deuteronomy 10:19 | Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 10:20 | You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name. -Deuteronomy 10:21 | He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. -Deuteronomy 10:22 | Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude. -Deuteronomy 11:01 | Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always. -Deuteronomy 11:02 | Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, -Deuteronomy 11:03 | his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; -Deuteronomy 11:07 | but your eyes have seen all of the Lord’s great work which he did. -Deuteronomy 11:08 | Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess; -Deuteronomy 11:09 | and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. -Deuteronomy 11:10 | For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; -Deuteronomy 11:11 | but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky, -Deuteronomy 11:12 | a land which the Lord your God cares for. The Lord your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. -Deuteronomy 11:13 | It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, -Deuteronomy 11:14 | that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. -Deuteronomy 11:15 | I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. -Deuteronomy 11:16 | Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them; -Deuteronomy 11:17 | and the Lord’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you. -Deuteronomy 11:18 | Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. -Deuteronomy 11:19 | You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. -Deuteronomy 11:20 | You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates; -Deuteronomy 11:21 | that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. -Deuteronomy 11:22 | For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him— -Deuteronomy 11:23 | then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. -Deuteronomy 11:24 | Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border. -Deuteronomy 11:25 | No man will be able to stand before you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you. -Deuteronomy 11:26 | Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: -Deuteronomy 11:27 | the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today; -Deuteronomy 11:28 | and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. -Deuteronomy 11:29 | It shall happen, when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. -Deuteronomy 11:30 | Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? -Deuteronomy 11:31 | For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it. -Deuteronomy 11:32 | You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today. -Deuteronomy 12:01 | These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth. -Deuteronomy 12:02 | You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. -Deuteronomy 12:03 | You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place. -Deuteronomy 12:05 | But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there. -Deuteronomy 12:06 | You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there. -Deuteronomy 12:07 | There you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. -Deuteronomy 12:08 | You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; -Deuteronomy 12:09 | for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you. -Deuteronomy 12:10 | But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety, -Deuteronomy 12:11 | then it shall happen that to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord. -Deuteronomy 12:12 | You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. -Deuteronomy 12:13 | Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; -Deuteronomy 12:14 | but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. -Deuteronomy 12:15 | Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the Lord your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. -Deuteronomy 12:16 | Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. -Deuteronomy 12:17 | You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; -Deuteronomy 12:18 | but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hand to. -Deuteronomy 12:19 | Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. -Deuteronomy 12:20 | When the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul. -Deuteronomy 12:21 | If the place which the Lord your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. -Deuteronomy 12:22 | Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. -Deuteronomy 12:23 | Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat. -Deuteronomy 12:24 | You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. -Deuteronomy 12:25 | You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the Lord’s eyes. -Deuteronomy 12:26 | Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord shall choose. -Deuteronomy 12:27 | You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the Lord your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the Lord your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat. -Deuteronomy 12:28 | Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the Lord your God’s eyes. -Deuteronomy 12:29 | When the Lord your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, -Deuteronomy 12:30 | be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not enquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise." -Deuteronomy 12:31 | You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. -Deuteronomy 12:32 | Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it. -Deuteronomy 13:01 | If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises amongst you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, -Deuteronomy 13:02 | and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let’s go after other gods" (which you have not known) "and let’s serve them," -Deuteronomy 13:03 | you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. -Deuteronomy 13:04 | You shall walk after the Lord your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him. -Deuteronomy 13:05 | That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 13:06 | If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "Let’s go and serve other gods"—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; -Deuteronomy 13:07 | of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth— -Deuteronomy 13:08 | you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; -Deuteronomy 13:09 | but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. -Deuteronomy 13:10 | You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. -Deuteronomy 13:11 | All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this amongst you. -Deuteronomy 13:13 | certain wicked fellows have gone out from amongst you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let’s go and serve other gods," which you have not known, -Deuteronomy 13:14 | then you shall enquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done amongst you, -Deuteronomy 13:15 | you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword. -Deuteronomy 13:16 | You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. -Deuteronomy 13:17 | Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers, -Deuteronomy 13:18 | when you listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in the Lord your God’s eyes. -Deuteronomy 14:01 | You are the children of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. -Deuteronomy 14:02 | For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. -Deuteronomy 14:03 | You shall not eat any abominable thing. -Deuteronomy 14:06 | Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, amongst the animals, you may eat. -Deuteronomy 14:07 | Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you. -Deuteronomy 14:08 | The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. -Deuteronomy 14:09 | These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales. -Deuteronomy 14:10 | You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you. -Deuteronomy 14:19 | All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten. -Deuteronomy 14:21 | You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living amongst you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. -Deuteronomy 14:22 | You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. -Deuteronomy 14:23 | You shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. -Deuteronomy 14:24 | If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the Lord your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the Lord your God blesses you, -Deuteronomy 14:25 | then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose. -Deuteronomy 14:26 | You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. -Deuteronomy 14:27 | You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. -Deuteronomy 14:28 | At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. -Deuteronomy 14:29 | The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living amongst you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do. -Deuteronomy 15:01 | At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. -Deuteronomy 15:02 | This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbour. He shall not require payment from his neighbour and his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed. -Deuteronomy 15:03 | Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release. -Deuteronomy 15:04 | However there will be no poor with you (for the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess) -Deuteronomy 15:05 | if only you diligently listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today. -Deuteronomy 15:06 | For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. -Deuteronomy 15:07 | If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; -Deuteronomy 15:08 | but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks. -Deuteronomy 15:09 | Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand," and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin to you. -Deuteronomy 15:10 | You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to. -Deuteronomy 15:11 | For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. -Deuteronomy 15:12 | If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. -Deuteronomy 15:13 | When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty. -Deuteronomy 15:14 | You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. -Deuteronomy 15:15 | You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. -Deuteronomy 15:16 | It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you," because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you, -Deuteronomy 15:17 | then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. -Deuteronomy 15:18 | It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. The Lord your God will bless you in all that you do. -Deuteronomy 15:19 | You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. -Deuteronomy 15:20 | You shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, you and your household. -Deuteronomy 15:21 | If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 15:22 | You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer. -Deuteronomy 15:23 | Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water. -Deuteronomy 16:01 | Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. -Deuteronomy 16:02 | You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. -Deuteronomy 16:03 | You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. -Deuteronomy 16:04 | No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. -Deuteronomy 16:05 | You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; -Deuteronomy 16:06 | but at the place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 16:07 | You shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents. -Deuteronomy 16:08 | Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work. -Deuteronomy 16:09 | You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. -Deuteronomy 16:10 | You shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how the Lord your God blesses you. -Deuteronomy 16:11 | You shall rejoice before the Lord your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are amongst you, in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. -Deuteronomy 16:12 | You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes. -Deuteronomy 16:13 | You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. -Deuteronomy 16:14 | You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. -Deuteronomy 16:15 | You shall keep a feast to the Lord your God seven days in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. -Deuteronomy 16:16 | Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty. -Deuteronomy 16:17 | Every man shall give as he is able, according to the Lord your God’s blessing which he has given you. -Deuteronomy 16:18 | You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement. -Deuteronomy 16:19 | You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. -Deuteronomy 16:20 | You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you. -Deuteronomy 16:21 | You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the Lord your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves. -Deuteronomy 16:22 | Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which the Lord your God hates. -Deuteronomy 17:01 | You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 17:02 | If there is found amongst you, within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the Lord your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant, -Deuteronomy 17:03 | and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded, -Deuteronomy 17:04 | and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall enquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, -Deuteronomy 17:05 | then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. -Deuteronomy 17:06 | At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. -Deuteronomy 17:07 | The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 17:08 | If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgement, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. -Deuteronomy 17:09 | You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall enquire, and they shall give you the verdict. -Deuteronomy 17:10 | You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the Lord chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you. -Deuteronomy 17:11 | According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgement which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left. -Deuteronomy 17:12 | The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel. -Deuteronomy 17:13 | All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously. -Deuteronomy 17:14 | When you have come to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me," -Deuteronomy 17:15 | you shall surely set him whom the Lord your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from amongst your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. -Deuteronomy 17:16 | Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the Lord has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again." -Deuteronomy 17:17 | He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. -Deuteronomy 17:18 | It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests. -Deuteronomy 17:19 | It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; -Deuteronomy 17:20 | that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel. -Deuteronomy 18:01 | The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire and his portion. -Deuteronomy 18:02 | They shall have no inheritance amongst their brothers. The Lord is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. -Deuteronomy 18:03 | This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts. -Deuteronomy 18:04 | You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep. -Deuteronomy 18:05 | For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the Lord’s name, him and his sons forever. -Deuteronomy 18:06 | If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which the Lord shall choose, -Deuteronomy 18:07 | then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord. -Deuteronomy 18:08 | They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions. -Deuteronomy 18:09 | When you have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. -Deuteronomy 18:10 | There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, -Deuteronomy 18:11 | or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. -Deuteronomy 18:12 | For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. Because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you. -Deuteronomy 18:13 | You shall be blameless with the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 18:14 | For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practise sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you so to do. -Deuteronomy 18:15 | The Lord your God will raise up to you a prophet from amongst you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. -Deuteronomy 18:16 | This is according to all that you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the Lord my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die." -Deuteronomy 18:17 | The Lord said to me, "They have well said that which they have spoken. -Deuteronomy 18:18 | I will raise them up a prophet from amongst their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. -Deuteronomy 18:19 | It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. -Deuteronomy 18:20 | But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die." -Deuteronomy 18:21 | You may say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?" -Deuteronomy 18:22 | When a prophet speaks in the Lord’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him. -Deuteronomy 19:01 | When the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, -Deuteronomy 19:02 | you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess. -Deuteronomy 19:03 | You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there. -Deuteronomy 19:04 | This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past— -Deuteronomy 19:05 | as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbour so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live. -Deuteronomy 19:06 | Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past. -Deuteronomy 19:07 | Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves. -Deuteronomy 19:08 | If the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; -Deuteronomy 19:09 | and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three. -Deuteronomy 19:10 | This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you. -Deuteronomy 19:11 | But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; -Deuteronomy 19:12 | then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. -Deuteronomy 19:13 | Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you. -Deuteronomy 19:14 | You shall not remove your neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess. -Deuteronomy 19:15 | One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. -Deuteronomy 19:16 | If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, -Deuteronomy 19:17 | then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; -Deuteronomy 19:18 | and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, -Deuteronomy 19:19 | then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 19:20 | Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil amongst you. -Deuteronomy 19:21 | Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. -Deuteronomy 1:01 | These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. -Deuteronomy 1:02 | It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. -Deuteronomy 1:03 | In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them, -Deuteronomy 1:04 | after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. -Deuteronomy 1:06 | "The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain. -Deuteronomy 1:07 | Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. -Deuteronomy 1:08 | Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’" -Deuteronomy 1:09 | I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone. -Deuteronomy 1:10 | The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude. -Deuteronomy 1:11 | The Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! -Deuteronomy 1:12 | How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife? -Deuteronomy 1:13 | Take wise men of understanding who are respected amongst your tribes, and I will make them heads over you." -Deuteronomy 1:14 | You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do." -Deuteronomy 1:15 | So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. -Deuteronomy 1:16 | I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. -Deuteronomy 1:17 | You shall not show partiality in judgement; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgement is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it." -Deuteronomy 1:18 | I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. -Deuteronomy 1:19 | We travelled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea. -Deuteronomy 1:20 | I said to you, "You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives to us. -Deuteronomy 1:21 | Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed." -Deuteronomy 1:22 | You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, "Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come." -Deuteronomy 1:23 | The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe. -Deuteronomy 1:24 | They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. -Deuteronomy 1:25 | They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which the Lord our God gives to us." -Deuteronomy 1:26 | Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 1:27 | You murmured in your tents, and said, "Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. -Deuteronomy 1:28 | Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’" -Deuteronomy 1:29 | Then I said to you, "Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them. -Deuteronomy 1:30 | The Lord your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, -Deuteronomy 1:31 | and in the wilderness where you have seen how that the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place." -Deuteronomy 1:32 | Yet in this thing you didn’t believe the Lord your God, -Deuteronomy 1:33 | who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. -Deuteronomy 1:35 | "Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers, -Deuteronomy 1:36 | except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed the Lord." -Deuteronomy 1:37 | Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, "You also shall not go in there. -Deuteronomy 1:38 | Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. -Deuteronomy 1:39 | Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it. -Deuteronomy 1:40 | But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea." -Deuteronomy 1:41 | Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country. -Deuteronomy 1:42 | The Lord said to me, "Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not amongst you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’" -Deuteronomy 1:43 | So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. -Deuteronomy 1:44 | The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. -Deuteronomy 1:45 | You returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you. -Deuteronomy 1:46 | So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained. -Deuteronomy 20:01 | When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 20:02 | It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, -Deuteronomy 20:03 | and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; -Deuteronomy 20:04 | for the Lord your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." -Deuteronomy 20:05 | The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. -Deuteronomy 20:06 | What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit. -Deuteronomy 20:07 | What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." -Deuteronomy 20:08 | The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart." -Deuteronomy 20:09 | It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people. -Deuteronomy 20:10 | When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. -Deuteronomy 20:11 | It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced labourers to you, and shall serve you. -Deuteronomy 20:12 | If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. -Deuteronomy 20:13 | When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; -Deuteronomy 20:14 | but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. -Deuteronomy 20:15 | Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. -Deuteronomy 20:16 | But of the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; -Deuteronomy 20:17 | but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you; -Deuteronomy 20:18 | that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 20:19 | When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? -Deuteronomy 20:20 | Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. -Deuteronomy 21:01 | If someone is found slain in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him, -Deuteronomy 21:02 | then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain. -Deuteronomy 21:03 | It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke. -Deuteronomy 21:04 | The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. -Deuteronomy 21:05 | The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the Lord your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the Lord’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided. -Deuteronomy 21:06 | All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. -Deuteronomy 21:07 | They shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. -Deuteronomy 21:08 | Forgive, the Lord, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood amongst your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them. -Deuteronomy 21:09 | So you shall put away the innocent blood from amongst you, when you shall do that which is right in the Lord’s eyes. -Deuteronomy 21:10 | When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive, -Deuteronomy 21:11 | and see amongst the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife, -Deuteronomy 21:12 | then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails. -Deuteronomy 21:13 | She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. -Deuteronomy 21:14 | It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her. -Deuteronomy 21:15 | If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated, -Deuteronomy 21:16 | then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn; -Deuteronomy 21:17 | but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his. -Deuteronomy 21:18 | If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them, -Deuteronomy 21:19 | then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. -Deuteronomy 21:20 | They shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard." -Deuteronomy 21:21 | All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. All Israel shall hear, and fear. -Deuteronomy 21:22 | If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, -Deuteronomy 21:23 | his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. -Deuteronomy 22:01 | You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. -Deuteronomy 22:02 | If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him. -Deuteronomy 22:03 | So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself. -Deuteronomy 22:04 | You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again. -Deuteronomy 22:05 | A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 22:06 | If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. -Deuteronomy 22:07 | You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. -Deuteronomy 22:08 | When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there. -Deuteronomy 22:09 | You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. -Deuteronomy 22:10 | You shall not plough with an ox and a donkey together. -Deuteronomy 22:11 | You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. -Deuteronomy 22:12 | You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. -Deuteronomy 22:13 | If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, -Deuteronomy 22:14 | accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity" -Deuteronomy 22:15 | then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. -Deuteronomy 22:16 | The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. -Deuteronomy 22:17 | Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. -Deuteronomy 22:18 | The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. -Deuteronomy 22:19 | They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. -Deuteronomy 22:20 | But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady, -Deuteronomy 22:21 | then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 22:22 | If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. -Deuteronomy 22:23 | If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, -Deuteronomy 22:24 | then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 22:25 | But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die; -Deuteronomy 22:26 | but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbour and kills him, even so is this matter; -Deuteronomy 22:27 | for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her. -Deuteronomy 22:28 | If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found, -Deuteronomy 22:29 | then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days. -Deuteronomy 22:30 | A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt. -Deuteronomy 23:01 | He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into the Lord’s assembly. -Deuteronomy 23:02 | A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into the Lord’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into the Lord’s assembly. -Deuteronomy 23:03 | An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the Lord’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into the Lord’s assembly forever, -Deuteronomy 23:04 | because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. -Deuteronomy 23:05 | Nevertheless the Lord your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loved you. -Deuteronomy 23:06 | You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. -Deuteronomy 23:07 | You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. -Deuteronomy 23:08 | The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the Lord’s assembly. -Deuteronomy 23:09 | When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. -Deuteronomy 23:10 | If there is amongst you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp; -Deuteronomy 23:11 | but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. -Deuteronomy 23:12 | You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself. -Deuteronomy 23:13 | You shall have a trowel amongst your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement; -Deuteronomy 23:14 | for the Lord your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. -Deuteronomy 23:15 | You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you. -Deuteronomy 23:16 | He shall dwell with you, amongst you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him. -Deuteronomy 23:17 | There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. -Deuteronomy 23:18 | You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of the Lord your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 23:19 | You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. -Deuteronomy 23:20 | You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. -Deuteronomy 23:21 | When you vow a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. -Deuteronomy 23:22 | But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you. -Deuteronomy 23:23 | You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to the Lord your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do. -Deuteronomy 23:24 | When you come into your neighbour’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container. -Deuteronomy 23:25 | When you come into your neighbour’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbour’s standing grain. -Deuteronomy 24:01 | When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. -Deuteronomy 24:02 | When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. -Deuteronomy 24:03 | If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; -Deuteronomy 24:04 | her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to the Lord. You shall not cause the land to sin, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. -Deuteronomy 24:05 | When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. -Deuteronomy 24:06 | No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge. -Deuteronomy 24:07 | If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 24:08 | Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. -Deuteronomy 24:09 | Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 24:10 | When you lend your neighbour any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. -Deuteronomy 24:11 | You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you. -Deuteronomy 24:12 | If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. -Deuteronomy 24:13 | You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 24:14 | You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. -Deuteronomy 24:15 | In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you. -Deuteronomy 24:16 | The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin. -Deuteronomy 24:17 | You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; -Deuteronomy 24:18 | but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing. -Deuteronomy 24:19 | When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. -Deuteronomy 24:20 | When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. -Deuteronomy 24:21 | When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. -Deuteronomy 24:22 | You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing. -Deuteronomy 25:01 | If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgement and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. -Deuteronomy 25:02 | It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. -Deuteronomy 25:03 | He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight. -Deuteronomy 25:04 | You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. -Deuteronomy 25:05 | If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. -Deuteronomy 25:06 | It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. -Deuteronomy 25:07 | If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me." -Deuteronomy 25:08 | Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, "I don’t want to take her," -Deuteronomy 25:09 | then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house." -Deuteronomy 25:10 | His name shall be called in Israel, "The house of him who had his sandal removed." -Deuteronomy 25:11 | When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts, -Deuteronomy 25:12 | then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity. -Deuteronomy 25:13 | You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. -Deuteronomy 25:14 | You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. -Deuteronomy 25:15 | You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. -Deuteronomy 25:16 | For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 25:17 | Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt; -Deuteronomy 25:18 | how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God. -Deuteronomy 25:19 | Therefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget. -Deuteronomy 26:01 | It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it, -Deuteronomy 26:02 | that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. -Deuteronomy 26:03 | You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, "I profess today to the Lord your God, that I have come to the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us." -Deuteronomy 26:04 | The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the Lord your God’s altar. -Deuteronomy 26:05 | You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, "My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. -Deuteronomy 26:06 | The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labour on us. -Deuteronomy 26:07 | Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers. The Lord heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. -Deuteronomy 26:08 | The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders; -Deuteronomy 26:09 | and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. -Deuteronomy 26:10 | Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, the Lord, have given me." You shall set it down before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 26:11 | You shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is amongst you. -Deuteronomy 26:12 | When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled. -Deuteronomy 26:13 | You shall say before the Lord your God, "I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them. -Deuteronomy 26:14 | I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the Lord my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me. -Deuteronomy 26:15 | Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey." -Deuteronomy 26:16 | Today the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. -Deuteronomy 26:17 | You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. -Deuteronomy 26:18 | The Lord has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments. -Deuteronomy 26:19 | He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour; and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he has spoken. -Deuteronomy 27:01 | Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you today. -Deuteronomy 27:02 | It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster. -Deuteronomy 27:03 | You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. -Deuteronomy 27:04 | It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster. -Deuteronomy 27:05 | There you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them. -Deuteronomy 27:06 | You shall build the Lord your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 27:07 | You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 27:08 | You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly." -Deuteronomy 27:09 | Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 27:10 | You shall therefore obey the Lord your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today." -Deuteronomy 27:12 | "These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. -Deuteronomy 27:13 | These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. -Deuteronomy 27:14 | With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel, -Deuteronomy 27:15 | ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:16 | ‘Cursed is he who dishonours his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:17 | ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbour’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:18 | ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:19 | ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:20 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonours his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:21 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:22 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:23 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:24 | ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbour.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:25 | ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ -Deuteronomy 27:26 | ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’" -Deuteronomy 28:01 | It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the Lord your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. -Deuteronomy 28:02 | All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the Lord your God’s voice. -Deuteronomy 28:03 | You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. -Deuteronomy 28:04 | You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. -Deuteronomy 28:05 | Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. -Deuteronomy 28:06 | You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out. -Deuteronomy 28:07 | The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways. -Deuteronomy 28:08 | The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. -Deuteronomy 28:09 | The Lord will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways. -Deuteronomy 28:10 | All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the Lord’s name, and they will be afraid of you. -Deuteronomy 28:11 | The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. -Deuteronomy 28:12 | The Lord will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow. -Deuteronomy 28:13 | The Lord will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today, to observe and to do, -Deuteronomy 28:14 | and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. -Deuteronomy 28:15 | But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. -Deuteronomy 28:16 | You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. -Deuteronomy 28:17 | Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. -Deuteronomy 28:18 | The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed. -Deuteronomy 28:19 | You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out. -Deuteronomy 28:20 | The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me. -Deuteronomy 28:21 | The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it. -Deuteronomy 28:22 | The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish. -Deuteronomy 28:23 | Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. -Deuteronomy 28:24 | The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed. -Deuteronomy 28:25 | The Lord will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth. -Deuteronomy 28:26 | Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away. -Deuteronomy 28:27 | The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumours, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. -Deuteronomy 28:28 | The Lord will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. -Deuteronomy 28:29 | You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you. -Deuteronomy 28:30 | You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit. -Deuteronomy 28:31 | Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you. -Deuteronomy 28:32 | Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand. -Deuteronomy 28:33 | A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always, -Deuteronomy 28:34 | so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad. -Deuteronomy 28:35 | The Lord will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. -Deuteronomy 28:36 | The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone. -Deuteronomy 28:37 | You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. -Deuteronomy 28:38 | You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it. -Deuteronomy 28:39 | You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them. -Deuteronomy 28:40 | You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. -Deuteronomy 28:41 | You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. -Deuteronomy 28:42 | Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground. -Deuteronomy 28:43 | The foreigner who is amongst you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower. -Deuteronomy 28:44 | He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail. -Deuteronomy 28:45 | All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. -Deuteronomy 28:46 | They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever. -Deuteronomy 28:47 | Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; -Deuteronomy 28:48 | therefore you will serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. -Deuteronomy 28:49 | The Lord will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand, -Deuteronomy 28:50 | a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favour to the young. -Deuteronomy 28:51 | They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. -Deuteronomy 28:52 | They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. -Deuteronomy 28:53 | You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. -Deuteronomy 28:54 | The man who is tender amongst you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil towards his brother, towards the wife whom he loves, and towards the remnant of his children whom he has remaining, -Deuteronomy 28:55 | so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates. -Deuteronomy 28:56 | The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil towards the husband that she loves, towards her son, towards her daughter, -Deuteronomy 28:57 | towards her young one who comes out from between her feet, and towards her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates. -Deuteronomy 28:58 | If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE Lord your God, -Deuteronomy 28:59 | then the Lord will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration. -Deuteronomy 28:60 | He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. -Deuteronomy 28:61 | Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring them on you until you are destroyed. -Deuteronomy 28:62 | You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice. -Deuteronomy 28:63 | It will happen that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess. -Deuteronomy 28:64 | The Lord will scatter you amongst all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. -Deuteronomy 28:65 | Amongst these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul. -Deuteronomy 28:66 | Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life. -Deuteronomy 28:67 | In the morning you will say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you will say, "I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see. -Deuteronomy 28:68 | The Lord will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you. -Deuteronomy 29:01 | These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. -Deuteronomy 29:02 | Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; -Deuteronomy 29:03 | the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. -Deuteronomy 29:04 | But the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. -Deuteronomy 29:05 | I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet. -Deuteronomy 29:06 | You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 29:07 | When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them. -Deuteronomy 29:08 | We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. -Deuteronomy 29:09 | Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. -Deuteronomy 29:10 | All of you stand today in the presence of the Lord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, -Deuteronomy 29:11 | your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water, -Deuteronomy 29:12 | that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, -Deuteronomy 29:13 | that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. -Deuteronomy 29:14 | Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only, -Deuteronomy 29:15 | but with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and also with those who are not here with us today -Deuteronomy 29:16 | (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed; -Deuteronomy 29:17 | and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were amongst them); -Deuteronomy 29:18 | lest there should be amongst you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be amongst you a root that produces bitter poison; -Deuteronomy 29:19 | and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart," to destroy the moist with the dry. -Deuteronomy 29:20 | The Lord will not pardon him, but then the Lord’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under the sky. -Deuteronomy 29:21 | The Lord will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. -Deuteronomy 29:22 | The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick, -Deuteronomy 29:23 | that all of its land is sulphur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. -Deuteronomy 29:24 | Even all the nations will say, "Why has the Lord done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?" -Deuteronomy 29:25 | Then men will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, -Deuteronomy 29:26 | and went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. -Deuteronomy 29:27 | Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. -Deuteronomy 29:28 | The Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today." -Deuteronomy 29:29 | The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. -Deuteronomy 2:01 | Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. -Deuteronomy 2:03 | "You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward. -Deuteronomy 2:04 | Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful. -Deuteronomy 2:05 | Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. -Deuteronomy 2:06 | You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’" -Deuteronomy 2:07 | For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing. -Deuteronomy 2:08 | So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. -Deuteronomy 2:09 | The Lord said to me, "Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession." -Deuteronomy 2:10 | (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim. -Deuteronomy 2:11 | These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. -Deuteronomy 2:12 | The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the Lord gave to them.) -Deuteronomy 2:13 | "Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered." We went over the brook Zered. -Deuteronomy 2:14 | The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the Lord swore to them. -Deuteronomy 2:15 | Moreover the Lord’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed. -Deuteronomy 2:16 | So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from amongst the people, -Deuteronomy 2:19 | When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession." -Deuteronomy 2:20 | (That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, -Deuteronomy 2:21 | a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place; -Deuteronomy 2:22 | as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day. -Deuteronomy 2:23 | Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.) -Deuteronomy 2:24 | "Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. -Deuteronomy 2:25 | Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you." -Deuteronomy 2:27 | "Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. -Deuteronomy 2:28 | You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet, -Deuteronomy 2:29 | as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives us." -Deuteronomy 2:30 | But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today. -Deuteronomy 2:31 | The Lord said to me, "Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land." -Deuteronomy 2:33 | The Lord our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people. -Deuteronomy 2:34 | We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining. -Deuteronomy 2:35 | Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken. -Deuteronomy 2:36 | From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God delivered up all before us. -Deuteronomy 2:37 | Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God forbade us. -Deuteronomy 30:01 | It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind amongst all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, -Deuteronomy 30:02 | and return to the Lord your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, -Deuteronomy 30:03 | that then the Lord your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. -Deuteronomy 30:04 | If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back. -Deuteronomy 30:05 | The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers. -Deuteronomy 30:06 | The Lord your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. -Deuteronomy 30:07 | The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. -Deuteronomy 30:08 | You shall return and obey the Lord’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today. -Deuteronomy 30:09 | The Lord your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, -Deuteronomy 30:10 | if you will obey the Lord your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. -Deuteronomy 30:11 | For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant. -Deuteronomy 30:12 | It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" -Deuteronomy 30:13 | Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" -Deuteronomy 30:14 | But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. -Deuteronomy 30:15 | Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil. -Deuteronomy 30:16 | For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. -Deuteronomy 30:17 | But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them, -Deuteronomy 30:18 | I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. -Deuteronomy 30:19 | I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants, -Deuteronomy 30:20 | to love the Lord your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. -Deuteronomy 31:01 | Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. -Deuteronomy 31:02 | He said to them, "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ -Deuteronomy 31:03 | The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the Lord has spoken. -Deuteronomy 31:04 | The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. -Deuteronomy 31:05 | The Lord will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. -Deuteronomy 31:06 | Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for the Lord your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you." -Deuteronomy 31:07 | Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. -Deuteronomy 31:08 | The Lord himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged." -Deuteronomy 31:09 | Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. -Deuteronomy 31:10 | Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths, -Deuteronomy 31:11 | when all Israel has come to appear before the Lord your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. -Deuteronomy 31:12 | Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law, -Deuteronomy 31:13 | and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it." -Deuteronomy 31:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him." Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. -Deuteronomy 31:15 | The Lord appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door. -Deuteronomy 31:16 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be amongst them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. -Deuteronomy 31:17 | Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not amongst us?’ -Deuteronomy 31:18 | I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods. -Deuteronomy 31:19 | "Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. -Deuteronomy 31:20 | For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. -Deuteronomy 31:21 | It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them." -Deuteronomy 31:22 | So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel. -Deuteronomy 31:23 | He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you." -Deuteronomy 31:24 | When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, -Deuteronomy 31:26 | "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the Lord your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you. -Deuteronomy 31:27 | For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death? -Deuteronomy 31:28 | Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. -Deuteronomy 31:29 | For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands." -Deuteronomy 31:30 | Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished. -Deuteronomy 32:01 | Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. -Deuteronomy 32:02 | My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb. -Deuteronomy 32:03 | For I will proclaim the Lord’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God! -Deuteronomy 32:04 | The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he. -Deuteronomy 32:05 | They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation. -Deuteronomy 32:06 | Is this the way you repay the Lord, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you. -Deuteronomy 32:07 | Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. -Deuteronomy 32:08 | When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. -Deuteronomy 32:09 | For the Lord’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. -Deuteronomy 32:10 | He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. -Deuteronomy 32:11 | As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. -Deuteronomy 32:12 | The Lord alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. -Deuteronomy 32:13 | He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; -Deuteronomy 32:14 | butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine. -Deuteronomy 32:15 | But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation. -Deuteronomy 32:16 | They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. -Deuteronomy 32:17 | They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread. -Deuteronomy 32:19 | The Lord saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. -Deuteronomy 32:20 | He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. -Deuteronomy 32:21 | They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. -Deuteronomy 32:22 | For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire. -Deuteronomy 32:23 | "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. -Deuteronomy 32:24 | They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust. -Deuteronomy 32:25 | Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the grey-haired man. -Deuteronomy 32:26 | I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from amongst men; -Deuteronomy 32:27 | were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, The Lord has not done all this.’" -Deuteronomy 32:28 | For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them. -Deuteronomy 32:29 | Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! -Deuteronomy 32:30 | How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up? -Deuteronomy 32:31 | For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede. -Deuteronomy 32:32 | For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter. -Deuteronomy 32:33 | Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps. -Deuteronomy 32:34 | "Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up amongst my treasures? -Deuteronomy 32:35 | Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them." -Deuteronomy 32:36 | For the Lord will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large. -Deuteronomy 32:37 | He will say, "Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge; -Deuteronomy 32:38 | which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection. -Deuteronomy 32:39 | "See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. -Deuteronomy 32:40 | For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever, -Deuteronomy 32:41 | if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgement; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me. -Deuteronomy 32:42 | I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy." -Deuteronomy 32:43 | Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people. -Deuteronomy 32:44 | Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. -Deuteronomy 32:45 | Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel. -Deuteronomy 32:46 | He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. -Deuteronomy 32:47 | For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it." -Deuteronomy 32:49 | "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession. -Deuteronomy 32:50 | Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people; -Deuteronomy 32:51 | because you trespassed against me amongst the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness amongst the children of Israel. -Deuteronomy 32:52 | For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel." -Deuteronomy 33:01 | This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. -Deuteronomy 33:02 | He said, "The Lord came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them. -Deuteronomy 33:03 | Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words. -Deuteronomy 33:04 | Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. -Deuteronomy 33:05 | He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together. -Deuteronomy 33:06 | "Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few." -Deuteronomy 33:07 | This is for Judah. He said, "Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries." -Deuteronomy 33:08 | About Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah. -Deuteronomy 33:09 | He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant. -Deuteronomy 33:10 | They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar. -Deuteronomy 33:11 | Lord, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again." -Deuteronomy 33:12 | About Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the Lord will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders." -Deuteronomy 33:13 | About Joseph he said, "His land is blessed by the Lord, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath, -Deuteronomy 33:14 | for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield, -Deuteronomy 33:15 | for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills, -Deuteronomy 33:16 | for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. -Deuteronomy 33:17 | Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh." -Deuteronomy 33:18 | About Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents. -Deuteronomy 33:19 | They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand." -Deuteronomy 33:20 | About Gad he said, "He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm and the crown of the head. -Deuteronomy 33:21 | He provided the first part for himself, for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him. He came with the heads of the people. He executed the righteousness of the Lord, His ordinances with Israel." -Deuteronomy 33:22 | About Dan he said, "Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan." -Deuteronomy 33:23 | About Naphtali he said, "Naphtali, satisfied with favour, full of the Lord’s blessing, Possess the west and the south." -Deuteronomy 33:24 | About Asher he said, "Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil. -Deuteronomy 33:25 | Your bars will be iron and bronze. As your days, so your strength will be. -Deuteronomy 33:26 | "There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies. -Deuteronomy 33:27 | The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’ -Deuteronomy 33:28 | Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew. -Deuteronomy 33:29 | You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places." -Deuteronomy 34:01 | Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. The Lord showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan, -Deuteronomy 34:02 | and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea, -Deuteronomy 34:03 | and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar. -Deuteronomy 34:04 | The Lord said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there." -Deuteronomy 34:05 | So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the Lord’s word. -Deuteronomy 34:06 | He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day. -Deuteronomy 34:07 | Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone. -Deuteronomy 34:08 | The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. -Deuteronomy 34:09 | Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses. -Deuteronomy 34:10 | Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, -Deuteronomy 3:02 | The Lord said to me, "Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon." -Deuteronomy 3:03 | So the Lord our God also delivered into our hand Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining. -Deuteronomy 3:04 | We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. -Deuteronomy 3:05 | All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls. -Deuteronomy 3:06 | We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. -Deuteronomy 3:07 | But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves. -Deuteronomy 3:08 | We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon. -Deuteronomy 3:09 | (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.) -Deuteronomy 3:10 | We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. -Deuteronomy 3:11 | (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.) -Deuteronomy 3:12 | This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites; -Deuteronomy 3:13 | and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. -Deuteronomy 3:14 | Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) -Deuteronomy 3:16 | To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; -Deuteronomy 3:17 | the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. -Deuteronomy 3:18 | I commanded you at that time, saying, "The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valour shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel. -Deuteronomy 3:19 | But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you, -Deuteronomy 3:20 | until the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you." -Deuteronomy 3:21 | I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So shall the Lord do to all the kingdoms where you go over. -Deuteronomy 3:22 | You shall not fear them; for the Lord your God himself fights for you." -Deuteronomy 3:24 | "Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours? -Deuteronomy 3:25 | Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon." -Deuteronomy 3:26 | But the Lord was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. The Lord said to me, "That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter. -Deuteronomy 3:27 | Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan. -Deuteronomy 3:28 | But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see." -Deuteronomy 4:01 | Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you. -Deuteronomy 4:02 | You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. -Deuteronomy 4:03 | Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from amongst you. -Deuteronomy 4:04 | But you who were faithful to the Lord your God are all alive today. -Deuteronomy 4:05 | Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. -Deuteronomy 4:06 | Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." -Deuteronomy 4:07 | For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is whenever we call on him? -Deuteronomy 4:08 | What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today? -Deuteronomy 4:09 | Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children— -Deuteronomy 4:10 | the day that you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, "Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." -Deuteronomy 4:11 | You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burnt with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. -Deuteronomy 4:12 | The Lord spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice. -Deuteronomy 4:13 | He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets. -Deuteronomy 4:14 | The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. -Deuteronomy 4:15 | Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the Lord spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, -Deuteronomy 4:16 | lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, -Deuteronomy 4:17 | the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, -Deuteronomy 4:18 | the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; -Deuteronomy 4:19 | and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. -Deuteronomy 4:20 | But the Lord has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today. -Deuteronomy 4:21 | Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance; -Deuteronomy 4:22 | but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land. -Deuteronomy 4:23 | Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. -Deuteronomy 4:24 | For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. -Deuteronomy 4:25 | When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the Lord your God’s sight to provoke him to anger, -Deuteronomy 4:26 | I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed. -Deuteronomy 4:27 | The Lord will scatter you amongst the peoples, and you will be left few in number amongst the nations where the Lord will lead you away. -Deuteronomy 4:28 | There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. -Deuteronomy 4:29 | But from there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. -Deuteronomy 4:30 | When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the Lord your God and listen to his voice. -Deuteronomy 4:31 | For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. -Deuteronomy 4:32 | For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it? -Deuteronomy 4:33 | Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live? -Deuteronomy 4:34 | Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from amongst another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? -Deuteronomy 4:35 | It was shown to you so that you might know that the Lord is God. There is no one else besides him. -Deuteronomy 4:36 | Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire. -Deuteronomy 4:37 | Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; -Deuteronomy 4:38 | to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. -Deuteronomy 4:39 | Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the Lord himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else. -Deuteronomy 4:40 | You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you for all time. -Deuteronomy 5:01 | Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them." -Deuteronomy 5:02 | The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. -Deuteronomy 5:03 | The Lord didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today. -Deuteronomy 5:04 | The Lord spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, -Deuteronomy 5:06 | "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. -Deuteronomy 5:07 | "You shall have no other gods before me. -Deuteronomy 5:08 | "You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. -Deuteronomy 5:09 | You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; -Deuteronomy 5:10 | and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. -Deuteronomy 5:11 | "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name. -Deuteronomy 5:12 | "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. -Deuteronomy 5:13 | You shall labour six days, and do all your work; -Deuteronomy 5:14 | but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. -Deuteronomy 5:15 | You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. -Deuteronomy 5:16 | "Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. -Deuteronomy 5:17 | "You shall not murder. -Deuteronomy 5:18 | "You shall not commit adultery. -Deuteronomy 5:19 | "You shall not steal. -Deuteronomy 5:20 | "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. -Deuteronomy 5:21 | "You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbour’s." -Deuteronomy 5:22 | The Lord spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me. -Deuteronomy 5:23 | When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; -Deuteronomy 5:24 | and you said, "Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives. -Deuteronomy 5:25 | Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the Lord our God’s voice any more, then we shall die. -Deuteronomy 5:26 | For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived? -Deuteronomy 5:27 | Go near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and tell us all that the Lord our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it." -Deuteronomy 5:28 | The Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, "I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken. -Deuteronomy 5:29 | Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! -Deuteronomy 5:30 | "Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’ -Deuteronomy 5:31 | But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess." -Deuteronomy 5:32 | You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left. -Deuteronomy 5:33 | You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess. -Deuteronomy 6:01 | Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess; -Deuteronomy 6:02 | that you might fear the Lord your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. -Deuteronomy 6:03 | Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. -Deuteronomy 6:04 | Hear, Israel: the Lord is our God. The Lord is one. -Deuteronomy 6:05 | You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. -Deuteronomy 6:06 | These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; -Deuteronomy 6:07 | and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. -Deuteronomy 6:08 | You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. -Deuteronomy 6:09 | You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. -Deuteronomy 6:10 | It shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build, -Deuteronomy 6:11 | and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full; -Deuteronomy 6:12 | then beware lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. -Deuteronomy 6:13 | You shall fear the Lord your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. -Deuteronomy 6:14 | You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, -Deuteronomy 6:15 | for the Lord your God amongst you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. -Deuteronomy 6:16 | You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in Massah. -Deuteronomy 6:17 | You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. -Deuteronomy 6:18 | You shall do that which is right and good in the Lord’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to your fathers, -Deuteronomy 6:19 | to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken. -Deuteronomy 6:20 | When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you mean?" -Deuteronomy 6:21 | then you shall tell your son, "We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; -Deuteronomy 6:22 | and the Lord showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; -Deuteronomy 6:23 | and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. -Deuteronomy 6:24 | The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. -Deuteronomy 6:25 | It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us." -Deuteronomy 7:01 | When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you; -Deuteronomy 7:02 | and when the Lord your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them. -Deuteronomy 7:03 | You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. -Deuteronomy 7:04 | For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the Lord’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. -Deuteronomy 7:05 | But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire. -Deuteronomy 7:06 | For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. -Deuteronomy 7:07 | The Lord didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; -Deuteronomy 7:08 | but because the Lord loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 7:09 | Know therefore that the Lord your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments, -Deuteronomy 7:10 | and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. -Deuteronomy 7:11 | You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them. -Deuteronomy 7:12 | It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers. -Deuteronomy 7:13 | He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. -Deuteronomy 7:14 | You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren amongst you, or amongst your livestock. -Deuteronomy 7:15 | The Lord will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. -Deuteronomy 7:16 | You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you. -Deuteronomy 7:17 | If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" -Deuteronomy 7:18 | you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: -Deuteronomy 7:19 | the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. -Deuteronomy 7:20 | Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet amongst them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. -Deuteronomy 7:21 | You shall not be scared of them; for the Lord your God is amongst you, a great and awesome God. -Deuteronomy 7:22 | The Lord your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. -Deuteronomy 7:23 | But the Lord your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. -Deuteronomy 7:24 | He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. -Deuteronomy 7:25 | You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 7:26 | You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing. -Deuteronomy 8:01 | You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. -Deuteronomy 8:02 | You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. -Deuteronomy 8:03 | He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the Lord’s mouth. -Deuteronomy 8:04 | Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. -Deuteronomy 8:05 | You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. -Deuteronomy 8:06 | You shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. -Deuteronomy 8:07 | For the Lord your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; -Deuteronomy 8:08 | a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; -Deuteronomy 8:09 | a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. -Deuteronomy 8:10 | You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which he has given you. -Deuteronomy 8:11 | Beware lest you forget the Lord your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; -Deuteronomy 8:12 | lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; -Deuteronomy 8:13 | and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; -Deuteronomy 8:14 | then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; -Deuteronomy 8:15 | who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; -Deuteronomy 8:16 | who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end; -Deuteronomy 8:17 | and lest you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth." -Deuteronomy 8:18 | But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today. -Deuteronomy 8:19 | It shall be, if you shall forget the Lord your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. -Deuteronomy 8:20 | As the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice. -Deuteronomy 9:01 | Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, -Deuteronomy 9:02 | a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, "Who can stand before the sons of Anak?" -Deuteronomy 9:03 | Know therefore today that the Lord your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you. -Deuteronomy 9:04 | Don’t say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out from before you, "For my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land" because the Lord drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. -Deuteronomy 9:05 | Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. -Deuteronomy 9:06 | Know therefore that the Lord your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. -Deuteronomy 9:07 | Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. -Deuteronomy 9:08 | Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you. -Deuteronomy 9:09 | When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. -Deuteronomy 9:10 | The Lord delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly. -Deuteronomy 9:11 | It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. -Deuteronomy 9:12 | The Lord said to me, "Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!" -Deuteronomy 9:13 | Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. -Deuteronomy 9:14 | Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they." -Deuteronomy 9:15 | So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. -Deuteronomy 9:16 | I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a moulded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the Lord had commanded you. -Deuteronomy 9:17 | I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. -Deuteronomy 9:18 | I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. -Deuteronomy 9:19 | For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry against you to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also. -Deuteronomy 9:20 | The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. -Deuteronomy 9:21 | I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. -Deuteronomy 9:22 | At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. -Deuteronomy 9:23 | When the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you," you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice. -Deuteronomy 9:24 | You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. -Deuteronomy 9:25 | So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. -Deuteronomy 9:26 | I prayed to the Lord, and said, "Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. -Deuteronomy 9:27 | Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, -Deuteronomy 9:28 | lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ -Deuteronomy 9:29 | Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm." -Ecclesiastes 10:01 | Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odour; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour. -Ecclesiastes 10:02 | A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left. -Ecclesiastes 10:03 | Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. -Ecclesiastes 10:04 | If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offences to rest. -Ecclesiastes 10:05 | There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler. -Ecclesiastes 10:06 | Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. -Ecclesiastes 10:07 | I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth. -Ecclesiastes 10:08 | He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. -Ecclesiastes 10:09 | Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered by it. -Ecclesiastes 10:10 | If the axe is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success. -Ecclesiastes 10:11 | If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue. -Ecclesiastes 10:12 | The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips. -Ecclesiastes 10:13 | The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. -Ecclesiastes 10:14 | A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him? -Ecclesiastes 10:15 | The labour of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city. -Ecclesiastes 10:16 | Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning! -Ecclesiastes 10:17 | Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness! -Ecclesiastes 10:18 | By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks. -Ecclesiastes 10:19 | A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things. -Ecclesiastes 10:20 | Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter. -Ecclesiastes 11:01 | Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. -Ecclesiastes 11:02 | Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth. -Ecclesiastes 11:03 | If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls towards the south, or towards the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be. -Ecclesiastes 11:04 | He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap. -Ecclesiastes 11:05 | As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all. -Ecclesiastes 11:06 | In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good. -Ecclesiastes 11:07 | Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun. -Ecclesiastes 11:08 | Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 11:09 | Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement. -Ecclesiastes 11:10 | Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. -Ecclesiastes 12:01 | Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them" -Ecclesiastes 12:02 | Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; -Ecclesiastes 12:03 | in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened, -Ecclesiastes 12:04 | and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; -Ecclesiastes 12:05 | yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: -Ecclesiastes 12:06 | before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern, -Ecclesiastes 12:07 | and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. -Ecclesiastes 12:08 | "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!" -Ecclesiastes 12:09 | Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs. -Ecclesiastes 12:10 | The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth. -Ecclesiastes 12:11 | The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. -Ecclesiastes 12:12 | Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. -Ecclesiastes 12:13 | This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. -Ecclesiastes 12:14 | For God will bring every work into judgement, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil. -Ecclesiastes 1:01 | The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: -Ecclesiastes 1:02 | "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." -Ecclesiastes 1:03 | What does man gain from all his labour in which he labours under the sun? -Ecclesiastes 1:04 | One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever. -Ecclesiastes 1:05 | The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises. -Ecclesiastes 1:06 | The wind goes towards the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses. -Ecclesiastes 1:07 | All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again. -Ecclesiastes 1:08 | All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. -Ecclesiastes 1:09 | That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 1:10 | Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us. -Ecclesiastes 1:11 | There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, amongst those that shall come after. -Ecclesiastes 1:12 | I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. -Ecclesiastes 1:13 | I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. -Ecclesiastes 1:14 | I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 1:15 | That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted. -Ecclesiastes 1:16 | I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." -Ecclesiastes 1:17 | I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 1:18 | For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. -Ecclesiastes 2:01 | I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure" and behold, this also was vanity. -Ecclesiastes 2:02 | I said of laughter, "It is foolishness" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" -Ecclesiastes 2:03 | I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives. -Ecclesiastes 2:04 | I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. -Ecclesiastes 2:05 | I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. -Ecclesiastes 2:06 | I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown. -Ecclesiastes 2:07 | I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem. -Ecclesiastes 2:08 | I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts. -Ecclesiastes 2:09 | So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. -Ecclesiastes 2:10 | Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour. -Ecclesiastes 2:11 | Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 2:12 | I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago. -Ecclesiastes 2:13 | Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. -Ecclesiastes 2:14 | The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. -Ecclesiastes 2:15 | Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 2:16 | For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! -Ecclesiastes 2:17 | So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 2:18 | I hated all my labour in which I laboured under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. -Ecclesiastes 2:19 | Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labour in which I have laboured, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 2:20 | Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour in which I had laboured under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 2:21 | For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not laboured for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. -Ecclesiastes 2:22 | For what does a man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, in which he labours under the sun? -Ecclesiastes 2:23 | For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 2:24 | There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. -Ecclesiastes 2:25 | For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? -Ecclesiastes 2:26 | For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 3:01 | For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: -Ecclesiastes 3:02 | a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; -Ecclesiastes 3:03 | a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; -Ecclesiastes 3:04 | a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; -Ecclesiastes 3:05 | a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; -Ecclesiastes 3:06 | a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; -Ecclesiastes 3:07 | a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; -Ecclesiastes 3:08 | a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. -Ecclesiastes 3:09 | What profit has he who works in that in which he labours? -Ecclesiastes 3:10 | I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. -Ecclesiastes 3:11 | He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. -Ecclesiastes 3:12 | I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. -Ecclesiastes 3:13 | Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, is the gift of God. -Ecclesiastes 3:14 | I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him. -Ecclesiastes 3:15 | That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away. -Ecclesiastes 3:16 | Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. -Ecclesiastes 3:17 | I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." -Ecclesiastes 3:18 | I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals. -Ecclesiastes 3:19 | For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 3:20 | All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. -Ecclesiastes 3:21 | Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?" -Ecclesiastes 3:22 | Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him? -Ecclesiastes 4:01 | Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. -Ecclesiastes 4:02 | Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive. -Ecclesiastes 4:03 | Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 4:04 | Then I saw all the labour and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. -Ecclesiastes 4:05 | The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself. -Ecclesiastes 4:06 | Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 4:07 | Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 4:08 | There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labour and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business. -Ecclesiastes 4:09 | Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. -Ecclesiastes 4:10 | For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. -Ecclesiastes 4:11 | Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? -Ecclesiastes 4:12 | If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. -Ecclesiastes 4:13 | Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more. -Ecclesiastes 4:14 | For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor. -Ecclesiastes 4:15 | I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him. -Ecclesiastes 4:16 | There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 5:01 | Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. -Ecclesiastes 5:02 | Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. -Ecclesiastes 5:03 | For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words. -Ecclesiastes 5:04 | When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. -Ecclesiastes 5:05 | It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. -Ecclesiastes 5:06 | Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? -Ecclesiastes 5:07 | For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God. -Ecclesiastes 5:08 | If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them. -Ecclesiastes 5:09 | Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field. -Ecclesiastes 5:10 | He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 5:11 | When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes? -Ecclesiastes 5:12 | The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. -Ecclesiastes 5:13 | There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. -Ecclesiastes 5:14 | Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. -Ecclesiastes 5:15 | As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. -Ecclesiastes 5:16 | This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labours for the wind? -Ecclesiastes 5:17 | All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath. -Ecclesiastes 5:18 | Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour, in which he labours under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. -Ecclesiastes 5:19 | Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour—this is the gift of God. -Ecclesiastes 5:20 | For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart. -Ecclesiastes 6:01 | There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men: -Ecclesiastes 6:02 | a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honour, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. -Ecclesiastes 6:03 | If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say that a stillborn child is better than he: -Ecclesiastes 6:04 | for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. -Ecclesiastes 6:05 | Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other. -Ecclesiastes 6:06 | Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place? -Ecclesiastes 6:07 | All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. -Ecclesiastes 6:08 | For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? -Ecclesiastes 6:09 | Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. -Ecclesiastes 6:10 | Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he. -Ecclesiastes 6:11 | For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man? -Ecclesiastes 6:12 | For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun? -Ecclesiastes 7:01 | A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth. -Ecclesiastes 7:02 | It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart. -Ecclesiastes 7:03 | Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. -Ecclesiastes 7:04 | The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. -Ecclesiastes 7:05 | It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools. -Ecclesiastes 7:06 | For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 7:07 | Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding. -Ecclesiastes 7:08 | Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. -Ecclesiastes 7:09 | Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools. -Ecclesiastes 7:10 | Don’t say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this. -Ecclesiastes 7:11 | Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun. -Ecclesiastes 7:12 | For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. -Ecclesiastes 7:13 | Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? -Ecclesiastes 7:14 | In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. -Ecclesiastes 7:15 | All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing. -Ecclesiastes 7:16 | Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? -Ecclesiastes 7:17 | Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time? -Ecclesiastes 7:18 | It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all. -Ecclesiastes 7:19 | Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. -Ecclesiastes 7:20 | Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin. -Ecclesiastes 7:21 | Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you; -Ecclesiastes 7:22 | for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others. -Ecclesiastes 7:23 | All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise" but it was far from me. -Ecclesiastes 7:24 | That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? -Ecclesiastes 7:25 | I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness. -Ecclesiastes 7:26 | I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her. -Ecclesiastes 7:27 | "Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "to one another, to find out the scheme -Ecclesiastes 7:28 | which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man amongst a thousand, but I have not found a woman amongst all those. -Ecclesiastes 7:29 | Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes." -Ecclesiastes 8:01 | Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. -Ecclesiastes 8:02 | I say, "Keep the king’s command!" because of the oath to God. -Ecclesiastes 8:03 | Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him, -Ecclesiastes 8:04 | for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?" -Ecclesiastes 8:05 | Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure. -Ecclesiastes 8:06 | For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him. -Ecclesiastes 8:07 | For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be? -Ecclesiastes 8:08 | There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practise it. -Ecclesiastes 8:09 | All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt. -Ecclesiastes 8:10 | So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 8:11 | Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. -Ecclesiastes 8:12 | Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. -Ecclesiastes 8:13 | But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God. -Ecclesiastes 8:14 | There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. -Ecclesiastes 8:15 | Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 8:16 | When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night), -Ecclesiastes 8:17 | then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labours to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it. -Ecclesiastes 9:01 | For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them. -Ecclesiastes 9:02 | All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. -Ecclesiastes 9:03 | This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. -Ecclesiastes 9:04 | For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. -Ecclesiastes 9:05 | For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. -Ecclesiastes 9:06 | Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 9:07 | Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. -Ecclesiastes 9:08 | Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil. -Ecclesiastes 9:09 | Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labour in which you labour under the sun. -Ecclesiastes 9:10 | Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 | I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:12 | For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them. -Ecclesiastes 9:13 | I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me. -Ecclesiastes 9:14 | There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. -Ecclesiastes 9:15 | Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. -Ecclesiastes 9:16 | Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. -Ecclesiastes 9:17 | The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules amongst fools. -Ecclesiastes 9:18 | Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good. -Ephesians 1:01 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: -Ephesians 1:02 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -Ephesians 1:03 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, -Ephesians 1:04 | even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, -Ephesians 1:05 | having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, -Ephesians 1:06 | to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favour in the Beloved, -Ephesians 1:07 | in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, -Ephesians 1:08 | which he made to abound towards us in all wisdom and prudence, -Ephesians 1:09 | making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him -Ephesians 1:10 | to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him. -Ephesians 1:11 | We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will, -Ephesians 1:12 | to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ. -Ephesians 1:13 | In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, -Ephesians 1:14 | who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory. -Ephesians 1:15 | For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is amongst you, and the love which you have towards all the saints, -Ephesians 1:16 | don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, -Ephesians 1:17 | that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, -Ephesians 1:18 | having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, -Ephesians 1:19 | and what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might -Ephesians 1:20 | which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, -Ephesians 1:21 | far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. -Ephesians 1:22 | He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, -Ephesians 1:23 | which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. -Ephesians 2:01 | You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, -Ephesians 2:02 | in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. -Ephesians 2:03 | We also all once lived amongst them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. -Ephesians 2:04 | But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, -Ephesians 2:05 | even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— -Ephesians 2:06 | and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, -Ephesians 2:07 | that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus; -Ephesians 2:08 | for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, -Ephesians 2:09 | not of works, that no one would boast. -Ephesians 2:10 | For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. -Ephesians 2:11 | Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision" (in the flesh, made by hands), -Ephesians 2:12 | that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. -Ephesians 2:13 | But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. -Ephesians 2:14 | For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation, -Ephesians 2:15 | having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, -Ephesians 2:16 | and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it. -Ephesians 2:17 | He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. -Ephesians 2:18 | For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. -Ephesians 2:19 | So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, -Ephesians 2:20 | being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; -Ephesians 2:21 | in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; -Ephesians 2:22 | in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. -Ephesians 3:01 | For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, -Ephesians 3:02 | if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me towards you, -Ephesians 3:03 | how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words, -Ephesians 3:04 | by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ, -Ephesians 3:05 | which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit, -Ephesians 3:06 | that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News, -Ephesians 3:07 | of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. -Ephesians 3:08 | To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, -Ephesians 3:09 | and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ, -Ephesians 3:10 | to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places, -Ephesians 3:11 | according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Ephesians 3:12 | In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him. -Ephesians 3:13 | Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory. -Ephesians 3:14 | For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, -Ephesians 3:15 | from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, -Ephesians 3:16 | that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, -Ephesians 3:17 | that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, -Ephesians 3:18 | may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, -Ephesians 3:19 | and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. -Ephesians 3:20 | Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, -Ephesians 3:21 | to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. -Ephesians 4:01 | I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, -Ephesians 4:02 | with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, -Ephesians 4:03 | being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. -Ephesians 4:04 | There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling, -Ephesians 4:05 | one Lord, one faith, one baptism, -Ephesians 4:06 | one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all. -Ephesians 4:07 | But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. -Ephesians 4:08 | Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people." -Ephesians 4:09 | Now this, "He ascended", what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? -Ephesians 4:10 | He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. -Ephesians 4:11 | He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; -Ephesians 4:12 | for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ, -Ephesians 4:13 | until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, -Ephesians 4:14 | that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; -Ephesians 4:15 | but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ, -Ephesians 4:16 | from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love. -Ephesians 4:17 | This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, -Ephesians 4:18 | being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. -Ephesians 4:19 | They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. -Ephesians 4:21 | if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: -Ephesians 4:22 | that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit, -Ephesians 4:23 | and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, -Ephesians 4:24 | and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. -Ephesians 4:25 | Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbour. For we are members of one another. -Ephesians 4:26 | "Be angry, and don’t sin." Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, -Ephesians 4:27 | and don’t give place to the devil. -Ephesians 4:28 | Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need. -Ephesians 4:29 | Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. -Ephesians 4:30 | Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. -Ephesians 4:31 | Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. -Ephesians 4:32 | And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. -Ephesians 5:01 | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. -Ephesians 5:02 | Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. -Ephesians 5:03 | But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned amongst you, as becomes saints; -Ephesians 5:04 | nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks. -Ephesians 5:05 | Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. -Ephesians 5:06 | Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. -Ephesians 5:07 | Therefore don’t be partakers with them. -Ephesians 5:08 | For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, -Ephesians 5:09 | for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, -Ephesians 5:10 | proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. -Ephesians 5:11 | Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. -Ephesians 5:12 | For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. -Ephesians 5:13 | But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. -Ephesians 5:14 | Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." -Ephesians 5:15 | Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, -Ephesians 5:16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil. -Ephesians 5:17 | Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. -Ephesians 5:18 | Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, -Ephesians 5:19 | speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; -Ephesians 5:20 | giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; -Ephesians 5:21 | subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. -Ephesians 5:22 | Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. -Ephesians 5:23 | For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the saviour of the body. -Ephesians 5:24 | But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. -Ephesians 5:25 | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; -Ephesians 5:26 | that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, -Ephesians 5:27 | that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. -Ephesians 5:28 | Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. -Ephesians 5:29 | For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; -Ephesians 5:30 | because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. -Ephesians 5:31 | "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh." -Ephesians 5:32 | This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. -Ephesians 5:33 | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. -Ephesians 6:01 | Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. -Ephesians 6:02 | "Honour your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: -Ephesians 6:03 | "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth." -Ephesians 6:04 | You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. -Ephesians 6:05 | Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, -Ephesians 6:06 | not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, -Ephesians 6:07 | with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men, -Ephesians 6:08 | knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. -Ephesians 6:09 | You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. -Ephesians 6:10 | Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. -Ephesians 6:11 | Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. -Ephesians 6:12 | For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. -Ephesians 6:13 | Therefore put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. -Ephesians 6:14 | Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, -Ephesians 6:15 | and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, -Ephesians 6:16 | above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. -Ephesians 6:17 | And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; -Ephesians 6:18 | with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints: -Ephesians 6:19 | on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, -Ephesians 6:20 | for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. -Ephesians 6:21 | But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things. -Ephesians 6:22 | I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts. -Ephesians 6:23 | Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -Ephesians 6:24 | Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen. -Esther 10:01 | King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea. -Esther 10:02 | Aren’t all the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? -Esther 10:03 | For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great amongst the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants. -Esther 1:01 | Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces), -Esther 1:02 | in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace, -Esther 1:03 | in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him. -Esther 1:04 | He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred and eighty days. -Esther 1:05 | When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace. -Esther 1:06 | There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble. -Esther 1:07 | They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king. -Esther 1:08 | In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure. -Esther 1:09 | Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus. -Esther 1:11 | to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful. -Esther 1:12 | But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burnt in him. -Esther 1:13 | Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgement; -Esther 1:14 | and next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom), -Esther 1:15 | "What shall we do to Queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?" -Esther 1:16 | Memucan answered before the king and the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. -Esther 1:17 | For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’ -Esther 1:18 | Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. -Esther 1:19 | "If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written amongst the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. -Esther 1:20 | When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honour, both great and small." -Esther 1:21 | This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan: -Esther 1:22 | for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people. -Esther 2:01 | After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. -Esther 2:02 | Then the king’s servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king. -Esther 2:03 | Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them; -Esther 2:04 | and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The thing pleased the king, and he did so. -Esther 2:05 | There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, -Esther 2:06 | who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. -Esther 2:07 | He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. -Esther 2:08 | So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. -Esther 2:09 | The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house. -Esther 2:10 | Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known. -Esther 2:11 | Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her. -Esther 2:12 | Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women). -Esther 2:13 | The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house. -Esther 2:14 | In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name. -Esther 2:15 | Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favour in the sight of all those who looked at her. -Esther 2:16 | So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. -Esther 2:17 | The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favour and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. -Esther 2:18 | Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty. -Esther 2:19 | When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate. -Esther 2:20 | Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him. -Esther 2:21 | In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. -Esther 2:22 | This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name. -Esther 2:23 | When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence. -Esther 3:01 | After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. -Esther 3:02 | All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage. -Esther 3:03 | Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?" -Esther 3:04 | Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. -Esther 3:05 | When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. -Esther 3:06 | But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people. -Esther 3:07 | In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. -Esther 3:08 | Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed amongst the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain. -Esther 3:09 | If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries." -Esther 3:10 | The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. -Esther 3:11 | The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." -Esther 3:12 | Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring. -Esther 3:13 | Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. -Esther 3:14 | A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. -Esther 3:15 | The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed. -Esther 4:01 | Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly. -Esther 4:02 | He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. -Esther 4:03 | In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning amongst the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. -Esther 4:04 | Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it. -Esther 4:05 | Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was. -Esther 4:06 | So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate. -Esther 4:07 | Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. -Esther 4:08 | He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people. -Esther 4:09 | Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. -Esther 4:10 | Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: -Esther 4:11 | "All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." -Esther 4:13 | Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: "Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews. -Esther 4:14 | For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" -Esther 4:16 | "Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish." -Esther 4:17 | So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. -Esther 5:01 | Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. -Esther 5:02 | When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favour in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the sceptre. -Esther 5:03 | Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom." -Esther 5:04 | Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." -Esther 5:05 | Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. -Esther 5:06 | The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." -Esther 5:07 | Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. -Esther 5:08 | If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said." -Esther 5:09 | Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. -Esther 5:10 | Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. -Esther 5:11 | Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. -Esther 5:12 | Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. -Esther 5:13 | Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate." -Esther 5:14 | Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. -Esther 6:01 | On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king. -Esther 6:02 | It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. -Esther 6:03 | The king said, "What honour and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?" Then the king’s servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." -Esther 6:04 | The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. -Esther 6:05 | The king’s servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in." -Esther 6:06 | So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honour more than myself?" -Esther 6:07 | Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honour, -Esther 6:08 | let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set. -Esther 6:09 | Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honour with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!’" -Esther 6:10 | Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken." -Esther 6:11 | Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!" -Esther 6:12 | Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered. -Esther 6:13 | Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him." -Esther 6:14 | While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. -Esther 7:01 | So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. -Esther 7:02 | The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." -Esther 7:03 | Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. -Esther 7:04 | For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss." -Esther 7:05 | Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?" -Esther 7:06 | Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. -Esther 7:07 | The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. -Esther 7:08 | Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. -Esther 7:09 | Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house." The king said, "Hang him on it!" -Esther 7:10 | So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified. -Esther 8:01 | On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. -Esther 8:02 | The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. -Esther 8:03 | Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews. -Esther 8:05 | She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seems right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. -Esther 8:06 | For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?" -Esther 8:07 | Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews. -Esther 8:08 | Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man." -Esther 8:09 | Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. -Esther 8:10 | He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds. -Esther 8:11 | In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions, -Esther 8:12 | on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. -Esther 8:13 | A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. -Esther 8:14 | So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. -Esther 8:15 | Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad. -Esther 8:16 | The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honour. -Esther 8:17 | In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from amongst the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. -Esther 9:01 | Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them), -Esther 9:02 | the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. -Esther 9:03 | All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. -Esther 9:04 | For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater. -Esther 9:05 | The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them. -Esther 9:11 | On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king. -Esther 9:12 | The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done." -Esther 9:13 | Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows." -Esther 9:14 | The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons. -Esther 9:15 | The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. -Esther 9:16 | The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. -Esther 9:17 | This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness. -Esther 9:18 | But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. -Esther 9:19 | Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another. -Esther 9:20 | Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far, -Esther 9:21 | to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly, -Esther 9:22 | as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. -Esther 9:23 | The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them; -Esther 9:24 | because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur", that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; -Esther 9:25 | but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. -Esther 9:26 | Therefore they called these days "Purim", from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them, -Esther 9:27 | the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year; -Esther 9:28 | and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from amongst the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring. -Esther 9:29 | Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. -Esther 9:30 | He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, -Esther 9:31 | to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry. -Esther 9:32 | The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. -Exodus 10:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs amongst them; -Exodus 10:02 | and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done amongst them; that you may know that I am the Lord." -Exodus 10:03 | Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. -Exodus 10:04 | Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, -Exodus 10:05 | and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. -Exodus 10:06 | Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh. -Exodus 10:07 | Pharaoh’s servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?" -Exodus 10:08 | Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord your God; but who are those who will go?" -Exodus 10:09 | Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to the Lord." -Exodus 10:10 | He said to them, "The Lord be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. -Exodus 10:11 | Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the Lord; for that is what you desire!" Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence. -Exodus 10:12 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." -Exodus 10:13 | Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. -Exodus 10:14 | The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again. -Exodus 10:15 | For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. -Exodus 10:16 | Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. -Exodus 10:17 | Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the Lord your God, that he may also take away from me this death." -Exodus 10:18 | Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the Lord. -Exodus 10:19 | The Lord sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. -Exodus 10:20 | But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go. -Exodus 10:21 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand towards the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." -Exodus 10:22 | Moses stretched out his hand towards the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. -Exodus 10:23 | They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. -Exodus 10:24 | Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve the Lord. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you." -Exodus 10:25 | Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. -Exodus 10:26 | Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve the Lord our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve the Lord, until we come there." -Exodus 10:27 | But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go. -Exodus 10:28 | Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!" -Exodus 10:29 | Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more." -Exodus 11:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. -Exodus 11:02 | Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." -Exodus 11:03 | The Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people. -Exodus 11:04 | Moses said, "This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt, -Exodus 11:05 | and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock. -Exodus 11:06 | There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more. -Exodus 11:07 | But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. -Exodus 11:08 | All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow you" and after that I will go out.’" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. -Exodus 11:09 | The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." -Exodus 11:10 | Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land. -Exodus 12:02 | "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. -Exodus 12:03 | Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; -Exodus 12:04 | and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbour next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat. -Exodus 12:05 | Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats. -Exodus 12:06 | You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. -Exodus 12:07 | They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. -Exodus 12:08 | They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. -Exodus 12:09 | Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. -Exodus 12:10 | You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. -Exodus 12:11 | This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s Passover. -Exodus 12:12 | For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgements against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. -Exodus 12:13 | The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. -Exodus 12:14 | This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. -Exodus 12:15 | "‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. -Exodus 12:16 | In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you. -Exodus 12:17 | You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. -Exodus 12:18 | In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. -Exodus 12:19 | There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. -Exodus 12:20 | You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’" -Exodus 12:21 | Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover. -Exodus 12:22 | You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. -Exodus 12:23 | For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. -Exodus 12:24 | You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. -Exodus 12:25 | It shall happen when you have come to the land which the Lord will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service. -Exodus 12:26 | It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ -Exodus 12:27 | that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’" The people bowed their heads and worshipped. -Exodus 12:28 | The children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. -Exodus 12:29 | At midnight, the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. -Exodus 12:30 | Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. -Exodus 12:31 | He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from amongst my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said! -Exodus 12:32 | Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!" -Exodus 12:33 | The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." -Exodus 12:34 | The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. -Exodus 12:35 | The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. -Exodus 12:36 | The Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians. -Exodus 12:37 | The children of Israel travelled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children. -Exodus 12:38 | A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock. -Exodus 12:39 | They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves. -Exodus 12:40 | Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. -Exodus 12:41 | At the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the day, all of the Lord’s armies went out from the land of Egypt. -Exodus 12:42 | It is a night to be much observed to the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations. -Exodus 12:43 | The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, -Exodus 12:44 | but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. -Exodus 12:45 | A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. -Exodus 12:46 | It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones. -Exodus 12:47 | All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. -Exodus 12:48 | When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. -Exodus 12:49 | One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you." -Exodus 12:50 | All the children of Israel did so. As the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. -Exodus 12:51 | That same day, the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. -Exodus 13:02 | "Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb amongst the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine." -Exodus 13:03 | Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. -Exodus 13:05 | It shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. -Exodus 13:06 | Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. -Exodus 13:07 | Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders. -Exodus 13:08 | You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ -Exodus 13:09 | It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. -Exodus 13:10 | You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. -Exodus 13:11 | "It shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you, -Exodus 13:12 | that you shall set apart to the Lord all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be the Lord’s. -Exodus 13:13 | Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man amongst your sons. -Exodus 13:14 | It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. -Exodus 13:15 | When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ -Exodus 13:16 | It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt." -Exodus 13:17 | When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt"; -Exodus 13:18 | but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. -Exodus 13:19 | Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you." -Exodus 13:20 | They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. -Exodus 13:21 | The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: -Exodus 13:22 | the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people. -Exodus 14:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea. -Exodus 14:03 | Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’ -Exodus 14:04 | I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honour over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord." They did so. -Exodus 14:05 | The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" -Exodus 14:06 | He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him; -Exodus 14:07 | and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them. -Exodus 14:08 | The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. -Exodus 14:09 | The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon. -Exodus 14:10 | When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the Lord. -Exodus 14:11 | They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt? -Exodus 14:12 | Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." -Exodus 14:13 | Moses said to the people, "Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today. -Exodus 14:14 | The Lord will fight for you, and you shall be still." -Exodus 14:15 | The Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. -Exodus 14:16 | Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground. -Exodus 14:17 | Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honour over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen. -Exodus 14:18 | The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I have gotten myself honour over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen." -Exodus 14:19 | The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them. -Exodus 14:20 | It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night. -Exodus 14:21 | Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. -Exodus 14:22 | The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. -Exodus 14:23 | The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. -Exodus 14:24 | In the morning watch, the Lord looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army. -Exodus 14:25 | He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians!" -Exodus 14:26 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." -Exodus 14:27 | Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. The Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. -Exodus 14:28 | The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them. -Exodus 14:29 | But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. -Exodus 14:30 | Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. -Exodus 14:31 | Israel saw the great work which the Lord did to the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord; and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. -Exodus 15:01 | Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea. -Exodus 15:02 | The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. -Exodus 15:03 | The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name. -Exodus 15:04 | He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. -Exodus 15:05 | The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. -Exodus 15:06 | Your right hand, Lord, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Lord, dashes the enemy in pieces. -Exodus 15:07 | In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. -Exodus 15:08 | With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. -Exodus 15:09 | The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’ -Exodus 15:10 | You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. -Exodus 15:11 | Who is like you, Lord, amongst the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? -Exodus 15:12 | You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them. -Exodus 15:13 | "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation. -Exodus 15:14 | The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. -Exodus 15:15 | Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. -Exodus 15:16 | Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Lord, until the people you have purchased pass over. -Exodus 15:17 | You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Lord, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established. -Exodus 15:18 | The Lord will reign forever and ever." -Exodus 15:19 | For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. -Exodus 15:20 | Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. -Exodus 15:21 | Miriam answered them, "Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea." -Exodus 15:22 | Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. -Exodus 15:23 | When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. -Exodus 15:24 | The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" -Exodus 15:25 | Then he cried to the Lord. The Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them. -Exodus 15:26 | He said, "If you will diligently listen to the Lord your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you." -Exodus 15:27 | They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters. -Exodus 16:01 | They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. -Exodus 16:02 | The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; -Exodus 16:03 | and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." -Exodus 16:04 | Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. -Exodus 16:05 | It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." -Exodus 16:06 | Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Egypt. -Exodus 16:07 | In the morning, you shall see the Lord’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against the Lord. Who are we, that you murmur against us?" -Exodus 16:08 | Moses said, "Now the Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because the Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord." -Exodus 16:09 | Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to the Lord, for he has heard your murmurings.’" -Exodus 16:10 | As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness, and behold, the Lord’s glory appeared in the cloud. -Exodus 16:12 | "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’" -Exodus 16:13 | In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. -Exodus 16:14 | When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. -Exodus 16:15 | When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. -Exodus 16:16 | This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’" -Exodus 16:17 | The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less. -Exodus 16:18 | When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating. -Exodus 16:19 | Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." -Exodus 16:20 | Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them. -Exodus 16:21 | They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. -Exodus 16:22 | On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. -Exodus 16:23 | He said to them, "This is that which the Lord has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’" -Exodus 16:24 | They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it. -Exodus 16:25 | Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you shall not find it in the field. -Exodus 16:26 | Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none." -Exodus 16:27 | On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. -Exodus 16:28 | The Lord said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? -Exodus 16:29 | Behold, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." -Exodus 16:30 | So the people rested on the seventh day. -Exodus 16:31 | The house of Israel called its name "Manna", and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey. -Exodus 16:32 | Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’" -Exodus 16:33 | Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations." -Exodus 16:34 | As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. -Exodus 16:35 | The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. -Exodus 17:01 | All the congregation of the children of Israel travelled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the Lord’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. -Exodus 17:02 | Therefore the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?" -Exodus 17:03 | The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?" -Exodus 17:04 | Moses cried to the Lord, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me." -Exodus 17:05 | The Lord said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. -Exodus 17:06 | Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. -Exodus 17:07 | He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarrelled, and because they tested the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord amongst us, or not?" -Exodus 17:08 | Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. -Exodus 17:09 | Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand." -Exodus 17:10 | So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. -Exodus 17:11 | When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. -Exodus 17:12 | But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. -Exodus 17:13 | Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. -Exodus 17:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." -Exodus 17:15 | Moses built an altar, and called its name "The Lord our Banner". -Exodus 17:16 | He said, "The Lord has sworn: ‘The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’" -Exodus 18:01 | Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. -Exodus 18:04 | The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword." -Exodus 18:05 | Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God. -Exodus 18:06 | He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her." -Exodus 18:07 | Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. -Exodus 18:08 | Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the Lord delivered them. -Exodus 18:09 | Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. -Exodus 18:10 | Jethro said, "Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. -Exodus 18:11 | Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly." -Exodus 18:12 | Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. -Exodus 18:13 | On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening. -Exodus 18:14 | When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?" -Exodus 18:15 | Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to enquire of God. -Exodus 18:16 | When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws." -Exodus 18:17 | Moses’ father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good. -Exodus 18:18 | You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone. -Exodus 18:19 | Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God. -Exodus 18:20 | You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. -Exodus 18:21 | Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. -Exodus 18:22 | Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you. -Exodus 18:23 | If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace." -Exodus 18:24 | So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. -Exodus 18:25 | Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. -Exodus 18:26 | They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. -Exodus 18:27 | Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land. -Exodus 19:01 | In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. -Exodus 19:02 | When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. -Exodus 19:03 | Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: -Exodus 19:04 | ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself. -Exodus 19:05 | Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from amongst all peoples; for all the earth is mine; -Exodus 19:06 | and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel." -Exodus 19:07 | Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord commanded him. -Exodus 19:08 | All the people answered together, and said, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. -Exodus 19:09 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to the Lord. -Exodus 19:10 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, -Exodus 19:11 | and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. -Exodus 19:12 | You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. -Exodus 19:13 | No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain." -Exodus 19:14 | Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. -Exodus 19:15 | He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman." -Exodus 19:16 | On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. -Exodus 19:17 | Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. -Exodus 19:18 | All of Mount Sinai smoked, because the Lord descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. -Exodus 19:19 | When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. -Exodus 19:20 | The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. -Exodus 19:21 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. -Exodus 19:22 | Let the priests also, who come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break out on them." -Exodus 19:23 | Moses said to the Lord, "The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’" -Exodus 19:24 | The Lord said to him, "Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them." -Exodus 19:25 | So Moses went down to the people, and told them. -Exodus 1:01 | Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): -Exodus 1:05 | All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. -Exodus 1:06 | Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. -Exodus 1:07 | The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. -Exodus 1:08 | Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. -Exodus 1:09 | He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. -Exodus 1:10 | Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land." -Exodus 1:11 | Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. -Exodus 1:12 | But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel. -Exodus 1:13 | The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, -Exodus 1:14 | and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. -Exodus 1:15 | The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, -Exodus 1:16 | and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." -Exodus 1:17 | But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. -Exodus 1:18 | The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?" -Exodus 1:19 | The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigourous and give birth before the midwife comes to them." -Exodus 1:20 | God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. -Exodus 1:21 | Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. -Exodus 1:22 | Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive." -Exodus 20:02 | "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. -Exodus 20:03 | "You shall have no other gods before me. -Exodus 20:04 | "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: -Exodus 20:05 | you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, -Exodus 20:06 | and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. -Exodus 20:07 | "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name. -Exodus 20:08 | "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. -Exodus 20:09 | You shall labour six days, and do all your work, -Exodus 20:10 | but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; -Exodus 20:11 | for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy. -Exodus 20:12 | "Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. -Exodus 20:13 | "You shall not murder. -Exodus 20:14 | "You shall not commit adultery. -Exodus 20:15 | "You shall not steal. -Exodus 20:16 | "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. -Exodus 20:17 | "You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s." -Exodus 20:18 | All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. -Exodus 20:19 | They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die." -Exodus 20:20 | Moses said to the people, "Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin." -Exodus 20:21 | The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was. -Exodus 20:22 | The Lord said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. -Exodus 20:23 | You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me. -Exodus 20:24 | You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. -Exodus 20:25 | If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. -Exodus 20:26 | You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’ -Exodus 21:01 | "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them: -Exodus 21:02 | "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. -Exodus 21:03 | If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. -Exodus 21:04 | If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. -Exodus 21:05 | But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’ -Exodus 21:06 | then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. -Exodus 21:07 | "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. -Exodus 21:08 | If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. -Exodus 21:09 | If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. -Exodus 21:10 | If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. -Exodus 21:11 | If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money. -Exodus 21:12 | "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, -Exodus 21:13 | but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. -Exodus 21:14 | If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. -Exodus 21:15 | "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. -Exodus 21:16 | "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. -Exodus 21:17 | "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. -Exodus 21:18 | "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed; -Exodus 21:19 | if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed. -Exodus 21:20 | "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished. -Exodus 21:21 | Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property. -Exodus 21:22 | "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. -Exodus 21:23 | But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, -Exodus 21:24 | eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, -Exodus 21:25 | burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. -Exodus 21:26 | "If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. -Exodus 21:27 | If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake. -Exodus 21:28 | "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. -Exodus 21:29 | But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. -Exodus 21:30 | If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed. -Exodus 21:31 | Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgement it shall be done to him. -Exodus 21:32 | If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned. -Exodus 21:33 | "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, -Exodus 21:34 | the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. -Exodus 21:35 | "If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. -Exodus 21:36 | Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own. -Exodus 22:01 | "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. -Exodus 22:02 | If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. -Exodus 22:03 | If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. -Exodus 22:04 | If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double. -Exodus 22:05 | "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard. -Exodus 22:06 | "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. -Exodus 22:07 | "If a man delivers to his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. -Exodus 22:08 | If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbour’s goods. -Exodus 22:09 | For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbour. -Exodus 22:10 | "If a man delivers to his neighbour a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; -Exodus 22:11 | the oath of the Lord shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbour’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. -Exodus 22:12 | But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its owner. -Exodus 22:13 | If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn. -Exodus 22:14 | "If a man borrows anything of his neighbour’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. -Exodus 22:15 | If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease. -Exodus 22:16 | "If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. -Exodus 22:17 | If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. -Exodus 22:18 | "You shall not allow a sorceress to live. -Exodus 22:19 | "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death. -Exodus 22:20 | "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed. -Exodus 22:21 | "You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 22:22 | "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. -Exodus 22:23 | If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; -Exodus 22:24 | and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. -Exodus 22:25 | "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest. -Exodus 22:26 | If you take your neighbour’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, -Exodus 22:27 | for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious. -Exodus 22:28 | "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people. -Exodus 22:29 | "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. -Exodus 22:30 | You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me. -Exodus 22:31 | "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs. -Exodus 23:01 | "You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. -Exodus 23:02 | "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice. -Exodus 23:03 | You shall not favour a poor man in his cause. -Exodus 23:04 | "If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. -Exodus 23:05 | If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it. -Exodus 23:06 | "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. -Exodus 23:07 | "Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked. -Exodus 23:08 | "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous. -Exodus 23:09 | "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 23:10 | "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, -Exodus 23:11 | but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. -Exodus 23:12 | "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed. -Exodus 23:13 | "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth. -Exodus 23:14 | "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. -Exodus 23:15 | You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. -Exodus 23:16 | And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labours, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labours out of the field. -Exodus 23:17 | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD. -Exodus 23:18 | "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning. -Exodus 23:19 | You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. -Exodus 23:20 | "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. -Exodus 23:21 | Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. -Exodus 23:22 | But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. -Exodus 23:23 | For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. -Exodus 23:24 | You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. -Exodus 23:25 | You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from amongst you. -Exodus 23:26 | No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfil the number of your days. -Exodus 23:27 | I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. -Exodus 23:28 | I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. -Exodus 23:29 | I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. -Exodus 23:30 | Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. -Exodus 23:31 | I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. -Exodus 23:32 | You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. -Exodus 23:33 | They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you." -Exodus 24:01 | He said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. -Exodus 24:02 | Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him." -Exodus 24:03 | Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which the Lord has spoken will we do." -Exodus 24:04 | Moses wrote all the Lord’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. -Exodus 24:05 | He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the Lord. -Exodus 24:06 | Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. -Exodus 24:07 | He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "We will do all that the Lord has said, and be obedient." -Exodus 24:08 | Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words." -Exodus 24:10 | They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. -Exodus 24:11 | He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank. -Exodus 24:12 | The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them." -Exodus 24:13 | Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain. -Exodus 24:14 | He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them." -Exodus 24:15 | Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. -Exodus 24:16 | The Lord’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud. -Exodus 24:17 | The appearance of the Lord’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. -Exodus 24:18 | Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. -Exodus 25:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. -Exodus 25:09 | According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it. -Exodus 28:01 | "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from amongst the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. -Exodus 28:02 | You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. -Exodus 28:03 | You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. -Exodus 28:29 | Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgement on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually. -Exodus 29:30 | Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place. -Exodus 29:37 | Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy. -Exodus 29:43 | There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. -Exodus 29:45 | I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will be their God. -Exodus 29:46 | They shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell amongst them: I am the Lord their God. -Exodus 2:01 | A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. -Exodus 2:02 | The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. -Exodus 2:03 | When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. -Exodus 2:04 | His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. -Exodus 2:05 | Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket amongst the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. -Exodus 2:06 | She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews’ children." -Exodus 2:07 | Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?" -Exodus 2:08 | Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Go." The young woman went and called the child’s mother. -Exodus 2:09 | Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it. -Exodus 2:10 | The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water." -Exodus 2:11 | In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. -Exodus 2:12 | He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. -Exodus 2:13 | He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?" -Exodus 2:14 | He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." -Exodus 2:15 | Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. -Exodus 2:16 | Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. -Exodus 2:17 | The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. -Exodus 2:18 | When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?" -Exodus 2:19 | They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock." -Exodus 2:20 | He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." -Exodus 2:21 | Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. -Exodus 2:22 | She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land." -Exodus 2:23 | In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. -Exodus 2:24 | God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. -Exodus 2:25 | God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them. -Exodus 30:12 | "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted amongst them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the Lord when you count them, that there be no plague amongst them when you count them. -Exodus 30:13 | They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the Lord. -Exodus 30:14 | Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the Lord. -Exodus 30:15 | The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your souls. -Exodus 30:16 | You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for your souls." -Exodus 30:18 | "You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. -Exodus 30:19 | Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. -Exodus 30:20 | When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Exodus 30:21 | So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations." -Exodus 30:28 | the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. -Exodus 30:29 | You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. -Exodus 30:30 | You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. -Exodus 30:31 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. -Exodus 30:32 | It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you. -Exodus 30:33 | Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’" -Exodus 30:34 | The Lord said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum: sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each. -Exodus 30:35 | You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. -Exodus 30:36 | You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. -Exodus 30:37 | You shall not make this incense, according to its composition, for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the Lord. -Exodus 30:38 | Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people." -Exodus 31:02 | "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. -Exodus 31:03 | I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, -Exodus 31:04 | to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, -Exodus 31:05 | and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. -Exodus 31:06 | Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: -Exodus 31:07 | the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, -Exodus 31:13 | "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. -Exodus 31:14 | You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people. -Exodus 31:15 | Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. -Exodus 31:16 | Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. -Exodus 31:17 | It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’" -Exodus 31:18 | When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger. -Exodus 32:01 | When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him." -Exodus 32:02 | Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me." -Exodus 32:03 | All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. -Exodus 32:04 | He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a moulded calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt." -Exodus 32:05 | When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord." -Exodus 32:06 | They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. -Exodus 32:07 | The Lord spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! -Exodus 32:08 | They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a moulded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’" -Exodus 32:09 | The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. -Exodus 32:10 | Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation." -Exodus 32:11 | Moses begged the Lord his God, and said, "The Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? -Exodus 32:12 | Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people. -Exodus 32:13 | Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’" -Exodus 32:14 | So The Lord turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people. -Exodus 32:15 | Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other. -Exodus 32:16 | The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. -Exodus 32:17 | When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp." -Exodus 32:18 | He said, "It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear." -Exodus 32:19 | As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. -Exodus 32:20 | He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. -Exodus 32:21 | Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?" -Exodus 32:22 | Aaron said, "Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. -Exodus 32:23 | For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ -Exodus 32:24 | I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf." -Exodus 32:25 | When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision amongst their enemies), -Exodus 32:26 | then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the Lord’s side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. -Exodus 32:27 | He said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.’" -Exodus 32:28 | The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day. -Exodus 32:29 | Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today." -Exodus 32:30 | On the next day, Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin." -Exodus 32:31 | Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. -Exodus 32:32 | Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written." -Exodus 32:33 | The Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book. -Exodus 32:34 | Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." -Exodus 32:35 | The Lord struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made. -Exodus 33:01 | The Lord spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ -Exodus 33:02 | I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. -Exodus 33:03 | Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up amongst you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way." -Exodus 33:04 | When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewellery. -Exodus 33:05 | The Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up amongst you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewellery from you, that I may know what to do to you.’" -Exodus 33:06 | The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward. -Exodus 33:07 | Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." Everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. -Exodus 33:08 | When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. -Exodus 33:09 | When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and the Lord spoke with Moses. -Exodus 33:10 | All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshipped, everyone at their tent door. -Exodus 33:11 | The Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent. -Exodus 33:12 | Moses said to the Lord, "Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.’ -Exodus 33:13 | Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favour in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people." -Exodus 33:14 | He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." -Exodus 33:15 | Moses said to him, "If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here. -Exodus 33:16 | For how would people know that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?" -Exodus 33:17 | The Lord said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favour in my sight, and I know you by name." -Exodus 33:19 | He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the Lord’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." -Exodus 33:20 | He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." -Exodus 33:21 | The Lord also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. -Exodus 33:22 | It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; -Exodus 33:23 | then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen." -Exodus 34:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. -Exodus 34:02 | Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. -Exodus 34:03 | No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain." -Exodus 34:04 | He chiselled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. -Exodus 34:05 | The Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Lord’s name. -Exodus 34:06 | The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD! The Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, -Exodus 34:07 | keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation." -Exodus 34:08 | Moses hurried and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshipped. -Exodus 34:09 | He said, "If now I have found favour in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go amongst us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance." -Exodus 34:10 | He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people amongst whom you are shall see the work of the Lord; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. -Exodus 34:11 | Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. -Exodus 34:12 | Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare amongst you; -Exodus 34:13 | but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles; -Exodus 34:14 | for you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. -Exodus 34:15 | "Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; -Exodus 34:16 | and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods. -Exodus 34:17 | "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves. -Exodus 34:18 | "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt. -Exodus 34:19 | "All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. -Exodus 34:20 | You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty. -Exodus 34:21 | "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in ploughing time and in harvest you shall rest. -Exodus 34:22 | "You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end. -Exodus 34:23 | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. -Exodus 34:24 | For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the Lord, your God, three times in the year. -Exodus 34:25 | "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning. -Exodus 34:26 | "You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk." -Exodus 34:27 | The Lord said to Moses, "Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." -Exodus 34:28 | He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. -Exodus 34:29 | When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. -Exodus 34:30 | When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. -Exodus 34:31 | Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. -Exodus 34:32 | Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. -Exodus 34:33 | When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. -Exodus 34:34 | But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. -Exodus 34:35 | The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him. -Exodus 35:01 | Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which the Lord has commanded, that you should do them. -Exodus 35:02 | ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. -Exodus 35:03 | You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’" -Exodus 35:05 | ‘Take from amongst you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, bronze, -Exodus 35:10 | "‘Let every wise-hearted man amongst you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded: -Exodus 35:29 | The children of Israel brought a free will offering to the Lord; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by Moses. -Exodus 35:30 | Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. -Exodus 35:31 | He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; -Exodus 35:32 | and to make skilful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, -Exodus 35:35 | He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skilful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skilful works. -Exodus 36:01 | "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord has commanded." -Exodus 36:02 | Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it. -Exodus 36:03 | They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning. -Exodus 36:04 | All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did. -Exodus 36:05 | They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the Lord commanded to make." -Exodus 36:06 | Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing. -Exodus 36:07 | For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much. -Exodus 36:08 | All the wise-hearted men amongst those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skilful workman. -Exodus 39:41 | the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office. -Exodus 39:42 | According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. -Exodus 39:43 | Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them. -Exodus 3:01 | Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. -Exodus 3:02 | The Lord’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burnt with fire, and the bush was not consumed. -Exodus 3:03 | Moses said, "I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." -Exodus 3:04 | When the Lord saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am." -Exodus 3:05 | He said, "Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." -Exodus 3:06 | Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. -Exodus 3:07 | The Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. -Exodus 3:08 | I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. -Exodus 3:09 | Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. -Exodus 3:10 | Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." -Exodus 3:11 | Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" -Exodus 3:12 | He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." -Exodus 3:13 | Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?" -Exodus 3:14 | God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’" -Exodus 3:15 | God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. -Exodus 3:16 | Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. -Exodus 3:17 | I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."’ -Exodus 3:18 | They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord, our God.’ -Exodus 3:19 | I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand. -Exodus 3:20 | I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do amongst them, and after that he will let you go. -Exodus 3:21 | I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. -Exodus 3:22 | But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians." -Exodus 40:02 | "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. -Exodus 40:03 | You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. -Exodus 40:04 | You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps. -Exodus 40:15 | You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." -Exodus 40:16 | Moses did so. According to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did. -Exodus 40:17 | In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up. -Exodus 40:18 | Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. -Exodus 40:31 | Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. -Exodus 40:32 | When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Exodus 40:33 | He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. -Exodus 40:34 | Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the Lord’s glory filled the tabernacle. -Exodus 40:35 | Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the Lord’s glory filled the tabernacle. -Exodus 40:36 | When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; -Exodus 40:37 | but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up. -Exodus 40:38 | For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. -Exodus 4:01 | Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’" -Exodus 4:02 | The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod." -Exodus 4:03 | He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it. -Exodus 4:04 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail." He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand. -Exodus 4:05 | "This is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." -Exodus 4:06 | The Lord said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. -Exodus 4:07 | He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh. -Exodus 4:08 | "It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. -Exodus 4:09 | It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land." -Exodus 4:10 | Moses said to the Lord, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." -Exodus 4:11 | The Lord said to him, "Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD? -Exodus 4:12 | Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak." -Exodus 4:13 | Moses said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else." -Exodus 4:14 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. -Exodus 4:15 | You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. -Exodus 4:16 | He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God. -Exodus 4:17 | You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs." -Exodus 4:18 | Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." -Exodus 4:19 | The Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead." -Exodus 4:20 | Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand. -Exodus 4:21 | The Lord said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. -Exodus 4:22 | You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘The Lord says, Israel is my son, my firstborn, -Exodus 4:23 | and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’" -Exodus 4:24 | On the way at a lodging place, the Lord met Moses and wanted to kill him. -Exodus 4:25 | Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." -Exodus 4:26 | So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision. -Exodus 4:27 | The Lord said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him. -Exodus 4:28 | Moses told Aaron all the Lord’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him. -Exodus 4:29 | Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. -Exodus 4:30 | Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. -Exodus 4:31 | The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. -Exodus 5:01 | Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’" -Exodus 5:02 | Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go." -Exodus 5:03 | They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword." -Exodus 5:04 | The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" -Exodus 5:05 | Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens." -Exodus 5:07 | "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. -Exodus 5:08 | You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’ -Exodus 5:09 | Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labour in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words." -Exodus 5:10 | The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw. -Exodus 5:11 | Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’" -Exodus 5:12 | So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. -Exodus 5:13 | The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfil your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" -Exodus 5:14 | The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?" -Exodus 5:15 | Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? -Exodus 5:16 | No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people." -Exodus 5:17 | But Pharaoh said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ -Exodus 5:18 | Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!" -Exodus 5:19 | The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!" -Exodus 5:20 | They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh. -Exodus 5:21 | They said to them, "May the Lord look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!" -Exodus 5:22 | Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? -Exodus 5:23 | For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!" -Exodus 6:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land." -Exodus 6:02 | God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am the Lord. -Exodus 6:03 | I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name the Lord I was not known to them. -Exodus 6:04 | I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. -Exodus 6:05 | Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. -Exodus 6:06 | Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements. -Exodus 6:07 | I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. -Exodus 6:08 | I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the Lord.’" -Exodus 6:09 | Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. -Exodus 6:11 | "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land." -Exodus 6:12 | Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?" -Exodus 6:13 | The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. -Exodus 6:26 | These are that Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies." -Exodus 6:27 | These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron. -Exodus 6:28 | On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, -Exodus 6:29 | The Lord said to Moses, "I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you." -Exodus 6:30 | Moses said before the Lord, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?" -Exodus 7:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. -Exodus 7:02 | You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. -Exodus 7:03 | I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 7:04 | But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgements. -Exodus 7:05 | The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from amongst them." -Exodus 7:06 | Moses and Aaron did so. As the Lord commanded them, so they did. -Exodus 7:07 | Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. -Exodus 7:09 | "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’" -Exodus 7:10 | Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. -Exodus 7:11 | Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments. -Exodus 7:12 | For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. -Exodus 7:13 | Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. -Exodus 7:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go. -Exodus 7:15 | Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand. -Exodus 7:16 | You shall tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened." -Exodus 7:17 | The Lord says, "In this you shall know that I am the Lord. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. -Exodus 7:18 | The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river." -Exodus 7:19 | The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’" -Exodus 7:20 | Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. -Exodus 7:21 | The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. -Exodus 7:22 | The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. -Exodus 7:23 | Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart. -Exodus 7:24 | All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water. -Exodus 7:25 | Seven days were fulfilled, after the Lord had struck the river. -Exodus 8:01 | The Lord spoke to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. -Exodus 8:02 | If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs. -Exodus 8:03 | The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs. -Exodus 8:04 | The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants." -Exodus 8:05 | The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’" -Exodus 8:06 | Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. -Exodus 8:07 | The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. -Exodus 8:08 | Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat the Lord, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the Lord." -Exodus 8:09 | Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honour of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only." -Exodus 8:10 | Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God. -Exodus 8:11 | The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only." -Exodus 8:12 | Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh. -Exodus 8:13 | The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. -Exodus 8:14 | They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. -Exodus 8:15 | But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. -Exodus 8:16 | The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’" -Exodus 8:17 | They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. -Exodus 8:18 | The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal. -Exodus 8:19 | Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is God’s finger" but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. -Exodus 8:20 | The Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. -Exodus 8:21 | Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on. -Exodus 8:22 | I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am the Lord on the earth. -Exodus 8:23 | I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow." -Exodus 8:24 | The Lord did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies. -Exodus 8:25 | Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!" -Exodus 8:26 | Moses said, "It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us? -Exodus 8:27 | We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us." -Exodus 8:28 | Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me." -Exodus 8:29 | Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord." -Exodus 8:30 | Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the Lord. -Exodus 8:31 | The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one. -Exodus 8:32 | Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go. -Exodus 9:01 | Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me. -Exodus 9:02 | For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, -Exodus 9:03 | behold, the Lord’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. -Exodus 9:04 | The Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel." -Exodus 9:05 | The Lord appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land." -Exodus 9:06 | The Lord did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died. -Exodus 9:07 | Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go. -Exodus 9:08 | The Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it towards the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. -Exodus 9:09 | It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt." -Exodus 9:10 | They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up towards the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal. -Exodus 9:11 | The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. -Exodus 9:12 | The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. -Exodus 9:13 | The Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me. -Exodus 9:14 | For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. -Exodus 9:15 | For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; -Exodus 9:16 | but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth, -Exodus 9:17 | because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go. -Exodus 9:18 | Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. -Exodus 9:19 | Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die." -Exodus 9:20 | Those who feared the Lord’s word amongst the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses. -Exodus 9:21 | Whoever didn’t respect the Lord’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field. -Exodus 9:22 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand towards the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt." -Exodus 9:23 | Moses stretched out his rod towards the heavens, and the Lord sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. The Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. -Exodus 9:24 | So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. -Exodus 9:25 | The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. -Exodus 9:26 | Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail. -Exodus 9:27 | Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. -Exodus 9:28 | Pray to the Lord; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer." -Exodus 9:29 | Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s. -Exodus 9:30 | But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear the Lord God." -Exodus 9:31 | The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming. -Exodus 9:32 | But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up. -Exodus 9:33 | Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. -Exodus 9:34 | When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. -Exodus 9:35 | The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses. -Ezekiel 10:01 | Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. -Ezekiel 10:02 | He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, "Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." He went in as I watched. -Ezekiel 10:03 | Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. -Ezekiel 10:04 | The Lord’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory. -Ezekiel 10:05 | The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. -Ezekiel 10:06 | It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. -Ezekiel 10:07 | The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. -Ezekiel 10:08 | The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings. -Ezekiel 10:09 | I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. -Ezekiel 10:10 | As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. -Ezekiel 10:11 | When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went. -Ezekiel 10:12 | Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had. -Ezekiel 10:13 | As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "the whirling wheels". -Ezekiel 10:14 | Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle. -Ezekiel 10:15 | The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. -Ezekiel 10:16 | When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them. -Ezekiel 10:17 | When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them. -Ezekiel 10:18 | The Lord’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. -Ezekiel 10:19 | The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. -Ezekiel 10:20 | This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. -Ezekiel 10:21 | Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. -Ezekiel 10:22 | As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward. -Ezekiel 11:01 | Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw amongst them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. -Ezekiel 11:02 | He said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; -Ezekiel 11:03 | who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’ -Ezekiel 11:04 | Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man." -Ezekiel 11:05 | The Lord’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, "Speak, ‘The Lord says: "Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. -Ezekiel 11:06 | You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain." -Ezekiel 11:07 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it. -Ezekiel 11:08 | You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 11:09 | "I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements amongst you. -Ezekiel 11:10 | You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 11:11 | This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel. -Ezekiel 11:12 | You will know that I am the Lord, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you." -Ezekiel 11:13 | When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, "Ah Lord GOD! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?" -Ezekiel 11:15 | "Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the Lord. This land has been given to us for a possession.’ -Ezekiel 11:16 | "Therefore say, ‘The Lord God says: "Whereas I have removed them far off amongst the nations, and whereas I have scattered them amongst the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come."’ -Ezekiel 11:17 | "Therefore say, ‘The Lord God says: "I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel." -Ezekiel 11:18 | "‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. -Ezekiel 11:19 | I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; -Ezekiel 11:20 | that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. -Ezekiel 11:21 | But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 11:22 | Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above. -Ezekiel 11:23 | The Lord’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city. -Ezekiel 11:24 | The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. -Ezekiel 11:25 | Then I spoke to the captives all the things that the Lord had shown me. -Ezekiel 12:02 | "Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house. -Ezekiel 12:03 | "Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. -Ezekiel 12:04 | You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile. -Ezekiel 12:05 | Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way. -Ezekiel 12:06 | In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel." -Ezekiel 12:07 | I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight. -Ezekiel 12:09 | "Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’ -Ezekiel 12:10 | "Say to them, ‘The Lord God says: "This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel amongst whom they are."’ -Ezekiel 12:11 | "Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity. -Ezekiel 12:12 | "‘The prince who is amongst them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes. -Ezekiel 12:13 | I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there. -Ezekiel 12:14 | I will scatter towards every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them. -Ezekiel 12:15 | "‘They will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them amongst the nations, and scatter them through the countries. -Ezekiel 12:16 | But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations amongst the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 12:18 | "Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness. -Ezekiel 12:19 | Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord God says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: "They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein. -Ezekiel 12:20 | The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 12:22 | "Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’ -Ezekiel 12:23 | Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord God says: "I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel"’ but tell them, ‘"The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision. -Ezekiel 12:24 | For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. -Ezekiel 12:25 | For I am the Lord. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 12:27 | "Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’ -Ezekiel 12:28 | "Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 13:02 | "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear the Lord’s word: -Ezekiel 13:03 | The Lord God says, "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! -Ezekiel 13:04 | Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. -Ezekiel 13:05 | You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the Lord’s day. -Ezekiel 13:06 | They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘The Lord says;’ but the Lord has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. -Ezekiel 13:07 | Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘The Lord says;’ but I have not spoken?" -Ezekiel 13:08 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 13:09 | "My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 13:10 | "‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, "Peace" and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash. -Ezekiel 13:11 | Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it. -Ezekiel 13:12 | Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, "Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?" -Ezekiel 13:13 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. -Ezekiel 13:14 | So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 13:15 | Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it; -Ezekiel 13:16 | to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’" says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 13:17 | You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, -Ezekiel 13:18 | and say, "The Lord God says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? -Ezekiel 13:19 | You have profaned me amongst my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’ -Ezekiel 13:20 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly. -Ezekiel 13:21 | I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 13:22 | Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive. -Ezekiel 13:23 | Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practise divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 14:01 | Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me. -Ezekiel 14:03 | "Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be enquired of at all by them? -Ezekiel 14:04 | Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; -Ezekiel 14:05 | that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."’ -Ezekiel 14:06 | "Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations. -Ezekiel 14:07 | "For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to enquire for himself of me; I the Lord will answer him by myself. -Ezekiel 14:08 | I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from amongst my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 14:09 | "If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from amongst my people Israel. -Ezekiel 14:10 | They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him; -Ezekiel 14:11 | that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 14:13 | "Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal; -Ezekiel 14:14 | though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 14:15 | "If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals; -Ezekiel 14:16 | though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. -Ezekiel 14:17 | "Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’ -Ezekiel 14:18 | though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves. -Ezekiel 14:19 | "Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; -Ezekiel 14:20 | though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness." -Ezekiel 14:21 | For the Lord God says: "How much more when I send my four severe judgements on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal! -Ezekiel 14:22 | Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it. -Ezekiel 14:23 | They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 15:02 | "Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is amongst the trees of the forest? -Ezekiel 15:03 | Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it? -Ezekiel 15:04 | Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burnt. Is it profitable for any work? -Ezekiel 15:05 | Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has been burnt, will it yet be suitable for any work?" -Ezekiel 15:06 | Therefore the Lord God says: "As the vine tree amongst the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. -Ezekiel 15:07 | I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them. -Ezekiel 15:08 | I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 16:03 | and say, ‘The Lord God says to Jerusalem: "Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. -Ezekiel 16:04 | As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all. -Ezekiel 16:05 | No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born. -Ezekiel 16:06 | "When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ -Ezekiel 16:07 | I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare. -Ezekiel 16:08 | "Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you," says the Lord GOD, "and you became mine. -Ezekiel 16:09 | "Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. -Ezekiel 16:10 | I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. -Ezekiel 16:11 | I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck. -Ezekiel 16:12 | I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. -Ezekiel 16:13 | Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate. -Ezekiel 16:14 | Your renown went out amongst the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 16:15 | "But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his. -Ezekiel 16:16 | You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colours, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be. -Ezekiel 16:17 | You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them. -Ezekiel 16:18 | You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them. -Ezekiel 16:19 | My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 16:20 | "Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter, -Ezekiel 16:21 | that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them? -Ezekiel 16:22 | In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood. -Ezekiel 16:23 | "It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!" says the Lord GOD— -Ezekiel 16:24 | "that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street. -Ezekiel 16:25 | You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution. -Ezekiel 16:26 | You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. -Ezekiel 16:27 | See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. -Ezekiel 16:28 | You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied. -Ezekiel 16:29 | You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this. -Ezekiel 16:30 | "How weak is your heart," says the Lord GOD, "since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute; -Ezekiel 16:31 | in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. -Ezekiel 16:32 | "Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! -Ezekiel 16:33 | People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution. -Ezekiel 16:34 | You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different."’ -Ezekiel 16:35 | "Therefore, prostitute, hear the Lord’s word: -Ezekiel 16:36 | ‘The Lord God says, "Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; -Ezekiel 16:37 | therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. -Ezekiel 16:38 | I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. -Ezekiel 16:39 | I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare. -Ezekiel 16:40 | They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. -Ezekiel 16:41 | They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgements on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more. -Ezekiel 16:42 | So I will cause my wrath towards you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more. -Ezekiel 16:43 | "Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head," says the Lord GOD: "and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations. -Ezekiel 16:44 | "Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’ -Ezekiel 16:45 | You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. -Ezekiel 16:46 | Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters. -Ezekiel 16:47 | Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. -Ezekiel 16:48 | As I live," says the Lord GOD, "Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. -Ezekiel 16:49 | "Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. -Ezekiel 16:50 | They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it. -Ezekiel 16:51 | Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done. -Ezekiel 16:52 | You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgement for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters. -Ezekiel 16:53 | "I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives amongst them; -Ezekiel 16:54 | that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. -Ezekiel 16:55 | Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate. -Ezekiel 16:56 | For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, -Ezekiel 16:57 | before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around. -Ezekiel 16:58 | You have borne your lewdness and your abominations," says the Lord. -Ezekiel 16:59 | "‘For the Lord God says: "I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. -Ezekiel 16:60 | Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. -Ezekiel 16:61 | Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. -Ezekiel 16:62 | I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the LORD; -Ezekiel 16:63 | that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 17:02 | "Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; -Ezekiel 17:03 | and say, ‘The Lord God says: "A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar. -Ezekiel 17:04 | He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants. -Ezekiel 17:05 | "He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree. -Ezekiel 17:06 | It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs. -Ezekiel 17:07 | "There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots towards him, and shot out its branches towards him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. -Ezekiel 17:08 | It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine."’ -Ezekiel 17:09 | "Say, ‘The Lord God says: "Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people. -Ezekiel 17:10 | Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew." -Ezekiel 17:12 | "Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon. -Ezekiel 17:13 | He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; -Ezekiel 17:14 | that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. -Ezekiel 17:15 | But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape? -Ezekiel 17:16 | "‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die. -Ezekiel 17:17 | Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. -Ezekiel 17:18 | For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape. -Ezekiel 17:19 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken. -Ezekiel 17:20 | I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgement with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. -Ezekiel 17:21 | All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered towards every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken it.’ -Ezekiel 17:22 | "The Lord God says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. -Ezekiel 17:23 | I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches. -Ezekiel 17:24 | All the trees of the field will know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. "‘I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it.’" -Ezekiel 18:02 | "What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? -Ezekiel 18:03 | "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel. -Ezekiel 18:04 | Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die. -Ezekiel 18:05 | "But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, -Ezekiel 18:06 | and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbour’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity, -Ezekiel 18:07 | and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; -Ezekiel 18:08 | he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, -Ezekiel 18:09 | has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 18:10 | "If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things, -Ezekiel 18:11 | or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbour’s wife, -Ezekiel 18:12 | has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, -Ezekiel 18:13 | has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him. -Ezekiel 18:14 | "Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and doesn’t do likewise, -Ezekiel 18:15 | who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbour’s wife, -Ezekiel 18:16 | hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; -Ezekiel 18:17 | who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live. -Ezekiel 18:18 | As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good amongst his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity. -Ezekiel 18:19 | "Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live. -Ezekiel 18:20 | The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. -Ezekiel 18:21 | "But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die. -Ezekiel 18:22 | None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live. -Ezekiel 18:23 | Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?" says the Lord GOD; "and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? -Ezekiel 18:24 | "But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die. -Ezekiel 18:25 | "Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal? -Ezekiel 18:26 | When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die. -Ezekiel 18:27 | Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive. -Ezekiel 18:28 | Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die. -Ezekiel 18:29 | Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair? -Ezekiel 18:30 | "Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways," says the Lord GOD. "Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin. -Ezekiel 18:31 | Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? -Ezekiel 18:32 | For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore turn yourselves, and live! -Ezekiel 19:01 | "Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, -Ezekiel 19:02 | and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched amongst lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs. -Ezekiel 19:03 | She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learnt to catch the prey. He devoured men. -Ezekiel 19:04 | The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. -Ezekiel 19:05 | "‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. -Ezekiel 19:06 | He went up and down amongst the lions. He became a young lion. He learnt to catch the prey. He devoured men. -Ezekiel 19:07 | He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. -Ezekiel 19:08 | Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit. -Ezekiel 19:09 | They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. -Ezekiel 19:10 | "‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. -Ezekiel 19:11 | It had strong branches for the sceptres of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted amongst the thick boughs. They were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. -Ezekiel 19:12 | But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them. -Ezekiel 19:13 | Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. -Ezekiel 19:14 | Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a sceptre to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation." -Ezekiel 1:01 | Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was amongst the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. -Ezekiel 1:02 | In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity, -Ezekiel 1:03 | the Lord’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the Lord’s hand was there on him. -Ezekiel 1:04 | I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire. -Ezekiel 1:05 | Out of its centre came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man. -Ezekiel 1:06 | Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings. -Ezekiel 1:07 | Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze. -Ezekiel 1:08 | They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this: -Ezekiel 1:09 | Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward. -Ezekiel 1:10 | As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle. -Ezekiel 1:11 | Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies. -Ezekiel 1:12 | Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went. -Ezekiel 1:13 | As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down amongst the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire. -Ezekiel 1:14 | The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. -Ezekiel 1:15 | Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it. -Ezekiel 1:16 | The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. -Ezekiel 1:17 | When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went. -Ezekiel 1:18 | As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around. -Ezekiel 1:19 | When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. -Ezekiel 1:20 | Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. -Ezekiel 1:21 | When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. -Ezekiel 1:22 | Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above. -Ezekiel 1:23 | Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one towards the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side. -Ezekiel 1:24 | When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings. -Ezekiel 1:25 | There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings. -Ezekiel 1:26 | Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above. -Ezekiel 1:27 | I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him. -Ezekiel 1:28 | As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the Lord’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. -Ezekiel 20:01 | In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me. -Ezekiel 20:03 | "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Is it to enquire of me that you have come? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be enquired of by you."’ -Ezekiel 20:04 | "Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers. -Ezekiel 20:05 | Tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am the Lord your God;’ -Ezekiel 20:06 | in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. -Ezekiel 20:07 | I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’ -Ezekiel 20:08 | "But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt. -Ezekiel 20:09 | But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, amongst which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. -Ezekiel 20:10 | So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. -Ezekiel 20:11 | I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. -Ezekiel 20:12 | Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. -Ezekiel 20:13 | "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them. -Ezekiel 20:14 | But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. -Ezekiel 20:15 | Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; -Ezekiel 20:16 | because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. -Ezekiel 20:17 | Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness. -Ezekiel 20:18 | I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. -Ezekiel 20:19 | I am the Lord your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them. -Ezekiel 20:20 | Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ -Ezekiel 20:21 | "But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. -Ezekiel 20:22 | Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. -Ezekiel 20:23 | Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them amongst the nations, and disperse them through the countries; -Ezekiel 20:24 | because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. -Ezekiel 20:25 | Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live. -Ezekiel 20:26 | I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord."’ -Ezekiel 20:27 | "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. -Ezekiel 20:28 | For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings. -Ezekiel 20:29 | Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day."’ -Ezekiel 20:30 | "Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations? -Ezekiel 20:31 | When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be enquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you! -Ezekiel 20:32 | "That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’ -Ezekiel 20:33 | As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you. -Ezekiel 20:34 | I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. -Ezekiel 20:35 | I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgement with you face to face. -Ezekiel 20:36 | Just as I entered into judgement with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgement with you," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 20:37 | "I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. -Ezekiel 20:38 | I will purge out from amongst you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 20:39 | "‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord God says: "Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols. -Ezekiel 20:40 | For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things. -Ezekiel 20:41 | I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. -Ezekiel 20:42 | You will know that I am the Lord when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers. -Ezekiel 20:43 | There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed. -Ezekiel 20:44 | You will know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 20:46 | "Son of man, set your face towards the south, and preach towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South. -Ezekiel 20:47 | Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear the Lord’s word: The Lord God says, "Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burnt by it. -Ezekiel 20:48 | All flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it. It will not be quenched." -Ezekiel 20:49 | Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’" -Ezekiel 21:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards Jerusalem, and preach towards the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel. -Ezekiel 21:03 | Tell the land of Israel, ‘The Lord says: "Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. -Ezekiel 21:04 | Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. -Ezekiel 21:05 | All flesh will know that I, the Lord, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more."’ -Ezekiel 21:06 | "Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness. -Ezekiel 21:07 | It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 21:09 | "Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord says: "A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished. -Ezekiel 21:10 | It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree. -Ezekiel 21:11 | It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer."’ -Ezekiel 21:12 | Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people. It is on all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Therefore beat your thigh. -Ezekiel 21:13 | "For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?" says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 21:14 | "You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. Let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the fatally wounded. It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded, which enters into their rooms. -Ezekiel 21:15 | I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter. -Ezekiel 21:16 | Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set. -Ezekiel 21:17 | I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, the Lord, have spoken it." -Ezekiel 21:19 | "Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city. -Ezekiel 21:20 | You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. -Ezekiel 21:21 | For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver. -Ezekiel 21:22 | In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts. -Ezekiel 21:23 | It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. -Ezekiel 21:24 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand. -Ezekiel 21:25 | "‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, -Ezekiel 21:26 | the Lord God says: "Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high. -Ezekiel 21:27 | I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it."’ -Ezekiel 21:28 | "You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord God says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: "A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning; -Ezekiel 21:29 | while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end. -Ezekiel 21:30 | Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you. -Ezekiel 21:31 | I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy. -Ezekiel 21:32 | You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, the Lord, have spoken it." -Ezekiel 22:02 | "You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations. -Ezekiel 22:03 | You shall say, ‘The Lord God says: "A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! -Ezekiel 22:04 | You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. -Ezekiel 22:05 | Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult. -Ezekiel 22:06 | "Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. -Ezekiel 22:07 | In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Amongst you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. -Ezekiel 22:08 | You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. -Ezekiel 22:09 | Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness amongst you. -Ezekiel 22:10 | In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. -Ezekiel 22:11 | One has committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. -Ezekiel 22:12 | In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbours by oppression, and have forgotten me," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 22:13 | "Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you. -Ezekiel 22:14 | Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken it, and will do it. -Ezekiel 22:15 | I will scatter you amongst the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you. -Ezekiel 22:16 | You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 22:18 | "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. -Ezekiel 22:19 | Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. -Ezekiel 22:20 | As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. -Ezekiel 22:21 | Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it. -Ezekiel 22:22 | As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my wrath on you.’" -Ezekiel 22:24 | "Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’ -Ezekiel 22:25 | There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it. -Ezekiel 22:26 | Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned amongst them. -Ezekiel 22:27 | Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. -Ezekiel 22:28 | Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken. -Ezekiel 22:29 | The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully. -Ezekiel 22:30 | "I sought for a man amongst them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. -Ezekiel 22:31 | Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 23:03 | They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there. -Ezekiel 23:04 | Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. -Ezekiel 23:05 | "Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, -Ezekiel 23:06 | who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. -Ezekiel 23:07 | She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after. -Ezekiel 23:08 | She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her. -Ezekiel 23:09 | "Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. -Ezekiel 23:10 | These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword amongst women; for they executed judgements on her. -Ezekiel 23:11 | "Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister. -Ezekiel 23:12 | She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbours, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. -Ezekiel 23:14 | "She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red, -Ezekiel 23:15 | dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. -Ezekiel 23:16 | As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. -Ezekiel 23:17 | The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. -Ezekiel 23:18 | So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister. -Ezekiel 23:19 | Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. -Ezekiel 23:20 | She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. -Ezekiel 23:21 | Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts. -Ezekiel 23:22 | "Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: -Ezekiel 23:23 | the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. -Ezekiel 23:24 | They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgement to them, and they will judge you according to their judgements. -Ezekiel 23:25 | I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire. -Ezekiel 23:26 | They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels. -Ezekiel 23:27 | Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’ -Ezekiel 23:28 | "For the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated. -Ezekiel 23:29 | They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labour, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution. -Ezekiel 23:30 | These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols. -Ezekiel 23:31 | You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’ -Ezekiel 23:32 | "The Lord God says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much. -Ezekiel 23:33 | You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. -Ezekiel 23:34 | You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 23:35 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’" -Ezekiel 23:36 | The Lord said moreover to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. -Ezekiel 23:37 | For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured. -Ezekiel 23:38 | Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. -Ezekiel 23:39 | For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house. -Ezekiel 23:40 | "Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments, -Ezekiel 23:41 | and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil. -Ezekiel 23:42 | "The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. -Ezekiel 23:43 | Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’ -Ezekiel 23:44 | They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. -Ezekiel 23:45 | Righteous men will judge them with the judgement of adulteresses and with the judgement of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. -Ezekiel 23:46 | "For the Lord God says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. -Ezekiel 23:47 | The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. -Ezekiel 23:48 | "‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you. -Ezekiel 23:49 | They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 24:02 | "Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. -Ezekiel 24:03 | Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says, "Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it. -Ezekiel 24:04 | Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones. -Ezekiel 24:05 | Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron. Make it boil well. Yes, let its bones be boiled within it." -Ezekiel 24:06 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it. -Ezekiel 24:07 | "For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. -Ezekiel 24:08 | That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered." -Ezekiel 24:09 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. -Ezekiel 24:10 | Heap on the wood. Make the fire hot. Boil the meat well. Make the broth thick, and let the bones be burnt. -Ezekiel 24:11 | Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its bronze may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed. -Ezekiel 24:12 | She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her. -Ezekiel 24:13 | "In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath towards you to rest. -Ezekiel 24:14 | "I, the Lord, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 24:16 | "Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. -Ezekiel 24:17 | Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread." -Ezekiel 24:18 | So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded. -Ezekiel 24:19 | The people asked me, "Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?" -Ezekiel 24:21 | ‘Speak to the house of Israel, "The Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. -Ezekiel 24:22 | You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread. -Ezekiel 24:23 | Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one towards another. -Ezekiel 24:24 | Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 24:25 | "You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, -Ezekiel 24:26 | that in that day he who escapes will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? -Ezekiel 24:27 | In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 25:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them. -Ezekiel 25:03 | Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord GOD! The Lord God says, "Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity: -Ezekiel 25:04 | therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk. -Ezekiel 25:05 | I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 25:06 | For the Lord God says: "Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel, -Ezekiel 25:07 | therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 25:08 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’ -Ezekiel 25:09 | therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim, -Ezekiel 25:10 | to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered amongst the nations. -Ezekiel 25:11 | I will execute judgements on Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 25:12 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them" -Ezekiel 25:13 | therefore the Lord God says, "I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan. -Ezekiel 25:14 | I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 25:15 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility" -Ezekiel 25:16 | therefore the Lord God says, "Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. -Ezekiel 25:17 | I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance on them." -Ezekiel 26:02 | "Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’ -Ezekiel 26:03 | therefore the Lord God says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. -Ezekiel 26:04 | They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. -Ezekiel 26:05 | She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘She will become plunder for the nations. -Ezekiel 26:06 | Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’ -Ezekiel 26:07 | "For the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people. -Ezekiel 26:08 | He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you. -Ezekiel 26:09 | He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. -Ezekiel 26:10 | By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open. -Ezekiel 26:11 | He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground. -Ezekiel 26:12 | They will make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters. -Ezekiel 26:13 | I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more. -Ezekiel 26:14 | I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I the Lord have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 26:15 | "The Lord God says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you? -Ezekiel 26:16 | Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. -Ezekiel 26:17 | They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, "How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!" -Ezekiel 26:18 | Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’ -Ezekiel 26:19 | "For the Lord God says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you; -Ezekiel 26:20 | then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. -Ezekiel 26:21 | I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 27:03 | and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord God says: "You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’ -Ezekiel 27:04 | Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty. -Ezekiel 27:05 | They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. -Ezekiel 27:06 | They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim. -Ezekiel 27:07 | Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning. -Ezekiel 27:08 | The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers. Your wise men, Tyre, were in you. They were your pilots. -Ezekiel 27:09 | The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. -Ezekiel 27:10 | "Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you. They showed your beauty. -Ezekiel 27:11 | The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around. They have perfected your beauty. -Ezekiel 27:12 | "Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead. -Ezekiel 27:13 | "Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. -Ezekiel 27:14 | "They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules. -Ezekiel 27:15 | "The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange. -Ezekiel 27:16 | "Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies. -Ezekiel 27:17 | "Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise. -Ezekiel 27:18 | "Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. -Ezekiel 27:19 | "Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were amongst your merchandise. -Ezekiel 27:20 | "Dedan was your trafficker in precious saddlecloths for riding. -Ezekiel 27:21 | "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants. -Ezekiel 27:22 | "The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. -Ezekiel 27:23 | "Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders. -Ezekiel 27:24 | These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, amongst your merchandise. -Ezekiel 27:25 | "The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise. You were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. -Ezekiel 27:26 | Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. -Ezekiel 27:27 | Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is amongst you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. -Ezekiel 27:28 | At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake. -Ezekiel 27:29 | All who handle the oars, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships. They will stand on the land, -Ezekiel 27:30 | and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes. -Ezekiel 27:31 | They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning. -Ezekiel 27:32 | In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’ -Ezekiel 27:33 | When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. -Ezekiel 27:34 | In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you. -Ezekiel 27:35 | All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face. -Ezekiel 27:36 | The merchants amongst the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more." -Ezekiel 28:02 | "Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord God says: "Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God— -Ezekiel 28:03 | behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; -Ezekiel 28:04 | by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries; -Ezekiel 28:05 | by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—" -Ezekiel 28:06 | "‘therefore the Lord God says: "Because you have set your heart as the heart of God, -Ezekiel 28:07 | therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness. -Ezekiel 28:08 | They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas. -Ezekiel 28:09 | Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. -Ezekiel 28:10 | You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 28:12 | "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord God says: "You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. -Ezekiel 28:13 | You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created. -Ezekiel 28:14 | You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire. -Ezekiel 28:15 | You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. -Ezekiel 28:16 | By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire. -Ezekiel 28:17 | Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendour. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you. -Ezekiel 28:18 | By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. -Ezekiel 28:19 | All those who know you amongst the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more." -Ezekiel 28:22 | and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified amongst you. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have executed judgements in her, and am sanctified in her. -Ezekiel 28:23 | For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall within her, with the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 28:24 | "There will no longer be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 28:25 | "‘The Lord God says: "When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples amongst whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. -Ezekiel 28:26 | They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely when I have executed judgements on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God." -Ezekiel 29:04 | I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. -Ezekiel 29:05 | I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky. -Ezekiel 29:06 | "All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. -Ezekiel 29:07 | When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralysed all of their thighs." -Ezekiel 29:08 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you. -Ezekiel 29:09 | The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord. "Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’ -Ezekiel 29:10 | therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. -Ezekiel 29:11 | No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years. -Ezekiel 29:12 | I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities amongst the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians amongst the nations, and will disperse them through the countries." -Ezekiel 29:13 | "‘For the Lord God says: "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered. -Ezekiel 29:14 | I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there. -Ezekiel 29:15 | It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations. -Ezekiel 29:16 | It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 29:18 | "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. -Ezekiel 29:19 | Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army. -Ezekiel 29:20 | I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 29:21 | "In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth amongst them. Then they will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 2:01 | He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you." -Ezekiel 2:02 | The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me. -Ezekiel 2:03 | He said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day. -Ezekiel 2:04 | The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ -Ezekiel 2:05 | They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet amongst them. -Ezekiel 2:06 | You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell amongst scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. -Ezekiel 2:07 | You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious. -Ezekiel 2:08 | But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you." -Ezekiel 2:09 | When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it. -Ezekiel 2:10 | He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it. -Ezekiel 30:02 | "Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’ -Ezekiel 30:03 | For the day is near, even the Lord’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. -Ezekiel 30:04 | A sword will come on Egypt, and anguish will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt. They take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down. -Ezekiel 30:05 | "Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword." -Ezekiel 30:06 | "‘The Lord says: "They also who uphold Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will come down. They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 30:07 | "They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities will be amongst the cities that are wasted. -Ezekiel 30:08 | They will know that I am the Lord when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. -Ezekiel 30:09 | "In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes." -Ezekiel 30:10 | "‘The Lord God says: "I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. -Ezekiel 30:11 | He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. -Ezekiel 30:12 | I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, the Lord, have spoken it." -Ezekiel 30:13 | "‘The Lord God says: "I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis. There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt. I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. -Ezekiel 30:14 | I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgements on No. -Ezekiel 30:15 | I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt. I will cut off the multitude of No. -Ezekiel 30:16 | I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime. -Ezekiel 30:17 | The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword. They will go into captivity. -Ezekiel 30:18 | At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself, when I break the yokes of Egypt, there. The pride of her power will cease in her. As for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity. -Ezekiel 30:19 | Thus I will execute judgements on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 30:21 | "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it may become strong to hold the sword. -Ezekiel 30:22 | Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. -Ezekiel 30:23 | I will scatter the Egyptians amongst the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. -Ezekiel 30:24 | I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man. -Ezekiel 30:25 | I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt. -Ezekiel 30:26 | I will scatter the Egyptians amongst the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 31:02 | "Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness? -Ezekiel 31:03 | Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was amongst the thick boughs. -Ezekiel 31:04 | The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. -Ezekiel 31:05 | Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out. -Ezekiel 31:06 | All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow. -Ezekiel 31:07 | Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters. -Ezekiel 31:08 | The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its boughs. The pine trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty. -Ezekiel 31:09 | I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’ -Ezekiel 31:10 | "Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top amongst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; -Ezekiel 31:11 | I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. -Ezekiel 31:12 | Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him. -Ezekiel 31:13 | All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches; -Ezekiel 31:14 | to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’ -Ezekiel 31:15 | "The Lord God says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. -Ezekiel 31:16 | I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. -Ezekiel 31:17 | They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations. -Ezekiel 31:18 | "‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 32:02 | ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, "You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers." -Ezekiel 32:03 | The Lord God says: "I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net. -Ezekiel 32:04 | I will leave you on the land. I will cast you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you. I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. -Ezekiel 32:05 | I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. -Ezekiel 32:06 | I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood, even to the mountains. The watercourses will be full of you. -Ezekiel 32:07 | When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light. -Ezekiel 32:08 | I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 32:09 | "I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction amongst the nations, into the countries which you have not known. -Ezekiel 32:10 | Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall." -Ezekiel 32:11 | For the Lord God says: "The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. -Ezekiel 32:12 | I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed. -Ezekiel 32:13 | I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters. The foot of man won’t trouble them any more, nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them. -Ezekiel 32:14 | Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 32:15 | "When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I strike all those who dwell therein, then they will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 32:16 | "This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 32:18 | "Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. -Ezekiel 32:19 | Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. -Ezekiel 32:20 | They will fall amongst those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes. -Ezekiel 32:21 | The strong amongst the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword. -Ezekiel 32:22 | "Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, -Ezekiel 32:23 | whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. -Ezekiel 32:24 | "There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. -Ezekiel 32:25 | They have set her a bed amongst the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put amongst those who are slain. -Ezekiel 32:26 | "There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living. -Ezekiel 32:27 | They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. -Ezekiel 32:28 | "But you will be broken amongst the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword. -Ezekiel 32:29 | "There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. -Ezekiel 32:30 | "There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. -Ezekiel 32:31 | "Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 32:32 | "For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid amongst the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 33:02 | "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from amongst them, and set him for their watchman; -Ezekiel 33:03 | if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people; -Ezekiel 33:04 | then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. -Ezekiel 33:05 | He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul. -Ezekiel 33:06 | But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from amongst them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’ -Ezekiel 33:07 | "So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me. -Ezekiel 33:08 | When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand. -Ezekiel 33:09 | Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. -Ezekiel 33:10 | "You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, "Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?"’ -Ezekiel 33:11 | Tell them, ‘"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?"’ -Ezekiel 33:12 | "You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. -Ezekiel 33:13 | When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed. -Ezekiel 33:14 | Again, when I say to the wicked, "You will surely die" if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; -Ezekiel 33:15 | if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die. -Ezekiel 33:16 | None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live. -Ezekiel 33:17 | "‘Yet the children of your people say, "The way of the Lord is not fair" but as for them, their way is not fair. -Ezekiel 33:18 | When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein. -Ezekiel 33:19 | When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it. -Ezekiel 33:20 | Yet you say, "The way of the Lord is not fair." House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’" -Ezekiel 33:21 | In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, "The city has been defeated!" -Ezekiel 33:22 | Now the Lord’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. -Ezekiel 33:24 | "Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’ -Ezekiel 33:25 | Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? -Ezekiel 33:26 | You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbour’s wife. So should you possess the land?"’ -Ezekiel 33:27 | "You shall tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence. -Ezekiel 33:28 | I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through. -Ezekiel 33:29 | Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed."’ -Ezekiel 33:30 | "As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from the Lord.’ -Ezekiel 33:31 | They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. -Ezekiel 33:32 | Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them. -Ezekiel 33:33 | "When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been amongst them." -Ezekiel 34:02 | "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord God says: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? -Ezekiel 34:03 | You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. -Ezekiel 34:04 | You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. -Ezekiel 34:05 | They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. -Ezekiel 34:06 | My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought." -Ezekiel 34:07 | "‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the Lord’s word: -Ezekiel 34:08 | "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep." -Ezekiel 34:09 | Therefore, you shepherds, hear the Lord’s word: -Ezekiel 34:10 | The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them." -Ezekiel 34:11 | "‘For the Lord God says: "Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. -Ezekiel 34:12 | As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is amongst his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. -Ezekiel 34:13 | I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. -Ezekiel 34:14 | I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. -Ezekiel 34:15 | I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 34:16 | "I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice."’ -Ezekiel 34:17 | "As for you, O my flock, the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. -Ezekiel 34:18 | Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet? -Ezekiel 34:19 | As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’ -Ezekiel 34:20 | "Therefore the Lord God says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. -Ezekiel 34:21 | Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; -Ezekiel 34:22 | therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. -Ezekiel 34:23 | I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. -Ezekiel 34:24 | I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David prince amongst them. I, the Lord, have spoken it. -Ezekiel 34:25 | "‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. -Ezekiel 34:26 | I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing. -Ezekiel 34:27 | The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. -Ezekiel 34:28 | They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid. -Ezekiel 34:29 | I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more. -Ezekiel 34:30 | They will know that I, the Lord, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 34:31 | You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 35:02 | "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, -Ezekiel 35:03 | and tell it, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. -Ezekiel 35:04 | I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 35:05 | "Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; -Ezekiel 35:06 | therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you. -Ezekiel 35:07 | Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. -Ezekiel 35:08 | I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses. -Ezekiel 35:09 | I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 35:10 | "Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ whereas the Lord was there: -Ezekiel 35:11 | therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known amongst them when I judge you. -Ezekiel 35:12 | You will know that I, the Lord, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given to us to devour.’ -Ezekiel 35:13 | You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it." -Ezekiel 35:14 | The Lord God says: "When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. -Ezekiel 35:15 | As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 36:01 | You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, "You mountains of Israel, hear the Lord’s word. -Ezekiel 36:02 | The Lord God says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, "Aha!" and, "The ancient high places are ours in possession!"’ -Ezekiel 36:03 | therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people" -Ezekiel 36:04 | therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: The Lord God says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; -Ezekiel 36:05 | therefore the Lord God says: "Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey."’ -Ezekiel 36:06 | Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations." -Ezekiel 36:07 | Therefore the Lord God says: "I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’ -Ezekiel 36:08 | "But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. -Ezekiel 36:09 | For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown. -Ezekiel 36:10 | I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built. -Ezekiel 36:11 | I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 36:12 | Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children." -Ezekiel 36:13 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’ -Ezekiel 36:14 | therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 36:15 | "I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more," says the Lord GOD.’" -Ezekiel 36:17 | "Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. -Ezekiel 36:18 | Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. -Ezekiel 36:19 | I scattered them amongst the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds. -Ezekiel 36:20 | When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and have left his land.’ -Ezekiel 36:21 | But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned amongst the nations where they went. -Ezekiel 36:22 | "Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned amongst the nations where you went. -Ezekiel 36:23 | I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned amongst the nations, which you have profaned amongst them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord," says the Lord GOD, "when I am proven holy in you before their eyes. -Ezekiel 36:24 | "For I will take you from amongst the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. -Ezekiel 36:25 | I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. -Ezekiel 36:26 | I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. -Ezekiel 36:27 | I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them. -Ezekiel 36:28 | You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God. -Ezekiel 36:29 | I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. -Ezekiel 36:30 | I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine amongst the nations. -Ezekiel 36:31 | "Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. -Ezekiel 36:32 | I don’t do this for your sake," says the Lord GOD. "Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel." -Ezekiel 36:33 | "‘The Lord God says: "In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built. -Ezekiel 36:34 | The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. -Ezekiel 36:35 | They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’ -Ezekiel 36:36 | Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, the Lord, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it." -Ezekiel 36:37 | "‘The Lord God says: "For this, moreover, I will be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. -Ezekiel 36:38 | As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 37:01 | The Lord’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in the Lord’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. -Ezekiel 37:02 | He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. -Ezekiel 37:03 | He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I answered, "Lord GOD, you know." -Ezekiel 37:04 | Again he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear the Lord’s word. -Ezekiel 37:05 | The Lord God says to these bones: "Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live. -Ezekiel 37:06 | I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord." -Ezekiel 37:07 | So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone. -Ezekiel 37:08 | I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. -Ezekiel 37:09 | Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord God says: "Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live." -Ezekiel 37:10 | So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army. -Ezekiel 37:11 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’ -Ezekiel 37:12 | Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. -Ezekiel 37:13 | You will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. -Ezekiel 37:14 | I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it," says the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 37:16 | "You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’ -Ezekiel 37:17 | Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. -Ezekiel 37:18 | "When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’ -Ezekiel 37:19 | tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. -Ezekiel 37:20 | The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes."’ -Ezekiel 37:21 | Say to them, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I will take the children of Israel from amongst the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. -Ezekiel 37:22 | I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. -Ezekiel 37:23 | They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God. -Ezekiel 37:24 | "My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. -Ezekiel 37:25 | They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever. -Ezekiel 37:26 | Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary amongst them forever more. -Ezekiel 37:27 | My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. -Ezekiel 37:28 | The nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is amongst them forever more." -Ezekiel 38:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, -Ezekiel 38:03 | and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. -Ezekiel 38:04 | I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armour, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; -Ezekiel 38:05 | Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; -Ezekiel 38:06 | Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you. -Ezekiel 38:07 | "Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. -Ezekiel 38:08 | After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them. -Ezekiel 38:09 | You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you." -Ezekiel 38:10 | "‘The Lord God says: "It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. -Ezekiel 38:11 | You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, -Ezekiel 38:12 | to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’ -Ezekiel 38:13 | Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its young lions, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’"’ -Ezekiel 38:14 | "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord God says: "In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it? -Ezekiel 38:15 | You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. -Ezekiel 38:16 | You will come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes." -Ezekiel 38:17 | "‘The Lord God says: "Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them? -Ezekiel 38:18 | It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "that my wrath will come up into my nostrils. -Ezekiel 38:19 | For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; -Ezekiel 38:20 | so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground. -Ezekiel 38:21 | I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains," says the Lord GOD. "Every man’s sword will be against his brother. -Ezekiel 38:22 | I will enter into judgement with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulphur. -Ezekiel 38:23 | I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord."’ -Ezekiel 39:01 | "You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. -Ezekiel 39:02 | I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel. -Ezekiel 39:03 | I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. -Ezekiel 39:04 | You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. -Ezekiel 39:05 | You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 39:06 | "I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 39:07 | "I will make my holy name known amongst my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. -Ezekiel 39:08 | Behold, it comes, and it will be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the day about which I have spoken. -Ezekiel 39:09 | "Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years; -Ezekiel 39:10 | so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 39:11 | "It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’. -Ezekiel 39:12 | "The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land. -Ezekiel 39:13 | Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 39:14 | "They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search. -Ezekiel 39:15 | Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. -Ezekiel 39:16 | Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land."’ -Ezekiel 39:17 | "You, son of man, the Lord God says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, "Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood. -Ezekiel 39:18 | You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. -Ezekiel 39:19 | You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. -Ezekiel 39:20 | You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war," says the Lord GOD.’ -Ezekiel 39:21 | "I will set my glory amongst the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgement that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. -Ezekiel 39:22 | So the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day and forward. -Ezekiel 39:23 | The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. -Ezekiel 39:24 | I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them. -Ezekiel 39:25 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name. -Ezekiel 39:26 | They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid, -Ezekiel 39:27 | when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. -Ezekiel 39:28 | They will know that I am the Lord their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity amongst the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more. -Ezekiel 39:29 | I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 3:01 | He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel." -Ezekiel 3:02 | So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. -Ezekiel 3:03 | He said to me, "Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you." Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. -Ezekiel 3:04 | He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. -Ezekiel 3:05 | For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; -Ezekiel 3:06 | not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. -Ezekiel 3:07 | But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted. -Ezekiel 3:08 | Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. -Ezekiel 3:09 | I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house." -Ezekiel 3:10 | Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you. -Ezekiel 3:11 | Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse." -Ezekiel 3:12 | Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be the Lord’s glory from his place." -Ezekiel 3:13 | I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. -Ezekiel 3:14 | So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the Lord’s hand was strong on me. -Ezekiel 3:15 | eThen I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv who lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed amongst them seven days. -Ezekiel 3:17 | "Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me. -Ezekiel 3:18 | When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand. -Ezekiel 3:19 | Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul." -Ezekiel 3:20 | "Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand. -Ezekiel 3:21 | Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul." -Ezekiel 3:22 | the Lord’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, "Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there." -Ezekiel 3:23 | Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, the Lord’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face. -Ezekiel 3:24 | Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house. -Ezekiel 3:25 | But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out amongst them. -Ezekiel 3:26 | I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house. -Ezekiel 3:27 | But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house." -Ezekiel 40:01 | In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day, the Lord’s hand was on me, and he brought me there. -Ezekiel 40:02 | In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south. -Ezekiel 40:03 | He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. -Ezekiel 40:04 | The man said to me, "Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel." -Ezekiel 40:05 | Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. -Ezekiel 40:06 | Then he came to the gate which looks towards the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide. -Ezekiel 40:07 | Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate towards the house was one reed. -Ezekiel 40:08 | He measured also the porch of the gate towards the house, one reed. -Ezekiel 40:09 | Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was towards the house. -Ezekiel 40:10 | The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side. -Ezekiel 40:11 | He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; -Ezekiel 40:12 | and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. -Ezekiel 40:13 | He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door. -Ezekiel 40:14 | He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate. -Ezekiel 40:15 | From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. -Ezekiel 40:16 | There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post. -Ezekiel 40:17 | Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement. -Ezekiel 40:18 | The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. -Ezekiel 40:19 | Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north. -Ezekiel 40:20 | He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces towards the north. -Ezekiel 40:21 | The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. -Ezekiel 40:22 | Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces towards the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them. -Ezekiel 40:23 | There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate. -Ezekiel 40:24 | He led me towards the south; and behold, there was a gate towards the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements. -Ezekiel 40:25 | There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. -Ezekiel 40:26 | There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts. -Ezekiel 40:27 | There was a gate to the inner court towards the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate towards the south. -Ezekiel 40:28 | Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements; -Ezekiel 40:29 | with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. -Ezekiel 40:30 | There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide. -Ezekiel 40:31 | Its arches were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps. -Ezekiel 40:32 | He brought me into the inner court towards the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements; -Ezekiel 40:33 | with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. -Ezekiel 40:34 | Its arches were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps. -Ezekiel 40:35 | He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements; -Ezekiel 40:36 | its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. -Ezekiel 40:37 | Its posts were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps. -Ezekiel 40:38 | A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there. -Ezekiel 40:39 | In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. -Ezekiel 40:40 | On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate towards the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. -Ezekiel 40:41 | Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices. -Ezekiel 40:42 | There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them. -Ezekiel 40:43 | The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables. -Ezekiel 40:44 | Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced towards the south. One at the side of the east gate faced towards the north. -Ezekiel 40:45 | He said to me, "This room, which faces towards the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house. -Ezekiel 40:47 | He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house. -Ezekiel 40:48 | Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. -Ezekiel 40:49 | The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. -Ezekiel 41:01 | He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent. -Ezekiel 41:02 | The width of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits. -Ezekiel 41:03 | Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. -Ezekiel 41:04 | He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, "This is the most holy place." -Ezekiel 41:05 | Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. -Ezekiel 41:06 | The side rooms were in three storeys, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house. -Ezekiel 41:07 | The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level. -Ezekiel 41:08 | I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. -Ezekiel 41:09 | The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. -Ezekiel 41:10 | Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side. -Ezekiel 41:11 | The doors of the side rooms were towards an open area that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around. -Ezekiel 41:12 | The building that was before the separate place at the side towards the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. -Ezekiel 41:13 | So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; -Ezekiel 41:14 | also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place towards the east, one hundred cubits. -Ezekiel 41:15 | He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court -Ezekiel 41:16 | the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three storeys, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), -Ezekiel 41:17 | to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. -Ezekiel 41:18 | It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; -Ezekiel 41:19 | so that there was the face of a man towards the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around. -Ezekiel 41:20 | Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this. -Ezekiel 41:21 | As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple. -Ezekiel 41:22 | The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord." -Ezekiel 41:23 | The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. -Ezekiel 41:24 | The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other. -Ezekiel 41:25 | There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. -Ezekiel 41:26 | There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged. -Ezekiel 42:01 | Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way towards the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building towards the north. -Ezekiel 42:02 | Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits. -Ezekiel 42:03 | Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor. -Ezekiel 42:04 | Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were towards the north. -Ezekiel 42:05 | Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building. -Ezekiel 42:06 | For they were in three storeys, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. -Ezekiel 42:07 | The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, towards the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. -Ezekiel 42:08 | For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. -Ezekiel 42:09 | From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. -Ezekiel 42:10 | In the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms. -Ezekiel 42:11 | The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were towards the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. -Ezekiel 42:12 | According to the doors of the rooms that were towards the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall towards the east, as one enters into them. -Ezekiel 42:13 | Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to the Lord shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. -Ezekiel 42:14 | When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people." -Ezekiel 43:02 | Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory. -Ezekiel 43:03 | It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. -Ezekiel 43:04 | The Lord’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces towards the east. -Ezekiel 43:05 | The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the Lord’s glory filled the house. -Ezekiel 43:06 | I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. -Ezekiel 43:07 | He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell amongst the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places; -Ezekiel 43:08 | in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger. -Ezekiel 43:09 | Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell amongst them forever. -Ezekiel 43:10 | "You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. -Ezekiel 43:11 | If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. -Ezekiel 43:12 | "This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. -Ezekiel 43:13 | "These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. -Ezekiel 43:14 | From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit. -Ezekiel 43:15 | The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. -Ezekiel 43:16 | The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides. -Ezekiel 43:17 | The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look towards the east." -Ezekiel 43:18 | He said to me, "Son of man, the Lord God says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it. -Ezekiel 43:19 | You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘a young bull for a sin offering. -Ezekiel 43:20 | You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way. -Ezekiel 43:21 | You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. -Ezekiel 43:22 | "On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. -Ezekiel 43:23 | When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect. -Ezekiel 43:24 | You shall bring them near to the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord. -Ezekiel 43:25 | "Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect. -Ezekiel 43:26 | Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it. -Ezekiel 43:27 | When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 44:01 | Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks towards the east; and it was shut. -Ezekiel 44:02 | The Lord said to me, "This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. -Ezekiel 44:03 | As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the Lord. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way." -Ezekiel 44:04 | Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the Lord’s glory filled the Lord’s house; so I fell on my face. -Ezekiel 44:05 | The Lord said to me, "Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the Lord’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. -Ezekiel 44:06 | You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, -Ezekiel 44:07 | in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. -Ezekiel 44:08 | You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves." -Ezekiel 44:09 | The Lord God says, "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are amongst the children of Israel. -Ezekiel 44:10 | "But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. -Ezekiel 44:11 | Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. -Ezekiel 44:12 | Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them," says the Lord GOD, "and they will bear their iniquity. -Ezekiel 44:13 | They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. -Ezekiel 44:14 | Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein. -Ezekiel 44:15 | "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 44:16 | "They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. -Ezekiel 44:17 | "It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. -Ezekiel 44:18 | They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat. -Ezekiel 44:19 | When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments. -Ezekiel 44:20 | "They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. -Ezekiel 44:21 | None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court. -Ezekiel 44:22 | They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. -Ezekiel 44:23 | They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. -Ezekiel 44:24 | "In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy. -Ezekiel 44:25 | "They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. -Ezekiel 44:26 | After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. -Ezekiel 44:27 | In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 44:28 | "‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. -Ezekiel 44:29 | They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. -Ezekiel 44:30 | The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. -Ezekiel 44:31 | The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal. -Ezekiel 45:01 | "Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the Lord, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around. -Ezekiel 45:02 | Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits for its pasture lands all around. -Ezekiel 45:03 | Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. -Ezekiel 45:04 | It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. -Ezekiel 45:05 | Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms. -Ezekiel 45:06 | "You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion. It shall be for the whole house of Israel. -Ezekiel 45:07 | "What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward, and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. -Ezekiel 45:08 | In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes." -Ezekiel 45:09 | "‘The Lord God says: "Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 45:10 | "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. -Ezekiel 45:11 | The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer. -Ezekiel 45:12 | The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. -Ezekiel 45:13 | "This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; -Ezekiel 45:14 | and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;) -Ezekiel 45:15 | and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 45:16 | "All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel. -Ezekiel 45:17 | It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel." -Ezekiel 45:18 | "‘The Lord God says: "In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. -Ezekiel 45:19 | The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. -Ezekiel 45:20 | So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house. -Ezekiel 45:21 | "In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. -Ezekiel 45:22 | On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. -Ezekiel 45:23 | The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. -Ezekiel 45:24 | He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. -Ezekiel 45:25 | "In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil." -Ezekiel 46:01 | "‘The Lord God says: "The gate of the inner court that looks towards the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. -Ezekiel 46:02 | The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. -Ezekiel 46:03 | The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. -Ezekiel 46:04 | The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect; -Ezekiel 46:05 | and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. -Ezekiel 46:06 | On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect. -Ezekiel 46:07 | He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. -Ezekiel 46:08 | When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way. -Ezekiel 46:09 | "But when the people of the land come before the Lord in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him. -Ezekiel 46:10 | The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out. -Ezekiel 46:11 | "In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. -Ezekiel 46:12 | When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to the Lord, one shall open for him the gate that looks towards the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate. -Ezekiel 46:13 | "You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to the Lord daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it. -Ezekiel 46:14 | You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to the Lord continually by a perpetual ordinance. -Ezekiel 46:15 | Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering." -Ezekiel 46:16 | "‘The Lord God says: "If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance. -Ezekiel 46:17 | But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. -Ezekiel 46:18 | Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession." -Ezekiel 46:20 | He said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people." -Ezekiel 46:21 | Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. -Ezekiel 46:23 | There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around. -Ezekiel 46:24 | Then he said to me, "These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people." -Ezekiel 47:06 | He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen?" Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river. -Ezekiel 47:07 | Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. -Ezekiel 47:08 | Then he said to me, "These waters flow out towards the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go towards the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed. -Ezekiel 47:09 | It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes. -Ezekiel 47:10 | It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many. -Ezekiel 47:11 | But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt. -Ezekiel 47:12 | By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing." -Ezekiel 47:13 | The Lord God says: "This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. -Ezekiel 47:14 | You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers. This land will fall to you for inheritance. -Ezekiel 47:22 | It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live amongst you, who will father children amongst you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born amongst the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you amongst the tribes of Israel. -Ezekiel 47:23 | It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance," says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 48:14 | They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to the Lord. -Ezekiel 48:20 | All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city. -Ezekiel 48:21 | "The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering towards the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand towards the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. -Ezekiel 48:29 | "This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD. -Ezekiel 4:01 | "You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem. -Ezekiel 4:02 | Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around. -Ezekiel 4:03 | Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face towards it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. -Ezekiel 4:04 | "Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. -Ezekiel 4:05 | For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. -Ezekiel 4:06 | "Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you. -Ezekiel 4:07 | You shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. -Ezekiel 4:08 | Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege. -Ezekiel 4:09 | "Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. -Ezekiel 4:10 | Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it. -Ezekiel 4:11 | You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink. -Ezekiel 4:12 | You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man." -Ezekiel 4:13 | The Lord said, "Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, amongst the nations where I will drive them." -Ezekiel 4:14 | Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!" -Ezekiel 4:15 | Then he said to me, "Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it." -Ezekiel 4:16 | Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay; -Ezekiel 4:17 | that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. -Ezekiel 5:01 | "You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair. -Ezekiel 5:02 | A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. -Ezekiel 5:03 | You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe. -Ezekiel 5:04 | Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel. -Ezekiel 5:05 | "The Lord God says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her. -Ezekiel 5:06 | She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’ -Ezekiel 5:07 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you; -Ezekiel 5:08 | therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgements amongst you in the sight of the nations. -Ezekiel 5:09 | I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations. -Ezekiel 5:10 | Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgements on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds. -Ezekiel 5:11 | Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity. -Ezekiel 5:12 | A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. -Ezekiel 5:13 | "‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath towards them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. -Ezekiel 5:14 | "‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach amongst the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. -Ezekiel 5:15 | So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgements on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, the Lord, have spoken it— -Ezekiel 5:16 | when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread. -Ezekiel 5:17 | I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken it.’" -Ezekiel 6:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, -Ezekiel 6:03 | and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! The Lord God says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: "Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. -Ezekiel 6:04 | Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols. -Ezekiel 6:05 | I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars. -Ezekiel 6:06 | In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. -Ezekiel 6:07 | The slain will fall amongst you, and you will know that I am the Lord. -Ezekiel 6:08 | "Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword amongst the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. -Ezekiel 6:09 | Those of you that escape will remember me amongst the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. -Ezekiel 6:10 | They will know that I am the Lord. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."’ -Ezekiel 6:11 | "The Lord God says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, "Alas!" Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. -Ezekiel 6:12 | He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them. -Ezekiel 6:13 | You will know that I am the Lord, when their slain men are amongst their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols. -Ezekiel 6:14 | I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness towards Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 7:02 | "You, son of man, the Lord God says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. -Ezekiel 7:03 | Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations. -Ezekiel 7:04 | My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be amongst you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ -Ezekiel 7:06 | An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes. -Ezekiel 7:07 | Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. -Ezekiel 7:08 | Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations. -Ezekiel 7:09 | My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be amongst you. Then you will know that I, the Lord, strike. -Ezekiel 7:10 | "‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded. -Ezekiel 7:11 | Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value amongst them. -Ezekiel 7:12 | The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude. -Ezekiel 7:13 | For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. -Ezekiel 7:14 | They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude. -Ezekiel 7:15 | "‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence. -Ezekiel 7:16 | But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity. -Ezekiel 7:17 | All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water. -Ezekiel 7:18 | They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. -Ezekiel 7:19 | They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity. -Ezekiel 7:20 | As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing. -Ezekiel 7:21 | I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it. -Ezekiel 7:22 | I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it. -Ezekiel 7:23 | "‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. -Ezekiel 7:24 | Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned. -Ezekiel 7:25 | Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none. -Ezekiel 7:26 | Mischief will come on mischief, and rumour will be on rumour. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. -Ezekiel 7:27 | The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgements I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" -Ezekiel 8:01 | In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord GOD’s hand fell on me there. -Ezekiel 8:02 | Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. -Ezekiel 8:03 | He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks towards the north, where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. -Ezekiel 8:04 | Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain. -Ezekiel 8:05 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way towards the north." So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. -Ezekiel 8:06 | He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations." -Ezekiel 8:07 | He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. -Ezekiel 8:08 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall." When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door. -Ezekiel 8:09 | He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here." -Ezekiel 8:10 | So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall. -Ezekiel 8:11 | Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up. -Ezekiel 8:12 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has forsaken the land.’" -Ezekiel 8:13 | He said also to me, "You will again see more of the great abominations which they do." -Ezekiel 8:14 | Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz. -Ezekiel 8:15 | Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these." -Ezekiel 8:16 | He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and I saw at the door of the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs towards the Lord’s temple, and their faces towards the east. They were worshipping the sun towards the east. -Ezekiel 8:17 | Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose. -Ezekiel 8:18 | Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them." -Ezekiel 9:01 | Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand." -Ezekiel 9:02 | Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies towards the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. -Ezekiel 9:03 | The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side. -Ezekiel 9:04 | The Lord said to him, "Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it." -Ezekiel 9:05 | To the others he said in my hearing, "Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity. -Ezekiel 9:06 | Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary." Then they began at the old men who were before the house. -Ezekiel 9:07 | He said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" They went out, and struck in the city. -Ezekiel 9:08 | While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, "Ah Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?" -Ezekiel 9:09 | Then he said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord doesn’t see.’ -Ezekiel 9:10 | As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head." -Ezekiel 9:11 | Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, "I have done as you have commanded me." -Ezra 10:01 | Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly. -Ezra 10:03 | Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law. -Ezra 10:04 | Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it." -Ezra 10:05 | Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore. -Ezra 10:06 | Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of the trespass of those of the captivity. -Ezra 10:07 | They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; -Ezra 10:08 | and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity. -Ezra 10:09 | Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain. -Ezra 10:10 | Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. -Ezra 10:11 | Now therefore make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women." -Ezra 10:12 | Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "We must do as you have said concerning us. -Ezra 10:13 | But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. -Ezra 10:14 | Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved." -Ezra 10:15 | Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. -Ezra 10:16 | The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. -Ezra 10:17 | They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month. -Ezra 10:18 | Amongst the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. -Ezra 10:19 | They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. -Ezra 4:08 | Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows; -Ezra 4:09 | then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites, -Ezra 4:10 | and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote. -Ezra 4:11 | This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants the men beyond the River. -Ezra 4:12 | Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations. -Ezra 4:13 | Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings. -Ezra 4:14 | Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore we have sent and informed the king, -Ezra 4:15 | that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed. -Ezra 4:16 | We inform the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River. -Ezra 4:17 | Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River: Peace. -Ezra 4:18 | The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me. -Ezra 4:19 | I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it. -Ezra 4:20 | There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them. -Ezra 4:21 | Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me. -Ezra 4:22 | Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? -Ezra 4:23 | Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms. -Ezra 4:24 | Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. -Ezra 5:01 | Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel. -Ezra 5:02 | Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them. -Ezra 5:03 | At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?" -Ezra 5:04 | They also asked for the names of the men were who were making this building. -Ezra 5:05 | But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it. -Ezra 5:06 | The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows. -Ezra 5:07 | They sent a letter to him, in which was written: To Darius the king, all peace. -Ezra 5:08 | Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands. -Ezra 5:09 | Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?" -Ezra 5:10 | We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head. -Ezra 5:11 | Thus they returned us answer, saying, "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished. -Ezra 5:12 | But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. -Ezra 5:13 | But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. -Ezra 5:14 | The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. -Ezra 5:15 | He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’ -Ezra 5:16 | Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed. -Ezra 5:17 | Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter." -Ezra 6:01 | Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched. -Ezra 6:02 | A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record: -Ezra 6:03 | In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits; -Ezra 6:04 | with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house. -Ezra 6:05 | Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house. -Ezra 6:06 | Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there. -Ezra 6:07 | Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place. -Ezra 6:08 | Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered. -Ezra 6:09 | That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail; -Ezra 6:10 | that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. -Ezra 6:11 | I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. -Ezra 6:12 | May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence. -Ezra 6:16 | The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. -Ezra 6:17 | They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. -Ezra 6:18 | They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. -Ezra 6:20 | Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves. -Ezra 6:21 | The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the Lord, the God of Israel, ate, -Ezra 6:22 | and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house. -Ezra 7:06 | this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the Lord his God’s hand on him. -Ezra 7:07 | Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. -Ezra 7:09 | For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him. -Ezra 7:10 | For Ezra had set his heart to seek the Lord’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel. -Ezra 7:11 | Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the Lord’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel: -Ezra 7:12 | Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. Now -Ezra 7:13 | I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you. -Ezra 7:14 | Because you are sent by the king and his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand, -Ezra 7:16 | and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem; -Ezra 7:17 | therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. -Ezra 7:18 | Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God. -Ezra 7:20 | Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house. -Ezra 7:21 | I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence, -Ezra 7:22 | up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. -Ezra 7:23 | Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? -Ezra 7:24 | Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or labourers of this house of God. -Ezra 7:25 | You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them. -Ezra 7:26 | Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgement be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. -Ezra 7:27 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the Lord’s house which is in Jerusalem; -Ezra 7:28 | and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the Lord my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me. -Ezra 8:17 | I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God. -Ezra 8:18 | According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen; -Ezra 8:19 | and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty; -Ezra 8:20 | and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name. -Ezra 8:21 | Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions. -Ezra 8:22 | For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him." -Ezra 8:23 | So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request. -Ezra 8:24 | Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, -Ezra 8:25 | and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counsellors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered. -Ezra 8:26 | I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold, -Ezra 8:27 | twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold. -Ezra 8:28 | I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. -Ezra 8:29 | Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the Lord’s house." -Ezra 8:30 | So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God. -Ezra 8:31 | Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way. -Ezra 8:33 | On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite; -Ezra 8:34 | everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time. -Ezra 8:35 | The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord. -Ezra 8:36 | They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors, and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house. -Ezra 9:01 | Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. -Ezra 9:02 | For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass." -Ezra 9:03 | When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded. -Ezra 9:04 | Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering. -Ezra 9:05 | At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord my God; -Ezra 9:06 | and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens. -Ezra 9:07 | Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. -Ezra 9:08 | Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revive us a little in our bondage. -Ezra 9:09 | For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. -Ezra 9:10 | "Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, -Ezra 9:11 | which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness. -Ezra 9:12 | Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’ -Ezra 9:13 | "After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, -Ezra 9:14 | shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape? -Ezra 9:15 | Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this." -Galatians 1:01 | Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— -Galatians 1:02 | and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: -Galatians 1:03 | Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, -Galatians 1:04 | who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father— -Galatians 1:05 | to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. -Galatians 1:06 | I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news", -Galatians 1:07 | but there isn’t another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. -Galatians 1:08 | But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. -Galatians 1:09 | As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed. -Galatians 1:10 | For am I now seeking the favour of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. -Galatians 1:11 | But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. -Galatians 1:12 | For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. -Galatians 1:13 | For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it. -Galatians 1:14 | I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age amongst my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. -Galatians 1:15 | But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace -Galatians 1:16 | to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him amongst the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood, -Galatians 1:17 | nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. -Galatians 1:18 | Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. -Galatians 1:19 | But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother. -Galatians 1:20 | Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying. -Galatians 1:21 | Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. -Galatians 1:22 | I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ, -Galatians 1:23 | but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy." -Galatians 1:24 | So they glorified God in me. -Galatians 2:01 | Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. -Galatians 2:02 | I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach amongst the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. -Galatians 2:03 | But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. -Galatians 2:04 | This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage, -Galatians 2:05 | to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you. -Galatians 2:06 | But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, -Galatians 2:07 | but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised— -Galatians 2:08 | for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles— -Galatians 2:09 | and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. -Galatians 2:10 | They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do. -Galatians 2:11 | But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. -Galatians 2:12 | For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. -Galatians 2:13 | And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. -Galatians 2:14 | But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? -Galatians 2:15 | "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, -Galatians 2:16 | yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. -Galatians 2:17 | But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not! -Galatians 2:18 | For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. -Galatians 2:19 | For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. -Galatians 2:20 | I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. -Galatians 2:21 | I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!" -Galatians 3:01 | Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed amongst you as crucified? -Galatians 3:02 | I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? -Galatians 3:03 | Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? -Galatians 3:04 | Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? -Galatians 3:05 | He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles amongst you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? -Galatians 3:06 | Even so, Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." -Galatians 3:07 | Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham. -Galatians 3:08 | The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed." -Galatians 3:09 | So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. -Galatians 3:10 | For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." -Galatians 3:11 | Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." -Galatians 3:12 | The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them." -Galatians 3:13 | Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," -Galatians 3:14 | that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. -Galatians 3:15 | Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it. -Galatians 3:16 | Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, "To descendants", as of many, but as of one, "To your offspring", which is Christ. -Galatians 3:17 | Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. -Galatians 3:18 | For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. -Galatians 3:19 | Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. -Galatians 3:20 | Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. -Galatians 3:21 | Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. -Galatians 3:22 | But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. -Galatians 3:23 | But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. -Galatians 3:24 | So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. -Galatians 3:25 | But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. -Galatians 3:26 | For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. -Galatians 3:27 | For as many of you as were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. -Galatians 3:28 | There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. -Galatians 3:29 | If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise. -Galatians 4:01 | But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all, -Galatians 4:02 | but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. -Galatians 4:03 | So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. -Galatians 4:04 | But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, -Galatians 4:05 | that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. -Galatians 4:06 | And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!" -Galatians 4:07 | So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. -Galatians 4:08 | However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. -Galatians 4:09 | But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? -Galatians 4:10 | You observe days, months, seasons, and years. -Galatians 4:11 | I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labour for you. -Galatians 4:12 | I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, -Galatians 4:13 | but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. -Galatians 4:14 | That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. -Galatians 4:15 | What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. -Galatians 4:16 | So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? -Galatians 4:17 | They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. -Galatians 4:18 | But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. -Galatians 4:19 | My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you— -Galatians 4:20 | but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. -Galatians 4:21 | Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? -Galatians 4:22 | For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. -Galatians 4:23 | However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. -Galatians 4:24 | These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. -Galatians 4:25 | For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. -Galatians 4:26 | But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. -Galatians 4:27 | For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband." -Galatians 4:28 | Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. -Galatians 4:29 | But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. -Galatians 4:30 | However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman." -Galatians 4:31 | So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman. -Galatians 5:01 | Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. -Galatians 5:02 | Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. -Galatians 5:03 | Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law. -Galatians 5:04 | You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. -Galatians 5:05 | For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. -Galatians 5:06 | For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. -Galatians 5:07 | You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? -Galatians 5:08 | This persuasion is not from him who calls you. -Galatians 5:09 | A little yeast grows through the whole lump. -Galatians 5:10 | I have confidence towards you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgement, whoever he is. -Galatians 5:11 | But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed. -Galatians 5:12 | I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. -Galatians 5:13 | For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. -Galatians 5:14 | For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." -Galatians 5:15 | But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another. -Galatians 5:16 | But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfil the lust of the flesh. -Galatians 5:17 | For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. -Galatians 5:18 | But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. -Galatians 5:19 | Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, -Galatians 5:20 | idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, -Galatians 5:21 | envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practise such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom. -Galatians 5:22 | But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, -Galatians 5:23 | gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. -Galatians 5:24 | Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. -Galatians 5:25 | If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. -Galatians 5:26 | Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. -Galatians 6:01 | Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. -Galatians 6:02 | Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. -Galatians 6:03 | For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. -Galatians 6:04 | But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. -Galatians 6:05 | For each man will bear his own burden. -Galatians 6:06 | But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches. -Galatians 6:07 | Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. -Galatians 6:08 | For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. -Galatians 6:09 | Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. -Galatians 6:10 | So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good towards all men, and especially towards those who are of the household of the faith. -Galatians 6:11 | See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand. -Galatians 6:12 | As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. -Galatians 6:13 | For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. -Galatians 6:14 | But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. -Galatians 6:15 | For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. -Galatians 6:16 | As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel. -Galatians 6:17 | From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body. -Galatians 6:18 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. -Genesis 10:32 | These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood. -Genesis 11:01 | The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. -Genesis 11:02 | As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. -Genesis 11:03 | They said to one another, "Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. -Genesis 11:04 | They said, "Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." -Genesis 11:05 | The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. -Genesis 11:06 | The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. -Genesis 11:07 | Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech." -Genesis 11:08 | So the Lord scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. -Genesis 11:09 | Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. From there, the Lord scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. -Genesis 11:29 | Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. -Genesis 11:31 | Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. -Genesis 11:32 | The days of Terah were two hundred and five years. Terah died in Haran. -Genesis 12:01 | Now the Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. -Genesis 12:02 | I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. -Genesis 12:03 | I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you." -Genesis 12:04 | So Abram went, as the Lord had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. -Genesis 12:05 | Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan. -Genesis 12:06 | Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land. -Genesis 12:07 | The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." He built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. -Genesis 12:08 | He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the Lord’s name. -Genesis 12:09 | Abram travelled, still going on towards the South. -Genesis 12:10 | There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. -Genesis 12:11 | When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. -Genesis 12:12 | It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive. -Genesis 12:13 | Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you." -Genesis 12:14 | When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. -Genesis 12:15 | The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. -Genesis 12:16 | He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. -Genesis 12:17 | The Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. -Genesis 12:18 | Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? -Genesis 12:19 | Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way." -Genesis 12:20 | Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had. -Genesis 13:01 | Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South. -Genesis 13:02 | Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. -Genesis 13:03 | He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, -Genesis 13:04 | to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the Lord’s name. -Genesis 13:05 | Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. -Genesis 13:06 | The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together. -Genesis 13:07 | There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time. -Genesis 13:08 | Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives. -Genesis 13:09 | Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." -Genesis 13:10 | Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. -Genesis 13:13 | Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord. -Genesis 13:14 | The Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, -Genesis 13:15 | for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever. -Genesis 13:16 | I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted. -Genesis 13:17 | Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you." -Genesis 13:18 | Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord. -Genesis 14:11 | They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. -Genesis 14:12 | They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. -Genesis 14:13 | One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram. -Genesis 14:14 | When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred and eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan. -Genesis 14:15 | He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. -Genesis 14:16 | He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people. -Genesis 14:17 | The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). -Genesis 14:18 | Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High. -Genesis 14:19 | He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. -Genesis 14:20 | Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all. -Genesis 14:21 | The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself." -Genesis 14:22 | Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to the Lord, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, -Genesis 14:23 | that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ -Genesis 14:24 | I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion." -Genesis 15:01 | After these things the Lord’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward." -Genesis 15:02 | Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" -Genesis 15:03 | Abram said, "Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir." -Genesis 15:04 | Behold, the Lord’s word came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir." -Genesis 15:05 | The Lord brought him outside, and said, "Look now towards the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So your offspring will be." -Genesis 15:06 | He believed in the Lord, who credited it to him for righteousness. -Genesis 15:07 | He said to Abram, "I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." -Genesis 15:08 | He said, "Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?" -Genesis 15:09 | He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." -Genesis 15:10 | He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds. -Genesis 15:11 | The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. -Genesis 15:12 | When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. -Genesis 15:13 | He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. -Genesis 15:14 | I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth; -Genesis 15:15 | but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. -Genesis 15:16 | In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." -Genesis 15:17 | It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. -Genesis 15:18 | In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: -Genesis 16:01 | Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. -Genesis 16:02 | Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. -Genesis 16:03 | Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. -Genesis 16:04 | He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. -Genesis 16:05 | Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May The Lord judge between me and you." -Genesis 16:06 | But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. -Genesis 16:07 | The Lord’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. -Genesis 16:08 | He said, "Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai." -Genesis 16:09 | The Lord’s angel said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands." -Genesis 16:10 | The Lord’s angel said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude." -Genesis 16:11 | The Lord’s angel said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. -Genesis 16:12 | He will be like a wild donkey amongst men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers." -Genesis 16:13 | She called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?" -Genesis 16:14 | Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. -Genesis 16:15 | Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. -Genesis 16:16 | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. -Genesis 17:01 | When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. -Genesis 17:02 | I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly." -Genesis 17:04 | "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. -Genesis 17:05 | Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. -Genesis 17:06 | I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you. -Genesis 17:07 | I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you. -Genesis 17:08 | I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are travelling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God." -Genesis 17:09 | God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. -Genesis 17:10 | This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male amongst you shall be circumcised. -Genesis 17:11 | You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you. -Genesis 17:12 | He who is eight days old shall be circumcised amongst you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring. -Genesis 17:13 | He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. -Genesis 17:14 | The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant." -Genesis 17:15 | God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. -Genesis 17:16 | I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." -Genesis 17:17 | Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" -Genesis 17:18 | Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" -Genesis 17:19 | God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. -Genesis 17:20 | As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. -Genesis 17:21 | But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year." -Genesis 17:22 | When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. -Genesis 17:23 | Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male amongst the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. -Genesis 17:24 | Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. -Genesis 17:25 | Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. -Genesis 17:26 | In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. -Genesis 17:27 | All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. -Genesis 18:01 | The Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. -Genesis 18:02 | He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, -Genesis 18:03 | and said, "My lord, if now I have found favour in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant. -Genesis 18:04 | Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. -Genesis 18:05 | I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said." -Genesis 18:06 | Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." -Genesis 18:07 | Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. -Genesis 18:08 | He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate. -Genesis 18:09 | They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "There, in the tent." -Genesis 18:10 | He said, "I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. -Genesis 18:11 | Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. -Genesis 18:12 | Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" -Genesis 18:13 | The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ -Genesis 18:14 | Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son." -Genesis 18:15 | Then Sarah denied it, saying, "I didn’t laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh." -Genesis 18:16 | The men rose up from there, and looked towards Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. -Genesis 18:17 | The Lord said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, -Genesis 18:18 | since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? -Genesis 18:19 | For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him." -Genesis 18:20 | The Lord said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, -Genesis 18:21 | I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know." -Genesis 18:22 | The men turned from there, and went towards Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. -Genesis 18:23 | Abraham came near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? -Genesis 18:24 | What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? -Genesis 18:25 | May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?" -Genesis 18:26 | The Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake." -Genesis 18:27 | Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes. -Genesis 18:28 | What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there." -Genesis 18:29 | He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty’s sake." -Genesis 18:30 | He said, "Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty there." -Genesis 18:31 | He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake." -Genesis 18:32 | He said, "Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake." -Genesis 18:33 | The Lord went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. -Genesis 19:01 | The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, -Genesis 19:02 | and he said, "See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night." -Genesis 19:03 | He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. -Genesis 19:04 | But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. -Genesis 19:05 | They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them." -Genesis 19:06 | Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself. -Genesis 19:07 | He said, "Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. -Genesis 19:08 | See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof." -Genesis 19:09 | They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door. -Genesis 19:10 | But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. -Genesis 19:11 | They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. -Genesis 19:12 | The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: -Genesis 19:13 | for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it." -Genesis 19:14 | Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city!" But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. -Genesis 19:15 | When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." -Genesis 19:16 | But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, the Lord being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. -Genesis 19:17 | It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!" -Genesis 19:19 | See now, your servant has found favour in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. -Genesis 19:20 | See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live." -Genesis 19:21 | He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. -Genesis 19:22 | Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. -Genesis 19:23 | The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. -Genesis 19:24 | Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of the sky. -Genesis 19:25 | He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. -Genesis 19:26 | But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. -Genesis 19:27 | Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. -Genesis 19:28 | He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. -Genesis 19:29 | When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. -Genesis 19:30 | Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. -Genesis 19:31 | The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. -Genesis 19:32 | Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line." -Genesis 19:33 | They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. -Genesis 19:34 | It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line." -Genesis 19:35 | They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. -Genesis 19:36 | Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father. -Genesis 19:37 | The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. -Genesis 19:38 | The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. -Genesis 1:01 | In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. -Genesis 1:02 | The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. -Genesis 1:03 | God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. -Genesis 1:04 | God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. -Genesis 1:05 | God called the light "day", and the darkness he called "night". There was evening and there was morning, the first day. -Genesis 1:06 | God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." -Genesis 1:07 | God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. -Genesis 1:08 | God called the expanse "sky". There was evening and there was morning, the second day. -Genesis 1:09 | God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear" and it was so. -Genesis 1:10 | God called the dry land "earth", and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas". God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1:11 | God said, "Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth" and it was so. -Genesis 1:12 | The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1:13 | There was evening and there was morning, the third day. -Genesis 1:14 | God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; -Genesis 1:15 | and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth" and it was so. -Genesis 1:16 | God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. -Genesis 1:17 | God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, -Genesis 1:18 | and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1:19 | There was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. -Genesis 1:20 | God said, "Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky." -Genesis 1:21 | God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1:22 | God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." -Genesis 1:24 | God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind" and it was so. -Genesis 1:25 | God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1:26 | God said, "Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." -Genesis 1:27 | God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. -Genesis 1:28 | God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." -Genesis 1:29 | God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. -Genesis 1:30 | To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food" and it was so. -Genesis 1:31 | God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. -Genesis 20:01 | Abraham travelled from there towards the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. -Genesis 20:02 | Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. -Genesis 20:03 | But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife." -Genesis 20:04 | Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? -Genesis 20:05 | Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands." -Genesis 20:06 | God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her. -Genesis 20:07 | Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours." -Genesis 20:08 | Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. -Genesis 20:09 | Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" -Genesis 20:10 | Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?" -Genesis 20:11 | Abraham said, "Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’ -Genesis 20:12 | Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. -Genesis 20:13 | When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother." -Genesis 20:14 | Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. -Genesis 20:15 | Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you." -Genesis 20:16 | To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated." -Genesis 20:17 | Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. -Genesis 20:18 | For the Lord had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. -Genesis 21:01 | The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had spoken. -Genesis 21:02 | Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. -Genesis 21:03 | Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. -Genesis 21:04 | Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. -Genesis 21:05 | Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. -Genesis 21:06 | Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." -Genesis 21:07 | She said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age." -Genesis 21:08 | The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. -Genesis 21:09 | Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. -Genesis 21:10 | Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac." -Genesis 21:11 | The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. -Genesis 21:12 | God said to Abraham, "Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac. -Genesis 21:13 | I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child." -Genesis 21:14 | Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. -Genesis 21:15 | The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. -Genesis 21:16 | She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don’t let me see the death of the child." She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. -Genesis 21:17 | God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. -Genesis 21:18 | Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation." -Genesis 21:19 | God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink. -Genesis 21:20 | God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer. -Genesis 21:21 | He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. -Genesis 21:22 | At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do. -Genesis 21:23 | Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner." -Genesis 21:25 | Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. -Genesis 21:26 | Abimelech said, "I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today." -Genesis 21:27 | Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. -Genesis 21:28 | Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. -Genesis 21:29 | Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?" -Genesis 21:30 | He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." -Genesis 21:31 | Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there. -Genesis 21:32 | So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. -Genesis 21:33 | Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God. -Genesis 21:34 | Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days. -Genesis 22:01 | After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." -Genesis 22:02 | He said, "Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of." -Genesis 22:03 | Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him. -Genesis 22:04 | On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. -Genesis 22:05 | Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you." -Genesis 22:06 | Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. -Genesis 22:07 | Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" -Genesis 22:08 | Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together. -Genesis 22:09 | They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. -Genesis 22:10 | Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. -Genesis 22:11 | The Lord’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." -Genesis 22:12 | He said, "Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." -Genesis 22:13 | Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. -Genesis 22:14 | Abraham called the name of that place "The Lord Will Provide". As it is said to this day, "On the Lord’s mountain, it will be provided." -Genesis 22:15 | The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, -Genesis 22:16 | and said, "‘I have sworn by myself,’ says the Lord, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, -Genesis 22:17 | that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. -Genesis 22:18 | All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’" -Genesis 22:19 | So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. -Genesis 22:20 | After these things, Abraham was told, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: -Genesis 22:21 | Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, -Genesis 23:04 | "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." -Genesis 23:06 | "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God amongst us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead." -Genesis 23:07 | Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth. -Genesis 23:08 | He talked with them, saying, "If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, -Genesis 23:09 | that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me amongst you as a possession for a burial place." -Genesis 23:11 | "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." -Genesis 23:12 | Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. -Genesis 23:13 | He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there." -Genesis 23:15 | "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead." -Genesis 23:16 | Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard. -Genesis 23:17 | So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded -Genesis 23:18 | to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. -Genesis 23:19 | After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. -Genesis 23:20 | The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place. -Genesis 24:01 | Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. -Genesis 24:02 | Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. -Genesis 24:03 | I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, amongst whom I live. -Genesis 24:04 | But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." -Genesis 24:05 | The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?" -Genesis 24:06 | Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don’t bring my son there again. -Genesis 24:07 | The Lord, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. -Genesis 24:08 | If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again." -Genesis 24:09 | The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. -Genesis 24:10 | The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. -Genesis 24:11 | He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. -Genesis 24:12 | He said, "The Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. -Genesis 24:13 | Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. -Genesis 24:14 | Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." -Genesis 24:15 | Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. -Genesis 24:16 | The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. -Genesis 24:17 | The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher." -Genesis 24:18 | She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink. -Genesis 24:19 | When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking." -Genesis 24:20 | She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. -Genesis 24:21 | The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. -Genesis 24:22 | As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, -Genesis 24:23 | and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?" -Genesis 24:24 | She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." -Genesis 24:25 | She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in." -Genesis 24:26 | The man bowed his head, and worshipped the Lord. -Genesis 24:27 | He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth towards my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives." -Genesis 24:28 | The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words. -Genesis 24:29 | Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. -Genesis 24:30 | When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. -Genesis 24:31 | He said, "Come in, you blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." -Genesis 24:32 | The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. -Genesis 24:33 | Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." Laban said, "Speak on." -Genesis 24:35 | The Lord has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. The Lord has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys. -Genesis 24:36 | Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him. -Genesis 24:37 | My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, -Genesis 24:38 | but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ -Genesis 24:39 | I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’ -Genesis 24:40 | He said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house. -Genesis 24:41 | Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’ -Genesis 24:42 | I came today to the spring, and said, ‘The Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go— -Genesis 24:43 | behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink," -Genesis 24:44 | then she tells me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,"—let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’ -Genesis 24:45 | Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ -Genesis 24:46 | She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink. -Genesis 24:47 | I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. -Genesis 24:48 | I bowed my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son. -Genesis 24:49 | Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left." -Genesis 24:50 | Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the Lord. We can’t speak to you bad or good. -Genesis 24:51 | Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as the Lord has spoken." -Genesis 24:52 | When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the Lord. -Genesis 24:53 | The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother. -Genesis 24:54 | They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master." -Genesis 24:55 | Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go." -Genesis 24:56 | He said to them, "Don’t hinder me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." -Genesis 24:57 | They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her." -Genesis 24:58 | They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." -Genesis 24:59 | They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. -Genesis 24:60 | They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them." -Genesis 24:61 | Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. -Genesis 24:62 | Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South. -Genesis 24:63 | Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming. -Genesis 24:64 | Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel. -Genesis 24:65 | She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself. -Genesis 24:67 | Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. -Genesis 25:07 | These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. -Genesis 25:08 | Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. -Genesis 25:09 | Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre, -Genesis 25:10 | the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife. -Genesis 25:11 | After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi. -Genesis 25:21 | Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. The Lord was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. -Genesis 25:22 | The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it is like this, why do I live?" She went to enquire of the Lord. -Genesis 25:23 | The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger." -Genesis 25:24 | When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. -Genesis 25:25 | The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau. -Genesis 25:26 | After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. -Genesis 25:27 | The boys grew. Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. -Genesis 25:28 | Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob. -Genesis 25:29 | Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. -Genesis 25:30 | Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom. -Genesis 25:31 | Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright." -Genesis 25:32 | Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?" -Genesis 25:33 | Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. -Genesis 25:34 | Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright. -Genesis 26:01 | There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. -Genesis 26:02 | The Lord appeared to him, and said, "Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. -Genesis 26:03 | Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. -Genesis 26:04 | I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, -Genesis 26:05 | because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." -Genesis 26:07 | The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife", lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at." -Genesis 26:08 | When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. -Genesis 26:09 | Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’" -Genesis 26:10 | Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!" -Genesis 26:11 | Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death." -Genesis 26:12 | Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The Lord blessed him. -Genesis 26:13 | The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. -Genesis 26:14 | He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. -Genesis 26:16 | Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we." -Genesis 26:17 | Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. -Genesis 26:18 | Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them. -Genesis 26:19 | Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. -Genesis 26:20 | The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. -Genesis 26:21 | They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah. -Genesis 26:22 | He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land." -Genesis 26:24 | The Lord appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake." -Genesis 26:25 | He built an altar there, and called on the Lord’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. -Genesis 26:26 | Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. -Genesis 26:27 | Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?" -Genesis 26:28 | They said, "We saw plainly that the Lord was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you, -Genesis 26:29 | that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of the Lord." -Genesis 26:31 | They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. -Genesis 26:32 | The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water." -Genesis 26:33 | He called it "Shibah". Therefore the name of the city is "Beersheba" to this day. -Genesis 26:34 | When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. -Genesis 27:01 | When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am." -Genesis 27:02 | He said, "See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death. -Genesis 27:03 | Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison. -Genesis 27:04 | Make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die." -Genesis 27:05 | Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. -Genesis 27:07 | ‘Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless you before the Lord before my death.’ -Genesis 27:08 | Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. -Genesis 27:09 | Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savoury food for your father, such as he loves. -Genesis 27:10 | You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death." -Genesis 27:11 | Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. -Genesis 27:12 | What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing." -Genesis 27:13 | His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me." -Genesis 27:14 | He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savoury food, such as his father loved. -Genesis 27:15 | Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. -Genesis 27:16 | She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. -Genesis 27:17 | She gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. -Genesis 27:18 | He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" -Genesis 27:19 | Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me." -Genesis 27:20 | Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because the Lord your God gave me success." -Genesis 27:21 | Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not." -Genesis 27:22 | Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." -Genesis 27:23 | He didn’t recognise him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. -Genesis 27:24 | He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am." -Genesis 27:25 | He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. -Genesis 27:26 | His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son." -Genesis 27:27 | He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. -Genesis 27:28 | God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. -Genesis 27:29 | Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you." -Genesis 27:30 | As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. -Genesis 27:31 | He also made savoury food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me." -Genesis 27:32 | Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." -Genesis 27:33 | Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed." -Genesis 27:34 | When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father." -Genesis 27:35 | He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing." -Genesis 27:36 | He said, "Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?" -Genesis 27:37 | Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?" -Genesis 27:38 | Esau said to his father, "Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. -Genesis 27:39 | Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above. -Genesis 27:40 | You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck." -Genesis 27:41 | Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." -Genesis 27:42 | The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. -Genesis 27:43 | Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. -Genesis 27:44 | Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away— -Genesis 27:45 | until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" -Genesis 27:46 | Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?" -Genesis 28:01 | Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. -Genesis 28:02 | Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. -Genesis 28:03 | May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, -Genesis 28:04 | and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham." -Genesis 28:05 | Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. -Genesis 28:06 | Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan" -Genesis 28:07 | and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. -Genesis 28:08 | Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father. -Genesis 28:09 | So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. -Genesis 28:10 | Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went towards Haran. -Genesis 28:11 | He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. -Genesis 28:12 | He dreamt and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. -Genesis 28:13 | Behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring. -Genesis 28:14 | Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed. -Genesis 28:15 | Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you." -Genesis 28:16 | Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I didn’t know it." -Genesis 28:17 | He was afraid, and said, "How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven." -Genesis 28:18 | Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. -Genesis 28:19 | He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. -Genesis 28:20 | Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, -Genesis 28:21 | so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and the Lord will be my God, -Genesis 28:22 | then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you." -Genesis 29:01 | Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. -Genesis 29:02 | He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large. -Genesis 29:03 | There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back on the well’s mouth in its place. -Genesis 29:04 | Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran." -Genesis 29:05 | He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." -Genesis 29:06 | He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep." -Genesis 29:07 | He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them." -Genesis 29:08 | They said, "We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep." -Genesis 29:09 | While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. -Genesis 29:10 | When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. -Genesis 29:11 | Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. -Genesis 29:12 | Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. -Genesis 29:13 | When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. -Genesis 29:14 | Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." Jacob stayed with him for a month. -Genesis 29:15 | Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" -Genesis 29:16 | Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. -Genesis 29:17 | Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. -Genesis 29:18 | Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." -Genesis 29:19 | Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." -Genesis 29:20 | Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. -Genesis 29:21 | Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." -Genesis 29:22 | Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. -Genesis 29:23 | In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her. -Genesis 29:24 | Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant. -Genesis 29:25 | In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" -Genesis 29:26 | Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. -Genesis 29:27 | Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years." -Genesis 29:28 | Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. -Genesis 29:29 | Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant. -Genesis 29:30 | He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years. -Genesis 29:31 | The Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. -Genesis 29:32 | Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because the Lord has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me." -Genesis 29:33 | She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. -Genesis 29:34 | She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi. -Genesis 29:35 | She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. -Genesis 2:01 | The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. -Genesis 2:02 | On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. -Genesis 2:03 | God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done. -Genesis 2:04 | This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. -Genesis 2:05 | No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground, -Genesis 2:06 | but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. -Genesis 2:07 | The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. -Genesis 2:08 | The Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. -Genesis 2:09 | Out of the ground the Lord God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. -Genesis 2:10 | A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. -Genesis 2:11 | The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; -Genesis 2:12 | and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there. -Genesis 2:13 | The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. -Genesis 2:14 | The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. -Genesis 2:15 | The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. -Genesis 2:16 | The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; -Genesis 2:17 | but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." -Genesis 2:18 | The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him." -Genesis 2:19 | Out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. -Genesis 2:20 | The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. -Genesis 2:21 | The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. -Genesis 2:22 | The Lord God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. -Genesis 2:23 | The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man." -Genesis 2:24 | Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. -Genesis 2:25 | The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed. -Genesis 30:01 | When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die." -Genesis 30:02 | Jacob’s anger burnt against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" -Genesis 30:03 | She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." -Genesis 30:04 | She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. -Genesis 30:06 | Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan. -Genesis 30:07 | Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. -Genesis 30:08 | Rachel said, "I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali. -Genesis 30:09 | When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. -Genesis 30:11 | Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad. -Genesis 30:12 | Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son. -Genesis 30:13 | Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher. -Genesis 30:14 | Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes." -Genesis 30:15 | Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes." -Genesis 30:16 | Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes." He lay with her that night. -Genesis 30:17 | God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. -Genesis 30:18 | Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband." She named him Issachar. -Genesis 30:19 | Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. -Genesis 30:20 | Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun. -Genesis 30:21 | Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah. -Genesis 30:22 | God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. -Genesis 30:23 | She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach." -Genesis 30:24 | She named him Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add another son to me." -Genesis 30:25 | When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. -Genesis 30:26 | Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you." -Genesis 30:27 | Laban said to him, "If now I have found favour in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the Lord has blessed me for your sake." -Genesis 30:28 | He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it." -Genesis 30:29 | Jacob said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. -Genesis 30:30 | For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?" -Genesis 30:31 | Laban said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. -Genesis 30:32 | I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one amongst the sheep, and the spotted and speckled amongst the goats. This will be my hire. -Genesis 30:33 | So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted amongst the goats, and black amongst the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen." -Genesis 30:34 | Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word." -Genesis 30:35 | That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones amongst the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. -Genesis 30:36 | He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. -Genesis 30:37 | Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. -Genesis 30:38 | He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink. -Genesis 30:39 | The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted. -Genesis 30:40 | Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock. -Genesis 30:41 | Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive amongst the rods; -Genesis 30:42 | but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. -Genesis 30:43 | The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. -Genesis 31:01 | Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s." -Genesis 31:02 | Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not towards him as before. -Genesis 31:03 | The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you." -Genesis 31:05 | and said to them, "I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not towards me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. -Genesis 31:06 | You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. -Genesis 31:07 | Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. -Genesis 31:08 | If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked. -Genesis 31:09 | Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. -Genesis 31:10 | During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leapt on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. -Genesis 31:11 | The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ -Genesis 31:12 | He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you. -Genesis 31:13 | I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’" -Genesis 31:14 | Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? -Genesis 31:15 | Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money. -Genesis 31:16 | For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do." -Genesis 31:17 | Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, -Genesis 31:18 | and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. -Genesis 31:19 | Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. -Genesis 31:20 | Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away. -Genesis 31:21 | So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face towards the mountain of Gilead. -Genesis 31:22 | Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. -Genesis 31:23 | He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. -Genesis 31:24 | God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad." -Genesis 31:25 | Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. -Genesis 31:26 | Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? -Genesis 31:27 | Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp; -Genesis 31:28 | and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. -Genesis 31:29 | It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’ -Genesis 31:30 | Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?" -Genesis 31:31 | Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ -Genesis 31:32 | Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them. -Genesis 31:33 | Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. -Genesis 31:34 | Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them. -Genesis 31:35 | She said to her father, "Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period." He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim. -Genesis 31:36 | Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? -Genesis 31:37 | Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two. -Genesis 31:38 | "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks. -Genesis 31:39 | That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. -Genesis 31:40 | This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. -Genesis 31:41 | These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. -Genesis 31:42 | Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked you last night." -Genesis 31:43 | Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? -Genesis 31:44 | Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you." -Genesis 31:45 | Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. -Genesis 31:46 | Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. -Genesis 31:47 | Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. -Genesis 31:48 | Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed -Genesis 31:49 | and Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. -Genesis 31:50 | If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." -Genesis 31:51 | Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. -Genesis 31:52 | May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. -Genesis 31:53 | The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. -Genesis 31:54 | Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. -Genesis 31:55 | Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place. -Genesis 32:01 | Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. -Genesis 32:02 | When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God’s army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim. -Genesis 32:04 | He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. -Genesis 32:05 | I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in your sight.’" -Genesis 32:06 | The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." -Genesis 32:07 | Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies. -Genesis 32:08 | He said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape." -Genesis 32:09 | Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ -Genesis 32:10 | I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. -Genesis 32:11 | Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children. -Genesis 32:12 | You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’" -Genesis 32:13 | He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother: -Genesis 32:14 | two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, -Genesis 32:15 | thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. -Genesis 32:16 | He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd." -Genesis 32:17 | He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’ -Genesis 32:18 | Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’" -Genesis 32:19 | He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. -Genesis 32:20 | You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me." -Genesis 32:21 | So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. -Genesis 32:22 | He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok. -Genesis 32:23 | He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. -Genesis 32:24 | Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. -Genesis 32:25 | When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled. -Genesis 32:26 | The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won’t let you go unless you bless me." -Genesis 32:27 | He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob". -Genesis 32:28 | He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed." -Genesis 32:29 | Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" So he blessed him there. -Genesis 32:30 | Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." -Genesis 32:31 | The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh. -Genesis 32:32 | Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip. -Genesis 33:01 | Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. -Genesis 33:02 | He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. -Genesis 33:03 | He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. -Genesis 33:04 | Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. -Genesis 33:05 | He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." -Genesis 33:06 | Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. -Genesis 33:07 | Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. -Genesis 33:08 | Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favour in the sight of my lord." -Genesis 33:09 | Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours." -Genesis 33:10 | Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favour in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. -Genesis 33:11 | Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it. -Genesis 33:12 | Esau said, "Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you." -Genesis 33:13 | Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. -Genesis 33:14 | Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir." -Genesis 33:15 | Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favour in the sight of my lord." -Genesis 33:16 | So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. -Genesis 33:17 | Jacob travelled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. -Genesis 33:18 | Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city. -Genesis 33:19 | He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. -Genesis 33:20 | He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel. -Genesis 34:01 | Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. -Genesis 34:02 | Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. -Genesis 34:03 | His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. -Genesis 34:04 | Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife." -Genesis 34:05 | Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. -Genesis 34:06 | Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. -Genesis 34:07 | The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done. -Genesis 34:08 | Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. -Genesis 34:09 | Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. -Genesis 34:10 | You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it." -Genesis 34:11 | Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. -Genesis 34:12 | Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife." -Genesis 34:13 | The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, -Genesis 34:14 | and said to them, "We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. -Genesis 34:15 | Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised, -Genesis 34:16 | then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. -Genesis 34:17 | But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone." -Genesis 34:19 | The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honoured above all the house of his father. -Genesis 34:21 | "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters. -Genesis 34:22 | Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male amongst us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. -Genesis 34:23 | Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us." -Genesis 34:24 | All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. -Genesis 34:25 | On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. -Genesis 34:26 | They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. -Genesis 34:27 | Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. -Genesis 34:28 | They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, -Genesis 34:29 | and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. -Genesis 34:30 | Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, amongst the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house." -Genesis 34:31 | They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?" -Genesis 35:01 | God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother." -Genesis 35:02 | Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are amongst you, purify yourselves, change your garments. -Genesis 35:03 | Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went." -Genesis 35:04 | They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. -Genesis 35:05 | They travelled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. -Genesis 35:06 | So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. -Genesis 35:07 | He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. -Genesis 35:08 | Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth. -Genesis 35:09 | God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. -Genesis 35:10 | God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel. -Genesis 35:11 | God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. -Genesis 35:12 | The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land." -Genesis 35:13 | God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. -Genesis 35:14 | Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. -Genesis 35:15 | Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel". -Genesis 35:16 | They travelled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labour. -Genesis 35:17 | When she was in hard labour, the midwife said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son." -Genesis 35:18 | As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. -Genesis 35:19 | Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem). -Genesis 35:20 | Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. -Genesis 35:21 | Israel travelled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. -Genesis 35:29 | Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him. -Genesis 36:06 | Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. -Genesis 36:07 | For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock. -Genesis 37:03 | Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colours. -Genesis 37:04 | His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him. -Genesis 37:05 | Joseph dreamt a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. -Genesis 37:06 | He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamt: -Genesis 37:07 | for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." -Genesis 37:08 | His brothers asked him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. -Genesis 37:09 | He dreamt yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamt yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me." -Genesis 37:10 | He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamt? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to the earth before you?" -Genesis 37:11 | His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. -Genesis 37:12 | His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. -Genesis 37:13 | Israel said to Joseph, "Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am." -Genesis 37:14 | He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. -Genesis 37:15 | A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?" -Genesis 37:16 | He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock." -Genesis 37:17 | The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. -Genesis 37:18 | They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. -Genesis 37:19 | They said to one another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. -Genesis 37:20 | Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams." -Genesis 37:21 | Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let’s not take his life." -Genesis 37:22 | Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. -Genesis 37:23 | When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colours that was on him; -Genesis 37:24 | and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it. -Genesis 37:26 | Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? -Genesis 37:27 | Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him. -Genesis 37:28 | Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt. -Genesis 37:29 | Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes. -Genesis 37:30 | He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?" -Genesis 37:31 | They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood. -Genesis 37:32 | They took the tunic of many colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not." -Genesis 37:33 | He recognised it, and said, "It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces." -Genesis 37:34 | Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. -Genesis 37:35 | All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." His father wept for him. -Genesis 38:01 | At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. -Genesis 38:02 | There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her. -Genesis 38:03 | She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. -Genesis 38:06 | Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. -Genesis 38:07 | Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight. So the Lord killed him. -Genesis 38:08 | Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." -Genesis 38:09 | Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. -Genesis 38:10 | The thing which he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, and he killed him also. -Genesis 38:11 | Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. -Genesis 38:14 | She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife. -Genesis 38:15 | When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. -Genesis 38:16 | He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" -Genesis 38:17 | He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?" -Genesis 38:18 | He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. -Genesis 38:19 | She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. -Genesis 38:20 | Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her. -Genesis 38:21 | Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here." -Genesis 38:22 | He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’" -Genesis 38:23 | Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her." -Genesis 38:24 | About three months later, Judah was told, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burnt." -Genesis 38:25 | When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "I am with child by the man who owns these." She also said, "Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff." -Genesis 38:26 | Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more. -Genesis 38:27 | In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb. -Genesis 38:28 | When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first." -Genesis 38:29 | As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez. -Genesis 38:30 | Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. -Genesis 39:01 | Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. -Genesis 39:02 | The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. -Genesis 39:03 | His master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did prosper in his hand. -Genesis 39:04 | Joseph found favour in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. -Genesis 39:05 | From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. The Lord’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field. -Genesis 39:06 | He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome. -Genesis 39:07 | After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me." -Genesis 39:08 | But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, "Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. -Genesis 39:09 | No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" -Genesis 39:10 | As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. -Genesis 39:11 | About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. -Genesis 39:12 | She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. -Genesis 39:13 | When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside, -Genesis 39:14 | she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. -Genesis 39:15 | When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside." -Genesis 39:16 | She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. -Genesis 39:17 | She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, -Genesis 39:18 | and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside." -Genesis 39:19 | When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," his wrath was kindled. -Genesis 39:20 | Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody. -Genesis 39:21 | But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. -Genesis 39:22 | The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it. -Genesis 39:23 | The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him; and that which he did, the Lord made it prosper. -Genesis 3:01 | Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?" -Genesis 3:02 | The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, -Genesis 3:03 | but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’" -Genesis 3:04 | The serpent said to the woman, "You won’t really die, -Genesis 3:05 | for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." -Genesis 3:06 | When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. -Genesis 3:07 | Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. -Genesis 3:08 | They heard the Lord God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. -Genesis 3:09 | The Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" -Genesis 3:10 | The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself." -Genesis 3:11 | God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" -Genesis 3:12 | The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it." -Genesis 3:13 | The Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." -Genesis 3:14 | The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. -Genesis 3:15 | I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel." -Genesis 3:16 | To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." -Genesis 3:17 | To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life. -Genesis 3:18 | It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. -Genesis 3:19 | You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust." -Genesis 3:20 | The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living. -Genesis 3:21 | The Lord God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. -Genesis 3:22 | The Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—" -Genesis 3:23 | Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. -Genesis 3:24 | So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. -Genesis 40:01 | After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. -Genesis 40:02 | Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker. -Genesis 40:03 | He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. -Genesis 40:04 | The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days. -Genesis 40:05 | They both dreamt a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. -Genesis 40:06 | Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. -Genesis 40:07 | He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?" -Genesis 40:08 | They said to him, "We have dreamt a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me." -Genesis 40:09 | The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, -Genesis 40:10 | and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. -Genesis 40:11 | Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand." -Genesis 40:12 | Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. -Genesis 40:13 | Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer. -Genesis 40:14 | But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. -Genesis 40:15 | For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." -Genesis 40:16 | When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. -Genesis 40:17 | In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head." -Genesis 40:18 | Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days. -Genesis 40:19 | Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you." -Genesis 40:20 | On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker amongst his servants. -Genesis 40:21 | He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand; -Genesis 40:22 | but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. -Genesis 40:23 | Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him. -Genesis 41:01 | At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamt, and behold, he stood by the river. -Genesis 41:02 | Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. -Genesis 41:03 | Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river. -Genesis 41:04 | The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke. -Genesis 41:05 | He slept and dreamt a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. -Genesis 41:06 | Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. -Genesis 41:07 | The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. -Genesis 41:08 | In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh. -Genesis 41:09 | Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today. -Genesis 41:10 | Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker. -Genesis 41:11 | We dreamt a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamt according to the interpretation of his dream. -Genesis 41:12 | There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. -Genesis 41:13 | As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him." -Genesis 41:14 | Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. -Genesis 41:15 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamt a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." -Genesis 41:16 | Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." -Genesis 41:17 | Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river; -Genesis 41:18 | and behold, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They fed in the marsh grass; -Genesis 41:19 | and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. -Genesis 41:20 | The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle; -Genesis 41:21 | and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke. -Genesis 41:22 | I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good; -Genesis 41:23 | and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. -Genesis 41:24 | The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me." -Genesis 41:25 | Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. -Genesis 41:26 | The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one. -Genesis 41:27 | The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. -Genesis 41:28 | That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. -Genesis 41:29 | Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming. -Genesis 41:30 | Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, -Genesis 41:31 | and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. -Genesis 41:32 | The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. -Genesis 41:33 | "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. -Genesis 41:34 | Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years. -Genesis 41:35 | Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. -Genesis 41:36 | The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine." -Genesis 41:37 | The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. -Genesis 41:38 | Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" -Genesis 41:39 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you. -Genesis 41:40 | You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you." -Genesis 41:41 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." -Genesis 41:42 | Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. -Genesis 41:43 | He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt. -Genesis 41:44 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." -Genesis 41:45 | Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. -Genesis 41:46 | Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. -Genesis 41:47 | In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly. -Genesis 41:48 | He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city. -Genesis 41:49 | Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. -Genesis 41:50 | To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. -Genesis 41:51 | Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For", he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house." -Genesis 41:52 | The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." -Genesis 41:53 | The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end. -Genesis 41:54 | The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. -Genesis 41:55 | When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do." -Genesis 41:56 | The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. -Genesis 41:57 | All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth. -Genesis 42:01 | Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" -Genesis 42:02 | He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." -Genesis 42:03 | Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. -Genesis 42:04 | But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." -Genesis 42:05 | The sons of Israel came to buy amongst those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. -Genesis 42:06 | Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. -Genesis 42:07 | Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognised them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food." -Genesis 42:08 | Joseph recognised his brothers, but they didn’t recognise him. -Genesis 42:09 | Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamt about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land." -Genesis 42:10 | They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. -Genesis 42:11 | We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies." -Genesis 42:12 | He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!" -Genesis 42:13 | They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more." -Genesis 42:14 | Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ -Genesis 42:15 | By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. -Genesis 42:16 | Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." -Genesis 42:17 | He put them all together into custody for three days. -Genesis 42:18 | Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God. -Genesis 42:19 | If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. -Genesis 42:20 | Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die." They did so. -Genesis 42:21 | They said to one another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us." -Genesis 42:22 | Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." -Genesis 42:23 | They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. -Genesis 42:24 | He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from amongst them, and bound him before their eyes. -Genesis 42:25 | Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them. -Genesis 42:26 | They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. -Genesis 42:27 | As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. -Genesis 42:28 | He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?" -Genesis 42:30 | "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. -Genesis 42:32 | We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ -Genesis 42:33 | The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. -Genesis 42:34 | Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’" -Genesis 42:35 | As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. -Genesis 42:36 | Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me." -Genesis 42:37 | Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again." -Genesis 42:38 | He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol." -Genesis 43:01 | The famine was severe in the land. -Genesis 43:02 | When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food." -Genesis 43:03 | Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ -Genesis 43:04 | If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food; -Genesis 43:05 | but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’" -Genesis 43:06 | Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?" -Genesis 43:07 | They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’" -Genesis 43:08 | Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones. -Genesis 43:09 | I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever; -Genesis 43:10 | for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now." -Genesis 43:11 | Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; -Genesis 43:12 | and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. -Genesis 43:13 | Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man. -Genesis 43:14 | May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." -Genesis 43:15 | The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. -Genesis 43:16 | When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon." -Genesis 43:17 | The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house. -Genesis 43:18 | The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys." -Genesis 43:19 | They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, -Genesis 43:20 | and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food. -Genesis 43:21 | When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand. -Genesis 43:22 | We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks." -Genesis 43:23 | He said, "Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them. -Genesis 43:24 | The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. -Genesis 43:25 | They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there. -Genesis 43:26 | When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him. -Genesis 43:27 | He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?" -Genesis 43:28 | They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed down humbly. -Genesis 43:29 | He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son." -Genesis 43:30 | Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there. -Genesis 43:31 | He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal." -Genesis 43:32 | They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. -Genesis 43:33 | They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marvelled with one another. -Genesis 43:34 | He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him. -Genesis 44:01 | He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. -Genesis 44:02 | Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. -Genesis 44:03 | As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. -Genesis 44:04 | When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? -Genesis 44:05 | Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’" -Genesis 44:06 | He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. -Genesis 44:07 | They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! -Genesis 44:08 | Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house? -Genesis 44:09 | With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves." -Genesis 44:10 | He said, "Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless." -Genesis 44:11 | Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. -Genesis 44:12 | He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. -Genesis 44:13 | Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. -Genesis 44:14 | Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. -Genesis 44:15 | Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?" -Genesis 44:16 | Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found." -Genesis 44:17 | He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father." -Genesis 44:18 | Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. -Genesis 44:19 | My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ -Genesis 44:20 | We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ -Genesis 44:21 | You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ -Genesis 44:22 | We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ -Genesis 44:23 | You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ -Genesis 44:24 | When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. -Genesis 44:25 | Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ -Genesis 44:26 | We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’ -Genesis 44:27 | Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. -Genesis 44:28 | One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces" and I haven’t seen him since. -Genesis 44:29 | If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ -Genesis 44:30 | Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; -Genesis 44:31 | it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the grey hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. -Genesis 44:32 | For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’ -Genesis 44:33 | Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. -Genesis 44:34 | For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father." -Genesis 45:01 | Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. -Genesis 45:02 | He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. -Genesis 45:03 | Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. -Genesis 45:04 | Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. He said, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. -Genesis 45:05 | Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. -Genesis 45:06 | For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no ploughing and no harvest. -Genesis 45:07 | God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. -Genesis 45:08 | So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. -Genesis 45:09 | Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait. -Genesis 45:10 | You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. -Genesis 45:11 | There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."’ -Genesis 45:12 | Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. -Genesis 45:13 | You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here." -Genesis 45:14 | He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. -Genesis 45:15 | He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him. -Genesis 45:16 | The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, "Joseph’s brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. -Genesis 45:17 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. -Genesis 45:18 | Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ -Genesis 45:19 | Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. -Genesis 45:20 | Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours." -Genesis 45:21 | The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. -Genesis 45:22 | He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. -Genesis 45:23 | He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. -Genesis 45:24 | So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don’t quarrel on the way." -Genesis 45:25 | They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. -Genesis 45:26 | They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them. -Genesis 45:27 | They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. -Genesis 45:28 | Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die." -Genesis 46:01 | Israel travelled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. -Genesis 46:02 | God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." -Genesis 46:03 | He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. -Genesis 46:04 | I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes." -Genesis 46:29 | Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. -Genesis 46:30 | Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." -Genesis 46:31 | Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. -Genesis 46:32 | These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’ -Genesis 46:33 | It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’ -Genesis 46:34 | that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." -Genesis 47:01 | Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." -Genesis 47:02 | From amongst his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. -Genesis 47:03 | Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." -Genesis 47:04 | They also said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." -Genesis 47:05 | Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. -Genesis 47:06 | The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men amongst them, then put them in charge of my livestock." -Genesis 47:07 | Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. -Genesis 47:09 | Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." -Genesis 47:10 | Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. -Genesis 47:11 | Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. -Genesis 47:12 | Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families. -Genesis 47:13 | There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. -Genesis 47:14 | Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. -Genesis 47:15 | When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails." -Genesis 47:16 | Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone." -Genesis 47:17 | They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. -Genesis 47:18 | When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. -Genesis 47:19 | Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate." -Genesis 47:20 | So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s. -Genesis 47:21 | As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. -Genesis 47:22 | Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land. -Genesis 47:23 | Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. -Genesis 47:24 | It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." -Genesis 47:25 | They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants." -Genesis 47:26 | Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s. -Genesis 47:27 | Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. -Genesis 47:28 | Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years. -Genesis 47:29 | The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favour in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt, -Genesis 47:30 | but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." Joseph said, "I will do as you have said." -Genesis 47:31 | Israel said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head. -Genesis 48:01 | After these things, someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. -Genesis 48:02 | Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. -Genesis 48:03 | Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, -Genesis 48:04 | and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’ -Genesis 48:05 | Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. -Genesis 48:06 | Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. -Genesis 48:07 | As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)." -Genesis 48:08 | Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, "Who are these?" -Genesis 48:09 | Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." -Genesis 48:10 | Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. -Genesis 48:11 | Israel said to Joseph, "I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also." -Genesis 48:12 | Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. -Genesis 48:13 | Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him. -Genesis 48:14 | Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. -Genesis 48:15 | He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, -Genesis 48:16 | the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth." -Genesis 48:17 | When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. -Genesis 48:18 | Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head." -Genesis 48:19 | His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations." -Genesis 48:20 | He blessed them that day, saying, "Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’" He set Ephraim before Manasseh. -Genesis 48:21 | Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. -Genesis 48:22 | Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." -Genesis 49:01 | Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. -Genesis 49:02 | Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. -Genesis 49:03 | "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. -Genesis 49:04 | Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch. -Genesis 49:05 | "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. -Genesis 49:06 | My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. -Genesis 49:07 | Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. -Genesis 49:08 | "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you. -Genesis 49:09 | Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? -Genesis 49:10 | The sceptre will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him. -Genesis 49:11 | Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. -Genesis 49:12 | His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk. -Genesis 49:13 | "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. -Genesis 49:14 | "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. -Genesis 49:15 | He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labour. -Genesis 49:16 | "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. -Genesis 49:17 | Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward. -Genesis 49:18 | I have waited for your salvation, Lord. -Genesis 49:19 | "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. -Genesis 49:20 | "Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties. -Genesis 49:21 | "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. -Genesis 49:22 | "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. -Genesis 49:23 | The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him: -Genesis 49:24 | But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), -Genesis 49:25 | even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. -Genesis 49:26 | The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. -Genesis 49:27 | "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder." -Genesis 49:28 | All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing. -Genesis 49:29 | He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, -Genesis 49:30 | in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. -Genesis 49:31 | There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: -Genesis 49:32 | the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth." -Genesis 49:33 | When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people. -Genesis 4:01 | The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with the Lord’s help." -Genesis 4:02 | Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. -Genesis 4:03 | As time passed, Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground. -Genesis 4:04 | Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The Lord respected Abel and his offering, -Genesis 4:05 | but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. -Genesis 4:06 | The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? -Genesis 4:07 | If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." -Genesis 4:08 | Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let’s go into the field." While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. -Genesis 4:09 | The Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?" -Genesis 4:10 | The Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground. -Genesis 4:11 | Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. -Genesis 4:12 | From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth." -Genesis 4:13 | Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. -Genesis 4:14 | Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me." -Genesis 4:15 | The Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." The Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him. -Genesis 4:16 | Cain left the Lord’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. -Genesis 4:17 | Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch. -Genesis 4:23 | Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. -Genesis 4:24 | If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times." -Genesis 4:25 | Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, "for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him." -Genesis 4:26 | A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the Lord’s name. -Genesis 50:01 | Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. -Genesis 50:02 | Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. -Genesis 50:03 | Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days. -Genesis 50:05 | ‘My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’" -Genesis 50:06 | Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear." -Genesis 50:07 | Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, -Genesis 50:08 | all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. -Genesis 50:09 | Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company. -Genesis 50:10 | They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. -Genesis 50:11 | When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. -Genesis 50:12 | His sons did to him just as he commanded them, -Genesis 50:13 | for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. -Genesis 50:14 | Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. -Genesis 50:15 | When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him." -Genesis 50:17 | ‘You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. -Genesis 50:18 | His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." -Genesis 50:19 | Joseph said to them, "Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? -Genesis 50:20 | As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. -Genesis 50:21 | Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. -Genesis 50:22 | Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. -Genesis 50:24 | Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." -Genesis 50:25 | Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." -Genesis 50:26 | So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. -Genesis 5:01 | This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. -Genesis 5:02 | He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam. -Genesis 6:01 | When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, -Genesis 6:02 | God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives. -Genesis 6:03 | The Lord said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred and twenty years." -Genesis 6:04 | The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. -Genesis 6:05 | The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. -Genesis 6:06 | The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. -Genesis 6:07 | The Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them." -Genesis 6:08 | But Noah found favour in the Lord’s eyes. -Genesis 6:09 | This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God. -Genesis 6:11 | The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. -Genesis 6:12 | God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. -Genesis 6:13 | God said to Noah, "I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth. -Genesis 6:14 | Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. -Genesis 6:15 | This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. -Genesis 6:16 | You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. -Genesis 6:17 | I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die. -Genesis 6:18 | But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. -Genesis 6:19 | Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. -Genesis 6:20 | Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive. -Genesis 6:21 | Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them." -Genesis 6:22 | Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him. -Genesis 7:01 | The Lord said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. -Genesis 7:02 | You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. -Genesis 7:03 | Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. -Genesis 7:04 | In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground." -Genesis 7:05 | Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him. -Genesis 7:06 | Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. -Genesis 7:07 | Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters. -Genesis 7:08 | Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground -Genesis 7:09 | went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah. -Genesis 7:10 | After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth. -Genesis 7:11 | In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened. -Genesis 7:12 | It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. -Genesis 7:13 | In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship— -Genesis 7:14 | they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. -Genesis 7:15 | Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah. -Genesis 7:16 | Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then the Lord shut him in. -Genesis 7:17 | The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. -Genesis 7:18 | The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. -Genesis 7:19 | The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. -Genesis 7:20 | The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. -Genesis 7:21 | All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. -Genesis 7:22 | All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. -Genesis 7:23 | Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. -Genesis 7:24 | The waters flooded the earth one hundred and fifty days. -Genesis 8:01 | God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. -Genesis 8:02 | The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. -Genesis 8:03 | The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded. -Genesis 8:04 | The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. -Genesis 8:05 | The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. -Genesis 8:06 | At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, -Genesis 8:07 | and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. -Genesis 8:08 | He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, -Genesis 8:09 | but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. -Genesis 8:10 | He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. -Genesis 8:11 | The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. -Genesis 8:12 | He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more. -Genesis 8:13 | In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. -Genesis 8:14 | In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. -Genesis 8:16 | "Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. -Genesis 8:17 | Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." -Genesis 8:18 | Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. -Genesis 8:19 | Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship. -Genesis 8:20 | Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. -Genesis 8:21 | The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done. -Genesis 8:22 | While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." -Genesis 9:01 | God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth. -Genesis 9:02 | The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand. -Genesis 9:03 | Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you. -Genesis 9:04 | But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat. -Genesis 9:05 | I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. -Genesis 9:06 | Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image. -Genesis 9:07 | Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it." -Genesis 9:09 | "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, -Genesis 9:10 | and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. -Genesis 9:11 | I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth." -Genesis 9:12 | God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: -Genesis 9:13 | I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. -Genesis 9:14 | When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, -Genesis 9:15 | I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. -Genesis 9:16 | The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." -Genesis 9:17 | God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." -Genesis 9:19 | These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. -Genesis 9:20 | Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. -Genesis 9:21 | He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. -Genesis 9:22 | Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. -Genesis 9:23 | Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness. -Genesis 9:24 | Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. -Genesis 9:25 | He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers." -Genesis 9:26 | He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant. -Genesis 9:27 | May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant." -Genesis 9:28 | Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. -Genesis 9:29 | All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died. -Habakkuk 1:01 | The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw. -Habakkuk 1:02 | Lord, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? -Habakkuk 1:03 | Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. -Habakkuk 1:04 | Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted. -Habakkuk 1:05 | "Look amongst the nations, watch, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you. -Habakkuk 1:06 | For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. -Habakkuk 1:07 | They are feared and dreaded. Their judgement and their dignity proceed from themselves. -Habakkuk 1:08 | Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour. -Habakkuk 1:09 | All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand. -Habakkuk 1:10 | Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it. -Habakkuk 1:11 | Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god." -Habakkuk 1:12 | Aren’t you from everlasting, Lord my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Lord, you have appointed him for judgement. You, Rock, have established him to punish. -Habakkuk 1:13 | You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, -Habakkuk 1:14 | and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? -Habakkuk 1:15 | He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. -Habakkuk 1:16 | Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. -Habakkuk 1:17 | Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy? -Habakkuk 2:01 | I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. -Habakkuk 2:02 | The Lord answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. -Habakkuk 2:03 | For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries towards the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay. -Habakkuk 2:04 | Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. -Habakkuk 2:05 | Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples. -Habakkuk 2:06 | Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’ -Habakkuk 2:07 | Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim? -Habakkuk 2:08 | Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it. -Habakkuk 2:09 | Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! -Habakkuk 2:10 | You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. -Habakkuk 2:11 | For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it. -Habakkuk 2:12 | Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! -Habakkuk 2:13 | Behold, isn’t it of the Lord of Armies that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? -Habakkuk 2:14 | For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s glory, as the waters cover the sea. -Habakkuk 2:15 | "Woe to him who gives his neighbour drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies! -Habakkuk 2:16 | You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. -Habakkuk 2:17 | For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them. -Habakkuk 2:18 | "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? -Habakkuk 2:19 | Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it. -Habakkuk 2:20 | But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!" -Habakkuk 3:01 | A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music. -Habakkuk 3:02 | Lord, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy. -Habakkuk 3:03 | God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth. -Habakkuk 3:04 | His splendour is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden. -Habakkuk 3:05 | Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet. -Habakkuk 3:06 | He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal. -Habakkuk 3:07 | I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled. -Habakkuk 3:08 | Was the Lord displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation? -Habakkuk 3:09 | You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers. -Habakkuk 3:10 | The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high. -Habakkuk 3:11 | The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear. -Habakkuk 3:12 | You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger. -Habakkuk 3:13 | You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah. -Habakkuk 3:14 | You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret. -Habakkuk 3:15 | You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters. -Habakkuk 3:16 | I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us. -Habakkuk 3:17 | For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: -Habakkuk 3:18 | yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! -Habakkuk 3:19 | The Lord, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments. -Haggai 1:02 | "This is what the Lord of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the Lord’s house to be built.’" -Haggai 1:04 | "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses, while this house lies waste? -Haggai 1:05 | Now therefore this is what the Lord of Armies says: Consider your ways. -Haggai 1:06 | You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it." -Haggai 1:07 | This is what the Lord of Armies says: "Consider your ways. -Haggai 1:08 | Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says the Lord. -Haggai 1:09 | "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the Lord of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. -Haggai 1:10 | Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. -Haggai 1:11 | I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labour of the hands." -Haggai 1:12 | Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the Lord their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord, their God, had sent him; and the people feared the Lord. -Haggai 1:13 | Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says the Lord. -Haggai 1:14 | The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of Armies, their God, -Haggai 1:15 | in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. -Haggai 2:03 | ‘Who is left amongst you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing? -Haggai 2:04 | Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says the Lord of Armies. -Haggai 2:05 | This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived amongst you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’ -Haggai 2:06 | For this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; -Haggai 2:07 | and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of Armies. -Haggai 2:08 | The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says the Lord of Armies. -Haggai 2:09 | ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of Armies." -Haggai 2:12 | ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’" The priests answered, "No." -Haggai 2:13 | Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean." -Haggai 2:14 | Then Haggai answered, "‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says the Lord; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean. -Haggai 2:15 | Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the Lord’s temple. -Haggai 2:16 | Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. -Haggai 2:17 | I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the Lord. -Haggai 2:18 | ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. -Haggai 2:19 | Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’" -Haggai 2:21 | "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth. -Haggai 2:22 | I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother. -Haggai 2:23 | In that day, says the Lord of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the Lord, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of Armies." -Hebrews 10:01 | For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. -Hebrews 10:02 | Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? -Hebrews 10:03 | But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. -Hebrews 10:04 | For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. -Hebrews 10:05 | Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. -Hebrews 10:06 | You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. -Hebrews 10:07 | Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’" -Hebrews 10:08 | Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), -Hebrews 10:09 | then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, -Hebrews 10:10 | by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. -Hebrews 10:11 | Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices which can never take away sins, -Hebrews 10:12 | but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, -Hebrews 10:13 | from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. -Hebrews 10:14 | For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. -Hebrews 10:16 | "This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’" then he says, -Hebrews 10:17 | "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more." -Hebrews 10:18 | Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. -Hebrews 10:19 | Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, -Hebrews 10:20 | by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, -Hebrews 10:21 | and having a great priest over God’s house, -Hebrews 10:22 | let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, -Hebrews 10:23 | let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. -Hebrews 10:24 | Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, -Hebrews 10:25 | not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. -Hebrews 10:26 | For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, -Hebrews 10:27 | but a certain fearful expectation of judgement, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. -Hebrews 10:28 | A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. -Hebrews 10:29 | How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? -Hebrews 10:30 | For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay," says the Lord. Again, "The Lord will judge his people." -Hebrews 10:31 | It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. -Hebrews 10:32 | But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; -Hebrews 10:33 | partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. -Hebrews 10:34 | For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. -Hebrews 10:35 | Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. -Hebrews 10:36 | For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. -Hebrews 10:37 | "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait. -Hebrews 10:38 | But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." -Hebrews 10:39 | But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul. -Hebrews 11:01 | Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. -Hebrews 11:02 | For by this, the elders obtained testimony. -Hebrews 11:03 | By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible. -Hebrews 11:04 | By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks. -Hebrews 11:05 | By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. -Hebrews 11:06 | Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. -Hebrews 11:07 | By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. -Hebrews 11:08 | By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. -Hebrews 11:09 | By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. -Hebrews 11:10 | For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. -Hebrews 11:11 | By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. -Hebrews 11:12 | Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. -Hebrews 11:13 | These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. -Hebrews 11:14 | For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. -Hebrews 11:15 | If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. -Hebrews 11:16 | But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. -Hebrews 11:17 | By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son, -Hebrews 11:18 | to whom it was said, "Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac," -Hebrews 11:19 | concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. -Hebrews 11:20 | By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. -Hebrews 11:21 | By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff. -Hebrews 11:22 | By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones. -Hebrews 11:23 | By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. -Hebrews 11:24 | By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, -Hebrews 11:25 | choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, -Hebrews 11:26 | considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. -Hebrews 11:27 | By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. -Hebrews 11:28 | By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. -Hebrews 11:29 | By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up. -Hebrews 11:30 | By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. -Hebrews 11:31 | By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. -Hebrews 11:32 | What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, -Hebrews 11:33 | who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, -Hebrews 11:34 | quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee. -Hebrews 11:35 | Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. -Hebrews 11:36 | Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. -Hebrews 11:37 | They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated— -Hebrews 11:38 | of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. -Hebrews 11:39 | These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise, -Hebrews 11:40 | God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect. -Hebrews 12:01 | Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, -Hebrews 12:02 | looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 12:03 | For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. -Hebrews 12:04 | You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. -Hebrews 12:05 | You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; -Hebrews 12:06 | for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives." -Hebrews 12:07 | It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? -Hebrews 12:08 | But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. -Hebrews 12:09 | Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? -Hebrews 12:10 | For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. -Hebrews 12:11 | All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. -Hebrews 12:12 | Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, -Hebrews 12:13 | and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. -Hebrews 12:14 | Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, -Hebrews 12:15 | looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it, -Hebrews 12:16 | lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. -Hebrews 12:17 | For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. -Hebrews 12:18 | For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burnt with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, -Hebrews 12:19 | the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, -Hebrews 12:20 | for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned". -Hebrews 12:21 | So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." -Hebrews 12:22 | But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, -Hebrews 12:23 | to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, -Hebrews 12:24 | to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. -Hebrews 12:25 | See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, -Hebrews 12:26 | whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens." -Hebrews 12:27 | This phrase, "Yet once more" signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. -Hebrews 12:28 | Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, -Hebrews 12:29 | for our God is a consuming fire. -Hebrews 13:01 | Let brotherly love continue. -Hebrews 13:02 | Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it. -Hebrews 13:03 | Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. -Hebrews 13:04 | Let marriage be held in honour amongst all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. -Hebrews 13:05 | Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." -Hebrews 13:06 | So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?" -Hebrews 13:07 | Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. -Hebrews 13:08 | Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. -Hebrews 13:09 | Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefitted. -Hebrews 13:10 | We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. -Hebrews 13:11 | For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burnt outside of the camp. -Hebrews 13:12 | Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. -Hebrews 13:13 | Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. -Hebrews 13:14 | For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. -Hebrews 13:15 | Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. -Hebrews 13:16 | But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. -Hebrews 13:17 | Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you. -Hebrews 13:18 | Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honourably in all things. -Hebrews 13:19 | I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner. -Hebrews 13:20 | Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, -Hebrews 13:21 | make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. -Hebrews 13:22 | But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words. -Hebrews 13:23 | Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you. -Hebrews 13:24 | Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you. -Hebrews 13:25 | Grace be with you all. Amen. -Hebrews 1:01 | God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, -Hebrews 1:02 | has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. -Hebrews 1:03 | His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, -Hebrews 1:04 | having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs. -Hebrews 1:05 | For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?" -Hebrews 1:06 | When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him." -Hebrews 1:07 | Of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire." -Hebrews 1:08 | But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of your Kingdom. -Hebrews 1:09 | You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows." -Hebrews 1:10 | And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands. -Hebrews 1:11 | They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does. -Hebrews 1:12 | You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail." -Hebrews 1:13 | But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?" -Hebrews 1:14 | Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? -Hebrews 2:01 | Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. -Hebrews 2:02 | For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, -Hebrews 2:03 | how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard, -Hebrews 2:04 | God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will? -Hebrews 2:05 | For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels. -Hebrews 2:06 | But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? -Hebrews 2:07 | You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honour. -Hebrews 2:08 | You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet. -Hebrews 2:09 | But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone. -Hebrews 2:10 | For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. -Hebrews 2:11 | For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, -Hebrews 2:12 | "I will declare your name to my brothers. Amongst the congregation I will sing your praise." -Hebrews 2:13 | Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me." -Hebrews 2:14 | Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, -Hebrews 2:15 | and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. -Hebrews 2:16 | For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham. -Hebrews 2:17 | Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. -Hebrews 2:18 | For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. -Hebrews 3:01 | Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus, -Hebrews 3:02 | who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house. -Hebrews 3:03 | For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honour than the house. -Hebrews 3:04 | For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. -Hebrews 3:05 | Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, -Hebrews 3:06 | but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. -Hebrews 3:07 | Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, -Hebrews 3:08 | don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness, -Hebrews 3:09 | where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years. -Hebrews 3:10 | Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’ -Hebrews 3:11 | As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’" -Hebrews 3:12 | Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; -Hebrews 3:13 | but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today", lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. -Hebrews 3:14 | For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end, -Hebrews 3:15 | while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." -Hebrews 3:16 | For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? -Hebrews 3:17 | With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? -Hebrews 3:18 | To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? -Hebrews 3:19 | We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief. -Hebrews 4:01 | Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. -Hebrews 4:02 | For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard. -Hebrews 4:03 | For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. -Hebrews 4:04 | For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works" -Hebrews 4:05 | and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest." -Hebrews 4:06 | Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience, -Hebrews 4:07 | he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts." -Hebrews 4:08 | For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. -Hebrews 4:09 | There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. -Hebrews 4:10 | For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. -Hebrews 4:11 | Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. -Hebrews 4:12 | For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:13 | There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. -Hebrews 4:14 | Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. -Hebrews 4:15 | For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. -Hebrews 4:16 | Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need. -Hebrews 5:01 | For every high priest, being taken from amongst men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. -Hebrews 5:02 | The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. -Hebrews 5:03 | Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself. -Hebrews 5:04 | Nobody takes this honour on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was. -Hebrews 5:05 | So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father." -Hebrews 5:06 | As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." -Hebrews 5:07 | He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, -Hebrews 5:08 | though he was a Son, yet learnt obedience by the things which he suffered. -Hebrews 5:09 | Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation, -Hebrews 5:10 | named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. -Hebrews 5:11 | About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. -Hebrews 5:12 | For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. -Hebrews 5:13 | For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. -Hebrews 5:14 | But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. -Hebrews 6:01 | Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith towards God, -Hebrews 6:02 | of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgement. -Hebrews 6:04 | For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, -Hebrews 6:05 | and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, -Hebrews 6:06 | and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. -Hebrews 6:07 | For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; -Hebrews 6:08 | but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burnt. -Hebrews 6:09 | But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. -Hebrews 6:10 | For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labour of love which you showed towards his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. -Hebrews 6:11 | We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, -Hebrews 6:12 | that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises. -Hebrews 6:13 | For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, saying, -Hebrews 6:14 | "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." -Hebrews 6:15 | Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. -Hebrews 6:16 | For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. -Hebrews 6:17 | In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, -Hebrews 6:18 | that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. -Hebrews 6:19 | This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; -Hebrews 6:20 | where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. -Hebrews 7:01 | For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, -Hebrews 7:02 | to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, "king of righteousness", and then also "king of Salem", which means "king of peace", -Hebrews 7:03 | without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. -Hebrews 7:04 | Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder. -Hebrews 7:05 | They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham, -Hebrews 7:06 | but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. -Hebrews 7:07 | But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. -Hebrews 7:08 | Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. -Hebrews 7:09 | We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, -Hebrews 7:10 | for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him. -Hebrews 7:11 | Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? -Hebrews 7:12 | For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law. -Hebrews 7:13 | For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. -Hebrews 7:14 | For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. -Hebrews 7:15 | This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, -Hebrews 7:16 | who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life; -Hebrews 7:17 | for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek." -Hebrews 7:18 | For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness -Hebrews 7:19 | (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. -Hebrews 7:20 | Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath -Hebrews 7:21 | (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’" -Hebrews 7:22 | By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant. -Hebrews 7:23 | Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. -Hebrews 7:24 | But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. -Hebrews 7:25 | Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them. -Hebrews 7:26 | For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; -Hebrews 7:27 | who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. -Hebrews 7:28 | For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected. -Hebrews 8:01 | Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, -Hebrews 8:02 | a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. -Hebrews 8:03 | For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. -Hebrews 8:04 | For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law, -Hebrews 8:05 | who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain." -Hebrews 8:06 | But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. -Hebrews 8:07 | For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. -Hebrews 8:08 | For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come", says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; -Hebrews 8:09 | not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says the Lord. -Hebrews 8:10 | "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. -Hebrews 8:11 | They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest. -Hebrews 8:12 | For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more." -Hebrews 8:13 | In that he says, "A new covenant", he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away. -Hebrews 9:01 | Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. -Hebrews 9:02 | For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. -Hebrews 9:03 | After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, -Hebrews 9:04 | having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; -Hebrews 9:05 | and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. -Hebrews 9:06 | Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, -Hebrews 9:07 | but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. -Hebrews 9:08 | The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing. -Hebrews 9:09 | This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect, -Hebrews 9:10 | being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. -Hebrews 9:11 | But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, -Hebrews 9:12 | nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. -Hebrews 9:13 | For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, -Hebrews 9:14 | how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? -Hebrews 9:15 | For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. -Hebrews 9:16 | For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. -Hebrews 9:17 | For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. -Hebrews 9:18 | Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. -Hebrews 9:19 | For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, -Hebrews 9:20 | "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you." -Hebrews 9:21 | Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. -Hebrews 9:22 | According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. -Hebrews 9:23 | It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. -Hebrews 9:24 | For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; -Hebrews 9:25 | nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, -Hebrews 9:26 | or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. -Hebrews 9:27 | Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgement, -Hebrews 9:28 | so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation. -Hosea 10:01 | Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones. -Hosea 10:02 | Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones. -Hosea 10:03 | Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don’t fear the Lord; and the king, what can he do for us?" -Hosea 10:04 | They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgement springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. -Hosea 10:05 | The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven, for its people will mourn over it, along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it. -Hosea 10:06 | It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel. -Hosea 10:07 | Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water. -Hosea 10:08 | The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!" -Hosea 10:09 | "Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah. -Hosea 10:10 | When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions. -Hosea 10:11 | Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plough. Jacob will break his clods. -Hosea 10:12 | Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and rains righteousness on you. -Hosea 10:13 | You have ploughed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. -Hosea 10:14 | Therefore a battle roar will arise amongst your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children. -Hosea 10:15 | So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed. -Hosea 11:01 | "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. -Hosea 11:02 | They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burnt incense to engraved images. -Hosea 11:03 | Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them. -Hosea 11:04 | I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him. -Hosea 11:05 | "They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent. -Hosea 11:06 | The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans. -Hosea 11:07 | My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them. -Hosea 11:08 | "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused. -Hosea 11:09 | I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One amongst you; and I will not come in wrath. -Hosea 11:10 | They will walk after the Lord, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west. -Hosea 11:11 | They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses," says the Lord. -Hosea 12:01 | Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. -Hosea 12:02 | The Lord also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him. -Hosea 12:03 | In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God. -Hosea 12:04 | Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us, -Hosea 12:05 | even the Lord, the God of Armies; The Lord is his name of renown! -Hosea 12:06 | Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God. -Hosea 12:07 | A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. -Hosea 12:08 | Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin." -Hosea 12:09 | "But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast. -Hosea 12:10 | I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables. -Hosea 12:11 | If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field. -Hosea 12:12 | Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds. -Hosea 12:13 | By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved. -Hosea 12:14 | Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt. -Hosea 13:01 | When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died. -Hosea 13:02 | Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’ -Hosea 13:03 | Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney. -Hosea 13:04 | "Yet I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour. -Hosea 13:05 | I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. -Hosea 13:06 | According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me. -Hosea 13:07 | Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. -Hosea 13:08 | I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them. -Hosea 13:09 | You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help. -Hosea 13:10 | Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? -Hosea 13:11 | I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath. -Hosea 13:12 | The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up. -Hosea 13:13 | The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb. -Hosea 13:14 | I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes. -Hosea 13:15 | Though he is fruitful amongst his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of the Lord coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure. -Hosea 13:16 | Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open." -Hosea 14:01 | Israel, return to the Lord your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. -Hosea 14:02 | Take words with you, and return to the Lord. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. -Hosea 14:03 | Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy." -Hosea 14:04 | "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him. -Hosea 14:05 | I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon. -Hosea 14:06 | His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon. -Hosea 14:07 | Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon. -Hosea 14:08 | Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found." -Hosea 14:09 | Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. -Hosea 1:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. -Hosea 1:02 | When the Lord spoke at first by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the Lord." -Hosea 1:03 | So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son. -Hosea 1:04 | The Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. -Hosea 1:05 | It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel." -Hosea 1:06 | She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them. -Hosea 1:07 | But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen." -Hosea 1:08 | Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. -Hosea 1:09 | He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. -Hosea 1:10 | Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ -Hosea 1:11 | The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel. -Hosea 2:01 | "Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ -Hosea 2:02 | Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; -Hosea 2:03 | Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. -Hosea 2:04 | Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness; -Hosea 2:05 | For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ -Hosea 2:06 | Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way. -Hosea 2:07 | She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then it was better with me than now.’ -Hosea 2:08 | For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. -Hosea 2:09 | Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. -Hosea 2:10 | Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand. -Hosea 2:11 | I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. -Hosea 2:12 | I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them. -Hosea 2:13 | I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burnt incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says the Lord. -Hosea 2:14 | "Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. -Hosea 2:15 | I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. -Hosea 2:16 | It will be in that day," says the Lord, "that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’ -Hosea 2:17 | For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name. -Hosea 2:18 | In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely. -Hosea 2:19 | I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. -Hosea 2:20 | I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord. -Hosea 2:21 | It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the Lord, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth; -Hosea 2:22 | and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel. -Hosea 2:23 | I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’" -Hosea 3:01 | The Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins." -Hosea 3:02 | So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. -Hosea 3:03 | I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so towards you." -Hosea 3:04 | For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. -Hosea 3:05 | Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days. -Hosea 4:01 | Hear the Lord’s word, you children of Israel; for the Lord has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. -Hosea 4:02 | There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. -Hosea 4:03 | Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die. -Hosea 4:04 | "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. -Hosea 4:05 | You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. -Hosea 4:06 | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children. -Hosea 4:07 | As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame. -Hosea 4:08 | They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. -Hosea 4:09 | It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. -Hosea 4:10 | They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to the Lord. -Hosea 4:11 | Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. -Hosea 4:12 | My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. -Hosea 4:13 | They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery. -Hosea 4:14 | I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin. -Hosea 4:15 | "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As the Lord lives.’ -Hosea 4:16 | For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a meadow. -Hosea 4:18 | Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way. -Hosea 4:19 | The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices. -Hosea 5:01 | "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgement is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. -Hosea 5:02 | The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them. -Hosea 5:03 | I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled. -Hosea 5:04 | Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know the Lord. -Hosea 5:05 | The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. -Hosea 5:06 | They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. -Hosea 5:07 | They are unfaithful to the Lord; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. -Hosea 5:08 | "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin! -Hosea 5:09 | Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Amongst the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be. -Hosea 5:10 | The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. -Hosea 5:11 | Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgement, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols. -Hosea 5:12 | Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. -Hosea 5:13 | "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. -Hosea 5:14 | For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. -Hosea 5:15 | I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly." -Hosea 6:01 | "Come! Let’s return to the Lord; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds. -Hosea 6:02 | After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him. -Hosea 6:03 | Let’s acknowledge the Lord. Let’s press on to know the Lord. As surely as the sun rises, The Lord will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth." -Hosea 6:04 | "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early. -Hosea 6:05 | Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgements are like a flash of lightning. -Hosea 6:06 | For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. -Hosea 6:07 | But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there. -Hosea 6:08 | Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood. -Hosea 6:09 | As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path towards Shechem, committing shameful crimes. -Hosea 6:10 | In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. -Hosea 6:11 | "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people. -Hosea 7:01 | When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. -Hosea 7:02 | They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face. -Hosea 7:03 | They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. -Hosea 7:04 | They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. -Hosea 7:05 | On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers. -Hosea 7:06 | For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. -Hosea 7:07 | They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one amongst them who calls to me. -Hosea 7:08 | Ephraim mixes himself amongst the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. -Hosea 7:09 | Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realise it. Indeed, grey hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realise it. -Hosea 7:10 | The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to the Lord their God, nor sought him, for all this. -Hosea 7:11 | "Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria. -Hosea 7:12 | When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard. -Hosea 7:13 | Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me. -Hosea 7:14 | They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me. -Hosea 7:15 | Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me. -Hosea 7:16 | They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. -Hosea 8:01 | "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the Lord’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law. -Hosea 8:02 | They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’ -Hosea 8:03 | Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him. -Hosea 8:04 | They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off. -Hosea 8:05 | Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity? -Hosea 8:06 | For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. -Hosea 8:07 | For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up. -Hosea 8:08 | Israel is swallowed up. Now they are amongst the nations like a worthless thing. -Hosea 8:09 | For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself. -Hosea 8:10 | But although they sold themselves amongst the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones. -Hosea 8:11 | Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning. -Hosea 8:12 | I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing. -Hosea 8:13 | As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt. -Hosea 8:14 | For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses." -Hosea 9:01 | Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. -Hosea 9:02 | The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her. -Hosea 9:03 | They won’t dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. -Hosea 9:04 | They won’t pour out wine offerings to the Lord, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the Lord’s house. -Hosea 9:05 | What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? -Hosea 9:06 | For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents. -Hosea 9:07 | The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great. -Hosea 9:08 | A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. -Hosea 9:09 | They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins. -Hosea 9:10 | I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. -Hosea 9:11 | As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception. -Hosea 9:12 | Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! -Hosea 9:13 | I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. -Hosea 9:14 | Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. -Hosea 9:15 | "All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels. -Hosea 9:16 | Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb." -Hosea 9:17 | My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers amongst the nations. -Isaiah 10:01 | Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; -Isaiah 10:02 | to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor amongst my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! -Isaiah 10:03 | What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? -Isaiah 10:04 | They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. -Isaiah 10:05 | Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! -Isaiah 10:06 | I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. -Isaiah 10:07 | However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. -Isaiah 10:08 | For he says, "Aren’t all of my princes kings? -Isaiah 10:10 | As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; -Isaiah 10:11 | shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? -Isaiah 10:12 | Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the wilful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks. -Isaiah 10:13 | For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. -Isaiah 10:14 | My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped." -Isaiah 10:15 | Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood. -Isaiah 10:16 | Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will send amongst his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. -Isaiah 10:17 | The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. -Isaiah 10:18 | He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. -Isaiah 10:19 | The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number. -Isaiah 10:20 | It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. -Isaiah 10:21 | A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. -Isaiah 10:22 | For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. -Isaiah 10:23 | For the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth. -Isaiah 10:24 | Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Armies, says "My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did. -Isaiah 10:25 | For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction." -Isaiah 10:26 | The Lord of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt. -Isaiah 10:27 | It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. -Isaiah 10:28 | He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage. -Isaiah 10:29 | They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled. -Isaiah 10:30 | Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth! -Isaiah 10:31 | Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. -Isaiah 10:32 | This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. -Isaiah 10:33 | Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. -Isaiah 10:34 | He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One. -Isaiah 11:01 | A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. -Isaiah 11:02 | The Lord’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. -Isaiah 11:03 | His delight will be in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; -Isaiah 11:04 | but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked. -Isaiah 11:05 | Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist. -Isaiah 11:06 | The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. -Isaiah 11:07 | The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. -Isaiah 11:08 | The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. -Isaiah 11:09 | They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. -Isaiah 11:10 | It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious. -Isaiah 11:11 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. -Isaiah 11:12 | He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. -Isaiah 11:13 | The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim. -Isaiah 11:14 | They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them. -Isaiah 11:15 | The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. -Isaiah 11:16 | There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. -Isaiah 12:01 | In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, the Lord; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. -Isaiah 12:02 | Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord, the Lord, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation." -Isaiah 12:03 | Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation. -Isaiah 12:04 | In that day you will say, "Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Declare his doings amongst the peoples! Proclaim that his name is exalted! -Isaiah 12:05 | Sing to the Lord, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth! -Isaiah 12:06 | Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great amongst you!" -Isaiah 13:01 | The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. -Isaiah 13:02 | Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. -Isaiah 13:03 | I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. -Isaiah 13:04 | The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The Lord of Armies is mustering the army for the battle. -Isaiah 13:05 | They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. -Isaiah 13:06 | Wail, for the Lord’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. -Isaiah 13:07 | Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. -Isaiah 13:08 | They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labour. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. -Isaiah 13:09 | Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. -Isaiah 13:10 | For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. -Isaiah 13:11 | I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible. -Isaiah 13:12 | I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir. -Isaiah 13:13 | Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the Lord of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger. -Isaiah 13:14 | It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land. -Isaiah 13:15 | Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. -Isaiah 13:16 | Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. -Isaiah 13:17 | Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. -Isaiah 13:18 | Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children. -Isaiah 13:19 | Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. -Isaiah 13:20 | It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. -Isaiah 13:21 | But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. -Isaiah 13:22 | Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged. -Isaiah 14:01 | For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. -Isaiah 14:02 | The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. -Isaiah 14:03 | It will happen in the day that the Lord will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, -Isaiah 14:04 | that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!" -Isaiah 14:05 | The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers, -Isaiah 14:06 | who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained. -Isaiah 14:07 | The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. -Isaiah 14:08 | Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us." -Isaiah 14:09 | Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. -Isaiah 14:10 | They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?" -Isaiah 14:11 | Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you. -Isaiah 14:12 | How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! -Isaiah 14:13 | You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! -Isaiah 14:14 | I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!" -Isaiah 14:15 | Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. -Isaiah 14:16 | Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, -Isaiah 14:17 | who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?" -Isaiah 14:18 | All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house. -Isaiah 14:19 | But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. -Isaiah 14:20 | You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever. -Isaiah 14:21 | Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. -Isaiah 14:22 | "I will rise up against them," says the Lord of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son," says the Lord. -Isaiah 14:23 | "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 14:24 | The Lord of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: -Isaiah 14:25 | that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. -Isaiah 14:26 | This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. -Isaiah 14:27 | For the Lord of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?" -Isaiah 14:28 | This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died. -Isaiah 14:29 | Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. -Isaiah 14:30 | The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed. -Isaiah 14:31 | Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. -Isaiah 14:32 | What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge. -Isaiah 15:01 | The burden of Moab. For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. -Isaiah 15:02 | They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. -Isaiah 15:03 | In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. -Isaiah 15:04 | Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them. -Isaiah 15:05 | My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction. -Isaiah 15:06 | For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. -Isaiah 15:07 | Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows. -Isaiah 15:08 | For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim. -Isaiah 15:09 | For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land. -Isaiah 16:01 | Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. -Isaiah 16:02 | For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. -Isaiah 16:03 | Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! -Isaiah 16:04 | Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. -Isaiah 16:05 | A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. -Isaiah 16:06 | We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing. -Isaiah 16:07 | Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. -Isaiah 16:08 | For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. -Isaiah 16:09 | Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen. -Isaiah 16:10 | Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. -Isaiah 16:11 | Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres. -Isaiah 16:12 | It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail. -Isaiah 16:13 | This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in time past. -Isaiah 16:14 | But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble." -Isaiah 17:01 | The burden of Damascus. "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. -Isaiah 17:02 | The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. -Isaiah 17:03 | The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 17:04 | "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. -Isaiah 17:05 | It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. -Isaiah 17:06 | Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says the Lord, the God of Israel. -Isaiah 17:07 | In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 17:08 | They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars. -Isaiah 17:09 | In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. -Isaiah 17:10 | For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. -Isaiah 17:11 | In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. -Isaiah 17:12 | Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! -Isaiah 17:13 | The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. -Isaiah 17:14 | At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us. -Isaiah 18:01 | Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; -Isaiah 18:02 | that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!" -Isaiah 18:03 | All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen! -Isaiah 18:04 | For the Lord said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." -Isaiah 18:05 | For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. -Isaiah 18:06 | They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter. -Isaiah 18:07 | In that time, a present will be brought to the Lord of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the Lord of Armies, Mount Zion. -Isaiah 19:01 | The burden of Egypt. "Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. -Isaiah 19:02 | I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. -Isaiah 19:03 | The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. -Isaiah 19:04 | I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 19:05 | The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. -Isaiah 19:06 | The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. -Isaiah 19:07 | The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. -Isaiah 19:08 | The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. -Isaiah 19:09 | Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. -Isaiah 19:10 | The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul. -Isaiah 19:11 | The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" -Isaiah 19:12 | Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what the Lord of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. -Isaiah 19:13 | The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes. -Isaiah 19:14 | The Lord has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. -Isaiah 19:15 | Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do. -Isaiah 19:16 | In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the Lord of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them. -Isaiah 19:17 | The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of the Lord of Armies, which he determines against it. -Isaiah 19:18 | In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction." -Isaiah 19:19 | In that day, there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. -Isaiah 19:20 | It will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and a defender, and he will deliver them. -Isaiah 19:21 | The Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to the Lord, and will perform it. -Isaiah 19:22 | The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the Lord, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them. -Isaiah 19:23 | In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. -Isaiah 19:24 | In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth; -Isaiah 19:25 | because the Lord of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." -Isaiah 1:01 | The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. -Isaiah 1:02 | Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the Lord has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me. -Isaiah 1:03 | The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider." -Isaiah 1:04 | Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward. -Isaiah 1:05 | Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. -Isaiah 1:06 | From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil. -Isaiah 1:07 | Your country is desolate. Your cities are burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. -Isaiah 1:08 | The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. -Isaiah 1:09 | Unless the Lord of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah. -Isaiah 1:10 | Hear the Lord’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! -Isaiah 1:11 | "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?", says the Lord. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. -Isaiah 1:12 | When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? -Isaiah 1:13 | Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies. -Isaiah 1:14 | My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. -Isaiah 1:15 | When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. -Isaiah 1:16 | Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. -Isaiah 1:17 | Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow." -Isaiah 1:18 | "Come now, and let’s reason together," says the LORD: "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -Isaiah 1:19 | If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land; -Isaiah 1:20 | but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the the Lord’s mouth has spoken it." -Isaiah 1:21 | How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers. -Isaiah 1:22 | Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. -Isaiah 1:23 | Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. -Isaiah 1:24 | Therefore the Lord, God of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies. -Isaiah 1:25 | I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin. -Isaiah 1:26 | I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’ -Isaiah 1:27 | Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. -Isaiah 1:28 | But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. -Isaiah 1:29 | For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. -Isaiah 1:30 | For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. -Isaiah 1:31 | The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them." -Isaiah 20:01 | In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; -Isaiah 20:02 | at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot. -Isaiah 20:03 | The Lord said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, -Isaiah 20:04 | so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. -Isaiah 20:05 | They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. -Isaiah 20:06 | The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’" -Isaiah 21:01 | The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. -Isaiah 21:02 | A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing. -Isaiah 21:03 | Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labour. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see. -Isaiah 21:04 | My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. -Isaiah 21:05 | They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! -Isaiah 21:06 | For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. -Isaiah 21:07 | When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." -Isaiah 21:08 | He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. -Isaiah 21:09 | Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. -Isaiah 21:10 | You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you. -Isaiah 21:11 | The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" -Isaiah 21:12 | The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will enquire, enquire. Come back again." -Isaiah 21:13 | The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. -Isaiah 21:14 | They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. -Isaiah 21:15 | For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. -Isaiah 21:16 | For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, -Isaiah 21:17 | and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken it." -Isaiah 22:01 | The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? -Isaiah 22:02 | You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. -Isaiah 22:03 | All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. -Isaiah 22:04 | Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labour to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. -Isaiah 22:05 | For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the Lord of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains." -Isaiah 22:06 | Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. -Isaiah 22:07 | Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. -Isaiah 22:08 | He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armour in the house of the forest. -Isaiah 22:09 | You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. -Isaiah 22:10 | You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. -Isaiah 22:11 | You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago. -Isaiah 22:12 | In that day, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth; -Isaiah 22:13 | and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: "Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die." -Isaiah 22:14 | The Lord of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 22:15 | The Lord, the Lord of Armies says, "Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, -Isaiah 22:16 | ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiselling a habitation for himself in the rock!" -Isaiah 22:17 | Behold, the Lord will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly. -Isaiah 22:18 | He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house. -Isaiah 22:19 | I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station. -Isaiah 22:20 | It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, -Isaiah 22:21 | and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. -Isaiah 22:22 | I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open. -Isaiah 22:23 | I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. -Isaiah 22:24 | They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. -Isaiah 22:25 | "In that day," says the Lord of Armies, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken it." -Isaiah 23:01 | The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. -Isaiah 23:02 | Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have replenished. -Isaiah 23:03 | On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations. -Isaiah 23:04 | Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." -Isaiah 23:05 | When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. -Isaiah 23:06 | Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! -Isaiah 23:07 | Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? -Isaiah 23:08 | Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honourable of the earth? -Isaiah 23:09 | The Lord of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. -Isaiah 23:10 | Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more. -Isaiah 23:11 | He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The Lord has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds. -Isaiah 23:12 | He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest." -Isaiah 23:13 | Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin. -Isaiah 23:14 | Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! -Isaiah 23:15 | It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. -Isaiah 23:16 | Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered. -Isaiah 23:17 | It will happen after the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. -Isaiah 23:18 | Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to the Lord. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. -Isaiah 24:01 | Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. -Isaiah 24:02 | It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. -Isaiah 24:03 | The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the Lord has spoken this word. -Isaiah 24:04 | The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. -Isaiah 24:05 | The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. -Isaiah 24:06 | Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burnt, and few men are left. -Isaiah 24:07 | The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. -Isaiah 24:08 | The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. -Isaiah 24:09 | They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. -Isaiah 24:10 | The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. -Isaiah 24:11 | There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. -Isaiah 24:12 | The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. -Isaiah 24:13 | For it will be so within the earth amongst the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. -Isaiah 24:14 | These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of the Lord. They cry aloud from the sea. -Isaiah 24:15 | Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, even the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! -Isaiah 24:16 | From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. -Isaiah 24:17 | Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth. -Isaiah 24:18 | It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. -Isaiah 24:19 | The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. -Isaiah 24:20 | The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again. -Isaiah 24:21 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. -Isaiah 24:22 | They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited. -Isaiah 24:23 | Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders. -Isaiah 25:01 | The Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. -Isaiah 25:02 | For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. -Isaiah 25:03 | Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. -Isaiah 25:04 | For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. -Isaiah 25:05 | As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low. -Isaiah 25:06 | In this mountain, the Lord of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. -Isaiah 25:07 | He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. -Isaiah 25:08 | He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it. -Isaiah 25:09 | It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" -Isaiah 25:10 | For the Lord’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. -Isaiah 25:11 | He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands. -Isaiah 25:12 | He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust. -Isaiah 26:01 | In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. -Isaiah 26:02 | Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith. -Isaiah 26:03 | You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. -Isaiah 26:04 | Trust in the Lord forever; for in the Lord, the Lord, is an everlasting Rock. -Isaiah 26:05 | For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust. -Isaiah 26:06 | The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy." -Isaiah 26:07 | The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level. -Isaiah 26:08 | Yes, in the way of your judgements, the Lord, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. -Isaiah 26:09 | With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. -Isaiah 26:10 | Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the Lord’s majesty. -Isaiah 26:11 | The Lord, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries. -Isaiah 26:12 | The Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us. -Isaiah 26:13 | The Lord our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name. -Isaiah 26:14 | The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. -Isaiah 26:15 | You have increased the nation, O Lord. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land. -Isaiah 26:16 | Lord, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. -Isaiah 26:17 | Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Lord. -Isaiah 26:18 | We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. -Isaiah 26:19 | Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits. -Isaiah 26:20 | Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past. -Isaiah 26:21 | For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain. -Isaiah 27:01 | In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea. -Isaiah 27:02 | In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard! -Isaiah 27:03 | I, the Lord, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. -Isaiah 27:04 | Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. -Isaiah 27:05 | Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me." -Isaiah 27:06 | In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. -Isaiah 27:07 | Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? -Isaiah 27:08 | In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. -Isaiah 27:09 | Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more. -Isaiah 27:10 | For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. -Isaiah 27:11 | When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favour. -Isaiah 27:12 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel. -Isaiah 27:13 | It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. -Isaiah 28:01 | Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! -Isaiah 28:02 | Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. -Isaiah 28:03 | The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. -Isaiah 28:04 | The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. -Isaiah 28:05 | In that day, the Lord of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people, -Isaiah 28:06 | and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgement, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. -Isaiah 28:07 | They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgement. -Isaiah 28:08 | For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness. -Isaiah 28:09 | Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? -Isaiah 28:10 | For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. -Isaiah 28:11 | But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language, -Isaiah 28:12 | to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary," and "This is the refreshing" yet they would not hear. -Isaiah 28:13 | Therefore the Lord’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken. -Isaiah 28:14 | Therefore hear the Lord’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: -Isaiah 28:15 | "Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’" -Isaiah 28:16 | Therefore the Lord God says, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. -Isaiah 28:17 | I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. -Isaiah 28:18 | Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. -Isaiah 28:19 | As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message." -Isaiah 28:20 | For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. -Isaiah 28:21 | For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act. -Isaiah 28:22 | Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of Armies, on the whole earth. -Isaiah 28:23 | Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! -Isaiah 28:24 | Does he who ploughs to sow plough continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? -Isaiah 28:25 | When he has levelled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? -Isaiah 28:26 | For his God instructs him in right judgement and teaches him. -Isaiah 28:27 | For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. -Isaiah 28:28 | Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it. -Isaiah 28:29 | This also comes out from the Lord of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. -Isaiah 29:01 | Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around; -Isaiah 29:02 | then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth. -Isaiah 29:03 | I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. -Isaiah 29:04 | You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust. -Isaiah 29:05 | But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. -Isaiah 29:06 | She will be visited by the Lord of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire. -Isaiah 29:07 | The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. -Isaiah 29:08 | It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that. -Isaiah 29:09 | Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. -Isaiah 29:10 | For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers. -Isaiah 29:11 | All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please" and he says, "I can’t, for it is sealed" -Isaiah 29:12 | and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please" and he says, "I can’t read." -Isaiah 29:13 | The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; -Isaiah 29:14 | therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work amongst this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden." -Isaiah 29:15 | Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the Lord, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?" -Isaiah 29:16 | You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn’t make me" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?" -Isaiah 29:17 | Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest? -Isaiah 29:18 | In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. -Isaiah 29:19 | The humble also will increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor amongst men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 29:20 | For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off— -Isaiah 29:21 | who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony. -Isaiah 29:22 | Therefore the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale. -Isaiah 29:23 | But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. -Isaiah 29:24 | They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction." -Isaiah 2:01 | This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. -Isaiah 2:02 | It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. -Isaiah 2:03 | Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For the law shall go out of Zion, and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem. -Isaiah 2:04 | He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. -Isaiah 2:05 | House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the Lord. -Isaiah 2:06 | For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practise divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. -Isaiah 2:07 | Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. -Isaiah 2:08 | Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. -Isaiah 2:09 | Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them. -Isaiah 2:10 | Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. -Isaiah 2:11 | The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. -Isaiah 2:12 | For there will be a day of the Lord of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low: -Isaiah 2:17 | The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. -Isaiah 2:18 | The idols shall utterly pass away. -Isaiah 2:19 | Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. -Isaiah 2:20 | In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, -Isaiah 2:21 | to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. -Isaiah 2:22 | Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he? -Isaiah 30:01 | "Woe to the rebellious children", says the Lord, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, -Isaiah 30:02 | who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! -Isaiah 30:03 | Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. -Isaiah 30:04 | For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. -Isaiah 30:05 | They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." -Isaiah 30:06 | The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. -Isaiah 30:07 | For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still. -Isaiah 30:08 | Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. -Isaiah 30:09 | For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the Lord’s law; -Isaiah 30:10 | who tell the seers, "Don’t see!" and the prophets, "Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. -Isaiah 30:11 | Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." -Isaiah 30:12 | Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it, -Isaiah 30:13 | therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. -Isaiah 30:14 | He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found amongst the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern." -Isaiah 30:15 | For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused, -Isaiah 30:16 | but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift" therefore those who pursue you will be swift. -Isaiah 30:17 | One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill. -Isaiah 30:18 | Therefore the Lord will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. -Isaiah 30:19 | For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. -Isaiah 30:20 | Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers; -Isaiah 30:21 | and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it." -Isaiah 30:22 | You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!" -Isaiah 30:23 | He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures. -Isaiah 30:24 | The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savoury feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. -Isaiah 30:25 | There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. -Isaiah 30:26 | Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with. -Isaiah 30:27 | Behold, the Lord’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire. -Isaiah 30:28 | His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples. -Isaiah 30:29 | You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to the Lord’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock. -Isaiah 30:30 | The Lord will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. -Isaiah 30:31 | For through the Lord’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. -Isaiah 30:32 | Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the Lord will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. -Isaiah 30:33 | For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. The Lord’s breath, like a stream of sulphur, kindles it. -Isaiah 31:01 | Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek the LORD! -Isaiah 31:02 | Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. -Isaiah 31:03 | Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together. -Isaiah 31:04 | For the Lord says to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so the Lord of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. -Isaiah 31:05 | As birds hovering, so the Lord of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it." -Isaiah 31:06 | Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel. -Isaiah 31:07 | For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you. -Isaiah 31:08 | "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labour. -Isaiah 31:09 | His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. -Isaiah 32:01 | Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. -Isaiah 32:02 | A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land. -Isaiah 32:03 | The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. -Isaiah 32:04 | The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. -Isaiah 32:05 | The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected. -Isaiah 32:06 | For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profanity, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. -Isaiah 32:07 | The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. -Isaiah 32:08 | But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things. -Isaiah 32:09 | Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! -Isaiah 32:10 | For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come. -Isaiah 32:11 | Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist. -Isaiah 32:12 | Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. -Isaiah 32:13 | Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. -Isaiah 32:14 | For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks, -Isaiah 32:15 | until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest. -Isaiah 32:16 | Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. -Isaiah 32:17 | The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. -Isaiah 32:18 | My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places, -Isaiah 32:19 | though hail flattens the forest, and the city is levelled completely. -Isaiah 32:20 | Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. -Isaiah 33:01 | Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed. -Isaiah 33:02 | Lord, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. -Isaiah 33:03 | At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. -Isaiah 33:04 | Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap. -Isaiah 33:05 | The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. -Isaiah 33:06 | There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the Lord is your treasure. -Isaiah 33:07 | Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. -Isaiah 33:08 | The highways are desolate. The travelling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man. -Isaiah 33:09 | The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare. -Isaiah 33:10 | "Now I will arise," says the Lord. "Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. -Isaiah 33:11 | You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you. -Isaiah 33:12 | The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burnt in the fire. -Isaiah 33:13 | Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might." -Isaiah 33:14 | The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who amongst us can live with the devouring fire? Who amongst us can live with everlasting burning? -Isaiah 33:15 | He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— -Isaiah 33:16 | he will dwell on high. His place of defence will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure. -Isaiah 33:17 | Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land. -Isaiah 33:18 | Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers? -Isaiah 33:19 | You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand. -Isaiah 33:20 | Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. -Isaiah 33:21 | But there the Lord will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there. -Isaiah 33:22 | For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us. -Isaiah 33:23 | Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey. -Isaiah 33:24 | The inhabitant won’t say, "I am sick." The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity. -Isaiah 34:01 | Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it. -Isaiah 34:02 | For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter. -Isaiah 34:03 | Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood. -Isaiah 34:04 | All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. -Isaiah 34:05 | For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgement. -Isaiah 34:06 | The Lord’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. -Isaiah 34:07 | The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat. -Isaiah 34:08 | For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. -Isaiah 34:09 | Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulphur, And its land will become burning pitch. -Isaiah 34:10 | It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever. -Isaiah 34:11 | But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. -Isaiah 34:12 | They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. -Isaiah 34:13 | Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. -Isaiah 34:14 | The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. -Isaiah 34:15 | The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate. -Isaiah 34:16 | Search in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. -Isaiah 34:17 | He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it. -Isaiah 35:01 | The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. -Isaiah 35:02 | It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the Lord’s glory, the excellence of our God. -Isaiah 35:03 | Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm. -Isaiah 35:04 | Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you. -Isaiah 35:05 | Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. -Isaiah 35:06 | Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. -Isaiah 35:07 | The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay. -Isaiah 35:08 | A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called "The Holy Way". The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there. -Isaiah 35:09 | No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there. -Isaiah 35:10 | Then the Lord’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." -Isaiah 36:01 | Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. -Isaiah 36:02 | The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. -Isaiah 36:03 | Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him. -Isaiah 36:04 | Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, "What confidence is this in which you trust? -Isaiah 36:05 | I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? -Isaiah 36:06 | Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. -Isaiah 36:07 | But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’" -Isaiah 36:08 | Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. -Isaiah 36:09 | How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? -Isaiah 36:10 | Have I come up now without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it." -Isaiah 36:11 | Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." -Isaiah 36:12 | But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?" -Isaiah 36:13 | Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! -Isaiah 36:14 | The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. -Isaiah 36:15 | Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."’ -Isaiah 36:16 | Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; -Isaiah 36:17 | until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. -Isaiah 36:18 | Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? -Isaiah 36:19 | Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? -Isaiah 36:20 | Who are they amongst all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’" -Isaiah 36:21 | But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, "Don’t answer him." -Isaiah 36:22 | Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. -Isaiah 37:01 | When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the Lord’s house. -Isaiah 37:02 | He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. -Isaiah 37:03 | They said to him, "Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth. -Isaiah 37:04 | It may be the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’" -Isaiah 37:05 | So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. -Isaiah 37:06 | Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, ‘The Lord says, "Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. -Isaiah 37:07 | Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." -Isaiah 37:08 | So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish. -Isaiah 37:10 | "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." -Isaiah 37:11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? -Isaiah 37:12 | Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? -Isaiah 37:14 | Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s house, and spread it before the Lord. -Isaiah 37:16 | "LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned amongst the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. -Isaiah 37:17 | Turn your ear, Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, Lord, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. -Isaiah 37:18 | Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, -Isaiah 37:19 | and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. -Isaiah 37:20 | Now therefore, Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the Lord, even you only." -Isaiah 37:21 | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "The Lord, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, -Isaiah 37:22 | this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. -Isaiah 37:23 | Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 37:24 | By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. -Isaiah 37:25 | I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." -Isaiah 37:26 | "‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. -Isaiah 37:27 | Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. -Isaiah 37:28 | But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. -Isaiah 37:29 | Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. -Isaiah 37:30 | "‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. -Isaiah 37:31 | The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. -Isaiah 37:32 | For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will perform this.’ -Isaiah 37:33 | "Therefore the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. -Isaiah 37:34 | He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says the Lord. -Isaiah 37:35 | ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’" -Isaiah 37:36 | Then the Lord’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. -Isaiah 37:37 | So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. -Isaiah 37:38 | As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. -Isaiah 38:01 | In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’" -Isaiah 38:02 | Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, -Isaiah 38:03 | and said, "Remember now, the Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. -Isaiah 38:05 | "Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The Lord, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. -Isaiah 38:06 | I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. -Isaiah 38:07 | This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has spoken. -Isaiah 38:08 | Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps." So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down. -Isaiah 38:09 | The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness. -Isaiah 38:10 | I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years." -Isaiah 38:11 | I said, "I won’t see the Lord, The Lord in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. -Isaiah 38:12 | My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. -Isaiah 38:13 | I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. -Isaiah 38:14 | I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security." -Isaiah 38:15 | What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul. -Isaiah 38:16 | Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live. -Isaiah 38:17 | Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. -Isaiah 38:18 | For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth. -Isaiah 38:19 | The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children. -Isaiah 38:20 | The Lord will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the Lord’s house. -Isaiah 38:21 | Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." -Isaiah 38:22 | Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the Lord’s house?" -Isaiah 39:01 | At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. -Isaiah 39:02 | Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them. -Isaiah 39:03 | Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon." -Isaiah 39:04 | Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them." -Isaiah 39:05 | Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord of Armies: -Isaiah 39:06 | ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. -Isaiah 39:07 | ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’" -Isaiah 39:08 | Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The Lord’s word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth in my days." -Isaiah 3:01 | For, behold, the Lord, God of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; -Isaiah 3:04 | I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them. -Isaiah 3:05 | The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbour. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honourable. -Isaiah 3:06 | Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand." -Isaiah 3:07 | In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people." -Isaiah 3:08 | For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. -Isaiah 3:09 | The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves. -Isaiah 3:10 | Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. -Isaiah 3:11 | Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him. -Isaiah 3:12 | As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. -Isaiah 3:13 | The Lord stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. -Isaiah 3:14 | The Lord will enter into judgement with the elders of his people and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses. -Isaiah 3:15 | What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 3:16 | Moreover the Lord said, "Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; -Isaiah 3:17 | therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and the Lord will make their scalps bald." -Isaiah 3:18 | In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, -Isaiah 3:24 | It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. -Isaiah 3:25 | Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. -Isaiah 3:26 | Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground. -Isaiah 40:01 | "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. -Isaiah 40:02 | "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins." -Isaiah 40:03 | The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God. -Isaiah 40:04 | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain. -Isaiah 40:05 | The Lord’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it." -Isaiah 40:06 | The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. -Isaiah 40:07 | The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Lord’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. -Isaiah 40:08 | The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever." -Isaiah 40:09 | You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" -Isaiah 40:10 | Behold, the Lord God will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. -Isaiah 40:11 | He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young. -Isaiah 40:12 | Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? -Isaiah 40:13 | Who has directed the Lord’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counsellor? -Isaiah 40:14 | Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? -Isaiah 40:15 | Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing. -Isaiah 40:16 | Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering. -Isaiah 40:17 | All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity. -Isaiah 40:18 | To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him? -Isaiah 40:19 | A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. -Isaiah 40:20 | He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skilful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved. -Isaiah 40:21 | Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth? -Isaiah 40:22 | It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in, -Isaiah 40:23 | who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. -Isaiah 40:24 | They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. -Isaiah 40:25 | "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One. -Isaiah 40:26 | Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking. -Isaiah 40:27 | Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?" -Isaiah 40:28 | Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. -Isaiah 40:29 | He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. -Isaiah 40:30 | Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; -Isaiah 40:31 | but those who wait for the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. -Isaiah 41:01 | "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgement. -Isaiah 41:02 | Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow. -Isaiah 41:03 | He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. -Isaiah 41:04 | Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he." -Isaiah 41:05 | The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come. -Isaiah 41:06 | Everyone helps his neighbour. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" -Isaiah 41:07 | So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter. -Isaiah 41:08 | "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend, -Isaiah 41:09 | You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’ -Isaiah 41:10 | Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. -Isaiah 41:11 | Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish. -Isaiah 41:12 | You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing. -Isaiah 41:13 | For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’ -Isaiah 41:14 | Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says the Lord. "Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 41:15 | Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. -Isaiah 41:16 | You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the Lord. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 41:17 | The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. -Isaiah 41:18 | I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. -Isaiah 41:19 | I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; -Isaiah 41:20 | that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the Lord’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. -Isaiah 41:21 | Produce your cause," says the Lord. "Bring out your strong reasons!" says the King of Jacob. -Isaiah 41:22 | "Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. -Isaiah 41:23 | Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together. -Isaiah 41:24 | Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination. -Isaiah 41:25 | "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. -Isaiah 41:26 | Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words. -Isaiah 41:27 | I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. -Isaiah 41:28 | When I look, there is no man, even amongst them there is no counsellor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word. -Isaiah 41:29 | Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion. -Isaiah 42:01 | "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. -Isaiah 42:02 | He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. -Isaiah 42:03 | He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. -Isaiah 42:04 | He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law." -Isaiah 42:05 | God the Lord, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says: -Isaiah 42:06 | "I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations, -Isaiah 42:07 | to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. -Isaiah 42:08 | "I am the Lord. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. -Isaiah 42:09 | Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up." -Isaiah 42:10 | Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants. -Isaiah 42:11 | Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains! -Isaiah 42:12 | Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. -Isaiah 42:13 | The Lord will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies. -Isaiah 42:14 | "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant. -Isaiah 42:15 | I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. -Isaiah 42:16 | I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. -Isaiah 42:17 | "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed. -Isaiah 42:18 | "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. -Isaiah 42:19 | Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the Lord’s servant? -Isaiah 42:20 | You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. -Isaiah 42:21 | It pleased the Lord, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honourable. -Isaiah 42:22 | But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ -Isaiah 42:23 | Who is there amongst you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? -Isaiah 42:24 | Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. -Isaiah 42:25 | Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burnt him, but he didn’t take it to heart." -Isaiah 43:01 | But now the Lord who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: "Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. -Isaiah 43:02 | When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt, and flame will not scorch you. -Isaiah 43:03 | For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. -Isaiah 43:04 | Since you have been precious and honoured in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. -Isaiah 43:05 | Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. -Isaiah 43:06 | I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth— -Isaiah 43:07 | everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’" -Isaiah 43:08 | Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. -Isaiah 43:09 | Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who amongst them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, "That is true." -Isaiah 43:10 | "You are my witnesses," says the Lord, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me. -Isaiah 43:11 | I myself am the Lord. Besides me, there is no saviour. -Isaiah 43:12 | I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god amongst you. Therefore you are my witnesses", says the Lord, "and I am God. -Isaiah 43:13 | Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?" -Isaiah 43:14 | The Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. -Isaiah 43:15 | I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." -Isaiah 43:16 | The Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, -Isaiah 43:17 | who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: -Isaiah 43:18 | "Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. -Isaiah 43:19 | Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. -Isaiah 43:20 | The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honour me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, -Isaiah 43:21 | the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise. -Isaiah 43:22 | Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel. -Isaiah 43:23 | You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. -Isaiah 43:24 | You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. -Isaiah 43:25 | I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins. -Isaiah 43:26 | Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified. -Isaiah 43:27 | Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me. -Isaiah 43:28 | Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult." -Isaiah 44:01 | Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. -Isaiah 44:02 | This is what the Lord who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: "Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. -Isaiah 44:03 | For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring: -Isaiah 44:04 | and they will spring up amongst the grass, as willows by the watercourses. -Isaiah 44:05 | One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to the Lord,’ and honour the name of Israel." -Isaiah 44:06 | This is what the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. -Isaiah 44:07 | Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen. -Isaiah 44:08 | Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock." -Isaiah 44:09 | Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. -Isaiah 44:10 | Who has fashioned a god, or moulds an image that is profitable for nothing? -Isaiah 44:11 | Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together. -Isaiah 44:12 | The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. -Isaiah 44:13 | The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. -Isaiah 44:14 | He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one amongst the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it. -Isaiah 44:15 | Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. -Isaiah 44:16 | He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire." -Isaiah 44:17 | The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!" -Isaiah 44:18 | They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand. -Isaiah 44:19 | No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burnt part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?" -Isaiah 44:20 | He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?" -Isaiah 44:21 | Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me. -Isaiah 44:22 | I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. -Isaiah 44:23 | Sing, you heavens, for the Lord has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. -Isaiah 44:24 | The Lord, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: "I am the Lord, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; -Isaiah 44:25 | who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; -Isaiah 44:26 | who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’ -Isaiah 44:27 | who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’ -Isaiah 44:28 | Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’" -Isaiah 45:01 | The Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armour; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: -Isaiah 45:02 | "I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron. -Isaiah 45:03 | I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel. -Isaiah 45:04 | For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me. -Isaiah 45:05 | I am the Lord, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me, -Isaiah 45:06 | that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no one else. -Isaiah 45:07 | I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the Lord, who does all these things. -Isaiah 45:08 | Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the Lord, have created it. -Isaiah 45:09 | Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot amongst the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’ -Isaiah 45:10 | Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’" -Isaiah 45:11 | The Lord, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands! -Isaiah 45:12 | I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army. -Isaiah 45:13 | I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 45:14 | The Lord says: "The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god. -Isaiah 45:15 | Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Saviour.’" -Isaiah 45:16 | They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. -Isaiah 45:17 | Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting. -Isaiah 45:18 | For the Lord who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: "I am the Lord. There is no other. -Isaiah 45:19 | I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. -Isaiah 45:20 | "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save. -Isaiah 45:21 | Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, the LORD? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Saviour. There is no one besides me. -Isaiah 45:22 | "Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. -Isaiah 45:23 | I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. -Isaiah 45:24 | They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in the Lord.’" Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed. -Isaiah 45:25 | All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the Lord, and will rejoice! -Isaiah 46:01 | Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary. -Isaiah 46:02 | They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity. -Isaiah 46:03 | "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb. -Isaiah 46:04 | Even to old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver. -Isaiah 46:05 | "To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same? -Isaiah 46:06 | Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship. -Isaiah 46:07 | They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble. -Isaiah 46:08 | "Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors. -Isaiah 46:09 | Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me. -Isaiah 46:10 | I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please. -Isaiah 46:11 | I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it. -Isaiah 46:12 | Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness! -Isaiah 46:13 | I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel. -Isaiah 47:01 | "Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate. -Isaiah 47:02 | Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers. -Isaiah 47:03 | Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one." -Isaiah 47:04 | Our Redeemer, the Lord of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 47:05 | "Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms. -Isaiah 47:06 | I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged. -Isaiah 47:07 | You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results. -Isaiah 47:08 | "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’ -Isaiah 47:09 | But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. -Isaiah 47:10 | For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’ -Isaiah 47:11 | Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand. -Isaiah 47:12 | "Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have laboured from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail. -Isaiah 47:13 | You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you. -Isaiah 47:14 | Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by. -Isaiah 47:15 | The things that you laboured in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you. -Isaiah 48:01 | "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by the Lord’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness— -Isaiah 48:02 | for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the Lord of Armies is his name. -Isaiah 48:03 | I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened. -Isaiah 48:04 | Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze; -Isaiah 48:05 | therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’ -Isaiah 48:06 | You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known. -Isaiah 48:07 | They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’ -Isaiah 48:08 | Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb. -Isaiah 48:09 | For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off. -Isaiah 48:10 | Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. -Isaiah 48:11 | For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another. -Isaiah 48:12 | "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last. -Isaiah 48:13 | Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together. -Isaiah 48:14 | "Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who amongst them has declared these things? He whom the Lord loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans. -Isaiah 48:15 | I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous. -Isaiah 48:16 | "Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there." Now the Lord God has sent me with his Spirit. -Isaiah 48:17 | The Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. -Isaiah 48:18 | Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. -Isaiah 48:19 | Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me." -Isaiah 48:20 | Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, "The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!" -Isaiah 48:21 | They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out. -Isaiah 48:22 | "There is no peace", says the Lord, "for the wicked." -Isaiah 49:01 | Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the Lord has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name. -Isaiah 49:02 | He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver. -Isaiah 49:03 | He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." -Isaiah 49:04 | But I said, "I have laboured in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord, and my reward with my God." -Isaiah 49:05 | Now the Lord, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honourable in the Lord’s eyes, and my God has become my strength. -Isaiah 49:06 | Indeed, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth." -Isaiah 49:07 | The Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of the Lord who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you." -Isaiah 49:08 | The Lord says, "I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage, -Isaiah 49:09 | saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ "They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights. -Isaiah 49:10 | They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water. -Isaiah 49:11 | I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted. -Isaiah 49:12 | Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim." -Isaiah 49:13 | Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains, for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. -Isaiah 49:14 | But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me." -Isaiah 49:15 | "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! -Isaiah 49:16 | Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. -Isaiah 49:17 | Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you. -Isaiah 49:18 | Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live," says the Lord, "you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride. -Isaiah 49:19 | "For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. -Isaiah 49:20 | The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’ -Isaiah 49:21 | Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’" -Isaiah 49:22 | The Lord God says, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. -Isaiah 49:23 | Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed." -Isaiah 49:24 | Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? -Isaiah 49:25 | But the Lord says, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children. -Isaiah 49:26 | I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your Saviour and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob." -Isaiah 4:01 | Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach." -Isaiah 4:02 | In that day, the Lord’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel. -Isaiah 4:03 | It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written amongst the living in Jerusalem, -Isaiah 4:04 | when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning. -Isaiah 4:05 | The Lord will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy. -Isaiah 4:06 | There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain. -Isaiah 50:01 | The Lord says, "Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions. -Isaiah 50:02 | Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst. -Isaiah 50:03 | I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering." -Isaiah 50:04 | The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. -Isaiah 50:05 | The Lord God has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back. -Isaiah 50:06 | I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting. -Isaiah 50:07 | For the Lord God will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed. -Isaiah 50:08 | He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. -Isaiah 50:09 | Behold, the Lord God will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up. -Isaiah 50:10 | Who amongst you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the Lord’s name, and rely on his God. -Isaiah 50:11 | Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and amongst the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow. -Isaiah 51:01 | "Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from. -Isaiah 51:02 | Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many. -Isaiah 51:03 | For the Lord has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. -Isaiah 51:04 | "Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples. -Isaiah 51:05 | My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm. -Isaiah 51:06 | Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished. -Isaiah 51:07 | "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults. -Isaiah 51:08 | For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations." -Isaiah 51:09 | Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? -Isaiah 51:10 | Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? -Isaiah 51:11 | Those ransomed by the Lord will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away. -Isaiah 51:12 | "I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass? -Isaiah 51:13 | Have you forgotten the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor? -Isaiah 51:14 | The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail. -Isaiah 51:15 | For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. the Lord of Armies is his name. -Isaiah 51:16 | I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’" -Isaiah 51:17 | Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the Lord’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. -Isaiah 51:18 | There is no one to guide her amongst all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand amongst all the sons whom she has brought up. -Isaiah 51:19 | These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? -Isaiah 51:20 | Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Lord’s wrath, the rebuke of your God. -Isaiah 51:21 | Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: -Isaiah 51:22 | Your Lord GOD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more. -Isaiah 51:23 | I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over." -Isaiah 52:01 | Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. -Isaiah 52:02 | Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion! -Isaiah 52:03 | For the Lord says, "You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money." -Isaiah 52:04 | For the Lord God says: "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. -Isaiah 52:05 | "Now therefore, what do I do here," says the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock," says the Lord, "and my name is blasphemed continually all day long. -Isaiah 52:06 | Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I." -Isaiah 52:07 | How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!" -Isaiah 52:08 | Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord returns to Zion. -Isaiah 52:09 | Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. -Isaiah 52:10 | The Lord has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. -Isaiah 52:11 | Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from amongst her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry the Lord’s vessels. -Isaiah 52:12 | For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. -Isaiah 52:13 | Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high. -Isaiah 52:14 | Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men— -Isaiah 52:15 | so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard. -Isaiah 53:01 | Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord’s arm been revealed? -Isaiah 53:02 | For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. -Isaiah 53:03 | He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. -Isaiah 53:04 | Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. -Isaiah 53:05 | But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. -Isaiah 53:06 | All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. -Isaiah 53:07 | He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth. -Isaiah 53:08 | He was taken away by oppression and judgement. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people? -Isaiah 53:09 | They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. -Isaiah 53:10 | Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and the Lord’s pleasure will prosper in his hand. -Isaiah 53:11 | After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities. -Isaiah 53:12 | Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors. -Isaiah 54:01 | "Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says the Lord. -Isaiah 54:02 | "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. -Isaiah 54:03 | For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities. -Isaiah 54:04 | "Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more. -Isaiah 54:05 | For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth. -Isaiah 54:06 | For the Lord has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God. -Isaiah 54:07 | "For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies. -Isaiah 54:08 | In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you," says the Lord your Redeemer. -Isaiah 54:09 | "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. -Isaiah 54:10 | For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed," says the Lord who has mercy on you. -Isaiah 54:11 | "You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colours, and lay your foundations with sapphires. -Isaiah 54:12 | I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. -Isaiah 54:13 | All your children will be taught by the Lord; and your children’s peace will be great. -Isaiah 54:14 | You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you. -Isaiah 54:15 | Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you. -Isaiah 54:16 | "Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy. -Isaiah 54:17 | No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgement. This is the heritage of the Lord’s servants, and their righteousness is of me," says the Lord. -Isaiah 55:01 | "Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. -Isaiah 55:02 | Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness. -Isaiah 55:03 | Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. -Isaiah 55:04 | Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. -Isaiah 55:05 | Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you." -Isaiah 55:06 | Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. -Isaiah 55:07 | Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon. -Isaiah 55:08 | "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways," says the Lord. -Isaiah 55:09 | "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. -Isaiah 55:10 | For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; -Isaiah 55:11 | so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. -Isaiah 55:12 | For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands. -Isaiah 55:13 | Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for the Lord, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off." -Isaiah 56:01 | The Lord says, "Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed. -Isaiah 56:02 | Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil." -Isaiah 56:03 | Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, "The Lord will surely separate me from his people." Do not let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree." -Isaiah 56:04 | For the Lord says, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant, -Isaiah 56:05 | I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. -Isaiah 56:06 | Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to serve him, and to love the Lord’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant, -Isaiah 56:07 | I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples." -Isaiah 56:08 | The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered." -Isaiah 56:09 | All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest. -Isaiah 56:10 | His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. -Isaiah 56:11 | Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. -Isaiah 56:12 | "Come," they say, "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure." -Isaiah 57:01 | The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. -Isaiah 57:02 | He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. -Isaiah 57:03 | "But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. -Isaiah 57:04 | Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood, -Isaiah 57:05 | you who inflame yourselves amongst the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? -Isaiah 57:06 | Amongst the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? -Isaiah 57:07 | On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice. -Isaiah 57:08 | You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed. -Isaiah 57:09 | You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. -Isaiah 57:10 | You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint. -Isaiah 57:11 | "Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me? -Isaiah 57:12 | I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you. -Isaiah 57:13 | When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain." -Isaiah 57:14 | He will say, "Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people." -Isaiah 57:15 | For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. -Isaiah 57:16 | For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made. -Isaiah 57:17 | I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. -Isaiah 57:18 | I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. -Isaiah 57:19 | I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near," says the Lord; "and I will heal them." -Isaiah 57:20 | But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud. -Isaiah 57:21 | "There is no peace", says my God, "for the wicked." -Isaiah 58:01 | "Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. -Isaiah 58:02 | Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgements. They delight to draw near to God. -Isaiah 58:03 | ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your labourers. -Isaiah 58:04 | Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high. -Isaiah 58:05 | Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? -Isaiah 58:06 | "Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? -Isaiah 58:07 | Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? -Isaiah 58:08 | Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard. -Isaiah 58:09 | Then you will call, and the Lord will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ "If you take away from amongst you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly; -Isaiah 58:10 | and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; -Isaiah 58:11 | and the Lord will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail. -Isaiah 58:12 | Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings. -Isaiah 58:13 | "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the Lord honourable; and honour it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, -Isaiah 58:14 | then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father" for the Lord’s mouth has spoken it. -Isaiah 59:01 | Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. -Isaiah 59:02 | But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. -Isaiah 59:03 | For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. -Isaiah 59:04 | No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity. -Isaiah 59:05 | They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. -Isaiah 59:06 | Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. -Isaiah 59:07 | Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths. -Isaiah 59:08 | They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace. -Isaiah 59:09 | Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. -Isaiah 59:10 | We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Amongst those who are strong, we are like dead men. -Isaiah 59:11 | We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. -Isaiah 59:12 | For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: -Isaiah 59:13 | transgressing and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. -Isaiah 59:14 | Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter. -Isaiah 59:15 | Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. -Isaiah 59:16 | He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him. -Isaiah 59:17 | He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. -Isaiah 59:18 | According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due. -Isaiah 59:19 | So they will fear the Lord’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the Lord’s breath drives. -Isaiah 59:20 | "A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says the Lord. -Isaiah 59:21 | "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Lord. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring," says the Lord, "from now on and forever." -Isaiah 5:01 | Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. -Isaiah 5:02 | He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. -Isaiah 5:03 | "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard. -Isaiah 5:04 | What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes? -Isaiah 5:05 | Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. -Isaiah 5:06 | I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it." -Isaiah 5:07 | For the vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress. -Isaiah 5:08 | Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land! -Isaiah 5:09 | In my ears, the Lord of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. -Isaiah 5:10 | For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah." -Isaiah 5:11 | Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! -Isaiah 5:12 | The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of the Lord, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. -Isaiah 5:13 | Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honourable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst. -Isaiah 5:14 | Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices amongst them, descend into it. -Isaiah 5:15 | So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; -Isaiah 5:16 | but the Lord of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. -Isaiah 5:17 | Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich. -Isaiah 5:18 | Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope, -Isaiah 5:19 | who say, "Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!" -Isaiah 5:20 | Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! -Isaiah 5:21 | Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! -Isaiah 5:22 | Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink; -Isaiah 5:23 | who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! -Isaiah 5:24 | Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the Lord of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 5:25 | Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. -Isaiah 5:26 | He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. -Isaiah 5:27 | No one shall be weary nor stumble amongst them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken, -Isaiah 5:28 | whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. -Isaiah 5:29 | Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. -Isaiah 5:30 | They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds. -Isaiah 60:01 | "Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the Lord’s glory has risen on you. -Isaiah 60:02 | For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. -Isaiah 60:03 | Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. -Isaiah 60:04 | "Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms. -Isaiah 60:05 | Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you. -Isaiah 60:06 | A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of the Lord. -Isaiah 60:07 | All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house. -Isaiah 60:08 | "Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? -Isaiah 60:09 | Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. -Isaiah 60:10 | "Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favour I have had mercy on you. -Isaiah 60:11 | Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. -Isaiah 60:12 | For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. -Isaiah 60:13 | "The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. -Isaiah 60:14 | The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you the Lord’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. -Isaiah 60:15 | "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. -Isaiah 60:16 | You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Saviour, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. -Isaiah 60:17 | For bronze I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler. -Isaiah 60:18 | Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. -Isaiah 60:19 | The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. -Isaiah 60:20 | Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end. -Isaiah 60:21 | Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. -Isaiah 60:22 | The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, the Lord, will do this quickly in its time." -Isaiah 61:01 | The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, -Isaiah 61:02 | to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, -Isaiah 61:03 | to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. -Isaiah 61:04 | They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations. -Isaiah 61:05 | Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards. -Isaiah 61:06 | But you will be called the Lord’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory. -Isaiah 61:07 | Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them. -Isaiah 61:08 | "For I, the Lord, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. -Isaiah 61:09 | Their offspring will be known amongst the nations, and their offspring amongst the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which the Lord has blessed." -Isaiah 61:10 | I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. -Isaiah 61:11 | For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. -Isaiah 62:01 | For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp. -Isaiah 62:02 | The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the Lord’s mouth will name. -Isaiah 62:03 | You will also be a crown of beauty in the Lord’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand. -Isaiah 62:04 | You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord delights in you, and your land will be married. -Isaiah 62:05 | For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you. -Isaiah 62:06 | I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the Lord, take no rest, -Isaiah 62:07 | and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. -Isaiah 62:08 | The Lord has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have laboured, -Isaiah 62:09 | but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise the Lord. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary." -Isaiah 62:10 | Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples. -Isaiah 62:11 | Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’" -Isaiah 62:12 | They will call them "The Holy People, The Lord’s Redeemed". You will be called "Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken". -Isaiah 63:01 | Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save." -Isaiah 63:02 | Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? -Isaiah 63:03 | "I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. -Isaiah 63:04 | For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. -Isaiah 63:05 | I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me. -Isaiah 63:06 | I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth." -Isaiah 63:07 | I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has given to us, and the great goodness towards the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. -Isaiah 63:08 | For he said, "Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely" so he became their Saviour. -Isaiah 63:09 | In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. -Isaiah 63:10 | But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. -Isaiah 63:11 | Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, "Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit amongst them?" -Isaiah 63:12 | Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? -Isaiah 63:13 | Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble? -Isaiah 63:14 | As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Lord’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name. -Isaiah 63:15 | Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained towards me. -Isaiah 63:16 | For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Lord, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. -Isaiah 63:17 | O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. -Isaiah 63:18 | Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. -Isaiah 63:19 | We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name. -Isaiah 64:01 | Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence. -Isaiah 64:02 | As when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil; Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! -Isaiah 64:03 | When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence. -Isaiah 64:04 | For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. -Isaiah 64:05 | You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved? -Isaiah 64:06 | For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. -Isaiah 64:07 | There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. -Isaiah 64:08 | But now, Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand. -Isaiah 64:09 | Don’t be furious, Lord. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people. -Isaiah 64:10 | Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. -Isaiah 64:11 | Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burnt with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste. -Isaiah 64:12 | Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely? -Isaiah 65:01 | "I am enquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. -Isaiah 65:02 | I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; -Isaiah 65:03 | a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; -Isaiah 65:04 | who sit amongst the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; -Isaiah 65:05 | who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day. -Isaiah 65:06 | "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom, -Isaiah 65:07 | your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together", says the Lord, "who have burnt incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom." -Isaiah 65:08 | The Lord says, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all. -Isaiah 65:09 | I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there. -Isaiah 65:10 | Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. -Isaiah 65:11 | "But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; -Isaiah 65:12 | I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight." -Isaiah 65:13 | Therefore the Lord God says, "Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed; -Isaiah 65:14 | Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit. -Isaiah 65:15 | You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord God will kill you. He will call his servants by another name, -Isaiah 65:16 | so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes. -Isaiah 65:17 | "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind. -Isaiah 65:18 | But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy. -Isaiah 65:19 | I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more. -Isaiah 65:20 | "No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed. -Isaiah 65:21 | They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. -Isaiah 65:22 | They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands. -Isaiah 65:23 | They will not labour in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of the Lord’s blessed and their descendants with them. -Isaiah 65:24 | It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. -Isaiah 65:25 | The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says the Lord. -Isaiah 66:01 | The Lord says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest? -Isaiah 66:02 | For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word. -Isaiah 66:03 | He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations: -Isaiah 66:04 | I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight." -Isaiah 66:05 | Hear the Lord’s word, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed. -Isaiah 66:06 | A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that repays his enemies what they deserve. -Isaiah 66:07 | "Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son. -Isaiah 66:08 | Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children. -Isaiah 66:09 | Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?" says the Lord. "Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?" says your God. -Isaiah 66:10 | "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; -Isaiah 66:11 | that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory." -Isaiah 66:12 | For the Lord says, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees. -Isaiah 66:13 | As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem." -Isaiah 66:14 | You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. The Lord’s hand will be known amongst his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies. -Isaiah 66:15 | For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. -Isaiah 66:16 | For the Lord will execute judgement by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord will be many. -Isaiah 66:17 | "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together," says the Lord. -Isaiah 66:18 | "For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory. -Isaiah 66:19 | "I will set a sign amongst them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory amongst the nations. -Isaiah 66:20 | They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the Lord’s house. -Isaiah 66:21 | Of them I will also select priests and Levites," says the Lord. -Isaiah 66:22 | "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me," says the Lord, "so your offspring and your name shall remain. -Isaiah 66:23 | It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me," says the Lord. -Isaiah 66:24 | "They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." -Isaiah 6:01 | In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. -Isaiah 6:02 | Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. -Isaiah 6:03 | One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!" -Isaiah 6:04 | The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. -Isaiah 6:05 | Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell amongst a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies!" -Isaiah 6:06 | Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. -Isaiah 6:07 | He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven." -Isaiah 6:08 | I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!" -Isaiah 6:09 | He said, "Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ -Isaiah 6:10 | Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed." -Isaiah 6:11 | Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste, -Isaiah 6:12 | and the Lord has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land. -Isaiah 6:13 | If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock." -Isaiah 7:01 | In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. -Isaiah 7:02 | David’s house was told, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. -Isaiah 7:03 | Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field. -Isaiah 7:04 | Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. -Isaiah 7:06 | "Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it amongst ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel." -Isaiah 7:07 | This is what the Lord God says: "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen." -Isaiah 7:08 | For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people. -Isaiah 7:09 | The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’" -Isaiah 7:11 | "Ask a sign of the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above." -Isaiah 7:12 | But Ahaz said, "I won’t ask. I won’t tempt the Lord." -Isaiah 7:13 | He said, "Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also? -Isaiah 7:14 | Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. -Isaiah 7:15 | He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. -Isaiah 7:16 | For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. -Isaiah 7:17 | The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria. -Isaiah 7:18 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. -Isaiah 7:19 | They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. -Isaiah 7:20 | In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. -Isaiah 7:21 | It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep. -Isaiah 7:22 | It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land. -Isaiah 7:23 | It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. -Isaiah 7:24 | People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. -Isaiah 7:25 | All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on." -Isaiah 8:01 | The Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; -Isaiah 8:02 | and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah." -Isaiah 8:03 | I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, "Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ -Isaiah 8:04 | For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria." -Isaiah 8:06 | "Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; -Isaiah 8:07 | now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. -Isaiah 8:08 | It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel. -Isaiah 8:09 | Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! -Isaiah 8:10 | Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us." -Isaiah 8:12 | "Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorised. -Isaiah 8:13 | The Lord of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. -Isaiah 8:14 | He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. -Isaiah 8:15 | Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured." -Isaiah 8:16 | Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law amongst my disciples. -Isaiah 8:17 | I will wait for the Lord, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. -Isaiah 8:18 | Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion. -Isaiah 8:19 | When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter," shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? -Isaiah 8:20 | Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. -Isaiah 8:21 | They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward, -Isaiah 8:22 | and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. -Isaiah 9:01 | But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. -Isaiah 9:02 | The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. -Isaiah 9:03 | You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder. -Isaiah 9:04 | For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. -Isaiah 9:05 | For all the armour of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire. -Isaiah 9:06 | For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. -Isaiah 9:07 | Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will perform this. -Isaiah 9:08 | The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel. -Isaiah 9:09 | All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, -Isaiah 9:10 | "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place." -Isaiah 9:11 | Therefore the Lord will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, -Isaiah 9:12 | The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. -Isaiah 9:13 | Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the Lord of Armies. -Isaiah 9:14 | Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. -Isaiah 9:15 | The elder and the honourable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. -Isaiah 9:16 | For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed. -Isaiah 9:17 | Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. -Isaiah 9:18 | For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. -Isaiah 9:19 | Through the Lord of Armies’ wrath, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother. -Isaiah 9:20 | One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: -Isaiah 9:21 | Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. -James 1:01 | James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. -James 1:02 | Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, -James 1:03 | knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. -James 1:04 | Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. -James 1:05 | But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. -James 1:06 | But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. -James 1:07 | For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord. -James 1:08 | He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. -James 1:09 | But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; -James 1:10 | and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. -James 1:11 | For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits. -James 1:12 | Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. -James 1:13 | Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. -James 1:14 | But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. -James 1:15 | Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death. -James 1:16 | Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. -James 1:17 | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. -James 1:18 | Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. -James 1:19 | So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; -James 1:20 | for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. -James 1:21 | Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. -James 1:22 | But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. -James 1:23 | For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; -James 1:24 | for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. -James 1:25 | But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. -James 1:26 | If anyone amongst you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless. -James 1:27 | Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. -James 2:01 | My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. -James 2:02 | For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, -James 2:03 | and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, "Sit here in a good place" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool" -James 2:04 | haven’t you shown partiality amongst yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? -James 2:05 | Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? -James 2:06 | But you have dishonoured the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? -James 2:07 | Don’t they blaspheme the honourable name by which you are called? -James 2:08 | However, if you fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself," you do well. -James 2:09 | But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. -James 2:10 | For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. -James 2:11 | For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. -James 2:12 | So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. -James 2:13 | For judgement is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement. -James 2:14 | What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? -James 2:16 | and one of you tells them, "Go in peace. Be warmed and filled" yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? -James 2:17 | Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. -James 2:18 | Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. -James 2:19 | You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. -James 2:20 | But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? -James 2:21 | Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? -James 2:22 | You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. -James 2:23 | So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness," and he was called the friend of God. -James 2:24 | You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. -James 2:25 | In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way? -James 2:26 | For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. -James 3:01 | Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgement. -James 3:02 | For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also. -James 3:03 | Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. -James 3:04 | Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. -James 3:05 | So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! -James 3:06 | And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity amongst our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. -James 3:07 | For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; -James 3:08 | but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. -James 3:09 | With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God. -James 3:10 | Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. -James 3:11 | Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? -James 3:12 | Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. -James 3:13 | Who is wise and understanding amongst you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. -James 3:14 | But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. -James 3:15 | This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. -James 3:16 | For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. -James 3:17 | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. -James 3:18 | Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. -James 4:01 | Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? -James 4:02 | You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. -James 4:03 | You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. -James 4:04 | You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. -James 4:05 | Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? -James 4:06 | But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." -James 4:07 | Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. -James 4:08 | Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. -James 4:09 | Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. -James 4:10 | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. -James 4:11 | Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. -James 4:12 | Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? -James 4:13 | Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." -James 4:14 | Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. -James 4:15 | For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." -James 4:16 | But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. -James 4:17 | To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin. -James 5:01 | Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. -James 5:02 | Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. -James 5:03 | Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. -James 5:04 | Behold, the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. -James 5:05 | You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. -James 5:06 | You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you. -James 5:07 | Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. -James 5:08 | You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. -James 5:09 | Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. -James 5:10 | Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. -James 5:11 | Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. -James 5:12 | But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes", and your "no", "no", so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy. -James 5:13 | Is any amongst you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. -James 5:14 | Is any amongst you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, -James 5:15 | and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. -James 5:16 | Confess your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. -James 5:17 | Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. -James 5:18 | He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. -James 5:19 | Brothers, if any amongst you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, -James 5:20 | let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. -Jeremiah 10:01 | Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, house of Israel! -Jeremiah 10:02 | The Lord says, "Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. -Jeremiah 10:03 | For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. -Jeremiah 10:04 | They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move. -Jeremiah 10:05 | They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good." -Jeremiah 10:06 | There is no one like you, Lord. You are great, and your name is great in might. -Jeremiah 10:07 | Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because amongst all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you. -Jeremiah 10:08 | But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood. -Jeremiah 10:09 | There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skilful men. -Jeremiah 10:10 | But the Lord is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation. -Jeremiah 10:11 | "You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’" -Jeremiah 10:12 | God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens. -Jeremiah 10:13 | When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries. -Jeremiah 10:14 | Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. -Jeremiah 10:15 | They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish. -Jeremiah 10:16 | The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: the Lord of Armies is his name. -Jeremiah 10:17 | Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege. -Jeremiah 10:18 | For the Lord says, "Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it." -Jeremiah 10:19 | Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, "Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it." -Jeremiah 10:20 | My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains. -Jeremiah 10:21 | For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not enquired of the Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered. -Jeremiah 10:22 | The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals. -Jeremiah 10:23 | Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps. -Jeremiah 10:24 | Lord, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing. -Jeremiah 10:25 | Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. -Jeremiah 11:02 | "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; -Jeremiah 11:03 | and say to them, the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant, -Jeremiah 11:04 | which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God; -Jeremiah 11:05 | that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today." Then I answered, and said, "Amen, Lord." -Jeremiah 11:06 | The Lord said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them. -Jeremiah 11:07 | For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, "Obey my voice." -Jeremiah 11:08 | Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’" -Jeremiah 11:09 | The Lord said to me, "A conspiracy is found amongst the men of Judah, and amongst the inhabitants of Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 11:10 | They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. -Jeremiah 11:11 | Therefore the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them. -Jeremiah 11:12 | Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. -Jeremiah 11:13 | For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’ -Jeremiah 11:14 | "Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble. -Jeremiah 11:15 | What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice." -Jeremiah 11:16 | The Lord called your name, "A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit." With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken. -Jeremiah 11:17 | For the Lord of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. -Jeremiah 11:18 | The Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings. -Jeremiah 11:19 | But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, "Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered." -Jeremiah 11:20 | But, the Lord of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause. -Jeremiah 11:21 | "Therefore the Lord says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in the Lord’s name, that you not die by our hand;’ -Jeremiah 11:22 | therefore the Lord of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine. -Jeremiah 11:23 | There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’" -Jeremiah 12:01 | You are righteous, Lord, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously? -Jeremiah 12:02 | You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. -Jeremiah 12:03 | But you, Lord, know me. You see me, and test my heart towards you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. -Jeremiah 12:04 | How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, "He won’t see our latter end." -Jeremiah 12:05 | "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan? -Jeremiah 12:06 | For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. -Jeremiah 12:07 | "I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. -Jeremiah 12:08 | My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her. -Jeremiah 12:09 | Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour. -Jeremiah 12:10 | Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. -Jeremiah 12:11 | They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares. -Jeremiah 12:12 | Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the Lord devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace. -Jeremiah 12:13 | They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of the Lord’s fierce anger." -Jeremiah 12:14 | The Lord says, "Concerning all my evil neighbours, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from amongst them. -Jeremiah 12:15 | It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. -Jeremiah 12:16 | It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people. -Jeremiah 12:17 | But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 13:01 | The Lord said to me, "Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water." -Jeremiah 13:02 | So I bought a belt according to the Lord’s word, and put it on my waist. -Jeremiah 13:04 | "Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock." -Jeremiah 13:06 | After many days, the Lord said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there." -Jeremiah 13:07 | Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing. -Jeremiah 13:09 | "The Lord says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 13:10 | This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing. -Jeremiah 13:11 | For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says the Lord; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’ -Jeremiah 13:12 | "Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says, "Every container should be filled with wine."’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’ -Jeremiah 13:13 | Then tell them, ‘The Lord says, "Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. -Jeremiah 13:14 | I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together," says the LORD: "I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them." -Jeremiah 13:15 | Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for the Lord has spoken. -Jeremiah 13:16 | Give glory to the Lord your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness. -Jeremiah 13:17 | But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive. -Jeremiah 13:18 | Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory. -Jeremiah 13:19 | The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive. -Jeremiah 13:20 | Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock? -Jeremiah 13:21 | What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? -Jeremiah 13:22 | If you say in your heart, "Why have these things come on me?" Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence. -Jeremiah 13:23 | Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. -Jeremiah 13:24 | "Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness. -Jeremiah 13:25 | This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me," says the Lord, "because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood." -Jeremiah 13:26 | Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear. -Jeremiah 13:27 | I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?" -Jeremiah 14:01 | This is the Lord’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. -Jeremiah 14:02 | "Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. -Jeremiah 14:03 | Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. -Jeremiah 14:04 | Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the ploughmen are disappointed. They cover their heads. -Jeremiah 14:05 | Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass. -Jeremiah 14:06 | The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation. -Jeremiah 14:07 | Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Lord; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you. -Jeremiah 14:08 | You hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? -Jeremiah 14:09 | Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Lord, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us. -Jeremiah 14:10 | The Lord says to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins." -Jeremiah 14:11 | The Lord said to me, "Don’t pray for this people for their good. -Jeremiah 14:12 | When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence." -Jeremiah 14:13 | Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’" -Jeremiah 14:14 | Then the Lord said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. -Jeremiah 14:15 | Therefore the Lord says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. -Jeremiah 14:16 | The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them. -Jeremiah 14:17 | "You shall say this word to them: "‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. -Jeremiah 14:18 | If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’" -Jeremiah 14:19 | Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! -Jeremiah 14:20 | We acknowledge, Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. -Jeremiah 14:21 | Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us. -Jeremiah 14:22 | Are there any amongst the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the Lord our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things. -Jeremiah 15:01 | Then the Lord said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn towards this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out! -Jeremiah 15:02 | It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘The Lord says: "Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity."’ -Jeremiah 15:03 | "I will appoint over them four kinds," says the LORD: "the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. -Jeremiah 15:04 | I will cause them to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 15:05 | For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare? -Jeremiah 15:06 | You have rejected me," says the Lord. "You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion. -Jeremiah 15:07 | I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways. -Jeremiah 15:08 | Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. -Jeremiah 15:09 | She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 15:10 | Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me. -Jeremiah 15:11 | The Lord said, "Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. -Jeremiah 15:12 | Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze? -Jeremiah 15:13 | I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. -Jeremiah 15:14 | I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you." -Jeremiah 15:15 | Lord, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. -Jeremiah 15:16 | Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, the Lord, God of Armies. -Jeremiah 15:17 | I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation. -Jeremiah 15:18 | Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? -Jeremiah 15:19 | Therefore the Lord says, "If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them. -Jeremiah 15:20 | I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 15:21 | "I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible." -Jeremiah 16:02 | "You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place." -Jeremiah 16:03 | For the Lord says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land: -Jeremiah 16:04 | "They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth." -Jeremiah 16:05 | For the Lord says, "Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," says the Lord, "even loving kindness and tender mercies. -Jeremiah 16:06 | Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them. -Jeremiah 16:07 | Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. -Jeremiah 16:08 | "You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink." -Jeremiah 16:09 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. -Jeremiah 16:10 | It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ -Jeremiah 16:11 | then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says the Lord, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshipped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. -Jeremiah 16:12 | You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me. -Jeremiah 16:13 | Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favour.’ -Jeremiah 16:14 | "Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that it will no more be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ -Jeremiah 16:15 | but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers. -Jeremiah 16:16 | "Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says the Lord, "and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. -Jeremiah 16:17 | For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. -Jeremiah 16:18 | First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations." -Jeremiah 16:19 | Lord, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit. -Jeremiah 16:20 | Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?" -Jeremiah 16:21 | "Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is the Lord." -Jeremiah 17:01 | "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars. -Jeremiah 17:02 | Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills. -Jeremiah 17:03 | My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders. -Jeremiah 17:04 | You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever." -Jeremiah 17:05 | The Lord says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the Lord. -Jeremiah 17:06 | For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land. -Jeremiah 17:07 | "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose confidence is in the Lord. -Jeremiah 17:08 | For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit. -Jeremiah 17:09 | The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? -Jeremiah 17:10 | "I, the Lord, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings." -Jeremiah 17:11 | As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool. -Jeremiah 17:12 | A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. -Jeremiah 17:13 | Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living waters. -Jeremiah 17:14 | Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise. -Jeremiah 17:15 | Behold, they ask me, "Where is the Lord’s word? Let it be fulfilled now." -Jeremiah 17:16 | As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face. -Jeremiah 17:17 | Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil. -Jeremiah 17:18 | Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. -Jeremiah 17:19 | The Lord said this to me: "Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 17:20 | Tell them, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: -Jeremiah 17:21 | The Lord says, "Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 17:22 | Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. -Jeremiah 17:23 | But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. -Jeremiah 17:24 | It will happen, if you diligently listen to me," says the Lord, "to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein; -Jeremiah 17:25 | then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever. -Jeremiah 17:26 | They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 17:27 | But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched." -Jeremiah 18:02 | "Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words." -Jeremiah 18:03 | Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels. -Jeremiah 18:04 | When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. -Jeremiah 18:06 | "House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?" says the Lord. "Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. -Jeremiah 18:07 | At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; -Jeremiah 18:08 | if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. -Jeremiah 18:09 | At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; -Jeremiah 18:10 | if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them. -Jeremiah 18:11 | "Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The Lord says: "Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings."’ -Jeremiah 18:12 | But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’" -Jeremiah 18:13 | Therefore the Lord says: "Ask now amongst the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. -Jeremiah 18:14 | Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? -Jeremiah 18:15 | For my people have forgotten me. They have burnt incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up, -Jeremiah 18:16 | to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head. -Jeremiah 18:17 | I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. -Jeremiah 18:18 | Then they said, "Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words." -Jeremiah 18:19 | Give heed to me, Lord, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. -Jeremiah 18:20 | Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. -Jeremiah 18:21 | Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle. -Jeremiah 18:22 | Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet. -Jeremiah 18:23 | Yet, Lord, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger. -Jeremiah 19:01 | Thus said the Lord, "Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; -Jeremiah 19:02 | and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. -Jeremiah 19:03 | Say, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. -Jeremiah 19:04 | Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burnt incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, -Jeremiah 19:05 | and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind. -Jeremiah 19:06 | Therefore, behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’. -Jeremiah 19:07 | "I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. -Jeremiah 19:08 | I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. -Jeremiah 19:09 | I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them."’ -Jeremiah 19:10 | "Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you, -Jeremiah 19:11 | and shall tell them, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury. -Jeremiah 19:12 | This is what I will do to this place," says the Lord, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. -Jeremiah 19:13 | The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burnt incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods." -Jeremiah 19:14 | Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house, and said to all the people: -Jeremiah 19:15 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’" -Jeremiah 1:01 | The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. -Jeremiah 1:02 | The Lord’s word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. -Jeremiah 1:03 | It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. -Jeremiah 1:05 | "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." -Jeremiah 1:06 | Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child." -Jeremiah 1:07 | But the Lord said to me, "Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you. -Jeremiah 1:08 | Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 1:09 | Then the Lord stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. -Jeremiah 1:10 | Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant." -Jeremiah 1:11 | Moreover the Lord’s word came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I said, "I see a branch of an almond tree." -Jeremiah 1:12 | Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it." -Jeremiah 1:13 | The Lord’s word came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" I said, "I see a boiling cauldron; and it is tipping away from the north." -Jeremiah 1:14 | Then the Lord said to me, "Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land. -Jeremiah 1:15 | For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north," says the Lord. "They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah. -Jeremiah 1:16 | I will utter my judgements against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. -Jeremiah 1:17 | "You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them. -Jeremiah 1:18 | For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. -Jeremiah 1:19 | They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you", says the Lord, "to rescue you." -Jeremiah 20:01 | Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the Lord’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. -Jeremiah 20:02 | Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 20:03 | On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. -Jeremiah 20:04 | For the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword. -Jeremiah 20:05 | Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon. -Jeremiah 20:06 | You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’" -Jeremiah 20:07 | Lord, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me. -Jeremiah 20:08 | For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, "Violence and destruction!" because the Lord’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day. -Jeremiah 20:09 | If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t. -Jeremiah 20:10 | For I have heard the defaming of many, "Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!" say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. "Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him." -Jeremiah 20:11 | But the Lord is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonour which will never be forgotten. -Jeremiah 20:12 | But the Lord of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you. -Jeremiah 20:13 | Sing to the LORD! Praise the Lord, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers. -Jeremiah 20:14 | Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. -Jeremiah 20:15 | Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, "A boy is born to you," making him very glad. -Jeremiah 20:16 | Let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; -Jeremiah 20:17 | because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. -Jeremiah 20:18 | Why did I come out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? -Jeremiah 21:02 | "Please enquire of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us." -Jeremiah 21:04 | ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city. -Jeremiah 21:05 | I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation. -Jeremiah 21:06 | I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence. -Jeremiah 21:07 | Afterward," says the Lord, "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy."’ -Jeremiah 21:08 | "You shall say to this people, ‘The Lord says: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. -Jeremiah 21:09 | He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life. -Jeremiah 21:10 | For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good," says the Lord. "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire."’ -Jeremiah 21:11 | "Concerning the house of the king of Judah, hear the Lord’s word: -Jeremiah 21:12 | House of David, the Lord says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. -Jeremiah 21:13 | Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says the Lord. ‘You that say, "Who would come down against us?" or "Who would enter into our homes?" -Jeremiah 21:14 | I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’" -Jeremiah 22:01 | The Lord said, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word, there: -Jeremiah 22:02 | ‘Hear the Lord’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates. -Jeremiah 22:03 | The Lord says: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place. -Jeremiah 22:04 | For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, his servants, and his people. -Jeremiah 22:05 | But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself," says the Lord, "that this house will become a desolation." -Jeremiah 22:06 | For the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. -Jeremiah 22:07 | I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. -Jeremiah 22:08 | "Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbour, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this great city?’ -Jeremiah 22:09 | Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, worshipped other gods, and served them.’" -Jeremiah 22:10 | Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country. -Jeremiah 22:11 | For the Lord says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: "He won’t return there any more. -Jeremiah 22:12 | But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more." -Jeremiah 22:13 | "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbour’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire; -Jeremiah 22:14 | who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red. -Jeremiah 22:15 | "Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. -Jeremiah 22:16 | He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 22:17 | But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence." -Jeremiah 22:18 | Therefore the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’ -Jeremiah 22:19 | He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem." -Jeremiah 22:20 | "Go up to Lebanon, and cry. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed. -Jeremiah 22:21 | I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice. -Jeremiah 22:22 | The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. -Jeremiah 22:23 | Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! -Jeremiah 22:24 | "As I live," says the Lord, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there. -Jeremiah 22:25 | I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. -Jeremiah 22:26 | I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die. -Jeremiah 22:27 | But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return." -Jeremiah 22:28 | Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know? -Jeremiah 22:29 | O earth, earth, earth, hear the Lord’s word! -Jeremiah 22:30 | The Lord says, "Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah." -Jeremiah 23:01 | "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:02 | Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: "You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:03 | "I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply. -Jeremiah 23:04 | I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:05 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. -Jeremiah 23:06 | In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: The Lord our righteousness. -Jeremiah 23:07 | "Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that they will no more say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ -Jeremiah 23:08 | but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land." -Jeremiah 23:09 | Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the Lord, and because of his holy words. -Jeremiah 23:10 | For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right; -Jeremiah 23:11 | for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:12 | Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:13 | "I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. -Jeremiah 23:14 | In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah." -Jeremiah 23:15 | Therefore the Lord of Armies says concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land." -Jeremiah 23:16 | The Lord of Armies says, "Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:17 | They say continually to those who despise me, ‘The Lord has said, "You will have peace"’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’ -Jeremiah 23:18 | For who has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it? -Jeremiah 23:19 | Behold, the Lord’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked. -Jeremiah 23:20 | The Lord’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly. -Jeremiah 23:21 | I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied. -Jeremiah 23:22 | But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. -Jeremiah 23:23 | "Am I a God at hand," says the Lord, "and not a God afar off? -Jeremiah 23:24 | Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?" says the Lord. "Don’t I fill heaven and earth?" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:25 | "I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ -Jeremiah 23:26 | How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? -Jeremiah 23:27 | They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal. -Jeremiah 23:28 | The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:29 | "Isn’t my word like fire?" says the Lord; "and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? -Jeremiah 23:30 | "Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the Lord, "who each steal my words from his neighbour. -Jeremiah 23:31 | Behold, I am against the prophets," says the Lord, "who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’ -Jeremiah 23:32 | Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams," says the Lord, "who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 23:33 | "When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘"What message? I will cast you off," says the Lord.’ -Jeremiah 23:34 | As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the Lord,’ I will even punish that man and his household. -Jeremiah 23:35 | You will say everyone to his neighbour, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ and, ‘What has the Lord said?’ -Jeremiah 23:36 | You will mention the message from the Lord no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of Armies, our God. -Jeremiah 23:37 | You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ -Jeremiah 23:38 | Although you say, ‘The message from the LORD;’ therefore the Lord says: ‘Because you say this word, "The message from the Lord," and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, "The message from the LORD" -Jeremiah 23:39 | therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence. -Jeremiah 23:40 | I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’" -Jeremiah 24:01 | The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Lord’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. -Jeremiah 24:02 | One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. -Jeremiah 24:03 | Then the Lord asked me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten." -Jeremiah 24:05 | "The Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. -Jeremiah 24:06 | For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up. -Jeremiah 24:07 | I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart. -Jeremiah 24:08 | "‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the Lord says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. -Jeremiah 24:09 | I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them. -Jeremiah 24:10 | I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, amongst them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’" -Jeremiah 25:01 | The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), -Jeremiah 25:03 | From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the Lord’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. -Jeremiah 25:04 | The Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear), saying, -Jeremiah 25:05 | "Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more. -Jeremiah 25:06 | Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm." -Jeremiah 25:07 | "Yet you have not listened to me," says the Lord; "that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt." -Jeremiah 25:08 | Therefore the Lord of Armies says: "Because you have not heard my words, -Jeremiah 25:09 | behold, I will send and take all the families of the north," says the Lord, "and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. -Jeremiah 25:10 | Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. -Jeremiah 25:11 | This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. -Jeremiah 25:12 | "It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation," says the Lord, "for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. -Jeremiah 25:13 | I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. -Jeremiah 25:14 | For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands." -Jeremiah 25:15 | For the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. -Jeremiah 25:16 | They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send amongst them." -Jeremiah 25:17 | Then I took the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: -Jeremiah 25:27 | "You shall tell them, ‘The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send amongst you."’ -Jeremiah 25:28 | It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "You shall surely drink. -Jeremiah 25:29 | For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of Armies."’ -Jeremiah 25:30 | "Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, "‘The Lord will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. -Jeremiah 25:31 | A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgement with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,"’ says the Lord." -Jeremiah 25:32 | The Lord of Armies says, "Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth." -Jeremiah 25:33 | The slain of the Lord will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground. -Jeremiah 25:34 | Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery. -Jeremiah 25:35 | The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape. -Jeremiah 25:36 | A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for the Lord destroys their pasture. -Jeremiah 25:37 | The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the Lord. -Jeremiah 25:38 | He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger. -Jeremiah 26:02 | "The Lord says: ‘Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word. -Jeremiah 26:03 | It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’ -Jeremiah 26:04 | You shall tell them, "The Lord says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, -Jeremiah 26:05 | to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened; -Jeremiah 26:06 | then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth." -Jeremiah 26:07 | The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 26:08 | When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, "You shall surely die! -Jeremiah 26:09 | Why have you prophesied in the Lord’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’" All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 26:10 | When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the Lord’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 26:11 | Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, "This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears." -Jeremiah 26:12 | Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, "The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. -Jeremiah 26:13 | Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the Lord your God’s voice; then the Lord will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you. -Jeremiah 26:14 | But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes. -Jeremiah 26:15 | Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears." -Jeremiah 26:16 | Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: "This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God." -Jeremiah 26:18 | "Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "‘Zion will be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’ -Jeremiah 26:19 | Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear the Lord, and entreat the favour of the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!" -Jeremiah 26:20 | There was also a man who prophesied in the Lord’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. -Jeremiah 26:23 | and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. -Jeremiah 27:02 | the Lord says to me: "Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck. -Jeremiah 27:04 | Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "You shall tell your masters: -Jeremiah 27:05 | ‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me. -Jeremiah 27:06 | Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him. -Jeremiah 27:07 | All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant. -Jeremiah 27:08 | "‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says the Lord, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. -Jeremiah 27:09 | But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon" -Jeremiah 27:10 | for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish. -Jeremiah 27:11 | But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says the Lord; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’" -Jeremiah 27:12 | I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. -Jeremiah 27:13 | Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? -Jeremiah 27:14 | Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. -Jeremiah 27:15 | For I have not sent them," says the Lord, "but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you." -Jeremiah 27:16 | Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, the Lord says, "Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. -Jeremiah 27:17 | Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation? -Jeremiah 27:18 | But if they are prophets, and if the Lord’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the Lord’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon. -Jeremiah 27:19 | For the Lord of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, -Jeremiah 27:21 | yes, the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in the Lord’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: -Jeremiah 27:22 | ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says the Lord; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’" -Jeremiah 28:02 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. -Jeremiah 28:05 | Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the Lord’s house, -Jeremiah 28:06 | even the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the Lord do so. May the Lord perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place. -Jeremiah 28:07 | Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people: -Jeremiah 28:08 | The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence. -Jeremiah 28:09 | The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that the Lord has truly sent him." -Jeremiah 28:10 | Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it. -Jeremiah 28:11 | Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "The Lord says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the neck of all the nations within two full years.’" Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way. -Jeremiah 28:13 | "Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘The Lord says, "You have broken the bars of wood, but you have made in their place bars of iron." -Jeremiah 28:14 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. I have also given him the animals of the field." -Jeremiah 28:15 | Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. -Jeremiah 28:16 | Therefore the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.’" -Jeremiah 28:17 | So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. -Jeremiah 29:01 | Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, -Jeremiah 29:02 | (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem), -Jeremiah 29:04 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: -Jeremiah 29:05 | "Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit. -Jeremiah 29:06 | Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished. -Jeremiah 29:07 | Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace." -Jeremiah 29:08 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Don’t let your prophets who are amongst you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamt. -Jeremiah 29:09 | For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 29:10 | For the Lord says, "After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place. -Jeremiah 29:11 | For I know the thoughts that I think towards you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:12 | You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. -Jeremiah 29:13 | You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:14 | I will be found by you," says the Lord, "and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive." -Jeremiah 29:15 | Because you have said, "The Lord has raised us up prophets in Babylon" -Jeremiah 29:16 | the Lord says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity; -Jeremiah 29:17 | the Lord of Armies says: "Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad. -Jeremiah 29:18 | I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach amongst all the nations where I have driven them, -Jeremiah 29:19 | because they have not listened to my words," says the Lord, "with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 29:20 | Hear therefore the Lord’s word, all you captives, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. -Jeremiah 29:21 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: "Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes. -Jeremiah 29:22 | A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘The Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’ -Jeremiah 29:23 | because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 29:26 | "The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the Lord’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. -Jeremiah 29:27 | Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you, -Jeremiah 29:28 | because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?" -Jeremiah 29:29 | Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. -Jeremiah 29:31 | "Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘The Lord says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie" -Jeremiah 29:32 | therefore the Lord says, "Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell amongst this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people," says the Lord, "because he has spoken rebellion against the Lord." -Jeremiah 2:02 | "Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The Lord says, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. -Jeremiah 2:03 | Israel was holiness to the Lord, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,"’ says the Lord." -Jeremiah 2:04 | Hear the Lord’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel! -Jeremiah 2:05 | The Lord says, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless? -Jeremiah 2:06 | They didn’t say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’ -Jeremiah 2:07 | I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. -Jeremiah 2:08 | The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit. -Jeremiah 2:09 | "Therefore I will yet contend with you," says the Lord, "and I will contend with your children’s children. -Jeremiah 2:10 | For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing. -Jeremiah 2:11 | Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit. -Jeremiah 2:12 | "Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 2:13 | "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water. -Jeremiah 2:14 | Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive? -Jeremiah 2:15 | The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burnt up, without inhabitant. -Jeremiah 2:16 | The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. -Jeremiah 2:17 | "Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way? -Jeremiah 2:18 | Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? -Jeremiah 2:19 | "Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the Lord your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. -Jeremiah 2:20 | "For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute. -Jeremiah 2:21 | Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? -Jeremiah 2:22 | For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord GOD. -Jeremiah 2:23 | "How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways, -Jeremiah 2:24 | a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her. -Jeremiah 2:25 | "Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’ -Jeremiah 2:26 | As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, -Jeremiah 2:27 | who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’ -Jeremiah 2:28 | "But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah. -Jeremiah 2:29 | "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 2:30 | "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. -Jeremiah 2:31 | Generation, consider the Lord’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’? -Jeremiah 2:32 | "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number. -Jeremiah 2:33 | How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways. -Jeremiah 2:34 | Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things. -Jeremiah 2:35 | "Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’ -Jeremiah 2:36 | Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. -Jeremiah 2:37 | You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them. -Jeremiah 30:02 | "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. -Jeremiah 30:03 | For, behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’" -Jeremiah 30:04 | These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. -Jeremiah 30:05 | For the Lord says: "We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace. -Jeremiah 30:06 | Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale? -Jeremiah 30:07 | Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it! It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it. -Jeremiah 30:08 | It will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants; -Jeremiah 30:09 | but they will serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. -Jeremiah 30:10 | Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid. -Jeremiah 30:11 | For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished." -Jeremiah 30:12 | For the Lord says, "Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous. -Jeremiah 30:13 | There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines. -Jeremiah 30:14 | All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. -Jeremiah 30:15 | Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you. -Jeremiah 30:16 | Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey. -Jeremiah 30:17 | For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds," says the Lord; "because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’" -Jeremiah 30:18 | The Lord says: "Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place. -Jeremiah 30:19 | Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small. -Jeremiah 30:20 | Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them. -Jeremiah 30:21 | Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from amongst them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 30:22 | "You shall be my people, and I will be your God. -Jeremiah 30:23 | Behold, the Lord’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm: it will burst on the head of the wicked. -Jeremiah 30:24 | The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it." -Jeremiah 31:01 | "At that time," says the Lord, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people." -Jeremiah 31:02 | The Lord says, "The people who survive the sword found favour in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest." -Jeremiah 31:03 | The Lord appeared of old to me, saying, "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness. -Jeremiah 31:04 | I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry. -Jeremiah 31:05 | Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit. -Jeremiah 31:06 | For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to the Lord our God.’" -Jeremiah 31:07 | For the Lord says, "Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘The Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’ -Jeremiah 31:08 | Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company. -Jeremiah 31:09 | They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn. -Jeremiah 31:10 | "Hear the Lord’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’ -Jeremiah 31:11 | For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. -Jeremiah 31:12 | They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of the Lord, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all. -Jeremiah 31:13 | Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. -Jeremiah 31:14 | I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 31:15 | The Lord says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more." -Jeremiah 31:16 | The Lord says: "Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded," says the Lord. "They will come again from the land of the enemy. -Jeremiah 31:17 | There is hope for your latter end," says the Lord. "Your children will come again to their own territory. -Jeremiah 31:18 | "I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are the Lord my God. -Jeremiah 31:19 | Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’ -Jeremiah 31:20 | Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 31:21 | "Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart towards the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities. -Jeremiah 31:22 | How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man." -Jeremiah 31:23 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘The Lord bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’ -Jeremiah 31:24 | Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. -Jeremiah 31:25 | For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul." -Jeremiah 31:26 | On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. -Jeremiah 31:27 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. -Jeremiah 31:28 | It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 31:29 | "In those days they will say no more, "‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ -Jeremiah 31:30 | But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge. -Jeremiah 31:31 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: -Jeremiah 31:32 | not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 31:33 | "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the LORD: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. -Jeremiah 31:34 | They will no longer each teach his neighbour, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest," says the LORD: "for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." -Jeremiah 31:35 | The Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; the Lord of Armies is his name, says: -Jeremiah 31:36 | "If these ordinances depart from before me," says the Lord, "then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever." -Jeremiah 31:37 | The Lord says: "If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 31:38 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that the city will be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. -Jeremiah 31:39 | The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn towards Goah. -Jeremiah 31:40 | The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, will be holy to the Lord. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever." -Jeremiah 32:01 | This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. -Jeremiah 32:05 | and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him," says the LORD: "though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?" -Jeremiah 32:07 | ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, "Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it." -Jeremiah 32:08 | "So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the Lord’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ "Then I knew that this was the Lord’s word. -Jeremiah 32:09 | I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. -Jeremiah 32:10 | I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him. -Jeremiah 32:11 | So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; -Jeremiah 32:12 | and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard. -Jeremiah 32:14 | the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.’ -Jeremiah 32:15 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.’ -Jeremiah 32:17 | "Ah Lord GOD! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you. -Jeremiah 32:18 | You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of Armies is your name: -Jeremiah 32:19 | great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings; -Jeremiah 32:20 | who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and amongst other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today; -Jeremiah 32:21 | and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; -Jeremiah 32:22 | and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. -Jeremiah 32:23 | They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them. -Jeremiah 32:24 | "Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it. -Jeremiah 32:25 | You have said to me, Lord GOD, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans." -Jeremiah 32:27 | "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? -Jeremiah 32:28 | Therefore the Lord says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it. -Jeremiah 32:29 | The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. -Jeremiah 32:30 | "For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the Lord. -Jeremiah 32:31 | For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face, -Jeremiah 32:32 | because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 32:33 | They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. -Jeremiah 32:34 | But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. -Jeremiah 32:35 | They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin." -Jeremiah 32:36 | Now therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning this city, about which you say, "It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:" -Jeremiah 32:37 | "Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely. -Jeremiah 32:38 | Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. -Jeremiah 32:39 | I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them. -Jeremiah 32:40 | I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me. -Jeremiah 32:41 | Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul." -Jeremiah 32:42 | For the Lord says: "Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. -Jeremiah 32:43 | Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ -Jeremiah 32:44 | Men will buy fields for money, sign the deeds, seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 33:02 | "The Lord who does it, the Lord who forms it to establish it—the Lord is his name, says: -Jeremiah 33:03 | ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’ -Jeremiah 33:04 | For the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defence against the mounds and against the sword; -Jeremiah 33:05 | while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city: -Jeremiah 33:06 | ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. -Jeremiah 33:07 | I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. -Jeremiah 33:08 | I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me. -Jeremiah 33:09 | This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’" -Jeremiah 33:10 | The Lord says: "Yet again there will be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’ -Jeremiah 33:11 | the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to the Lord of Armies, for the Lord is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into the Lord’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 33:12 | The Lord of Armies says: "Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. -Jeremiah 33:13 | In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts them," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 33:14 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah. -Jeremiah 33:15 | "In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land. -Jeremiah 33:16 | In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: The Lord our righteousness." -Jeremiah 33:17 | For the Lord says: "David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. -Jeremiah 33:18 | The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually." -Jeremiah 33:20 | "The Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time, -Jeremiah 33:21 | then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. -Jeremiah 33:22 | As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’" -Jeremiah 33:24 | "Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has the Lord cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them." -Jeremiah 33:25 | The Lord says: "If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; -Jeremiah 33:26 | then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them." -Jeremiah 34:02 | "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, the Lord says, "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire. -Jeremiah 34:03 | You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon."’ -Jeremiah 34:04 | "Yet hear the Lord’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah: The Lord says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword. -Jeremiah 34:05 | You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, "Ah Lord!" for I have spoken the word,’ says the Lord." -Jeremiah 34:06 | Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, -Jeremiah 34:07 | when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. -Jeremiah 34:08 | The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; -Jeremiah 34:09 | that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother. -Jeremiah 34:10 | All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go; -Jeremiah 34:11 | but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. -Jeremiah 34:14 | At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear. -Jeremiah 34:15 | You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbour. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name; -Jeremiah 34:16 | but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’" -Jeremiah 34:17 | Therefore the Lord says: "You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbour. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty," says the Lord, "to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth. -Jeremiah 34:18 | I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts: -Jeremiah 34:19 | the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; -Jeremiah 34:20 | I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. -Jeremiah 34:21 | "I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you. -Jeremiah 34:22 | Behold, I will command," says the Lord, "and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant." -Jeremiah 35:02 | "Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the Lord’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink." -Jeremiah 35:03 | Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, with his brothers, all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; -Jeremiah 35:04 | and I brought them into the Lord’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. -Jeremiah 35:05 | I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine!" -Jeremiah 35:06 | But they said, "We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever. -Jeremiah 35:07 | You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’ -Jeremiah 35:08 | We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; -Jeremiah 35:09 | and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed; -Jeremiah 35:10 | but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. -Jeremiah 35:11 | But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come! Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’" -Jeremiah 35:13 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 35:14 | "The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me. -Jeremiah 35:15 | I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me. -Jeremiah 35:16 | The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me."’ -Jeremiah 35:17 | "Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’" -Jeremiah 35:18 | Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’ -Jeremiah 35:19 | therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’" -Jeremiah 36:02 | "Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. -Jeremiah 36:03 | It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." -Jeremiah 36:04 | Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the Lord’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. -Jeremiah 36:05 | Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am restricted. I can’t go into the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 36:06 | Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the Lord’s words, in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. -Jeremiah 36:07 | It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will each return from his evil way; for the Lord has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people." -Jeremiah 36:08 | Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the Lord’s words in the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 36:09 | Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the Lord. -Jeremiah 36:10 | Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the Lord’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house, in the ears of all the people. -Jeremiah 36:12 | he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. -Jeremiah 36:13 | Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. -Jeremiah 36:14 | Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them. -Jeremiah 36:15 | They said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing. -Jeremiah 36:16 | Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one towards another, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king of all these words." -Jeremiah 36:17 | They asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?" -Jeremiah 36:18 | Then Baruch answered them, "He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book." -Jeremiah 36:19 | Then the princes said to Baruch, "You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are." -Jeremiah 36:20 | They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king. -Jeremiah 36:21 | So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king. -Jeremiah 36:22 | Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him. -Jeremiah 36:23 | When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. -Jeremiah 36:24 | The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments. -Jeremiah 36:25 | Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them. -Jeremiah 36:26 | The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the Lord hid them. -Jeremiah 36:28 | "Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burnt. -Jeremiah 36:29 | Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘The Lord says: "You have burnt this scroll, saying, "Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’"’ -Jeremiah 36:30 | Therefore the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. -Jeremiah 36:31 | I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen." -Jeremiah 36:32 | Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burnt in the fire; and many similar words were added to them. -Jeremiah 37:01 | Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. -Jeremiah 37:02 | But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the Lord’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. -Jeremiah 37:03 | Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "Pray now to the Lord our God for us." -Jeremiah 37:04 | Now Jeremiah came in and went out amongst the people; for they had not put him into prison. -Jeremiah 37:05 | Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 37:07 | "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to enquire of me: "Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land. -Jeremiah 37:08 | The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire."’ -Jeremiah 37:09 | "The Lord says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely depart from us" for they will not depart. -Jeremiah 37:10 | For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained amongst them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’" -Jeremiah 37:11 | When the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, -Jeremiah 37:12 | then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people. -Jeremiah 37:13 | When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are defecting to the Chaldeans!" -Jeremiah 37:14 | Then Jeremiah said, "That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans." But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. -Jeremiah 37:15 | The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. -Jeremiah 37:16 | When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, -Jeremiah 37:17 | then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah said, "There is." He also said, "You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon." -Jeremiah 37:18 | Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, "How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? -Jeremiah 37:19 | Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’ -Jeremiah 37:20 | Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there." -Jeremiah 37:21 | Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. -Jeremiah 38:02 | "The Lord says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’ -Jeremiah 38:03 | The Lord says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’" -Jeremiah 38:04 | Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm." -Jeremiah 38:05 | Zedekiah the king said, "Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you." -Jeremiah 38:06 | Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. -Jeremiah 38:07 | Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate), -Jeremiah 38:09 | "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city." -Jeremiah 38:10 | Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies." -Jeremiah 38:11 | So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. -Jeremiah 38:12 | Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords." Jeremiah did so. -Jeremiah 38:13 | So they lifted Jeremiah up with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. -Jeremiah 38:14 | Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in the Lord’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me." -Jeremiah 38:15 | Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me." -Jeremiah 38:16 | So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, "As the Lord lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life." -Jeremiah 38:17 | Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "The Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burnt with fire. You will live, along with your house. -Jeremiah 38:18 | But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’" -Jeremiah 38:19 | Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me." -Jeremiah 38:20 | But Jeremiah said, "They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the Lord’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live. -Jeremiah 38:21 | But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that the Lord has shown me: -Jeremiah 38:22 | ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, "Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you." -Jeremiah 38:23 | They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burnt with fire.’" -Jeremiah 38:24 | Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die. -Jeremiah 38:25 | But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’ -Jeremiah 38:26 | then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’" -Jeremiah 38:27 | Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. -Jeremiah 38:28 | So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. -Jeremiah 39:01 | In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. -Jeremiah 39:02 | In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. -Jeremiah 39:03 | All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. -Jeremiah 39:04 | When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out towards the Arabah. -Jeremiah 39:05 | But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgement on him. -Jeremiah 39:06 | Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah. -Jeremiah 39:07 | Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. -Jeremiah 39:08 | The Chaldeans burnt the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 39:09 | Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained. -Jeremiah 39:10 | But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. -Jeremiah 39:12 | "Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you." -Jeremiah 39:13 | So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, with Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon; -Jeremiah 39:14 | they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived amongst the people. -Jeremiah 39:16 | "Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day. -Jeremiah 39:17 | But I will deliver you in that day," says the Lord; "and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. -Jeremiah 39:18 | For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me," says the Lord.’" -Jeremiah 3:01 | "They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 3:02 | "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. -Jeremiah 3:03 | Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed. -Jeremiah 3:04 | Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’? -Jeremiah 3:05 | "‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way." -Jeremiah 3:06 | Moreover, the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there. -Jeremiah 3:07 | I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. -Jeremiah 3:08 | I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute. -Jeremiah 3:09 | Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. -Jeremiah 3:10 | Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretence," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 3:11 | The Lord said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. -Jeremiah 3:12 | Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says the Lord. ‘I will not keep anger forever. -Jeremiah 3:13 | Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says the Lord." -Jeremiah 3:14 | "Return, backsliding children," says the Lord; "for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. -Jeremiah 3:15 | I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. -Jeremiah 3:16 | It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days," says the Lord, "they will no longer say, ‘the ark of the Lord’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made. -Jeremiah 3:17 | At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Lord’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the Lord’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart. -Jeremiah 3:18 | In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers. -Jeremiah 3:19 | "But I said, ‘How I desire to put you amongst the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me "My Father", and shall not turn away from following me.’ -Jeremiah 3:20 | "Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 3:21 | A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God. -Jeremiah 3:22 | Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the Lord our God. -Jeremiah 3:23 | Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God. -Jeremiah 3:24 | But the shameful thing has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. -Jeremiah 3:25 | Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the Lord our God’s voice." -Jeremiah 40:01 | The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains amongst all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. -Jeremiah 40:02 | The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, "The Lord your God pronounced this evil on this place; -Jeremiah 40:03 | and the Lord has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you. -Jeremiah 40:04 | Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go." -Jeremiah 40:05 | Now while he had not yet gone back, "Go back then," he said, "to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him amongst the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go." So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go. -Jeremiah 40:06 | Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him amongst the people who were left in the land. -Jeremiah 40:07 | Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon; -Jeremiah 40:10 | As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken." -Jeremiah 40:11 | Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and amongst the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; -Jeremiah 40:12 | then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits. -Jeremiah 40:15 | Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, "Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?" -Jeremiah 40:16 | But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael." -Jeremiah 41:01 | Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah. -Jeremiah 41:02 | Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. -Jeremiah 41:03 | Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. -Jeremiah 41:05 | men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the Lord’s house. -Jeremiah 41:06 | Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and as he met them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam." -Jeremiah 41:07 | It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. -Jeremiah 41:08 | But ten men were found amongst those who said to Ishmael, "Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey." So he stopped, and didn’t kill them amongst their brothers. -Jeremiah 41:09 | Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed. -Jeremiah 41:10 | Then Ishmael carried away captive all of the people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. -Jeremiah 41:11 | But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, -Jeremiah 41:12 | then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. -Jeremiah 41:13 | Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad. -Jeremiah 41:14 | So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. -Jeremiah 41:15 | But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. -Jeremiah 41:16 | Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, with the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon. -Jeremiah 41:17 | They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt -Jeremiah 41:18 | because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land. -Jeremiah 42:02 | and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us; -Jeremiah 42:03 | that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do." -Jeremiah 42:04 | Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing the Lord answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you." -Jeremiah 42:05 | Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the Lord be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to tell us. -Jeremiah 42:06 | Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God." -Jeremiah 42:07 | After ten days, the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah. -Jeremiah 42:08 | Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, -Jeremiah 42:09 | and said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says: -Jeremiah 42:10 | ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. -Jeremiah 42:11 | Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says the LORD: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. -Jeremiah 42:12 | I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. -Jeremiah 42:13 | "‘But if you say, "We will not dwell in this land" so that you don’t obey the Lord your God’s voice, saying, -Jeremiah 42:14 | "No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell:"’ -Jeremiah 42:15 | now therefore hear the Lord’s word, O remnant of Judah: The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there; -Jeremiah 42:16 | then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there. -Jeremiah 42:17 | So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’ -Jeremiah 42:18 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’ -Jeremiah 42:19 | "The Lord has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today. -Jeremiah 42:20 | For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God; and according to all that the Lord our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’ -Jeremiah 42:21 | I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the Lord your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you. -Jeremiah 42:22 | Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live there." -Jeremiah 43:01 | When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words, -Jeremiah 43:02 | then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely. The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’ -Jeremiah 43:06 | the men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; -Jeremiah 43:07 | and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey the Lord’s voice: and they came to Tahpanhes. -Jeremiah 43:09 | "Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; -Jeremiah 43:10 | and tell them, the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them. -Jeremiah 43:11 | He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword. -Jeremiah 43:12 | I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace. -Jeremiah 43:13 | He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’" -Jeremiah 44:02 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them, -Jeremiah 44:03 | because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. -Jeremiah 44:04 | However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, "Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate." -Jeremiah 44:05 | But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods. -Jeremiah 44:06 | Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’ -Jeremiah 44:07 | "Therefore now the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining; -Jeremiah 44:08 | in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach amongst all the nations of the earth? -Jeremiah 44:09 | Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? -Jeremiah 44:10 | They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’ -Jeremiah 44:11 | "Therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. -Jeremiah 44:12 | I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. -Jeremiah 44:13 | For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; -Jeremiah 44:14 | so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’" -Jeremiah 44:16 | "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the Lord’s name, we will not listen to you. -Jeremiah 44:17 | But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. -Jeremiah 44:18 | But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine." -Jeremiah 44:19 | The women said, "When we burnt incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?" -Jeremiah 44:21 | "The incense that you burnt in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t the Lord remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind? -Jeremiah 44:22 | Thus the Lord could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today. -Jeremiah 44:23 | Because you have burnt incense, and because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed the Lord’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today." -Jeremiah 44:24 | Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, "Hear the Lord’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt! -Jeremiah 44:25 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, "We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her." "‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’ -Jeremiah 44:26 | "Therefore hear the Lord’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "As the Lord God lives." -Jeremiah 44:27 | Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone. -Jeremiah 44:28 | Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. -Jeremiah 44:29 | "‘This will be the sign to you,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’ -Jeremiah 44:30 | The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.’" -Jeremiah 45:03 | ‘You said, "Woe is me now! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest."’ -Jeremiah 45:04 | "You shall tell him, the Lord says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. -Jeremiah 45:05 | Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says the Lord; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’" -Jeremiah 46:01 | The Lord’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. -Jeremiah 46:02 | Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. -Jeremiah 46:04 | Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail. -Jeremiah 46:05 | Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 46:06 | "Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen. -Jeremiah 46:07 | "Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? -Jeremiah 46:08 | Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’ -Jeremiah 46:09 | Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. -Jeremiah 46:10 | For that day is of the Lord, the Lord of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, the Lord of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. -Jeremiah 46:11 | Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you. -Jeremiah 46:12 | The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they both fall together." -Jeremiah 46:13 | The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt: -Jeremiah 46:14 | "Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, ‘Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.’ -Jeremiah 46:15 | Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because the Lord pushed them. -Jeremiah 46:16 | He made many to stumble. Yes, they fell on one another. They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’ -Jeremiah 46:17 | They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’ -Jeremiah 46:18 | "As I live," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Armies, "surely like Tabor amongst the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come. -Jeremiah 46:19 | You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burnt up, without inhabitant. -Jeremiah 46:20 | "Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come. -Jeremiah 46:21 | Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation. -Jeremiah 46:22 | Its sound will go like the serpent; for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. -Jeremiah 46:23 | They will cut down her forest," says the Lord, "though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. -Jeremiah 46:24 | The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north." -Jeremiah 46:25 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him. -Jeremiah 46:26 | I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 46:27 | "But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid. -Jeremiah 46:28 | Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant," says the Lord; "for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished." -Jeremiah 47:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. -Jeremiah 47:02 | The Lord says: "Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail. -Jeremiah 47:03 | At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back to their children for feebleness of hands; -Jeremiah 47:04 | because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for the Lord will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. -Jeremiah 47:05 | Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? -Jeremiah 47:06 | "‘You sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’ -Jeremiah 47:07 | "How can you be quiet, since the Lord has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it." -Jeremiah 48:01 | Of Moab. The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is disappointed. It is taken. Misgab is put to shame and broken down. -Jeremiah 48:02 | The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you. -Jeremiah 48:03 | The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! -Jeremiah 48:04 | Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. -Jeremiah 48:05 | For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. -Jeremiah 48:06 | Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness. -Jeremiah 48:07 | For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together. -Jeremiah 48:08 | The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed; as the Lord has spoken. -Jeremiah 48:09 | Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them. -Jeremiah 48:10 | "Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood. -Jeremiah 48:11 | "Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. -Jeremiah 48:12 | Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vessels, and break their containers in pieces. -Jeremiah 48:13 | Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. -Jeremiah 48:14 | "How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’? -Jeremiah 48:15 | Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Armies. -Jeremiah 48:16 | "The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast. -Jeremiah 48:17 | All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, ‘How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!’ -Jeremiah 48:18 | "You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds. -Jeremiah 48:19 | Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’ -Jeremiah 48:26 | "Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision. -Jeremiah 48:27 | For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found amongst thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head. -Jeremiah 48:28 | You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. -Jeremiah 48:29 | "We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart. -Jeremiah 48:30 | I know his wrath," says the Lord, "that it is nothing; his boastings have done nothing. -Jeremiah 48:31 | Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres. -Jeremiah 48:32 | With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage. -Jeremiah 48:33 | Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting. -Jeremiah 48:34 | From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate. -Jeremiah 48:35 | Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab," says the Lord, "him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods. -Jeremiah 48:36 | Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished. -Jeremiah 48:37 | For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist. -Jeremiah 48:38 | On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 48:39 | "How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him." -Jeremiah 48:40 | For the Lord says: "Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab. -Jeremiah 48:41 | Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized. The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. -Jeremiah 48:42 | Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the Lord. -Jeremiah 48:43 | Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 48:44 | "He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 48:45 | "Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. -Jeremiah 48:46 | Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. -Jeremiah 48:47 | "Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days," says the Lord. Thus far is the judgement of Moab. -Jeremiah 49:01 | Of the children of Ammon. The Lord says: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities? -Jeremiah 49:02 | Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burnt with fire: then Israel will possess those who possessed him," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 49:03 | "Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth amongst the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. -Jeremiah 49:04 | Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’ -Jeremiah 49:05 | Behold, I will bring a terror on you," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies, "from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives. -Jeremiah 49:06 | "But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 49:07 | Of Edom, the Lord of Armies says: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? -Jeremiah 49:08 | Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him. -Jeremiah 49:09 | If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, wouldn’t they steal until they had enough? -Jeremiah 49:10 | But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbours; and he is no more. -Jeremiah 49:11 | Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me." -Jeremiah 49:12 | For the Lord says: "Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink. -Jeremiah 49:13 | For I have sworn by myself," says the Lord, "that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes." -Jeremiah 49:14 | I have heard news from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent amongst the nations, saying, "Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!" -Jeremiah 49:15 | "For, behold, I have made you small amongst the nations, and despised amongst men. -Jeremiah 49:16 | As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 49:17 | "Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues. -Jeremiah 49:18 | As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbour cities," says the Lord, "no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein. -Jeremiah 49:19 | "Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?" -Jeremiah 49:20 | Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. -Jeremiah 49:21 | The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea. -Jeremiah 49:22 | Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. -Jeremiah 49:23 | Of Damascus: "Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet. -Jeremiah 49:24 | Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. -Jeremiah 49:25 | How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? -Jeremiah 49:26 | Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says the Lord of Armies. -Jeremiah 49:27 | "I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad." -Jeremiah 49:28 | Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, The Lord says: "Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. -Jeremiah 49:29 | They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’ -Jeremiah 49:30 | Flee! Wander far off! Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor," says the Lord; "for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. -Jeremiah 49:31 | Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care," says the Lord; "that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone. -Jeremiah 49:32 | Their camels will be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a plunder. I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 49:33 | Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein." -Jeremiah 49:36 | I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them towards all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come. -Jeremiah 49:37 | I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life. I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them. -Jeremiah 49:38 | I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says the Lord. -Jeremiah 49:39 | ‘But it will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says the Lord." -Jeremiah 4:01 | "If you will return, Israel," says the Lord, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed; -Jeremiah 4:02 | and you will swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him." -Jeremiah 4:03 | For the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow amongst thorns. -Jeremiah 4:04 | Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. -Jeremiah 4:05 | Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’ -Jeremiah 4:06 | Set up a standard towards Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction." -Jeremiah 4:07 | A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. -Jeremiah 4:08 | For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord hasn’t turned back from us. -Jeremiah 4:09 | "It will happen at that day," says the Lord, "that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder." -Jeremiah 4:10 | Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart." -Jeremiah 4:11 | At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness towards the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; -Jeremiah 4:12 | a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgements against them." -Jeremiah 4:13 | Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined. -Jeremiah 4:14 | Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you? -Jeremiah 4:15 | For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: -Jeremiah 4:16 | "Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah. -Jeremiah 4:17 | As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’" says the Lord. -Jeremiah 4:18 | "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart." -Jeremiah 4:19 | My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. -Jeremiah 4:20 | Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment. -Jeremiah 4:21 | How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? -Jeremiah 4:22 | "For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skilful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good." -Jeremiah 4:23 | I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light. -Jeremiah 4:24 | I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. -Jeremiah 4:25 | I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled. -Jeremiah 4:26 | I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the Lord, before his fierce anger. -Jeremiah 4:27 | For the Lord says, "The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. -Jeremiah 4:28 | For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it." -Jeremiah 4:29 | Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. -Jeremiah 4:30 | You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life. -Jeremiah 4:31 | For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers." -Jeremiah 50:01 | The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. -Jeremiah 50:02 | "Declare amongst the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’ -Jeremiah 50:03 | For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal. -Jeremiah 50:04 | "In those days, and in that time," says the Lord, "the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek the Lord their God. -Jeremiah 50:05 | They will enquire concerning Zion with their faces turned towards it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’ -Jeremiah 50:06 | My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place. -Jeremiah 50:07 | All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of righteousness, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’ -Jeremiah 50:08 | "Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. -Jeremiah 50:09 | For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain. -Jeremiah 50:10 | Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey on her will be satisfied," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 50:11 | "Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses; -Jeremiah 50:12 | your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. -Jeremiah 50:13 | Because of the Lord’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. -Jeremiah 50:14 | Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows; for she has sinned against the Lord. -Jeremiah 50:15 | Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her. -Jeremiah 50:16 | Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land. -Jeremiah 50:17 | "Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones." -Jeremiah 50:18 | Therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. -Jeremiah 50:19 | I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan. His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. -Jeremiah 50:20 | In those days, and in that time," says the Lord, "the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none, also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. -Jeremiah 50:21 | "Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them," says the Lord, "and do according to all that I have commanded you. -Jeremiah 50:22 | A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. -Jeremiah 50:23 | How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation amongst the nations! -Jeremiah 50:24 | I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the Lord. -Jeremiah 50:25 | The Lord has opened his armoury, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, the Lord of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. -Jeremiah 50:26 | Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left. -Jeremiah 50:27 | Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation. -Jeremiah 50:28 | Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple. -Jeremiah 50:29 | "Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. -Jeremiah 50:30 | Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 50:31 | "Behold, I am against you, you proud one," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies; "for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. -Jeremiah 50:32 | The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him." -Jeremiah 50:33 | The Lord of Armies says: "The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go. -Jeremiah 50:34 | Their Redeemer is strong: The Lord of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. -Jeremiah 50:35 | "A sword is on the Chaldeans," says the Lord, "and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men. -Jeremiah 50:36 | A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed. -Jeremiah 50:37 | A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed. -Jeremiah 50:38 | A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. -Jeremiah 50:39 | Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein; and it will be inhabited no more forever; neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. -Jeremiah 50:40 | As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbour cities," says the Lord, "so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein. -Jeremiah 50:41 | "Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. -Jeremiah 50:42 | They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. -Jeremiah 50:43 | The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labour. -Jeremiah 50:44 | Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?" -Jeremiah 50:45 | Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. -Jeremiah 50:46 | At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles; and the cry is heard amongst the nations. -Jeremiah 51:01 | The Lord says: "Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. -Jeremiah 51:02 | I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around. -Jeremiah 51:03 | Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army! -Jeremiah 51:04 | They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets. -Jeremiah 51:05 | For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by the Lord of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. -Jeremiah 51:06 | "Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of the Lord’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense. -Jeremiah 51:07 | Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad. -Jeremiah 51:08 | Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed. -Jeremiah 51:09 | "We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgement reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. -Jeremiah 51:10 | ‘The Lord has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.’ -Jeremiah 51:11 | "Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. -Jeremiah 51:12 | Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for the Lord has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. -Jeremiah 51:13 | You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness. -Jeremiah 51:14 | The Lord of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’ -Jeremiah 51:15 | "He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. -Jeremiah 51:16 | When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries. -Jeremiah 51:17 | "Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. -Jeremiah 51:18 | They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish. -Jeremiah 51:19 | The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of Armies is his name. -Jeremiah 51:20 | "You are my battle axe and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms. -Jeremiah 51:21 | With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider. -Jeremiah 51:22 | With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin. -Jeremiah 51:23 | With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies. -Jeremiah 51:24 | "I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 51:25 | "Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain," says the Lord, "which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. -Jeremiah 51:26 | They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 51:27 | "Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet amongst the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm! -Jeremiah 51:28 | Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion! -Jeremiah 51:29 | The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. -Jeremiah 51:30 | The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken. -Jeremiah 51:31 | One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter. -Jeremiah 51:32 | So the passages are seized. They have burnt the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened." -Jeremiah 51:33 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her." -Jeremiah 51:34 | "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out. -Jeremiah 51:35 | May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!" the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, "May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!" will Jerusalem say. -Jeremiah 51:36 | Therefore the Lord says: "Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. -Jeremiah 51:37 | Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. -Jeremiah 51:38 | They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs. -Jeremiah 51:39 | When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 51:40 | "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. -Jeremiah 51:41 | "How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation amongst the nations! -Jeremiah 51:42 | The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves. -Jeremiah 51:43 | Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it. -Jeremiah 51:44 | I will execute judgement on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall. -Jeremiah 51:45 | "My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from the Lord’s fierce anger. -Jeremiah 51:46 | Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. -Jeremiah 51:47 | Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgement on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her. -Jeremiah 51:48 | Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 51:49 | "As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon. -Jeremiah 51:50 | You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember the Lord from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind." -Jeremiah 51:51 | "We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house." -Jeremiah 51:52 | "Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will execute judgement on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan. -Jeremiah 51:53 | Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 51:54 | "The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! -Jeremiah 51:55 | For the Lord lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered. -Jeremiah 51:56 | For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for the Lord is a God of retribution. He will surely repay. -Jeremiah 51:57 | I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Armies. -Jeremiah 51:58 | The Lord of Armies says: "The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burnt with fire. The peoples will labour for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary." -Jeremiah 51:59 | The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. -Jeremiah 51:60 | Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. -Jeremiah 51:61 | Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, -Jeremiah 51:62 | and say, ‘LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’ -Jeremiah 51:63 | It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates. -Jeremiah 51:64 | Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. -Jeremiah 52:01 | Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. -Jeremiah 52:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. -Jeremiah 52:03 | For through the Lord’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. -Jeremiah 52:04 | In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. -Jeremiah 52:05 | So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. -Jeremiah 52:06 | In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. -Jeremiah 52:07 | Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went towards the Arabah, -Jeremiah 52:08 | but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. -Jeremiah 52:09 | Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgement on him. -Jeremiah 52:10 | The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. -Jeremiah 52:11 | He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death. -Jeremiah 52:12 | Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. -Jeremiah 52:13 | He burnt the Lord’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burnt with fire. -Jeremiah 52:14 | All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. -Jeremiah 52:15 | Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. -Jeremiah 52:16 | But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers. -Jeremiah 52:17 | The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the Lord’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the Lord’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon. -Jeremiah 52:18 | They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered. -Jeremiah 52:19 | The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver. -Jeremiah 52:20 | They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the Lord’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight. -Jeremiah 52:21 | As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow. -Jeremiah 52:22 | A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates. -Jeremiah 52:23 | There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around. -Jeremiah 52:24 | The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: -Jeremiah 52:25 | and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city. -Jeremiah 52:26 | Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. -Jeremiah 52:27 | The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. -Jeremiah 52:28 | This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews; -Jeremiah 52:29 | in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; -Jeremiah 52:30 | in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five people: all the people were four thousand and six hundred. -Jeremiah 52:31 | In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison. -Jeremiah 52:32 | He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, -Jeremiah 52:33 | and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. -Jeremiah 52:34 | For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. -Jeremiah 5:01 | "Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her. -Jeremiah 5:02 | Though they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ surely they swear falsely." -Jeremiah 5:03 | O Lord, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return. -Jeremiah 5:04 | Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Lord’s way, nor the law of their God. -Jeremiah 5:05 | I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. -Jeremiah 5:06 | Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased. -Jeremiah 5:07 | "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. -Jeremiah 5:08 | They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife. -Jeremiah 5:09 | Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?" says the Lord. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? -Jeremiah 5:10 | "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s. -Jeremiah 5:11 | For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 5:12 | They have denied the Lord, and said, "It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine. -Jeremiah 5:13 | The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them." -Jeremiah 5:14 | Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies says, "Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. -Jeremiah 5:15 | Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel," says the Lord. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say. -Jeremiah 5:16 | Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men. -Jeremiah 5:17 | They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword. -Jeremiah 5:18 | "But even in those days," says the Lord, "I will not make a full end of you. -Jeremiah 5:19 | It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’ -Jeremiah 5:21 | ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear: -Jeremiah 5:22 | Don’t you fear me?’ says the Lord ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’ -Jeremiah 5:23 | "But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. -Jeremiah 5:24 | They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’ -Jeremiah 5:25 | "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. -Jeremiah 5:26 | For wicked men are found amongst my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. -Jeremiah 5:27 | As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich. -Jeremiah 5:28 | They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy. -Jeremiah 5:29 | "Shouldn’t I punish for these things?" says the Lord. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? -Jeremiah 5:30 | "An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. -Jeremiah 5:31 | The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it? -Jeremiah 6:01 | "Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction. -Jeremiah 6:02 | I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion. -Jeremiah 6:03 | Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place." -Jeremiah 6:04 | "Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. -Jeremiah 6:05 | Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces." -Jeremiah 6:06 | For the Lord of Armies said, "Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is wholly oppression within herself. -Jeremiah 6:07 | As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me. -Jeremiah 6:08 | Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land." -Jeremiah 6:09 | The Lord of Armies says, "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets." -Jeremiah 6:10 | To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the Lord’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it. -Jeremiah 6:11 | Therefore I am full of the Lord’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days. -Jeremiah 6:12 | Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord." -Jeremiah 6:13 | "For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. -Jeremiah 6:14 | They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace. -Jeremiah 6:15 | Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall amongst those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 6:16 | The Lord says, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ -Jeremiah 6:17 | I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ -Jeremiah 6:18 | Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is amongst them. -Jeremiah 6:19 | Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. -Jeremiah 6:20 | To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me." -Jeremiah 6:21 | Therefore The Lord says, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbour and his friend will perish." -Jeremiah 6:22 | The Lord says, "Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. -Jeremiah 6:23 | They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion." -Jeremiah 6:24 | We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labour. -Jeremiah 6:25 | Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side. -Jeremiah 6:26 | Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us. -Jeremiah 6:27 | "I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress amongst my people, that you may know and try their way. -Jeremiah 6:28 | They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. -Jeremiah 6:29 | The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. -Jeremiah 6:30 | Men will call them rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them." -Jeremiah 7:02 | "Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.’" -Jeremiah 7:03 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. -Jeremiah 7:04 | Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The Lord’s temple, the Lord’s temple, the Lord’s temple, are these.’ -Jeremiah 7:05 | For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour; -Jeremiah 7:06 | if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt; -Jeremiah 7:07 | then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more. -Jeremiah 7:08 | Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. -Jeremiah 7:09 | Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, -Jeremiah 7:10 | then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations? -Jeremiah 7:11 | Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 7:12 | "But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. -Jeremiah 7:13 | Now, because you have done all these works," says the Lord, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer; -Jeremiah 7:14 | therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. -Jeremiah 7:15 | I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim. -Jeremiah 7:16 | "Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you. -Jeremiah 7:17 | Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? -Jeremiah 7:18 | The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. -Jeremiah 7:19 | Do they provoke me to anger?" says the Lord. "Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?" -Jeremiah 7:20 | Therefore the Lord God says: "Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched." -Jeremiah 7:21 | the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. -Jeremiah 7:22 | For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; -Jeremiah 7:23 | but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ -Jeremiah 7:24 | But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. -Jeremiah 7:25 | Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. -Jeremiah 7:26 | Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers. -Jeremiah 7:27 | "You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you. -Jeremiah 7:28 | You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the Lord their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’ -Jeremiah 7:29 | Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. -Jeremiah 7:30 | "For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says the Lord. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. -Jeremiah 7:31 | They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind. -Jeremiah 7:32 | Therefore behold, the days come", says the Lord, "that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury. -Jeremiah 7:33 | The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away. -Jeremiah 7:34 | Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste." -Jeremiah 8:01 | "At that time," says the Lord, "they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. -Jeremiah 8:02 | They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth. -Jeremiah 8:03 | Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the Lord of Armies. -Jeremiah 8:04 | "Moreover you shall tell them, ‘The Lord says: "‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return? -Jeremiah 8:05 | Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return. -Jeremiah 8:06 | I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. -Jeremiah 8:07 | Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know the Lord’s law. -Jeremiah 8:08 | "‘How do you say, "We are wise, and the Lord’s law is with us?" But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie. -Jeremiah 8:09 | The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the Lord’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them? -Jeremiah 8:10 | Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. -Jeremiah 8:11 | They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace. -Jeremiah 8:12 | Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall amongst those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says the Lord. -Jeremiah 8:13 | "‘I will utterly consume them, says the Lord. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’" -Jeremiah 8:14 | "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the Lord our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord. -Jeremiah 8:15 | We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! -Jeremiah 8:16 | The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein." -Jeremiah 8:17 | "For, behold, I will send serpents, adders amongst you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 8:18 | Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. -Jeremiah 8:19 | Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: "Isn’t the Lord in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?" -Jeremiah 8:20 | "The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved." -Jeremiah 8:21 | For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me. -Jeremiah 8:22 | Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered? -Jeremiah 9:01 | Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! -Jeremiah 9:02 | Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. -Jeremiah 9:03 | "They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 9:04 | "Everyone beware of his neighbour, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will go around like a slanderer. -Jeremiah 9:05 | Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. -Jeremiah 9:06 | Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 9:07 | Therefore the Lord of Armies says, "Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? -Jeremiah 9:08 | Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him. -Jeremiah 9:09 | Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?" says the Lord. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this? -Jeremiah 9:10 | I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone. -Jeremiah 9:11 | "I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant." -Jeremiah 9:12 | Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burnt up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? -Jeremiah 9:13 | The Lord says, "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, -Jeremiah 9:14 | but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them." -Jeremiah 9:15 | Therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. -Jeremiah 9:16 | I will scatter them also amongst the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them." -Jeremiah 9:17 | The Lord of Armies says, "Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skilful women, that they may come. -Jeremiah 9:18 | Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. -Jeremiah 9:19 | For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’" -Jeremiah 9:20 | Yet hear the Lord’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbour a lamentation. -Jeremiah 9:21 | For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets. -Jeremiah 9:22 | Speak, "The Lord says, "‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’" -Jeremiah 9:23 | The Lord says, "Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches. -Jeremiah 9:24 | But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the Lord who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things," says the Lord. -Jeremiah 9:25 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: -Jeremiah 9:26 | Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart." -Job 10:01 | "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. -Job 10:02 | I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. -Job 10:03 | Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? -Job 10:04 | Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? -Job 10:05 | Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, -Job 10:06 | that you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? -Job 10:07 | Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. -Job 10:08 | "‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. -Job 10:09 | Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? -Job 10:10 | Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? -Job 10:11 | You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. -Job 10:12 | You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. -Job 10:13 | Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: -Job 10:14 | if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. -Job 10:15 | If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. -Job 10:16 | If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. -Job 10:17 | You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. -Job 10:18 | "‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. -Job 10:19 | I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. -Job 10:20 | Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, -Job 10:21 | before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; -Job 10:22 | the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’" -Job 11:02 | "Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? -Job 11:03 | Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed? -Job 11:04 | For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’ -Job 11:05 | But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you, -Job 11:06 | that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. -Job 11:07 | "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? -Job 11:08 | They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know? -Job 11:09 | Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. -Job 11:10 | If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him? -Job 11:11 | For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it. -Job 11:12 | An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt. -Job 11:13 | "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands towards him. -Job 11:14 | If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. -Job 11:15 | Surely then you will lift up your face without spot; Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear: -Job 11:16 | for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away. -Job 11:17 | Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning. -Job 11:18 | You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety. -Job 11:19 | Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favour. -Job 11:20 | But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit." -Job 12:02 | "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. -Job 12:03 | But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these? -Job 12:04 | I am like one who is a joke to his neighbour, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. -Job 12:05 | In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. -Job 12:06 | The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands. -Job 12:07 | "But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. -Job 12:08 | Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you. -Job 12:09 | Who doesn’t know that in all these, The Lord’s hand has done this, -Job 12:10 | in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? -Job 12:11 | Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? -Job 12:12 | With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. -Job 12:13 | "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. -Job 12:14 | Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. -Job 12:15 | Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. -Job 12:16 | With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. -Job 12:17 | He leads counsellors away stripped. He makes judges fools. -Job 12:18 | He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt. -Job 12:19 | He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. -Job 12:20 | He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. -Job 12:21 | He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. -Job 12:22 | He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death. -Job 12:23 | He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. -Job 12:24 | He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. -Job 12:25 | They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man. -Job 13:01 | "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. -Job 13:02 | What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. -Job 13:03 | "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. -Job 13:04 | But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. -Job 13:05 | Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. -Job 13:06 | Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. -Job 13:07 | Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? -Job 13:08 | Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? -Job 13:09 | Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? -Job 13:10 | He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. -Job 13:11 | Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you? -Job 13:12 | Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defences are defences of clay. -Job 13:13 | "Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. -Job 13:14 | Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? -Job 13:15 | Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. -Job 13:16 | This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him. -Job 13:17 | Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. -Job 13:18 | See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. -Job 13:19 | Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. -Job 13:20 | "Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: -Job 13:21 | withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. -Job 13:22 | Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. -Job 13:23 | How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. -Job 13:24 | Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? -Job 13:25 | Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? -Job 13:26 | For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: -Job 13:27 | You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, -Job 13:28 | though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. -Job 14:01 | "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. -Job 14:02 | He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue. -Job 14:03 | Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgement with you? -Job 14:04 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. -Job 14:05 | Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass; -Job 14:06 | Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day. -Job 14:07 | "For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. -Job 14:08 | Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground, -Job 14:09 | yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant. -Job 14:10 | But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? -Job 14:11 | As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, -Job 14:12 | so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. -Job 14:13 | "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me! -Job 14:14 | If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come. -Job 14:15 | You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands. -Job 14:16 | But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin? -Job 14:17 | My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity. -Job 14:18 | "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place; -Job 14:19 | The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. -Job 14:20 | You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away. -Job 14:21 | His sons come to honour, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them. -Job 14:22 | But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns." -Job 15:02 | "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? -Job 15:03 | Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? -Job 15:04 | Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. -Job 15:05 | For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. -Job 15:06 | Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you. -Job 15:07 | "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? -Job 15:08 | Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? -Job 15:09 | What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us? -Job 15:10 | With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father. -Job 15:11 | Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle towards you? -Job 15:12 | Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, -Job 15:13 | that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? -Job 15:14 | What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? -Job 15:15 | Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; -Job 15:16 | how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! -Job 15:17 | "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare -Job 15:18 | (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; -Job 15:19 | to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed amongst them): -Job 15:20 | the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. -Job 15:21 | A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him. -Job 15:22 | He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. -Job 15:23 | He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. -Job 15:24 | Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. -Job 15:25 | Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, -Job 15:26 | he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers, -Job 15:27 | because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. -Job 15:28 | He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. -Job 15:29 | He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. -Job 15:30 | He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth. -Job 15:31 | Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward. -Job 15:32 | It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. -Job 15:33 | He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. -Job 15:34 | For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. -Job 15:35 | They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit." -Job 16:02 | "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! -Job 16:03 | Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? -Job 16:04 | I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you, -Job 16:05 | but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you. -Job 16:06 | "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? -Job 16:07 | But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate. -Job 16:08 | You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. -Job 16:09 | He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. -Job 16:10 | They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. -Job 16:11 | God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. -Job 16:12 | I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. -Job 16:13 | His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground. -Job 16:14 | He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant. -Job 16:15 | I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust. -Job 16:16 | My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids, -Job 16:17 | although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. -Job 16:18 | "Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. -Job 16:19 | Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. -Job 16:20 | My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, -Job 16:21 | that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbour! -Job 16:22 | For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return. -Job 17:01 | "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me. -Job 17:02 | Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. -Job 17:03 | "Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? -Job 17:04 | For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them. -Job 17:05 | He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail. -Job 17:06 | "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. -Job 17:07 | My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. -Job 17:08 | Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless. -Job 17:09 | Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. -Job 17:10 | But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you. -Job 17:11 | My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. -Job 17:12 | They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness. -Job 17:13 | If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, -Job 17:14 | if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ -Job 17:15 | where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it? -Job 17:16 | Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?" -Job 18:02 | "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. -Job 18:03 | Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight? -Job 18:04 | You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place? -Job 18:05 | "Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine. -Job 18:06 | The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out. -Job 18:07 | The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down. -Job 18:08 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh. -Job 18:09 | A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. -Job 18:10 | A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path. -Job 18:11 | Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels. -Job 18:12 | His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side. -Job 18:13 | The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members. -Job 18:14 | He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors. -Job 18:15 | There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulphur will be scattered on his habitation. -Job 18:16 | His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above. -Job 18:17 | His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street. -Job 18:18 | He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. -Job 18:19 | He will have neither son nor grandson amongst his people, nor any remaining where he lived. -Job 18:20 | Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. -Job 18:21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God." -Job 19:02 | "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? -Job 19:03 | You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. -Job 19:04 | If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. -Job 19:05 | If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach, -Job 19:06 | know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. -Job 19:07 | "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. -Job 19:08 | He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. -Job 19:09 | He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. -Job 19:10 | He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree. -Job 19:11 | He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me amongst his adversaries. -Job 19:12 | His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. -Job 19:13 | "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. -Job 19:14 | My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. -Job 19:15 | Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. -Job 19:16 | I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. -Job 19:17 | My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. -Job 19:18 | Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. -Job 19:19 | All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. -Job 19:20 | My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. -Job 19:21 | "Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. -Job 19:22 | Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? -Job 19:23 | "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! -Job 19:24 | That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! -Job 19:25 | But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. -Job 19:26 | After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh, -Job 19:27 | whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. -Job 19:28 | If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me, -Job 19:29 | be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgement." -Job 1:01 | There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. -Job 1:02 | There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. -Job 1:03 | His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. -Job 1:04 | His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. -Job 1:05 | It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually. -Job 1:06 | Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came amongst them. -Job 1:07 | The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." -Job 1:08 | The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil." -Job 1:09 | Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? -Job 1:10 | Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. -Job 1:11 | But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face." -Job 1:12 | The Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. -Job 1:13 | It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, -Job 1:14 | that a messenger came to Job, and said, "The oxen were ploughing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, -Job 1:15 | and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." -Job 1:16 | While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burnt up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." -Job 1:17 | While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." -Job 1:18 | While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, -Job 1:19 | and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you." -Job 1:20 | Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped. -Job 1:21 | He said, "Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the Lord’s name." -Job 1:22 | In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing. -Job 20:02 | "Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me. -Job 20:03 | I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me. -Job 20:04 | Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth, -Job 20:05 | that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? -Job 20:06 | Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, -Job 20:07 | yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ -Job 20:08 | He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. -Job 20:09 | The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more. -Job 20:10 | His children will seek the favour of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth. -Job 20:11 | His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust. -Job 20:12 | "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, -Job 20:13 | though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; -Job 20:14 | yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. -Job 20:15 | He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. -Job 20:16 | He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him. -Job 20:17 | He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. -Job 20:18 | He will restore that for which he laboured, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten. -Job 20:19 | For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up. -Job 20:20 | "Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights. -Job 20:21 | There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure. -Job 20:22 | In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him. -Job 20:23 | When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. -Job 20:24 | He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through. -Job 20:25 | He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him. -Job 20:26 | All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent. -Job 20:27 | The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him. -Job 20:28 | The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath. -Job 20:29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God." -Job 21:02 | "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. -Job 21:03 | Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. -Job 21:04 | As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient? -Job 21:05 | Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. -Job 21:06 | When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. -Job 21:07 | "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? -Job 21:08 | Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. -Job 21:09 | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. -Job 21:10 | Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry. -Job 21:11 | They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. -Job 21:12 | They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. -Job 21:13 | They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. -Job 21:14 | They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways. -Job 21:15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’ -Job 21:16 | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me. -Job 21:17 | "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger? -Job 21:18 | How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away? -Job 21:19 | You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. -Job 21:20 | Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. -Job 21:21 | For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? -Job 21:22 | "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high? -Job 21:23 | One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. -Job 21:24 | His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. -Job 21:25 | Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. -Job 21:26 | They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them. -Job 21:27 | "Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me. -Job 21:28 | For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’ -Job 21:29 | Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences, -Job 21:30 | that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath? -Job 21:31 | Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done? -Job 21:32 | Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb. -Job 21:33 | The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. -Job 21:34 | So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?" -Job 22:02 | "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. -Job 22:03 | Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect? -Job 22:04 | Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgement? -Job 22:05 | Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities. -Job 22:06 | For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. -Job 22:07 | You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. -Job 22:08 | But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honourable man, he lived in it. -Job 22:09 | You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. -Job 22:10 | Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you, -Job 22:11 | or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you. -Job 22:12 | "Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are! -Job 22:13 | You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? -Job 22:14 | Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’ -Job 22:15 | Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, -Job 22:16 | who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, -Job 22:17 | who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’ -Job 22:18 | Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. -Job 22:19 | The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, saying, -Job 22:20 | ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’ -Job 22:21 | "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you. -Job 22:22 | Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. -Job 22:23 | If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. -Job 22:24 | Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir amongst the stones of the brooks. -Job 22:26 | For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God. -Job 22:27 | You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows. -Job 22:28 | You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways. -Job 22:29 | When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person. -Job 22:30 | He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." -Job 23:02 | "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. -Job 23:03 | Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! -Job 23:04 | I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. -Job 23:05 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. -Job 23:06 | Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. -Job 23:07 | There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge. -Job 23:08 | "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him; -Job 23:09 | He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him. -Job 23:10 | But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. -Job 23:11 | My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. -Job 23:12 | I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. -Job 23:13 | But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does. -Job 23:14 | For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him. -Job 23:15 | Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him. -Job 23:16 | For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me. -Job 23:17 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face. -Job 24:01 | "Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days? -Job 24:02 | There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. -Job 24:03 | They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. -Job 24:04 | They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. -Job 24:05 | Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. -Job 24:06 | They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked. -Job 24:07 | They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. -Job 24:08 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter. -Job 24:09 | There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, -Job 24:10 | So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves. -Job 24:11 | They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst. -Job 24:12 | From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly. -Job 24:13 | "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths. -Job 24:14 | The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. -Job 24:15 | The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face. -Job 24:16 | In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light. -Job 24:17 | For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness. -Job 24:18 | "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards. -Job 24:19 | Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. -Job 24:20 | The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree. -Job 24:21 | He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow. -Job 24:22 | Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life. -Job 24:23 | God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways. -Job 24:24 | They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. -Job 24:25 | If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?" -Job 25:02 | "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. -Job 25:03 | Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? -Job 25:04 | How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? -Job 25:05 | Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight; -Job 25:06 | How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!" -Job 26:02 | "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! -Job 26:03 | How have you counselled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! -Job 26:04 | To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you? -Job 26:05 | "The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. -Job 26:06 | Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. -Job 26:07 | He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing. -Job 26:08 | He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. -Job 26:09 | He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it. -Job 26:10 | He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness. -Job 26:11 | The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. -Job 26:12 | He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab. -Job 26:13 | By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent. -Job 26:14 | Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?" -Job 27:02 | "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter -Job 27:03 | (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils); -Job 27:04 | surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit. -Job 27:05 | Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me. -Job 27:06 | I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live. -Job 27:07 | "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. -Job 27:08 | For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? -Job 27:09 | Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him? -Job 27:10 | Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times? -Job 27:11 | I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty. -Job 27:12 | Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? -Job 27:13 | "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. -Job 27:14 | If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread. -Job 27:15 | Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation. -Job 27:16 | Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; -Job 27:17 | he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver. -Job 27:18 | He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes. -Job 27:19 | He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not. -Job 27:20 | Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night. -Job 27:21 | The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place. -Job 27:22 | For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand. -Job 27:23 | Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place. -Job 28:01 | "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. -Job 28:02 | Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore. -Job 28:03 | Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. -Job 28:04 | He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth. -Job 28:05 | As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. -Job 28:06 | Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. -Job 28:07 | That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it. -Job 28:08 | The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there. -Job 28:09 | He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots. -Job 28:10 | He cuts out channels amongst the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing. -Job 28:11 | He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light. -Job 28:12 | "But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding? -Job 28:13 | Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living. -Job 28:14 | The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’ -Job 28:15 | It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price. -Job 28:16 | It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. -Job 28:17 | Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. -Job 28:18 | No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies. -Job 28:19 | The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold. -Job 28:20 | Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding? -Job 28:21 | Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky. -Job 28:22 | Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumour of it with our ears.’ -Job 28:23 | "God understands its way, and he knows its place. -Job 28:24 | For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky. -Job 28:25 | He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure. -Job 28:26 | When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, -Job 28:27 | then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out. -Job 28:28 | To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’" -Job 29:02 | "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; -Job 29:03 | when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, -Job 29:04 | as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent, -Job 29:05 | when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, -Job 29:06 | when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, -Job 29:07 | when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. -Job 29:08 | The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. -Job 29:09 | The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. -Job 29:10 | The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. -Job 29:11 | For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: -Job 29:12 | Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, -Job 29:13 | the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. -Job 29:14 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. -Job 29:15 | I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. -Job 29:16 | I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know. -Job 29:17 | I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth. -Job 29:18 | Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand. -Job 29:19 | My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch. -Job 29:20 | My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’ -Job 29:21 | "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. -Job 29:22 | After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them. -Job 29:23 | They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. -Job 29:24 | I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face. -Job 29:25 | I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners. -Job 2:01 | Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan came also amongst them to present himself before the Lord. -Job 2:02 | The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the Lord, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." -Job 2:03 | The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause." -Job 2:04 | Satan answered the Lord, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. -Job 2:05 | But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face." -Job 2:06 | The Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life." -Job 2:07 | So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. -Job 2:08 | He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat amongst the ashes. -Job 2:09 | Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die." -Job 2:10 | But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. -Job 2:11 | Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathise with him and to comfort him. -Job 2:12 | When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognise him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads towards the sky. -Job 2:13 | So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. -Job 30:01 | "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs. -Job 30:02 | Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished? -Job 30:03 | They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. -Job 30:04 | They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food. -Job 30:05 | They are driven out from amongst men. They cry after them as after a thief; -Job 30:06 | So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks. -Job 30:07 | They bray amongst the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles. -Job 30:08 | They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land. -Job 30:09 | "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. -Job 30:10 | They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face. -Job 30:11 | For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me. -Job 30:12 | On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction. -Job 30:13 | They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help. -Job 30:14 | As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin. -Job 30:15 | Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honour as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud. -Job 30:16 | "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me. -Job 30:17 | In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. -Job 30:18 | My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic. -Job 30:19 | He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. -Job 30:20 | I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me. -Job 30:21 | You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me. -Job 30:22 | You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm. -Job 30:23 | For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living. -Job 30:24 | "However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? -Job 30:25 | Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy? -Job 30:26 | When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came. -Job 30:27 | My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me. -Job 30:28 | I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. -Job 30:29 | I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. -Job 30:30 | My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burnt with heat. -Job 30:31 | Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep. -Job 31:01 | "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? -Job 31:02 | For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? -Job 31:03 | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? -Job 31:04 | Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps? -Job 31:05 | "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit -Job 31:06 | (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); -Job 31:07 | if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, -Job 31:08 | then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out. -Job 31:09 | "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door, -Job 31:10 | then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. -Job 31:11 | For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; -Job 31:12 | for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. -Job 31:13 | "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, -Job 31:14 | what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? -Job 31:15 | Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb? -Job 31:16 | "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, -Job 31:17 | or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it -Job 31:18 | (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb); -Job 31:19 | if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; -Job 31:20 | if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece; -Job 31:21 | if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, -Job 31:22 | then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. -Job 31:23 | For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing. -Job 31:24 | "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’ -Job 31:25 | If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; -Job 31:26 | if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendour, -Job 31:27 | and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, -Job 31:28 | this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above. -Job 31:29 | "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him -Job 31:30 | (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse); -Job 31:31 | if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’ -Job 31:32 | (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveller); -Job 31:33 | if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart, -Job 31:34 | because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door— -Job 31:35 | oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment! -Job 31:36 | Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown. -Job 31:37 | I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince. -Job 31:38 | If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; -Job 31:39 | if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, -Job 31:40 | let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. -Job 32:01 | So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. -Job 32:02 | Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God. -Job 32:03 | Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. -Job 32:04 | Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he. -Job 32:05 | When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled. -Job 32:06 | Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion. -Job 32:07 | I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’ -Job 32:08 | But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding. -Job 32:09 | It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice. -Job 32:10 | Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’ -Job 32:11 | "Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say. -Job 32:12 | Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, amongst you. -Job 32:13 | Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’ -Job 32:14 | for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches. -Job 32:15 | "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say. -Job 32:16 | Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more? -Job 32:17 | I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion. -Job 32:18 | For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. -Job 32:19 | Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst. -Job 32:20 | I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer. -Job 32:21 | Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. -Job 32:22 | For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away. -Job 33:01 | "However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. -Job 33:02 | See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth. -Job 33:03 | My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely. -Job 33:04 | The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. -Job 33:05 | If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up. -Job 33:06 | Behold, I am towards God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay. -Job 33:07 | Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you. -Job 33:09 | ‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. -Job 33:10 | Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. -Job 33:12 | "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. -Job 33:13 | Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters? -Job 33:14 | For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention. -Job 33:15 | In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed; -Job 33:16 | Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, -Job 33:17 | that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. -Job 33:18 | He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. -Job 33:19 | "He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones, -Job 33:20 | so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. -Job 33:21 | His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. -Job 33:22 | Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. -Job 33:23 | "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one amongst a thousand, to show to man what is right for him; -Job 33:24 | then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’ -Job 33:25 | His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth. -Job 33:26 | He prays to God, and he is favourable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. -Job 33:27 | He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me. -Job 33:28 | He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’ -Job 33:29 | "Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man, -Job 33:30 | to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living. -Job 33:31 | Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak. -Job 33:32 | If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. -Job 33:33 | If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom." -Job 34:02 | "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. -Job 34:03 | For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. -Job 34:04 | Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know amongst ourselves what is good. -Job 34:05 | For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right: -Job 34:06 | Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’ -Job 34:07 | What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, -Job 34:08 | Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men? -Job 34:09 | For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’ -Job 34:10 | "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. -Job 34:11 | For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. -Job 34:12 | Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice. -Job 34:13 | Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world? -Job 34:14 | If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, -Job 34:15 | all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. -Job 34:16 | "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words. -Job 34:17 | Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?— -Job 34:18 | Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’? -Job 34:19 | He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. -Job 34:20 | In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. -Job 34:21 | "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings. -Job 34:22 | There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. -Job 34:23 | For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgement. -Job 34:24 | He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place. -Job 34:25 | Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. -Job 34:26 | He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; -Job 34:27 | because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways, -Job 34:28 | so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted. -Job 34:29 | When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike, -Job 34:30 | that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people. -Job 34:31 | "For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. -Job 34:32 | Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’? -Job 34:33 | Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. -Job 34:34 | Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me: -Job 34:35 | ‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’ -Job 34:36 | I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men. -Job 34:37 | For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands amongst us, and multiplies his words against God." -Job 35:02 | "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’ -Job 35:03 | that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ -Job 35:04 | I will answer you, and your companions with you. -Job 35:05 | Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. -Job 35:06 | If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? -Job 35:07 | If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand? -Job 35:08 | Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man. -Job 35:09 | "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. -Job 35:10 | But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, -Job 35:11 | who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’ -Job 35:12 | There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men. -Job 35:13 | Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it. -Job 35:14 | How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him! -Job 35:15 | But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance, -Job 36:02 | "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf. -Job 36:03 | I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. -Job 36:04 | For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you. -Job 36:05 | "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding. -Job 36:06 | He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted. -Job 36:07 | He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted. -Job 36:08 | If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, -Job 36:09 | then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. -Job 36:10 | He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity. -Job 36:11 | If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. -Job 36:12 | But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge. -Job 36:13 | "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them. -Job 36:14 | They die in youth. Their life perishes amongst the unclean. -Job 36:15 | He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression. -Job 36:16 | Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. -Job 36:17 | "But you are full of the judgement of the wicked. Judgement and justice take hold of you. -Job 36:18 | Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. -Job 36:19 | Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength? -Job 36:20 | Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. -Job 36:21 | Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. -Job 36:22 | Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? -Job 36:23 | Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’ -Job 36:24 | "Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung. -Job 36:25 | All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off. -Job 36:26 | Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. -Job 36:27 | For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapour, -Job 36:28 | which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. -Job 36:29 | Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion? -Job 36:30 | Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. -Job 36:31 | For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. -Job 36:32 | He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. -Job 36:33 | Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up. -Job 37:01 | "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place. -Job 37:02 | Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth. -Job 37:03 | He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. -Job 37:04 | After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard. -Job 37:05 | God thunders marvellously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend. -Job 37:06 | For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain. -Job 37:07 | He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it. -Job 37:08 | Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens. -Job 37:09 | Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north. -Job 37:10 | By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen. -Job 37:11 | Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. -Job 37:12 | It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, -Job 37:13 | Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come. -Job 37:14 | "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. -Job 37:15 | Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? -Job 37:16 | Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? -Job 37:17 | You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind? -Job 37:18 | Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror? -Job 37:19 | Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness. -Job 37:20 | Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up? -Job 37:21 | Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them. -Job 37:22 | Out of the north comes golden splendour. With God is awesome majesty. -Job 37:23 | We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. -Job 37:24 | Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart." -Job 38:02 | "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? -Job 38:03 | Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me! -Job 38:04 | "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. -Job 38:05 | Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? -Job 38:06 | What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone, -Job 38:07 | when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? -Job 38:08 | "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb, -Job 38:09 | when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, -Job 38:10 | marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, -Job 38:11 | and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’? -Job 38:12 | "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place, -Job 38:13 | that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it? -Job 38:14 | It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment. -Job 38:15 | From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken. -Job 38:16 | "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? -Job 38:17 | Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? -Job 38:18 | Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all. -Job 38:19 | "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place, -Job 38:20 | that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house? -Job 38:21 | Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great! -Job 38:22 | Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, -Job 38:23 | which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? -Job 38:24 | By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth? -Job 38:25 | Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunder storm, -Job 38:26 | to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man, -Job 38:27 | to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow? -Job 38:28 | Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? -Job 38:29 | Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the grey frost of the sky? -Job 38:30 | The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen. -Job 38:31 | "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? -Job 38:32 | Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs? -Job 38:33 | Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth? -Job 38:34 | "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you? -Job 38:35 | Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? -Job 38:36 | Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? -Job 38:37 | Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky, -Job 38:38 | when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together? -Job 38:39 | "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, -Job 38:40 | when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket? -Job 38:41 | Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food? -Job 39:01 | "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? -Job 39:02 | Can you count the months that they fulfil? Or do you know the time when they give birth? -Job 39:03 | They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labour pains. -Job 39:04 | Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again. -Job 39:05 | "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey, -Job 39:06 | whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place? -Job 39:07 | He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver. -Job 39:08 | The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing. -Job 39:09 | "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough? -Job 39:10 | Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you? -Job 39:11 | Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labour? -Job 39:12 | Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor? -Job 39:13 | "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love? -Job 39:14 | For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust, -Job 39:15 | and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them. -Job 39:16 | She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labour is in vain, she is without fear, -Job 39:17 | because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding. -Job 39:18 | When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider. -Job 39:19 | "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane? -Job 39:20 | Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome. -Job 39:21 | He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men. -Job 39:22 | He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword. -Job 39:23 | The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. -Job 39:24 | He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet. -Job 39:25 | As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. -Job 39:26 | "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings towards the south? -Job 39:27 | Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high? -Job 39:28 | On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold. -Job 39:29 | From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. -Job 39:30 | His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is." -Job 3:01 | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. -Job 3:03 | "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ -Job 3:04 | Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. -Job 3:05 | Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it. -Job 3:06 | As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice amongst the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. -Job 3:07 | Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. -Job 3:08 | Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. -Job 3:09 | Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, -Job 3:10 | because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. -Job 3:11 | "Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? -Job 3:12 | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? -Job 3:13 | For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, -Job 3:14 | with kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; -Job 3:15 | or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: -Job 3:16 | or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. -Job 3:17 | There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. -Job 3:18 | There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. -Job 3:19 | The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. -Job 3:20 | "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, -Job 3:21 | Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, -Job 3:22 | who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? -Job 3:23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? -Job 3:24 | For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. -Job 3:25 | For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. -Job 3:26 | I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes." -Job 40:02 | "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." -Job 40:04 | "Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. -Job 40:05 | I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further." -Job 40:07 | "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. -Job 40:08 | Will you even annul my judgement? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? -Job 40:09 | Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? -Job 40:10 | "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honour and majesty. -Job 40:11 | Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. -Job 40:12 | Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. -Job 40:13 | Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. -Job 40:14 | Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you. -Job 40:15 | "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. -Job 40:16 | Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. -Job 40:17 | He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. -Job 40:18 | His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron. -Job 40:19 | He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. -Job 40:20 | Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. -Job 40:21 | He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. -Job 40:22 | The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him. -Job 40:23 | Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. -Job 40:24 | Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare? -Job 41:01 | "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? -Job 41:02 | Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? -Job 41:03 | Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you? -Job 41:04 | Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever? -Job 41:05 | Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls? -Job 41:06 | Will traders barter for him? Will they part him amongst the merchants? -Job 41:07 | Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears? -Job 41:08 | Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. -Job 41:09 | Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him? -Job 41:10 | None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? -Job 41:11 | Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine. -Job 41:12 | "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. -Job 41:13 | Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws? -Job 41:14 | Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. -Job 41:15 | Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. -Job 41:16 | One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. -Job 41:17 | They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart. -Job 41:18 | His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. -Job 41:19 | Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out. -Job 41:20 | Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. -Job 41:21 | His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth. -Job 41:22 | There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. -Job 41:23 | The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved. -Job 41:24 | His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. -Job 41:25 | When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. -Job 41:26 | If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. -Job 41:27 | He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood. -Job 41:28 | The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. -Job 41:29 | Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. -Job 41:30 | His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. -Job 41:31 | He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. -Job 41:32 | He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. -Job 41:33 | On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. -Job 41:34 | He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride." -Job 42:02 | "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. -Job 42:03 | You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know. -Job 42:04 | You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ -Job 42:05 | I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. -Job 42:06 | Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." -Job 42:07 | It was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. -Job 42:08 | Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has." -Job 42:09 | So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job. -Job 42:10 | The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. -Job 42:11 | Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the Lord had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold. -Job 42:12 | So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. -Job 42:14 | He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. -Job 42:15 | In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brothers. -Job 42:16 | After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. -Job 42:17 | So Job died, being old and full of days. -Job 4:02 | "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? -Job 4:03 | Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. -Job 4:04 | Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made the feeble knees firm. -Job 4:05 | But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled. -Job 4:06 | Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope? -Job 4:07 | "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? -Job 4:08 | According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. -Job 4:09 | By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed. -Job 4:10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. -Job 4:11 | The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. -Job 4:12 | "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it. -Job 4:13 | In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, -Job 4:14 | fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. -Job 4:15 | Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. -Job 4:17 | ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? -Job 4:18 | Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. -Job 4:19 | How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! -Job 4:20 | Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. -Job 4:21 | Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’ -Job 5:01 | "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? -Job 5:02 | For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. -Job 5:03 | I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. -Job 5:04 | His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, -Job 5:05 | whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance. -Job 5:06 | For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; -Job 5:07 | but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. -Job 5:08 | "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, -Job 5:09 | who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvellous things without number; -Job 5:10 | who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; -Job 5:11 | so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety. -Job 5:12 | He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. -Job 5:13 | He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. -Job 5:14 | They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. -Job 5:15 | But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. -Job 5:16 | So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. -Job 5:17 | "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. -Job 5:18 | For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole. -Job 5:19 | He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you. -Job 5:20 | In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword. -Job 5:21 | You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes. -Job 5:22 | You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth. -Job 5:23 | For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you. -Job 5:24 | You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing. -Job 5:25 | You will know also that your offspring will be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth. -Job 5:26 | You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. -Job 5:27 | Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good." -Job 6:02 | "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! -Job 6:03 | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash. -Job 6:04 | For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. -Job 6:05 | Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder? -Job 6:06 | Can that which has no flavour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? -Job 6:07 | My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me. -Job 6:08 | "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for, -Job 6:09 | even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! -Job 6:10 | Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. -Job 6:11 | What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient? -Job 6:12 | Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze? -Job 6:13 | Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me? -Job 6:14 | "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. -Job 6:15 | My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away; -Job 6:16 | Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. -Job 6:17 | In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. -Job 6:18 | The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish. -Job 6:19 | The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them. -Job 6:20 | They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded. -Job 6:21 | For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. -Job 6:22 | Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’ -Job 6:23 | or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’ -Job 6:24 | "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error. -Job 6:25 | How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? -Job 6:26 | Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? -Job 6:27 | Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend. -Job 6:28 | Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face. -Job 6:29 | Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous. -Job 6:30 | Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things? -Job 7:01 | "Isn’t a man forced to labour on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? -Job 7:02 | As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, -Job 7:03 | so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. -Job 7:04 | When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. -Job 7:05 | My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. -Job 7:06 | My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. -Job 7:07 | Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good. -Job 7:08 | The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be. -Job 7:09 | As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. -Job 7:10 | He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more. -Job 7:11 | "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. -Job 7:12 | Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me? -Job 7:13 | When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’ -Job 7:14 | then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: -Job 7:15 | so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. -Job 7:16 | I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. -Job 7:17 | What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him, -Job 7:18 | that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? -Job 7:19 | How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? -Job 7:20 | If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? -Job 7:21 | Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be." -Job 8:02 | "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? -Job 8:03 | Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? -Job 8:04 | If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. -Job 8:05 | If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. -Job 8:06 | If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. -Job 8:07 | Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. -Job 8:08 | "Please enquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. -Job 8:09 | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) -Job 8:10 | Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? -Job 8:11 | "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? -Job 8:12 | While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. -Job 8:13 | So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish, -Job 8:14 | Whose confidence will break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web. -Job 8:15 | He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure. -Job 8:16 | He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden. -Job 8:17 | His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. -Job 8:18 | If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ -Job 8:19 | Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring. -Job 8:20 | "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. -Job 8:21 | He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. -Job 8:22 | Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more." -Job 9:02 | "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? -Job 9:03 | If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand. -Job 9:04 | God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered? -Job 9:05 | He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger. -Job 9:06 | He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. -Job 9:07 | He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars. -Job 9:08 | He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea. -Job 9:09 | He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south. -Job 9:10 | He does great things past finding out; yes, marvellous things without number. -Job 9:11 | Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him. -Job 9:12 | Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ -Job 9:13 | "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. -Job 9:14 | How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him? -Job 9:15 | Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge. -Job 9:16 | If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice. -Job 9:17 | For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause. -Job 9:18 | He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. -Job 9:19 | If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’ -Job 9:20 | Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse. -Job 9:21 | I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life. -Job 9:22 | "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. -Job 9:23 | If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. -Job 9:24 | The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it? -Job 9:25 | "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good. -Job 9:26 | They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey. -Job 9:27 | If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’ -Job 9:28 | I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. -Job 9:29 | I will be condemned. Why then do I labour in vain? -Job 9:30 | If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, -Job 9:31 | yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me. -Job 9:32 | For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgement. -Job 9:33 | There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both. -Job 9:34 | Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid; -Job 9:35 | then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. -Joel 1:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. -Joel 1:02 | Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? -Joel 1:03 | Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. -Joel 1:04 | What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. -Joel 1:05 | Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. -Joel 1:06 | For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness. -Joel 1:07 | He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. -Joel 1:08 | Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! -Joel 1:09 | The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the Lord’s house. The priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn. -Joel 1:10 | The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. -Joel 1:11 | Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. -Joel 1:12 | The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men. -Joel 1:13 | Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house. -Joel 1:14 | Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to the Lord. -Joel 1:15 | Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. -Joel 1:16 | Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? -Joel 1:17 | The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. -Joel 1:18 | How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. -Joel 1:19 | The Lord, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burnt all the trees of the field. -Joel 1:20 | Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. -Joel 2:01 | Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord comes, for it is close at hand: -Joel 2:02 | A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. -Joel 2:03 | A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them. -Joel 2:04 | Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen. -Joel 2:05 | Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array. -Joel 2:06 | At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale. -Joel 2:07 | They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course. -Joel 2:08 | One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defences and don’t break ranks. -Joel 2:09 | They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves. -Joel 2:10 | The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. -Joel 2:11 | The Lord thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of the Lord is great and very awesome, and who can endure it? -Joel 2:12 | "Yet even now," says the Lord, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning." -Joel 2:13 | Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity. -Joel 2:14 | Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the Lord, your God. -Joel 2:15 | Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. -Joel 2:16 | Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room. -Joel 2:17 | Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Lord, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say amongst the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’" -Joel 2:18 | Then the Lord was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people. -Joel 2:19 | The Lord answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach amongst the nations. -Joel 2:20 | But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things. -Joel 2:21 | Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. -Joel 2:22 | Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength. -Joel 2:23 | "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before. -Joel 2:24 | The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. -Joel 2:25 | I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent amongst you. -Joel 2:26 | You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed. -Joel 2:27 | You will know that I am amongst Israel, and that I am the Lord, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed. -Joel 2:28 | "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. -Joel 2:29 | And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. -Joel 2:30 | I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. -Joel 2:31 | The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. -Joel 2:32 | It will happen that whoever will call on the Lord’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and amongst the remnant, those whom the Lord calls. -Joel 3:01 | "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, -Joel 3:02 | I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgement on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered amongst the nations. They have divided my land, -Joel 3:03 | and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. -Joel 3:04 | "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head. -Joel 3:05 | Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, -Joel 3:06 | and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border. -Joel 3:07 | Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head; -Joel 3:08 | and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for the Lord has spoken it." -Joel 3:09 | Proclaim this amongst the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. -Joel 3:10 | Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ -Joel 3:11 | Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Lord. -Joel 3:12 | "Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. -Joel 3:13 | Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great." -Joel 3:14 | Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near, in the valley of decision. -Joel 3:15 | The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. -Joel 3:16 | The Lord will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but the Lord will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. -Joel 3:17 | "So you will know that I am the Lord, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more. -Joel 3:18 | It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from the Lord’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim. -Joel 3:19 | Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. -Joel 3:20 | But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. -Joel 3:21 | I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwells in Zion." -John 10:01 | "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. -John 10:02 | But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. -John 10:03 | The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. -John 10:04 | Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. -John 10:05 | They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers." -John 10:06 | Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. -John 10:07 | Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. -John 10:08 | All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. -John 10:09 | I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. -John 10:10 | The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. -John 10:11 | I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. -John 10:12 | He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. -John 10:13 | The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. -John 10:14 | I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; -John 10:15 | even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. -John 10:16 | I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. -John 10:17 | Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. -John 10:18 | No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father." -John 10:19 | Therefore a division arose again amongst the Jews because of these words. -John 10:20 | Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" -John 10:21 | Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?" -John 10:22 | It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. -John 10:23 | It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. -John 10:24 | The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." -John 10:25 | Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. -John 10:26 | But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. -John 10:27 | My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. -John 10:28 | I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. -John 10:29 | My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. -John 10:31 | Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. -John 10:32 | Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" -John 10:33 | The Jews answered him, "We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." -John 10:34 | Jesus answered them, "Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ -John 10:35 | If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), -John 10:36 | do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ -John 10:37 | If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. -John 10:38 | But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." -John 10:39 | They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. -John 10:40 | He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptising at first, and he stayed there. -John 10:41 | Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." -John 11:01 | Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. -John 11:02 | It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. -John 11:03 | The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick." -John 11:04 | But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it." -John 11:05 | Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. -John 11:06 | When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. -John 11:07 | Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let’s go into Judea again." -John 11:08 | The disciples asked him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?" -John 11:09 | Jesus answered, "Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. -John 11:10 | But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him." -John 11:11 | He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep." -John 11:12 | The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." -John 11:13 | Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. -John 11:14 | So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. -John 11:15 | I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him." -John 11:16 | Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let’s go also, that we may die with him." -John 11:17 | So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. -John 11:18 | Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. -John 11:19 | Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. -John 11:20 | Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. -John 11:21 | Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. -John 11:22 | Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you." -John 11:23 | Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." -John 11:24 | Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." -John 11:25 | Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. -John 11:26 | Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" -John 11:27 | She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world." -John 11:28 | When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling you." -John 11:29 | When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. -John 11:30 | Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. -John 11:31 | Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." -John 11:32 | Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died." -John 11:33 | When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, -John 11:34 | and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see." -John 11:36 | The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" -John 11:37 | Some of them said, "Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?" -John 11:38 | Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. -John 11:39 | Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days." -John 11:40 | Jesus said to her, "Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?" -John 11:41 | So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. -John 11:42 | I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." -John 11:43 | When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" -John 11:44 | He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go." -John 11:45 | Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him. -John 11:46 | But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. -John 11:47 | The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. -John 11:48 | If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." -John 11:49 | But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, -John 11:50 | nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." -John 11:51 | Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, -John 11:52 | and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. -John 11:53 | So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. -John 11:54 | Jesus therefore walked no more openly amongst the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples. -John 11:55 | Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. -John 11:56 | Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?" -John 11:57 | Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him. -John 12:01 | Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. -John 12:02 | So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. -John 12:03 | Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. -John 12:05 | "Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?" -John 12:06 | Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. -John 12:07 | But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. -John 12:08 | For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me." -John 12:09 | A large crowd therefore of the Jews learnt that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. -John 12:10 | But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, -John 12:11 | because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. -John 12:12 | On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, -John 12:13 | they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!" -John 12:14 | Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written, -John 12:15 | "Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt." -John 12:16 | His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him. -John 12:17 | The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it. -John 12:18 | For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. -John 12:19 | The Pharisees therefore said amongst themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him." -John 12:20 | Now there were certain Greeks amongst those who went up to worship at the feast. -John 12:21 | These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." -John 12:22 | Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. -John 12:23 | Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. -John 12:24 | Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. -John 12:25 | He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. -John 12:26 | If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him. -John 12:27 | "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause. -John 12:28 | Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." -John 12:29 | Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." -John 12:30 | Jesus answered, "This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. -John 12:31 | Now is the judgement of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. -John 12:32 | And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." -John 12:33 | But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die. -John 12:34 | The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?" -John 12:35 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. -John 12:36 | While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them. -John 12:37 | But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, -John 12:38 | that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" -John 12:39 | For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again, -John 12:40 | "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them." -John 12:41 | Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. -John 12:42 | Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue, -John 12:43 | for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise. -John 12:44 | Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. -John 12:45 | He who sees me sees him who sent me. -John 12:46 | I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. -John 12:47 | If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. -John 12:48 | He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day. -John 12:49 | For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. -John 12:50 | I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak." -John 13:01 | Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. -John 13:02 | During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, -John 13:03 | Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God, -John 13:04 | arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist. -John 13:05 | Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. -John 13:06 | Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" -John 13:07 | Jesus answered him, "You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later." -John 13:08 | Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me." -John 13:09 | Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" -John 13:10 | Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you." -John 13:11 | For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean." -John 13:12 | So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? -John 13:13 | You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. -John 13:14 | If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. -John 13:15 | For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. -John 13:16 | Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. -John 13:17 | If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. -John 13:18 | I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ -John 13:19 | From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. -John 13:20 | Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me." -John 13:21 | When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." -John 13:22 | The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke. -John 13:23 | One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast. -John 13:24 | Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks." -John 13:25 | He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, "Lord, who is it?" -John 13:26 | Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. -John 13:27 | After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly." -John 13:28 | Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him. -John 13:29 | For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor. -John 13:30 | Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night. -John 13:31 | When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. -John 13:32 | If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. -John 13:33 | Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. -John 13:34 | A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. -John 13:35 | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." -John 13:36 | Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards." -John 13:37 | Peter said to him, "Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." -John 13:38 | Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times. -John 14:01 | "Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. -John 14:02 | In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. -John 14:03 | If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. -John 14:04 | You know where I go, and you know the way." -John 14:05 | Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?" -John 14:06 | Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. -John 14:07 | If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him." -John 14:08 | Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." -John 14:09 | Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ -John 14:10 | Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. -John 14:11 | Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. -John 14:12 | Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. -John 14:13 | Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. -John 14:14 | If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. -John 14:15 | If you love me, keep my commandments. -John 14:16 | I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, that he may be with you forever: -John 14:17 | the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. -John 14:18 | I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. -John 14:19 | Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. -John 14:20 | In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. -John 14:21 | One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." -John 14:22 | Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" -John 14:23 | Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. -John 14:24 | He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. -John 14:25 | I have said these things to you while still living with you. -John 14:26 | But the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. -John 14:27 | Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. -John 14:28 | You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. -John 14:29 | Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. -John 14:30 | I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. -John 14:31 | But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here. -John 15:01 | "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. -John 15:02 | Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. -John 15:03 | You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. -John 15:04 | Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. -John 15:05 | I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. -John 15:06 | If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burnt. -John 15:07 | If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. -John 15:08 | "In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. -John 15:09 | Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. -John 15:10 | If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. -John 15:11 | I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. -John 15:12 | "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. -John 15:13 | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:14 | You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. -John 15:15 | No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. -John 15:16 | You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. -John 15:17 | "I command these things to you, that you may love one another. -John 15:18 | If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. -John 15:19 | If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. -John 15:20 | Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. -John 15:21 | But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. -John 15:22 | If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. -John 15:23 | He who hates me, hates my Father also. -John 15:24 | If I hadn’t done amongst them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. -John 15:25 | But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ -John 15:26 | "When the Counsellor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. -John 15:27 | You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. -John 16:01 | "I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. -John 16:02 | They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. -John 16:03 | They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. -John 16:04 | But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. -John 16:05 | But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ -John 16:06 | But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. -John 16:07 | Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counsellor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. -John 16:08 | When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgement; -John 16:10 | about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; -John 16:11 | about judgement, because the prince of this world has been judged. -John 16:12 | "I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. -John 16:13 | However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. -John 16:14 | He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. -John 16:15 | All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you. -John 16:16 | A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me." -John 16:17 | Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?" -John 16:18 | They said therefore, "What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying." -John 16:19 | Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you enquire amongst yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ -John 16:20 | Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. -John 16:21 | A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. -John 16:22 | Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. -John 16:23 | "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. -John 16:24 | Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. -John 16:25 | I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. -John 16:26 | In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, -John 16:27 | for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. -John 16:28 | I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." -John 16:29 | His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. -John 16:30 | Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God." -John 16:31 | Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? -John 16:32 | Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. -John 16:33 | I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world." -John 17:01 | Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; -John 17:02 | even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. -John 17:03 | This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. -John 17:04 | I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. -John 17:05 | Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. -John 17:06 | I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. -John 17:07 | Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, -John 17:08 | for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. -John 17:09 | I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. -John 17:10 | All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. -John 17:11 | I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. -John 17:12 | While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. -John 17:13 | But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. -John 17:14 | I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. -John 17:15 | I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. -John 17:16 | They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. -John 17:17 | Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. -John 17:18 | As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. -John 17:19 | For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. -John 17:20 | Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, -John 17:21 | that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. -John 17:22 | The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; -John 17:23 | I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. -John 17:24 | Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. -John 17:25 | Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. -John 17:26 | I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them." -John 18:01 | When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. -John 18:02 | Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. -John 18:03 | Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. -John 18:04 | Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?" -John 18:05 | They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. -John 18:06 | When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground. -John 18:07 | Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth." -John 18:08 | Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way," -John 18:09 | that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none." -John 18:10 | Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. -John 18:11 | Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?" -John 18:12 | So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him, -John 18:13 | and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. -John 18:14 | Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people. -John 18:15 | Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest; -John 18:16 | but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter. -John 18:17 | Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man’s disciples?" He said, "I am not." -John 18:18 | Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself. -John 18:19 | The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. -John 18:20 | Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. -John 18:21 | Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said." -John 18:22 | When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?" -John 18:23 | Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?" -John 18:24 | Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. -John 18:25 | Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." -John 18:26 | One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?" -John 18:27 | Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed. -John 18:28 | They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. -John 18:29 | Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" -John 18:30 | They answered him, "If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you." -John 18:31 | Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is illegal for us to put anyone to death," -John 18:32 | that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die. -John 18:33 | Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" -John 18:34 | Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?" -John 18:35 | Pilate answered, "I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?" -John 18:36 | Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here." -John 18:37 | Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." -John 18:38 | Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him. -John 18:39 | But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" -John 18:40 | Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber. -John 19:01 | So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. -John 19:02 | The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. -John 19:03 | They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him. -John 19:04 | Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him." -John 19:05 | Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" -John 19:06 | When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him." -John 19:07 | The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." -John 19:08 | When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. -John 19:09 | He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. -John 19:10 | Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?" -John 19:11 | Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin." -John 19:12 | At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" -John 19:13 | When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgement seat at a place called "The Pavement", but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." -John 19:14 | Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" -John 19:15 | They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" -John 19:16 | So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. -John 19:17 | He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull", which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha", -John 19:18 | where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. -John 19:19 | Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." -John 19:20 | Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. -John 19:21 | The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, "I am King of the Jews." -John 19:22 | Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." -John 19:23 | Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. -John 19:24 | Then they said to one another, "Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments amongst them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things. -John 19:25 | But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. -John 19:26 | Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" -John 19:27 | Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. -John 19:28 | After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." -John 19:29 | Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. -John 19:30 | When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. -John 19:31 | Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. -John 19:32 | Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; -John 19:33 | but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. -John 19:34 | However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. -John 19:35 | He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. -John 19:36 | For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken." -John 19:37 | Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced." -John 19:38 | After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. -John 19:39 | Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. -John 19:40 | So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. -John 19:41 | Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. -John 19:42 | Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there. -John 1:01 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. -John 1:02 | The same was in the beginning with God. -John 1:03 | All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. -John 1:04 | In him was life, and the life was the light of men. -John 1:05 | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. -John 1:06 | There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. -John 1:07 | The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. -John 1:08 | He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. -John 1:09 | The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. -John 1:10 | He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognise him. -John 1:11 | He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. -John 1:12 | But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: -John 1:13 | who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. -John 1:14 | The Word became flesh, and lived amongst us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. -John 1:15 | John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’" -John 1:16 | From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. -John 1:17 | For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realised through Jesus Christ. -John 1:18 | No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him. -John 1:19 | This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" -John 1:20 | He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ." -John 1:21 | They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No." -John 1:22 | They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" -John 1:23 | He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said." -John 1:24 | The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. -John 1:25 | They asked him, "Why then do you baptise, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?" -John 1:26 | John answered them, "I baptise in water, but amongst you stands one whom you don’t know. -John 1:27 | He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen." -John 1:28 | These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptising. -John 1:29 | The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! -John 1:30 | This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’ -John 1:31 | I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptising in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." -John 1:32 | John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. -John 1:33 | I didn’t recognise him, but he who sent me to baptise in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptises in the Holy Spirit.’ -John 1:34 | I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." -John 1:35 | Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, -John 1:36 | and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" -John 1:37 | The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. -John 1:38 | Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?" -John 1:39 | He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. -John 1:40 | One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. -John 1:41 | He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ). -John 1:42 | He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). -John 1:43 | On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." -John 1:44 | Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. -John 1:45 | Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." -John 1:46 | Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." -John 1:47 | Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" -John 1:48 | Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." -John 1:49 | Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!" -John 1:50 | Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" -John 1:51 | He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." -John 20:01 | Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. -John 20:02 | Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!" -John 20:03 | Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went towards the tomb. -John 20:04 | They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. -John 20:05 | Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. -John 20:06 | Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, -John 20:07 | and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. -John 20:08 | So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. -John 20:09 | For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. -John 20:10 | So the disciples went away again to their own homes. -John 20:11 | But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, -John 20:12 | and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. -John 20:13 | They asked her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him." -John 20:14 | When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus. -John 20:15 | Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." -John 20:16 | Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!" -John 20:17 | Jesus said to her, "Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’" -John 20:18 | Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. -John 20:19 | When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, "Peace be to you." -John 20:20 | When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. -John 20:21 | Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." -John 20:22 | When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit! -John 20:23 | If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained." -John 20:24 | But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. -John 20:25 | The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." -John 20:26 | After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, "Peace be to you." -John 20:27 | Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing." -John 20:28 | Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" -John 20:29 | Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed." -John 20:30 | Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; -John 20:31 | but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. -John 21:01 | After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. -John 21:03 | Simon Peter said to them, "I’m going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing. -John 21:04 | But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus. -John 21:05 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No." -John 21:06 | He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. -John 21:07 | That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It’s the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. -John 21:08 | But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish. -John 21:09 | So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it. -John 21:10 | Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught." -John 21:11 | Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred and fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn. -John 21:12 | Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast!" None of the disciples dared enquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord. -John 21:13 | Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise. -John 21:14 | This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead. -John 21:15 | So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." -John 21:16 | He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." -John 21:17 | He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. -John 21:18 | Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go." -John 21:19 | Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me." -John 21:20 | Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray you?" -John 21:21 | Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" -John 21:22 | Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me." -John 21:23 | This saying therefore went out amongst the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?" -John 21:24 | This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true. -John 21:25 | There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written. -John 2:01 | The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. -John 2:02 | Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. -John 2:03 | When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, "They have no wine." -John 2:04 | Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." -John 2:05 | His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." -John 2:06 | Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. -John 2:07 | Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." So they filled them up to the brim. -John 2:08 | He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it. -John 2:09 | When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom -John 2:10 | and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" -John 2:11 | This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. -John 2:12 | After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. -John 2:13 | The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. -John 2:14 | He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. -John 2:15 | He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. -John 2:16 | To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!" -John 2:17 | His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up." -John 2:18 | The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?" -John 2:19 | Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." -John 2:20 | The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?" -John 2:21 | But he spoke of the temple of his body. -John 2:22 | When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. -John 2:23 | Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. -John 2:24 | But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, -John 2:25 | and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man. -John 3:01 | Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. -John 3:02 | The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him." -John 3:03 | Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom." -John 3:04 | Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?" -John 3:05 | Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. -John 3:06 | That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. -John 3:07 | Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ -John 3:08 | The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." -John 3:09 | Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?" -John 3:10 | Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? -John 3:11 | Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. -John 3:12 | If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? -John 3:13 | No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. -John 3:14 | As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, -John 3:15 | that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:17 | For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. -John 3:18 | He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. -John 3:19 | This is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. -John 3:20 | For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. -John 3:21 | But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God." -John 3:22 | After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptised. -John 3:23 | John also was baptising in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptised; -John 3:25 | Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification. -John 3:26 | They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptises, and everyone is coming to him." -John 3:27 | John answered, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. -John 3:28 | You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ -John 3:29 | He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. -John 3:30 | He must increase, but I must decrease. -John 3:31 | He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. -John 3:32 | What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. -John 3:33 | He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. -John 3:34 | For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. -John 3:35 | The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. -John 3:36 | One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." -John 4:01 | Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptising more disciples than John -John 4:02 | (although Jesus himself didn’t baptise, but his disciples), -John 4:05 | So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. -John 4:06 | Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. -John 4:07 | A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." -John 4:08 | For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. -John 4:09 | The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) -John 4:10 | Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." -John 4:11 | The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? -John 4:12 | Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?" -John 4:13 | Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, -John 4:14 | but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." -John 4:15 | The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." -John 4:16 | Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." -John 4:17 | The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ -John 4:18 | for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly." -John 4:19 | The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. -John 4:20 | Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." -John 4:21 | Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. -John 4:22 | You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. -John 4:23 | But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. -John 4:24 | God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." -John 4:25 | The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things." -John 4:26 | Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." -John 4:27 | At this, his disciples came. They marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" -John 4:28 | So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, -John 4:29 | "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?" -John 4:31 | In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." -John 4:32 | But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don’t know about." -John 4:33 | The disciples therefore said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" -John 4:34 | Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. -John 4:35 | Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. -John 4:36 | He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. -John 4:37 | For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ -John 4:38 | I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour." -John 4:39 | From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did." -John 4:40 | So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. -John 4:41 | Many more believed because of his word. -John 4:42 | They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." -John 4:43 | After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. -John 4:44 | For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country. -John 4:45 | So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. -John 4:46 | Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. -John 4:47 | When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. -John 4:48 | Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe." -John 4:49 | The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." -John 4:50 | Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. -John 4:51 | As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" -John 4:52 | So he enquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." -John 4:53 | So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. -John 4:54 | This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee. -John 5:01 | After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. -John 5:02 | Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda", having five porches. -John 5:03 | In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralysed, waiting for the moving of the water; -John 5:04 | for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. -John 5:05 | A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. -John 5:06 | When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?" -John 5:07 | The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me." -John 5:08 | Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk." -John 5:09 | Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. -John 5:10 | So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat." -John 5:11 | He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’" -John 5:12 | Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?" -John 5:13 | But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place. -John 5:14 | Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you." -John 5:15 | The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. -John 5:16 | For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. -John 5:17 | But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too." -John 5:18 | For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. -John 5:19 | Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. -John 5:20 | For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. -John 5:21 | For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. -John 5:22 | For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgement to the Son, -John 5:23 | that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who doesn’t honour the Son doesn’t honour the Father who sent him. -John 5:24 | "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgement, but has passed out of death into life. -John 5:25 | Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. -John 5:26 | For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. -John 5:27 | He also gave him authority to execute judgement, because he is a son of man. -John 5:28 | Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, -John 5:29 | and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgement. -John 5:30 | I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgement is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me. -John 5:31 | "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. -John 5:32 | It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. -John 5:33 | You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. -John 5:34 | But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. -John 5:35 | He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. -John 5:36 | But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. -John 5:37 | The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. -John 5:38 | You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent. -John 5:39 | "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. -John 5:40 | Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. -John 5:41 | I don’t receive glory from men. -John 5:42 | But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. -John 5:43 | I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. -John 5:44 | How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God? -John 5:45 | "Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. -John 5:46 | For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. -John 5:47 | But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" -John 6:01 | After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. -John 6:02 | A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. -John 6:03 | Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. -John 6:04 | Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. -John 6:05 | Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" -John 6:06 | He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. -John 6:07 | Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little." -John 6:09 | "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these amongst so many?" -John 6:10 | Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. -John 6:11 | Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. -John 6:12 | When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." -John 6:13 | So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. -John 6:14 | When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." -John 6:15 | Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself. -John 6:16 | When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea. -John 6:17 | They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. -John 6:18 | The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. -John 6:19 | When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. -John 6:20 | But he said to them, "It is I. Don’t be afraid." -John 6:21 | They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. -John 6:22 | On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. -John 6:23 | However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. -John 6:24 | When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. -John 6:25 | When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" -John 6:26 | Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. -John 6:27 | Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." -John 6:28 | They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?" -John 6:29 | Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." -John 6:30 | They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do? -John 6:31 | Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’" -John 6:32 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. -John 6:33 | For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." -John 6:34 | They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread." -John 6:35 | Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. -John 6:36 | But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. -John 6:37 | All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. -John 6:38 | For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. -John 6:39 | This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. -John 6:40 | This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." -John 6:41 | The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." -John 6:42 | They said, "Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’" -John 6:43 | Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don’t murmur amongst yourselves. -John 6:44 | No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. -John 6:45 | It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learnt, comes to me. -John 6:46 | Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. -John 6:47 | Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. -John 6:48 | I am the bread of life. -John 6:49 | Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. -John 6:50 | This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. -John 6:51 | I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." -John 6:52 | The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" -John 6:53 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. -John 6:54 | He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. -John 6:55 | For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. -John 6:56 | He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. -John 6:57 | As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. -John 6:58 | This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." -John 6:59 | He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. -John 6:60 | Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?" -John 6:61 | But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? -John 6:62 | Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? -John 6:63 | It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. -John 6:64 | But there are some of you who don’t believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. -John 6:65 | He said, "For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father." -John 6:66 | At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. -John 6:67 | Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don’t also want to go away, do you?" -John 6:68 | Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. -John 6:69 | We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." -John 6:70 | Jesus answered them, "Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" -John 6:71 | Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. -John 7:01 | After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. -John 7:02 | Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. -John 7:03 | His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. -John 7:04 | For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." -John 7:05 | For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. -John 7:06 | Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. -John 7:07 | The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. -John 7:08 | You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." -John 7:09 | Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. -John 7:10 | But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. -John 7:11 | The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" -John 7:12 | There was much murmuring amongst the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." -John 7:13 | Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. -John 7:14 | But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. -John 7:15 | The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" -John 7:16 | Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. -John 7:17 | If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. -John 7:18 | He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. -John 7:19 | Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" -John 7:20 | The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" -John 7:21 | Jesus answered them, "I did one work and you all marvel because of it. -John 7:22 | Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. -John 7:23 | If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? -John 7:24 | Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgement." -John 7:25 | Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? -John 7:26 | Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? -John 7:27 | However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." -John 7:28 | Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. -John 7:29 | I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." -John 7:30 | They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. -John 7:31 | But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" -John 7:32 | The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. -John 7:33 | Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. -John 7:34 | You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am." -John 7:35 | The Jews therefore said amongst themselves, "Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion amongst the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? -John 7:36 | What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?" -John 7:37 | Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! -John 7:38 | He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." -John 7:39 | But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified. -John 7:40 | Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." -John 7:41 | Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? -John 7:42 | Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" -John 7:43 | So a division arose in the multitude because of him. -John 7:44 | Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. -John 7:45 | The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn’t you bring him?" -John 7:46 | The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" -John 7:47 | The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren’t also led astray, are you? -John 7:48 | Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? -John 7:49 | But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed." -John 7:50 | Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, -John 7:51 | "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" -John 7:52 | They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." -John 8:01 | but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. -John 8:02 | Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them. -John 8:03 | The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, -John 8:04 | they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. -John 8:05 | Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?" -John 8:06 | They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. -John 8:07 | But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin amongst you, let him throw the first stone at her." -John 8:08 | Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. -John 8:09 | They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. -John 8:10 | Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" -John 8:11 | She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more." -John 8:12 | Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life." -John 8:13 | The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid." -John 8:14 | Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. -John 8:15 | You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. -John 8:16 | Even if I do judge, my judgement is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. -John 8:17 | It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. -John 8:18 | I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me." -John 8:19 | They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." -John 8:20 | Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. -John 8:21 | Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come." -John 8:22 | The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?" -John 8:23 | He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. -John 8:24 | I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." -John 8:25 | They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. -John 8:26 | I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world." -John 8:27 | They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father. -John 8:28 | Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. -John 8:29 | He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." -John 8:30 | As he spoke these things, many believed in him. -John 8:31 | Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. -John 8:32 | You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." -John 8:33 | They answered him, "We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?" -John 8:34 | Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. -John 8:35 | A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. -John 8:36 | If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. -John 8:37 | I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. -John 8:38 | I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." -John 8:39 | They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. -John 8:40 | But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. -John 8:41 | You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God." -John 8:42 | Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. -John 8:43 | Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. -John 8:44 | You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. -John 8:45 | But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. -John 8:46 | Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? -John 8:47 | He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God." -John 8:48 | Then the Jews answered him, "Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?" -John 8:49 | Jesus answered, "I don’t have a demon, but I honour my Father and you dishonour me. -John 8:50 | But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. -John 8:51 | Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." -John 8:52 | Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’ -John 8:53 | Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" -John 8:54 | Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. -John 8:55 | You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word. -John 8:56 | Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." -John 8:57 | The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?" -John 8:58 | Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." -John 8:59 | Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by. -John 9:01 | As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. -John 9:02 | His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" -John 9:03 | Jesus answered, "This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. -John 9:04 | I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. -John 9:05 | While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." -John 9:06 | When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, -John 9:07 | and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. -John 9:08 | The neighbours therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn’t this he who sat and begged?" -John 9:09 | Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he." -John 9:10 | They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?" -John 9:11 | He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight." -John 9:12 | Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don’t know." -John 9:13 | They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. -John 9:14 | It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. -John 9:15 | Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see." -John 9:16 | Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" So there was division amongst them. -John 9:17 | Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet." -John 9:18 | The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, -John 9:19 | and asked them, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" -John 9:20 | His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; -John 9:21 | but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." -John 9:22 | His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. -John 9:23 | Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him." -John 9:24 | So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." -John 9:25 | He therefore answered, "I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see." -John 9:26 | They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" -John 9:27 | He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?" -John 9:28 | They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. -John 9:29 | We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from." -John 9:30 | The man answered them, "How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. -John 9:31 | We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. -John 9:32 | Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. -John 9:33 | If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." -John 9:34 | They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they threw him out. -John 9:35 | Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" -John 9:36 | He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?" -John 9:37 | Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you." -John 9:38 | He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshipped him. -John 9:39 | Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgement, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind." -John 9:40 | Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" -John 9:41 | Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains. -Jonah 1:02 | "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me." -Jonah 1:03 | But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. -Jonah 1:04 | But the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up. -Jonah 1:05 | Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. -Jonah 1:06 | So the ship master came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish." -Jonah 1:07 | They all said to each other, "Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. -Jonah 1:08 | Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?" -Jonah 1:09 | He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land." -Jonah 1:10 | Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What have you done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. -Jonah 1:11 | Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy. -Jonah 1:12 | He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you." -Jonah 1:13 | Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them. -Jonah 1:14 | Therefore they cried to the Lord, and said, "We beg you, Lord, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Lord, have done as it pleased you." -Jonah 1:15 | So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging. -Jonah 1:16 | Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord, and made vows. -Jonah 2:01 | Then Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the fish’s belly. -Jonah 2:02 | He said, "I called because of my affliction to the Lord. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. -Jonah 2:03 | For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. -Jonah 2:04 | I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.’ -Jonah 2:05 | The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. -Jonah 2:06 | I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Lord my God. -Jonah 2:07 | "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. -Jonah 2:08 | Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. -Jonah 2:09 | But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord." -Jonah 2:10 | Then The Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. -Jonah 3:02 | "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you." -Jonah 3:03 | So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across. -Jonah 3:04 | Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!" -Jonah 3:05 | The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. -Jonah 3:06 | The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. -Jonah 3:07 | He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; -Jonah 3:08 | but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. -Jonah 3:09 | Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?" -Jonah 3:10 | God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it. -Jonah 4:01 | But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. -Jonah 4:02 | He prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please, Lord, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm. -Jonah 4:03 | Therefore now, Lord, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." -Jonah 4:04 | The Lord said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" -Jonah 4:05 | Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. -Jonah 4:06 | The Lord God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine. -Jonah 4:07 | But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. -Jonah 4:08 | When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live." -Jonah 4:09 | God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death." -Jonah 4:10 | The Lord said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. -Jonah 4:11 | Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?" -Joshua 10:01 | Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were amongst them, -Joshua 10:02 | they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. -Joshua 10:04 | "Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel." -Joshua 10:05 | Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it. -Joshua 10:06 | The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us." -Joshua 10:07 | So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valour. -Joshua 10:08 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you." -Joshua 10:09 | Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night. -Joshua 10:10 | The Lord confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah. -Joshua 10:11 | As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, the Lord hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword. -Joshua 10:12 | Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!" -Joshua 10:13 | The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day. -Joshua 10:14 | There was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel. -Joshua 10:15 | Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal. -Joshua 10:16 | These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. -Joshua 10:17 | Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah." -Joshua 10:18 | Joshua said, "Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them; -Joshua 10:19 | but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand." -Joshua 10:20 | When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, -Joshua 10:21 | all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. -Joshua 10:22 | Then Joshua said, "Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me." -Joshua 10:23 | They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. -Joshua 10:24 | When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, "Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings." They came near, and put their feet on their necks. -Joshua 10:25 | Joshua said to them, "Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for the Lord will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight." -Joshua 10:26 | Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening. -Joshua 10:27 | At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. -Joshua 10:28 | Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. -Joshua 10:29 | Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah. -Joshua 10:30 | The Lord delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho. -Joshua 10:31 | Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. -Joshua 10:32 | The Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah. -Joshua 10:33 | Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining. -Joshua 10:34 | Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it. -Joshua 10:35 | They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. -Joshua 10:36 | Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it. -Joshua 10:37 | They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it. -Joshua 10:38 | Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it. -Joshua 10:39 | He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king. -Joshua 10:40 | So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded. -Joshua 10:41 | Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. -Joshua 10:42 | Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. -Joshua 10:43 | Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal. -Joshua 11:04 | They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. -Joshua 11:05 | All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel. -Joshua 11:06 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire." -Joshua 11:07 | So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them. -Joshua 11:08 | The Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining. -Joshua 11:09 | Joshua did to them as the Lord told him. He hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire. -Joshua 11:10 | Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms. -Joshua 11:11 | They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burnt Hazor with fire. -Joshua 11:12 | Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. -Joshua 11:13 | But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burnt none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burnt that. -Joshua 11:14 | The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed. -Joshua 11:15 | As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses. -Joshua 11:16 | So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; -Joshua 11:17 | from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death. -Joshua 11:18 | Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. -Joshua 11:19 | There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle. -Joshua 11:20 | For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Joshua 11:23 | So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war. -Joshua 18:03 | Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? -Joshua 18:04 | Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me. -Joshua 18:05 | They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north. -Joshua 18:06 | You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. -Joshua 18:07 | However, the Levites have no portion amongst you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them." -Joshua 18:08 | The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh." -Joshua 18:09 | The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. -Joshua 18:10 | Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions. -Joshua 18:11 | The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. -Joshua 18:12 | Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven. -Joshua 1:02 | "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel. -Joshua 1:03 | I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses. -Joshua 1:04 | From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea towards the going down of the sun, shall be your border. -Joshua 1:05 | No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you. -Joshua 1:06 | "Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. -Joshua 1:07 | Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. -Joshua 1:08 | This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. -Joshua 1:09 | Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." -Joshua 1:11 | "Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.’" -Joshua 1:13 | "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God gives you rest, and will give you this land. -Joshua 1:14 | Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them -Joshua 1:15 | until the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which the Lord your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan towards the sunrise.’" -Joshua 1:16 | They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. -Joshua 1:17 | Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses. -Joshua 1:18 | Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous." -Joshua 20:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, -Joshua 20:03 | that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. -Joshua 20:04 | He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live amongst them. -Joshua 20:05 | If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before. -Joshua 20:06 | He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgement, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’" -Joshua 20:07 | They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. -Joshua 20:08 | Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. -Joshua 20:09 | These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives amongst them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation. -Joshua 21:01 | Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. -Joshua 21:02 | They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The Lord commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock." -Joshua 21:03 | The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of the Lord, these cities with their pasture lands. -Joshua 21:04 | The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin. -Joshua 21:05 | The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. -Joshua 21:06 | The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. -Joshua 21:07 | The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. -Joshua 21:08 | The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as the Lord commanded by Moses. -Joshua 21:09 | They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name: -Joshua 21:10 | and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. -Joshua 21:11 | They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it. -Joshua 21:12 | But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. -Joshua 23:12 | "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain amongst you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; -Joshua 23:13 | know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you. -Joshua 23:14 | "Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it. -Joshua 23:15 | It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which the Lord your God spoke to you, so the Lord will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you, -Joshua 23:16 | when you disobey the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the Lord’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you." -Joshua 24:01 | Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. -Joshua 24:02 | Joshua said to all the people, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods. -Joshua 24:03 | I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac. -Joshua 24:04 | I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. -Joshua 24:05 | "‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did amongst them: and afterward I brought you out. -Joshua 24:06 | I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. -Joshua 24:07 | When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days. -Joshua 24:08 | "‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you. -Joshua 24:09 | Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, -Joshua 24:10 | but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. -Joshua 24:11 | "‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. -Joshua 24:12 | I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. -Joshua 24:13 | I gave you a land on which you had not laboured, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’ -Joshua 24:14 | "Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the Lord. -Joshua 24:15 | If it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." -Joshua 24:16 | The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; -Joshua 24:17 | for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and amongst all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed. -Joshua 24:18 | The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord; for he is our God." -Joshua 24:19 | Joshua said to the people, "You can’t serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. -Joshua 24:20 | If you forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good." -Joshua 24:21 | The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the Lord." -Joshua 24:22 | Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses." -Joshua 24:23 | "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are amongst you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel." -Joshua 24:24 | The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God, and we will listen to his voice." -Joshua 24:25 | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. -Joshua 24:26 | Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. -Joshua 24:27 | Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the Lord’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God." -Joshua 24:28 | So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance. -Joshua 24:29 | After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. -Joshua 24:30 | They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. -Joshua 24:31 | Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the Lord, that he had worked for Israel. -Joshua 24:32 | They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. -Joshua 24:33 | Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim. -Joshua 2:01 | Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there. -Joshua 2:02 | The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land." -Joshua 2:03 | Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land." -Joshua 2:04 | The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from. -Joshua 2:05 | About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them." -Joshua 2:06 | But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof. -Joshua 2:07 | The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate. -Joshua 2:08 | Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof. -Joshua 2:09 | She said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. -Joshua 2:10 | For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. -Joshua 2:11 | As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. -Joshua 2:12 | Now therefore, please swear to me by the Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign; -Joshua 2:13 | and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death." -Joshua 2:14 | The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when the Lord gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you." -Joshua 2:15 | Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. -Joshua 2:16 | She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way." -Joshua 2:17 | The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear. -Joshua 2:18 | Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household. -Joshua 2:19 | It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him. -Joshua 2:20 | But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear." -Joshua 2:21 | She said, "Let it be as you have said." She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window. -Joshua 2:22 | They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them. -Joshua 2:23 | Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them. -Joshua 2:24 | They said to Joshua, "Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us." -Joshua 3:01 | Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over. -Joshua 3:02 | After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp; -Joshua 3:03 | and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the Lord your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it. -Joshua 3:04 | Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before." -Joshua 3:05 | Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders amongst you." -Joshua 3:06 | Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. -Joshua 3:07 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. -Joshua 3:08 | You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’" -Joshua 3:09 | Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God." -Joshua 3:10 | Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is amongst you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you. -Joshua 3:11 | Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. -Joshua 3:12 | Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. -Joshua 3:13 | It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap." -Joshua 3:14 | When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, -Joshua 3:15 | and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), -Joshua 3:16 | the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down towards the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho. -Joshua 3:17 | The priests who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan. -Joshua 4:03 | and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’" -Joshua 4:04 | Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe. -Joshua 4:05 | Joshua said to them, "Cross before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; -Joshua 4:06 | that this may be a sign amongst you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’ -Joshua 4:07 | then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’" -Joshua 4:08 | The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as the Lord spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there. -Joshua 4:09 | Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day. -Joshua 4:10 | For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over. -Joshua 4:11 | When all the people had completely crossed over, the Lord’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people. -Joshua 4:12 | The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them. -Joshua 4:13 | About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before the Lord to battle, to the plains of Jericho. -Joshua 4:14 | On that day, the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. -Joshua 4:16 | "Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan." -Joshua 4:18 | When the priests who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before. -Joshua 4:19 | The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho. -Joshua 4:20 | Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal. -Joshua 4:21 | He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’ -Joshua 4:22 | Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. -Joshua 4:23 | For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over, -Joshua 4:24 | that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear the Lord your God forever.’" -Joshua 5:01 | When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel. -Joshua 5:02 | At that time, the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time." -Joshua 5:03 | Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. -Joshua 5:04 | This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt. -Joshua 5:05 | For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. -Joshua 5:06 | For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the Lord’s voice. The Lord swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. -Joshua 5:07 | Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way. -Joshua 5:08 | When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed. -Joshua 5:09 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day. -Joshua 5:10 | The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. -Joshua 5:11 | They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. -Joshua 5:12 | The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. -Joshua 5:13 | When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our enemies?" -Joshua 5:14 | He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of the Lord’s army." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and asked him, "What does my lord say to his servant?" -Joshua 5:15 | The prince of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so. -Joshua 6:01 | Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in. -Joshua 6:02 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valour. -Joshua 6:03 | All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. -Joshua 6:04 | Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. -Joshua 6:05 | It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him." -Joshua 6:06 | Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord’s ark." -Joshua 6:07 | They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the Lord’s ark." -Joshua 6:08 | It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. -Joshua 6:09 | The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went. -Joshua 6:10 | Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout." -Joshua 6:11 | So he caused the Lord’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp. -Joshua 6:17 | The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. -Joshua 6:18 | But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it. -Joshua 6:19 | But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord. They shall come into the Lord’s treasury." -Joshua 6:20 | So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city. -Joshua 6:21 | They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword. -Joshua 6:22 | Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her." -Joshua 6:23 | The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel. -Joshua 6:24 | They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. -Joshua 6:25 | But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. -Joshua 6:26 | Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates." -Joshua 6:27 | So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land. -Joshua 7:01 | But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against the children of Israel. -Joshua 7:02 | Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai. -Joshua 7:03 | They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them." -Joshua 7:04 | So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai. -Joshua 7:05 | The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water. -Joshua 7:06 | Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the Lord’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. -Joshua 7:07 | Joshua said, "Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! -Joshua 7:08 | Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies? -Joshua 7:09 | For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?" -Joshua 7:10 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that? -Joshua 7:11 | Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it amongst their own stuff. -Joshua 7:12 | Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from amongst you. -Joshua 7:13 | Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing amongst you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from amongst you." -Joshua 7:14 | In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which the Lord selects shall come near by families. The family which the Lord selects shall come near by households. The household which the Lord selects shall come near man by man. -Joshua 7:15 | It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the Lord’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’" -Joshua 7:16 | So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected. -Joshua 7:17 | He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected. -Joshua 7:18 | He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected. -Joshua 7:19 | Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!" -Joshua 7:20 | Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. -Joshua 7:21 | When I saw amongst the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it." -Joshua 7:22 | So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. -Joshua 7:23 | They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the Lord. -Joshua 7:24 | Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. -Joshua 7:25 | Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you today." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burnt them with fire and stoned them with stones. -Joshua 7:26 | They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day. -Joshua 8:01 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land. -Joshua 8:02 | You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it." -Joshua 8:03 | So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them out by night. -Joshua 8:04 | He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. -Joshua 8:05 | I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them. -Joshua 8:06 | They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them, -Joshua 8:07 | and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. -Joshua 8:08 | It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the Lord’s word. Behold, I have commanded you." -Joshua 8:09 | Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed amongst the people that night. -Joshua 8:10 | Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. -Joshua 8:11 | All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai. -Joshua 8:12 | He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. -Joshua 8:13 | So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley. -Joshua 8:14 | When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. -Joshua 8:15 | Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. -Joshua 8:16 | All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. -Joshua 8:17 | There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel. -Joshua 8:18 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand towards Ai, for I will give it into your hand." Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand towards the city. -Joshua 8:19 | The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire. -Joshua 8:20 | When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. -Joshua 8:21 | When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai. -Joshua 8:22 | The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. -Joshua 8:23 | They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua. -Joshua 8:24 | When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. -Joshua 8:25 | All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai. -Joshua 8:26 | For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. -Joshua 8:27 | Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the Lord’s word which he commanded Joshua. -Joshua 8:28 | So Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day. -Joshua 8:29 | He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day. -Joshua 8:30 | Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, -Joshua 8:31 | as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. -Joshua 8:32 | He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. -Joshua 8:33 | All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. -Joshua 8:34 | Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. -Joshua 8:35 | There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were amongst them. -Joshua 9:01 | When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it -Joshua 9:02 | they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. -Joshua 9:03 | But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, -Joshua 9:04 | they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins, -Joshua 9:05 | and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and mouldy. -Joshua 9:06 | They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us." -Joshua 9:07 | The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live amongst us? How could we make a covenant with you?" -Joshua 9:08 | They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?" -Joshua 9:09 | They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt, -Joshua 9:10 | and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. -Joshua 9:11 | Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."’ -Joshua 9:12 | This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become mouldy. -Joshua 9:13 | These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey." -Joshua 9:14 | The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the Lord’s mouth. -Joshua 9:15 | Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them. -Joshua 9:16 | At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they lived amongst them. -Joshua 9:17 | The children of Israel travelled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. -Joshua 9:18 | The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes. -Joshua 9:19 | But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them. -Joshua 9:20 | We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them." -Joshua 9:21 | The princes said to them, "Let them live." So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them. -Joshua 9:22 | Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live amongst us? -Joshua 9:23 | Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God." -Joshua 9:24 | They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how the Lord your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. -Joshua 9:25 | Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do." -Joshua 9:26 | He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them. -Joshua 9:27 | That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the Lord’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose. -Jude 1:01 | Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: -Jude 1:02 | May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. -Jude 1:03 | Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. -Jude 1:04 | For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. -Jude 1:05 | Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe. -Jude 1:06 | Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgement of the great day. -Jude 1:07 | Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. -Jude 1:08 | Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. -Jude 1:09 | But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" -Jude 1:10 | But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason. -Jude 1:11 | Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion. -Jude 1:12 | These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; -Jude 1:13 | wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. -Jude 1:14 | About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, -Jude 1:15 | to execute judgement on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." -Jude 1:16 | These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage. -Jude 1:17 | But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Jude 1:18 | They said to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." -Jude 1:19 | These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit. -Jude 1:20 | But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. -Jude 1:21 | Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. -Jude 1:22 | On some have compassion, making a distinction, -Jude 1:23 | and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. -Jude 1:24 | Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, -Jude 1:25 | to God our Saviour, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. -Judges 10:01 | After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. -Judges 10:02 | He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. -Judges 10:03 | After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years. -Judges 10:04 | He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. -Judges 10:06 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord, and didn’t serve him. -Judges 10:07 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon. -Judges 10:08 | They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. -Judges 10:09 | The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed. -Judges 10:10 | The children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals." -Judges 10:11 | The Lord said to the children of Israel, "Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? -Judges 10:12 | The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand. -Judges 10:13 | Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more. -Judges 10:14 | Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!" -Judges 10:15 | The children of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today." -Judges 10:16 | They put away the foreign gods from amongst them and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. -Judges 10:17 | Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah. -Judges 10:18 | The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." -Judges 11:03 | Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him. -Judges 11:04 | After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel. -Judges 11:05 | When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob. -Judges 11:06 | They said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon." -Judges 11:07 | Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?" -Judges 11:08 | The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." -Judges 11:09 | Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivers them before me, will I be your head?" -Judges 11:10 | The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say." -Judges 11:11 | Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpah. -Judges 11:12 | Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?" -Judges 11:13 | The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably." -Judges 11:14 | Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; -Judges 11:15 | and he said to him, "Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon; -Judges 11:16 | but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh, -Judges 11:17 | then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh. -Judges 11:18 | Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. -Judges 11:19 | Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’ -Judges 11:20 | But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. -Judges 11:21 | The Lord, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. -Judges 11:22 | They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. -Judges 11:23 | So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them? -Judges 11:24 | Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the Lord our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess. -Judges 11:25 | Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? -Judges 11:26 | Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time? -Judges 11:27 | Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May The Lord the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon." -Judges 11:28 | However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. -Judges 11:29 | Then the Lord’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. -Judges 11:30 | Jephthah vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, -Judges 11:31 | then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering." -Judges 11:32 | So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand. -Judges 11:33 | He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. -Judges 11:34 | Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter. -Judges 11:35 | When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can’t go back." -Judges 11:36 | She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because the Lord has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon." -Judges 11:37 | Then she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions." -Judges 11:38 | He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains. -Judges 11:39 | At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel -Judges 11:40 | that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. -Judges 12:01 | The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!" -Judges 12:02 | Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand. -Judges 12:03 | When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?" -Judges 12:04 | Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh." -Judges 12:05 | The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No" -Judges 12:06 | then they said to him, "Now say ‘Shibboleth;’" and he said "Sibboleth"; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell. -Judges 12:07 | Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead. -Judges 12:08 | After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. -Judges 12:09 | He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years. -Judges 12:11 | After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. -Judges 12:12 | Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. -Judges 12:13 | After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. -Judges 12:14 | He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years. -Judges 12:15 | Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. -Judges 13:01 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. -Judges 13:02 | There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless. -Judges 13:03 | The Lord’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son. -Judges 13:04 | Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing; -Judges 13:05 | for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." -Judges 13:06 | Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name; -Judges 13:07 | but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’" -Judges 13:08 | Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born." -Judges 13:09 | God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her. -Judges 13:10 | The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, "Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me," -Judges 13:11 | Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "I am." -Judges 13:12 | Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?" -Judges 13:13 | The Lord’s angel said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. -Judges 13:14 | She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her." -Judges 13:15 | Manoah said to the Lord’s angel, "Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you." -Judges 13:16 | The Lord’s angel said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord." For Manoah didn’t know that he was the Lord’s angel. -Judges 13:17 | Manoah said to the Lord’s angel, "What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honour you?" -Judges 13:18 | The Lord’s angel said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?" -Judges 13:19 | So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. -Judges 13:20 | For when the flame went up towards the sky from off the altar, the Lord’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground. -Judges 13:21 | But the Lord’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s angel. -Judges 13:22 | Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God." -Judges 13:23 | But his wife said to him, "If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time." -Judges 13:24 | The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and the Lord blessed him. -Judges 13:25 | The Lord’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. -Judges 14:01 | Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. -Judges 14:02 | He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife." -Judges 14:03 | Then his father and his mother said to him, "Isn’t there a woman amongst your brothers’ daughters, or amongst all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she pleases me well." -Judges 14:04 | But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the Lord; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. -Judges 14:05 | Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him. -Judges 14:06 | The Lord’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done. -Judges 14:07 | He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. -Judges 14:08 | After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. -Judges 14:09 | He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body. -Judges 14:10 | His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so. -Judges 14:11 | When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. -Judges 14:12 | Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; -Judges 14:13 | but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing." They said to him, "Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it." -Judges 14:14 | He said to them, "Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness." They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle. -Judges 14:15 | On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, "Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?" -Judges 14:16 | Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, "You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me." He said to her, "Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?" -Judges 14:17 | She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. -Judges 14:18 | The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn’t ploughed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle." -Judges 14:19 | The Lord’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burnt, and he went up to his father’s house. -Judges 14:20 | But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend. -Judges 15:01 | But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, "I will go in to my wife’s room." But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in. -Judges 15:02 | Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead." -Judges 15:03 | Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them." -Judges 15:04 | Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails. -Judges 15:05 | When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves. -Judges 15:06 | Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. -Judges 15:07 | Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease." -Judges 15:08 | He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock. -Judges 15:09 | Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. -Judges 15:10 | The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us." -Judges 15:11 | Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so I have done to them." -Judges 15:12 | They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves." -Judges 15:13 | They spoke to him, saying, "No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. -Judges 15:14 | When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the Lord’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands. -Judges 15:15 | He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it. -Judges 15:16 | Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men." -Judges 15:17 | When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi. -Judges 15:18 | He was very thirsty, and called on the Lord and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" -Judges 15:19 | But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day. -Judges 15:20 | He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. -Judges 16:01 | Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. -Judges 16:02 | The Gazites were told, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, "Wait until morning light; then we will kill him." -Judges 16:03 | Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. -Judges 16:04 | It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. -Judges 16:05 | The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver." -Judges 16:06 | Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you." -Judges 16:07 | Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man." -Judges 16:08 | Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. -Judges 16:09 | Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. -Judges 16:10 | Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound." -Judges 16:11 | He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man." -Judges 16:12 | So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread. -Judges 16:13 | Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom." -Judges 16:14 | She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric. -Judges 16:15 | She said to him, "How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies." -Judges 16:16 | When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. -Judges 16:17 | He told her all his heart and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man." -Judges 16:18 | When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. -Judges 16:19 | She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. -Judges 16:20 | She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn’t know that the Lord had departed from him. -Judges 16:21 | The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison. -Judges 16:22 | However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved. -Judges 16:23 | The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." -Judges 16:24 | When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand." -Judges 16:25 | When their hearts were merry, they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; -Judges 16:26 | and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them." -Judges 16:27 | Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed. -Judges 16:28 | Samson called to the Lord, and said, "Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." -Judges 16:29 | Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. -Judges 16:30 | Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. -Judges 16:31 | Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years. -Judges 17:01 | There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. -Judges 17:02 | He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it." His mother said, "May the Lord bless my son!" -Judges 17:03 | He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, "I most certainly dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you." -Judges 17:04 | When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah. -Judges 17:05 | The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. -Judges 17:06 | In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes. -Judges 17:07 | There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there. -Judges 17:08 | The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he travelled. -Judges 17:09 | Micah said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live." -Judges 17:10 | Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in. -Judges 17:11 | The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. -Judges 17:12 | Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. -Judges 17:13 | Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest." -Judges 18:01 | In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them amongst the tribes of Israel. -Judges 18:02 | The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valour, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. -Judges 18:03 | When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?" -Judges 18:04 | He said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest." -Judges 18:05 | They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous." -Judges 18:06 | The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before the Lord." -Judges 18:07 | Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else. -Judges 18:08 | They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, "What do you say?" -Judges 18:09 | They said, "Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. -Judges 18:10 | When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth." -Judges 18:11 | The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war. -Judges 18:12 | They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim. -Judges 18:13 | They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. -Judges 18:14 | Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do." -Judges 18:15 | They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing. -Judges 18:16 | The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. -Judges 18:17 | The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war. -Judges 18:18 | When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?" -Judges 18:19 | They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?" -Judges 18:20 | The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people. -Judges 18:21 | So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them. -Judges 18:22 | When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan. -Judges 18:23 | As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?" -Judges 18:24 | He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’" -Judges 18:25 | The children of Dan said to him, "Don’t let your voice be heard amongst us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household." -Judges 18:26 | The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house. -Judges 18:27 | They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burnt the city with fire. -Judges 18:28 | There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it. -Judges 18:29 | They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish. -Judges 18:30 | The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. -Judges 18:31 | So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh. -Judges 19:01 | In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. -Judges 19:02 | His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months. -Judges 19:03 | Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. -Judges 19:04 | His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there. -Judges 19:05 | On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way." -Judges 19:06 | So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, "Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry." -Judges 19:07 | The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again. -Judges 19:08 | He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, "Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines" and they both ate. -Judges 19:09 | When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws towards evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home." -Judges 19:10 | But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him. -Judges 19:11 | When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, "Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it." -Judges 19:12 | His master said to him, "We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah." -Judges 19:13 | He said to his servant, "Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah." -Judges 19:14 | So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. -Judges 19:15 | They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay. -Judges 19:16 | Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites. -Judges 19:17 | He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?" -Judges 19:18 | He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the Lord’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house. -Judges 19:19 | Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything." -Judges 19:20 | The old man said, "Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street." -Judges 19:21 | So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank. -Judges 19:22 | As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!" -Judges 19:23 | The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly. -Judges 19:24 | Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly." -Judges 19:25 | But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go. -Judges 19:26 | Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light. -Judges 19:27 | Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. -Judges 19:28 | He said to her, "Get up, and let’s get going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place. -Judges 19:29 | When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel. -Judges 19:30 | It was so, that all who saw it said, "Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak." -Judges 1:01 | After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of the Lord, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?" -Judges 1:02 | The Lord said, "Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand." -Judges 1:03 | Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him. -Judges 1:04 | Judah went up, and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek. -Judges 1:05 | They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. -Judges 1:06 | But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. -Judges 1:07 | Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. -Judges 1:08 | The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. -Judges 1:09 | After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland. -Judges 1:10 | Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. -Judges 1:11 | From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.) -Judges 1:12 | Caleb said, "I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it." -Judges 1:13 | Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife. -Judges 1:14 | When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, "What would you like?" -Judges 1:15 | She said to him, "Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. -Judges 1:16 | The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people. -Judges 1:17 | Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah. -Judges 1:18 | Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border. -Judges 1:19 | The Lord was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. -Judges 1:20 | They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there. -Judges 1:21 | The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. -Judges 1:22 | The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them. -Judges 1:23 | The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.) -Judges 1:24 | The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you." -Judges 1:25 | He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go. -Judges 1:26 | The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day. -Judges 1:27 | Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. -Judges 1:28 | When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, and didn’t utterly drive them out. -Judges 1:29 | Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer amongst them. -Judges 1:30 | Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived amongst them, and became subject to forced labour. -Judges 1:31 | Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob; -Judges 1:32 | but the Asherites lived amongst the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out. -Judges 1:33 | Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived amongst the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labour. -Judges 1:34 | The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; -Judges 1:35 | but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labour. -Judges 1:36 | The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. -Judges 20:01 | Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the Lord at Mizpah. -Judges 20:02 | The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword. -Judges 20:03 | (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?" -Judges 20:04 | The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. -Judges 20:05 | The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead. -Judges 20:06 | I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. -Judges 20:07 | Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel." -Judges 20:08 | All the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house. -Judges 20:09 | But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; -Judges 20:10 | and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel." -Judges 20:11 | So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. -Judges 20:12 | The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that has happened amongst you? -Judges 20:13 | Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel. -Judges 20:14 | The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. -Judges 20:15 | The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men. -Judges 20:16 | Amongst all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss. -Judges 20:17 | The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war. -Judges 20:18 | The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" The Lord said, "Judah first." -Judges 20:19 | The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah. -Judges 20:20 | The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah. -Judges 20:21 | The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground. -Judges 20:22 | The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day. -Judges 20:23 | The children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until evening; and they asked of the Lord, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?" The Lord said, "Go up against him." -Judges 20:24 | The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. -Judges 20:25 | Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword. -Judges 20:26 | Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. -Judges 20:27 | The children of Israel asked the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, -Judges 20:28 | and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, "Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?" The Lord said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand." -Judges 20:30 | The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. -Judges 20:31 | The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. -Judges 20:32 | The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways." -Judges 20:33 | All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba. -Judges 20:34 | Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them. -Judges 20:35 | The Lord struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand and one hundred men. All these drew the sword. -Judges 20:36 | So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. -Judges 20:37 | The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. -Judges 20:38 | Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city. -Judges 20:39 | The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle." -Judges 20:40 | But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky. -Judges 20:41 | The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them. -Judges 20:42 | Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it. -Judges 20:43 | They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah towards the sunrise. -Judges 20:44 | Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valour. -Judges 20:45 | They turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them. -Judges 20:46 | So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valour. -Judges 20:47 | But six hundred men turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months. -Judges 20:48 | The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire. -Judges 21:01 | Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife." -Judges 21:02 | The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely. -Judges 21:03 | They said, "The Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?" -Judges 21:04 | On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. -Judges 21:05 | The children of Israel said, "Who is there amongst all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death." -Judges 21:06 | The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel today. -Judges 21:07 | How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?" -Judges 21:08 | They said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly. -Judges 21:09 | For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. -Judges 21:10 | The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. -Judges 21:11 | This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man." -Judges 21:12 | They found amongst the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. -Judges 21:13 | The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. -Judges 21:14 | Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them. -Judges 21:15 | The people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. -Judges 21:16 | Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?" -Judges 21:17 | They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. -Judges 21:18 | However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’" -Judges 21:19 | They said, "Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah." -Judges 21:20 | They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards, -Judges 21:21 | and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. -Judges 21:22 | It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’" -Judges 21:23 | The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them. -Judges 21:24 | The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance. -Judges 21:25 | In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes. -Judges 2:01 | The Lord’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you. -Judges 2:02 | You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this? -Judges 2:03 | Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’" -Judges 2:04 | When the Lord’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept. -Judges 2:05 | They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to the Lord. -Judges 2:06 | Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land. -Judges 2:07 | The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord that he had worked for Israel. -Judges 2:08 | Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. -Judges 2:09 | They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. -Judges 2:10 | After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know the Lord, nor the work which he had done for Israel. -Judges 2:11 | The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and served the Baals. -Judges 2:12 | They abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. -Judges 2:13 | They abandoned the Lord, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. -Judges 2:14 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. -Judges 2:15 | Wherever they went out, the Lord’s hand was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were very distressed. -Judges 2:16 | The Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. -Judges 2:17 | Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the Lord’s commandments. They didn’t do so. -Judges 2:18 | When the Lord raised up judges for them, then the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the Lord because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them. -Judges 2:19 | But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways. -Judges 2:20 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice, -Judges 2:21 | I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them; -Judges 2:22 | that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the Lord’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not." -Judges 2:23 | So the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand. -Judges 3:01 | Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; -Judges 3:02 | only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before: -Judges 3:03 | the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. -Judges 3:04 | They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the Lord’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses. -Judges 3:05 | The children of Israel lived amongst the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. -Judges 3:06 | They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. -Judges 3:07 | The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth. -Judges 3:08 | Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. -Judges 3:09 | When the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. -Judges 3:10 | The Lord’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim. -Judges 3:11 | The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died. -Judges 3:12 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. -Judges 3:13 | He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees. -Judges 3:14 | The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. -Judges 3:15 | But when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. -Judges 3:16 | Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh. -Judges 3:17 | He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. -Judges 3:18 | When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute. -Judges 3:19 | But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." The king said, "Keep silence!" All who stood by him left him. -Judges 3:20 | Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat. -Judges 3:21 | Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body. -Judges 3:22 | The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind. -Judges 3:23 | Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them. -Judges 3:24 | After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, "Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room." -Judges 3:25 | They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor. -Judges 3:26 | Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah. -Judges 3:27 | When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them. -Judges 3:28 | He said to them, "Follow me; for the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over. -Judges 3:29 | They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valour. No man escaped. -Judges 3:30 | So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years. -Judges 3:31 | After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel. -Judges 4:01 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, when Ehud was dead. -Judges 4:02 | The Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. -Judges 4:03 | The children of Israel cried to the Lord, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years. -Judges 4:04 | Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time. -Judges 4:05 | She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgement. -Judges 4:06 | She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn’t the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? -Judges 4:07 | I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’" -Judges 4:08 | Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go." -Judges 4:09 | She said, "I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honour; for the Lord will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand." Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. -Judges 4:10 | Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him. -Judges 4:11 | Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh. -Judges 4:12 | They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor. -Judges 4:13 | Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon. -Judges 4:14 | Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t the Lord gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. -Judges 4:15 | The Lord confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet. -Judges 4:16 | But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left. -Judges 4:17 | However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. -Judges 4:18 | Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. -Judges 4:19 | He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him. -Judges 4:20 | He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and enquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’" -Judges 4:21 | Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died. -Judges 4:22 | Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples. -Judges 4:23 | So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day. -Judges 4:24 | The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. -Judges 5:02 | "Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, the LORD! -Judges 5:03 | "Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to the Lord. I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel. -Judges 5:04 | "LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water. -Judges 5:05 | The mountains quaked at the Lord’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel. -Judges 5:06 | "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travellers walked through byways. -Judges 5:07 | The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel. -Judges 5:08 | They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen amongst forty thousand in Israel? -Judges 5:09 | My heart is towards the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly amongst the people. Bless the LORD! -Judges 5:10 | "Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way. -Judges 5:11 | Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the Lord’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the Lord’s people went down to the gates. -Judges 5:12 | ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’ -Judges 5:13 | "Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. The Lord came down for me against the mighty. -Judges 5:14 | Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, amongst your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun. -Judges 5:15 | The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart. -Judges 5:16 | Why did you sit amongst the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart. -Judges 5:17 | Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks. -Judges 5:18 | Zebulun was a people that jeopardised their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. -Judges 5:19 | "The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver. -Judges 5:20 | From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera. -Judges 5:21 | The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength. -Judges 5:22 | Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones. -Judges 5:23 | ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the Lord’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help the Lord, to help the Lord against the mighty.’ -Judges 5:24 | "Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. -Judges 5:25 | He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish. -Judges 5:26 | She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples. -Judges 5:27 | At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. -Judges 5:28 | "Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’ -Judges 5:29 | Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself, -Judges 5:30 | ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’ -Judges 5:31 | "So let all your enemies perish, Lord, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years. -Judges 6:01 | The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. -Judges 6:02 | The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds. -Judges 6:03 | So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them. -Judges 6:04 | They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey. -Judges 6:05 | For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it. -Judges 6:06 | Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to the Lord. -Judges 6:08 | The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage. -Judges 6:09 | I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land. -Judges 6:10 | I said to you, "I am the Lord your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell." But you have not listened to my voice.’" -Judges 6:11 | The Lord’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites. -Judges 6:12 | The Lord’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, "The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valour!" -Judges 6:13 | Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian." -Judges 6:14 | The Lord looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?" -Judges 6:15 | He said to him, "O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house." -Judges 6:16 | The Lord said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man." -Judges 6:17 | He said to him, "If now I have found favour in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. -Judges 6:18 | Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back." -Judges 6:19 | Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. -Judges 6:20 | The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." He did so. -Judges 6:21 | Then the Lord’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the Lord’s angel departed out of his sight. -Judges 6:22 | Gideon saw that he was the Lord’s angel; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the Lord’s angel face to face!" -Judges 6:23 | The Lord said to him, "Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die." -Judges 6:24 | Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it "The Lord is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. -Judges 6:25 | That same night, the Lord said to him, "Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it. -Judges 6:26 | Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down." -Judges 6:27 | Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night. -Judges 6:28 | When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built. -Judges 6:29 | They said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" When they enquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing." -Judges 6:30 | Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it." -Judges 6:31 | Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!" -Judges 6:32 | Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar." -Judges 6:33 | Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. -Judges 6:34 | But the Lord’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him. -Judges 6:35 | He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. -Judges 6:37 | behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken." -Judges 6:38 | It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. -Judges 6:39 | Gideon said to God, "Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew." -Judges 6:40 | God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. -Judges 7:01 | Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. -Judges 7:02 | The Lord said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ -Judges 7:03 | Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’" So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained. -Judges 7:04 | The Lord said to Gideon, "There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go." -Judges 7:05 | So he brought down the people to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink." -Judges 7:06 | The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. -Judges 7:07 | The Lord said to Gideon, "I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place." -Judges 7:09 | That same night, the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. -Judges 7:10 | But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp. -Judges 7:11 | You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp." Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp. -Judges 7:12 | The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude. -Judges 7:13 | When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, "Behold, I dreamt a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat." -Judges 7:14 | His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army." -Judges 7:15 | It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshipped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the Lord has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!" -Judges 7:16 | He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. -Judges 7:17 | He said to them, "Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. -Judges 7:18 | When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’" -Judges 7:19 | So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. -Judges 7:20 | The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!" -Judges 7:21 | They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. -Judges 7:22 | They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah towards Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. -Judges 7:23 | The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian. -Judges 7:24 | Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!" So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. -Judges 7:25 | They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan. -Judges 8:01 | The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply. -Judges 8:02 | He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? -Judges 8:03 | God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger was abated towards him when he had said that. -Judges 8:04 | Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. -Judges 8:05 | He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." -Judges 8:06 | The princes of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?" -Judges 8:07 | Gideon said, "Therefore when the Lord has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." -Judges 8:08 | He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. -Judges 8:09 | He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower." -Judges 8:10 | Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew sword. -Judges 8:12 | Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army. -Judges 8:14 | He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men. -Judges 8:15 | He came to the men of Succoth, and said, "See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’" -Judges 8:16 | He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. -Judges 8:17 | He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. -Judges 8:18 | Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king." -Judges 8:19 | He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you." -Judges 8:20 | He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up and kill them!" But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth. -Judges 8:21 | Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks. -Judges 8:22 | Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian." -Judges 8:23 | Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The Lord shall rule over you." -Judges 8:24 | Gideon said to them, "I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) -Judges 8:25 | They answered, "We will willingly give them." They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it. -Judges 8:26 | The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks. -Judges 8:27 | Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house. -Judges 8:28 | So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. -Judges 8:29 | Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. -Judges 8:30 | Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives. -Judges 8:31 | His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. -Judges 8:32 | Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. -Judges 8:33 | As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god. -Judges 8:34 | The children of Israel didn’t remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; -Judges 8:35 | neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel. -Judges 9:02 | "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh." -Judges 9:03 | His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, "He is our brother." -Judges 9:04 | They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him. -Judges 9:05 | He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. -Judges 9:06 | All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem. -Judges 9:07 | When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you. -Judges 9:08 | The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’ -Judges 9:09 | "But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honour God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’ -Judges 9:10 | "The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’ -Judges 9:11 | "But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’ -Judges 9:12 | "The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’ -Judges 9:13 | "The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’ -Judges 9:14 | "Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’ -Judges 9:15 | "The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’ -Judges 9:16 | "Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands -Judges 9:17 | (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; -Judges 9:18 | and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); -Judges 9:19 | if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you; -Judges 9:20 | but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech." -Judges 9:21 | Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. -Judges 9:23 | Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, -Judges 9:24 | that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. -Judges 9:25 | The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it. -Judges 9:26 | Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. -Judges 9:27 | They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech. -Judges 9:28 | Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him? -Judges 9:29 | I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech." He said to Abimelech, "Increase your army and come out!" -Judges 9:30 | When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burnt. -Judges 9:32 | Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field. -Judges 9:33 | It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion." -Judges 9:34 | Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. -Judges 9:35 | Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush. -Judges 9:36 | When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains." Zebul said to him, "You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men." -Judges 9:37 | Gaal spoke again and said, "Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim." -Judges 9:38 | Then Zebul said to him, "Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them." -Judges 9:39 | Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. -Judges 9:40 | Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate. -Judges 9:41 | Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem. -Judges 9:43 | He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them. -Judges 9:44 | Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them. -Judges 9:45 | Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt. -Judges 9:46 | When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith. -Judges 9:47 | Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. -Judges 9:48 | Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!" -Judges 9:49 | All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. -Judges 9:50 | Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it. -Judges 9:51 | But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower. -Judges 9:52 | Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. -Judges 9:53 | A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull. -Judges 9:54 | Then he called hastily to the young man, his armour bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died." -Judges 9:56 | Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers; -Judges 9:57 | and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them. -Lamentations 1:01 | How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great amongst the nations! She who was a princess amongst the provinces has become a slave! -Lamentations 1:02 | She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Amongst all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies. -Lamentations 1:03 | Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells amongst the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits. -Lamentations 1:04 | The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. -Lamentations 1:05 | Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary. -Lamentations 1:06 | All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer. -Lamentations 1:07 | Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations. -Lamentations 1:08 | Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward. -Lamentations 1:09 | Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. "See, Lord, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself." -Lamentations 1:10 | The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly. -Lamentations 1:11 | All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. "Look, Lord, and see; for I have become despised." -Lamentations 1:12 | "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which the Lord has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. -Lamentations 1:13 | "From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long. -Lamentations 1:14 | "The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. -Lamentations 1:15 | "The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press. -Lamentations 1:16 | "For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed." -Lamentations 1:17 | Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is amongst them as an unclean thing. -Lamentations 1:18 | "The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. -Lamentations 1:19 | "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls. -Lamentations 1:20 | "Look, Lord; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death. -Lamentations 1:21 | "They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me. -Lamentations 1:22 | "Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. -Lamentations 2:01 | How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. -Lamentations 2:02 | The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes. -Lamentations 2:03 | He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burnt up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around. -Lamentations 2:04 | He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire. -Lamentations 2:05 | The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. -Lamentations 2:06 | He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The Lord has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest. -Lamentations 2:07 | The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the Lord’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly. -Lamentations 2:08 | The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together. -Lamentations 2:09 | Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are amongst the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from the Lord. -Lamentations 2:10 | The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. -Lamentations 2:11 | My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city. -Lamentations 2:12 | They ask their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom. -Lamentations 2:13 | What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you? -Lamentations 2:14 | Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment. -Lamentations 2:15 | All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?" -Lamentations 2:16 | All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it." -Lamentations 2:17 | The Lord has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries. -Lamentations 2:18 | Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest. -Lamentations 2:19 | Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands towards him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. -Lamentations 2:20 | "Look, Lord, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? -Lamentations 2:21 | "The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied. -Lamentations 2:22 | "You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the Lord’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up. -Lamentations 3:01 | I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. -Lamentations 3:02 | He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. -Lamentations 3:03 | Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long. -Lamentations 3:04 | He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. -Lamentations 3:05 | He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. -Lamentations 3:06 | He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead. -Lamentations 3:07 | He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy. -Lamentations 3:08 | Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. -Lamentations 3:09 | He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked. -Lamentations 3:10 | He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. -Lamentations 3:11 | He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. -Lamentations 3:12 | He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. -Lamentations 3:13 | He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. -Lamentations 3:14 | I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long. -Lamentations 3:15 | He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood. -Lamentations 3:16 | He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes. -Lamentations 3:17 | You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity. -Lamentations 3:18 | I said, "My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the Lord." -Lamentations 3:19 | Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness. -Lamentations 3:20 | My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. -Lamentations 3:21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope. -Lamentations 3:22 | It is because of The Lord’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. -Lamentations 3:23 | They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. -Lamentations 3:24 | "The Lord is my portion," says my soul. "Therefore I will hope in him." -Lamentations 3:25 | The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. -Lamentations 3:26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. -Lamentations 3:27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. -Lamentations 3:28 | Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. -Lamentations 3:29 | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope. -Lamentations 3:30 | Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach. -Lamentations 3:32 | For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. -Lamentations 3:33 | For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. -Lamentations 3:34 | To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, -Lamentations 3:35 | to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High, -Lamentations 3:36 | to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve. -Lamentations 3:37 | Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it? -Lamentations 3:38 | Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? -Lamentations 3:39 | Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? -Lamentations 3:40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. -Lamentations 3:41 | Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. -Lamentations 3:42 | "We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned. -Lamentations 3:43 | "You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied. -Lamentations 3:44 | You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. -Lamentations 3:45 | You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples. -Lamentations 3:46 | "All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. -Lamentations 3:47 | Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction." -Lamentations 3:48 | My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. -Lamentations 3:49 | My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission, -Lamentations 3:50 | until the Lord looks down, and sees from heaven. -Lamentations 3:51 | My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. -Lamentations 3:52 | They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. -Lamentations 3:53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. -Lamentations 3:54 | Waters flowed over my head. I said, "I am cut off." -Lamentations 3:55 | I called on your name, Lord, out of the lowest dungeon. -Lamentations 3:56 | You heard my voice: "Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry." -Lamentations 3:57 | You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, "Don’t be afraid." -Lamentations 3:58 | Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life. -Lamentations 3:59 | Lord, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. -Lamentations 3:60 | You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me. -Lamentations 3:61 | You have heard their reproach, Lord, and all their plans against me, -Lamentations 3:62 | the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long. -Lamentations 3:63 | You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song. -Lamentations 3:64 | You will pay them back, Lord, according to the work of their hands. -Lamentations 3:65 | You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. -Lamentations 3:66 | You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the Lord. -Lamentations 4:01 | How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. -Lamentations 4:02 | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! -Lamentations 4:03 | Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. -Lamentations 4:04 | The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them. -Lamentations 4:05 | Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills. -Lamentations 4:06 | For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her. -Lamentations 4:07 | Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire. -Lamentations 4:08 | Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick. -Lamentations 4:09 | Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field. -Lamentations 4:10 | The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. -Lamentations 4:11 | The Lord has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations. -Lamentations 4:12 | The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. -Lamentations 4:13 | It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her. -Lamentations 4:14 | They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments. -Lamentations 4:15 | "Go away!" they cried to them. "Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said amongst the nations, "They can’t live here any more." -Lamentations 4:16 | The Lord’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favour the elders. -Lamentations 4:17 | Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. -Lamentations 4:18 | They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come. -Lamentations 4:19 | Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness. -Lamentations 4:20 | The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live amongst the nations. -Lamentations 4:21 | Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked. -Lamentations 4:22 | The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins. -Lamentations 5:01 | Remember, Lord, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. -Lamentations 5:02 | Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. -Lamentations 5:03 | We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. -Lamentations 5:04 | We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us. -Lamentations 5:05 | Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. -Lamentations 5:06 | We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. -Lamentations 5:07 | Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities. -Lamentations 5:08 | Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. -Lamentations 5:09 | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. -Lamentations 5:10 | Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. -Lamentations 5:11 | They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. -Lamentations 5:12 | Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honoured. -Lamentations 5:13 | The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood. -Lamentations 5:14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. -Lamentations 5:15 | The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. -Lamentations 5:16 | The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! -Lamentations 5:17 | For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim: -Lamentations 5:18 | for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it. -Lamentations 5:19 | You, Lord, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. -Lamentations 5:20 | Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? -Lamentations 5:21 | Turn us to yourself, Lord, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old. -Lamentations 5:22 | But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us. -Leviticus 10:01 | Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. -Leviticus 10:02 | Fire came out from before the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. -Leviticus 10:03 | Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the Lord spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’" Aaron held his peace. -Leviticus 10:04 | Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp." -Leviticus 10:05 | So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said. -Leviticus 10:06 | Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled. -Leviticus 10:07 | You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the Lord is on you." They did according to the word of Moses. -Leviticus 10:09 | "You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. -Leviticus 10:10 | You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean. -Leviticus 10:11 | You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by Moses." -Leviticus 10:12 | Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; -Leviticus 10:13 | and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of the Lord made by fire; for so I am commanded. -Leviticus 10:14 | The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. -Leviticus 10:15 | They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as the Lord has commanded." -Leviticus 10:17 | "Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? -Leviticus 10:18 | Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded." -Leviticus 10:19 | Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the Lord’s sight?" -Leviticus 11:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat amongst all the animals that are on the earth. -Leviticus 11:03 | Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud amongst the animals, that you may eat. -Leviticus 11:04 | "‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:06 | The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:07 | The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:08 | You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:09 | "‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. -Leviticus 11:10 | All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, -Leviticus 11:24 | "‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 11:25 | Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 11:26 | "‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. -Leviticus 11:27 | Whatever goes on its paws, amongst all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 11:28 | He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:29 | "‘These are they which are unclean to you amongst the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, -Leviticus 11:31 | These are they which are unclean to you amongst all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 11:32 | Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean. -Leviticus 11:33 | Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it. -Leviticus 11:34 | All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. -Leviticus 11:35 | Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:36 | Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. -Leviticus 11:37 | If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. -Leviticus 11:38 | But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. -Leviticus 11:39 | "‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 11:40 | He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 11:41 | "‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. -Leviticus 11:42 | Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination. -Leviticus 11:43 | You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them. -Leviticus 11:44 | For I am the Lord your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. -Leviticus 11:45 | For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. -Leviticus 11:46 | "‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, -Leviticus 11:47 | to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’" -Leviticus 12:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. -Leviticus 12:03 | In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. -Leviticus 12:04 | She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. -Leviticus 12:05 | But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. -Leviticus 12:06 | "‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering. -Leviticus 12:07 | He shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. -Leviticus 12:08 | If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’" -Leviticus 13:02 | "When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests. -Leviticus 13:03 | The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean. -Leviticus 13:04 | If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. -Leviticus 13:05 | The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. -Leviticus 13:06 | The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. -Leviticus 13:07 | But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. -Leviticus 13:08 | The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy. -Leviticus 13:09 | "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; -Leviticus 13:10 | and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, -Leviticus 13:11 | it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean. -Leviticus 13:12 | "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest, -Leviticus 13:13 | then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. -Leviticus 13:14 | But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. -Leviticus 13:15 | The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy. -Leviticus 13:16 | Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest. -Leviticus 13:17 | The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean. -Leviticus 13:18 | "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, -Leviticus 13:19 | and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest. -Leviticus 13:20 | The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. -Leviticus 13:21 | But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. -Leviticus 13:22 | If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. -Leviticus 13:23 | But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. -Leviticus 13:24 | "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, -Leviticus 13:25 | then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. -Leviticus 13:26 | But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. -Leviticus 13:27 | The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. -Leviticus 13:28 | If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn. -Leviticus 13:29 | "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, -Leviticus 13:30 | then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard. -Leviticus 13:31 | If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days. -Leviticus 13:32 | On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin, -Leviticus 13:33 | then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days. -Leviticus 13:34 | On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean. -Leviticus 13:35 | But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, -Leviticus 13:36 | then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. -Leviticus 13:37 | But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean. -Leviticus 13:38 | "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots, -Leviticus 13:39 | then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean. -Leviticus 13:40 | "If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. -Leviticus 13:41 | If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean. -Leviticus 13:42 | But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead. -Leviticus 13:43 | Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, -Leviticus 13:44 | he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. -Leviticus 13:45 | "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ -Leviticus 13:46 | All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp. -Leviticus 13:47 | "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woollen garment, or a linen garment; -Leviticus 13:48 | whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather; -Leviticus 13:49 | if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. -Leviticus 13:50 | The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days. -Leviticus 13:51 | He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean. -Leviticus 13:52 | He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burnt in the fire. -Leviticus 13:53 | "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; -Leviticus 13:54 | then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days. -Leviticus 13:55 | Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its colour, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. -Leviticus 13:56 | If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof; -Leviticus 13:57 | and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn what the plague is in with fire. -Leviticus 13:58 | The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean." -Leviticus 13:59 | This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. -Leviticus 14:02 | "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, -Leviticus 14:03 | and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper, -Leviticus 14:04 | then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. -Leviticus 14:05 | The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. -Leviticus 14:06 | As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. -Leviticus 14:07 | He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field. -Leviticus 14:08 | "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. -Leviticus 14:09 | It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean. -Leviticus 14:10 | "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. -Leviticus 14:11 | The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 14:12 | "The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:13 | He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy. -Leviticus 14:14 | The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. -Leviticus 14:15 | The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. -Leviticus 14:16 | The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:17 | The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering. -Leviticus 14:18 | The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:19 | "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; -Leviticus 14:20 | then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. -Leviticus 14:21 | "If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; -Leviticus 14:22 | and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. -Leviticus 14:23 | "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:24 | The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:25 | He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. -Leviticus 14:26 | The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; -Leviticus 14:27 | and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:28 | Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. -Leviticus 14:29 | The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. -Leviticus 14:30 | He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford, -Leviticus 14:31 | of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the Lord." -Leviticus 14:32 | This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing. -Leviticus 14:34 | "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, -Leviticus 14:35 | then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’ -Leviticus 14:36 | The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. -Leviticus 14:37 | He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall, -Leviticus 14:38 | then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. -Leviticus 14:39 | The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, -Leviticus 14:40 | then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city. -Leviticus 14:41 | He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place. -Leviticus 14:42 | They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. -Leviticus 14:43 | "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered, -Leviticus 14:44 | then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean. -Leviticus 14:45 | He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place. -Leviticus 14:46 | "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 14:47 | He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. -Leviticus 14:48 | "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. -Leviticus 14:49 | To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. -Leviticus 14:50 | He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. -Leviticus 14:51 | He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. -Leviticus 14:52 | He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; -Leviticus 14:53 | but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean." -Leviticus 15:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean. -Leviticus 15:03 | This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. -Leviticus 15:04 | "‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean. -Leviticus 15:05 | Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:06 | He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:07 | "‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:08 | "‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:09 | "‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean. -Leviticus 15:10 | Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:11 | "‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:12 | "‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. -Leviticus 15:13 | "‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. -Leviticus 15:14 | "‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest. -Leviticus 15:15 | The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge. -Leviticus 15:16 | "‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:17 | Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:18 | If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:19 | "‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:20 | "‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. -Leviticus 15:21 | Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:22 | Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:23 | If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:24 | "‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean. -Leviticus 15:25 | "‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean. -Leviticus 15:26 | Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period. -Leviticus 15:27 | Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. -Leviticus 15:28 | "‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. -Leviticus 15:29 | On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 15:30 | The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for the uncleanness of her discharge. -Leviticus 15:31 | "‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is amongst them.’" -Leviticus 15:32 | This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it; -Leviticus 15:33 | and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean. -Leviticus 16:01 | The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the Lord, and died; -Leviticus 16:02 | and the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat. -Leviticus 16:03 | "Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. -Leviticus 16:04 | He shall put on the holy linen tunic. He shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. -Leviticus 16:05 | He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. -Leviticus 16:06 | "Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. -Leviticus 16:07 | He shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 16:08 | Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat. -Leviticus 16:09 | Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer him for a sin offering. -Leviticus 16:10 | But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness. -Leviticus 16:11 | "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself. -Leviticus 16:12 | He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. -Leviticus 16:13 | He shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die. -Leviticus 16:14 | He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. -Leviticus 16:15 | "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. -Leviticus 16:16 | He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness. -Leviticus 16:17 | No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. -Leviticus 16:18 | "He shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar. -Leviticus 16:19 | He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. -Leviticus 16:20 | "When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. -Leviticus 16:21 | Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready. -Leviticus 16:22 | The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. -Leviticus 16:23 | "Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. -Leviticus 16:24 | Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. -Leviticus 16:25 | The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar. -Leviticus 16:26 | "He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. -Leviticus 16:27 | The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire. -Leviticus 16:28 | He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. -Leviticus 16:29 | "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you; -Leviticus 16:30 | for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord. -Leviticus 16:31 | It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. -Leviticus 16:32 | The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. -Leviticus 16:33 | Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. -Leviticus 16:34 | "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 17:03 | Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, -Leviticus 17:04 | and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to the Lord before the Lord’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from amongst his people. -Leviticus 17:05 | This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord. -Leviticus 17:06 | The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the Lord’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 17:07 | They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’ -Leviticus 17:08 | "You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, -Leviticus 17:09 | and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people. -Leviticus 17:10 | "‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from amongst his people. -Leviticus 17:11 | For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. -Leviticus 17:12 | Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person amongst you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you eat blood." -Leviticus 17:13 | "‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. -Leviticus 17:14 | For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off." -Leviticus 17:15 | "‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean. -Leviticus 17:16 | But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’" -Leviticus 18:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 18:03 | You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes. -Leviticus 18:04 | You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 18:05 | You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 18:06 | "‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. -Leviticus 18:07 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. -Leviticus 18:08 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness. -Leviticus 18:09 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad. -Leviticus 18:10 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness. -Leviticus 18:11 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. -Leviticus 18:12 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman. -Leviticus 18:13 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman. -Leviticus 18:14 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt. -Leviticus 18:15 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. -Leviticus 18:16 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness. -Leviticus 18:17 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness. -Leviticus 18:18 | "‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive. -Leviticus 18:19 | "‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. -Leviticus 18:20 | "‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbour’s wife, and defile yourself with her. -Leviticus 18:21 | "‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 18:22 | "‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable. -Leviticus 18:23 | "‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion. -Leviticus 18:24 | "‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. -Leviticus 18:25 | The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. -Leviticus 18:26 | You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you -Leviticus 18:27 | (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), -Leviticus 18:28 | that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. -Leviticus 18:29 | "‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from amongst their people. -Leviticus 18:30 | Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practise any of these abominable customs which were practised before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’" -Leviticus 19:02 | "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, the Lord your God, am holy. -Leviticus 19:03 | "‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:04 | "‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:05 | "‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. -Leviticus 19:06 | It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire. -Leviticus 19:07 | If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted; -Leviticus 19:08 | but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from his people. -Leviticus 19:09 | "‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. -Leviticus 19:10 | You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:11 | "‘You shall not steal. "‘You shall not lie. "‘You shall not deceive one another. -Leviticus 19:12 | "‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:13 | "‘You shall not oppress your neighbour, nor rob him. "‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. -Leviticus 19:14 | "‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:15 | "‘You shall do no injustice in judgement. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in righteousness. -Leviticus 19:16 | "‘You shall not go around as a slanderer amongst your people. "‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbour. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:17 | "‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbour, and not bear sin because of him. -Leviticus 19:18 | "‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:19 | "‘You shall keep my statutes. "‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. "‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material. -Leviticus 19:20 | "‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. -Leviticus 19:21 | He shall bring his trespass offering to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering. -Leviticus 19:22 | The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him. -Leviticus 19:23 | "‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. -Leviticus 19:24 | But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to the Lord. -Leviticus 19:25 | In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:26 | "‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practise sorcery. -Leviticus 19:27 | "‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard. -Leviticus 19:28 | "‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:29 | "‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness. -Leviticus 19:30 | "‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:31 | "‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:32 | "‘You shall rise up before the grey head and honour the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 19:33 | "‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. -Leviticus 19:34 | The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born amongst you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 19:35 | "‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. -Leviticus 19:36 | You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. -Leviticus 19:37 | "‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am the Lord.’" -Leviticus 1:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to the Lord, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. -Leviticus 1:03 | "‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord. -Leviticus 1:04 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. -Leviticus 1:05 | He shall kill the bull before the Lord. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 1:06 | He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. -Leviticus 1:08 | and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; -Leviticus 1:09 | but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 1:10 | "‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect. -Leviticus 1:11 | He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. -Leviticus 1:12 | He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, -Leviticus 1:13 | but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 1:14 | "‘If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons. -Leviticus 1:15 | The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; -Leviticus 1:16 | and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. -Leviticus 1:17 | He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 20:02 | "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones. -Leviticus 20:03 | I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. -Leviticus 20:04 | If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death, -Leviticus 20:05 | then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from amongst their people. -Leviticus 20:06 | "‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people. -Leviticus 20:07 | "‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 20:08 | You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. -Leviticus 20:09 | "‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself. -Leviticus 20:10 | "‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. -Leviticus 20:11 | "‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. -Leviticus 20:12 | "‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves. -Leviticus 20:13 | "‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. -Leviticus 20:14 | "‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness amongst you. -Leviticus 20:15 | "‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. -Leviticus 20:16 | "‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. -Leviticus 20:17 | "‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity. -Leviticus 20:18 | "‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from amongst their people. -Leviticus 20:19 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity. -Leviticus 20:20 | If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless. -Leviticus 20:21 | "‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless. -Leviticus 20:22 | "‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. -Leviticus 20:23 | You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. -Leviticus 20:24 | But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. -Leviticus 20:25 | "‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you. -Leviticus 20:26 | You shall be holy to me, for I, the Lord, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. -Leviticus 20:27 | "‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’" -Leviticus 21:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead amongst his people, -Leviticus 21:02 | except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, -Leviticus 21:03 | and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. -Leviticus 21:04 | He shall not defile himself, being a chief man amongst his people, to profane himself. -Leviticus 21:05 | "‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh. -Leviticus 21:06 | They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy. -Leviticus 21:07 | "‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God. -Leviticus 21:08 | Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy. -Leviticus 21:09 | "‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burnt with fire. -Leviticus 21:10 | "‘He who is the high priest amongst his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes. -Leviticus 21:11 | He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother. -Leviticus 21:12 | He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 21:13 | "‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. -Leviticus 21:14 | He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife. -Leviticus 21:15 | He shall not profane his offspring amongst his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’" -Leviticus 21:17 | "Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. -Leviticus 21:18 | For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, -Leviticus 21:21 | No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. -Leviticus 21:22 | He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. -Leviticus 21:23 | He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’" -Leviticus 21:24 | So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel. -Leviticus 22:02 | "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 22:03 | "Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 22:04 | "‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission, -Leviticus 22:05 | or whoever touches any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has— -Leviticus 22:06 | the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water. -Leviticus 22:07 | When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. -Leviticus 22:08 | He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 22:09 | "‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them. -Leviticus 22:10 | "‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. -Leviticus 22:11 | But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread. -Leviticus 22:12 | If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. -Leviticus 22:13 | But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it. -Leviticus 22:14 | "‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest. -Leviticus 22:15 | The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord, -Leviticus 22:16 | and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’" -Leviticus 22:18 | "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to the Lord for a burnt offering: -Leviticus 22:19 | that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. -Leviticus 22:20 | But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you. -Leviticus 22:21 | Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect. -Leviticus 22:22 | You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the Lord. -Leviticus 22:23 | Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. -Leviticus 22:24 | You must not offer to the Lord that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land. -Leviticus 22:25 | You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’" -Leviticus 22:27 | "When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 22:28 | Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day. -Leviticus 22:29 | "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. -Leviticus 22:30 | It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 22:31 | "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 22:32 | You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy amongst the children of Israel. I am the Lord who makes you holy, -Leviticus 22:33 | who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the Lord." -Leviticus 23:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts. -Leviticus 23:03 | "‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings. -Leviticus 23:04 | "‘These are the set feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season. -Leviticus 23:05 | In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the Lord’s Passover. -Leviticus 23:06 | On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. -Leviticus 23:07 | In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. -Leviticus 23:08 | But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’" -Leviticus 23:10 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. -Leviticus 23:11 | He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. -Leviticus 23:12 | On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:13 | The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. -Leviticus 23:14 | You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. -Leviticus 23:15 | "‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. -Leviticus 23:16 | The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:17 | You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:18 | You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:19 | You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. -Leviticus 23:20 | The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. -Leviticus 23:21 | You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. -Leviticus 23:22 | "‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’" -Leviticus 23:24 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. -Leviticus 23:25 | You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.’" -Leviticus 23:27 | "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:28 | You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. -Leviticus 23:29 | For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people. -Leviticus 23:30 | Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from amongst his people. -Leviticus 23:31 | You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. -Leviticus 23:32 | It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath." -Leviticus 23:34 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:35 | On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. -Leviticus 23:36 | Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work. -Leviticus 23:37 | "‘These are the appointed feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day— -Leviticus 23:38 | in addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to the Lord. -Leviticus 23:39 | "‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. -Leviticus 23:40 | You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. -Leviticus 23:41 | You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month. -Leviticus 23:42 | You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters, -Leviticus 23:43 | that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’" -Leviticus 23:44 | So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord. -Leviticus 24:02 | "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. -Leviticus 24:03 | Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. -Leviticus 24:04 | He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the Lord continually. -Leviticus 24:05 | "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. -Leviticus 24:06 | You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord. -Leviticus 24:07 | You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 24:08 | Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel. -Leviticus 24:09 | It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute." -Leviticus 24:10 | The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out amongst the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. -Leviticus 24:11 | The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. -Leviticus 24:12 | They put him in custody until the Lord’s will should be declared to them. -Leviticus 24:14 | "Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. -Leviticus 24:15 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. -Leviticus 24:16 | He who blasphemes the Lord’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name. -Leviticus 24:17 | "‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. -Leviticus 24:18 | He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. -Leviticus 24:19 | If anyone injures his neighbour, it shall be done to him as he has done: -Leviticus 24:20 | fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. -Leviticus 24:21 | He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. -Leviticus 24:22 | You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the Lord your God.’" -Leviticus 24:23 | Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 25:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. -Leviticus 25:03 | You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits; -Leviticus 25:04 | but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. -Leviticus 25:05 | What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. -Leviticus 25:06 | The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. -Leviticus 25:07 | For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food. -Leviticus 25:08 | "‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. -Leviticus 25:09 | Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. -Leviticus 25:10 | You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. -Leviticus 25:11 | That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. -Leviticus 25:12 | For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field. -Leviticus 25:13 | "‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property. -Leviticus 25:14 | "‘If you sell anything to your neighbour, or buy from your neighbour, you shall not wrong one another. -Leviticus 25:15 | According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. -Leviticus 25:16 | According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. -Leviticus 25:17 | You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 25:18 | "‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. -Leviticus 25:19 | The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. -Leviticus 25:20 | If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase" -Leviticus 25:21 | then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years. -Leviticus 25:22 | You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store. -Leviticus 25:23 | "‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. -Leviticus 25:24 | In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. -Leviticus 25:25 | "‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. -Leviticus 25:26 | If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, -Leviticus 25:27 | then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. -Leviticus 25:28 | But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. -Leviticus 25:29 | "‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. -Leviticus 25:30 | If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. -Leviticus 25:31 | But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. -Leviticus 25:32 | "‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time. -Leviticus 25:33 | The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession amongst the children of Israel. -Leviticus 25:34 | But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. -Leviticus 25:35 | "‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself amongst you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. -Leviticus 25:36 | Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live amongst you. -Leviticus 25:37 | You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. -Leviticus 25:38 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. -Leviticus 25:39 | "‘If your brother has grown poor amongst you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave. -Leviticus 25:40 | As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. -Leviticus 25:41 | Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. -Leviticus 25:42 | For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. -Leviticus 25:43 | You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God. -Leviticus 25:44 | "‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. -Leviticus 25:45 | Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live amongst you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. -Leviticus 25:46 | You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. -Leviticus 25:47 | "‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living amongst you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, -Leviticus 25:48 | after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; -Leviticus 25:49 | or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. -Leviticus 25:50 | He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant. -Leviticus 25:51 | If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. -Leviticus 25:52 | If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption. -Leviticus 25:53 | As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. -Leviticus 25:54 | If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him. -Leviticus 25:55 | For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 26:01 | "‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 26:02 | "‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord. -Leviticus 26:03 | "‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, -Leviticus 26:04 | then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. -Leviticus 26:05 | Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. -Leviticus 26:06 | "‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. -Leviticus 26:07 | You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. -Leviticus 26:08 | Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. -Leviticus 26:09 | "‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. -Leviticus 26:10 | You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. -Leviticus 26:11 | I will set my tent amongst you, and my soul won’t abhor you. -Leviticus 26:12 | I will walk amongst you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. -Leviticus 26:13 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright. -Leviticus 26:14 | "‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments, -Leviticus 26:15 | and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, -Leviticus 26:16 | I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. -Leviticus 26:17 | I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. -Leviticus 26:18 | "‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. -Leviticus 26:19 | I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze. -Leviticus 26:20 | Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit. -Leviticus 26:21 | "‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. -Leviticus 26:22 | I will send the wild animals amongst you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate. -Leviticus 26:23 | "‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me, -Leviticus 26:24 | then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. -Leviticus 26:25 | I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence amongst you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. -Leviticus 26:26 | When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied. -Leviticus 26:27 | "‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me, -Leviticus 26:28 | then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins. -Leviticus 26:29 | You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. -Leviticus 26:30 | I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. -Leviticus 26:31 | I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. -Leviticus 26:32 | I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it. -Leviticus 26:33 | I will scatter you amongst the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. -Leviticus 26:34 | Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. -Leviticus 26:35 | As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it. -Leviticus 26:36 | "‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues. -Leviticus 26:37 | They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies. -Leviticus 26:38 | You will perish amongst the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. -Leviticus 26:39 | Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them. -Leviticus 26:40 | "‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, -Leviticus 26:41 | I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, -Leviticus 26:42 | then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land. -Leviticus 26:43 | The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. -Leviticus 26:44 | Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. -Leviticus 26:45 | But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.’" -Leviticus 26:46 | These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. -Leviticus 27:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to the Lord in a vow, according to your valuation, -Leviticus 27:03 | your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. -Leviticus 27:04 | If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. -Leviticus 27:05 | If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. -Leviticus 27:06 | If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. -Leviticus 27:07 | If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. -Leviticus 27:08 | But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay. -Leviticus 27:09 | "‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to the Lord, all that any man gives of such to the Lord becomes holy. -Leviticus 27:10 | He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. -Leviticus 27:11 | If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to the Lord, then he shall set the animal before the priest; -Leviticus 27:12 | and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be. -Leviticus 27:13 | But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation. -Leviticus 27:14 | "‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand. -Leviticus 27:15 | If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his. -Leviticus 27:16 | "‘If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. -Leviticus 27:17 | If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. -Leviticus 27:18 | But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation. -Leviticus 27:19 | If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his. -Leviticus 27:20 | If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; -Leviticus 27:21 | but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests. -Leviticus 27:22 | "‘If he dedicates a field to the Lord which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, -Leviticus 27:23 | then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to the Lord. -Leviticus 27:24 | In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs. -Leviticus 27:25 | All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel. -Leviticus 27:26 | "‘However the firstborn amongst animals, which belongs to the Lord as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is the Lord’s. -Leviticus 27:27 | If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation. -Leviticus 27:28 | "‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to the Lord. -Leviticus 27:29 | "‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from amongst men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death. -Leviticus 27:30 | "‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s. It is holy to the Lord. -Leviticus 27:31 | If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. -Leviticus 27:32 | All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord. -Leviticus 27:33 | He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’" -Leviticus 27:34 | These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai. -Leviticus 2:01 | "‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. -Leviticus 2:02 | He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 2:03 | That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. -Leviticus 2:04 | "‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. -Leviticus 2:05 | If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. -Leviticus 2:06 | You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. -Leviticus 2:07 | If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. -Leviticus 2:08 | You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to the Lord. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. -Leviticus 2:09 | The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 2:10 | That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. -Leviticus 2:11 | "‘No meal offering which you shall offer to the Lord shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 2:12 | As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to the Lord, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar. -Leviticus 2:13 | Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. -Leviticus 2:14 | "‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed. -Leviticus 2:15 | You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. -Leviticus 2:16 | The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 3:01 | "‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before the Lord. -Leviticus 3:02 | He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar. -Leviticus 3:03 | He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the Lord. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, -Leviticus 3:04 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. -Leviticus 3:05 | Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 3:06 | "‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect. -Leviticus 3:07 | If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD; -Leviticus 3:08 | and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. -Leviticus 3:09 | He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the Lord; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, -Leviticus 3:10 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. -Leviticus 3:11 | The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 3:12 | "‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord. -Leviticus 3:13 | He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. -Leviticus 3:14 | He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, -Leviticus 3:15 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. -Leviticus 3:16 | The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is the Lord’s. -Leviticus 3:17 | "‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’" -Leviticus 4:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them, -Leviticus 4:03 | if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to the Lord for a sin offering. -Leviticus 4:04 | He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before the Lord; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the Lord. -Leviticus 4:05 | The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 4:06 | The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary. -Leviticus 4:07 | The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 4:08 | He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, -Leviticus 4:09 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove, -Leviticus 4:10 | as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. -Leviticus 4:11 | He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung -Leviticus 4:12 | —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burnt where the ashes are poured out. -Leviticus 4:13 | "‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and are guilty; -Leviticus 4:14 | when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 4:15 | The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord; and the bull shall be killed before the Lord. -Leviticus 4:16 | The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 4:17 | The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, before the veil. -Leviticus 4:18 | He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 4:19 | All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar. -Leviticus 4:20 | He shall do this with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so he shall do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. -Leviticus 4:21 | He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burnt the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly. -Leviticus 4:22 | "‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the Lord his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, -Leviticus 4:23 | if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect. -Leviticus 4:24 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord. It is a sin offering. -Leviticus 4:25 | The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. -Leviticus 4:26 | All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven. -Leviticus 4:27 | "‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, -Leviticus 4:28 | if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned. -Leviticus 4:29 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. -Leviticus 4:30 | The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. -Leviticus 4:31 | All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. -Leviticus 4:32 | "‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. -Leviticus 4:33 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. -Leviticus 4:34 | The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. -Leviticus 4:35 | He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of the Lord made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven. -Leviticus 5:01 | "‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. -Leviticus 5:02 | "‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. -Leviticus 5:03 | "‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. -Leviticus 5:04 | "‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these. -Leviticus 5:05 | It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned; -Leviticus 5:06 | and he shall bring his trespass offering to the Lord for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin. -Leviticus 5:07 | "‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. -Leviticus 5:08 | He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. -Leviticus 5:09 | He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. -Leviticus 5:10 | He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven. -Leviticus 5:11 | "‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. -Leviticus 5:12 | He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of the Lord made by fire. It is a sin offering. -Leviticus 5:13 | The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’" -Leviticus 5:15 | "If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding the Lord’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. -Leviticus 5:16 | He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven. -Leviticus 5:17 | "If anyone sins, doing any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. -Leviticus 5:18 | He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven. -Leviticus 5:19 | It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before the Lord." -Leviticus 6:02 | "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the Lord, and deals falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbour, -Leviticus 6:03 | or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions— -Leviticus 6:04 | then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, -Leviticus 6:05 | or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. -Leviticus 6:06 | He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. -Leviticus 6:07 | The priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty." -Leviticus 6:09 | "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. -Leviticus 6:10 | The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. -Leviticus 6:11 | He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. -Leviticus 6:12 | The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. -Leviticus 6:13 | Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. -Leviticus 6:14 | "‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar. -Leviticus 6:15 | He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to the Lord. -Leviticus 6:16 | That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 6:17 | It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering. -Leviticus 6:18 | Every male amongst the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’" -Leviticus 6:20 | "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. -Leviticus 6:21 | It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Leviticus 6:22 | The anointed priest that will be in his place from amongst his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to the Lord. -Leviticus 6:23 | Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burnt. It shall not be eaten." -Leviticus 6:25 | "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the Lord. It is most holy. -Leviticus 6:26 | The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 6:27 | Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. -Leviticus 6:28 | But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. -Leviticus 6:29 | Every male amongst the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy. -Leviticus 6:30 | No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire. -Leviticus 7:01 | "‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy. -Leviticus 7:02 | In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. -Leviticus 7:03 | He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, -Leviticus 7:04 | and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys; -Leviticus 7:05 | and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering. -Leviticus 7:06 | Every male amongst the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. -Leviticus 7:07 | "‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. -Leviticus 7:08 | The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. -Leviticus 7:09 | Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it. -Leviticus 7:10 | Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another. -Leviticus 7:11 | "‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD: -Leviticus 7:12 | If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. -Leviticus 7:13 | He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread. -Leviticus 7:14 | Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to the Lord. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. -Leviticus 7:15 | The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. -Leviticus 7:16 | "‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten, -Leviticus 7:17 | but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. -Leviticus 7:18 | If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. -Leviticus 7:19 | "‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; -Leviticus 7:20 | but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to the Lord, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. -Leviticus 7:21 | When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’" -Leviticus 7:23 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. -Leviticus 7:24 | The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. -Leviticus 7:25 | For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to the Lord, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. -Leviticus 7:26 | You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. -Leviticus 7:27 | Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’" -Leviticus 7:29 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. -Leviticus 7:30 | With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. -Leviticus 7:31 | The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. -Leviticus 7:32 | The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. -Leviticus 7:33 | He amongst the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. -Leviticus 7:34 | For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’" -Leviticus 7:35 | This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to the Lord in the priest’s office; -Leviticus 7:36 | which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. -Leviticus 7:37 | This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings -Leviticus 7:38 | which the Lord commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai. -Leviticus 8:02 | "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; -Leviticus 8:03 | and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting." -Leviticus 8:04 | Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Leviticus 8:05 | Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded to be done." -Leviticus 8:06 | Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. -Leviticus 8:07 | He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skilfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it. -Leviticus 8:08 | He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate. -Leviticus 8:09 | He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 8:10 | Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. -Leviticus 8:11 | He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. -Leviticus 8:12 | He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. -Leviticus 8:13 | Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 8:14 | He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. -Leviticus 8:15 | He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. -Leviticus 8:16 | He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burnt it on the altar. -Leviticus 8:17 | But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burnt with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 8:18 | He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. -Leviticus 8:19 | He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. -Leviticus 8:20 | He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. -Leviticus 8:21 | He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burnt the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 8:22 | He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. -Leviticus 8:23 | He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. -Leviticus 8:24 | He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. -Leviticus 8:25 | He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; -Leviticus 8:26 | and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. -Leviticus 8:27 | He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord. -Leviticus 8:28 | Moses took them from their hands, and burnt them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the Lord. -Leviticus 8:29 | Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 8:30 | Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. -Leviticus 8:31 | Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ -Leviticus 8:32 | What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. -Leviticus 8:33 | You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. -Leviticus 8:34 | What has been done today, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. -Leviticus 8:35 | You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep the Lord’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded." -Leviticus 8:36 | Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord commanded by Moses. -Leviticus 9:01 | On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; -Leviticus 9:02 | and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before the Lord. -Leviticus 9:03 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering; -Leviticus 9:04 | and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today the Lord appears to you.’" -Leviticus 9:05 | They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before the Lord. -Leviticus 9:06 | Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord commanded that you should do; and the Lord’s glory shall appear to you." -Leviticus 9:07 | Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded." -Leviticus 9:08 | So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. -Leviticus 9:09 | The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar; -Leviticus 9:10 | but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Leviticus 9:11 | The meat and the skin he burnt with fire outside the camp. -Leviticus 9:12 | He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. -Leviticus 9:13 | They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burnt them upon the altar. -Leviticus 9:14 | He washed the innards and the legs, and burnt them on the burnt offering on the altar. -Leviticus 9:15 | He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. -Leviticus 9:16 | He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. -Leviticus 9:17 | He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burnt it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning. -Leviticus 9:18 | He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar; -Leviticus 9:19 | and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver; -Leviticus 9:20 | and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat on the altar. -Leviticus 9:21 | Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded. -Leviticus 9:22 | Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. -Leviticus 9:23 | Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the Lord’s glory appeared to all the people. -Leviticus 9:24 | Fire came out from before the Lord, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces. -Luke 10:01 | Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come. -Luke 10:02 | Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the labourers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out labourers into his harvest. -Luke 10:03 | Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs amongst wolves. -Luke 10:04 | Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. -Luke 10:05 | Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ -Luke 10:06 | If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. -Luke 10:07 | Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house. -Luke 10:08 | Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. -Luke 10:09 | Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ -Luke 10:10 | But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, -Luke 10:11 | ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ -Luke 10:12 | I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. -Luke 10:13 | "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. -Luke 10:14 | But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgement than for you. -Luke 10:15 | You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. -Luke 10:16 | Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me." -Luke 10:17 | The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" -Luke 10:18 | He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. -Luke 10:19 | Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. -Luke 10:20 | Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." -Luke 10:21 | In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight." -Luke 10:22 | Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him." -Luke 10:23 | Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see, -Luke 10:24 | for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them." -Luke 10:25 | Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" -Luke 10:26 | He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" -Luke 10:27 | He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself." -Luke 10:28 | He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live." -Luke 10:29 | But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbour?" -Luke 10:30 | Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell amongst robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. -Luke 10:31 | By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. -Luke 10:32 | In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. -Luke 10:33 | But a certain Samaritan, as he travelled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, -Luke 10:34 | came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. -Luke 10:35 | On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ -Luke 10:36 | Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell amongst the robbers?" -Luke 10:37 | He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise." -Luke 10:38 | As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. -Luke 10:39 | She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. -Luke 10:40 | But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me." -Luke 10:41 | Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, -Luke 10:42 | but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her." -Luke 11:01 | When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." -Luke 11:02 | He said to them, "When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. -Luke 11:03 | Give us day by day our daily bread. -Luke 11:04 | Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’" -Luke 11:05 | He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, -Luke 11:06 | for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ -Luke 11:07 | and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? -Luke 11:08 | I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. -Luke 11:09 | "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. -Luke 11:10 | For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. -Luke 11:11 | "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? -Luke 11:12 | Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? -Luke 11:13 | If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" -Luke 11:14 | He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marvelled. -Luke 11:15 | But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons." -Luke 11:16 | Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven. -Luke 11:17 | But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. -Luke 11:18 | If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. -Luke 11:19 | But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. -Luke 11:20 | But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you. -Luke 11:21 | "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:22 | But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armour in which he trusted, and divides his plunder. -Luke 11:23 | "He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters. -Luke 11:24 | The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’ -Luke 11:25 | When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. -Luke 11:26 | Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first." -Luke 11:27 | It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!" -Luke 11:28 | But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it." -Luke 11:29 | When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. -Luke 11:30 | For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation. -Luke 11:31 | The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgement with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. -Luke 11:32 | The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgement with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here. -Luke 11:33 | "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light. -Luke 11:34 | The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. -Luke 11:35 | Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness. -Luke 11:36 | If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light." -Luke 11:37 | Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table. -Luke 11:38 | When the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed himself before dinner. -Luke 11:39 | The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. -Luke 11:40 | You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also? -Luke 11:41 | But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. -Luke 11:42 | But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. -Luke 11:43 | Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces. -Luke 11:44 | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it." -Luke 11:45 | One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also." -Luke 11:46 | He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. -Luke 11:47 | Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. -Luke 11:48 | So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. -Luke 11:49 | Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, -Luke 11:50 | that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; -Luke 11:51 | from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. -Luke 11:52 | Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered." -Luke 11:53 | As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; -Luke 11:54 | lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him. -Luke 12:01 | Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. -Luke 12:02 | But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. -Luke 12:03 | Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. -Luke 12:04 | "I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. -Luke 12:05 | But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him. -Luke 12:06 | "Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. -Luke 12:07 | But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. -Luke 12:08 | "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; -Luke 12:09 | but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels. -Luke 12:10 | Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. -Luke 12:11 | When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; -Luke 12:12 | for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say." -Luke 12:13 | One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." -Luke 12:14 | But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" -Luke 12:15 | He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses." -Luke 12:16 | He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. -Luke 12:17 | He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ -Luke 12:18 | He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. -Luke 12:19 | I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry."’ -Luke 12:20 | "But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’ -Luke 12:21 | So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God." -Luke 12:22 | He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. -Luke 12:23 | Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. -Luke 12:24 | Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! -Luke 12:25 | Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? -Luke 12:26 | If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? -Luke 12:27 | Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. -Luke 12:28 | But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? -Luke 12:29 | Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. -Luke 12:30 | For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. -Luke 12:31 | But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. -Luke 12:32 | Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. -Luke 12:33 | Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. -Luke 12:34 | For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. -Luke 12:35 | "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. -Luke 12:36 | Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. -Luke 12:37 | Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them. -Luke 12:38 | They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. -Luke 12:39 | But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. -Luke 12:40 | Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him." -Luke 12:41 | Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?" -Luke 12:42 | The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? -Luke 12:43 | Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. -Luke 12:44 | Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. -Luke 12:45 | But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, -Luke 12:46 | then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. -Luke 12:47 | That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, -Luke 12:48 | but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked. -Luke 12:49 | "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. -Luke 12:50 | But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! -Luke 12:51 | Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. -Luke 12:52 | For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. -Luke 12:53 | They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." -Luke 12:54 | He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. -Luke 12:55 | When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens. -Luke 12:56 | You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time? -Luke 12:57 | Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? -Luke 12:58 | For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. -Luke 12:59 | I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny." -Luke 13:01 | Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. -Luke 13:02 | Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? -Luke 13:03 | I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. -Luke 13:04 | Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? -Luke 13:05 | I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way." -Luke 13:06 | He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. -Luke 13:07 | He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’ -Luke 13:08 | He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilise it. -Luke 13:09 | If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’" -Luke 13:10 | He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. -Luke 13:11 | Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up. -Luke 13:12 | When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." -Luke 13:13 | He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God. -Luke 13:14 | The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!" -Luke 13:15 | Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water? -Luke 13:16 | Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?" -Luke 13:17 | As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. -Luke 13:18 | He said, "What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it? -Luke 13:19 | It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches." -Luke 13:20 | Again he said, "To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom? -Luke 13:21 | It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened." -Luke 13:22 | He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and travelling on to Jerusalem. -Luke 13:24 | "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able. -Luke 13:25 | When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ -Luke 13:26 | Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ -Luke 13:27 | He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’ -Luke 13:28 | There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside. -Luke 13:29 | They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom. -Luke 13:30 | Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last." -Luke 13:31 | On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you." -Luke 13:32 | He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission. -Luke 13:33 | Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’ -Luke 13:34 | "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! -Luke 13:35 | Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’" -Luke 14:01 | When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. -Luke 14:02 | Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. -Luke 14:03 | Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" -Luke 14:04 | But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go. -Luke 14:05 | He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?" -Luke 14:06 | They couldn’t answer him regarding these things. -Luke 14:07 | He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, -Luke 14:08 | "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honourable than you might be invited by him, -Luke 14:09 | and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. -Luke 14:10 | But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. -Luke 14:11 | For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." -Luke 14:12 | He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbours, or perhaps they might also return the favour, and pay you back. -Luke 14:13 | But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; -Luke 14:14 | and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous." -Luke 14:15 | When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!" -Luke 14:16 | But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. -Luke 14:17 | He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ -Luke 14:18 | They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’ -Luke 14:19 | "Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’ -Luke 14:20 | "Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ -Luke 14:21 | "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’ -Luke 14:22 | "The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’ -Luke 14:23 | "The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. -Luke 14:24 | For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’" -Luke 14:26 | "If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. -Luke 14:27 | Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple. -Luke 14:28 | For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? -Luke 14:29 | Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, -Luke 14:31 | Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? -Luke 14:32 | Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. -Luke 14:33 | So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. -Luke 14:34 | Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? -Luke 14:35 | It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." -Luke 15:01 | Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. -Luke 15:02 | The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them." -Luke 15:04 | "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? -Luke 15:05 | When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. -Luke 15:06 | When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ -Luke 15:07 | I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. -Luke 15:08 | Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? -Luke 15:09 | When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’ -Luke 15:10 | Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting." -Luke 15:12 | The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them. -Luke 15:13 | Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and travelled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. -Luke 15:14 | When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. -Luke 15:15 | He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. -Luke 15:16 | He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. -Luke 15:17 | But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! -Luke 15:18 | I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. -Luke 15:19 | I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."’ -Luke 15:20 | "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. -Luke 15:21 | The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ -Luke 15:22 | "But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet. -Luke 15:23 | Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat, and celebrate; -Luke 15:24 | for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate. -Luke 15:25 | "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. -Luke 15:26 | He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. -Luke 15:27 | He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’ -Luke 15:28 | But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him. -Luke 15:29 | But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. -Luke 15:30 | But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ -Luke 15:31 | "He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. -Luke 15:32 | But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’" -Luke 16:01 | He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. -Luke 16:02 | He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ -Luke 16:03 | "The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. -Luke 16:04 | I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’ -Luke 16:05 | Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ -Luke 16:06 | He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ -Luke 16:07 | Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ -Luke 16:08 | "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. -Luke 16:09 | I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. -Luke 16:10 | He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. -Luke 16:11 | If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? -Luke 16:12 | If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? -Luke 16:13 | No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon." -Luke 16:14 | The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. -Luke 16:15 | He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted amongst men is an abomination in the sight of God. -Luke 16:16 | The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. -Luke 16:17 | But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. -Luke 16:18 | Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. -Luke 16:19 | "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. -Luke 16:20 | A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, -Luke 16:21 | and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. -Luke 16:22 | The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. -Luke 16:23 | In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. -Luke 16:24 | He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’ -Luke 16:25 | "But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. -Luke 16:26 | Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’ -Luke 16:27 | "He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house; -Luke 16:28 | for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’ -Luke 16:29 | "But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ -Luke 16:30 | "He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ -Luke 16:31 | "He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’" -Luke 17:01 | He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! -Luke 17:02 | It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. -Luke 17:03 | Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. -Luke 17:04 | If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him." -Luke 17:05 | The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." -Luke 17:06 | The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. -Luke 17:07 | But who is there amongst you, having a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’ -Luke 17:08 | and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’? -Luke 17:09 | Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. -Luke 17:10 | Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’" -Luke 17:11 | As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. -Luke 17:12 | As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. -Luke 17:13 | They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" -Luke 17:14 | When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." As they went, they were cleansed. -Luke 17:15 | One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. -Luke 17:16 | He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. -Luke 17:17 | Jesus answered, "Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? -Luke 17:18 | Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?" -Luke 17:19 | Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you." -Luke 17:20 | Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, "God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation; -Luke 17:21 | neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you." -Luke 17:22 | He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. -Luke 17:23 | They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them, -Luke 17:24 | for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. -Luke 17:25 | But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. -Luke 17:26 | As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. -Luke 17:27 | They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all. -Luke 17:28 | Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; -Luke 17:29 | but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the sky and destroyed them all. -Luke 17:30 | It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. -Luke 17:31 | In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. -Luke 17:33 | Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. -Luke 17:34 | I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. -Luke 17:35 | There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left." -Luke 17:37 | They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together." -Luke 18:01 | He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, -Luke 18:02 | "There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. -Luke 18:03 | A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’ -Luke 18:04 | He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, -Luke 18:05 | yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’" -Luke 18:06 | The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. -Luke 18:07 | Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? -Luke 18:08 | I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" -Luke 18:09 | He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. -Luke 18:10 | "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. -Luke 18:11 | The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. -Luke 18:12 | I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ -Luke 18:13 | But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ -Luke 18:14 | I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." -Luke 18:15 | They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. -Luke 18:16 | Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. -Luke 18:17 | Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." -Luke 18:18 | A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" -Luke 18:19 | Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God. -Luke 18:20 | You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honour your father and your mother.’" -Luke 18:21 | He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up." -Luke 18:22 | When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." -Luke 18:23 | But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich. -Luke 18:24 | Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! -Luke 18:25 | For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." -Luke 18:26 | Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" -Luke 18:27 | But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." -Luke 18:28 | Peter said, "Look, we have left everything and followed you." -Luke 18:29 | He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake, -Luke 18:30 | who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life." -Luke 18:31 | He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. -Luke 18:32 | For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. -Luke 18:33 | They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again." -Luke 18:34 | They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said. -Luke 18:35 | As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. -Luke 18:36 | Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. -Luke 18:37 | They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. -Luke 18:38 | He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" -Luke 18:39 | Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" -Luke 18:40 | Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, -Luke 18:41 | "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again." -Luke 18:42 | Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you." -Luke 18:43 | Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God. -Luke 19:01 | He entered and was passing through Jericho. -Luke 19:02 | There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. -Luke 19:03 | He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short. -Luke 19:04 | He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. -Luke 19:05 | When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." -Luke 19:06 | He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. -Luke 19:07 | When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." -Luke 19:08 | Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much." -Luke 19:09 | Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. -Luke 19:10 | For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." -Luke 19:11 | As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately. -Luke 19:12 | He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. -Luke 19:13 | He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’ -Luke 19:14 | But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’ -Luke 19:15 | "When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. -Luke 19:16 | The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’ -Luke 19:17 | "He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ -Luke 19:18 | "The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’ -Luke 19:19 | "So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ -Luke 19:20 | Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, -Luke 19:21 | for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’ -Luke 19:22 | "He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow. -Luke 19:23 | Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’ -Luke 19:24 | He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’ -Luke 19:25 | "They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ -Luke 19:26 | ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. -Luke 19:27 | But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’" -Luke 19:28 | Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. -Luke 19:30 | "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man had ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it. -Luke 19:31 | If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’" -Luke 19:32 | Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them. -Luke 19:33 | As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" -Luke 19:35 | Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and sat Jesus on them. -Luke 19:36 | As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road. -Luke 19:37 | As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, saying, -Luke 19:38 | "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!" -Luke 19:39 | Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" -Luke 19:40 | He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out." -Luke 19:41 | When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, -Luke 19:42 | "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. -Luke 19:43 | For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, -Luke 19:44 | and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation." -Luke 19:46 | "It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!" -Luke 19:47 | He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men amongst the people sought to destroy him. -Luke 19:48 | They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said. -Luke 1:01 | Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled amongst us, -Luke 1:02 | even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, -Luke 1:03 | it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus; -Luke 1:04 | that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed. -Luke 1:05 | There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. -Luke 1:06 | They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. -Luke 1:07 | But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years. -Luke 1:08 | Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division -Luke 1:09 | according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. -Luke 1:10 | The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. -Luke 1:11 | An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. -Luke 1:12 | Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. -Luke 1:13 | But the angel said to him, "Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. -Luke 1:14 | You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. -Luke 1:15 | For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. -Luke 1:16 | He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. -Luke 1:17 | He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord." -Luke 1:18 | Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years." -Luke 1:19 | The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. -Luke 1:20 | Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time." -Luke 1:21 | The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marvelled that he delayed in the temple. -Luke 1:22 | When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute. -Luke 1:23 | When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. -Luke 1:25 | "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach amongst men." -Luke 1:26 | Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, -Luke 1:27 | to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary. -Luke 1:28 | Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly favoured one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you amongst women!" -Luke 1:29 | But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be. -Luke 1:30 | The angel said to her, "Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. -Luke 1:31 | Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’ -Luke 1:32 | He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, -Luke 1:33 | and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom." -Luke 1:34 | Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?" -Luke 1:35 | The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. -Luke 1:36 | Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. -Luke 1:37 | For nothing spoken by God is impossible." -Luke 1:38 | Mary said, "Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her. -Luke 1:39 | Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, -Luke 1:40 | and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. -Luke 1:41 | When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. -Luke 1:42 | She called out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! -Luke 1:43 | Why am I so favoured, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? -Luke 1:44 | For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leapt in my womb for joy! -Luke 1:45 | Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfilment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!" -Luke 1:46 | Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord. -Luke 1:47 | My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour, -Luke 1:48 | for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. -Luke 1:49 | For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name. -Luke 1:50 | His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him. -Luke 1:51 | He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. -Luke 1:52 | He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. -Luke 1:53 | He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty. -Luke 1:54 | He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, -Luke 1:55 | as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever." -Luke 1:56 | Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house. -Luke 1:57 | Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. -Luke 1:58 | Her neighbours and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her. -Luke 1:59 | On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. -Luke 1:60 | His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John." -Luke 1:61 | They said to her, "There is no one amongst your relatives who is called by this name." -Luke 1:62 | They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. -Luke 1:63 | He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marvelled. -Luke 1:64 | His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God. -Luke 1:65 | Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. -Luke 1:66 | All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him. -Luke 1:68 | "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people; -Luke 1:69 | and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David -Luke 1:70 | (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old), -Luke 1:71 | salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; -Luke 1:72 | to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, -Luke 1:74 | to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, -Luke 1:75 | in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. -Luke 1:76 | And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, -Luke 1:77 | to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, -Luke 1:78 | because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us, -Luke 1:79 | to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace." -Luke 1:80 | The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel. -Luke 20:01 | On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, thepriests and scribes came to him with the elders. -Luke 20:02 | They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?" -Luke 20:03 | He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me: -Luke 20:04 | the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?" -Luke 20:05 | They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ -Luke 20:06 | But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." -Luke 20:07 | They answered that they didn’t know where it was from. -Luke 20:08 | Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." -Luke 20:09 | He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. -Luke 20:10 | At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. -Luke 20:11 | He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. -Luke 20:12 | He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. -Luke 20:13 | The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’ -Luke 20:14 | "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned amongst themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ -Luke 20:15 | Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? -Luke 20:16 | He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "May that never be!" -Luke 20:17 | But he looked at them and said, "Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?’ -Luke 20:18 | Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust." -Luke 20:19 | The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. -Luke 20:20 | They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. -Luke 20:21 | They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. -Luke 20:22 | Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" -Luke 20:23 | But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? -Luke 20:24 | Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar’s." -Luke 20:25 | He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." -Luke 20:26 | They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marvelled at his answer and were silent. -Luke 20:27 | Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. -Luke 20:28 | They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother. -Luke 20:29 | There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. -Luke 20:30 | The second took her as wife, and he died childless. -Luke 20:31 | The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. -Luke 20:33 | Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife." -Luke 20:34 | Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. -Luke 20:35 | But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. -Luke 20:36 | For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. -Luke 20:37 | But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ -Luke 20:38 | Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him." -Luke 20:39 | Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." -Luke 20:40 | They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions. -Luke 20:41 | He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? -Luke 20:42 | David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, -Luke 20:43 | until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."’ -Luke 20:44 | "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?" -Luke 20:46 | "Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; -Luke 20:47 | who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation." -Luke 21:01 | He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. -Luke 21:02 | He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. -Luke 21:03 | He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, -Luke 21:04 | for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on." -Luke 21:06 | "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down." -Luke 21:07 | They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?" -Luke 21:08 | He said, "Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. -Luke 21:09 | When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately." -Luke 21:10 | Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. -Luke 21:11 | There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. -Luke 21:12 | But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. -Luke 21:13 | It will turn out as a testimony for you. -Luke 21:14 | Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, -Luke 21:15 | for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. -Luke 21:16 | You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. -Luke 21:17 | You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. -Luke 21:18 | And not a hair of your head will perish. -Luke 21:19 | "By your endurance you will win your lives. -Luke 21:20 | "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. -Luke 21:21 | Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. -Luke 21:22 | For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. -Luke 21:23 | Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. -Luke 21:24 | They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. -Luke 21:25 | There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; -Luke 21:26 | men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. -Luke 21:27 | Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. -Luke 21:28 | But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near." -Luke 21:29 | He told them a parable. "See the fig tree and all the trees. -Luke 21:30 | When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. -Luke 21:31 | Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near. -Luke 21:32 | Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished. -Luke 21:33 | Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. -Luke 21:34 | "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. -Luke 21:35 | For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. -Luke 21:36 | Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man." -Luke 21:37 | Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. -Luke 21:38 | All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him. -Luke 22:01 | Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. -Luke 22:02 | The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people. -Luke 22:03 | Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve. -Luke 22:04 | He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. -Luke 22:05 | They were glad, and agreed to give him money. -Luke 22:06 | He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude. -Luke 22:07 | The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. -Luke 22:08 | Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." -Luke 22:09 | They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?" -Luke 22:10 | He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. -Luke 22:11 | Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"’ -Luke 22:12 | He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there." -Luke 22:13 | They went, found things as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover. -Luke 22:14 | When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. -Luke 22:15 | He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, -Luke 22:16 | for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom." -Luke 22:17 | He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it amongst yourselves, -Luke 22:18 | for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes." -Luke 22:19 | He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." -Luke 22:20 | Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. -Luke 22:21 | But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. -Luke 22:22 | The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!" -Luke 22:23 | They began to question amongst themselves which of them it was who would do this thing. -Luke 22:24 | A dispute also arose amongst them, which of them was considered to be greatest. -Luke 22:25 | He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ -Luke 22:26 | But not so with you. But one who is the greater amongst you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. -Luke 22:27 | For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am amongst you as one who serves. -Luke 22:28 | But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. -Luke 22:29 | I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, -Luke 22:30 | that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." -Luke 22:31 | The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat, -Luke 22:32 | but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers." -Luke 22:33 | He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!" -Luke 22:34 | He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times." -Luke 22:35 | He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing." -Luke 22:36 | Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. -Luke 22:37 | For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end." -Luke 22:38 | They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough." -Luke 22:39 | He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. -Luke 22:40 | When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you don’t enter into temptation." -Luke 22:41 | He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, -Luke 22:42 | "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." -Luke 22:43 | An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. -Luke 22:44 | Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. -Luke 22:45 | When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, -Luke 22:46 | and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation." -Luke 22:47 | While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared. He who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him. -Luke 22:48 | But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" -Luke 22:49 | When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" -Luke 22:50 | A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. -Luke 22:51 | But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"—and he touched his ear, and healed him. -Luke 22:52 | Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? -Luke 22:53 | When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness." -Luke 22:54 | They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance. -Luke 22:55 | When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat amongst them. -Luke 22:56 | A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him." -Luke 22:57 | He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don’t know him." -Luke 22:58 | After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!" -Luke 22:59 | After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!" -Luke 22:60 | But Peter said, "Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. -Luke 22:61 | The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times." -Luke 22:62 | He went out, and wept bitterly. -Luke 22:63 | The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. -Luke 22:64 | Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?" -Luke 22:65 | They spoke many other things against him, insulting him. -Luke 22:67 | "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won’t believe, -Luke 22:69 | From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God." -Luke 22:70 | They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am." -Luke 22:71 | They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!" -Luke 23:02 | They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." -Luke 23:03 | Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say." -Luke 23:04 | Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man." -Luke 23:05 | But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place." -Luke 23:06 | But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. -Luke 23:07 | When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. -Luke 23:08 | Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. -Luke 23:09 | He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. -Luke 23:10 | The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. -Luke 23:11 | Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. -Luke 23:12 | Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other. -Luke 23:13 | Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, -Luke 23:14 | and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. -Luke 23:15 | Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. -Luke 23:16 | I will therefore chastise him and release him." -Luke 23:17 | Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. -Luke 23:18 | But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"— -Luke 23:19 | one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder. -Luke 23:20 | Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, -Luke 23:21 | but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" -Luke 23:22 | He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." -Luke 23:23 | But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. -Luke 23:24 | Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. -Luke 23:25 | He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will. -Luke 23:26 | When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it after Jesus. -Luke 23:27 | A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him. -Luke 23:28 | But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. -Luke 23:29 | For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ -Luke 23:30 | Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’ -Luke 23:31 | For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?" -Luke 23:32 | There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death. -Luke 23:33 | When they came to the place that is called "The Skull", they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. -Luke 23:34 | Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing." Dividing his garments amongst them, they cast lots. -Luke 23:35 | The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!" -Luke 23:36 | The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, -Luke 23:37 | and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" -Luke 23:38 | An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS." -Luke 23:39 | One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!" -Luke 23:40 | But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? -Luke 23:41 | And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." -Luke 23:42 | He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." -Luke 23:43 | Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." -Luke 23:44 | It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. -Luke 23:45 | The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. -Luke 23:46 | Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last. -Luke 23:47 | When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man." -Luke 23:48 | All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. -Luke 23:49 | All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things. -Luke 23:50 | Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man -Luke 23:51 | (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom: -Luke 23:52 | this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. -Luke 23:53 | He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. -Luke 23:54 | It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. -Luke 23:55 | The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. -Luke 23:56 | They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. -Luke 24:01 | But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. -Luke 24:02 | They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. -Luke 24:03 | They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. -Luke 24:04 | While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. -Luke 24:05 | Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living amongst the dead? -Luke 24:06 | He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, -Luke 24:07 | saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?" -Luke 24:09 | returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. -Luke 24:10 | Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles. -Luke 24:11 | These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them. -Luke 24:12 | But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened. -Luke 24:13 | Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. -Luke 24:14 | They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. -Luke 24:15 | While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them. -Luke 24:17 | He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?" -Luke 24:18 | One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?" -Luke 24:19 | He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; -Luke 24:20 | and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. -Luke 24:21 | But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. -Luke 24:22 | Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; -Luke 24:23 | and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. -Luke 24:24 | Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him." -Luke 24:25 | He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! -Luke 24:26 | Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?" -Luke 24:27 | Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. -Luke 24:28 | They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further. -Luke 24:29 | They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them. -Luke 24:30 | When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them. -Luke 24:31 | Their eyes were opened and they recognised him, then he vanished out of their sight. -Luke 24:32 | They said to one another, "Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?" -Luke 24:33 | They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, saying, -Luke 24:34 | "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" -Luke 24:35 | They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognised by them in the breaking of the bread. -Luke 24:36 | As they said these things, Jesus himself stood amongst them, and said to them, "Peace be to you." -Luke 24:37 | But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. -Luke 24:38 | He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? -Luke 24:39 | See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." -Luke 24:40 | When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. -Luke 24:41 | While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" -Luke 24:42 | They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. -Luke 24:44 | He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled." -Luke 24:45 | Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. -Luke 24:46 | He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, -Luke 24:47 | and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. -Luke 24:48 | You are witnesses of these things. -Luke 24:49 | Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high." -Luke 24:50 | He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. -Luke 24:51 | While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven. -Luke 24:52 | They worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, -Luke 24:53 | and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. -Luke 2:01 | Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. -Luke 2:02 | This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. -Luke 2:03 | All went to enrol themselves, everyone to his own city. -Luke 2:04 | Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, -Luke 2:05 | to enrol himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant. -Luke 2:06 | While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth. -Luke 2:07 | She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn. -Luke 2:08 | There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. -Luke 2:09 | Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. -Luke 2:10 | The angel said to them, "Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people. -Luke 2:11 | For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. -Luke 2:12 | This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough." -Luke 2:14 | "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will towards men." -Luke 2:15 | When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, "Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." -Luke 2:16 | They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough. -Luke 2:17 | When they saw it, they publicised widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child. -Luke 2:18 | All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds. -Luke 2:19 | But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. -Luke 2:20 | The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them. -Luke 2:21 | When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. -Luke 2:22 | When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord -Luke 2:23 | (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"), -Luke 2:24 | and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." -Luke 2:25 | Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. -Luke 2:26 | It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. -Luke 2:27 | He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law, -Luke 2:29 | "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace; -Luke 2:30 | for my eyes have seen your salvation, -Luke 2:31 | which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; -Luke 2:32 | a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel." -Luke 2:33 | Joseph and his mother were marvelling at the things which were spoken concerning him, -Luke 2:34 | and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against. -Luke 2:35 | Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." -Luke 2:36 | There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, -Luke 2:37 | and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day. -Luke 2:38 | Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem. -Luke 2:39 | When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. -Luke 2:40 | The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. -Luke 2:41 | His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. -Luke 2:42 | When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast, -Luke 2:43 | and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it, -Luke 2:44 | but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him amongst their relatives and acquaintances. -Luke 2:45 | When they didn’t find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him. -Luke 2:46 | After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. -Luke 2:47 | All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. -Luke 2:48 | When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you." -Luke 2:49 | He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?" -Luke 2:50 | They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them. -Luke 2:51 | And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. -Luke 2:52 | And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men. -Luke 3:03 | He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. -Luke 3:04 | As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. -Luke 3:05 | Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth. -Luke 3:06 | All flesh will see God’s salvation.’" -Luke 3:07 | He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptised by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? -Luke 3:08 | Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say amongst yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! -Luke 3:09 | Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire." -Luke 3:10 | The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?" -Luke 3:11 | He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise." -Luke 3:12 | Tax collectors also came to be baptised, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?" -Luke 3:13 | He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you." -Luke 3:14 | Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages." -Luke 3:15 | As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, -Luke 3:16 | John answered them all, "I indeed baptise you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptise you in the Holy Spirit and fire, -Luke 3:17 | whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." -Luke 3:18 | Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people, -Luke 3:19 | but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, -Luke 3:20 | added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. -Luke 3:21 | Now when all the people were baptised, Jesus also had been baptised, and was praying. The sky was opened, -Luke 3:22 | and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased." -Luke 4:01 | Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness -Luke 4:02 | for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry. -Luke 4:03 | The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." -Luke 4:04 | Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’" -Luke 4:05 | The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. -Luke 4:06 | The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. -Luke 4:07 | If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours." -Luke 4:08 | Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’" -Luke 4:09 | He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, -Luke 4:10 | for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’ -Luke 4:11 | and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’" -Luke 4:12 | Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’" -Luke 4:13 | When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time. -Luke 4:14 | Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. -Luke 4:15 | He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. -Luke 4:16 | He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. -Luke 4:17 | The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, -Luke 4:18 | "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, -Luke 4:19 | and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." -Luke 4:20 | He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. -Luke 4:21 | He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." -Luke 4:22 | All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn’t this Joseph’s son?" -Luke 4:23 | He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’" -Luke 4:24 | He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. -Luke 4:25 | But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. -Luke 4:26 | Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. -Luke 4:27 | There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian." -Luke 4:28 | They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. -Luke 4:29 | They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. -Luke 4:30 | But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way. -Luke 4:31 | He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, -Luke 4:32 | and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. -Luke 4:33 | In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying, -Luke 4:34 | "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!" -Luke 4:35 | Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm. -Luke 4:36 | Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" -Luke 4:37 | News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region. -Luke 4:38 | He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her. -Luke 4:39 | He stood over her and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them. -Luke 4:40 | When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. -Luke 4:41 | Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. -Luke 4:42 | When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them. -Luke 4:43 | But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent." -Luke 4:44 | He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. -Luke 5:01 | Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. -Luke 5:02 | He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. -Luke 5:03 | He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. -Luke 5:04 | When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch." -Luke 5:05 | Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net." -Luke 5:06 | When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. -Luke 5:07 | They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. -Luke 5:08 | But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord." -Luke 5:09 | For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught; -Luke 5:10 | and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive." -Luke 5:11 | When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him. -Luke 5:12 | While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean." -Luke 5:13 | He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him. -Luke 5:14 | He commanded him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." -Luke 5:15 | But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. -Luke 5:16 | But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed. -Luke 5:17 | On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them. -Luke 5:18 | Behold, men brought a paralysed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus. -Luke 5:19 | Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus. -Luke 5:20 | Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." -Luke 5:21 | The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" -Luke 5:22 | But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? -Luke 5:23 | Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’ -Luke 5:24 | But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralysed man), "I tell you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house." -Luke 5:25 | Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God. -Luke 5:26 | Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today." -Luke 5:27 | After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!" -Luke 5:28 | He left everything, and rose up and followed him. -Luke 5:29 | Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. -Luke 5:30 | Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" -Luke 5:31 | Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. -Luke 5:32 | I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." -Luke 5:33 | They said to him, "Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?" -Luke 5:34 | He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? -Luke 5:35 | But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days." -Luke 5:36 | He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. -Luke 5:37 | No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. -Luke 5:38 | But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. -Luke 5:39 | No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’" -Luke 6:01 | Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands. -Luke 6:02 | But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?" -Luke 6:03 | Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; -Luke 6:04 | how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?" -Luke 6:05 | He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath." -Luke 6:06 | It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered. -Luke 6:07 | The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him. -Luke 6:08 | But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood. -Luke 6:09 | Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" -Luke 6:10 | He looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other. -Luke 6:11 | But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus. -Luke 6:12 | In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. -Luke 6:13 | When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: -Luke 6:14 | Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; -Luke 6:15 | Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot; -Luke 6:16 | Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor. -Luke 6:17 | He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; -Luke 6:18 | as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. -Luke 6:19 | All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all. -Luke 6:20 | He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours. -Luke 6:21 | Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. -Luke 6:22 | Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. -Luke 6:23 | Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets. -Luke 6:24 | "But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. -Luke 6:25 | Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. -Luke 6:26 | Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. -Luke 6:27 | "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, -Luke 6:28 | bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. -Luke 6:29 | To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. -Luke 6:30 | Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. -Luke 6:31 | "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. -Luke 6:32 | If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. -Luke 6:33 | If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. -Luke 6:34 | If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. -Luke 6:35 | But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind towards the unthankful and evil. -Luke 6:36 | "Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. -Luke 6:37 | Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. -Luke 6:38 | "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you." -Luke 6:39 | He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit? -Luke 6:40 | A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. -Luke 6:41 | Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? -Luke 6:42 | Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye. -Luke 6:43 | For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. -Luke 6:44 | For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. -Luke 6:45 | The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. -Luke 6:46 | "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? -Luke 6:47 | Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. -Luke 6:48 | He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. -Luke 6:49 | But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." -Luke 7:01 | After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. -Luke 7:02 | A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. -Luke 7:03 | When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant. -Luke 7:04 | When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him, -Luke 7:05 | for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us." -Luke 7:06 | Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. -Luke 7:07 | Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed. -Luke 7:08 | For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it." -Luke 7:09 | When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel." -Luke 7:10 | Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well. -Luke 7:11 | Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. -Luke 7:12 | Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. -Luke 7:13 | When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don’t cry." -Luke 7:14 | He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!" -Luke 7:15 | He who was dead sat up and began to speak. Then he gave him to his mother. -Luke 7:16 | Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen amongst us!" and, "God has visited his people!" -Luke 7:17 | This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region. -Luke 7:18 | The disciples of John told him about all these things. -Luke 7:19 | John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?" -Luke 7:20 | When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptiser has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?’" -Luke 7:21 | In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. -Luke 7:22 | Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. -Luke 7:23 | Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me." -Luke 7:24 | When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? -Luke 7:25 | But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts. -Luke 7:26 | But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. -Luke 7:27 | This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’ -Luke 7:28 | "For I tell you, amongst those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptiser, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he." -Luke 7:29 | When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptised with John’s baptism. -Luke 7:30 | But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptised by him themselves. -Luke 7:31 | "To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? -Luke 7:32 | They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’ -Luke 7:33 | For John the Baptiser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ -Luke 7:34 | The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ -Luke 7:35 | Wisdom is justified by all her children." -Luke 7:36 | One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. -Luke 7:37 | Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. -Luke 7:38 | Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. -Luke 7:39 | Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner." -Luke 7:40 | Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on." -Luke 7:41 | "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. -Luke 7:42 | When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" -Luke 7:43 | Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly." -Luke 7:44 | Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. -Luke 7:45 | You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. -Luke 7:46 | You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. -Luke 7:47 | Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little." -Luke 7:48 | He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." -Luke 7:49 | Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" -Luke 7:50 | He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace." -Luke 8:01 | Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve, -Luke 8:02 | and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; -Luke 8:03 | and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions. -Luke 8:04 | When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. -Luke 8:05 | "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. -Luke 8:06 | Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. -Luke 8:07 | Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. -Luke 8:08 | Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" -Luke 8:09 | Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?" -Luke 8:10 | He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ -Luke 8:11 | Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. -Luke 8:12 | Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. -Luke 8:13 | Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. -Luke 8:14 | That which fell amongst the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. -Luke 8:15 | Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance. -Luke 8:16 | "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light. -Luke 8:17 | For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. -Luke 8:18 | Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has." -Luke 8:19 | His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. -Luke 8:20 | Some people told him, "Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you." -Luke 8:21 | But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it." -Luke 8:22 | Now on one of those days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let’s go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out. -Luke 8:23 | But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. -Luke 8:24 | They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, then they ceased, and it was calm. -Luke 8:25 | He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marvelled, saying to one another, "Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?" -Luke 8:26 | Then they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. -Luke 8:27 | When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs. -Luke 8:28 | When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!" -Luke 8:29 | For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert. -Luke 8:30 | Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. -Luke 8:31 | They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss. -Luke 8:32 | Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them. -Luke 8:33 | The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned. -Luke 8:34 | When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. -Luke 8:35 | People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. -Luke 8:36 | Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed. -Luke 8:37 | All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned. -Luke 8:39 | "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him. -Luke 8:40 | When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. -Luke 8:41 | Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house, -Luke 8:42 | for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. -Luke 8:43 | A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any -Luke 8:44 | came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped. -Luke 8:45 | Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’" -Luke 8:46 | But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me." -Luke 8:47 | When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. -Luke 8:48 | He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace." -Luke 8:49 | While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher." -Luke 8:50 | But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed." -Luke 8:51 | When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother. -Luke 8:52 | All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping." -Luke 8:53 | They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead. -Luke 8:54 | But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!" -Luke 8:55 | Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat. -Luke 8:56 | Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done. -Luke 9:01 | He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. -Luke 9:02 | He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick. -Luke 9:03 | He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each. -Luke 9:04 | Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. -Luke 9:05 | As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them." -Luke 9:06 | They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News and healing everywhere. -Luke 9:07 | Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, -Luke 9:08 | and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. -Luke 9:09 | Herod said, "I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him. -Luke 9:10 | The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of a city called Bethsaida. -Luke 9:11 | But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing. -Luke 9:12 | The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place." -Luke 9:13 | But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people." -Luke 9:14 | For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each." -Luke 9:16 | He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. -Luke 9:17 | They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over. -Luke 9:18 | As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say that I am?" -Luke 9:19 | They answered, "‘John the Baptiser,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again." -Luke 9:20 | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God." -Luke 9:21 | But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one, saying, -Luke 9:22 | "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up." -Luke 9:23 | He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. -Luke 9:24 | For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it. -Luke 9:25 | For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? -Luke 9:26 | For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. -Luke 9:27 | But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom." -Luke 9:28 | About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray. -Luke 9:29 | As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling. -Luke 9:30 | Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah, -Luke 9:31 | who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. -Luke 9:32 | Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him. -Luke 9:33 | As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said. -Luke 9:34 | While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. -Luke 9:35 | A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!" -Luke 9:36 | When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen. -Luke 9:37 | On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him. -Luke 9:38 | Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only born child. -Luke 9:39 | Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely. -Luke 9:40 | I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t." -Luke 9:41 | Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here." -Luke 9:42 | While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. -Luke 9:43 | They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marvelling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples, -Luke 9:44 | "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men." -Luke 9:45 | But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. -Luke 9:46 | An argument arose amongst them about which of them was the greatest. -Luke 9:47 | Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side, -Luke 9:48 | and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least amongst you all, this one will be great." -Luke 9:49 | John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us." -Luke 9:50 | Jesus said to him, "Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us." -Luke 9:51 | It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem -Luke 9:52 | and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. -Luke 9:53 | They didn’t receive him, because he was travelling with his face set towards Jerusalem. -Luke 9:54 | When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them, just as Elijah did?" -Luke 9:55 | But he turned and rebuked them, "You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are. -Luke 9:56 | For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them." They went to another village. -Luke 9:57 | As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord." -Luke 9:58 | Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." -Luke 9:59 | He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." -Luke 9:60 | But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom." -Luke 9:61 | Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house." -Luke 9:62 | But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom." -Malachi 1:01 | A revelation, the Lord’s word to Israel by Malachi. -Malachi 1:02 | "I have loved you," says the Lord. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?" says the Lord, "Yet I loved Jacob; -Malachi 1:03 | but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness." -Malachi 1:04 | Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places" the Lord of Armies says, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the Lord shows wrath forever." -Malachi 1:05 | Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The Lord is great—even beyond the border of Israel!" -Malachi 1:06 | "A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the Lord of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ -Malachi 1:07 | You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The Lord’s table is contemptible.’ -Malachi 1:08 | When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 1:09 | "Now, please entreat the favour of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 1:10 | "Oh that there were one amongst you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says the Lord of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. -Malachi 1:11 | For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great amongst the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great amongst the nations," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 1:12 | "But you profane it, in that you say, ‘The Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’ -Malachi 1:13 | You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it", says the Lord of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says the Lord. -Malachi 1:14 | "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King," says the Lord of Armies, "and my name is awesome amongst the nations." -Malachi 2:01 | "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. -Malachi 2:02 | If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name," says the Lord of Armies, "then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. -Malachi 2:03 | Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. -Malachi 2:04 | You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 2:05 | "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent towards me; and he was reverent towards me, and stood in awe of my name. -Malachi 2:06 | The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. -Malachi 2:07 | For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 2:08 | But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 2:09 | "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law. -Malachi 2:10 | Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? -Malachi 2:11 | Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. -Malachi 2:12 | The Lord will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 2:13 | This again you do: you cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. -Malachi 2:14 | Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. -Malachi 2:15 | Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. -Malachi 2:16 | One who hates and divorces", says the Lord, the God of Israel, "covers his garment with violence!" says the Lord of Armies. "Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful. -Malachi 2:17 | You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’ -Malachi 3:01 | "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 3:02 | "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; -Malachi 3:03 | and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness. -Malachi 3:04 | Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. -Malachi 3:05 | I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 3:06 | "For I, the Lord, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. -Malachi 3:07 | From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the Lord of Armies. "But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ -Malachi 3:08 | Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. -Malachi 3:09 | You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. -Malachi 3:10 | Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the Lord of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for. -Malachi 3:11 | I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 3:12 | "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 3:13 | "Your words have been stout against me," says the Lord. "Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’ -Malachi 3:14 | You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Armies? -Malachi 3:15 | Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’ -Malachi 3:16 | Then those who feared the Lord spoke one with another; and the Lord listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared the Lord, and who honoured his name. -Malachi 3:17 | They shall be mine," says the Lord of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. -Malachi 3:18 | Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him. -Malachi 4:01 | "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says the Lord of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. -Malachi 4:02 | But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall. -Malachi 4:03 | You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says the Lord of Armies. -Malachi 4:04 | "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. -Malachi 4:05 | Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. -Malachi 4:06 | He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse." -Mark 10:01 | He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. -Mark 10:02 | Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" -Mark 10:03 | He answered, "What did Moses command you?" -Mark 10:04 | They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her." -Mark 10:05 | But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. -Mark 10:06 | But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. -Mark 10:07 | For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, -Mark 10:08 | and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. -Mark 10:09 | What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." -Mark 10:10 | In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. -Mark 10:11 | He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. -Mark 10:12 | If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." -Mark 10:13 | They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. -Mark 10:14 | But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. -Mark 10:15 | Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." -Mark 10:16 | He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them. -Mark 10:17 | As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" -Mark 10:18 | Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. -Mark 10:19 | You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honour your father and mother.’" -Mark 10:20 | He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth." -Mark 10:21 | Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross." -Mark 10:22 | But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. -Mark 10:23 | Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!" -Mark 10:24 | The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! -Mark 10:25 | It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." -Mark 10:26 | They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?" -Mark 10:27 | Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God." -Mark 10:28 | Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you." -Mark 10:29 | Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, -Mark 10:30 | but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. -Mark 10:31 | But many who are first will be last; and the last first." -Mark 10:32 | They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. -Mark 10:33 | "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. -Mark 10:34 | They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again." -Mark 10:35 | James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask." -Mark 10:36 | He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" -Mark 10:37 | They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory." -Mark 10:38 | But Jesus said to them, "You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?" -Mark 10:39 | They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with; -Mark 10:40 | but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared." -Mark 10:41 | When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John. -Mark 10:42 | Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognised as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. -Mark 10:43 | But it shall not be so amongst you, but whoever wants to become great amongst you shall be your servant. -Mark 10:44 | Whoever of you wants to become first amongst you, shall be bondservant of all. -Mark 10:45 | For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." -Mark 10:46 | They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. -Mark 10:47 | When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" -Mark 10:48 | Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" -Mark 10:49 | Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!" -Mark 10:50 | He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. -Mark 10:51 | Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I may see again." -Mark 10:52 | Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way. -Mark 11:01 | When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, -Mark 11:02 | and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him. -Mark 11:03 | If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here." -Mark 11:04 | They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. -Mark 11:05 | Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?" -Mark 11:06 | They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go. -Mark 11:07 | They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it. -Mark 11:08 | Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. -Mark 11:09 | Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! -Mark 11:10 | Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" -Mark 11:11 | Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. -Mark 11:12 | The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. -Mark 11:13 | Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. -Mark 11:14 | Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it. -Mark 11:15 | They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves. -Mark 11:16 | He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. -Mark 11:17 | He taught, saying to them, "Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!" -Mark 11:18 | The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. -Mark 11:20 | As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. -Mark 11:21 | Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away." -Mark 11:22 | Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. -Mark 11:23 | For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. -Mark 11:24 | Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. -Mark 11:25 | Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. -Mark 11:26 | But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions." -Mark 11:27 | They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him, -Mark 11:28 | and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?" -Mark 11:29 | Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. -Mark 11:30 | The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me." -Mark 11:31 | They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ -Mark 11:32 | If we should say, ‘From men’"—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. -Mark 11:33 | They answered Jesus, "We don’t know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things." -Mark 12:01 | He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. -Mark 12:02 | When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. -Mark 12:03 | They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. -Mark 12:04 | Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. -Mark 12:05 | Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. -Mark 12:06 | Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ -Mark 12:07 | But those farmers said amongst themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ -Mark 12:08 | They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. -Mark 12:09 | What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. -Mark 12:10 | Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. -Mark 12:11 | This was from the Lord. It is marvellous in our eyes’?" -Mark 12:12 | They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away. -Mark 12:13 | They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. -Mark 12:14 | When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? -Mark 12:15 | Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it." -Mark 12:16 | They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar’s." -Mark 12:17 | Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." They marvelled greatly at him. -Mark 12:19 | "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’ -Mark 12:20 | There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. -Mark 12:21 | The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; -Mark 12:22 | and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. -Mark 12:23 | In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife." -Mark 12:24 | Jesus answered them, "Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? -Mark 12:25 | For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. -Mark 12:26 | But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? -Mark 12:27 | He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken." -Mark 12:28 | One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?" -Mark 12:29 | Jesus answered, "The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: -Mark 12:30 | you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. -Mark 12:31 | The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these." -Mark 12:32 | The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, -Mark 12:33 | and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." -Mark 12:34 | When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from God’s Kingdom." No one dared ask him any question after that. -Mark 12:35 | Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? -Mark 12:36 | For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."’ -Mark 12:37 | Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly. -Mark 12:38 | In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, -Mark 12:39 | and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: -Mark 12:40 | those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation." -Mark 12:41 | Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. -Mark 12:42 | A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin. -Mark 12:43 | He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, -Mark 12:44 | for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on." -Mark 13:01 | As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!" -Mark 13:02 | Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down." -Mark 13:03 | As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, -Mark 13:04 | "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?" -Mark 13:05 | Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. -Mark 13:06 | For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and will lead many astray. -Mark 13:07 | "When you hear of wars and rumours of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet. -Mark 13:08 | For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains. -Mark 13:09 | But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. -Mark 13:10 | The Good News must first be preached to all the nations. -Mark 13:11 | When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. -Mark 13:12 | "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. -Mark 13:13 | You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. -Mark 13:14 | But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not" (let the reader understand), "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, -Mark 13:15 | and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house. -Mark 13:16 | Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. -Mark 13:17 | But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! -Mark 13:18 | Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter. -Mark 13:19 | For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be. -Mark 13:20 | Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days. -Mark 13:21 | Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it. -Mark 13:22 | For false christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. -Mark 13:23 | But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. -Mark 13:24 | But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, -Mark 13:25 | the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. -Mark 13:26 | Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. -Mark 13:27 | Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky. -Mark 13:28 | "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near; -Mark 13:29 | even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. -Mark 13:30 | Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen. -Mark 13:31 | Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. -Mark 13:32 | But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. -Mark 13:33 | Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is. -Mark 13:34 | "It is like a man, travelling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. -Mark 13:35 | Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; -Mark 13:36 | lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. -Mark 13:37 | What I tell you, I tell all: Watch." -Mark 14:01 | It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him. -Mark 14:02 | For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot amongst the people." -Mark 14:03 | While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. -Mark 14:04 | But there were some who were indignant amongst themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? -Mark 14:05 | For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." So they grumbled against her. -Mark 14:06 | But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. -Mark 14:07 | For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. -Mark 14:08 | She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. -Mark 14:09 | Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her." -Mark 14:10 | Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. -Mark 14:11 | They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him. -Mark 14:12 | On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?" -Mark 14:13 | He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him, -Mark 14:14 | and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"’ -Mark 14:15 | He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there." -Mark 14:16 | His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. -Mark 14:17 | When it was evening he came with the twelve. -Mark 14:18 | As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me." -Mark 14:19 | They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?" -Mark 14:20 | He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. -Mark 14:21 | For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born." -Mark 14:22 | As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body." -Mark 14:23 | He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. -Mark 14:24 | He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. -Mark 14:25 | Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom." -Mark 14:26 | When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. -Mark 14:27 | Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ -Mark 14:28 | However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." -Mark 14:29 | But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not." -Mark 14:30 | Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." -Mark 14:31 | But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing. -Mark 14:32 | They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." -Mark 14:33 | He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. -Mark 14:34 | He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch." -Mark 14:35 | He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. -Mark 14:36 | He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire." -Mark 14:37 | He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour? -Mark 14:38 | Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." -Mark 14:39 | Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. -Mark 14:40 | Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him. -Mark 14:41 | He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. -Mark 14:42 | Arise! Let’s get going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." -Mark 14:43 | Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came—and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. -Mark 14:44 | Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely." -Mark 14:45 | When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him. -Mark 14:47 | But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. -Mark 14:48 | Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? -Mark 14:49 | I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled." -Mark 14:51 | A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, -Mark 14:52 | but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. -Mark 14:53 | They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him. -Mark 14:54 | Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire. -Mark 14:55 | Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. -Mark 14:56 | For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other. -Mark 14:58 | "We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’" -Mark 14:59 | Even so, their testimony didn’t agree. -Mark 14:60 | The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?" -Mark 14:61 | But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" -Mark 14:62 | Jesus said, "I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky." -Mark 14:63 | The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses? -Mark 14:64 | You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death. -Mark 14:65 | Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands. -Mark 14:66 | As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came, -Mark 14:67 | and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!" -Mark 14:68 | But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed. -Mark 14:69 | The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them." -Mark 14:70 | But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." -Mark 14:71 | But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don’t know this man of whom you speak!" -Mark 14:72 | The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept. -Mark 15:01 | Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. -Mark 15:02 | Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say." -Mark 15:03 | The chief priests accused him of many things. -Mark 15:04 | Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!" -Mark 15:05 | But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marvelled. -Mark 15:06 | Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him. -Mark 15:07 | There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. -Mark 15:08 | The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. -Mark 15:09 | Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" -Mark 15:10 | For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. -Mark 15:11 | But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead. -Mark 15:12 | Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?" -Mark 15:13 | They cried out again, "Crucify him!" -Mark 15:14 | Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!" -Mark 15:15 | Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified. -Mark 15:16 | The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. -Mark 15:17 | They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. -Mark 15:18 | They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" -Mark 15:19 | They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. -Mark 15:20 | When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. -Mark 15:21 | They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross. -Mark 15:22 | They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull." -Mark 15:23 | They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it. -Mark 15:24 | Crucifying him, they parted his garments amongst them, casting lots on them, what each should take. -Mark 15:25 | It was the third hour, and they crucified him. -Mark 15:26 | The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS." -Mark 15:27 | With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left. -Mark 15:28 | The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was counted with transgressors." -Mark 15:29 | Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, -Mark 15:30 | save yourself, and come down from the cross!" -Mark 15:31 | Likewise, also the chief priests mocking amongst themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can’t save himself. -Mark 15:32 | Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him also insulted him. -Mark 15:33 | When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. -Mark 15:34 | At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" -Mark 15:35 | Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah." -Mark 15:36 | One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down." -Mark 15:37 | Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. -Mark 15:38 | The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. -Mark 15:39 | When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!" -Mark 15:40 | There were also women watching from afar, amongst whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; -Mark 15:41 | who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. -Mark 15:42 | When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, -Mark 15:43 | Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. -Mark 15:44 | Pilate marvelled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. -Mark 15:45 | When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. -Mark 15:46 | He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. -Mark 15:47 | Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid. -Mark 16:01 | When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. -Mark 16:02 | Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. -Mark 16:03 | They were saying amongst themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" -Mark 16:04 | for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back. -Mark 16:05 | Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed. -Mark 16:06 | He said to them, "Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him! -Mark 16:07 | But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’" -Mark 16:08 | They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid. -Mark 16:09 | Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. -Mark 16:10 | She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. -Mark 16:11 | When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved. -Mark 16:12 | After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country. -Mark 16:13 | They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either. -Mark 16:14 | Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen. -Mark 16:15 | He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. -Mark 16:16 | He who believes and is baptised will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. -Mark 16:17 | These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; -Mark 16:18 | they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." -Mark 16:19 | So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. -Mark 16:20 | They went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen. -Mark 1:01 | The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. -Mark 1:02 | As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you: -Mark 1:03 | the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’" -Mark 1:04 | John came baptising in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. -Mark 1:05 | All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptised by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. -Mark 1:06 | John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. -Mark 1:07 | He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. -Mark 1:08 | I baptised you in water, but he will baptise you in the Holy Spirit." -Mark 1:09 | In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John in the Jordan. -Mark 1:10 | Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. -Mark 1:11 | A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." -Mark 1:12 | Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. -Mark 1:13 | He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him. -Mark 1:14 | Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom, -Mark 1:15 | and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News." -Mark 1:16 | Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. -Mark 1:17 | Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men." -Mark 1:18 | Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. -Mark 1:19 | Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. -Mark 1:20 | Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. -Mark 1:21 | They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. -Mark 1:22 | They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. -Mark 1:23 | Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, saying, -Mark 1:24 | "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!" -Mark 1:25 | Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!" -Mark 1:26 | The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. -Mark 1:27 | They were all amazed, so that they questioned amongst themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!" -Mark 1:28 | The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area. -Mark 1:29 | Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. -Mark 1:30 | Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. -Mark 1:31 | He came and took her by the hand and raised her up. The fever left her immediately, and she served them. -Mark 1:32 | At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by demons. -Mark 1:33 | All the city was gathered together at the door. -Mark 1:34 | He healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him. -Mark 1:35 | Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there. -Mark 1:36 | Simon and those who were with him searched for him. -Mark 1:37 | They found him and told him, "Everyone is looking for you." -Mark 1:38 | He said to them, "Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason." -Mark 1:39 | He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. -Mark 1:40 | A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." -Mark 1:41 | Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." -Mark 1:42 | When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was made clean. -Mark 1:43 | He strictly warned him and immediately sent him out, -Mark 1:44 | and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." -Mark 1:45 | But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere. -Mark 2:01 | When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home. -Mark 2:02 | Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. -Mark 2:03 | Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. -Mark 2:04 | When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. -Mark 2:05 | Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." -Mark 2:06 | But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, -Mark 2:07 | "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" -Mark 2:08 | Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? -Mark 2:09 | Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’ -Mark 2:10 | But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— -Mark 2:11 | "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house." -Mark 2:12 | He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!" -Mark 2:13 | He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. -Mark 2:14 | As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him. -Mark 2:15 | He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. -Mark 2:16 | The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?" -Mark 2:17 | When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." -Mark 2:18 | John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?" -Mark 2:19 | Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. -Mark 2:20 | But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. -Mark 2:21 | No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. -Mark 2:22 | No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins." -Mark 2:23 | He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. -Mark 2:24 | The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?" -Mark 2:25 | He said to them, "Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? -Mark 2:26 | How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" -Mark 2:27 | He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. -Mark 2:28 | Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." -Mark 3:01 | He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there whose hand was withered. -Mark 3:02 | They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. -Mark 3:03 | He said to the man whose hand was withered, "Stand up." -Mark 3:04 | He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?" But they were silent. -Mark 3:05 | When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. -Mark 3:06 | The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. -Mark 3:07 | Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, -Mark 3:08 | from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. -Mark 3:09 | He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him. -Mark 3:10 | For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. -Mark 3:11 | The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him and cried, "You are the Son of God!" -Mark 3:12 | He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. -Mark 3:13 | He went up into the mountain and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. -Mark 3:14 | He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach -Mark 3:15 | and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: -Mark 3:17 | James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder); -Mark 3:18 | Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; -Mark 3:19 | and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house. -Mark 3:20 | The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. -Mark 3:21 | When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, "He is insane." -Mark 3:22 | The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." -Mark 3:23 | He summoned them and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? -Mark 3:24 | If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. -Mark 3:25 | If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. -Mark 3:26 | If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end. -Mark 3:27 | But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house. -Mark 3:28 | "Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; -Mark 3:29 | but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation." -Mark 3:30 | —because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." -Mark 3:31 | His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. -Mark 3:32 | A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you." -Mark 3:33 | He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" -Mark 3:34 | Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! -Mark 3:35 | For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother." -Mark 4:01 | Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. -Mark 4:02 | He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, -Mark 4:03 | "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, -Mark 4:04 | and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. -Mark 4:05 | Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. -Mark 4:06 | When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. -Mark 4:07 | Others fell amongst the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. -Mark 4:08 | Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." -Mark 4:09 | He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." -Mark 4:10 | When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. -Mark 4:11 | He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, -Mark 4:12 | that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’" -Mark 4:13 | He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? -Mark 4:14 | The farmer sows the word. -Mark 4:15 | The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. -Mark 4:16 | These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. -Mark 4:17 | They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. -Mark 4:18 | Others are those who are sown amongst the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, -Mark 4:19 | and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. -Mark 4:20 | Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times." -Mark 4:21 | He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? -Mark 4:22 | For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. -Mark 4:24 | He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. -Mark 4:25 | For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him." -Mark 4:26 | He said, "God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, -Mark 4:27 | and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. -Mark 4:28 | For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. -Mark 4:29 | But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." -Mark 4:30 | He said, "How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? -Mark 4:31 | It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, -Mark 4:32 | yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow." -Mark 4:33 | With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. -Mark 4:34 | Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. -Mark 4:35 | On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let’s go over to the other side." -Mark 4:36 | Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. -Mark 4:37 | A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. -Mark 4:38 | He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?" -Mark 4:39 | He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. -Mark 4:40 | He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?" -Mark 4:41 | They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" -Mark 5:01 | They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. -Mark 5:02 | When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. -Mark 5:03 | He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, -Mark 5:04 | because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. -Mark 5:05 | Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. -Mark 5:06 | When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, -Mark 5:07 | and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me." -Mark 5:08 | For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" -Mark 5:09 | He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." -Mark 5:10 | He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. -Mark 5:11 | Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding. -Mark 5:12 | All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them." -Mark 5:13 | At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. -Mark 5:14 | Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened. -Mark 5:15 | They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. -Mark 5:16 | Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. -Mark 5:17 | They began to beg him to depart from their region. -Mark 5:18 | As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. -Mark 5:19 | He didn’t allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you." -Mark 5:20 | He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marvelled. -Mark 5:21 | When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. -Mark 5:22 | Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, -Mark 5:23 | and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live." -Mark 5:24 | He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. -Mark 5:25 | A certain woman, who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, -Mark 5:26 | and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, -Mark 5:27 | having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. -Mark 5:28 | For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." -Mark 5:29 | Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. -Mark 5:30 | Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" -Mark 5:31 | His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’" -Mark 5:32 | He looked around to see her who had done this thing. -Mark 5:33 | But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. -Mark 5:34 | He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease." -Mark 5:35 | While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?" -Mark 5:36 | But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don’t be afraid, only believe." -Mark 5:37 | He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. -Mark 5:38 | He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. -Mark 5:39 | When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep." -Mark 5:40 | They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. -Mark 5:41 | Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!" -Mark 5:42 | Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. -Mark 5:43 | He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. -Mark 6:01 | He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. -Mark 6:02 | When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands? -Mark 6:03 | Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?" So they were offended at him. -Mark 6:04 | Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and amongst his own relatives, and in his own house." -Mark 6:05 | He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. -Mark 6:06 | He marvelled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching. -Mark 6:07 | He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. -Mark 6:08 | He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, -Mark 6:09 | but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. -Mark 6:10 | He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. -Mark 6:11 | Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement than for that city!" -Mark 6:12 | They went out and preached that people should repent. -Mark 6:13 | They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. -Mark 6:14 | King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptiser has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." -Mark 6:15 | But others said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets." -Mark 6:16 | But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." -Mark 6:17 | For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her. -Mark 6:18 | For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife." -Mark 6:19 | Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t, -Mark 6:20 | for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly. -Mark 6:21 | Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. -Mark 6:22 | When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." -Mark 6:23 | He swore to her, "Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom." -Mark 6:24 | She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptiser." -Mark 6:25 | She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptiser on a platter." -Mark 6:26 | The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her. -Mark 6:27 | Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, -Mark 6:28 | and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother. -Mark 6:29 | When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. -Mark 6:30 | The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. -Mark 6:31 | He said to them, "Come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. -Mark 6:32 | They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. -Mark 6:33 | They saw them going, and many recognised him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him. -Mark 6:34 | Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. -Mark 6:35 | When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. -Mark 6:36 | Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat." -Mark 6:37 | But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?" -Mark 6:38 | He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish." -Mark 6:39 | He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. -Mark 6:40 | They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. -Mark 6:41 | He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish amongst them all. -Mark 6:42 | They all ate, and were filled. -Mark 6:43 | They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish. -Mark 6:44 | Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. -Mark 6:45 | Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away. -Mark 6:46 | After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray. -Mark 6:47 | When evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land. -Mark 6:48 | Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them, -Mark 6:49 | but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; -Mark 6:50 | for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid." -Mark 6:51 | He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed amongst themselves, and marvelled; -Mark 6:52 | for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. -Mark 6:53 | When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. -Mark 6:54 | When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognised him, -Mark 6:55 | and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick on their mats to where they heard he was. -Mark 6:56 | Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well. -Mark 7:01 | Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. -Mark 7:02 | Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. -Mark 7:03 | (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. -Mark 7:04 | They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) -Mark 7:05 | The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?" -Mark 7:06 | He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. -Mark 7:07 | But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ -Mark 7:08 | "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." -Mark 7:09 | He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. -Mark 7:10 | For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ -Mark 7:11 | But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban," that is to say, given to God, -Mark 7:12 | "then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, -Mark 7:13 | making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this." -Mark 7:14 | He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. -Mark 7:15 | There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. -Mark 7:16 | If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" -Mark 7:17 | When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. -Mark 7:18 | He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, -Mark 7:19 | because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?" -Mark 7:20 | He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. -Mark 7:21 | For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, -Mark 7:22 | covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. -Mark 7:23 | All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." -Mark 7:24 | From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice. -Mark 7:25 | For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. -Mark 7:26 | Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. -Mark 7:27 | But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs." -Mark 7:28 | But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs." -Mark 7:29 | He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter." -Mark 7:30 | She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out. -Mark 7:31 | Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis. -Mark 7:32 | They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. -Mark 7:33 | He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. -Mark 7:34 | Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!" -Mark 7:35 | Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly. -Mark 7:36 | He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. -Mark 7:37 | They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!" -Mark 8:02 | "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. -Mark 8:03 | If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way." -Mark 8:04 | His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?" -Mark 8:05 | He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven." -Mark 8:06 | He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude. -Mark 8:07 | They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. -Mark 8:08 | They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over. -Mark 8:09 | Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away. -Mark 8:10 | Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha. -Mark 8:11 | The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him. -Mark 8:12 | He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation." -Mark 8:13 | He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side. -Mark 8:14 | They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them. -Mark 8:15 | He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod." -Mark 8:16 | They reasoned with one another, saying, "It’s because we have no bread." -Mark 8:17 | Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? -Mark 8:18 | Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember? -Mark 8:19 | When I broke the five loaves amongst the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve." -Mark 8:20 | "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven." -Mark 8:21 | He asked them, "Don’t you understand yet?" -Mark 8:22 | He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him. -Mark 8:23 | He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything. -Mark 8:24 | He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees walking." -Mark 8:25 | Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. -Mark 8:26 | He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village." -Mark 8:27 | Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" -Mark 8:28 | They told him, "John the Baptiser, and others say Elijah, but others, one of the prophets." -Mark 8:29 | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ." -Mark 8:30 | He commanded them that they should tell no one about him. -Mark 8:31 | He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. -Mark 8:32 | He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. -Mark 8:33 | But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men." -Mark 8:34 | He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. -Mark 8:35 | For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. -Mark 8:36 | For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? -Mark 8:37 | For what will a man give in exchange for his life? -Mark 8:38 | For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels." -Mark 9:01 | He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power." -Mark 9:02 | After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. -Mark 9:03 | His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. -Mark 9:04 | Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus. -Mark 9:05 | Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." -Mark 9:06 | For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid. -Mark 9:07 | A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." -Mark 9:08 | Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only. -Mark 9:09 | As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. -Mark 9:10 | They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant. -Mark 9:11 | They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" -Mark 9:12 | He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? -Mark 9:13 | But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him." -Mark 9:14 | Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. -Mark 9:15 | Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him. -Mark 9:16 | He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?" -Mark 9:17 | One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; -Mark 9:18 | and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able." -Mark 9:19 | He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me." -Mark 9:20 | They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth. -Mark 9:21 | He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood. -Mark 9:22 | Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us." -Mark 9:23 | Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." -Mark 9:24 | Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!" -Mark 9:25 | When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!" -Mark 9:26 | After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, "He is dead." -Mark 9:27 | But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose. -Mark 9:28 | When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn’t we cast it out?" -Mark 9:29 | He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting." -Mark 9:30 | They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it. -Mark 9:31 | For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again." -Mark 9:32 | But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him. -Mark 9:33 | He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing amongst yourselves on the way?" -Mark 9:34 | But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest. -Mark 9:35 | He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." -Mark 9:37 | "Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me." -Mark 9:38 | John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us." -Mark 9:39 | But Jesus said, "Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. -Mark 9:40 | For whoever is not against us is on our side. -Mark 9:41 | For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. -Mark 9:42 | Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. -Mark 9:43 | If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, -Mark 9:44 | ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ -Mark 9:45 | If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched— -Mark 9:46 | ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ -Mark 9:47 | If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, -Mark 9:48 | ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ -Mark 9:49 | For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. -Mark 9:50 | Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." -Matthew 10:01 | He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. -Matthew 10:02 | Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother; -Matthew 10:03 | Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus; -Matthew 10:04 | Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. -Matthew 10:05 | Jesus sent these twelve out and commanded them, saying, "Don’t go amongst the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. -Matthew 10:06 | Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. -Matthew 10:07 | As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ -Matthew 10:08 | Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. -Matthew 10:09 | Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts. -Matthew 10:10 | Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the labourer is worthy of his food. -Matthew 10:11 | Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go on. -Matthew 10:12 | As you enter into the household, greet it. -Matthew 10:13 | If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you. -Matthew 10:14 | Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. -Matthew 10:15 | Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement than for that city. -Matthew 10:16 | "Behold, I send you out as sheep amongst wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. -Matthew 10:17 | But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. -Matthew 10:18 | Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. -Matthew 10:19 | But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. -Matthew 10:20 | For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. -Matthew 10:21 | "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. -Matthew 10:22 | You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. -Matthew 10:23 | But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come. -Matthew 10:24 | "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. -Matthew 10:25 | It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! -Matthew 10:26 | Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. -Matthew 10:27 | What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. -Matthew 10:28 | Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. -Matthew 10:29 | "Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. -Matthew 10:30 | But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. -Matthew 10:31 | Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. -Matthew 10:32 | Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 10:33 | But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 10:34 | "Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. -Matthew 10:35 | For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. -Matthew 10:36 | A man’s foes will be those of his own household. -Matthew 10:37 | He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. -Matthew 10:38 | He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me. -Matthew 10:39 | He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. -Matthew 10:40 | "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. -Matthew 10:41 | He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. -Matthew 10:42 | Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward." -Matthew 11:01 | When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. -Matthew 11:02 | Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples -Matthew 11:03 | and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?" -Matthew 11:04 | Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: -Matthew 11:05 | the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. -Matthew 11:06 | Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me." -Matthew 11:07 | As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? -Matthew 11:08 | But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. -Matthew 11:09 | But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. -Matthew 11:10 | For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’ -Matthew 11:11 | Most certainly I tell you, amongst those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptiser; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. -Matthew 11:12 | From the days of John the Baptiser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. -Matthew 11:13 | For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. -Matthew 11:14 | If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. -Matthew 11:15 | He who has ears to hear, let him hear. -Matthew 11:16 | "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions -Matthew 11:17 | and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’ -Matthew 11:18 | For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ -Matthew 11:19 | The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children." -Matthew 11:20 | Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. -Matthew 11:21 | "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. -Matthew 11:22 | But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgement than for you. -Matthew 11:23 | You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today. -Matthew 11:24 | But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgement, than for you." -Matthew 11:25 | At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. -Matthew 11:26 | Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. -Matthew 11:27 | All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. -Matthew 11:28 | "Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. -Matthew 11:29 | Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. -Matthew 11:30 | For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." -Matthew 12:01 | At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. -Matthew 12:02 | But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." -Matthew 12:03 | But he said to them, "Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: -Matthew 12:04 | how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? -Matthew 12:05 | Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? -Matthew 12:06 | But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. -Matthew 12:07 | But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless. -Matthew 12:08 | For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." -Matthew 12:09 | He departed from there and went into their synagogue. -Matthew 12:10 | And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" so that they might accuse him. -Matthew 12:11 | He said to them, "What man is there amongst you who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it and lift it out? -Matthew 12:12 | Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day." -Matthew 12:13 | Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other. -Matthew 12:14 | But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him. -Matthew 12:15 | Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all, -Matthew 12:16 | and commanded them that they should not make him known, -Matthew 12:18 | "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations. -Matthew 12:19 | He will not strive, nor shout, neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets. -Matthew 12:20 | He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory. -Matthew 12:21 | In his name, the nations will hope." -Matthew 12:22 | Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. -Matthew 12:23 | All the multitudes were amazed, and said, "Can this be the son of David?" -Matthew 12:24 | But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons." -Matthew 12:25 | Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. -Matthew 12:26 | If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? -Matthew 12:27 | If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. -Matthew 12:28 | But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you. -Matthew 12:29 | Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house. -Matthew 12:30 | "He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. -Matthew 12:31 | Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. -Matthew 12:32 | Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in that which is to come. -Matthew 12:33 | "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. -Matthew 12:34 | You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. -Matthew 12:35 | The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things. -Matthew 12:36 | I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgement. -Matthew 12:37 | For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." -Matthew 12:38 | Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you." -Matthew 12:39 | But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. -Matthew 12:40 | For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. -Matthew 12:41 | The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgement with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. -Matthew 12:42 | The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgement with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. -Matthew 12:43 | "When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. -Matthew 12:44 | Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. -Matthew 12:45 | Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation." -Matthew 12:46 | While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. -Matthew 12:47 | One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you." -Matthew 12:48 | But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" -Matthew 12:49 | He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! -Matthew 12:50 | For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother." -Matthew 13:01 | On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. -Matthew 13:02 | Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. -Matthew 13:03 | He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. -Matthew 13:04 | As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. -Matthew 13:05 | Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. -Matthew 13:06 | When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. -Matthew 13:07 | Others fell amongst thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. -Matthew 13:08 | Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. -Matthew 13:10 | The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" -Matthew 13:11 | He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. -Matthew 13:12 | For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. -Matthew 13:13 | Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. -Matthew 13:14 | In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive; -Matthew 13:15 | for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’ -Matthew 13:16 | "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. -Matthew 13:17 | For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them. -Matthew 13:18 | "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. -Matthew 13:19 | When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. -Matthew 13:20 | What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; -Matthew 13:21 | yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. -Matthew 13:22 | What was sown amongst the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. -Matthew 13:23 | What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty." -Matthew 13:24 | He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, -Matthew 13:25 | but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also amongst the wheat, and went away. -Matthew 13:26 | But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. -Matthew 13:27 | The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’ -Matthew 13:28 | "He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ "The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’ -Matthew 13:29 | "But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. -Matthew 13:30 | Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn." -Matthew 13:31 | He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, -Matthew 13:32 | which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." -Matthew 13:33 | He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened." -Matthew 13:34 | Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, -Matthew 13:35 | that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world." -Matthew 13:36 | Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field." -Matthew 13:37 | He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, -Matthew 13:38 | the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. -Matthew 13:39 | The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. -Matthew 13:40 | As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burnt with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. -Matthew 13:41 | The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and those who do iniquity, -Matthew 13:42 | and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. -Matthew 13:43 | Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. -Matthew 13:44 | "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. -Matthew 13:45 | "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, -Matthew 13:46 | who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. -Matthew 13:47 | "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, -Matthew 13:48 | which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. -Matthew 13:49 | So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from amongst the righteous, -Matthew 13:50 | and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." -Matthew 13:51 | Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord." -Matthew 13:52 | He said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things." -Matthew 13:53 | When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there. -Matthew 13:54 | Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? -Matthew 13:55 | Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? -Matthew 13:56 | Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?" -Matthew 13:57 | They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country and in his own house." -Matthew 13:58 | He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. -Matthew 14:01 | At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, -Matthew 14:02 | and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptiser. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him." -Matthew 14:03 | For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. -Matthew 14:04 | For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." -Matthew 14:05 | When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. -Matthew 14:06 | But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced amongst them and pleased Herod. -Matthew 14:07 | Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. -Matthew 14:08 | She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptiser." -Matthew 14:09 | The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given, -Matthew 14:10 | and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. -Matthew 14:11 | His head was brought on a platter and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother. -Matthew 14:12 | His disciples came, took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus. -Matthew 14:13 | Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities. -Matthew 14:14 | Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them and healed their sick. -Matthew 14:15 | When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food." -Matthew 14:16 | But Jesus said to them, "They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat." -Matthew 14:17 | They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish." -Matthew 14:19 | He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. -Matthew 14:20 | They all ate and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces. -Matthew 14:21 | Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children. -Matthew 14:22 | Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. -Matthew 14:23 | After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone. -Matthew 14:24 | But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. -Matthew 14:25 | In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. -Matthew 14:26 | When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It’s a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. -Matthew 14:27 | But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid." -Matthew 14:28 | Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters." -Matthew 14:29 | He said, "Come!" Peter stepped down from the boat and walked on the waters to come to Jesus. -Matthew 14:30 | But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" -Matthew 14:31 | Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?" -Matthew 14:32 | When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased. -Matthew 14:33 | Those who were in the boat came and worshipped him, saying, "You are truly the Son of God!" -Matthew 14:34 | When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret. -Matthew 14:35 | When the people of that place recognised him, they sent into all that surrounding region and brought to him all who were sick; -Matthew 14:36 | and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole. -Matthew 15:02 | "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread." -Matthew 15:03 | He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? -Matthew 15:04 | For God commanded, ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ -Matthew 15:05 | But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," -Matthew 15:06 | he shall not honour his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. -Matthew 15:08 | ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. -Matthew 15:09 | And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’" -Matthew 15:10 | He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand. -Matthew 15:11 | That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." -Matthew 15:12 | Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" -Matthew 15:13 | But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. -Matthew 15:14 | Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit." -Matthew 15:15 | Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us." -Matthew 15:16 | So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand? -Matthew 15:17 | Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body? -Matthew 15:18 | But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. -Matthew 15:19 | For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. -Matthew 15:20 | These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man." -Matthew 15:21 | Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. -Matthew 15:22 | Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!" -Matthew 15:23 | But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us." -Matthew 15:24 | But he answered, "I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel." -Matthew 15:25 | But she came and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, help me." -Matthew 15:26 | But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs." -Matthew 15:27 | But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table." -Matthew 15:28 | Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour. -Matthew 15:29 | Jesus departed from there and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up on the mountain and sat there. -Matthew 15:30 | Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them, -Matthew 15:31 | so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel. -Matthew 15:32 | Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way." -Matthew 15:33 | The disciples said to him, "Where could we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?" -Matthew 15:34 | Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish." -Matthew 15:35 | He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; -Matthew 15:36 | and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. -Matthew 15:37 | They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over. -Matthew 15:38 | Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children. -Matthew 15:39 | Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala. -Matthew 16:01 | The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. -Matthew 16:02 | But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ -Matthew 16:03 | In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times! -Matthew 16:04 | An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them and departed. -Matthew 16:05 | The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. -Matthew 16:06 | Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." -Matthew 16:07 | They reasoned amongst themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." -Matthew 16:08 | Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason amongst yourselves, you of little faith, because you have brought no bread? -Matthew 16:09 | Don’t you yet perceive or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up, -Matthew 16:10 | or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? -Matthew 16:11 | How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." -Matthew 16:12 | Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. -Matthew 16:13 | Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" -Matthew 16:14 | They said, "Some say John the Baptiser, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." -Matthew 16:15 | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" -Matthew 16:16 | Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." -Matthew 16:17 | Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 16:18 | I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. -Matthew 16:19 | I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven." -Matthew 16:20 | Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ. -Matthew 16:21 | From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. -Matthew 16:22 | Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you." -Matthew 16:23 | But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men." -Matthew 16:24 | Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. -Matthew 16:25 | For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. -Matthew 16:26 | For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? -Matthew 16:27 | For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds. -Matthew 16:28 | Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom." -Matthew 17:01 | After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. -Matthew 17:02 | He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light. -Matthew 17:03 | Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him. -Matthew 17:04 | Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." -Matthew 17:05 | While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him." -Matthew 17:06 | When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. -Matthew 17:07 | Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don’t be afraid." -Matthew 17:08 | Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone. -Matthew 17:09 | As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead." -Matthew 17:10 | His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" -Matthew 17:11 | Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things; -Matthew 17:12 | but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognise him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them." -Matthew 17:13 | Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptiser. -Matthew 17:15 | "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water. -Matthew 17:16 | So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him." -Matthew 17:17 | Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me." -Matthew 17:18 | Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour. -Matthew 17:19 | Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren’t we able to cast it out?" -Matthew 17:20 | He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. -Matthew 17:21 | But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting." -Matthew 17:22 | While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, -Matthew 17:23 | and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up." They were exceedingly sorry. -Matthew 17:24 | When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?" -Matthew 17:25 | He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?" -Matthew 17:26 | Peter said to him, "From strangers." Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt. -Matthew 17:27 | But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you." -Matthew 18:01 | In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" -Matthew 18:02 | Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them -Matthew 18:03 | and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 18:04 | Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 18:05 | Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, -Matthew 18:06 | but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea. -Matthew 18:07 | "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! -Matthew 18:08 | If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. -Matthew 18:09 | If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. -Matthew 18:10 | See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 18:11 | For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. -Matthew 18:12 | "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? -Matthew 18:13 | If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. -Matthew 18:14 | Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. -Matthew 18:15 | "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. -Matthew 18:16 | But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. -Matthew 18:17 | If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector. -Matthew 18:18 | Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. -Matthew 18:19 | Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 18:20 | For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them." -Matthew 18:21 | Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?" -Matthew 18:22 | Jesus said to him, "I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. -Matthew 18:23 | Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. -Matthew 18:24 | When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. -Matthew 18:25 | But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. -Matthew 18:26 | The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’ -Matthew 18:27 | The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt. -Matthew 18:28 | "But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ -Matthew 18:29 | "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ -Matthew 18:30 | He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due. -Matthew 18:31 | So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done. -Matthew 18:32 | Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. -Matthew 18:33 | Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’ -Matthew 18:34 | His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him. -Matthew 18:35 | So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds." -Matthew 19:01 | When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. -Matthew 19:02 | Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. -Matthew 19:03 | Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?" -Matthew 19:04 | He answered, "Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, -Matthew 19:05 | and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ -Matthew 19:06 | So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart." -Matthew 19:07 | They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?" -Matthew 19:08 | He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. -Matthew 19:09 | I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery." -Matthew 19:10 | His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry." -Matthew 19:11 | But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. -Matthew 19:12 | For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it." -Matthew 19:13 | Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. -Matthew 19:14 | But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these." -Matthew 19:15 | He laid his hands on them, and departed from there. -Matthew 19:16 | Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" -Matthew 19:17 | He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." -Matthew 19:18 | He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ -Matthew 19:19 | ‘Honour your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’" -Matthew 19:20 | The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?" -Matthew 19:21 | Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." -Matthew 19:22 | But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions. -Matthew 19:23 | Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. -Matthew 19:24 | Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." -Matthew 19:25 | When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" -Matthew 19:26 | Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." -Matthew 19:27 | Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?" -Matthew 19:28 | Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. -Matthew 19:29 | Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. -Matthew 19:30 | But many will be last who are first, and first who are last. -Matthew 1:18 | Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. -Matthew 1:19 | Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly. -Matthew 1:20 | But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. -Matthew 1:21 | She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins." -Matthew 1:23 | "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel," which is, being interpreted, "God with us." -Matthew 1:24 | Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself; -Matthew 1:25 | and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus. -Matthew 20:01 | "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. -Matthew 20:02 | When he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. -Matthew 20:03 | He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. -Matthew 20:04 | He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way. -Matthew 20:05 | Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. -Matthew 20:06 | About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’ -Matthew 20:07 | "They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ "He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’ -Matthew 20:08 | "When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ -Matthew 20:09 | "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. -Matthew 20:10 | When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. -Matthew 20:11 | When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, saying, -Matthew 20:12 | ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’ -Matthew 20:13 | "But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius? -Matthew 20:14 | Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. -Matthew 20:15 | Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ -Matthew 20:16 | So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen." -Matthew 20:18 | "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, -Matthew 20:19 | and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up." -Matthew 20:20 | Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. -Matthew 20:21 | He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom." -Matthew 20:22 | But Jesus answered, "You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?" They said to him, "We are able." -Matthew 20:23 | He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father." -Matthew 20:24 | When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers. -Matthew 20:25 | But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. -Matthew 20:26 | It shall not be so amongst you; but whoever desires to become great amongst you shall be your servant. -Matthew 20:27 | Whoever desires to be first amongst you shall be your bondservant, -Matthew 20:28 | even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." -Matthew 20:29 | As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. -Matthew 20:30 | Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" -Matthew 20:31 | The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" -Matthew 20:32 | Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" -Matthew 20:33 | They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." -Matthew 20:34 | Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him. -Matthew 21:01 | When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, -Matthew 21:02 | saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. -Matthew 21:03 | If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them." -Matthew 21:05 | "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." -Matthew 21:07 | and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them. -Matthew 21:08 | A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. -Matthew 21:09 | The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" -Matthew 21:10 | When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" -Matthew 21:11 | The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." -Matthew 21:12 | Jesus entered into the temple of God and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. -Matthew 21:13 | He said to them, "It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!" -Matthew 21:14 | The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them. -Matthew 21:15 | But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, -Matthew 21:16 | and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise?’" -Matthew 21:17 | He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there. -Matthew 21:18 | Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. -Matthew 21:19 | Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away. -Matthew 21:20 | When the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?" -Matthew 21:21 | Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. -Matthew 21:22 | All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." -Matthew 21:23 | When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?" -Matthew 21:24 | Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. -Matthew 21:25 | The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ -Matthew 21:26 | But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet." -Matthew 21:27 | They answered Jesus, and said, "We don’t know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. -Matthew 21:28 | But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ -Matthew 21:29 | He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. -Matthew 21:30 | He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go. -Matthew 21:31 | Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you. -Matthew 21:32 | For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him. -Matthew 21:33 | "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. -Matthew 21:34 | When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit. -Matthew 21:35 | The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. -Matthew 21:36 | Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way. -Matthew 21:37 | But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ -Matthew 21:38 | But the farmers, when they saw the son, said amongst themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’ -Matthew 21:39 | So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him. -Matthew 21:40 | When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?" -Matthew 21:41 | They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season." -Matthew 21:42 | Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvellous in our eyes’? -Matthew 21:43 | "Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. -Matthew 21:44 | He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust." -Matthew 21:45 | When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. -Matthew 21:46 | When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet. -Matthew 22:02 | "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son, -Matthew 22:03 | and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. -Matthew 22:04 | Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!"’ -Matthew 22:05 | But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise; -Matthew 22:06 | and the rest grabbed his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. -Matthew 22:07 | When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city. -Matthew 22:08 | "Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. -Matthew 22:09 | Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’ -Matthew 22:10 | Those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. -Matthew 22:11 | "But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, -Matthew 22:12 | and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. -Matthew 22:13 | Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’ -Matthew 22:14 | For many are called, but few chosen." -Matthew 22:15 | Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. -Matthew 22:16 | They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone. -Matthew 22:17 | Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" -Matthew 22:18 | But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites? -Matthew 22:19 | Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius. -Matthew 22:20 | He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" -Matthew 22:21 | They said to him, "Caesar’s." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." -Matthew 22:22 | When they heard it, they marvelled, and left him and went away. -Matthew 22:24 | "Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ -Matthew 22:25 | Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. -Matthew 22:26 | In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. -Matthew 22:28 | In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her." -Matthew 22:29 | But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. -Matthew 22:30 | For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. -Matthew 22:32 | ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." -Matthew 22:33 | When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. -Matthew 22:34 | But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. -Matthew 22:36 | "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" -Matthew 22:37 | Jesus said to him, "‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ -Matthew 22:39 | A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ -Matthew 22:40 | The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." saying, -Matthew 22:42 | "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "Of David." -Matthew 22:44 | ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’? -Matthew 22:45 | "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?" -Matthew 22:46 | No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward. -Matthew 23:03 | All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. -Matthew 23:04 | For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. -Matthew 23:05 | But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments, -Matthew 23:06 | and love the place of honour at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, -Matthew 23:07 | the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi by men. -Matthew 23:08 | But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. -Matthew 23:09 | Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. -Matthew 23:10 | Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. -Matthew 23:11 | But he who is greatest amongst you will be your servant. -Matthew 23:12 | Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. -Matthew 23:13 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretence you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. -Matthew 23:14 | "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter. -Matthew 23:15 | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. -Matthew 23:16 | "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ -Matthew 23:17 | You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? -Matthew 23:18 | And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ -Matthew 23:19 | You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? -Matthew 23:20 | He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it. -Matthew 23:21 | He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it. -Matthew 23:22 | He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. -Matthew 23:23 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. -Matthew 23:24 | You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! -Matthew 23:25 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. -Matthew 23:26 | You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also. -Matthew 23:27 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness. -Matthew 23:28 | Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. -Matthew 23:29 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous, -Matthew 23:30 | and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ -Matthew 23:31 | Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. -Matthew 23:32 | Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. -Matthew 23:33 | You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgement of Gehenna? -Matthew 23:34 | Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, -Matthew 23:35 | that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. -Matthew 23:36 | Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. -Matthew 23:37 | "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! -Matthew 23:38 | Behold, your house is left to you desolate. -Matthew 23:39 | For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’" -Matthew 24:01 | Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. -Matthew 24:02 | But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down." -Matthew 24:03 | As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" -Matthew 24:04 | Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. -Matthew 24:05 | For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. -Matthew 24:06 | You will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. -Matthew 24:07 | For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. -Matthew 24:08 | But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. -Matthew 24:09 | "Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. -Matthew 24:10 | Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. -Matthew 24:11 | Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray. -Matthew 24:12 | Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. -Matthew 24:13 | But he who endures to the end will be saved. -Matthew 24:14 | This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. -Matthew 24:15 | "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), -Matthew 24:16 | then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. -Matthew 24:17 | Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house. -Matthew 24:18 | Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. -Matthew 24:19 | But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! -Matthew 24:20 | Pray that your flight will not be in the winter nor on a Sabbath, -Matthew 24:21 | for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. -Matthew 24:22 | Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. -Matthew 24:23 | "Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There!’ don’t believe it. -Matthew 24:24 | For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. -Matthew 24:26 | "If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. -Matthew 24:27 | For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. -Matthew 24:28 | For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together. -Matthew 24:29 | "But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; -Matthew 24:30 | and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. -Matthew 24:31 | He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. -Matthew 24:32 | "Now from the fig tree learn this parable: When its branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. -Matthew 24:33 | Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, even at the doors. -Matthew 24:34 | Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things are accomplished. -Matthew 24:35 | Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. -Matthew 24:36 | "But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. -Matthew 24:37 | As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. -Matthew 24:38 | For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, -Matthew 24:39 | and they didn’t know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. -Matthew 24:40 | Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left. -Matthew 24:41 | Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left. -Matthew 24:42 | Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes. -Matthew 24:43 | But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. -Matthew 24:44 | Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come. -Matthew 24:45 | "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? -Matthew 24:46 | Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. -Matthew 24:47 | Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has. -Matthew 24:48 | But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ -Matthew 24:49 | and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, -Matthew 24:50 | the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it and in an hour when he doesn’t know it, -Matthew 24:51 | and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. -Matthew 25:01 | "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. -Matthew 25:02 | Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. -Matthew 25:03 | Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, -Matthew 25:04 | but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. -Matthew 25:05 | Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. -Matthew 25:06 | But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ -Matthew 25:07 | Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. -Matthew 25:08 | The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ -Matthew 25:09 | But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ -Matthew 25:10 | While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. -Matthew 25:11 | Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ -Matthew 25:12 | But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ -Matthew 25:13 | Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. -Matthew 25:14 | "For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. -Matthew 25:15 | To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. -Matthew 25:16 | Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. -Matthew 25:17 | In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two. -Matthew 25:18 | But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money. -Matthew 25:19 | "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them. -Matthew 25:20 | He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’ -Matthew 25:21 | "His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ -Matthew 25:22 | "He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’ -Matthew 25:23 | "His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ -Matthew 25:24 | "He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter. -Matthew 25:25 | I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’ -Matthew 25:26 | "But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. -Matthew 25:27 | You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. -Matthew 25:28 | Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. -Matthew 25:29 | For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. -Matthew 25:30 | Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ -Matthew 25:31 | "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. -Matthew 25:32 | Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. -Matthew 25:33 | He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. -Matthew 25:34 | Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; -Matthew 25:35 | for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. -Matthew 25:36 | I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’ -Matthew 25:37 | "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? -Matthew 25:38 | When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? -Matthew 25:39 | When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ -Matthew 25:40 | "The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ -Matthew 25:41 | Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; -Matthew 25:42 | for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; -Matthew 25:43 | I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’ -Matthew 25:44 | "Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’ -Matthew 25:45 | "Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ -Matthew 25:46 | These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." -Matthew 26:01 | When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, -Matthew 26:02 | "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." -Matthew 26:03 | Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. -Matthew 26:04 | They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him. -Matthew 26:05 | But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur amongst the people." -Matthew 26:06 | Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, -Matthew 26:07 | a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. -Matthew 26:08 | But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? -Matthew 26:09 | For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor." -Matthew 26:10 | However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me. -Matthew 26:11 | For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me. -Matthew 26:12 | For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. -Matthew 26:13 | Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her." -Matthew 26:14 | Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests -Matthew 26:15 | and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?" So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. -Matthew 26:16 | From that time he sought opportunity to betray him. -Matthew 26:17 | Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?" -Matthew 26:18 | He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples." -Matthew 26:19 | The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover. -Matthew 26:20 | Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. -Matthew 26:21 | As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." -Matthew 26:22 | They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn’t me, is it, Lord?" -Matthew 26:23 | He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me. -Matthew 26:24 | The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born." -Matthew 26:25 | Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it." -Matthew 26:26 | As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." -Matthew 26:27 | He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it, -Matthew 26:28 | for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. -Matthew 26:29 | But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom." -Matthew 26:30 | When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. -Matthew 26:31 | Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ -Matthew 26:32 | But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." -Matthew 26:33 | But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble." -Matthew 26:34 | Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." -Matthew 26:35 | Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise. -Matthew 26:36 | Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray." -Matthew 26:37 | He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. -Matthew 26:38 | Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me." -Matthew 26:39 | He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire." -Matthew 26:40 | He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? -Matthew 26:41 | Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." -Matthew 26:42 | Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done." -Matthew 26:43 | He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. -Matthew 26:44 | He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words. -Matthew 26:45 | Then he came to his disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. -Matthew 26:46 | Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." -Matthew 26:47 | While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people. -Matthew 26:48 | Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him." -Matthew 26:49 | Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him. -Matthew 26:50 | Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. -Matthew 26:51 | Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. -Matthew 26:52 | Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. -Matthew 26:53 | Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? -Matthew 26:54 | How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?" -Matthew 26:55 | In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. -Matthew 26:56 | But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled. -Matthew 26:57 | Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. -Matthew 26:58 | But Peter followed him from a distance to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end. -Matthew 26:59 | Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death, -Matthew 26:60 | and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward -Matthew 26:61 | and said, "This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’" -Matthew 26:62 | The high priest stood up and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?" -Matthew 26:63 | But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." -Matthew 26:64 | Jesus said to him, "You have said so. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky." -Matthew 26:65 | Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. -Matthew 26:66 | What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!" -Matthew 26:67 | Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him, saying, -Matthew 26:68 | "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?" -Matthew 26:69 | Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!" -Matthew 26:70 | But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don’t know what you are talking about." -Matthew 26:71 | When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth." -Matthew 26:72 | Again he denied it with an oath, "I don’t know the man." -Matthew 26:73 | After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known." -Matthew 26:74 | Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don’t know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed. -Matthew 26:75 | Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." Then he went out and wept bitterly. -Matthew 27:01 | Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. -Matthew 27:02 | They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor. -Matthew 27:03 | Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, -Matthew 27:04 | "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." -Matthew 27:05 | He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself. -Matthew 27:06 | The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, "It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." -Matthew 27:07 | They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in. -Matthew 27:08 | Therefore that field has been called "The Field of Blood" to this day. -Matthew 27:09 | Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced, -Matthew 27:10 | and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me." -Matthew 27:11 | Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say." -Matthew 27:12 | When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. -Matthew 27:13 | Then Pilate said to him, "Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?" -Matthew 27:14 | He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marvelled greatly. -Matthew 27:15 | Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they desired. -Matthew 27:16 | They had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas. -Matthew 27:17 | When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" -Matthew 27:18 | For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up. -Matthew 27:19 | While he was sitting on the judgement seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him." -Matthew 27:20 | Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. -Matthew 27:21 | But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" -Matthew 27:22 | Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!" -Matthew 27:23 | But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" -Matthew 27:24 | So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." -Matthew 27:25 | All the people answered, "May his blood be on us and on our children!" -Matthew 27:26 | Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified. -Matthew 27:27 | Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. -Matthew 27:28 | They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. -Matthew 27:29 | They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt down before him and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" -Matthew 27:30 | They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. -Matthew 27:31 | When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. -Matthew 27:32 | As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. -Matthew 27:33 | When they came to a place called "Golgotha", that is to say, "The place of a skull," -Matthew 27:34 | they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink. -Matthew 27:35 | When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing amongst them, casting lots, -Matthew 27:37 | They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS." -Matthew 27:38 | Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left. -Matthew 27:40 | and saying, "You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" -Matthew 27:42 | "He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. -Matthew 27:43 | He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’" -Matthew 27:44 | The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach. -Matthew 27:45 | Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. -Matthew 27:46 | About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" -Matthew 27:47 | Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Elijah." -Matthew 27:48 | Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him a drink. -Matthew 27:49 | The rest said, "Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him." -Matthew 27:50 | Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. -Matthew 27:51 | Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. -Matthew 27:52 | The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; -Matthew 27:53 | and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. -Matthew 27:54 | Now the centurion and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were done, were terrified, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!" -Matthew 27:55 | Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him. -Matthew 27:56 | Amongst them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. -Matthew 27:57 | When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple, came. -Matthew 27:58 | This man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up. -Matthew 27:59 | Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth -Matthew 27:60 | and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock. Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed. -Matthew 27:61 | Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. -Matthew 27:62 | Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, saying, -Matthew 27:63 | "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’ -Matthew 27:64 | Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first." -Matthew 27:65 | Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can." -Matthew 27:66 | So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone. -Matthew 28:01 | Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. -Matthew 28:02 | Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky and came and rolled away the stone from the door and sat on it. -Matthew 28:03 | His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. -Matthew 28:04 | For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men. -Matthew 28:05 | The angel answered the women, "Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified. -Matthew 28:06 | He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying. -Matthew 28:07 | Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you." -Matthew 28:08 | They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word. -Matthew 28:09 | As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. -Matthew 28:10 | Then Jesus said to them, "Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me." -Matthew 28:11 | Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city and told the chief priests all the things that had happened. -Matthew 28:12 | When they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, saying, -Matthew 28:13 | "Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept. -Matthew 28:14 | If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry." -Matthew 28:15 | So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad amongst the Jews, and continues until today. -Matthew 28:16 | But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. -Matthew 28:17 | When they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some doubted. -Matthew 28:18 | Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. -Matthew 28:19 | Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, -Matthew 28:20 | teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. -Matthew 2:01 | Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, -Matthew 2:02 | "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him." -Matthew 2:03 | When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. -Matthew 2:04 | Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born. -Matthew 2:05 | They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet, -Matthew 2:06 | ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least amongst the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’" -Matthew 2:07 | Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learnt from them exactly what time the star appeared. -Matthew 2:08 | He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him." -Matthew 2:09 | They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them until it came and stood over where the young child was. -Matthew 2:10 | When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. -Matthew 2:11 | They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshipped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. -Matthew 2:12 | Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way. -Matthew 2:13 | Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." -Matthew 2:14 | He arose and took the young child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt, -Matthew 2:15 | and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son." -Matthew 2:16 | Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learnt from the wise men. -Matthew 2:18 | "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more." -Matthew 2:19 | But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, -Matthew 2:20 | "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead." -Matthew 2:21 | He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. -Matthew 2:22 | But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, -Matthew 2:23 | and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene. -Matthew 3:01 | In those days, John the Baptiser came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, -Matthew 3:02 | "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" -Matthew 3:03 | For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!" -Matthew 3:04 | Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. -Matthew 3:05 | Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him. -Matthew 3:06 | They were baptised by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. -Matthew 3:07 | But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? -Matthew 3:08 | Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! -Matthew 3:09 | Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. -Matthew 3:10 | Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. -Matthew 3:11 | "I indeed baptise you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptise you in the Holy Spirit. -Matthew 3:12 | His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." -Matthew 3:13 | Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised by him. -Matthew 3:14 | But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptised by you, and you come to me?" -Matthew 3:15 | But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfil all righteousness." Then he allowed him. -Matthew 3:16 | Jesus, when he was baptised, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. -Matthew 3:17 | Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." -Matthew 4:01 | Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. -Matthew 4:02 | When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. -Matthew 4:03 | The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." -Matthew 4:04 | But he answered, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’" -Matthew 4:05 | Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, -Matthew 4:06 | and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’" -Matthew 4:07 | Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’" -Matthew 4:08 | Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. -Matthew 4:09 | He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me." -Matthew 4:10 | Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’" -Matthew 4:11 | Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him. -Matthew 4:12 | Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee. -Matthew 4:13 | Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, -Matthew 4:15 | "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, towards the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, -Matthew 4:16 | the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned." -Matthew 4:17 | From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." -Matthew 4:18 | Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. -Matthew 4:19 | He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men." -Matthew 4:20 | They immediately left their nets and followed him. -Matthew 4:21 | Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them. -Matthew 4:22 | They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him. -Matthew 4:23 | Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness amongst the people. -Matthew 4:24 | The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them. -Matthew 4:25 | Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him. -Matthew 5:01 | Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. -Matthew 5:03 | "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 5:04 | Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. -Matthew 5:05 | Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. -Matthew 5:06 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. -Matthew 5:07 | Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. -Matthew 5:08 | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. -Matthew 5:09 | Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. -Matthew 5:10 | Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 5:11 | "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. -Matthew 5:12 | Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you. -Matthew 5:13 | "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavour, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. -Matthew 5:14 | You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. -Matthew 5:15 | Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. -Matthew 5:16 | Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 5:17 | "Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfil. -Matthew 5:18 | For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. -Matthew 5:19 | Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 5:20 | For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 5:21 | "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgement.’ -Matthew 5:22 | But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgement. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. -Matthew 5:23 | "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, -Matthew 5:24 | leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. -Matthew 5:25 | Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. -Matthew 5:26 | Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there until you have paid the last penny. -Matthew 5:27 | "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ -Matthew 5:28 | but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. -Matthew 5:29 | If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. -Matthew 5:30 | If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. -Matthew 5:31 | "It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ -Matthew 5:32 | but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. -Matthew 5:33 | "Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ -Matthew 5:34 | but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; -Matthew 5:35 | nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. -Matthew 5:36 | Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. -Matthew 5:37 | But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. -Matthew 5:38 | "You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ -Matthew 5:39 | But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. -Matthew 5:40 | If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. -Matthew 5:41 | Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. -Matthew 5:42 | Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you. -Matthew 5:43 | "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ -Matthew 5:44 | But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, -Matthew 5:45 | that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. -Matthew 5:46 | For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? -Matthew 5:47 | If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? -Matthew 5:48 | Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. -Matthew 6:01 | "Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 6:02 | Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. -Matthew 6:03 | But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, -Matthew 6:04 | so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. -Matthew 6:05 | "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. -Matthew 6:06 | But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. -Matthew 6:07 | In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. -Matthew 6:08 | Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him. -Matthew 6:09 | Pray like this: "‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. -Matthew 6:10 | Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. -Matthew 6:11 | Give us today our daily bread. -Matthew 6:12 | Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. -Matthew 6:13 | Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’ -Matthew 6:14 | "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. -Matthew 6:15 | But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. -Matthew 6:16 | "Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. -Matthew 6:17 | But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, -Matthew 6:18 | so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. -Matthew 6:19 | "Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; -Matthew 6:20 | but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; -Matthew 6:21 | for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. -Matthew 6:22 | "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. -Matthew 6:23 | But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! -Matthew 6:24 | "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. -Matthew 6:25 | Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? -Matthew 6:26 | See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? -Matthew 6:27 | "Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? -Matthew 6:28 | Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, -Matthew 6:29 | yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. -Matthew 6:30 | But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith? -Matthew 6:31 | "Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ -Matthew 6:32 | For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. -Matthew 6:33 | But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. -Matthew 6:34 | Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient. -Matthew 7:01 | "Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. -Matthew 7:02 | For with whatever judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. -Matthew 7:03 | Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? -Matthew 7:04 | Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? -Matthew 7:05 | You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. -Matthew 7:06 | "Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. -Matthew 7:07 | "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. -Matthew 7:08 | For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. -Matthew 7:09 | Or who is there amongst you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? -Matthew 7:10 | Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? -Matthew 7:11 | If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! -Matthew 7:12 | Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. -Matthew 7:13 | "Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it. -Matthew 7:14 | How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it. -Matthew 7:15 | "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. -Matthew 7:16 | By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? -Matthew 7:17 | Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. -Matthew 7:18 | A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. -Matthew 7:19 | Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. -Matthew 7:20 | Therefore by their fruits you will know them. -Matthew 7:21 | "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 7:22 | Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ -Matthew 7:23 | Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’ -Matthew 7:24 | "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. -Matthew 7:25 | The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. -Matthew 7:26 | Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. -Matthew 7:27 | The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great." -Matthew 7:28 | When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, -Matthew 7:29 | for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes. -Matthew 8:01 | When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. -Matthew 8:02 | Behold, a leper came to him and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean." -Matthew 8:03 | Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. -Matthew 8:04 | Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." -Matthew 8:05 | When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help, saying, -Matthew 8:06 | "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralysed, grievously tormented." -Matthew 8:07 | Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him." -Matthew 8:08 | The centurion answered, "Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. -Matthew 8:09 | For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it." -Matthew 8:10 | When Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. -Matthew 8:11 | I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, -Matthew 8:12 | but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." -Matthew 8:13 | Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour. -Matthew 8:14 | When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. -Matthew 8:15 | He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him. -Matthew 8:16 | When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, -Matthew 8:17 | that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases." -Matthew 8:18 | Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side. -Matthew 8:19 | A scribe came and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." -Matthew 8:20 | Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." -Matthew 8:21 | Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." -Matthew 8:22 | But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead." -Matthew 8:23 | When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. -Matthew 8:24 | Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves; but he was asleep. -Matthew 8:25 | The disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!" -Matthew 8:26 | He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm. -Matthew 8:27 | The men marvelled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" -Matthew 8:28 | When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. -Matthew 8:29 | Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" -Matthew 8:30 | Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. -Matthew 8:31 | The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs." -Matthew 8:32 | He said to them, "Go!" They came out and went into the herd of pigs; and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water. -Matthew 8:33 | Those who fed them fled and went away into the city and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons. -Matthew 8:34 | Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders. -Matthew 9:01 | He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. -Matthew 9:02 | Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralysed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you." -Matthew 9:03 | Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes." -Matthew 9:04 | Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? -Matthew 9:05 | For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’ -Matthew 9:06 | But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—" (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house." -Matthew 9:08 | But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men. -Matthew 9:09 | As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him. -Matthew 9:10 | As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. -Matthew 9:11 | When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" -Matthew 9:12 | When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. -Matthew 9:13 | But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." -Matthew 9:14 | Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?" -Matthew 9:15 | Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. -Matthew 9:16 | No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. -Matthew 9:17 | Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved." -Matthew 9:18 | While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshipped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live." -Matthew 9:19 | Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. -Matthew 9:20 | Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; -Matthew 9:21 | for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be made well." -Matthew 9:22 | But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour. -Matthew 9:23 | When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, -Matthew 9:24 | he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him. -Matthew 9:25 | But when the crowd was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose. -Matthew 9:26 | The report of this went out into all that land. -Matthew 9:27 | As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" -Matthew 9:28 | When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord." -Matthew 9:29 | Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." -Matthew 9:30 | Then their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this." -Matthew 9:31 | But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land. -Matthew 9:32 | As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him. -Matthew 9:33 | When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marvelled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!" -Matthew 9:34 | But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons." -Matthew 9:35 | Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness amongst the people. -Matthew 9:36 | But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. -Matthew 9:37 | Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. -Matthew 9:38 | Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out labourers into his harvest." -Micah 1:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. -Micah 1:02 | Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. -Micah 1:03 | For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. -Micah 1:04 | The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place. -Micah 1:05 | "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem? -Micah 1:06 | Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations. -Micah 1:07 | All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burnt with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return." -Micah 1:08 | For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls. -Micah 1:09 | For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. -Micah 1:10 | Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust. -Micah 1:11 | Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection. -Micah 1:12 | For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem. -Micah 1:13 | Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you. -Micah 1:14 | Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel. -Micah 1:15 | I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah, him who will possess you. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. -Micah 1:16 | Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you! -Micah 2:01 | Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. -Micah 2:02 | They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. -Micah 2:03 | Therefore the Lord says: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time. -Micah 2:04 | In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’" -Micah 2:05 | Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the Lord’s assembly. -Micah 2:06 | "Don’t prophesy!"—they prophesy— "Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us." -Micah 2:07 | Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Lord’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?" -Micah 2:08 | But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle. -Micah 2:09 | You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever. -Micah 2:10 | Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction. -Micah 2:11 | If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink" he would be the prophet of this people. -Micah 2:12 | I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people. -Micah 2:13 | He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. Their king passes on before them, with the Lord at their head. -Micah 3:01 | I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? -Micah 3:02 | You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; -Micah 3:03 | who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron. -Micah 3:04 | Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil." -Micah 3:05 | The Lord says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: -Micah 3:06 | "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them. -Micah 3:07 | The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God." -Micah 3:08 | But as for me, I am full of power by the Lord’s Spirit, and of judgement, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. -Micah 3:09 | Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. -Micah 3:10 | They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. -Micah 3:11 | Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the Lord, and say, "Isn’t the Lord amongst us? No disaster will come on us." -Micah 3:12 | Therefore Zion for your sake will be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest. -Micah 4:01 | But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it. -Micah 4:02 | Many nations will go and say, "Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For the law will go out of Zion, and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem; -Micah 4:03 | and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. -Micah 4:04 | But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Armies has spoken. -Micah 4:05 | Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. -Micah 4:06 | "In that day," says the Lord, "I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; -Micah 4:07 | and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever." -Micah 4:08 | You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. -Micah 4:09 | Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counsellor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? -Micah 4:10 | Be in pain, and labour to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. -Micah 4:11 | Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion." -Micah 4:12 | But they don’t know the thoughts of the Lord, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor. -Micah 4:13 | Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to the Lord, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. -Micah 5:01 | Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek. -Micah 5:02 | But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small amongst the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times. -Micah 5:03 | Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labour gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. -Micah 5:04 | He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth. -Micah 5:05 | He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men. -Micah 5:06 | They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border. -Micah 5:07 | The remnant of Jacob will be amongst many peoples, like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men. -Micah 5:08 | The remnant of Jacob will be amongst the nations, amongst many peoples, like a lion amongst the animals of the forest, like a young lion amongst the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver. -Micah 5:09 | Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off. -Micah 5:10 | "It will happen in that day", says the Lord, "that I will cut off your horses out from amongst you, and will destroy your chariots. -Micah 5:11 | I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds. -Micah 5:12 | I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers. -Micah 5:13 | I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from amongst you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands. -Micah 5:14 | I will uproot your Asherah poles out from amongst you; and I will destroy your cities. -Micah 5:15 | I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen." -Micah 6:01 | Listen now to what the Lord says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. -Micah 6:02 | Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel. -Micah 6:03 | My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! -Micah 6:04 | For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. -Micah 6:05 | My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord." -Micah 6:06 | How shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? -Micah 6:07 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? -Micah 6:08 | He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the Lord require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? -Micah 6:09 | The Lord’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. -Micah 6:10 | Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? -Micah 6:11 | Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? -Micah 6:12 | Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. -Micah 6:13 | Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. -Micah 6:14 | You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword. -Micah 6:15 | You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine. -Micah 6:16 | For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; and you will bear the reproach of my people." -Micah 7:01 | Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. -Micah 7:02 | The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright amongst men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net. -Micah 7:03 | Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together. -Micah 7:04 | The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion. -Micah 7:05 | Don’t trust in a neighbour. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth! -Micah 7:06 | For the son dishonours the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. -Micah 7:07 | But as for me, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. -Micah 7:08 | Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. -Micah 7:09 | I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgement for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness. -Micah 7:10 | Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is the Lord your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets. -Micah 7:11 | A day to build your walls! In that day, he will extend your boundary. -Micah 7:12 | In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain. -Micah 7:13 | Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. -Micah 7:14 | Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. -Micah 7:15 | "As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvellous things." -Micah 7:16 | The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf. -Micah 7:17 | They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the Lord our God, and will be afraid because of you. -Micah 7:18 | Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. -Micah 7:19 | He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. -Micah 7:20 | You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. -Nahum 1:02 | The Lord is a jealous God and avenges. The Lord avenges and is full of wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies. -Nahum 1:03 | The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. -Nahum 1:04 | He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes. -Nahum 1:05 | The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. -Nahum 1:06 | Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him. -Nahum 1:07 | The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him. -Nahum 1:08 | But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. -Nahum 1:09 | What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time. -Nahum 1:10 | For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. -Nahum 1:11 | One has gone out of you who devises evil against the Lord, who counsels wickedness. -Nahum 1:12 | The Lord says: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. -Nahum 1:13 | Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart." -Nahum 1:14 | The Lord has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile." -Nahum 1:15 | Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off. -Nahum 2:01 | He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! -Nahum 2:02 | For the Lord restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches. -Nahum 2:03 | The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. -Nahum 2:04 | The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. -Nahum 2:05 | He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. -Nahum 2:06 | The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. -Nahum 2:07 | It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. -Nahum 2:08 | But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back. -Nahum 2:09 | Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture. -Nahum 2:10 | She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. -Nahum 2:11 | Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid? -Nahum 2:12 | The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey. -Nahum 2:13 | "Behold, I am against you," says the Lord of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard." -Nahum 3:01 | Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart. -Nahum 3:02 | The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, -Nahum 3:03 | the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, -Nahum 3:04 | because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. -Nahum 3:05 | "Behold, I am against you," says the Lord of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. -Nahum 3:06 | I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle. -Nahum 3:07 | It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?" -Nahum 3:08 | Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated amongst the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? -Nahum 3:09 | Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. -Nahum 3:10 | Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. -Nahum 3:11 | You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy. -Nahum 3:12 | All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. -Nahum 3:13 | Behold, your troops amongst you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars. -Nahum 3:14 | Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. -Nahum 3:15 | There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. -Nahum 3:16 | You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away. -Nahum 3:17 | Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. -Nahum 3:18 | Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. -Nahum 3:19 | There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty? -Nehemiah 10:29 | joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; -Nehemiah 10:30 | and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; -Nehemiah 10:31 | and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. -Nehemiah 10:32 | Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; -Nehemiah 10:33 | for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. -Nehemiah 10:34 | We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the Lord our God’s altar, as it is written in the law; -Nehemiah 10:35 | and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to the Lord’s house; -Nehemiah 10:36 | also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God; -Nehemiah 10:37 | and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. -Nehemiah 10:38 | The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house. -Nehemiah 10:39 | For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God. -Nehemiah 11:01 | The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities. -Nehemiah 11:02 | The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem. -Nehemiah 12:27 | At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps. -Nehemiah 12:28 | The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; -Nehemiah 12:29 | also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem. -Nehemiah 12:30 | The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. -Nehemiah 12:31 | Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall towards the dung gate; -Nehemiah 12:32 | and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah, -Nehemiah 12:37 | By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward. -Nehemiah 12:38 | The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall, -Nehemiah 12:39 | and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard. -Nehemiah 12:40 | So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me; -Nehemiah 12:43 | They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away. -Nehemiah 12:44 | On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who served. -Nehemiah 12:45 | They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. -Nehemiah 12:46 | For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. -Nehemiah 13:01 | On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever, -Nehemiah 13:02 | because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing. -Nehemiah 13:03 | It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel. -Nehemiah 13:05 | had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests. -Nehemiah 13:06 | But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king, -Nehemiah 13:07 | and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house. -Nehemiah 13:08 | It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room. -Nehemiah 13:09 | Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again. -Nehemiah 13:10 | I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field. -Nehemiah 13:11 | Then I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is God’s house forsaken?" I gathered them together, and set them in their place. -Nehemiah 13:12 | Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries. -Nehemiah 13:13 | I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers. -Nehemiah 13:14 | Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances. -Nehemiah 13:15 | In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food. -Nehemiah 13:16 | Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. -Nehemiah 13:17 | Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day? -Nehemiah 13:18 | Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath." -Nehemiah 13:19 | It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day. -Nehemiah 13:20 | So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice. -Nehemiah 13:21 | Then I testified against them, and said to them, "Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath. -Nehemiah 13:22 | I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for this also, my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness. -Nehemiah 13:23 | In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; -Nehemiah 13:24 | and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people. -Nehemiah 13:25 | I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. -Nehemiah 13:26 | Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet amongst many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. -Nehemiah 13:27 | Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?" -Nehemiah 13:28 | One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me. -Nehemiah 13:29 | Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites. -Nehemiah 13:30 | Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work; -Nehemiah 13:31 | and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. -Nehemiah 1:01 | The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace, -Nehemiah 1:02 | Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. -Nehemiah 1:03 | They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burnt with fire." -Nehemiah 1:04 | When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, -Nehemiah 1:05 | and said, "I beg you, Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments: -Nehemiah 1:06 | Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned. -Nehemiah 1:07 | We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses. -Nehemiah 1:08 | "Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you amongst the peoples; -Nehemiah 1:09 | but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’ -Nehemiah 1:10 | "Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand. -Nehemiah 1:11 | Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cup bearer to the king. -Nehemiah 2:01 | In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence. -Nehemiah 2:02 | The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very much afraid. -Nehemiah 2:03 | I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?" -Nehemiah 2:04 | Then the king said to me, "What is your request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven. -Nehemiah 2:05 | I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favour in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it." -Nehemiah 2:06 | The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), "How long will your journey be? When will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him. -Nehemiah 2:07 | Moreover I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah; -Nehemiah 2:08 | and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy." The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me. -Nehemiah 2:09 | Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. -Nehemiah 2:11 | So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. -Nehemiah 2:12 | I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on. -Nehemiah 2:13 | I went out by night by the valley gate, even towards the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire. -Nehemiah 2:14 | Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass. -Nehemiah 2:15 | Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned. -Nehemiah 2:16 | The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work. -Nehemiah 2:17 | Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burnt with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced." -Nehemiah 2:18 | I told them about the hand of my God which was good on me, and also about the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, "Let’s rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work. -Nehemiah 2:19 | But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?" -Nehemiah 2:20 | Then I answered them, and said to them, "The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem." -Nehemiah 3:01 | Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel. -Nehemiah 3:32 | Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs. -Nehemiah 4:02 | He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burnt?" -Nehemiah 4:03 | Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall." -Nehemiah 4:04 | "Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity. -Nehemiah 4:05 | Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders." -Nehemiah 4:06 | So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work. -Nehemiah 4:07 | But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry; -Nehemiah 4:08 | and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion amongst us. -Nehemiah 4:09 | But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them. -Nehemiah 4:10 | Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall." -Nehemiah 4:11 | Our adversaries said, "They will not know or see, until we come in amongst them and kill them, and cause the work to cease." -Nehemiah 4:12 | When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us." -Nehemiah 4:13 | Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows. -Nehemiah 4:14 | I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." -Nehemiah 4:15 | When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work. -Nehemiah 4:16 | From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. -Nehemiah 4:17 | Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon. -Nehemiah 4:18 | Amongst the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me. -Nehemiah 4:19 | I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. -Nehemiah 4:20 | Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us." -Nehemiah 4:21 | So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. -Nehemiah 4:22 | Likewise at the same time I said to the people, "Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day." -Nehemiah 4:23 | So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water. -Nehemiah 5:01 | Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. -Nehemiah 5:02 | For there were some who said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live." -Nehemiah 5:03 | There were also some who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine." -Nehemiah 5:04 | There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. -Nehemiah 5:05 | Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards." -Nehemiah 5:06 | I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. -Nehemiah 5:07 | Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them. -Nehemiah 5:08 | I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say. -Nehemiah 5:09 | Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? -Nehemiah 5:10 | I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury. -Nehemiah 5:11 | Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them." -Nehemiah 5:12 | Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. -Nehemiah 5:13 | Also I shook out my lap, and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this." All the assembly said, "Amen," and praised the Lord. The people did according to this promise. -Nehemiah 5:14 | Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor. -Nehemiah 5:15 | But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God. -Nehemiah 5:16 | Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work. -Nehemiah 5:17 | Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred and fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from amongst the nations that were around us. -Nehemiah 5:18 | Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people. -Nehemiah 5:19 | Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people. -Nehemiah 6:01 | Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates) -Nehemiah 6:02 | Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono." But they intended to harm me. -Nehemiah 6:03 | I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?" -Nehemiah 6:04 | They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way. -Nehemiah 6:05 | Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand, -Nehemiah 6:06 | in which was written, "It is reported amongst the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words. -Nehemiah 6:07 | You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together." -Nehemiah 6:08 | Then I sent to him, saying, "There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart." -Nehemiah 6:09 | For they all would have made us afraid, saying, "Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done." But now, strengthen my hands. -Nehemiah 6:10 | I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, "Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you." -Nehemiah 6:11 | I said, "Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in." -Nehemiah 6:12 | I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. -Nehemiah 6:13 | He was hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me. -Nehemiah 6:14 | "Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear." -Nehemiah 6:16 | When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God. -Nehemiah 7:64 | These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood. -Nehemiah 8:01 | All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. -Nehemiah 8:02 | Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. -Nehemiah 8:03 | He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. -Nehemiah 8:05 | Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up. -Nehemiah 8:06 | Then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. All the people answered, "Amen, Amen," with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. -Nehemiah 8:08 | They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. -Nehemiah 8:09 | Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, "Today is holy to the Lord your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep." For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. -Nehemiah 8:10 | Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." -Nehemiah 8:11 | So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved." -Nehemiah 8:12 | All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. -Nehemiah 8:13 | On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law. -Nehemiah 8:14 | They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; -Nehemiah 8:15 | and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written." -Nehemiah 8:16 | So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. -Nehemiah 8:17 | All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness. -Nehemiah 8:18 | Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance. -Nehemiah 9:01 | Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them. -Nehemiah 9:02 | The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. -Nehemiah 9:03 | They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God. -Nehemiah 9:04 | Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God. -Nehemiah 9:06 | You are the Lord, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you. -Nehemiah 9:07 | You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham, -Nehemiah 9:08 | found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous. -Nehemiah 9:09 | "You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea, -Nehemiah 9:10 | and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today. -Nehemiah 9:11 | You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. -Nehemiah 9:12 | Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go. -Nehemiah 9:13 | "You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, -Nehemiah 9:14 | and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, -Nehemiah 9:15 | and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them. -Nehemiah 9:16 | "But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments, -Nehemiah 9:17 | and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did amongst them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them. -Nehemiah 9:18 | Yes, when they had made themselves a moulded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies; -Nehemiah 9:19 | yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go. -Nehemiah 9:20 | You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. -Nehemiah 9:21 | "Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell. -Nehemiah 9:22 | Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. -Nehemiah 9:23 | You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. -Nehemiah 9:24 | "So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased. -Nehemiah 9:25 | They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. -Nehemiah 9:26 | "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies. -Nehemiah 9:27 | Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviours who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries. -Nehemiah 9:28 | But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies, -Nehemiah 9:29 | and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear. -Nehemiah 9:30 | Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. -Nehemiah 9:31 | "Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God. -Nehemiah 9:32 | Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. -Nehemiah 9:33 | However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly. -Nehemiah 9:34 | Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. -Nehemiah 9:35 | For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works. -Nehemiah 9:36 | "Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it. -Nehemiah 9:37 | It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. -Nehemiah 9:38 | Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it." -Numbers 10:03 | When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 10:04 | If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. -Numbers 10:05 | When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. -Numbers 10:06 | When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. -Numbers 10:07 | But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. -Numbers 10:08 | "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. -Numbers 10:09 | When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. -Numbers 10:10 | "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the Lord your God." -Numbers 10:11 | In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant. -Numbers 10:12 | The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. -Numbers 10:13 | They first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses. -Numbers 10:14 | First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army. -Numbers 10:28 | Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward. -Numbers 10:30 | He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives." -Numbers 10:31 | Moses said, "Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. -Numbers 10:32 | It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good the Lord does to us, we will do the same to you." -Numbers 10:33 | They set forward from the Mount of the Lord three days’ journey. The ark of the Lord’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them. -Numbers 10:34 | The cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. -Numbers 10:35 | When the ark went forward, Moses said, "Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!" -Numbers 10:36 | When it rested, he said, "Return, Lord, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel." -Numbers 11:01 | The people were complaining in the ears of the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burnt; and the Lord’s fire burnt amongst them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. -Numbers 11:02 | The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated. -Numbers 11:03 | The name of that place was called Taberah, because the Lord’s fire burnt amongst them. -Numbers 11:04 | The mixed multitude that was amongst them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us meat to eat? -Numbers 11:05 | We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; -Numbers 11:06 | but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at." -Numbers 11:07 | The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium. -Numbers 11:08 | The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. -Numbers 11:09 | When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. -Numbers 11:10 | Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the Lord’s anger burnt greatly; and Moses was displeased. -Numbers 11:11 | Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? -Numbers 11:12 | Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’ -Numbers 11:13 | Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ -Numbers 11:14 | I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. -Numbers 11:15 | If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness." -Numbers 11:16 | The Lord said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. -Numbers 11:17 | I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone. -Numbers 11:18 | "Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat. -Numbers 11:19 | You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, -Numbers 11:20 | but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the Lord who is amongst you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?" -Numbers 11:21 | Moses said, "The people, amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’ -Numbers 11:22 | Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?" -Numbers 11:23 | The Lord said to Moses, "Has the Lord’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not." -Numbers 11:24 | Moses went out, and told the people the Lord’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. -Numbers 11:25 | The Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. -Numbers 11:26 | But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. -Numbers 11:28 | Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!" -Numbers 11:29 | Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!" -Numbers 11:30 | Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. -Numbers 11:31 | A wind from the Lord went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth. -Numbers 11:32 | The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp. -Numbers 11:33 | While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burnt against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague. -Numbers 11:34 | The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted. -Numbers 11:35 | From Kibroth Hattaavah the people travelled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth. -Numbers 12:01 | Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. -Numbers 12:02 | They said, "Has the Lord indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?" And the Lord heard it. -Numbers 12:03 | Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth. -Numbers 12:05 | The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward. -Numbers 12:06 | He said, "Now hear my words. If there is a prophet amongst you, I, the Lord, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. -Numbers 12:07 | My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house. -Numbers 12:08 | With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the Lord’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?" -Numbers 12:09 | The Lord’s anger burnt against them; and he departed. -Numbers 12:11 | Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. -Numbers 12:12 | Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb." -Numbers 12:13 | Moses cried to the Lord, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!" -Numbers 12:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again." -Numbers 12:15 | Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again. -Numbers 13:02 | "Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince amongst them." -Numbers 13:03 | Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the Lord. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel. -Numbers 13:17 | Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country. -Numbers 13:18 | See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; -Numbers 13:19 | and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; -Numbers 13:20 | and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. -Numbers 13:21 | So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. -Numbers 13:23 | They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. -Numbers 13:24 | That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. -Numbers 13:25 | They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. -Numbers 13:26 | They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land. -Numbers 13:27 | They told him, and said, "We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. -Numbers 13:28 | However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there. -Numbers 13:30 | Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, "Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!" -Numbers 13:31 | But the men who went up with him said, "We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we." -Numbers 13:32 | They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. -Numbers 13:33 | There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." -Numbers 14:01 | All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. -Numbers 14:02 | All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness! -Numbers 14:03 | Why does the Lord bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?" -Numbers 14:04 | They said to one another, "Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt." -Numbers 14:05 | Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. -Numbers 14:06 | Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes. -Numbers 14:07 | They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. -Numbers 14:08 | If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey. -Numbers 14:09 | Only don’t rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defence is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t fear them." -Numbers 14:10 | But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The Lord’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel. -Numbers 14:11 | The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked amongst them? -Numbers 14:12 | I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they." -Numbers 14:13 | Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from amongst them. -Numbers 14:14 | They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Lord are amongst this people; for you Lord are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. -Numbers 14:16 | ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’ -Numbers 14:18 | ‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’ -Numbers 14:19 | Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." -Numbers 14:20 | The Lord said, "I have pardoned according to your word; -Numbers 14:21 | but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the Lord’s glory— -Numbers 14:22 | because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; -Numbers 14:23 | surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it. -Numbers 14:24 | But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it. -Numbers 14:27 | "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me. -Numbers 14:28 | Tell them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you. -Numbers 14:29 | Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me, -Numbers 14:30 | surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. -Numbers 14:31 | But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. -Numbers 14:32 | But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. -Numbers 14:33 | Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. -Numbers 14:34 | After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’ -Numbers 14:35 | I, the Lord, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die." -Numbers 14:36 | The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land, -Numbers 14:37 | even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord. -Numbers 14:39 | Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. -Numbers 14:40 | They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the Lord has promised; for we have sinned." -Numbers 14:41 | Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of the Lord, since it shall not prosper? -Numbers 14:42 | Don’t go up, for the Lord isn’t amongst you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies. -Numbers 14:43 | For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following the Lord; therefore the Lord will not be with you." -Numbers 14:44 | But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp. -Numbers 14:45 | Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah. -Numbers 15:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, -Numbers 15:03 | and will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock— -Numbers 15:04 | then he who offers his offering shall offer to the Lord a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil. -Numbers 15:05 | You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. -Numbers 15:06 | "‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil; -Numbers 15:07 | and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Numbers 15:08 | When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord, -Numbers 15:09 | then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; -Numbers 15:10 | and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Numbers 15:11 | Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. -Numbers 15:12 | According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number. -Numbers 15:13 | "‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Numbers 15:14 | If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be amongst you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord, as you do, so he shall do. -Numbers 15:15 | For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before the Lord. -Numbers 15:16 | One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’" -Numbers 15:18 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you, -Numbers 15:19 | then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to the Lord. -Numbers 15:20 | Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. -Numbers 15:21 | Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the Lord a wave offering throughout your generations. -Numbers 15:22 | "‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses— -Numbers 15:23 | even all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations— -Numbers 15:24 | then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. -Numbers 15:25 | The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error. -Numbers 15:26 | All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly. -Numbers 15:27 | "‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. -Numbers 15:28 | The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before the Lord. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. -Numbers 15:29 | You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born amongst the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them. -Numbers 15:30 | "‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the Lord. That soul shall be cut off from amongst his people. -Numbers 15:31 | Because he has despised the Lord’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’" -Numbers 15:32 | While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. -Numbers 15:33 | Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. -Numbers 15:34 | They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. -Numbers 15:35 | The Lord said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp." -Numbers 15:36 | All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 15:38 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue. -Numbers 15:39 | It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all the Lord’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute; -Numbers 15:40 | so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. -Numbers 15:41 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God." -Numbers 16:01 | Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men. -Numbers 16:02 | They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown. -Numbers 16:03 | They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the Lord is amongst them! Why do you lift yourselves up above the Lord’s assembly?" -Numbers 16:04 | When Moses heard it, he fell on his face. -Numbers 16:05 | He said to Korah and to all his company, "In the morning, the Lord will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him. -Numbers 16:06 | Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers, -Numbers 16:07 | put fire in them, and put incense on them before the Lord tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom the Lord chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!" -Numbers 16:08 | Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi! -Numbers 16:09 | Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the Lord’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; -Numbers 16:10 | and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also? -Numbers 16:11 | Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against the LORD! What is Aaron that you complain against him?" -Numbers 16:12 | Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won’t come up! -Numbers 16:13 | Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us? -Numbers 16:14 | Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up." -Numbers 16:15 | Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, "Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them." -Numbers 16:16 | Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before the Lord, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. -Numbers 16:17 | Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before the Lord his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer." -Numbers 16:18 | They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron. -Numbers 16:19 | Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. The Lord’s glory appeared to all the congregation. -Numbers 16:21 | "Separate yourselves from amongst this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" -Numbers 16:22 | They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?" -Numbers 16:24 | "Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’" -Numbers 16:25 | Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. -Numbers 16:26 | He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!" -Numbers 16:27 | So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. -Numbers 16:28 | Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind. -Numbers 16:29 | If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the Lord hasn’t sent me. -Numbers 16:30 | But if the Lord makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised the Lord." -Numbers 16:31 | As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart. -Numbers 16:32 | The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods. -Numbers 16:33 | So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from amongst the assembly. -Numbers 16:34 | All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!" -Numbers 16:35 | Fire came out from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense. -Numbers 16:37 | "Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy, -Numbers 16:38 | even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the Lord. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel." -Numbers 16:39 | Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, -Numbers 16:40 | to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before the Lord, that he not be as Korah and as his company; as the Lord spoke to him by Moses. -Numbers 16:41 | But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the Lord’s people!" -Numbers 16:42 | When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they looked towards the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and the Lord’s glory appeared. -Numbers 16:43 | Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 16:45 | "Get away from amongst this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces. -Numbers 16:46 | Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD! The plague has begun." -Numbers 16:47 | Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun amongst the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. -Numbers 16:48 | He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. -Numbers 16:49 | Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah. -Numbers 16:50 | Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped. -Numbers 17:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod. -Numbers 17:03 | You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses. -Numbers 17:04 | You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you. -Numbers 17:05 | It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me." -Numbers 17:06 | Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was amongst their rods. -Numbers 17:07 | Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the Tent of the Testimony. -Numbers 17:08 | On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. -Numbers 17:09 | Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod. -Numbers 17:10 | The Lord said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die." -Numbers 17:11 | Moses did so. As the Lord commanded him, so he did. -Numbers 17:12 | The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone! -Numbers 17:13 | Everyone who keeps approaching the Lord’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?" -Numbers 18:01 | The Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. -Numbers 18:02 | Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony. -Numbers 18:03 | They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you. -Numbers 18:04 | They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you. -Numbers 18:05 | "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel. -Numbers 18:06 | Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from amongst the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 18:07 | You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death." -Numbers 18:08 | The Lord spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. -Numbers 18:09 | This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. -Numbers 18:10 | You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. -Numbers 18:11 | "This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. -Numbers 18:12 | "I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the Lord. -Numbers 18:13 | The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. -Numbers 18:14 | "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. -Numbers 18:15 | Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the Lord, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals. -Numbers 18:16 | You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs. -Numbers 18:17 | "But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. -Numbers 18:18 | Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. -Numbers 18:19 | All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord to you and to your offspring with you." -Numbers 18:20 | The Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion amongst them. I am your portion and your inheritance amongst the children of Israel. -Numbers 18:21 | "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 18:22 | Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. -Numbers 18:23 | But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Amongst the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance. -Numbers 18:24 | For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Amongst the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’" -Numbers 18:26 | "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for the Lord, a tithe of the tithe. -Numbers 18:27 | Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press. -Numbers 18:28 | Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to the Lord of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the Lord’s wave offering to Aaron the priest. -Numbers 18:29 | Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to the Lord, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’ -Numbers 18:30 | "Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press. -Numbers 18:31 | You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 18:32 | You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’" -Numbers 19:02 | "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked. -Numbers 19:03 | You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face. -Numbers 19:04 | Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood towards the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. -Numbers 19:05 | One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn. -Numbers 19:06 | The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer. -Numbers 19:07 | Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. -Numbers 19:08 | He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening. -Numbers 19:09 | "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering. -Numbers 19:10 | He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them, for a statute forever. -Numbers 19:11 | "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. -Numbers 19:12 | He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. -Numbers 19:13 | Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the Lord’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him. -Numbers 19:14 | "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. -Numbers 19:15 | Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. -Numbers 19:16 | "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. -Numbers 19:17 | "For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel. -Numbers 19:18 | A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. -Numbers 19:19 | The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. -Numbers 19:20 | But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from amongst the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean. -Numbers 19:21 | It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. -Numbers 19:22 | "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening." -Numbers 1:02 | "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one, -Numbers 1:03 | from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions. -Numbers 1:04 | With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house. -Numbers 20:01 | The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there. -Numbers 20:02 | There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. -Numbers 20:03 | The people quarrelled with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! -Numbers 20:04 | Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? -Numbers 20:05 | Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink." -Numbers 20:06 | Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The Lord’s glory appeared to them. -Numbers 20:08 | "Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink." -Numbers 20:09 | Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him. -Numbers 20:10 | Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?" -Numbers 20:11 | Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank. -Numbers 20:12 | The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." -Numbers 20:13 | These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them. -Numbers 20:14 | Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us; -Numbers 20:15 | how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers. -Numbers 20:16 | When we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border. -Numbers 20:17 | "Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border." -Numbers 20:18 | Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you." -Numbers 20:19 | The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet." -Numbers 20:20 | He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. -Numbers 20:21 | Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him. -Numbers 20:26 | and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there." -Numbers 20:27 | Moses did as the Lord commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. -Numbers 20:28 | Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. -Numbers 20:29 | When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. -Numbers 21:01 | The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. -Numbers 21:02 | Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." -Numbers 21:03 | The Lord listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah. -Numbers 21:04 | They travelled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey. -Numbers 21:05 | The people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!" -Numbers 21:06 | The Lord sent venomous snakes amongst the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died. -Numbers 21:07 | The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people. -Numbers 21:08 | The Lord said to Moses, "Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." -Numbers 21:09 | Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived. -Numbers 21:14 | Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the Lord, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, -Numbers 21:15 | the slope of the valleys that incline towards the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab." -Numbers 21:16 | From there they travelled to Beer; that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water." -Numbers 21:17 | Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, well! Sing to it, -Numbers 21:18 | the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the sceptre, and with their poles." From the wilderness they travelled to Mattanah; -Numbers 21:20 | and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. -Numbers 21:22 | "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border." -Numbers 21:23 | Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel. -Numbers 21:24 | Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified. -Numbers 21:25 | Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. -Numbers 21:26 | For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon. -Numbers 21:27 | Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established; -Numbers 21:28 | for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon. -Numbers 21:29 | Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. -Numbers 21:30 | We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba." -Numbers 21:32 | Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there. -Numbers 21:33 | They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. -Numbers 21:34 | The Lord said to Moses, "Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon." -Numbers 21:35 | So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land. -Numbers 22:01 | The children of Israel travelled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. -Numbers 22:02 | Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. -Numbers 22:03 | Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. -Numbers 22:04 | Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. -Numbers 22:05 | He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me. -Numbers 22:06 | Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed." -Numbers 22:07 | The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. -Numbers 22:08 | He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. -Numbers 22:09 | God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?" -Numbers 22:11 | ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’" -Numbers 22:12 | God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed." -Numbers 22:13 | Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for the Lord refuses to permit me to go with you." -Numbers 22:14 | The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us." -Numbers 22:15 | Balak again sent princes, more, and more honourable than they. -Numbers 22:16 | They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me, -Numbers 22:17 | for I will promote you to very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’" -Numbers 22:18 | Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more. -Numbers 22:19 | Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else the Lord will speak to me." -Numbers 22:20 | God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do." -Numbers 22:21 | Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. -Numbers 22:22 | God’s anger burnt because he went; and the Lord’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. -Numbers 22:23 | The donkey saw the Lord’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path. -Numbers 22:24 | Then the Lord’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. -Numbers 22:25 | The donkey saw the Lord’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again. -Numbers 22:26 | The Lord’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. -Numbers 22:27 | The donkey saw the Lord’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burnt, and he struck the donkey with his staff. -Numbers 22:28 | The Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?" -Numbers 22:29 | Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you." -Numbers 22:30 | The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No." -Numbers 22:31 | Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Lord’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. -Numbers 22:32 | The Lord’s angel said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me. -Numbers 22:33 | The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive." -Numbers 22:34 | Balaam said to the Lord’s angel, "I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again." -Numbers 22:35 | The Lord’s angel said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but you shall only speak the word that I shall speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. -Numbers 22:36 | When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. -Numbers 22:37 | Balak said to Balaam, "Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?" -Numbers 22:38 | Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth." -Numbers 22:40 | Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him. -Numbers 22:41 | In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people. -Numbers 23:03 | Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height. -Numbers 23:04 | God met Balaam, and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar." -Numbers 23:05 | The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." -Numbers 23:06 | He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. -Numbers 23:07 | He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel. -Numbers 23:08 | How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the Lord has not defied? -Numbers 23:09 | For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed amongst the nations. -Numbers 23:10 | Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!" -Numbers 23:11 | Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether." -Numbers 23:12 | He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord puts in my mouth?" -Numbers 23:13 | Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me." -Numbers 23:14 | He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. -Numbers 23:15 | He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there." -Numbers 23:16 | The Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this." -Numbers 23:17 | He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?" -Numbers 23:18 | He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor. -Numbers 23:19 | God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good? -Numbers 23:20 | Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it. -Numbers 23:21 | He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him. The shout of a king is amongst them. -Numbers 23:22 | God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. -Numbers 23:23 | Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’ -Numbers 23:24 | Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain." -Numbers 23:25 | Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." -Numbers 23:26 | But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’" -Numbers 23:27 | Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there." -Numbers 23:28 | Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. -Numbers 23:29 | Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here." -Numbers 23:30 | Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. -Numbers 24:01 | When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face towards the wilderness. -Numbers 24:02 | Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. -Numbers 24:03 | He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says; -Numbers 24:04 | he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open: -Numbers 24:05 | How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel! -Numbers 24:06 | As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the Lord has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters. -Numbers 24:07 | Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted. -Numbers 24:08 | God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows. -Numbers 24:09 | He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed." -Numbers 24:10 | Balak’s anger burnt against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. -Numbers 24:11 | Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honour; but, behold, the Lord has kept you back from honour." -Numbers 24:13 | ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the Lord’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what the Lord says’? -Numbers 24:14 | Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days." -Numbers 24:15 | He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says; -Numbers 24:16 | he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open: -Numbers 24:17 | I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A sceptre will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth. -Numbers 24:18 | Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly. -Numbers 24:19 | Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city." -Numbers 24:20 | He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction." -Numbers 24:21 | He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock. -Numbers 24:22 | Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive." -Numbers 24:23 | He took up his parable, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this? -Numbers 24:24 | But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction." -Numbers 24:25 | Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way. -Numbers 25:01 | Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; -Numbers 25:02 | for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. -Numbers 25:03 | Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel. -Numbers 25:04 | The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the Lord before the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel." -Numbers 25:05 | Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor." -Numbers 25:06 | Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 25:07 | When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand. -Numbers 25:08 | He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped amongst the children of Israel. -Numbers 25:09 | Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. -Numbers 25:11 | "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy amongst them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. -Numbers 25:13 | It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’" -Numbers 25:14 | Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house amongst the Simeonites. -Numbers 25:18 | for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor." -Numbers 26:02 | "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel." -Numbers 26:04 | "Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel." These are those who came out of the land of Egypt. -Numbers 26:10 | and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. -Numbers 26:54 | To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given. -Numbers 26:55 | Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. -Numbers 26:56 | According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer." -Numbers 26:64 | But amongst these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. -Numbers 27:03 | "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not amongst the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons. -Numbers 27:04 | Why should the name of our father be taken away from amongst his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession amongst the brothers of our father." -Numbers 27:07 | "The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance amongst their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. -Numbers 27:08 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. -Numbers 27:10 | If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers. -Numbers 27:11 | If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.’" -Numbers 27:12 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. -Numbers 27:13 | When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered; -Numbers 27:14 | because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honour me as holy at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) -Numbers 27:16 | "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, -Numbers 27:17 | who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep which have no shepherd." -Numbers 27:18 | The Lord said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. -Numbers 27:20 | You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. -Numbers 27:22 | Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation. -Numbers 27:23 | He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the Lord spoke by Moses. -Numbers 28:02 | "Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’ -Numbers 2:02 | "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it." -Numbers 30:01 | Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded. -Numbers 30:02 | When a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. -Numbers 30:03 | "Also, when a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth, -Numbers 30:04 | and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand. -Numbers 30:05 | But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The Lord will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her. -Numbers 30:06 | "If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul, -Numbers 30:07 | and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand. -Numbers 30:08 | But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The Lord will forgive her. -Numbers 30:09 | "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her. -Numbers 30:10 | "If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, -Numbers 30:11 | and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand. -Numbers 30:12 | But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. The Lord will forgive her. -Numbers 30:13 | Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. -Numbers 30:14 | But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them. -Numbers 30:15 | But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity." -Numbers 30:16 | These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house. -Numbers 31:02 | "Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people." -Numbers 31:03 | Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from amongst you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian. -Numbers 31:04 | You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war." -Numbers 31:05 | So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. -Numbers 31:06 | Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. -Numbers 31:07 | They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses. They killed every male. -Numbers 31:09 | The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder. -Numbers 31:10 | All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. -Numbers 31:11 | They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal. -Numbers 31:12 | They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. -Numbers 31:13 | Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp. -Numbers 31:14 | Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. -Numbers 31:15 | Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive? -Numbers 31:16 | Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was amongst the congregation of the Lord. -Numbers 31:17 | Now therefore kill every male amongst the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. -Numbers 31:18 | But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. -Numbers 31:19 | "Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. -Numbers 31:20 | You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood." -Numbers 31:21 | Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses. -Numbers 31:23 | everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. -Numbers 31:24 | You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp." -Numbers 31:26 | "Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation; -Numbers 31:27 | and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. -Numbers 31:28 | Levy a tribute to the Lord of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks. -Numbers 31:29 | Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the Lord’s wave offering. -Numbers 31:30 | Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the Lord’s tabernacle." -Numbers 31:31 | Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 31:32 | Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, -Numbers 31:35 | and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. -Numbers 31:36 | The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep; -Numbers 31:37 | and the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. -Numbers 31:38 | The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord’s tribute was seventy-two. -Numbers 31:39 | The donkeys were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the Lord’s tribute was sixty-one. -Numbers 31:40 | The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the Lord’s tribute was thirty-two persons. -Numbers 31:41 | Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 31:42 | Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought -Numbers 31:43 | (now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep, -Numbers 31:47 | even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the Lord’s tabernacle, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 31:48 | The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. -Numbers 31:49 | They said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us. -Numbers 31:50 | We have brought the Lord’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the Lord." -Numbers 31:51 | Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels. -Numbers 31:52 | All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the Lord, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels. -Numbers 31:53 | The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. -Numbers 31:54 | Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord. -Numbers 32:04 | the land which The Lord struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock." -Numbers 32:05 | They said, "If we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan." -Numbers 32:06 | Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here? -Numbers 32:07 | Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them? -Numbers 32:08 | Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. -Numbers 32:09 | For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them. -Numbers 32:11 | ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me, -Numbers 32:13 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the Lord’s sight was consumed. -Numbers 32:14 | "Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the Lord towards Israel. -Numbers 32:15 | For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people." -Numbers 32:16 | They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones; -Numbers 32:17 | but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. -Numbers 32:18 | We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance. -Numbers 32:19 | For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward." -Numbers 32:20 | Moses said to them: "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the Lord to the war, -Numbers 32:21 | and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven out his enemies from before him, -Numbers 32:22 | and the land is subdued before the Lord; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the Lord and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the Lord. -Numbers 32:23 | "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out. -Numbers 32:24 | Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth." -Numbers 32:25 | The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. -Numbers 32:26 | Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead; -Numbers 32:27 | but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says." -Numbers 32:28 | So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel. -Numbers 32:29 | Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; -Numbers 32:30 | but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions amongst you in the land of Canaan." -Numbers 32:31 | The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do. -Numbers 32:32 | We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan." -Numbers 33:02 | Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the Lord. These are their journeys according to their starting points. -Numbers 33:03 | They travelled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, -Numbers 33:04 | while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck amongst them. The Lord also executed judgements on their gods. -Numbers 33:51 | Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, -Numbers 34:13 | Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; -Numbers 34:15 | The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, towards the sunrise." -Numbers 34:29 | These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. -Numbers 35:02 | "Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites. -Numbers 35:03 | They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals. -Numbers 35:04 | "The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it. -Numbers 35:05 | You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities. -Numbers 35:06 | "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities. -Numbers 35:07 | All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands. -Numbers 35:08 | Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites." -Numbers 35:10 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, -Numbers 35:11 | then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. -Numbers 35:12 | The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgement. -Numbers 35:13 | The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. -Numbers 35:14 | You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge. -Numbers 35:15 | These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living amongst them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. -Numbers 35:16 | "‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. -Numbers 35:17 | If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. -Numbers 35:18 | Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. -Numbers 35:19 | The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. -Numbers 35:20 | If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died, -Numbers 35:21 | or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him. -Numbers 35:22 | "‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, -Numbers 35:23 | or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm, -Numbers 35:24 | then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. -Numbers 35:25 | The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. -Numbers 35:26 | "‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees, -Numbers 35:27 | and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood, -Numbers 35:28 | because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession. -Numbers 35:29 | "‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. -Numbers 35:30 | "‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies. -Numbers 35:31 | "‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death. -Numbers 35:32 | "‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest. -Numbers 35:33 | "‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. -Numbers 35:34 | You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, the Lord, dwell amongst the children of Israel.’" -Numbers 36:01 | The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel. -Numbers 36:02 | They said, "The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. -Numbers 36:03 | If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. -Numbers 36:04 | When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." -Numbers 36:05 | Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the Lord’s word, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right. -Numbers 36:06 | This is the thing which the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father. -Numbers 36:07 | So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. -Numbers 36:08 | Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers. -Numbers 36:09 | So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’" -Numbers 36:10 | The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses: -Numbers 36:11 | for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons. -Numbers 36:12 | They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. -Numbers 36:13 | These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. -Numbers 3:03 | These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. -Numbers 3:04 | Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father. -Numbers 3:06 | "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. -Numbers 3:07 | They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. -Numbers 3:08 | They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. -Numbers 3:09 | You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. -Numbers 3:10 | You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death." -Numbers 3:12 | "Behold, I have taken the Levites from amongst the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb amongst the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine, -Numbers 3:13 | for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the Lord." -Numbers 3:15 | "Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward." -Numbers 3:16 | Moses counted them according to the Lord’s word, as he was commanded. -Numbers 3:36 | The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, -Numbers 3:37 | the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. -Numbers 3:38 | Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting towards the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death. -Numbers 3:39 | All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the Lord, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. -Numbers 3:40 | The Lord said to Moses, "Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. -Numbers 3:41 | You shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the livestock of the children of Israel." -Numbers 3:42 | Moses counted, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel. -Numbers 3:43 | All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three. -Numbers 3:45 | "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord. -Numbers 3:46 | For the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites, -Numbers 3:47 | you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs); -Numbers 3:48 | and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons." -Numbers 3:49 | Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; -Numbers 3:50 | from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand and three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; -Numbers 3:51 | and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the Lord’s word, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 4:02 | "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from amongst the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, -Numbers 4:03 | from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 4:04 | "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things. -Numbers 4:05 | When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it, -Numbers 4:06 | put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles. -Numbers 4:07 | "On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. -Numbers 4:08 | They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. -Numbers 4:09 | "They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. -Numbers 4:10 | They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. -Numbers 4:11 | "On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. -Numbers 4:12 | "They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. -Numbers 4:13 | "They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. -Numbers 4:14 | They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. -Numbers 4:15 | "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 4:49 | According to the commandment of the Lord they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 5:02 | "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse. -Numbers 5:03 | You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell." -Numbers 5:04 | The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did. -Numbers 5:06 | "Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the Lord, and that soul is guilty, -Numbers 5:07 | then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty. -Numbers 5:08 | But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the Lord shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. -Numbers 5:09 | Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his. -Numbers 5:10 | Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’" -Numbers 5:12 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, -Numbers 5:13 | and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act; -Numbers 5:14 | and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled; -Numbers 5:15 | then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. -Numbers 5:16 | The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord. -Numbers 5:17 | The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. -Numbers 5:18 | The priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse. -Numbers 5:19 | The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. -Numbers 5:20 | But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—" -Numbers 5:21 | then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "May The Lord make you a curse and an oath amongst your people, when the Lord allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; -Numbers 5:22 | and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen." -Numbers 5:23 | "‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness. -Numbers 5:24 | He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. -Numbers 5:25 | The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. -Numbers 5:26 | The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. -Numbers 5:27 | When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse amongst her people. -Numbers 5:28 | If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring. -Numbers 5:29 | "‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled, -Numbers 5:30 | or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. -Numbers 5:31 | The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’" -Numbers 6:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, -Numbers 6:03 | he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. -Numbers 6:04 | All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins. -Numbers 6:05 | "‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to the Lord. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. -Numbers 6:06 | "‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. -Numbers 6:07 | He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head. -Numbers 6:09 | "‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. -Numbers 6:10 | On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. -Numbers 6:11 | The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day. -Numbers 6:12 | He shall separate to the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. -Numbers 6:13 | "‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, -Numbers 6:14 | and he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings, -Numbers 6:15 | a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings. -Numbers 6:16 | The priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering. -Numbers 6:17 | He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering. -Numbers 6:18 | The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. -Numbers 6:19 | The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation; -Numbers 6:20 | and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine. -Numbers 6:21 | "‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to the Lord for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’" -Numbers 6:23 | "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them, -Numbers 6:25 | The Lord make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. -Numbers 6:26 | The Lord lift up his face towards you, and give you peace.’ -Numbers 6:27 | "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them." -Numbers 7:01 | On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; -Numbers 7:02 | the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted; -Numbers 7:03 | and they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle. -Numbers 7:05 | "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service." -Numbers 7:06 | Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. -Numbers 7:07 | He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service. -Numbers 7:08 | He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. -Numbers 7:09 | But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders. -Numbers 7:10 | The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar. -Numbers 7:11 | The Lord said to Moses, "They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar." -Numbers 7:84 | This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; -Numbers 7:89 | When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him. -Numbers 8:02 | "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’" -Numbers 8:03 | Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as the Lord commanded Moses. -Numbers 8:04 | This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses. -Numbers 8:06 | "Take the Levites from amongst the children of Israel, and cleanse them. -Numbers 8:07 | You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. -Numbers 8:08 | Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering. -Numbers 8:09 | You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel. -Numbers 8:10 | You shall present the Levites before the Lord. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites, -Numbers 8:11 | and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the Lord. -Numbers 8:12 | "The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites. -Numbers 8:13 | You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. -Numbers 8:14 | Thus you shall separate the Levites from amongst the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. -Numbers 8:15 | "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering. -Numbers 8:16 | For they are wholly given to me from amongst the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me. -Numbers 8:17 | For all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. -Numbers 8:18 | I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel. -Numbers 8:19 | I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from amongst the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague amongst the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary." -Numbers 8:20 | Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them. -Numbers 8:21 | The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the Lord and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. -Numbers 8:22 | After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them. -Numbers 8:24 | "This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; -Numbers 8:25 | and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more, -Numbers 8:26 | but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties." -Numbers 9:02 | "Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. -Numbers 9:03 | On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances." -Numbers 9:04 | Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. -Numbers 9:05 | They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. -Numbers 9:06 | There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. -Numbers 9:07 | Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the Lord in its appointed season amongst the children of Israel?" -Numbers 9:08 | Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you." -Numbers 9:10 | "Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord. -Numbers 9:11 | In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. -Numbers 9:12 | They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. -Numbers 9:13 | But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of the Lord in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. -Numbers 9:14 | "‘If a foreigner lives amongst you, and desires to keep the Passover to the Lord, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’" -Numbers 9:15 | On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. -Numbers 9:16 | So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. -Numbers 9:17 | Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel travelled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. -Numbers 9:18 | At the commandment of the Lord, the children of Israel travelled, and at the commandment of the Lord they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. -Numbers 9:19 | When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the Lord’s command, and didn’t travel. -Numbers 9:20 | Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the Lord they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the Lord they travelled. -Numbers 9:21 | Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they travelled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they travelled. -Numbers 9:22 | Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they travelled. -Numbers 9:23 | At the commandment of the Lord they encamped, and at the commandment of the Lord they travelled. They kept the Lord’s command, at the commandment of the Lord by Moses. -Obadiah 1:01 | The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God says about Edom. We have heard news from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent amongst the nations, saying, "Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. -Obadiah 1:02 | Behold, I have made you small amongst the nations. You are greatly despised. -Obadiah 1:03 | The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ -Obadiah 1:04 | Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set amongst the stars, I will bring you down from there," says the Lord. -Obadiah 1:06 | How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! -Obadiah 1:07 | All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him." -Obadiah 1:08 | "Won’t I in that day", says the Lord, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? -Obadiah 1:09 | Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. -Obadiah 1:10 | For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. -Obadiah 1:11 | In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. -Obadiah 1:12 | But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress. -Obadiah 1:13 | Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. -Obadiah 1:14 | Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. -Obadiah 1:15 | For the day of the Lord is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. -Obadiah 1:16 | For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. -Obadiah 1:17 | But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. -Obadiah 1:18 | The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn amongst them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, the Lord has spoken. -Obadiah 1:19 | Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. -Obadiah 1:20 | The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are amongst the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. -Obadiah 1:21 | Saviours will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord’s. -Philemon 1:03 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -Philemon 1:04 | I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, -Philemon 1:05 | hearing of your love and of the faith which you have towards the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints, -Philemon 1:06 | that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. -Philemon 1:07 | For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. -Philemon 1:08 | Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, -Philemon 1:09 | yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. -Philemon 1:10 | I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, -Philemon 1:11 | who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me. -Philemon 1:12 | I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, -Philemon 1:13 | whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News. -Philemon 1:14 | But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will. -Philemon 1:15 | For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever, -Philemon 1:16 | no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. -Philemon 1:17 | If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me. -Philemon 1:18 | But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account. -Philemon 1:19 | I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides). -Philemon 1:20 | Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord. -Philemon 1:21 | Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say. -Philemon 1:22 | Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you. -Philemon 1:23 | Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, -Philemon 1:24 | as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. -Philemon 1:25 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. -Philippians 1:01 | Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: -Philippians 1:02 | Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -Philippians 1:03 | I thank my God whenever I remember you, -Philippians 1:04 | always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, -Philippians 1:05 | for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; -Philippians 1:06 | being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. -Philippians 1:07 | It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. -Philippians 1:08 | For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. -Philippians 1:09 | This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, -Philippians 1:10 | so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offence to the day of Christ, -Philippians 1:11 | being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. -Philippians 1:12 | Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News, -Philippians 1:13 | so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ, -Philippians 1:14 | and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. -Philippians 1:15 | Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will. -Philippians 1:16 | The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains; -Philippians 1:17 | but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defence of the Good News. -Philippians 1:18 | What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. -Philippians 1:19 | For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, -Philippians 1:20 | according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. -Philippians 1:21 | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. -Philippians 1:22 | But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose. -Philippians 1:23 | But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. -Philippians 1:24 | Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake. -Philippians 1:25 | Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith, -Philippians 1:26 | that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again. -Philippians 1:27 | Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; -Philippians 1:28 | and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God. -Philippians 1:29 | Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, -Philippians 1:30 | having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me. -Philippians 2:01 | If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, -Philippians 2:02 | make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; -Philippians 2:03 | doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; -Philippians 2:04 | each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. -Philippians 2:05 | Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, -Philippians 2:06 | who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, -Philippians 2:07 | but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. -Philippians 2:08 | And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross. -Philippians 2:09 | Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, -Philippians 2:10 | that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, -Philippians 2:11 | and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. -Philippians 2:12 | So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. -Philippians 2:13 | For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. -Philippians 2:14 | Do all things without complaining and arguing, -Philippians 2:15 | that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom you are seen as lights in the world, -Philippians 2:16 | holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labour in vain. -Philippians 2:17 | Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. -Philippians 2:18 | In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me. -Philippians 2:19 | But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. -Philippians 2:20 | For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. -Philippians 2:21 | For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. -Philippians 2:22 | But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. -Philippians 2:23 | Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me. -Philippians 2:24 | But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. -Philippians 2:25 | But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need, -Philippians 2:26 | since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick. -Philippians 2:27 | For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. -Philippians 2:28 | I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. -Philippians 2:29 | Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honour, -Philippians 2:30 | because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service towards me. -Philippians 3:01 | Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. -Philippians 3:02 | Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision. -Philippians 3:03 | For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; -Philippians 3:04 | though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: -Philippians 3:05 | circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; -Philippians 3:06 | concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. -Philippians 3:07 | However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. -Philippians 3:08 | Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ -Philippians 3:09 | and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith, -Philippians 3:10 | that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, -Philippians 3:11 | if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. -Philippians 3:12 | Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. -Philippians 3:13 | Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, -Philippians 3:14 | I press on towards the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 3:15 | Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. -Philippians 3:16 | Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind. -Philippians 3:17 | Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. -Philippians 3:18 | For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, -Philippians 3:19 | whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. -Philippians 3:20 | For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, -Philippians 3:21 | who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself. -Philippians 4:01 | Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. -Philippians 4:02 | I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. -Philippians 4:03 | Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they laboured with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. -Philippians 4:04 | Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, "Rejoice!" -Philippians 4:05 | Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. -Philippians 4:06 | In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. -Philippians 4:07 | And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:08 | Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honourable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things. -Philippians 4:09 | The things which you learnt, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you. -Philippians 4:10 | But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity. -Philippians 4:11 | Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learnt in whatever state I am, to be content in it. -Philippians 4:12 | I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learnt the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. -Philippians 4:13 | I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. -Philippians 4:14 | However you did well that you shared in my affliction. -Philippians 4:15 | You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. -Philippians 4:16 | For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. -Philippians 4:17 | Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account. -Philippians 4:18 | But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. -Philippians 4:19 | My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:20 | Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen. -Philippians 4:21 | Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. -Philippians 4:22 | All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household. -Philippians 4:23 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. -Proverbs 10:01 | The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. -Proverbs 10:02 | Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death. -Proverbs 10:03 | The Lord will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked. -Proverbs 10:04 | He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. -Proverbs 10:05 | He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame. -Proverbs 10:06 | Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. -Proverbs 10:07 | The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. -Proverbs 10:08 | The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. -Proverbs 10:09 | He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. -Proverbs 10:10 | One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall. -Proverbs 10:11 | The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. -Proverbs 10:12 | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. -Proverbs 10:13 | Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding. -Proverbs 10:14 | Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin. -Proverbs 10:15 | The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty. -Proverbs 10:16 | The labour of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin. -Proverbs 10:17 | He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray. -Proverbs 10:18 | He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. -Proverbs 10:19 | In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely. -Proverbs 10:20 | The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. -Proverbs 10:21 | The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding. -Proverbs 10:22 | The Lord’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. -Proverbs 10:23 | It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure. -Proverbs 10:24 | What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. -Proverbs 10:25 | When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever. -Proverbs 10:26 | As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. -Proverbs 10:27 | The fear of the Lord prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. -Proverbs 10:28 | The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish. -Proverbs 10:29 | The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. -Proverbs 10:30 | The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land. -Proverbs 10:31 | The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. -Proverbs 10:32 | The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse. -Proverbs 11:01 | A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but accurate weights are his delight. -Proverbs 11:02 | When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom. -Proverbs 11:03 | The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them. -Proverbs 11:04 | Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. -Proverbs 11:05 | The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. -Proverbs 11:06 | The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires. -Proverbs 11:07 | When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing. -Proverbs 11:08 | A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place. -Proverbs 11:09 | With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbour, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. -Proverbs 11:10 | When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting. -Proverbs 11:11 | By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. -Proverbs 11:12 | One who despises his neighbour is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace. -Proverbs 11:13 | One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret. -Proverbs 11:14 | Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counsellors there is victory. -Proverbs 11:15 | He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure. -Proverbs 11:16 | A gracious woman obtains honour, but violent men obtain riches. -Proverbs 11:17 | The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh. -Proverbs 11:18 | Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward. -Proverbs 11:19 | He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death. -Proverbs 11:20 | Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight. -Proverbs 11:21 | Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered. -Proverbs 11:22 | Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. -Proverbs 11:23 | The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath. -Proverbs 11:24 | There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. -Proverbs 11:25 | The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself. -Proverbs 11:26 | People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it. -Proverbs 11:27 | He who diligently seeks good seeks favour, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him. -Proverbs 11:28 | He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf. -Proverbs 11:29 | He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart. -Proverbs 11:30 | The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls. -Proverbs 11:31 | Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner! -Proverbs 12:01 | Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. -Proverbs 12:02 | A good man shall obtain favour from the Lord, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans. -Proverbs 12:03 | A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. -Proverbs 12:04 | A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones. -Proverbs 12:05 | The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. -Proverbs 12:06 | The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them. -Proverbs 12:07 | The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand. -Proverbs 12:08 | A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised. -Proverbs 12:09 | Better is he who is little known, and has a servant, than he who honours himself, and lacks bread. -Proverbs 12:10 | A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. -Proverbs 12:11 | He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding. -Proverbs 12:12 | The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes. -Proverbs 12:13 | An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble. -Proverbs 12:14 | A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him. -Proverbs 12:15 | The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel. -Proverbs 12:16 | A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent. -Proverbs 12:17 | He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies. -Proverbs 12:18 | There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals. -Proverbs 12:19 | Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary. -Proverbs 12:20 | Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace. -Proverbs 12:21 | No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil. -Proverbs 12:22 | Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who do the truth are his delight. -Proverbs 12:23 | A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness. -Proverbs 12:24 | The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labour. -Proverbs 12:25 | Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. -Proverbs 12:26 | A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. -Proverbs 12:27 | The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized. -Proverbs 12:28 | In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death. -Proverbs 13:01 | A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. -Proverbs 13:02 | By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence. -Proverbs 13:03 | He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. -Proverbs 13:04 | The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied. -Proverbs 13:05 | A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace. -Proverbs 13:06 | Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner. -Proverbs 13:07 | There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. -Proverbs 13:08 | The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. -Proverbs 13:09 | The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. -Proverbs 13:10 | Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice. -Proverbs 13:11 | Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow. -Proverbs 13:12 | Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. -Proverbs 13:13 | Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded. -Proverbs 13:14 | The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death. -Proverbs 13:15 | Good understanding wins favour, but the way of the unfaithful is hard. -Proverbs 13:16 | Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly. -Proverbs 13:17 | A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing. -Proverbs 13:18 | Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honoured. -Proverbs 13:19 | Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil. -Proverbs 13:20 | One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. -Proverbs 13:21 | Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous. -Proverbs 13:22 | A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous. -Proverbs 13:23 | An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away. -Proverbs 13:24 | One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him. -Proverbs 13:25 | The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry. -Proverbs 14:01 | Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. -Proverbs 14:02 | He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him. -Proverbs 14:03 | The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them. -Proverbs 14:04 | Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox. -Proverbs 14:05 | A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies. -Proverbs 14:06 | A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. -Proverbs 14:07 | Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips. -Proverbs 14:08 | The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit. -Proverbs 14:09 | Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but amongst the upright there is good will. -Proverbs 14:10 | The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger. -Proverbs 14:11 | The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish. -Proverbs 14:12 | There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. -Proverbs 14:13 | Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness. -Proverbs 14:14 | The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways. -Proverbs 14:15 | A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways. -Proverbs 14:16 | A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless. -Proverbs 14:17 | He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated. -Proverbs 14:18 | The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. -Proverbs 14:19 | The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. -Proverbs 14:20 | The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbour, but the rich person has many friends. -Proverbs 14:21 | He who despises his neighbour sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed. -Proverbs 14:22 | Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good. -Proverbs 14:23 | In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. -Proverbs 14:24 | The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly. -Proverbs 14:25 | A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful. -Proverbs 14:26 | In the fear of the Lord is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children. -Proverbs 14:27 | The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death. -Proverbs 14:28 | In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince. -Proverbs 14:29 | He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly. -Proverbs 14:30 | The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. -Proverbs 14:31 | He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honours him. -Proverbs 14:32 | The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge. -Proverbs 14:33 | Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools. -Proverbs 14:34 | Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. -Proverbs 14:35 | The king’s favour is towards a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is towards one who causes shame. -Proverbs 15:01 | A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. -Proverbs 15:02 | The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly. -Proverbs 15:03 | The Lord’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good. -Proverbs 15:04 | A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit. -Proverbs 15:05 | A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence. -Proverbs 15:06 | In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble. -Proverbs 15:07 | The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools. -Proverbs 15:08 | The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. -Proverbs 15:09 | The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who follows after righteousness. -Proverbs 15:10 | There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die. -Proverbs 15:11 | Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD— how much more then the hearts of the children of men! -Proverbs 15:12 | A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. -Proverbs 15:13 | A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit. -Proverbs 15:14 | The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. -Proverbs 15:15 | All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast. -Proverbs 15:16 | Better is little, with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure with trouble. -Proverbs 15:17 | Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred. -Proverbs 15:18 | A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife. -Proverbs 15:19 | The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway. -Proverbs 15:20 | A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother. -Proverbs 15:21 | Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight. -Proverbs 15:22 | Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counsellors they are established. -Proverbs 15:23 | Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time! -Proverbs 15:24 | The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol. -Proverbs 15:25 | The Lord will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact. -Proverbs 15:26 | The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing. -Proverbs 15:27 | He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live. -Proverbs 15:28 | The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil. -Proverbs 15:29 | The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. -Proverbs 15:30 | The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones. -Proverbs 15:31 | The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home amongst the wise. -Proverbs 15:32 | He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding. -Proverbs 15:33 | The fear of the Lord teaches wisdom. Before honour is humility. -Proverbs 16:01 | The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. -Proverbs 16:02 | All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weighs the motives. -Proverbs 16:03 | Commit your deeds to the Lord, and your plans shall succeed. -Proverbs 16:04 | The Lord has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil. -Proverbs 16:05 | Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: they shall certainly not be unpunished. -Proverbs 16:06 | By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. -Proverbs 16:07 | When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. -Proverbs 16:08 | Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice. -Proverbs 16:09 | A man’s heart plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. -Proverbs 16:10 | Inspired judgements are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth. -Proverbs 16:11 | Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work. -Proverbs 16:12 | It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness. -Proverbs 16:13 | Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth. -Proverbs 16:14 | The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it. -Proverbs 16:15 | In the light of the king’s face is life. His favour is like a cloud of the spring rain. -Proverbs 16:16 | How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. -Proverbs 16:17 | The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul. -Proverbs 16:18 | Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall. -Proverbs 16:19 | It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud. -Proverbs 16:20 | He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in the Lord is blessed. -Proverbs 16:21 | The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction. -Proverbs 16:22 | Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly. -Proverbs 16:23 | The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. -Proverbs 16:24 | Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. -Proverbs 16:25 | There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. -Proverbs 16:26 | The appetite of the labouring man labours for him; for his mouth urges him on. -Proverbs 16:27 | A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire. -Proverbs 16:28 | A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. -Proverbs 16:29 | A man of violence entices his neighbour, and leads him in a way that is not good. -Proverbs 16:30 | One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil. -Proverbs 16:31 | Grey hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness. -Proverbs 16:32 | One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. -Proverbs 16:33 | The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. -Proverbs 17:01 | Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. -Proverbs 17:02 | A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance amongst the brothers. -Proverbs 17:03 | The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the hearts. -Proverbs 17:04 | An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. -Proverbs 17:05 | Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished. -Proverbs 17:06 | Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents. -Proverbs 17:07 | Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. -Proverbs 17:08 | A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers. -Proverbs 17:09 | He who covers an offence promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. -Proverbs 17:10 | A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool. -Proverbs 17:11 | An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. -Proverbs 17:12 | Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. -Proverbs 17:13 | Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. -Proverbs 17:14 | The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarrelling breaks out. -Proverbs 17:15 | He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. -Proverbs 17:16 | Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding? -Proverbs 17:17 | A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. -Proverbs 17:18 | A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbour. -Proverbs 17:19 | He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction. -Proverbs 17:20 | One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble. -Proverbs 17:21 | He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy. -Proverbs 17:22 | A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. -Proverbs 17:23 | A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice. -Proverbs 17:24 | Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth. -Proverbs 17:25 | A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him. -Proverbs 17:26 | Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity. -Proverbs 17:27 | He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding. -Proverbs 17:28 | Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. -Proverbs 18:01 | A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgement. -Proverbs 18:02 | A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. -Proverbs 18:03 | When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace. -Proverbs 18:04 | The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. -Proverbs 18:05 | To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice. -Proverbs 18:06 | A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. -Proverbs 18:07 | A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul. -Proverbs 18:08 | The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts. -Proverbs 18:09 | One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction. -Proverbs 18:10 | The Lord’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe. -Proverbs 18:11 | The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination. -Proverbs 18:12 | Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honour is humility. -Proverbs 18:13 | He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him. -Proverbs 18:14 | A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear? -Proverbs 18:15 | The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge. -Proverbs 18:16 | A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men. -Proverbs 18:17 | He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him. -Proverbs 18:18 | The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart. -Proverbs 18:19 | A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress. -Proverbs 18:20 | A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. -Proverbs 18:21 | Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. -Proverbs 18:22 | Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the Lord. -Proverbs 18:23 | The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly. -Proverbs 18:24 | A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. -Proverbs 19:01 | Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. -Proverbs 19:02 | It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way. -Proverbs 19:03 | The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against the Lord. -Proverbs 19:04 | Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend. -Proverbs 19:05 | A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free. -Proverbs 19:06 | Many will entreat the favour of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. -Proverbs 19:07 | All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone. -Proverbs 19:08 | He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good. -Proverbs 19:09 | A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish. -Proverbs 19:10 | Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes. -Proverbs 19:11 | The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offence. -Proverbs 19:12 | The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favour is like dew on the grass. -Proverbs 19:13 | A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping. -Proverbs 19:14 | House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord. -Proverbs 19:15 | Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger. -Proverbs 19:16 | He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die. -Proverbs 19:17 | He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; he will reward him. -Proverbs 19:18 | Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death. -Proverbs 19:19 | A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again. -Proverbs 19:20 | Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end. -Proverbs 19:21 | There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the Lord’s counsel will prevail. -Proverbs 19:22 | That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar. -Proverbs 19:23 | The fear of the Lord leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble. -Proverbs 19:24 | The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again. -Proverbs 19:25 | Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge. -Proverbs 19:26 | He who robs his father and drives away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach. -Proverbs 19:27 | If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge. -Proverbs 19:28 | A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity. -Proverbs 19:29 | Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools. -Proverbs 1:01 | The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: -Proverbs 1:02 | to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; -Proverbs 1:03 | to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; -Proverbs 1:04 | to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man: -Proverbs 1:05 | that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: -Proverbs 1:06 | to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise. -Proverbs 1:07 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. -Proverbs 1:08 | My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: -Proverbs 1:09 | for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck. -Proverbs 1:10 | My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. -Proverbs 1:11 | If they say, "Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. -Proverbs 1:12 | Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. -Proverbs 1:13 | We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder. -Proverbs 1:14 | You shall cast your lot amongst us. We’ll all have one purse." -Proverbs 1:15 | My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path, -Proverbs 1:16 | for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. -Proverbs 1:17 | For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird; -Proverbs 1:18 | but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. -Proverbs 1:19 | So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. -Proverbs 1:20 | Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. -Proverbs 1:22 | "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge? -Proverbs 1:23 | Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. -Proverbs 1:24 | Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; -Proverbs 1:25 | but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; -Proverbs 1:26 | I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you, -Proverbs 1:27 | when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you. -Proverbs 1:28 | Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, -Proverbs 1:29 | because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the Lord. -Proverbs 1:30 | They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. -Proverbs 1:31 | Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. -Proverbs 1:32 | For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them. -Proverbs 1:33 | But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm." -Proverbs 20:01 | Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise. -Proverbs 20:02 | The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life. -Proverbs 20:03 | It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling. -Proverbs 20:04 | The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. -Proverbs 20:05 | Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. -Proverbs 20:06 | Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? -Proverbs 20:07 | A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. -Proverbs 20:08 | A king who sits on the throne of judgement scatters away all evil with his eyes. -Proverbs 20:09 | Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?" -Proverbs 20:10 | Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. -Proverbs 20:11 | Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right. -Proverbs 20:12 | The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The Lord has made even both of them. -Proverbs 20:13 | Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. -Proverbs 20:14 | "It’s no good, it’s no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. -Proverbs 20:15 | There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. -Proverbs 20:16 | Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. -Proverbs 20:17 | Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel. -Proverbs 20:18 | Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war! -Proverbs 20:19 | He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips. -Proverbs 20:20 | Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. -Proverbs 20:21 | An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end. -Proverbs 20:22 | Don’t say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for the Lord, and he will save you. -Proverbs 20:23 | The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing. -Proverbs 20:24 | A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way? -Proverbs 20:25 | It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows. -Proverbs 20:26 | A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them. -Proverbs 20:27 | The spirit of man is the Lord’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts. -Proverbs 20:28 | Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love. -Proverbs 20:29 | The glory of young men is their strength. The splendour of old men is their grey hair. -Proverbs 20:30 | Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts. -Proverbs 21:01 | The king’s heart is in the Lord’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. -Proverbs 21:02 | Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts. -Proverbs 21:03 | To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. -Proverbs 21:04 | A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin. -Proverbs 21:05 | The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty. -Proverbs 21:06 | Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapour for those who seek death. -Proverbs 21:07 | The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right. -Proverbs 21:08 | The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. -Proverbs 21:09 | It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman. -Proverbs 21:10 | The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbour finds no mercy in his eyes. -Proverbs 21:11 | When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. -Proverbs 21:12 | The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin. -Proverbs 21:13 | Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard. -Proverbs 21:14 | A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath. -Proverbs 21:15 | It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. -Proverbs 21:16 | The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits. -Proverbs 21:17 | He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich. -Proverbs 21:18 | The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright. -Proverbs 21:19 | It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman. -Proverbs 21:20 | There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up. -Proverbs 21:21 | He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honour. -Proverbs 21:22 | A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence. -Proverbs 21:23 | Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles. -Proverbs 21:24 | The proud and arrogant man—"Scoffer" is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride. -Proverbs 21:25 | The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labour. -Proverbs 21:26 | There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold. -Proverbs 21:27 | The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind! -Proverbs 21:28 | A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity. -Proverbs 21:29 | A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways. -Proverbs 21:30 | There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. -Proverbs 21:31 | The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with the Lord. -Proverbs 22:01 | A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favour is better than silver and gold. -Proverbs 22:02 | The rich and the poor have this in common: The Lord is the maker of them all. -Proverbs 22:03 | A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. -Proverbs 22:04 | The result of humility and the fear of the Lord is wealth, honour, and life. -Proverbs 22:05 | Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them. -Proverbs 22:06 | Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. -Proverbs 22:07 | The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender. -Proverbs 22:08 | He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. -Proverbs 22:09 | He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor. -Proverbs 22:10 | Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop. -Proverbs 22:11 | He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend. -Proverbs 22:12 | The Lord’s eyes watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful. -Proverbs 22:13 | The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!" -Proverbs 22:14 | The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the Lord’s wrath will fall into it. -Proverbs 22:15 | Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him. -Proverbs 22:16 | Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty. -Proverbs 22:17 | Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching. -Proverbs 22:18 | For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. -Proverbs 22:19 | I teach you today, even you, So that your trust may be in the Lord. -Proverbs 22:20 | Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, -Proverbs 22:21 | To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you? -Proverbs 22:22 | Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; -Proverbs 22:23 | for the Lord will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them. -Proverbs 22:24 | Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbours anger: -Proverbs 22:25 | lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul. -Proverbs 22:26 | Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. -Proverbs 22:27 | If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? -Proverbs 22:28 | Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up. -Proverbs 22:29 | Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men. -Proverbs 23:01 | When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; -Proverbs 23:02 | put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. -Proverbs 23:03 | Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. -Proverbs 23:04 | Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. -Proverbs 23:05 | Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. -Proverbs 23:06 | Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies: -Proverbs 23:07 | for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. -Proverbs 23:08 | The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words. -Proverbs 23:09 | Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. -Proverbs 23:10 | Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, -Proverbs 23:11 | for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you. -Proverbs 23:12 | Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. -Proverbs 23:13 | Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. -Proverbs 23:14 | Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol. -Proverbs 23:15 | My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine. -Proverbs 23:16 | Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. -Proverbs 23:17 | Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the Lord all day long. -Proverbs 23:18 | Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off. -Proverbs 23:19 | Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! -Proverbs 23:20 | Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: -Proverbs 23:21 | for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags. -Proverbs 23:22 | Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. -Proverbs 23:23 | Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. -Proverbs 23:24 | The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. -Proverbs 23:25 | Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! -Proverbs 23:26 | My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. -Proverbs 23:27 | For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. -Proverbs 23:28 | Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful amongst men. -Proverbs 23:29 | Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? -Proverbs 23:30 | Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine. -Proverbs 23:31 | Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. -Proverbs 23:32 | In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. -Proverbs 23:33 | Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things. -Proverbs 23:34 | Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: -Proverbs 23:35 | "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another." -Proverbs 24:01 | Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them; -Proverbs 24:02 | for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief. -Proverbs 24:03 | Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; -Proverbs 24:04 | by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure. -Proverbs 24:05 | A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength; -Proverbs 24:06 | for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors. -Proverbs 24:07 | Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate. -Proverbs 24:08 | One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer. -Proverbs 24:09 | The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men. -Proverbs 24:10 | If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. -Proverbs 24:11 | Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! -Proverbs 24:12 | If you say, "Behold, we didn’t know this," doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work? -Proverbs 24:13 | My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste; -Proverbs 24:14 | so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off. -Proverbs 24:15 | Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place; -Proverbs 24:16 | for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. -Proverbs 24:17 | Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown, -Proverbs 24:18 | lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. -Proverbs 24:19 | Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked; -Proverbs 24:20 | for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out. -Proverbs 24:21 | My son, fear the Lord and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious; -Proverbs 24:22 | for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both? -Proverbs 24:23 | These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgement is not good. -Proverbs 24:24 | He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous," peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him— -Proverbs 24:25 | but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them. -Proverbs 24:26 | An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. -Proverbs 24:27 | Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house. -Proverbs 24:28 | Don’t be a witness against your neighbour without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips. -Proverbs 24:29 | Don’t say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work." -Proverbs 24:30 | I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: -Proverbs 24:31 | Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. -Proverbs 24:32 | Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: -Proverbs 24:33 | a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, -Proverbs 24:34 | so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man. -Proverbs 25:01 | These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. -Proverbs 25:02 | It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. -Proverbs 25:03 | As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable. -Proverbs 25:04 | Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner; -Proverbs 25:05 | Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness. -Proverbs 25:06 | Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place amongst great men; -Proverbs 25:07 | for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen. -Proverbs 25:08 | Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbour shames you? -Proverbs 25:09 | Debate your case with your neighbour, and don’t betray the confidence of another, -Proverbs 25:10 | lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart. -Proverbs 25:11 | A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. -Proverbs 25:12 | As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear. -Proverbs 25:13 | As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters. -Proverbs 25:14 | As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively. -Proverbs 25:15 | By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone. -Proverbs 25:16 | Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it. -Proverbs 25:17 | Let your foot be seldom in your neighbour’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you. -Proverbs 25:18 | A man who gives false testimony against his neighbour is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow. -Proverbs 25:19 | Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot. -Proverbs 25:20 | As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. -Proverbs 25:21 | If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink; -Proverbs 25:22 | for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you. -Proverbs 25:23 | The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face. -Proverbs 25:24 | It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman. -Proverbs 25:25 | Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. -Proverbs 25:26 | Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. -Proverbs 25:27 | It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honourable to seek one’s own honour. -Proverbs 25:28 | Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint. -Proverbs 26:01 | Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool. -Proverbs 26:02 | Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest. -Proverbs 26:03 | A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools! -Proverbs 26:04 | Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. -Proverbs 26:05 | Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. -Proverbs 26:06 | One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence. -Proverbs 26:07 | Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. -Proverbs 26:08 | As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honour to a fool. -Proverbs 26:09 | Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. -Proverbs 26:10 | As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by. -Proverbs 26:11 | As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly. -Proverbs 26:12 | Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. -Proverbs 26:13 | The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" -Proverbs 26:14 | As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. -Proverbs 26:15 | The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. -Proverbs 26:16 | The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion. -Proverbs 26:17 | Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own. -Proverbs 26:19 | is the man who deceives his neighbour and says, "Am I not joking?" -Proverbs 26:20 | For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. -Proverbs 26:21 | As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. -Proverbs 26:22 | The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts. -Proverbs 26:23 | Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. -Proverbs 26:24 | A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbours evil in his heart. -Proverbs 26:25 | When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. -Proverbs 26:26 | His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. -Proverbs 26:27 | Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him. -Proverbs 26:28 | A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin. -Proverbs 27:01 | Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. -Proverbs 27:02 | Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. -Proverbs 27:03 | A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. -Proverbs 27:04 | Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? -Proverbs 27:05 | Better is open rebuke than hidden love. -Proverbs 27:06 | The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. -Proverbs 27:07 | A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. -Proverbs 27:08 | As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home. -Proverbs 27:09 | Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. -Proverbs 27:10 | Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbour who is near is better than a distant brother. -Proverbs 27:11 | Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor. -Proverbs 27:12 | A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. -Proverbs 27:13 | Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman! -Proverbs 27:14 | He who blesses his neighbour with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him. -Proverbs 27:15 | A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike: -Proverbs 27:16 | restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand. -Proverbs 27:17 | Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. -Proverbs 27:18 | Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honoured. -Proverbs 27:19 | Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. -Proverbs 27:20 | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. -Proverbs 27:21 | The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise. -Proverbs 27:22 | Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him. -Proverbs 27:23 | Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: -Proverbs 27:24 | for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations. -Proverbs 27:25 | The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. -Proverbs 27:26 | The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. -Proverbs 27:27 | There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls. -Proverbs 28:01 | The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion. -Proverbs 28:02 | In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge. -Proverbs 28:03 | A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops. -Proverbs 28:04 | Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them. -Proverbs 28:05 | Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek the Lord understand it fully. -Proverbs 28:06 | Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich. -Proverbs 28:07 | Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father. -Proverbs 28:08 | He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. -Proverbs 28:09 | He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. -Proverbs 28:10 | Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good. -Proverbs 28:11 | The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him. -Proverbs 28:12 | When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves. -Proverbs 28:13 | He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. -Proverbs 28:14 | Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble. -Proverbs 28:15 | As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people. -Proverbs 28:16 | A tyrannical ruler lacks judgement. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days. -Proverbs 28:17 | A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him. -Proverbs 28:18 | Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly. -Proverbs 28:19 | One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. -Proverbs 28:20 | A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished. -Proverbs 28:21 | To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread. -Proverbs 28:22 | A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him. -Proverbs 28:23 | One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favour than one who flatters with the tongue. -Proverbs 28:24 | Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "It’s not wrong," is a partner with a destroyer. -Proverbs 28:25 | One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in the Lord will prosper. -Proverbs 28:26 | One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe. -Proverbs 28:27 | One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses. -Proverbs 28:28 | When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive. -Proverbs 29:01 | He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. -Proverbs 29:02 | When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan. -Proverbs 29:03 | Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. -Proverbs 29:04 | The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down. -Proverbs 29:05 | A man who flatters his neighbour spreads a net for his feet. -Proverbs 29:06 | An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad. -Proverbs 29:07 | The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge. -Proverbs 29:08 | Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger. -Proverbs 29:09 | If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace. -Proverbs 29:10 | The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright. -Proverbs 29:11 | A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control. -Proverbs 29:12 | If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked. -Proverbs 29:13 | The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both. -Proverbs 29:14 | The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever. -Proverbs 29:15 | The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. -Proverbs 29:16 | When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall. -Proverbs 29:17 | Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul. -Proverbs 29:18 | Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed. -Proverbs 29:19 | A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond. -Proverbs 29:20 | Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. -Proverbs 29:21 | He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end. -Proverbs 29:22 | An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin. -Proverbs 29:23 | A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honour. -Proverbs 29:24 | Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify. -Proverbs 29:25 | The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in the Lord is kept safe. -Proverbs 29:26 | Many seek the ruler’s favour, but a man’s justice comes from the Lord. -Proverbs 29:27 | A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked. -Proverbs 2:01 | My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you, -Proverbs 2:02 | so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; -Proverbs 2:03 | yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; -Proverbs 2:04 | if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: -Proverbs 2:05 | then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. -Proverbs 2:06 | For the Lord gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. -Proverbs 2:07 | He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, -Proverbs 2:08 | that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. -Proverbs 2:09 | Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. -Proverbs 2:10 | For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. -Proverbs 2:11 | Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, -Proverbs 2:12 | to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, -Proverbs 2:13 | who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness, -Proverbs 2:14 | who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, -Proverbs 2:15 | who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, -Proverbs 2:16 | to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, -Proverbs 2:17 | who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; -Proverbs 2:18 | for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. -Proverbs 2:19 | None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life. -Proverbs 2:20 | So you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. -Proverbs 2:21 | For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. -Proverbs 2:22 | But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. -Proverbs 30:01 | The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the revelation: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: -Proverbs 30:02 | "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding. -Proverbs 30:03 | I have not learnt wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. -Proverbs 30:04 | Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know? -Proverbs 30:05 | "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. -Proverbs 30:06 | Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. -Proverbs 30:07 | "Two things I have asked of you. Don’t deny me before I die. -Proverbs 30:08 | Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me, -Proverbs 30:09 | lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God. -Proverbs 30:10 | "Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. -Proverbs 30:11 | There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother. -Proverbs 30:12 | There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness. -Proverbs 30:13 | There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up. -Proverbs 30:14 | There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from amongst men. -Proverbs 30:15 | "The leech has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’ -Proverbs 30:16 | Sheol, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’ -Proverbs 30:17 | "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it. -Proverbs 30:18 | "There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: -Proverbs 30:19 | The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. -Proverbs 30:20 | "So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’ -Proverbs 30:21 | "For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up: -Proverbs 30:22 | For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food, -Proverbs 30:23 | for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress. -Proverbs 30:24 | "There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: -Proverbs 30:25 | The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer. -Proverbs 30:26 | The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. -Proverbs 30:27 | The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. -Proverbs 30:28 | You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces. -Proverbs 30:29 | "There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going: -Proverbs 30:30 | The lion, which is mightiest amongst animals, and doesn’t turn away for any; -Proverbs 30:31 | the greyhound; the male goat; and the king against whom there is no rising up. -Proverbs 30:32 | "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth. -Proverbs 30:33 | For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife." -Proverbs 31:01 | The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him. -Proverbs 31:02 | "Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows! -Proverbs 31:03 | Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings. -Proverbs 31:04 | It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’ -Proverbs 31:05 | lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted. -Proverbs 31:06 | Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul. -Proverbs 31:07 | Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. -Proverbs 31:08 | Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. -Proverbs 31:09 | Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy." -Proverbs 31:10 | Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. -Proverbs 31:11 | The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. -Proverbs 31:12 | She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. -Proverbs 31:13 | She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. -Proverbs 31:14 | She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar. -Proverbs 31:15 | She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls. -Proverbs 31:16 | She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard. -Proverbs 31:17 | She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong. -Proverbs 31:18 | She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night. -Proverbs 31:19 | She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. -Proverbs 31:20 | She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy. -Proverbs 31:21 | She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet. -Proverbs 31:22 | She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple. -Proverbs 31:23 | Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits amongst the elders of the land. -Proverbs 31:24 | She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant. -Proverbs 31:25 | Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. -Proverbs 31:26 | She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue. -Proverbs 31:27 | She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness. -Proverbs 31:28 | Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: -Proverbs 31:29 | "Many women do noble things, but you excel them all." -Proverbs 31:30 | Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. -Proverbs 31:31 | Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates! -Proverbs 3:01 | My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: -Proverbs 3:02 | for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. -Proverbs 3:03 | Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. -Proverbs 3:04 | So you will find favour, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. -Proverbs 3:05 | Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. -Proverbs 3:06 | In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. -Proverbs 3:07 | Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, and depart from evil. -Proverbs 3:08 | It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. -Proverbs 3:09 | Honour the Lord with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: -Proverbs 3:10 | so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. -Proverbs 3:11 | My son, don’t despise the Lord’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; -Proverbs 3:12 | for whom the Lord loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. -Proverbs 3:13 | Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. -Proverbs 3:14 | For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. -Proverbs 3:15 | She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. -Proverbs 3:16 | Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honour. -Proverbs 3:17 | Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. -Proverbs 3:18 | She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her. -Proverbs 3:19 | By wisdom the Lord founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens. -Proverbs 3:20 | By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew. -Proverbs 3:21 | My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion: -Proverbs 3:22 | so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck. -Proverbs 3:23 | Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble. -Proverbs 3:24 | When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet. -Proverbs 3:25 | Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes; -Proverbs 3:26 | for the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. -Proverbs 3:27 | Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. -Proverbs 3:28 | Don’t say to your neighbour, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you. -Proverbs 3:29 | Don’t devise evil against your neighbour, since he dwells securely by you. -Proverbs 3:30 | Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. -Proverbs 3:31 | Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. -Proverbs 3:32 | For the perverse is an abomination to the Lord, but his friendship is with the upright. -Proverbs 3:33 | The Lord’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. -Proverbs 3:34 | Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble. -Proverbs 3:35 | The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools. -Proverbs 4:01 | Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; -Proverbs 4:02 | for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. -Proverbs 4:03 | For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. -Proverbs 4:04 | He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. -Proverbs 4:05 | Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth. -Proverbs 4:06 | Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. -Proverbs 4:07 | Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. -Proverbs 4:08 | Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honour when you embrace her. -Proverbs 4:09 | She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendour to you." -Proverbs 4:10 | Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. -Proverbs 4:11 | I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. -Proverbs 4:12 | When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble. -Proverbs 4:13 | Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life. -Proverbs 4:14 | Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. -Proverbs 4:15 | Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. -Proverbs 4:16 | For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. -Proverbs 4:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. -Proverbs 4:18 | But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day. -Proverbs 4:19 | The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over. -Proverbs 4:20 | My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. -Proverbs 4:21 | Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the centre of your heart. -Proverbs 4:22 | For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body. -Proverbs 4:23 | Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. -Proverbs 4:24 | Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. -Proverbs 4:25 | Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. -Proverbs 4:26 | Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. -Proverbs 4:27 | Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil. -Proverbs 5:01 | My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding, -Proverbs 5:02 | that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. -Proverbs 5:03 | For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, -Proverbs 5:04 | but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. -Proverbs 5:05 | Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. -Proverbs 5:06 | She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it. -Proverbs 5:07 | Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth. -Proverbs 5:08 | Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house, -Proverbs 5:09 | lest you give your honour to others, and your years to the cruel one; -Proverbs 5:10 | lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labours enrich another man’s house. -Proverbs 5:11 | You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, -Proverbs 5:12 | and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. -Proverbs 5:13 | I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! -Proverbs 5:14 | I have come to the brink of utter ruin, amongst the gathered assembly." -Proverbs 5:15 | Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. -Proverbs 5:16 | Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? -Proverbs 5:17 | Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. -Proverbs 5:18 | Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. -Proverbs 5:19 | A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. -Proverbs 5:20 | For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? -Proverbs 5:21 | For the ways of man are before the Lord’s eyes. He examines all his paths. -Proverbs 5:22 | The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. -Proverbs 5:23 | He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray. -Proverbs 6:01 | My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbour, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger, -Proverbs 6:02 | you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth. -Proverbs 6:03 | Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbour. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbour. -Proverbs 6:04 | Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. -Proverbs 6:05 | Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. -Proverbs 6:06 | Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; -Proverbs 6:08 | provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. -Proverbs 6:09 | How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? -Proverbs 6:10 | A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: -Proverbs 6:11 | so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man. -Proverbs 6:12 | A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, -Proverbs 6:13 | who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers, -Proverbs 6:14 | in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. -Proverbs 6:15 | Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. -Proverbs 6:16 | There are six things which the Lord hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: -Proverbs 6:17 | arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, -Proverbs 6:18 | a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, -Proverbs 6:19 | a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord amongst brothers. -Proverbs 6:20 | My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. -Proverbs 6:21 | Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. -Proverbs 6:22 | When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. -Proverbs 6:23 | For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, -Proverbs 6:24 | to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. -Proverbs 6:25 | Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. -Proverbs 6:26 | For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. -Proverbs 6:27 | Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burnt? -Proverbs 6:28 | Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? -Proverbs 6:29 | So is he who goes in to his neighbour’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. -Proverbs 6:30 | Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry; -Proverbs 6:31 | but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. -Proverbs 6:32 | He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. -Proverbs 6:33 | He will get wounds and dishonour. His reproach will not be wiped away. -Proverbs 6:34 | For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance. -Proverbs 6:35 | He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. -Proverbs 7:01 | My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. -Proverbs 7:02 | Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. -Proverbs 7:03 | Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. -Proverbs 7:04 | Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative, -Proverbs 7:05 | that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. -Proverbs 7:06 | For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. -Proverbs 7:08 | passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, -Proverbs 7:09 | in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. -Proverbs 7:10 | Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. -Proverbs 7:11 | She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house. -Proverbs 7:12 | Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. -Proverbs 7:13 | So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: -Proverbs 7:14 | "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. -Proverbs 7:15 | Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. -Proverbs 7:16 | I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. -Proverbs 7:17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. -Proverbs 7:18 | Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving. -Proverbs 7:19 | For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey. -Proverbs 7:20 | He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon." -Proverbs 7:21 | With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. -Proverbs 7:22 | He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. -Proverbs 7:23 | Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life. -Proverbs 7:24 | Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. -Proverbs 7:25 | Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths, -Proverbs 7:26 | for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. -Proverbs 7:27 | Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death. -Proverbs 8:01 | Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? -Proverbs 8:02 | On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. -Proverbs 8:03 | Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud: -Proverbs 8:04 | "I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. -Proverbs 8:05 | You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart! -Proverbs 8:06 | Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. -Proverbs 8:07 | For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. -Proverbs 8:08 | All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. -Proverbs 8:09 | They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge. -Proverbs 8:10 | Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold. -Proverbs 8:11 | For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it. -Proverbs 8:12 | "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion. -Proverbs 8:13 | The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth. -Proverbs 8:14 | Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power. -Proverbs 8:15 | By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. -Proverbs 8:16 | By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. -Proverbs 8:17 | I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me. -Proverbs 8:18 | With me are riches, honour, enduring wealth, and prosperity. -Proverbs 8:19 | My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver. -Proverbs 8:20 | I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice, -Proverbs 8:21 | that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries. -Proverbs 8:22 | "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. -Proverbs 8:23 | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. -Proverbs 8:24 | When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. -Proverbs 8:25 | Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born; -Proverbs 8:26 | while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. -Proverbs 8:27 | When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep, -Proverbs 8:28 | when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, -Proverbs 8:29 | when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, -Proverbs 8:30 | then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, -Proverbs 8:31 | rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. -Proverbs 8:32 | "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. -Proverbs 8:33 | Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. -Proverbs 8:34 | Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. -Proverbs 8:35 | For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favour from the Lord. -Proverbs 8:36 | But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death." -Proverbs 9:01 | Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. -Proverbs 9:02 | She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table. -Proverbs 9:03 | She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city: -Proverbs 9:04 | "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, -Proverbs 9:05 | "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed! -Proverbs 9:06 | Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding." -Proverbs 9:07 | One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. -Proverbs 9:08 | Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you. -Proverbs 9:09 | Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning. -Proverbs 9:10 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. -Proverbs 9:11 | For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased. -Proverbs 9:12 | If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it. -Proverbs 9:13 | The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing. -Proverbs 9:14 | She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, -Proverbs 9:15 | to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways, -Proverbs 9:16 | "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, -Proverbs 9:17 | "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant." -Proverbs 9:18 | But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. -Psalm 100:01 | A Psalm of thanksgiving. Shout for joy to the Lord, all you lands! -Psalm 100:02 | Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. -Psalm 100:03 | Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. -Psalm 100:04 | Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. -Psalm 100:05 | For the Lord is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations. -Psalm 101:01 | A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Lord, I will sing praises. -Psalm 101:02 | I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. -Psalm 101:03 | I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. -Psalm 101:04 | A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. -Psalm 101:05 | I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited. -Psalm 101:06 | My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. -Psalm 101:07 | He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes. -Psalm 101:08 | Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the Lord’s city. -Psalm 102:01 | A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the Lord. Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you. -Psalm 102:02 | Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call. -Psalm 102:03 | For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burnt as a torch. -Psalm 102:04 | My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. -Psalm 102:05 | By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. -Psalm 102:06 | I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. -Psalm 102:07 | I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop. -Psalm 102:08 | My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse. -Psalm 102:09 | For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, -Psalm 102:10 | because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away. -Psalm 102:11 | My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass. -Psalm 102:12 | But you, Lord, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations. -Psalm 102:13 | You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. -Psalm 102:14 | For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust. -Psalm 102:15 | So the nations will fear the Lord’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory. -Psalm 102:16 | For the Lord has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. -Psalm 102:17 | He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. -Psalm 102:18 | This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the Lord, -Psalm 102:19 | for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth, -Psalm 102:20 | to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death, -Psalm 102:21 | that men may declare the Lord’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem, -Psalm 102:22 | when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. -Psalm 102:23 | He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days. -Psalm 102:24 | I said, "My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations. -Psalm 102:25 | Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands. -Psalm 102:26 | They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed. -Psalm 102:27 | But you are the same. Your years will have no end. -Psalm 102:28 | The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you." -Psalm 103:01 | By David. Praise the Lord, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! -Psalm 103:02 | Praise the Lord, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits, -Psalm 103:03 | who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, -Psalm 103:04 | who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, -Psalm 103:05 | who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. -Psalm 103:06 | The Lord executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed. -Psalm 103:07 | He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel. -Psalm 103:08 | The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. -Psalm 103:09 | He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. -Psalm 103:10 | He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. -Psalm 103:11 | For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness towards those who fear him. -Psalm 103:12 | As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. -Psalm 103:13 | Like a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. -Psalm 103:14 | For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. -Psalm 103:15 | As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. -Psalm 103:16 | For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. -Psalm 103:17 | But the Lord’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children, -Psalm 103:18 | to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts. -Psalm 103:19 | The Lord has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all. -Psalm 103:20 | Praise the Lord, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfil his word, obeying the voice of his word. -Psalm 103:21 | Praise the Lord, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure. -Psalm 103:22 | Praise the Lord, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise the Lord, my soul! -Psalm 104:01 | Bless the Lord, my soul. The Lord, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honour and majesty. -Psalm 104:02 | He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. -Psalm 104:03 | He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. -Psalm 104:04 | He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire. -Psalm 104:05 | He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. -Psalm 104:06 | You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. -Psalm 104:07 | At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. -Psalm 104:08 | The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. -Psalm 104:09 | You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth. -Psalm 104:10 | He sends springs into the valleys. They run amongst the mountains. -Psalm 104:11 | They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. -Psalm 104:12 | The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing amongst the branches. -Psalm 104:13 | He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works. -Psalm 104:14 | He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: -Psalm 104:15 | wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart. -Psalm 104:16 | The Lord’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted, -Psalm 104:17 | where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees. -Psalm 104:18 | The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers. -Psalm 104:19 | He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. -Psalm 104:20 | You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl. -Psalm 104:21 | The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. -Psalm 104:22 | The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens. -Psalm 104:23 | Man goes out to his work, to his labour until the evening. -Psalm 104:24 | The Lord, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches. -Psalm 104:25 | There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. -Psalm 104:26 | There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there. -Psalm 104:27 | These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. -Psalm 104:28 | You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good. -Psalm 104:29 | You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust. -Psalm 104:30 | You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground. -Psalm 104:31 | Let the Lord’s glory endure forever. Let the Lord rejoice in his works. -Psalm 104:32 | He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. -Psalm 104:33 | I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. -Psalm 104:34 | Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the Lord. -Psalm 104:35 | Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, my soul. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 105:01 | Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make his doings known amongst the peoples. -Psalm 105:02 | Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvellous works. -Psalm 105:03 | Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice. -Psalm 105:04 | Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face forever more. -Psalm 105:05 | Remember his marvellous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth, -Psalm 105:06 | you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. -Psalm 105:07 | He is the Lord, our God. His judgements are in all the earth. -Psalm 105:08 | He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, -Psalm 105:09 | the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, -Psalm 105:10 | and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying, -Psalm 105:11 | "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance," -Psalm 105:12 | when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. -Psalm 105:13 | They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. -Psalm 105:14 | He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, -Psalm 105:15 | "Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!" -Psalm 105:16 | He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. -Psalm 105:17 | He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave. -Psalm 105:18 | They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, -Psalm 105:19 | until the time that his word happened, and the Lord’s word proved him true. -Psalm 105:20 | The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. -Psalm 105:21 | He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions, -Psalm 105:22 | to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. -Psalm 105:23 | Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham. -Psalm 105:24 | He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries. -Psalm 105:25 | He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. -Psalm 105:26 | He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. -Psalm 105:27 | They performed miracles amongst them, and wonders in the land of Ham. -Psalm 105:28 | He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words. -Psalm 105:29 | He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. -Psalm 105:30 | Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings. -Psalm 105:31 | He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders. -Psalm 105:32 | He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land. -Psalm 105:33 | He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country. -Psalm 105:34 | He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number, -Psalm 105:35 | ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground. -Psalm 105:36 | He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood. -Psalm 105:37 | He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person amongst his tribes. -Psalm 105:38 | Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them. -Psalm 105:39 | He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night. -Psalm 105:40 | They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky. -Psalm 105:41 | He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places. -Psalm 105:42 | For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant. -Psalm 105:43 | He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing. -Psalm 105:44 | He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labour of the peoples in possession, -Psalm 105:45 | that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 106:01 | Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 106:02 | Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord, or fully declare all his praise? -Psalm 106:03 | Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times. -Psalm 106:04 | Remember me, Lord, with the favour that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation, -Psalm 106:05 | that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. -Psalm 106:06 | We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly. -Psalm 106:07 | Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea. -Psalm 106:08 | Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known. -Psalm 106:09 | He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert. -Psalm 106:10 | He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. -Psalm 106:11 | The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left. -Psalm 106:12 | Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. -Psalm 106:13 | They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel, -Psalm 106:14 | but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland. -Psalm 106:15 | He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. -Psalm 106:16 | They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, the Lord’s saint. -Psalm 106:17 | The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. -Psalm 106:18 | A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burnt up the wicked. -Psalm 106:19 | They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image. -Psalm 106:20 | Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass. -Psalm 106:21 | They forgot God, their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt, -Psalm 106:22 | wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea. -Psalm 106:23 | Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them. -Psalm 106:24 | Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word, -Psalm 106:25 | but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the Lord’s voice. -Psalm 106:26 | Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, -Psalm 106:27 | that he would overthrow their offspring amongst the nations, and scatter them in the lands. -Psalm 106:28 | They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. -Psalm 106:29 | Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them. -Psalm 106:30 | Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgement, so the plague was stopped. -Psalm 106:31 | That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come. -Psalm 106:32 | They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes; -Psalm 106:33 | because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips. -Psalm 106:34 | They didn’t destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them, -Psalm 106:35 | but mixed themselves with the nations, and learnt their works. -Psalm 106:36 | They served their idols, which became a snare to them. -Psalm 106:37 | Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. -Psalm 106:38 | They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood. -Psalm 106:39 | Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds. -Psalm 106:40 | Therefore the Lord burnt with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance. -Psalm 106:41 | He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them. -Psalm 106:42 | Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand. -Psalm 106:43 | He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. -Psalm 106:44 | Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. -Psalm 106:45 | He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. -Psalm 106:46 | He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive. -Psalm 106:47 | Save us, Lord, our God, gather us from amongst the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise! -Psalm 106:48 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise the LORD! -Psalm 107:01 | Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 107:02 | Let the redeemed by the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, -Psalm 107:03 | and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. -Psalm 107:04 | They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. -Psalm 107:05 | Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. -Psalm 107:06 | Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses, -Psalm 107:07 | he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. -Psalm 107:08 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! -Psalm 107:09 | For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. -Psalm 107:10 | Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, -Psalm 107:11 | because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. -Psalm 107:12 | Therefore he brought down their heart with labour. They fell down, and there was no one to help. -Psalm 107:13 | Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. -Psalm 107:14 | He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains. -Psalm 107:15 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! -Psalm 107:16 | For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron. -Psalm 107:17 | Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. -Psalm 107:18 | Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. -Psalm 107:19 | Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses. -Psalm 107:20 | He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves. -Psalm 107:21 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! -Psalm 107:22 | Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing. -Psalm 107:23 | Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; -Psalm 107:24 | These see the Lord’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107:25 | For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. -Psalm 107:26 | They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. -Psalm 107:27 | They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. -Psalm 107:28 | Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. -Psalm 107:29 | He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. -Psalm 107:30 | Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven. -Psalm 107:31 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men! -Psalm 107:32 | Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. -Psalm 107:33 | He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, -Psalm 107:34 | and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it. -Psalm 107:35 | He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs. -Psalm 107:36 | There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, -Psalm 107:37 | sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. -Psalm 107:38 | He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease. -Psalm 107:39 | Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. -Psalm 107:40 | He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. -Psalm 107:41 | Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. -Psalm 107:42 | The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths. -Psalm 107:43 | Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the Lord. -Psalm 108:01 | A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul. -Psalm 108:02 | Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn. -Psalm 108:03 | I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the nations. I will sing praises to you amongst the peoples. -Psalm 108:04 | For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. -Psalm 108:05 | Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth. -Psalm 108:06 | That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. -Psalm 108:07 | God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. -Psalm 108:08 | Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my sceptre. -Psalm 108:09 | Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia." -Psalm 108:10 | Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom? -Psalm 108:11 | Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies. -Psalm 108:12 | Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. -Psalm 108:13 | Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies. -Psalm 109:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent, -Psalm 109:02 | for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. -Psalm 109:03 | They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. -Psalm 109:04 | In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. -Psalm 109:05 | They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. -Psalm 109:06 | Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand. -Psalm 109:07 | When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin. -Psalm 109:08 | Let his days be few. Let another take his office. -Psalm 109:09 | Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. -Psalm 109:10 | Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. -Psalm 109:11 | Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labour. -Psalm 109:12 | Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children. -Psalm 109:13 | Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. -Psalm 109:14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out. -Psalm 109:15 | Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth; -Psalm 109:16 | because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them. -Psalm 109:17 | Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him. -Psalm 109:18 | He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. -Psalm 109:19 | Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him. -Psalm 109:20 | This is the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my soul. -Psalm 109:21 | But deal with me, God the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me; -Psalm 109:22 | for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. -Psalm 109:23 | I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. -Psalm 109:24 | My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. -Psalm 109:25 | I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head. -Psalm 109:26 | Help me, Lord, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness; -Psalm 109:27 | that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Lord, have done it. -Psalm 109:28 | They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice. -Psalm 109:29 | Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonour. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. -Psalm 109:30 | I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him amongst the multitude. -Psalm 109:31 | For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. -Psalm 10:01 | Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? -Psalm 10:02 | In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. -Psalm 10:03 | For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the Lord. -Psalm 10:04 | The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. -Psalm 10:05 | His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. -Psalm 10:06 | He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble." -Psalm 10:07 | His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. -Psalm 10:08 | He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. -Psalm 10:09 | He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. -Psalm 10:10 | The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength. -Psalm 10:11 | He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it." -Psalm 10:12 | Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless. -Psalm 10:13 | Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won’t call me into account?" -Psalm 10:14 | But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. -Psalm 10:15 | Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. -Psalm 10:16 | The Lord is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. -Psalm 10:17 | Lord, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, -Psalm 10:18 | to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. -Psalm 110:01 | A Psalm by David. The Lord says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet." -Psalm 110:02 | The Lord will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule amongst your enemies. -Psalm 110:03 | Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth. -Psalm 110:04 | The Lord has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." -Psalm 110:05 | The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath. -Psalm 110:06 | He will judge amongst the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth. -Psalm 110:07 | He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head. -Psalm 111:01 | Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. -Psalm 111:02 | The Lord’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them. -Psalm 111:03 | His work is honour and majesty. His righteousness endures forever. -Psalm 111:04 | He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and merciful. -Psalm 111:05 | He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant. -Psalm 111:06 | He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations. -Psalm 111:07 | The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure. -Psalm 111:08 | They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness. -Psalm 111:09 | He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome! -Psalm 111:10 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! -Psalm 112:01 | Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in his commandments. -Psalm 112:02 | His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed. -Psalm 112:03 | Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever. -Psalm 112:04 | Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous. -Psalm 112:05 | It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgement. -Psalm 112:06 | For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever. -Psalm 112:07 | He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. -Psalm 112:08 | His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries. -Psalm 112:09 | He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honour. -Psalm 112:10 | The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish. -Psalm 113:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the Lord, praise the Lord’s name. -Psalm 113:02 | Blessed be the Lord’s name, from this time forward and forever more. -Psalm 113:03 | From the rising of the sun to its going down, The Lord’s name is to be praised. -Psalm 113:04 | The Lord is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. -Psalm 113:05 | Who is like the Lord, our God, who has his seat on high, -Psalm 113:06 | Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth? -Psalm 113:07 | He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap, -Psalm 113:08 | that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. -Psalm 113:09 | He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 114:01 | When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language, -Psalm 114:02 | Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. -Psalm 114:03 | The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. -Psalm 114:04 | The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. -Psalm 114:05 | What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back? -Psalm 114:06 | You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs? -Psalm 114:07 | Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, -Psalm 114:08 | who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters. -Psalm 115:01 | Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake. -Psalm 115:02 | Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?" -Psalm 115:03 | But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. -Psalm 115:04 | Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. -Psalm 115:05 | They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see. -Psalm 115:06 | They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell. -Psalm 115:07 | They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat. -Psalm 115:08 | Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them. -Psalm 115:09 | Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. -Psalm 115:10 | House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. -Psalm 115:11 | You who fear the Lord, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. -Psalm 115:12 | The Lord remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. -Psalm 115:13 | He will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great. -Psalm 115:14 | May the Lord increase you more and more, you and your children. -Psalm 115:15 | Blessed are you by the Lord, who made heaven and earth. -Psalm 115:16 | The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men. -Psalm 115:17 | The dead don’t praise the Lord, neither any who go down into silence; -Psalm 115:18 | but we will bless the Lord, from this time forward and forever more. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 116:01 | I love the Lord, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. -Psalm 116:02 | Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. -Psalm 116:03 | The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow. -Psalm 116:04 | Then I called on the Lord’s name: "LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul." -Psalm 116:05 | The Lord is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful. -Psalm 116:06 | The Lord preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me. -Psalm 116:07 | Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. -Psalm 116:08 | For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. -Psalm 116:09 | I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. -Psalm 116:10 | I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted." -Psalm 116:11 | I said in my haste, "All people are liars." -Psalm 116:12 | What will I give to the Lord for all his benefits towards me? -Psalm 116:13 | I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the Lord’s name. -Psalm 116:14 | I will pay my vows to the Lord, yes, in the presence of all his people. -Psalm 116:15 | Precious in the Lord’s sight is the death of his saints. -Psalm 116:16 | Lord, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains. -Psalm 116:17 | I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the Lord’s name. -Psalm 116:18 | I will pay my vows to the Lord, yes, in the presence of all his people, -Psalm 116:19 | in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 117:01 | Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! -Psalm 117:02 | For his loving kindness is great towards us. The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 118:01 | Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 118:02 | Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 118:03 | Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 118:04 | Now let those who fear the Lord say that his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 118:05 | Out of my distress, I called on the Lord. The Lord answered me with freedom. -Psalm 118:06 | The Lord is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? -Psalm 118:07 | The Lord is on my side amongst those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me. -Psalm 118:08 | It is better to take refuge in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. -Psalm 118:09 | It is better to take refuge in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. -Psalm 118:10 | All the nations surrounded me, but in the Lord’s name, I cut them off. -Psalm 118:11 | They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the Lord’s name I indeed cut them off. -Psalm 118:12 | They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the Lord’s name I cut them off. -Psalm 118:13 | You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the Lord helped me. -Psalm 118:14 | The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. -Psalm 118:15 | The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. -Psalm 118:16 | The right hand of the Lord is exalted! The right hand of the Lord does valiantly!" -Psalm 118:17 | I will not die, but live, and declare the Lord’s works. -Psalm 118:18 | The Lord has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death. -Psalm 118:19 | Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to the Lord. -Psalm 118:20 | This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous will enter into it. -Psalm 118:21 | I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation. -Psalm 118:22 | The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. -Psalm 118:23 | This is the Lord’s doing. It is marvellous in our eyes. -Psalm 118:24 | This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it! -Psalm 118:25 | Save us now, we beg you, LORD! Lord, we beg you, send prosperity now. -Psalm 118:26 | Blessed is he who comes in the Lord’s name! We have blessed you out of the Lord’s house. -Psalm 118:27 | The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. -Psalm 118:28 | You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you. -Psalm 118:29 | Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 119:01 | ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the Lord’s law. -Psalm 119:02 | Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart. -Psalm 119:03 | Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. -Psalm 119:04 | You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them. -Psalm 119:05 | Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes! -Psalm 119:06 | Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments. -Psalm 119:07 | I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgements. -Psalm 119:08 | I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. -Psalm 119:09 | BET How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. -Psalm 119:10 | With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments. -Psalm 119:100 | I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts. -Psalm 119:101 | I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word. -Psalm 119:102 | I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me. -Psalm 119:103 | How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth! -Psalm 119:104 | Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. -Psalm 119:105 | NUN Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path. -Psalm 119:106 | I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances. -Psalm 119:107 | I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Lord, according to your word. -Psalm 119:108 | Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Lord, teach me your ordinances. -Psalm 119:109 | My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law. -Psalm 119:11 | I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. -Psalm 119:110 | The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts. -Psalm 119:111 | I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. -Psalm 119:112 | I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. -Psalm 119:113 | SAMEKH I hate double-minded men, but I love your law. -Psalm 119:114 | You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word. -Psalm 119:115 | Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. -Psalm 119:116 | Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope. -Psalm 119:117 | Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually. -Psalm 119:118 | You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain. -Psalm 119:119 | You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies. -Psalm 119:12 | Blessed are you, Lord. Teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:120 | My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgements. -Psalm 119:121 | AYIN I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors. -Psalm 119:122 | Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me. -Psalm 119:123 | My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word. -Psalm 119:124 | Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:125 | I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies. -Psalm 119:126 | It is time to act, Lord, for they break your law. -Psalm 119:127 | Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold. -Psalm 119:128 | Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. -Psalm 119:129 | PEY Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them. -Psalm 119:13 | With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth. -Psalm 119:130 | The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. -Psalm 119:131 | I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments. -Psalm 119:132 | Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name. -Psalm 119:133 | Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me. -Psalm 119:134 | Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts. -Psalm 119:135 | Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:136 | Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. -Psalm 119:137 | TZADI You are righteous, Lord. Your judgements are upright. -Psalm 119:138 | You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy. -Psalm 119:139 | My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words. -Psalm 119:14 | I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. -Psalm 119:140 | Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them. -Psalm 119:141 | I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts. -Psalm 119:142 | Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth. -Psalm 119:143 | Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight. -Psalm 119:144 | Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. -Psalm 119:145 | KUF I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, LORD! I will keep your statutes. -Psalm 119:146 | I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes. -Psalm 119:147 | I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. -Psalm 119:148 | My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word. -Psalm 119:149 | Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Lord, according to your ordinances. -Psalm 119:15 | I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways. -Psalm 119:150 | They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law. -Psalm 119:151 | You are near, Lord. All your commandments are truth. -Psalm 119:152 | Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. -Psalm 119:153 | RESH Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law. -Psalm 119:154 | Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise. -Psalm 119:155 | Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes. -Psalm 119:156 | Great are your tender mercies, Lord. Revive me according to your ordinances. -Psalm 119:157 | Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies. -Psalm 119:158 | I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word. -Psalm 119:159 | Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Lord, according to your loving kindness. -Psalm 119:16 | I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. -Psalm 119:160 | All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. -Psalm 119:161 | SIN AND SHIN Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. -Psalm 119:162 | I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder. -Psalm 119:163 | I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law. -Psalm 119:164 | Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances. -Psalm 119:165 | Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble. -Psalm 119:166 | I have hoped for your salvation, Lord. I have done your commandments. -Psalm 119:167 | My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly. -Psalm 119:168 | I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. -Psalm 119:169 | TAV Let my cry come before you, Lord. Give me understanding according to your word. -Psalm 119:17 | GIMEL Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word. -Psalm 119:170 | Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word. -Psalm 119:171 | Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:172 | Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness. -Psalm 119:173 | Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. -Psalm 119:174 | I have longed for your salvation, Lord. Your law is my delight. -Psalm 119:175 | Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me. -Psalm 119:176 | I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments. -Psalm 119:18 | Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. -Psalm 119:19 | I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me. -Psalm 119:20 | My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times. -Psalm 119:21 | You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments. -Psalm 119:22 | Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes. -Psalm 119:23 | Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes. -Psalm 119:24 | Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counsellors. -Psalm 119:25 | DALED My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word! -Psalm 119:26 | I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:27 | Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works. -Psalm 119:28 | My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word. -Psalm 119:29 | Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously! -Psalm 119:30 | I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me. -Psalm 119:31 | I cling to your statutes, Lord. Don’t let me be disappointed. -Psalm 119:32 | I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. -Psalm 119:33 | HEY Teach me, Lord, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end. -Psalm 119:34 | Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart. -Psalm 119:35 | Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them. -Psalm 119:36 | Turn my heart towards your statutes, not towards selfish gain. -Psalm 119:37 | Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways. -Psalm 119:38 | Fulfil your promise to your servant, that you may be feared. -Psalm 119:39 | Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good. -Psalm 119:40 | Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. -Psalm 119:41 | WAW Let your loving kindness also come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your word. -Psalm 119:42 | So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word. -Psalm 119:43 | Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances. -Psalm 119:44 | So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever. -Psalm 119:45 | I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts. -Psalm 119:46 | I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed. -Psalm 119:47 | I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them. -Psalm 119:48 | I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. -Psalm 119:49 | ZAYIN Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope. -Psalm 119:50 | This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me. -Psalm 119:51 | The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law. -Psalm 119:52 | I remember your ordinances of old, Lord, and have comforted myself. -Psalm 119:53 | Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law. -Psalm 119:54 | Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live. -Psalm 119:55 | I have remembered your name, Lord, in the night, and I obey your law. -Psalm 119:56 | This is my way, that I keep your precepts. -Psalm 119:57 | CHET The Lord is my portion. I promised to obey your words. -Psalm 119:58 | I sought your favour with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word. -Psalm 119:59 | I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes. -Psalm 119:60 | I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments. -Psalm 119:61 | The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law. -Psalm 119:62 | At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances. -Psalm 119:63 | I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts. -Psalm 119:64 | The earth is full of your loving kindness, Lord. Teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:65 | TET You have treated your servant well, according to your word, Lord. -Psalm 119:66 | Teach me good judgement and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. -Psalm 119:67 | Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word. -Psalm 119:68 | You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes. -Psalm 119:69 | The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts. -Psalm 119:70 | Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law. -Psalm 119:71 | It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes. -Psalm 119:72 | The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. -Psalm 119:73 | YUD Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments. -Psalm 119:74 | Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word. -Psalm 119:75 | Lord, I know that your judgements are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. -Psalm 119:76 | Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant. -Psalm 119:77 | Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. -Psalm 119:78 | Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts. -Psalm 119:79 | Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes. -Psalm 119:80 | Let my heart be blameless towards your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. -Psalm 119:81 | KAF My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. -Psalm 119:82 | My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?" -Psalm 119:83 | For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes. -Psalm 119:84 | How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgement on those who persecute me? -Psalm 119:85 | The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law. -Psalm 119:86 | All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me! -Psalm 119:87 | They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts. -Psalm 119:88 | Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. -Psalm 119:89 | LAMED Lord, your word is settled in heaven forever. -Psalm 119:90 | Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains. -Psalm 119:91 | Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you. -Psalm 119:92 | Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. -Psalm 119:93 | I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me. -Psalm 119:94 | I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts. -Psalm 119:95 | The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes. -Psalm 119:96 | I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. -Psalm 119:97 | MEM How I love your law! It is my meditation all day. -Psalm 119:98 | Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. -Psalm 119:99 | I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. -Psalm 11:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David. In the Lord, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain"? -Psalm 11:02 | For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. -Psalm 11:03 | If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? -Psalm 11:04 | The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men. -Psalm 11:05 | The Lord examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence. -Psalm 11:06 | On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulphur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. -Psalm 11:07 | For the Lord is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. -Psalm 120:01 | A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the Lord. He answered me. -Psalm 120:02 | Deliver my soul, Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. -Psalm 120:03 | What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue? -Psalm 120:05 | Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell amongst the tents of Kedar! -Psalm 120:06 | My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. -Psalm 120:07 | I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. -Psalm 121:01 | A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? -Psalm 121:02 | My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. -Psalm 121:03 | He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. -Psalm 121:04 | Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. -Psalm 121:05 | The Lord is your keeper. The Lord is your shade on your right hand. -Psalm 121:06 | The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. -Psalm 121:07 | The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. -Psalm 121:08 | The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more. -Psalm 122:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, "Let’s go to the Lord’s house!" -Psalm 122:02 | Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem, -Psalm 122:03 | Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together, -Psalm 122:04 | where the tribes go up, even the Lord’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the Lord’s name. -Psalm 122:05 | For there are set thrones for judgement, the thrones of David’s house. -Psalm 122:06 | Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. -Psalm 122:07 | Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. -Psalm 122:08 | For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you." -Psalm 122:09 | For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. -Psalm 123:01 | A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens. -Psalm 123:02 | Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us. -Psalm 123:03 | Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. -Psalm 123:04 | Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. -Psalm 124:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, let Israel now say, -Psalm 124:02 | if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; -Psalm 124:03 | then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; -Psalm 124:04 | then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; -Psalm 124:05 | then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. -Psalm 124:06 | Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. -Psalm 124:07 | Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. -Psalm 124:08 | Our help is in the Lord’s name, who made heaven and earth. -Psalm 125:01 | A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever. -Psalm 125:02 | As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more. -Psalm 125:03 | For the sceptre of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil. -Psalm 125:04 | Do good, Lord, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts. -Psalm 125:05 | But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, The Lord will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. -Psalm 126:01 | A Song of Ascents. When the Lord brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream. -Psalm 126:02 | Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said amongst the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them." -Psalm 126:03 | The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad. -Psalm 126:04 | Restore our fortunes again, Lord, like the streams in the Negev. -Psalm 126:05 | Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. -Psalm 126:06 | He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. -Psalm 127:01 | A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, they who build it labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. -Psalm 127:02 | It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones. -Psalm 127:03 | Behold, children are a heritage of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is his reward. -Psalm 127:04 | As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. -Psalm 127:05 | Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. -Psalm 128:01 | A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. -Psalm 128:02 | For you will eat the labour of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. -Psalm 128:03 | Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table. -Psalm 128:04 | Behold, this is how the man who fears the Lord is blessed. -Psalm 128:05 | May the Lord bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. -Psalm 128:06 | Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel. -Psalm 129:01 | A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, -Psalm 129:02 | many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. -Psalm 129:03 | The ploughers ploughed on my back. They made their furrows long. -Psalm 129:04 | The Lord is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. -Psalm 129:05 | Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. -Psalm 129:06 | Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, -Psalm 129:07 | with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. -Psalm 129:08 | Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the Lord be on you. We bless you in the Lord’s name." -Psalm 12:01 | For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David. Help, Lord; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from amongst the children of men. -Psalm 12:02 | Everyone lies to his neighbour. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. -Psalm 12:03 | May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, -Psalm 12:04 | who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?" -Psalm 12:05 | "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the Lord; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him." -Psalm 12:06 | The Lord’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times. -Psalm 12:07 | You will keep them, Lord. You will preserve them from this generation forever. -Psalm 12:08 | The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted amongst the sons of men. -Psalm 130:01 | A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Lord. -Psalm 130:02 | Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions. -Psalm 130:03 | If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? -Psalm 130:04 | But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared. -Psalm 130:05 | I wait for the Lord. My soul waits. I hope in his word. -Psalm 130:06 | My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. -Psalm 130:07 | Israel, hope in the Lord, for there is loving kindness with the Lord. Abundant redemption is with him. -Psalm 130:08 | He will redeem Israel from all their sins. -Psalm 131:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. Lord, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me. -Psalm 131:02 | Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. -Psalm 131:03 | Israel, hope in the Lord, from this time forward and forever more. -Psalm 132:01 | A Song of Ascents. Lord, remember David and all his affliction, -Psalm 132:02 | how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: -Psalm 132:03 | "Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed; -Psalm 132:04 | I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids; -Psalm 132:05 | until I find out a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." -Psalm 132:06 | Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar: -Psalm 132:07 | "We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool. -Psalm 132:08 | Arise, Lord, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. -Psalm 132:09 | Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!" -Psalm 132:10 | For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one. -Psalm 132:11 | The Lord has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne. -Psalm 132:12 | If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more." -Psalm 132:13 | For the Lord has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. -Psalm 132:14 | "This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it. -Psalm 132:15 | I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. -Psalm 132:16 | I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy. -Psalm 132:17 | I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. -Psalm 132:18 | I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine." -Psalm 133:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! -Psalm 133:02 | It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard, that came down on the edge of his robes, -Psalm 133:03 | like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there the Lord gives the blessing, even life forever more. -Psalm 134:01 | A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the Lord’s house! -Psalm 134:02 | Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 134:03 | May the Lord bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth. -Psalm 135:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise the Lord’s name! Praise him, you servants of the Lord, -Psalm 135:02 | you who stand in the Lord’s house, in the courts of our God’s house. -Psalm 135:03 | Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant. -Psalm 135:04 | For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession. -Psalm 135:05 | For I know that the Lord is great, that our Lord is above all gods. -Psalm 135:06 | Whatever the Lord pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps. -Psalm 135:07 | He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries. -Psalm 135:08 | He struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal. -Psalm 135:09 | He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants. -Psalm 135:10 | He struck many nations, and killed mighty kings, -Psalm 135:11 | Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan, -Psalm 135:12 | and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people. -Psalm 135:13 | Your name, Lord, endures forever; your renown, Lord, throughout all generations. -Psalm 135:14 | For the Lord will judge his people and have compassion on his servants. -Psalm 135:15 | The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. -Psalm 135:16 | They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see. -Psalm 135:17 | They have ears, but they can’t hear, neither is there any breath in their mouths. -Psalm 135:18 | Those who make them will be like them, yes, everyone who trusts in them. -Psalm 135:19 | House of Israel, praise the LORD! House of Aaron, praise the LORD! -Psalm 135:20 | House of Levi, praise the LORD! You who fear the Lord, praise the LORD! -Psalm 135:21 | Blessed be the Lord from Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 136:01 | Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 136:02 | Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 136:03 | Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:04 | to him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:05 | to him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:06 | to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:07 | to him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:08 | the sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:09 | the moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:10 | to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:11 | and brought out Israel from amongst them; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:12 | with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:13 | to him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:14 | and made Israel to pass through the middle of it; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:15 | but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:16 | to him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:17 | to him who struck great kings; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:18 | and killed mighty kings; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:19 | Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:20 | Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:21 | and gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:22 | even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:23 | who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever; -Psalm 136:24 | and has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever: -Psalm 136:25 | who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 136:26 | Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; for his loving kindness endures forever. -Psalm 137:01 | By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. -Psalm 137:03 | For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" -Psalm 137:04 | How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? -Psalm 137:05 | If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. -Psalm 137:06 | Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. -Psalm 137:07 | Remember, Lord, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!" -Psalm 137:08 | Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us. -Psalm 137:09 | Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. -Psalm 138:01 | By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you. -Psalm 138:02 | I will bow down towards your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all. -Psalm 138:03 | In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul. -Psalm 138:04 | All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Lord, for they have heard the words of your mouth. -Psalm 138:05 | Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord, for the Lord’s glory is great! -Psalm 138:06 | For though the Lord is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar. -Psalm 138:07 | Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me. -Psalm 138:08 | The Lord will fulfil that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Lord, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands. -Psalm 139:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Lord, you have searched me, and you know me. -Psalm 139:02 | You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. -Psalm 139:03 | You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. -Psalm 139:04 | For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Lord, you know it altogether. -Psalm 139:05 | You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. -Psalm 139:06 | This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it. -Psalm 139:07 | Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? -Psalm 139:08 | If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! -Psalm 139:09 | If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, -Psalm 139:10 | even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. -Psalm 139:11 | If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night," -Psalm 139:12 | even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. -Psalm 139:13 | For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. -Psalm 139:14 | I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. -Psalm 139:15 | My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. -Psalm 139:16 | Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. -Psalm 139:17 | How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum! -Psalm 139:18 | If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. -Psalm 139:19 | If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! -Psalm 139:20 | For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. -Psalm 139:21 | Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? -Psalm 139:22 | I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies. -Psalm 139:23 | Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. -Psalm 139:24 | See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. -Psalm 13:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? -Psalm 13:02 | How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? -Psalm 13:03 | Behold, and answer me, Lord, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; -Psalm 13:04 | lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him" lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. -Psalm 13:05 | But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. -Psalm 13:06 | I will sing to the Lord, because he has been good to me. -Psalm 140:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Lord, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man: -Psalm 140:02 | those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. -Psalm 140:03 | They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah. -Psalm 140:04 | Lord, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet. -Psalm 140:05 | The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah. -Psalm 140:06 | I said to the Lord, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Lord. -Psalm 140:07 | Lord, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. -Psalm 140:08 | Lord, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah. -Psalm 140:09 | As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. -Psalm 140:10 | Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise. -Psalm 140:11 | An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him. -Psalm 140:12 | I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy. -Psalm 140:13 | Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence. -Psalm 141:01 | A Psalm by David. Lord, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you. -Psalm 141:02 | Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice. -Psalm 141:03 | Set a watch, Lord, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips. -Psalm 141:04 | Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies. -Psalm 141:05 | Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds. -Psalm 141:06 | Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken. -Psalm 141:07 | "As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol." -Psalm 141:08 | For my eyes are on you, Lord, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute. -Psalm 141:09 | Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity. -Psalm 141:10 | Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by. -Psalm 142:01 | A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to the Lord. With my voice, I ask the Lord for mercy. -Psalm 142:02 | I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles. -Psalm 142:03 | When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me. -Psalm 142:04 | Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul. -Psalm 142:05 | I cried to you, Lord. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." -Psalm 142:06 | Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me. -Psalm 142:07 | Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me. -Psalm 143:01 | A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Lord. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. -Psalm 143:02 | Don’t enter into judgement with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous. -Psalm 143:03 | For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. -Psalm 143:04 | Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate. -Psalm 143:05 | I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands. -Psalm 143:06 | I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah. -Psalm 143:07 | Hurry to answer me, Lord. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit. -Psalm 143:08 | Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. -Psalm 143:09 | Deliver me, Lord, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. -Psalm 143:10 | Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness. -Psalm 143:11 | Revive me, Lord, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble. -Psalm 143:12 | In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant. -Psalm 144:01 | By David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: -Psalm 144:02 | my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me. -Psalm 144:03 | Lord, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him? -Psalm 144:04 | Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. -Psalm 144:05 | Part your heavens, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. -Psalm 144:06 | Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. -Psalm 144:07 | Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners, -Psalm 144:08 | whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. -Psalm 144:09 | I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you. -Psalm 144:10 | You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword. -Psalm 144:11 | Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. -Psalm 144:12 | Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace. -Psalm 144:13 | Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields. -Psalm 144:14 | Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets. -Psalm 144:15 | Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. -Psalm 145:01 | A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. -Psalm 145:02 | Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever. -Psalm 145:03 | Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable. -Psalm 145:04 | One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. -Psalm 145:05 | I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honour, on your wondrous works. -Psalm 145:06 | Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness. -Psalm 145:07 | They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness. -Psalm 145:08 | The Lord is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. -Psalm 145:09 | The Lord is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. -Psalm 145:10 | All your works will give thanks to you, Lord. Your saints will extol you. -Psalm 145:11 | They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power, -Psalm 145:12 | to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. -Psalm 145:13 | Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds. -Psalm 145:14 | The Lord upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down. -Psalm 145:15 | The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. -Psalm 145:16 | You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. -Psalm 145:17 | The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. -Psalm 145:18 | The Lord is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. -Psalm 145:19 | He will fulfil the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them. -Psalm 145:20 | The Lord preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked. -Psalm 145:21 | My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. -Psalm 146:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise the Lord, my soul. -Psalm 146:02 | While I live, I will praise the Lord. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. -Psalm 146:03 | Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help. -Psalm 146:04 | His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. -Psalm 146:05 | Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord, his God: -Psalm 146:06 | who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; -Psalm 146:07 | who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners. -Psalm 146:08 | The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord raises up those who are bowed down. The Lord loves the righteous. -Psalm 146:09 | The Lord preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down. -Psalm 146:10 | The Lord will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 147:01 | Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. -Psalm 147:02 | The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. -Psalm 147:03 | He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. -Psalm 147:04 | He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. -Psalm 147:05 | Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite. -Psalm 147:06 | The Lord upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground. -Psalm 147:07 | Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God, -Psalm 147:08 | who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. -Psalm 147:09 | He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call. -Psalm 147:10 | He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. -Psalm 147:11 | The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness. -Psalm 147:12 | Praise the Lord, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! -Psalm 147:13 | For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you. -Psalm 147:14 | He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat. -Psalm 147:15 | He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly. -Psalm 147:16 | He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. -Psalm 147:17 | He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold? -Psalm 147:18 | He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. -Psalm 147:19 | He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. -Psalm 147:20 | He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 148:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise the Lord from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! -Psalm 148:02 | Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! -Psalm 148:03 | Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! -Psalm 148:04 | Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens. -Psalm 148:05 | Let them praise the Lord’s name, for he commanded, and they were created. -Psalm 148:06 | He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away. -Psalm 148:07 | Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths; -Psalm 148:08 | lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word; -Psalm 148:09 | mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars; -Psalm 148:10 | wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds; -Psalm 148:11 | kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth; -Psalm 148:12 | both young men and maidens; old men and children: -Psalm 148:13 | let them praise the Lord’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens. -Psalm 148:14 | He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 149:01 | Praise the LORD! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints. -Psalm 149:02 | Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. -Psalm 149:03 | Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp! -Psalm 149:04 | For the Lord takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation. -Psalm 149:05 | Let the saints rejoice in honour. Let them sing for joy on their beds. -Psalm 149:06 | May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand, -Psalm 149:07 | to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; -Psalm 149:08 | to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; -Psalm 149:09 | to execute on them the written judgement. All his saints have this honour. Praise the LORD! -Psalm 14:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. -Psalm 14:02 | The Lord looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. -Psalm 14:03 | They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one. -Psalm 14:04 | Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD? -Psalm 14:05 | There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous. -Psalm 14:06 | You frustrate the plan of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge. -Psalm 14:07 | Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. -Psalm 150:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! -Psalm 150:02 | Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! -Psalm 150:03 | Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! -Psalm 150:04 | Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute! -Psalm 150:05 | Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals! -Psalm 150:06 | Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! -Psalm 15:01 | A Psalm by David. Lord, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? -Psalm 15:02 | He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; -Psalm 15:03 | he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man; -Psalm 15:04 | in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honours those who fear the Lord; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change; -Psalm 15:05 | he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. -Psalm 16:01 | A Poem by David. Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you. -Psalm 16:02 | My soul, you have said to the Lord, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing." -Psalm 16:03 | As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. -Psalm 16:04 | Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips. -Psalm 16:05 | The Lord assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. -Psalm 16:06 | The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance. -Psalm 16:07 | I will bless the Lord, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. -Psalm 16:08 | I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. -Psalm 16:09 | Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety. -Psalm 16:10 | For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption. -Psalm 16:11 | You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more. -Psalm 17:01 | A Prayer by David. Hear, Lord, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips. -Psalm 17:02 | Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity. -Psalm 17:03 | You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey. -Psalm 17:04 | As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent. -Psalm 17:05 | My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped. -Psalm 17:06 | I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech. -Psalm 17:07 | Show your marvellous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies. -Psalm 17:08 | Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, -Psalm 17:09 | from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me. -Psalm 17:10 | They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly. -Psalm 17:11 | They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth. -Psalm 17:12 | He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. -Psalm 17:13 | Arise, Lord, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, -Psalm 17:14 | from men by your hand, Lord, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children. -Psalm 17:15 | As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. -Psalm 18:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Lord, my strength. -Psalm 18:02 | The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. -Psalm 18:03 | I call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies. -Psalm 18:04 | The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. -Psalm 18:05 | The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. -Psalm 18:06 | In my distress I called on the Lord, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears. -Psalm 18:07 | Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. -Psalm 18:08 | Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. -Psalm 18:09 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. -Psalm 18:10 | He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. -Psalm 18:11 | He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. -Psalm 18:12 | At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. -Psalm 18:13 | The Lord also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire. -Psalm 18:14 | He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts. -Psalm 18:15 | Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. -Psalm 18:16 | He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. -Psalm 18:17 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. -Psalm 18:18 | They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. -Psalm 18:19 | He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. -Psalm 18:20 | The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me. -Psalm 18:21 | For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. -Psalm 18:22 | For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me. -Psalm 18:23 | I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. -Psalm 18:24 | Therefore the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. -Psalm 18:25 | With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. -Psalm 18:26 | With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. -Psalm 18:27 | For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down. -Psalm 18:28 | For you will light my lamp, Lord. My God will light up my darkness. -Psalm 18:29 | For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. -Psalm 18:30 | As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. -Psalm 18:31 | For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God, -Psalm 18:32 | the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? -Psalm 18:33 | He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places. -Psalm 18:34 | He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. -Psalm 18:35 | You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. -Psalm 18:36 | You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. -Psalm 18:37 | I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed. -Psalm 18:38 | I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. -Psalm 18:39 | For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. -Psalm 18:40 | You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. -Psalm 18:41 | They cried, but there was no one to save; even to the Lord, but he didn’t answer them. -Psalm 18:42 | Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. -Psalm 18:43 | You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. -Psalm 18:44 | As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. -Psalm 18:45 | The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds. -Psalm 18:46 | The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, -Psalm 18:47 | even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. -Psalm 18:48 | He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. -Psalm 18:49 | Therefore I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the nations, and will sing praises to your name. -Psalm 18:50 | He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more. -Psalm 19:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. -Psalm 19:02 | Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge. -Psalm 19:03 | There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. -Psalm 19:04 | Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, -Psalm 19:05 | which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. -Psalm 19:06 | His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat. -Psalm 19:07 | The Lord’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. The Lord’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple. -Psalm 19:08 | The Lord’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The Lord’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. -Psalm 19:09 | The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The Lord’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. -Psalm 19:10 | They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. -Psalm 19:11 | Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward. -Psalm 19:12 | Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. -Psalm 19:13 | Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. -Psalm 19:14 | Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Lord, my rock, and my redeemer. -Psalm 1:01 | Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; -Psalm 1:02 | but his delight is in the Lord’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. -Psalm 1:03 | He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. -Psalm 1:04 | The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. -Psalm 1:05 | Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. -Psalm 1:06 | For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish. -Psalm 20:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, -Psalm 20:02 | send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion, -Psalm 20:03 | remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah. -Psalm 20:04 | May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfil all your counsel. -Psalm 20:05 | We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May the Lord grant all your requests. -Psalm 20:06 | Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. -Psalm 20:07 | Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. -Psalm 20:08 | They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright. -Psalm 20:09 | Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call! -Psalm 21:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation! -Psalm 21:02 | You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. -Psalm 21:03 | For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head. -Psalm 21:04 | He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever. -Psalm 21:05 | His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honour and majesty on him. -Psalm 21:06 | For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence. -Psalm 21:07 | For the king trusts in the Lord. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved. -Psalm 21:08 | Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. -Psalm 21:09 | You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them. -Psalm 21:10 | You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from amongst the children of men. -Psalm 21:11 | For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed. -Psalm 21:12 | For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face. -Psalm 21:13 | Be exalted, Lord, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power. -Psalm 22:01 | For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? -Psalm 22:02 | My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent. -Psalm 22:03 | But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel. -Psalm 22:04 | Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them. -Psalm 22:05 | They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed. -Psalm 22:06 | But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. -Psalm 22:08 | "He trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him." -Psalm 22:09 | But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts. -Psalm 22:10 | I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me. -Psalm 22:11 | Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help. -Psalm 22:12 | Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. -Psalm 22:13 | They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. -Psalm 22:14 | I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me. -Psalm 22:15 | My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. -Psalm 22:16 | For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. -Psalm 22:17 | I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. -Psalm 22:18 | They divide my garments amongst them. They cast lots for my clothing. -Psalm 22:19 | But don’t be far off, Lord. You are my help. Hurry to help me! -Psalm 22:20 | Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. -Psalm 22:21 | Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. -Psalm 22:22 | I will declare your name to my brothers. Amongst the assembly, I will praise you. -Psalm 22:23 | You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! -Psalm 22:24 | For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. -Psalm 22:25 | My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him. -Psalm 22:26 | The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever. -Psalm 22:27 | All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. -Psalm 22:28 | For the kingdom is the Lord’s. He is the ruler over the nations. -Psalm 22:29 | All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive. -Psalm 22:30 | Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord. -Psalm 22:31 | They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it. -Psalm 23:01 | A Psalm by David. The Lord is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. -Psalm 23:02 | He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. -Psalm 23:03 | He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. -Psalm 23:04 | Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. -Psalm 23:05 | You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. -Psalm 23:06 | Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the Lord’s house forever. -Psalm 24:01 | A Psalm by David. The earth is the Lord’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it. -Psalm 24:02 | For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. -Psalm 24:03 | Who may ascend to the Lord’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? -Psalm 24:04 | He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. -Psalm 24:05 | He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, righteousness from the God of his salvation. -Psalm 24:06 | This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah. -Psalm 24:07 | Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. -Psalm 24:08 | Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. -Psalm 24:09 | Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. -Psalm 24:10 | Who is this King of glory? The Lord of Armies is the King of glory! Selah. -Psalm 25:01 | By David. To you, Lord, I lift up my soul. -Psalm 25:02 | My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me. -Psalm 25:03 | Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause. -Psalm 25:04 | Show me your ways, Lord. Teach me your paths. -Psalm 25:05 | Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long. -Psalm 25:06 | Lord, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times. -Psalm 25:07 | Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Lord. -Psalm 25:08 | Good and upright is the Lord, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. -Psalm 25:09 | He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way. -Psalm 25:10 | All the paths of the Lord are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. -Psalm 25:11 | For your name’s sake, Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. -Psalm 25:12 | What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose. -Psalm 25:13 | His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land. -Psalm 25:14 | The friendship of the Lord is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant. -Psalm 25:15 | My eyes are ever on the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. -Psalm 25:16 | Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. -Psalm 25:17 | The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. -Psalm 25:18 | Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. -Psalm 25:19 | Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. -Psalm 25:20 | Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you. -Psalm 25:21 | Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. -Psalm 25:22 | God, redeem Israel out of all his troubles. -Psalm 26:01 | By David. Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Lord without wavering. -Psalm 26:02 | Examine me, Lord, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. -Psalm 26:03 | For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth. -Psalm 26:04 | I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. -Psalm 26:05 | I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. -Psalm 26:06 | I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Lord, -Psalm 26:07 | that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds. -Psalm 26:08 | Lord, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. -Psalm 26:09 | Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; -Psalm 26:10 | in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. -Psalm 26:11 | But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. -Psalm 26:12 | My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless the Lord. -Psalm 27:01 | By David. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? -Psalm 27:02 | When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. -Psalm 27:03 | Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. -Psalm 27:04 | One thing I have asked of the Lord, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, to see the Lord’s beauty, and to enquire in his temple. -Psalm 27:05 | For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. -Psalm 27:06 | Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. -Psalm 27:07 | Hear, Lord, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me. -Psalm 27:08 | When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Lord." -Psalm 27:09 | Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation. -Psalm 27:10 | When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. -Psalm 27:11 | Teach me your way, Lord. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies. -Psalm 27:12 | Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. -Psalm 27:13 | I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. -Psalm 27:14 | Wait for the Lord. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord. -Psalm 28:01 | By David. To you, Lord, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. -Psalm 28:02 | Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands towards your Most Holy Place. -Psalm 28:03 | Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. -Psalm 28:04 | Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve. -Psalm 28:05 | Because they don’t respect the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up. -Psalm 28:06 | Blessed be the Lord, because he has heard the voice of my petitions. -Psalm 28:07 | The Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. -Psalm 28:08 | The Lord is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. -Psalm 28:09 | Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. -Psalm 29:01 | A Psalm by David. Ascribe to the Lord, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. -Psalm 29:02 | Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name. Worship the Lord in holy array. -Psalm 29:03 | The Lord’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the Lord on many waters. -Psalm 29:04 | The Lord’s voice is powerful. The Lord’s voice is full of majesty. -Psalm 29:05 | The Lord’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. -Psalm 29:06 | He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. -Psalm 29:07 | The Lord’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning. -Psalm 29:08 | The Lord’s voice shakes the wilderness. The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. -Psalm 29:09 | The Lord’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!" -Psalm 29:10 | The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the Lord sits as King forever. -Psalm 29:11 | The Lord will give strength to his people. The Lord will bless his people with peace. -Psalm 2:01 | Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? -Psalm 2:03 | "Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us." -Psalm 2:04 | He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. -Psalm 2:05 | Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath: -Psalm 2:06 | "Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion." -Psalm 2:07 | I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father. -Psalm 2:08 | Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. -Psalm 2:09 | You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel." -Psalm 2:10 | Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. -Psalm 2:11 | Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. -Psalm 2:12 | Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. -Psalm 30:01 | A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David. I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. -Psalm 30:02 | Lord my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. -Psalm 30:03 | Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. -Psalm 30:04 | Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. -Psalm 30:05 | For his anger is but for a moment. His favour is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. -Psalm 30:06 | As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." -Psalm 30:07 | You, Lord, when you favoured me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled. -Psalm 30:08 | I cried to you, Lord. I made supplication to the Lord: -Psalm 30:09 | "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? -Psalm 30:10 | Hear, Lord, and have mercy on me. Lord, be my helper." -Psalm 30:11 | You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, -Psalm 30:12 | to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever! -Psalm 31:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Lord, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. -Psalm 31:02 | Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defence to save me. -Psalm 31:03 | For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. -Psalm 31:04 | Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold. -Psalm 31:05 | Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Lord, God of truth. -Psalm 31:06 | I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the Lord. -Psalm 31:07 | I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. -Psalm 31:08 | You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. -Psalm 31:09 | Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. -Psalm 31:10 | For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. -Psalm 31:11 | Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbours, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. -Psalm 31:12 | I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. -Psalm 31:13 | For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. -Psalm 31:14 | But I trust in you, Lord. I said, "You are my God." -Psalm 31:15 | My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. -Psalm 31:16 | Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. -Psalm 31:17 | Let me not be disappointed, Lord, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. -Psalm 31:18 | Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. -Psalm 31:19 | Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men! -Psalm 31:20 | In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues. -Psalm 31:21 | Praise be to the Lord, for he has shown me his marvellous loving kindness in a strong city. -Psalm 31:22 | As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you. -Psalm 31:23 | Oh love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. -Psalm 31:24 | Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. -Psalm 32:01 | By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. -Psalm 32:02 | Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. -Psalm 32:03 | When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. -Psalm 32:04 | For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. -Psalm 32:05 | I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. -Psalm 32:06 | For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. -Psalm 32:07 | You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. -Psalm 32:08 | I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. -Psalm 32:09 | Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you. -Psalm 32:10 | Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the Lord. -Psalm 32:11 | Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart! -Psalm 33:01 | Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. -Psalm 33:02 | Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings. -Psalm 33:03 | Sing to him a new song. Play skilfully with a shout of joy! -Psalm 33:04 | For the Lord’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness. -Psalm 33:05 | He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord. -Psalm 33:06 | By the Lord’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth. -Psalm 33:07 | He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses. -Psalm 33:08 | Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. -Psalm 33:09 | For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm. -Psalm 33:10 | The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. -Psalm 33:11 | The counsel of the Lord stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. -Psalm 33:12 | Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. -Psalm 33:13 | The Lord looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. -Psalm 33:14 | From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, -Psalm 33:15 | he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works. -Psalm 33:16 | There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. -Psalm 33:17 | A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power. -Psalm 33:18 | Behold, the Lord’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness, -Psalm 33:19 | to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine. -Psalm 33:20 | Our soul has waited for the Lord. He is our help and our shield. -Psalm 33:21 | For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. -Psalm 33:22 | Let your loving kindness be on us, Lord, since we have hoped in you. -Psalm 34:01 | By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. -Psalm 34:02 | My soul shall boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. -Psalm 34:03 | Oh magnify the Lord with me. Let’s exalt his name together. -Psalm 34:04 | I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. -Psalm 34:05 | They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. -Psalm 34:06 | This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. -Psalm 34:07 | The Lord’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. -Psalm 34:08 | Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. -Psalm 34:09 | Oh fear the Lord, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him. -Psalm 34:10 | The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. -Psalm 34:11 | Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. -Psalm 34:12 | Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? -Psalm 34:13 | Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. -Psalm 34:14 | Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. -Psalm 34:15 | The Lord’s eyes are towards the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. -Psalm 34:16 | The Lord’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth. -Psalm 34:17 | The righteous cry, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. -Psalm 34:18 | The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. -Psalm 34:19 | Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. -Psalm 34:20 | He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. -Psalm 34:21 | Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. -Psalm 34:22 | The Lord redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned. -Psalm 35:01 | By David. Contend, Lord, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. -Psalm 35:02 | Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. -Psalm 35:03 | Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation." -Psalm 35:04 | Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonour. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded. -Psalm 35:05 | Let them be as chaff before the wind, The Lord’s angel driving them on. -Psalm 35:06 | Let their way be dark and slippery, The Lord’s angel pursuing them. -Psalm 35:07 | For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. -Psalm 35:08 | Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. -Psalm 35:09 | My soul shall be joyful in the Lord. It shall rejoice in his salvation. -Psalm 35:10 | All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?" -Psalm 35:11 | Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about. -Psalm 35:12 | They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul. -Psalm 35:13 | But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. -Psalm 35:14 | I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother. -Psalm 35:15 | But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease. -Psalm 35:16 | Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. -Psalm 35:17 | Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions. -Psalm 35:18 | I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you amongst many people. -Psalm 35:19 | Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. -Psalm 35:20 | For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. -Psalm 35:21 | Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!" -Psalm 35:22 | You have seen it, Lord. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me. -Psalm 35:23 | Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me! -Psalm 35:24 | Vindicate me, Lord my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me. -Psalm 35:25 | Don’t let them say in their heart, "Aha! That’s the way we want it!" Don’t let them say, "We have swallowed him up!" -Psalm 35:26 | Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me. -Psalm 35:27 | Let those who favour my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, "May The Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!" -Psalm 35:28 | My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long. -Psalm 36:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of the Lord. A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes." -Psalm 36:02 | For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin. -Psalm 36:03 | The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. -Psalm 36:04 | He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil. -Psalm 36:05 | Your loving kindness, Lord, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. -Psalm 36:06 | Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgements are like a great deep. Lord, you preserve man and animal. -Psalm 36:07 | How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings. -Psalm 36:08 | They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. -Psalm 36:09 | For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light. -Psalm 36:10 | Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart. -Psalm 36:11 | Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away. -Psalm 36:12 | There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. -Psalm 37:01 | By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. -Psalm 37:02 | For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb. -Psalm 37:03 | Trust in the Lord, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. -Psalm 37:04 | Also delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. -Psalm 37:05 | Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in him, and he will do this: -Psalm 37:06 | he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun. -Psalm 37:07 | Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen. -Psalm 37:08 | Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing. -Psalm 37:09 | For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. -Psalm 37:10 | For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there. -Psalm 37:11 | But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. -Psalm 37:12 | The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. -Psalm 37:13 | The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming. -Psalm 37:14 | The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path. -Psalm 37:15 | Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken. -Psalm 37:16 | Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked. -Psalm 37:17 | For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous. -Psalm 37:18 | The Lord knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever. -Psalm 37:19 | They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied. -Psalm 37:20 | But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of the Lord shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke. -Psalm 37:21 | The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously. -Psalm 37:22 | For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off. -Psalm 37:23 | A man’s steps are established by the Lord. He delights in his way. -Psalm 37:24 | Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the Lord holds him up with his hand. -Psalm 37:25 | I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. -Psalm 37:26 | All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed. -Psalm 37:27 | Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever. -Psalm 37:28 | For the Lord loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. -Psalm 37:29 | The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever. -Psalm 37:30 | The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. -Psalm 37:31 | The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. -Psalm 37:32 | The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him. -Psalm 37:33 | The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. -Psalm 37:34 | Wait for the Lord, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. -Psalm 37:35 | I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. -Psalm 37:36 | But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. -Psalm 37:37 | Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. -Psalm 37:38 | As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. -Psalm 37:39 | But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. -Psalm 37:40 | The Lord helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him. -Psalm 38:01 | A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Lord, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. -Psalm 38:02 | For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. -Psalm 38:03 | There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. -Psalm 38:04 | For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. -Psalm 38:05 | My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness. -Psalm 38:06 | I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. -Psalm 38:07 | For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. -Psalm 38:08 | I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. -Psalm 38:09 | Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. -Psalm 38:10 | My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. -Psalm 38:11 | My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. -Psalm 38:12 | They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. -Psalm 38:13 | But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth. -Psalm 38:14 | Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. -Psalm 38:15 | For I hope in you, Lord. You will answer, Lord my God. -Psalm 38:16 | For I said, "Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." -Psalm 38:17 | For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. -Psalm 38:18 | For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. -Psalm 38:19 | But my enemies are vigourous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. -Psalm 38:20 | They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. -Psalm 38:21 | Don’t forsake me, Lord. My God, don’t be far from me. -Psalm 38:22 | Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. -Psalm 39:01 | For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me." -Psalm 39:02 | I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. -Psalm 39:03 | My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burnt. I spoke with my tongue: -Psalm 39:04 | "LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. -Psalm 39:05 | Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. -Psalm 39:06 | "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather. -Psalm 39:07 | Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. -Psalm 39:08 | Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish. -Psalm 39:09 | I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it. -Psalm 39:10 | Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. -Psalm 39:11 | When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. -Psalm 39:12 | "Hear my prayer, Lord, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were. -Psalm 39:13 | Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more." -Psalm 3:01 | A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Lord, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. -Psalm 3:02 | Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah. -Psalm 3:03 | But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. -Psalm 3:04 | I cry to the Lord with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah. -Psalm 3:05 | I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for the Lord sustains me. -Psalm 3:06 | I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side. -Psalm 3:07 | Arise, LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked. -Psalm 3:08 | Salvation belongs to the Lord. May your blessing be on your people. Selah. -Psalm 40:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me, and heard my cry. -Psalm 40:02 | He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. -Psalm 40:03 | He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. -Psalm 40:04 | Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. -Psalm 40:05 | Many, Lord, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are towards us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted. -Psalm 40:06 | Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. -Psalm 40:07 | Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. -Psalm 40:08 | I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart." -Psalm 40:09 | I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Lord, you know. -Psalm 40:10 | I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly. -Psalm 40:11 | Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Lord. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. -Psalm 40:12 | For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me. -Psalm 40:13 | Be pleased, Lord, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Lord. -Psalm 40:14 | Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt. -Psalm 40:15 | Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!" -Psalm 40:16 | Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the Lord be exalted!" -Psalm 40:17 | But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God. -Psalm 41:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the day of evil. -Psalm 41:02 | The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. -Psalm 41:03 | The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. -Psalm 41:04 | I said, "LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you." -Psalm 41:05 | My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?" -Psalm 41:06 | If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. -Psalm 41:07 | All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. -Psalm 41:08 | "An evil disease", they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." -Psalm 41:09 | Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. -Psalm 41:10 | But you, Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. -Psalm 41:11 | By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. -Psalm 41:12 | As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. -Psalm 41:13 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. -Psalm 42:01 | For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. -Psalm 42:02 | My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? -Psalm 42:03 | My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" -Psalm 42:04 | These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. -Psalm 42:05 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. -Psalm 42:06 | My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. -Psalm 42:07 | Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. -Psalm 42:08 | The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. -Psalm 42:09 | I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" -Psalm 42:10 | As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" -Psalm 42:11 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God. -Psalm 43:01 | Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. -Psalm 43:02 | For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? -Psalm 43:03 | Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents. -Psalm 43:04 | Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God. -Psalm 43:05 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Saviour, my helper, and my God. -Psalm 44:01 | For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old. -Psalm 44:02 | You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. -Psalm 44:03 | For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favourable to them. -Psalm 44:04 | God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob! -Psalm 44:05 | Through you, we will push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us. -Psalm 44:06 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither will my sword save me. -Psalm 44:07 | But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. -Psalm 44:08 | In God we have made our boast all day long. We will give thanks to your name forever. Selah. -Psalm 44:09 | But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonour, and don’t go out with our armies. -Psalm 44:10 | You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves. -Psalm 44:11 | You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us amongst the nations. -Psalm 44:12 | You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale. -Psalm 44:13 | You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. -Psalm 44:14 | You make us a byword amongst the nations, a shaking of the head amongst the peoples. -Psalm 44:15 | All day long my dishonour is before me, and shame covers my face, -Psalm 44:16 | at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger. -Psalm 44:17 | All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant. -Psalm 44:18 | Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path, -Psalm 44:19 | though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. -Psalm 44:20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god, -Psalm 44:21 | won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. -Psalm 44:22 | Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter. -Psalm 44:23 | Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever. -Psalm 44:24 | Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? -Psalm 44:25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth. -Psalm 44:26 | Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake. -Psalm 45:01 | For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song. My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skilful writer. -Psalm 45:02 | You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever. -Psalm 45:03 | Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendour and your majesty. -Psalm 45:04 | In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds. -Psalm 45:05 | Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies. -Psalm 45:06 | Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of your kingdom. -Psalm 45:07 | You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. -Psalm 45:08 | All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad. -Psalm 45:09 | Kings’ daughters are amongst your honourable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir. -Psalm 45:10 | Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house. -Psalm 45:11 | So the king will desire your beauty, honour him, for he is your lord. -Psalm 45:12 | The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich amongst the people entreat your favour. -Psalm 45:13 | The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. -Psalm 45:14 | She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you. -Psalm 45:15 | With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace. -Psalm 45:16 | Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth. -Psalm 45:17 | I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. -Psalm 46:01 | For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. -Psalm 46:02 | Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; -Psalm 46:03 | though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah. -Psalm 46:04 | There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. -Psalm 46:05 | God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn. -Psalm 46:06 | The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted. -Psalm 46:07 | The Lord of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. -Psalm 46:08 | Come, see the Lord’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth. -Psalm 46:09 | He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire. -Psalm 46:10 | "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted amongst the nations. I will be exalted in the earth." -Psalm 46:11 | The Lord of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. -Psalm 47:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! -Psalm 47:02 | For the Lord Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth. -Psalm 47:03 | He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet. -Psalm 47:04 | He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. -Psalm 47:05 | God has gone up with a shout, The Lord with the sound of a trumpet. -Psalm 47:06 | Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises! -Psalm 47:07 | For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. -Psalm 47:08 | God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne. -Psalm 47:09 | The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted! -Psalm 48:01 | A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. -Psalm 48:02 | Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King. -Psalm 48:04 | For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. -Psalm 48:05 | They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away. -Psalm 48:06 | Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail. -Psalm 48:07 | With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish. -Psalm 48:08 | As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the Lord of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah. -Psalm 48:09 | We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple. -Psalm 48:10 | As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. -Psalm 48:11 | Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgements. -Psalm 48:12 | Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers. -Psalm 48:13 | Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation. -Psalm 48:14 | For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death. -Psalm 49:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, -Psalm 49:03 | My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding. -Psalm 49:04 | I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp. -Psalm 49:05 | Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me? -Psalm 49:06 | Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches— -Psalm 49:07 | none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. -Psalm 49:08 | For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough, -Psalm 49:09 | that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption. -Psalm 49:10 | For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. -Psalm 49:11 | Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. -Psalm 49:12 | But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish. -Psalm 49:13 | This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah. -Psalm 49:14 | They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion. -Psalm 49:15 | But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah. -Psalm 49:16 | Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; -Psalm 49:17 | for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him. -Psalm 49:18 | Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself— -Psalm 49:19 | he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light. -Psalm 49:20 | A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. -Psalm 4:01 | For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. -Psalm 4:02 | You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah. -Psalm 4:03 | But know that the Lord has set apart for himself him who is godly: The Lord will hear when I call to him. -Psalm 4:04 | Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah. -Psalm 4:05 | Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the Lord. -Psalm 4:06 | Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Lord, let the light of your face shine on us. -Psalm 4:07 | You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased. -Psalm 4:08 | In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, the Lord alone, make me live in safety. -Psalm 50:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, The Lord, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. -Psalm 50:02 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out. -Psalm 50:03 | Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. -Psalm 50:04 | He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: -Psalm 50:05 | "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." -Psalm 50:06 | The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. -Psalm 50:07 | "Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. -Psalm 50:08 | I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. -Psalm 50:09 | I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. -Psalm 50:10 | For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. -Psalm 50:11 | I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. -Psalm 50:12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. -Psalm 50:13 | Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? -Psalm 50:14 | Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. -Psalm 50:15 | Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honour me." -Psalm 50:16 | But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, -Psalm 50:17 | since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? -Psalm 50:18 | When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. -Psalm 50:19 | "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. -Psalm 50:20 | You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. -Psalm 50:21 | You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. -Psalm 50:22 | "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver. -Psalm 50:23 | Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him." -Psalm 51:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. -Psalm 51:02 | Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. -Psalm 51:03 | For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. -Psalm 51:04 | Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge. -Psalm 51:05 | Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin. -Psalm 51:06 | Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. -Psalm 51:07 | Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. -Psalm 51:08 | Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice. -Psalm 51:09 | Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. -Psalm 51:10 | Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. -Psalm 51:11 | Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. -Psalm 51:12 | Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. -Psalm 51:13 | Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you. -Psalm 51:14 | Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. -Psalm 51:15 | Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise. -Psalm 51:16 | For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. -Psalm 51:17 | The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart. -Psalm 51:18 | Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. -Psalm 51:19 | Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. -Psalm 52:01 | For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Ahimelech’s house." Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually. -Psalm 52:02 | Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. -Psalm 52:03 | You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. -Psalm 52:04 | You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. -Psalm 52:05 | God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. -Psalm 52:06 | The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, -Psalm 52:07 | "Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." -Psalm 52:08 | But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever. -Psalm 52:09 | I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. -Psalm 53:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation by David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. -Psalm 53:02 | God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. -Psalm 53:03 | Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one. -Psalm 53:04 | Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God? -Psalm 53:05 | There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. -Psalm 53:06 | Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. -Psalm 54:01 | For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn’t David hiding himself amongst us?" Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. -Psalm 54:02 | Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth. -Psalm 54:03 | For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah. -Psalm 54:04 | Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. -Psalm 54:05 | He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth. -Psalm 54:06 | With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Lord, for it is good. -Psalm 54:07 | For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies. -Psalm 55:01 | For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David. Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication. -Psalm 55:02 | Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan -Psalm 55:03 | because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me. -Psalm 55:04 | My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. -Psalm 55:05 | Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me. -Psalm 55:06 | I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. -Psalm 55:07 | Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah. -Psalm 55:08 | "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm." -Psalm 55:09 | Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. -Psalm 55:10 | Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her. -Psalm 55:11 | Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets. -Psalm 55:12 | For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. -Psalm 55:13 | But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. -Psalm 55:14 | We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company. -Psalm 55:15 | Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is amongst them, in their dwelling. -Psalm 55:16 | As for me, I will call on God. The Lord will save me. -Psalm 55:17 | Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice. -Psalm 55:18 | He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me. -Psalm 55:19 | God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. Selah. They never change and don’t fear God. -Psalm 55:20 | He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant. -Psalm 55:21 | His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. -Psalm 55:22 | Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved. -Psalm 55:23 | But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. -Psalm 56:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. -Psalm 56:02 | My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. -Psalm 56:03 | When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. -Psalm 56:04 | In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? -Psalm 56:05 | All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. -Psalm 56:06 | They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life. -Psalm 56:07 | Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God. -Psalm 56:08 | You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book? -Psalm 56:09 | Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me. -Psalm 56:10 | In God, I will praise his word. In the Lord, I will praise his word. -Psalm 56:11 | I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? -Psalm 56:12 | Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you. -Psalm 56:13 | For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. -Psalm 57:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed. -Psalm 57:02 | I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me. -Psalm 57:03 | He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth. -Psalm 57:04 | My soul is amongst lions. I lie amongst those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. -Psalm 57:05 | Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth! -Psalm 57:06 | They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah. -Psalm 57:07 | My heart is steadfast, God. My heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. -Psalm 57:08 | Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn. -Psalm 57:09 | I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the peoples. I will sing praises to you amongst the nations. -Psalm 57:10 | For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies. -Psalm 57:11 | Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. -Psalm 58:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? -Psalm 58:02 | No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. -Psalm 58:03 | The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies. -Psalm 58:04 | Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, -Psalm 58:05 | which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skilful the charmer may be. -Psalm 58:06 | Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Lord. -Psalm 58:07 | Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt. -Psalm 58:08 | Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun. -Psalm 58:09 | Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike. -Psalm 58:10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, -Psalm 58:11 | so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." -Psalm 59:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me. -Psalm 59:02 | Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men. -Psalm 59:03 | For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Lord. -Psalm 59:04 | I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me! -Psalm 59:05 | You, Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah. -Psalm 59:06 | They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city. -Psalm 59:07 | Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For", they say, "who hears us?" -Psalm 59:08 | But you, Lord, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations. -Psalm 59:09 | Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower. -Psalm 59:10 | My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph. -Psalm 59:11 | Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield. -Psalm 59:12 | For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. -Psalm 59:13 | Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah. -Psalm 59:14 | At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city. -Psalm 59:15 | They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied. -Psalm 59:16 | But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress. -Psalm 59:17 | To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. -Psalm 5:01 | For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David. Give ear to my words, Lord. Consider my meditation. -Psalm 5:02 | Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you. -Psalm 5:03 | Lord, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly. -Psalm 5:04 | For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you. -Psalm 5:05 | The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity. -Psalm 5:06 | You will destroy those who speak lies. The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. -Psalm 5:07 | But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow towards your holy temple in reverence of you. -Psalm 5:08 | Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face. -Psalm 5:09 | For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue. -Psalm 5:10 | Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you. -Psalm 5:11 | But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you. -Psalm 5:12 | For you will bless the righteous. Lord, you will surround him with favour as with a shield. -Psalm 60:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again. -Psalm 60:02 | You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes. -Psalm 60:03 | You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger. -Psalm 60:04 | You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. -Psalm 60:05 | So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. -Psalm 60:06 | God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. -Psalm 60:07 | Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defence of my head. Judah is my sceptre. -Psalm 60:08 | Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia." -Psalm 60:09 | Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom? -Psalm 60:10 | Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God. -Psalm 60:11 | Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain. -Psalm 60:12 | Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. -Psalm 61:01 | For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer. -Psalm 61:02 | From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. -Psalm 61:03 | For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy. -Psalm 61:04 | I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah. -Psalm 61:05 | For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. -Psalm 61:06 | You will prolong the king’s life. His years will be for generations. -Psalm 61:07 | He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. -Psalm 61:08 | So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfil my vows daily. -Psalm 62:01 | For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. -Psalm 62:02 | He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken. -Psalm 62:03 | How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? -Psalm 62:04 | They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. -Psalm 62:05 | My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him. -Psalm 62:06 | He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken. -Psalm 62:07 | My salvation and my honour is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. -Psalm 62:08 | Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah. -Psalm 62:09 | Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath. -Psalm 62:10 | Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them. -Psalm 62:11 | God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God. -Psalm 62:12 | Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. -Psalm 63:01 | A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. -Psalm 63:02 | So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. -Psalm 63:03 | Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. -Psalm 63:04 | So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. -Psalm 63:05 | My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, -Psalm 63:06 | when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. -Psalm 63:07 | For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings. -Psalm 63:08 | My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up. -Psalm 63:09 | But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. -Psalm 63:10 | They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food. -Psalm 63:11 | But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced. -Psalm 64:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. -Psalm 64:02 | Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil; -Psalm 64:03 | who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, -Psalm 64:04 | to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. -Psalm 64:05 | They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" -Psalm 64:06 | They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning. -Psalm 64:07 | But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow. -Psalm 64:08 | Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads. -Psalm 64:09 | All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done. -Psalm 64:10 | The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him! -Psalm 65:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you. -Psalm 65:02 | You who hear prayer, all men will come to you. -Psalm 65:03 | Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions. -Psalm 65:04 | Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. -Psalm 65:05 | By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea. -Psalm 65:06 | By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength. -Psalm 65:07 | You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations. -Psalm 65:08 | They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy. -Psalm 65:09 | You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. -Psalm 65:10 | You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. -Psalm 65:11 | You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. -Psalm 65:12 | The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. -Psalm 65:13 | The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. -Psalm 66:01 | For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm. Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! -Psalm 66:02 | Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise! -Psalm 66:03 | Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you. -Psalm 66:04 | All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name." Selah. -Psalm 66:05 | Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men. -Psalm 66:06 | He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him. -Psalm 66:07 | He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah. -Psalm 66:08 | Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard, -Psalm 66:09 | who preserves our life amongst the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved. -Psalm 66:10 | For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. -Psalm 66:11 | You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. -Psalm 66:12 | You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance. -Psalm 66:13 | I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you, -Psalm 66:14 | which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. -Psalm 66:15 | I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. -Psalm 66:16 | Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul. -Psalm 66:17 | I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue. -Psalm 66:18 | If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened. -Psalm 66:19 | But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. -Psalm 66:20 | Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. -Psalm 67:01 | For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. -Psalm 67:02 | That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation amongst all nations, -Psalm 67:03 | let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. -Psalm 67:04 | Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah. -Psalm 67:05 | Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. -Psalm 67:06 | The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us. -Psalm 67:07 | God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him. -Psalm 68:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. -Psalm 68:02 | As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. -Psalm 68:03 | But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. -Psalm 68:04 | Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to the Lord, his name! Rejoice before him! -Psalm 68:05 | A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. -Psalm 68:06 | God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. -Psalm 68:07 | God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah. -Psalm 68:08 | The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel. -Psalm 68:09 | You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary. -Psalm 68:10 | Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor. -Psalm 68:11 | The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company. -Psalm 68:12 | "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home divides the plunder, -Psalm 68:13 | while you sleep amongst the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold. -Psalm 68:14 | When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon. -Psalm 68:15 | The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged. -Psalm 68:16 | Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the Lord will dwell there forever. -Psalm 68:17 | The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is amongst them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary. -Psalm 68:18 | You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts amongst people, yes, amongst the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there. -Psalm 68:19 | Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah. -Psalm 68:20 | God is to us a God of deliverance. To the Lord, the Lord, belongs escape from death. -Psalm 68:21 | But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness. -Psalm 68:22 | The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea, -Psalm 68:23 | that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies." -Psalm 68:24 | They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. -Psalm 68:25 | The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, amongst the ladies playing with tambourines, -Psalm 68:26 | "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!" -Psalm 68:27 | There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. -Psalm 68:28 | Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us. -Psalm 68:29 | Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you. -Psalm 68:30 | Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war. -Psalm 68:31 | Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God. -Psalm 68:32 | Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord— Selah— -Psalm 68:33 | to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice. -Psalm 68:34 | Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies. -Psalm 68:35 | You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God! -Psalm 69:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! -Psalm 69:02 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. -Psalm 69:03 | I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God. -Psalm 69:04 | Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away. -Psalm 69:05 | God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you. -Psalm 69:06 | Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord God of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonour through me, God of Israel. -Psalm 69:07 | Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. -Psalm 69:08 | I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children. -Psalm 69:09 | For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. -Psalm 69:10 | When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. -Psalm 69:11 | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. -Psalm 69:12 | Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. -Psalm 69:13 | But as for me, my prayer is to you, Lord, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. -Psalm 69:14 | Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. -Psalm 69:15 | Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me. -Psalm 69:16 | Answer me, Lord, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. -Psalm 69:17 | Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! -Psalm 69:18 | Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. -Psalm 69:19 | You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonour. My adversaries are all before you. -Psalm 69:20 | Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none. -Psalm 69:21 | They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. -Psalm 69:22 | Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. -Psalm 69:23 | Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent. -Psalm 69:24 | Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. -Psalm 69:25 | Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. -Psalm 69:26 | For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. -Psalm 69:27 | Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness. -Psalm 69:28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. -Psalm 69:29 | But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. -Psalm 69:30 | I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. -Psalm 69:31 | It will please the Lord better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. -Psalm 69:32 | The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. -Psalm 69:33 | For the Lord hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people. -Psalm 69:34 | Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein! -Psalm 69:35 | For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. -Psalm 69:36 | The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. -Psalm 6:01 | For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath. -Psalm 6:02 | Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint. Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. -Psalm 6:03 | My soul is also in great anguish. But you, LORD—how long? -Psalm 6:04 | Return, Lord. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake. -Psalm 6:05 | For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks? -Psalm 6:06 | I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears. -Psalm 6:07 | My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries. -Psalm 6:08 | Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. -Psalm 6:09 | The Lord has heard my supplication. The Lord accepts my prayer. -Psalm 6:10 | May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly. -Psalm 70:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Lord. -Psalm 70:02 | Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. -Psalm 70:03 | Let them be turned because of their shame who say, "Aha! Aha!" -Psalm 70:04 | Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, "Let God be exalted!" -Psalm 70:05 | But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Lord, don’t delay. -Psalm 71:01 | In you, Lord, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. -Psalm 71:02 | Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me. -Psalm 71:03 | Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. -Psalm 71:04 | Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. -Psalm 71:05 | For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth. -Psalm 71:06 | I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you. -Psalm 71:07 | I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge. -Psalm 71:08 | My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honour all day long. -Psalm 71:09 | Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails. -Psalm 71:10 | For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together, saying, -Psalm 71:11 | "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him." -Psalm 71:12 | God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. -Psalm 71:13 | Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me. -Psalm 71:14 | But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. -Psalm 71:15 | My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure. -Psalm 71:16 | I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone. -Psalm 71:17 | God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. -Psalm 71:18 | Yes, even when I am old and grey-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. -Psalm 71:19 | God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you? -Psalm 71:20 | You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth. -Psalm 71:21 | Increase my honour and comfort me again. -Psalm 71:22 | I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. -Psalm 71:23 | My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you! -Psalm 71:24 | My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. -Psalm 72:01 | By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. -Psalm 72:02 | He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. -Psalm 72:03 | The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. -Psalm 72:04 | He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. -Psalm 72:05 | They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations. -Psalm 72:06 | He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. -Psalm 72:07 | In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. -Psalm 72:08 | He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth. -Psalm 72:09 | Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust. -Psalm 72:10 | The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. -Psalm 72:11 | Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him. -Psalm 72:12 | For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. -Psalm 72:13 | He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. -Psalm 72:14 | He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight. -Psalm 72:15 | They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long. -Psalm 72:16 | Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field. -Psalm 72:17 | His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed. -Psalm 72:18 | Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvellous deeds. -Psalm 72:19 | Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen. -Psalm 72:20 | This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. -Psalm 73:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. -Psalm 73:02 | But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped. -Psalm 73:03 | For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. -Psalm 73:04 | For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm. -Psalm 73:05 | They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men. -Psalm 73:06 | Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. -Psalm 73:07 | Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. -Psalm 73:08 | They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. -Psalm 73:09 | They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth. -Psalm 73:10 | Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance. -Psalm 73:11 | They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?" -Psalm 73:12 | Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches. -Psalm 73:13 | Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence, -Psalm 73:14 | For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning. -Psalm 73:15 | If I had said, "I will speak thus"; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children. -Psalm 73:16 | When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me, -Psalm 73:17 | until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end. -Psalm 73:18 | Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. -Psalm 73:19 | How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. -Psalm 73:20 | As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies. -Psalm 73:21 | For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart. -Psalm 73:22 | I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. -Psalm 73:23 | Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. -Psalm 73:24 | You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. -Psalm 73:25 | Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. -Psalm 73:26 | My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. -Psalm 73:27 | For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you. -Psalm 73:28 | But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord the Lord my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. -Psalm 74:01 | A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoulder against the sheep of your pasture? -Psalm 74:02 | Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived. -Psalm 74:03 | Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. -Psalm 74:04 | Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. -Psalm 74:05 | They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. -Psalm 74:06 | Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. -Psalm 74:07 | They have burnt your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. -Psalm 74:08 | They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burnt up all the places in the land where God was worshipped. -Psalm 74:09 | We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there amongst us anyone who knows how long. -Psalm 74:10 | How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? -Psalm 74:11 | Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them! -Psalm 74:12 | Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth. -Psalm 74:13 | You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. -Psalm 74:14 | You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. -Psalm 74:15 | You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. -Psalm 74:16 | The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. -Psalm 74:17 | You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. -Psalm 74:18 | Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Lord. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. -Psalm 74:19 | Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever. -Psalm 74:20 | Honour your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. -Psalm 74:21 | Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. -Psalm 74:22 | Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. -Psalm 74:23 | Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. -Psalm 75:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works. -Psalm 75:02 | When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly. -Psalm 75:03 | The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah. -Psalm 75:04 | I said to the arrogant, "Don’t boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don’t lift up the horn. -Psalm 75:05 | Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck." -Psalm 75:06 | For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation. -Psalm 75:07 | But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another. -Psalm 75:08 | For in the Lord’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs. -Psalm 75:09 | But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. -Psalm 75:10 | I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. -Psalm 76:01 | For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel. -Psalm 76:02 | His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion. -Psalm 76:03 | There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah. -Psalm 76:04 | Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game. -Psalm 76:05 | Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands. -Psalm 76:06 | At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. -Psalm 76:07 | You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry? -Psalm 76:08 | You pronounced judgement from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent, -Psalm 76:09 | when God arose to judgement, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah. -Psalm 76:10 | Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained. -Psalm 76:11 | Make vows to the Lord your God, and fulfil them! Let all of his neighbours bring presents to him who is to be feared. -Psalm 76:12 | He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. -Psalm 77:01 | For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. -Psalm 77:02 | In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. -Psalm 77:03 | I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. -Psalm 77:04 | You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak. -Psalm 77:05 | I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. -Psalm 77:06 | I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently enquires: -Psalm 77:07 | "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favourable no more? -Psalm 77:08 | Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? -Psalm 77:09 | Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah. -Psalm 77:10 | Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High." -Psalm 77:11 | I will remember the Lord’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old. -Psalm 77:12 | I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings. -Psalm 77:13 | Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God? -Psalm 77:14 | You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known amongst the peoples. -Psalm 77:15 | You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. -Psalm 77:16 | The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed. -Psalm 77:17 | The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around. -Psalm 77:18 | The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook. -Psalm 77:19 | Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known. -Psalm 77:20 | You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. -Psalm 78:01 | A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. -Psalm 78:02 | I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, -Psalm 78:03 | Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. -Psalm 78:04 | We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. -Psalm 78:05 | For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; -Psalm 78:06 | that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, -Psalm 78:07 | that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments, -Psalm 78:08 | and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God. -Psalm 78:09 | The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. -Psalm 78:10 | They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law. -Psalm 78:11 | They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. -Psalm 78:12 | He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -Psalm 78:13 | He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. -Psalm 78:14 | In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. -Psalm 78:15 | He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. -Psalm 78:16 | He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. -Psalm 78:17 | Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. -Psalm 78:18 | They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. -Psalm 78:19 | Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? -Psalm 78:20 | Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?" -Psalm 78:21 | Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, -Psalm 78:22 | because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. -Psalm 78:23 | Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. -Psalm 78:24 | He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. -Psalm 78:25 | Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. -Psalm 78:26 | He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. -Psalm 78:27 | He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas. -Psalm 78:28 | He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations. -Psalm 78:29 | So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. -Psalm 78:30 | They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, -Psalm 78:31 | when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel. -Psalm 78:32 | For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works. -Psalm 78:33 | Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. -Psalm 78:34 | When he killed them, then they enquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. -Psalm 78:35 | They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. -Psalm 78:36 | But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. -Psalm 78:37 | For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. -Psalm 78:38 | But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath. -Psalm 78:39 | He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again. -Psalm 78:40 | How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! -Psalm 78:41 | They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. -Psalm 78:42 | They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; -Psalm 78:43 | how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, -Psalm 78:44 | he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. -Psalm 78:45 | He sent amongst them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. -Psalm 78:46 | He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labour to the locust. -Psalm 78:47 | He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. -Psalm 78:48 | He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. -Psalm 78:49 | He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. -Psalm 78:50 | He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, -Psalm 78:51 | and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. -Psalm 78:52 | But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. -Psalm 78:53 | He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. -Psalm 78:54 | He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. -Psalm 78:55 | He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. -Psalm 78:56 | Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies, -Psalm 78:57 | but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow. -Psalm 78:58 | For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. -Psalm 78:59 | When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel, -Psalm 78:60 | so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed amongst men, -Psalm 78:61 | and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand. -Psalm 78:62 | He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. -Psalm 78:63 | Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. -Psalm 78:64 | Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep. -Psalm 78:65 | Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. -Psalm 78:66 | He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. -Psalm 78:67 | Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim, -Psalm 78:68 | But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. -Psalm 78:69 | He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. -Psalm 78:70 | He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; -Psalm 78:71 | from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. -Psalm 78:72 | So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. -Psalm 79:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. -Psalm 79:02 | They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. -Psalm 79:03 | They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. -Psalm 79:04 | We have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. -Psalm 79:05 | How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? -Psalm 79:06 | Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name; -Psalm 79:07 | for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. -Psalm 79:08 | Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. -Psalm 79:09 | Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake. -Psalm 79:10 | Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known amongst the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out. -Psalm 79:11 | Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. -Psalm 79:12 | Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. -Psalm 79:13 | So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. -Psalm 7:01 | A meditation by David, which he sang to the Lord, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Lord, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me, -Psalm 7:02 | lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver. -Psalm 7:03 | Lord, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands, -Psalm 7:04 | if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary), -Psalm 7:05 | let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. -Psalm 7:06 | Arise, Lord, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgement. -Psalm 7:07 | Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high. -Psalm 7:08 | The Lord administers judgement to the peoples. Judge me, Lord, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. -Psalm 7:09 | Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God. -Psalm 7:10 | My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. -Psalm 7:11 | God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day. -Psalm 7:12 | If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. -Psalm 7:13 | He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows. -Psalm 7:14 | Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood. -Psalm 7:15 | He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. -Psalm 7:16 | The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head. -Psalm 7:17 | I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. -Psalm 80:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out. -Psalm 80:02 | Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! -Psalm 80:03 | Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. -Psalm 80:04 | Lord God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? -Psalm 80:05 | You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. -Psalm 80:06 | You make us a source of contention to our neighbours. Our enemies laugh amongst themselves. -Psalm 80:07 | Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. -Psalm 80:08 | You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it. -Psalm 80:09 | You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land. -Psalm 80:10 | The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars. -Psalm 80:11 | It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River. -Psalm 80:12 | Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? -Psalm 80:13 | The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it. -Psalm 80:14 | Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, -Psalm 80:15 | the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself. -Psalm 80:16 | It’s burnt with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke. -Psalm 80:17 | Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. -Psalm 80:18 | So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name. -Psalm 80:19 | Turn us again, Lord God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. -Psalm 81:01 | For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! -Psalm 81:02 | Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. -Psalm 81:03 | Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. -Psalm 81:04 | For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. -Psalm 81:05 | He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know. -Psalm 81:06 | "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. -Psalm 81:07 | You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah. -Psalm 81:08 | "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! -Psalm 81:09 | There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. -Psalm 81:10 | I am the Lord, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. -Psalm 81:11 | But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. -Psalm 81:12 | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. -Psalm 81:13 | Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! -Psalm 81:14 | I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. -Psalm 81:15 | The haters of the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. -Psalm 81:16 | But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." -Psalm 82:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges amongst the gods. -Psalm 82:02 | "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah. -Psalm 82:03 | "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. -Psalm 82:04 | Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked." -Psalm 82:05 | They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. -Psalm 82:06 | I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High. -Psalm 82:07 | Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers." -Psalm 82:08 | Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations. -Psalm 83:01 | A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. -Psalm 83:02 | For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. -Psalm 83:03 | They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. -Psalm 83:04 | "Come," they say, "let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more." -Psalm 83:05 | For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. -Psalm 83:06 | The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; -Psalm 83:07 | Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; -Psalm 83:08 | Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. -Psalm 83:09 | Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; -Psalm 83:10 | who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. -Psalm 83:11 | Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, -Psalm 83:12 | who said, "Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands." -Psalm 83:13 | My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. -Psalm 83:14 | As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, -Psalm 83:15 | so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. -Psalm 83:16 | Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Lord. -Psalm 83:17 | Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; -Psalm 83:18 | that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth. -Psalm 84:01 | For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Armies! -Psalm 84:02 | My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. -Psalm 84:03 | Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Lord of Armies, my King, and my God. -Psalm 84:04 | Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah. -Psalm 84:05 | Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage. -Psalm 84:06 | Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. -Psalm 84:07 | They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion. -Psalm 84:08 | Lord, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah. -Psalm 84:09 | Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed. -Psalm 84:10 | For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. -Psalm 84:11 | For the Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. -Psalm 84:12 | Lord of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you. -Psalm 85:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Lord, you have been favourable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob. -Psalm 85:02 | You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah. -Psalm 85:03 | You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger. -Psalm 85:04 | Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation towards us to cease. -Psalm 85:05 | Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? -Psalm 85:06 | Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? -Psalm 85:07 | Show us your loving kindness, Lord. Grant us your salvation. -Psalm 85:08 | I will hear what God, the Lord, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly. -Psalm 85:09 | Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. -Psalm 85:10 | Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. -Psalm 85:11 | Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven. -Psalm 85:12 | Yes, the Lord will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase. -Psalm 85:13 | Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. -Psalm 86:01 | A Prayer by David. Hear, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. -Psalm 86:02 | Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you. -Psalm 86:03 | Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. -Psalm 86:04 | Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul. -Psalm 86:05 | For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you. -Psalm 86:06 | Hear, Lord, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions. -Psalm 86:07 | In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me. -Psalm 86:08 | There is no one like you amongst the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds. -Psalm 86:09 | All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name. -Psalm 86:10 | For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone. -Psalm 86:11 | Teach me your way, Lord. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name. -Psalm 86:12 | I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more. -Psalm 86:13 | For your loving kindness is great towards me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. -Psalm 86:14 | God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them. -Psalm 86:15 | But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth. -Psalm 86:16 | Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant. -Psalm 86:17 | Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Lord, have helped me, and comforted me. -Psalm 87:01 | A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains. -Psalm 87:02 | The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. -Psalm 87:03 | Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah. -Psalm 87:04 | I will record Rahab and Babylon amongst those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there." -Psalm 87:05 | Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her" the Most High himself will establish her. -Psalm 87:06 | The Lord will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah. -Psalm 87:07 | Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." -Psalm 88:01 | A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. -Psalm 88:02 | Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. -Psalm 88:03 | For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. -Psalm 88:04 | I am counted amongst those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, -Psalm 88:05 | set apart amongst the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. -Psalm 88:06 | You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. -Psalm 88:07 | Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. -Psalm 88:08 | You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape. -Psalm 88:09 | My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Lord. I have spread out my hands to you. -Psalm 88:10 | Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah. -Psalm 88:11 | Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? -Psalm 88:12 | Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? -Psalm 88:13 | But to you, Lord, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. -Psalm 88:14 | Lord, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? -Psalm 88:15 | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. -Psalm 88:16 | Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. -Psalm 88:17 | They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. -Psalm 88:18 | You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. -Psalm 89:01 | A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. -Psalm 89:02 | I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them." -Psalm 89:03 | "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, -Psalm 89:04 | ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’" Selah. -Psalm 89:05 | The heavens will praise your wonders, Lord, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. -Psalm 89:06 | For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who amongst the sons of the heavenly beings is like the Lord, -Psalm 89:07 | a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him? -Psalm 89:08 | Lord, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? The Lord, your faithfulness is around you. -Psalm 89:09 | You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them. -Psalm 89:10 | You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. -Psalm 89:11 | The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them. -Psalm 89:12 | You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. -Psalm 89:13 | You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. -Psalm 89:14 | Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face. -Psalm 89:15 | Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Lord. -Psalm 89:16 | In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted. -Psalm 89:17 | For you are the glory of their strength. In your favour, our horn will be exalted. -Psalm 89:18 | For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel. -Psalm 89:19 | Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people. -Psalm 89:20 | I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, -Psalm 89:21 | with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him. -Psalm 89:22 | No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. -Psalm 89:23 | I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. -Psalm 89:24 | But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted. -Psalm 89:25 | I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. -Psalm 89:26 | He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ -Psalm 89:27 | I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. -Psalm 89:28 | I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. -Psalm 89:29 | I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. -Psalm 89:30 | If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; -Psalm 89:31 | if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; -Psalm 89:32 | then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. -Psalm 89:33 | But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. -Psalm 89:34 | I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. -Psalm 89:35 | Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. -Psalm 89:36 | His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. -Psalm 89:37 | It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah. -Psalm 89:38 | But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. -Psalm 89:39 | You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. -Psalm 89:40 | You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. -Psalm 89:41 | All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbours. -Psalm 89:42 | You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. -Psalm 89:43 | Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle. -Psalm 89:44 | You have ended his splendour, and thrown his throne down to the ground. -Psalm 89:45 | You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. -Psalm 89:46 | How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? -Psalm 89:47 | Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men! -Psalm 89:48 | What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. -Psalm 89:49 | Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? -Psalm 89:50 | Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, -Psalm 89:51 | With which your enemies have mocked, Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. -Psalm 89:52 | Blessed be the Lord forever more. Amen, and Amen. -Psalm 8:01 | For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens! -Psalm 8:02 | From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. -Psalm 8:03 | When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; -Psalm 8:04 | what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? -Psalm 8:05 | For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honour. -Psalm 8:06 | You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: -Psalm 8:07 | All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field, -Psalm 8:08 | the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas. -Psalm 8:09 | Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! -Psalm 90:01 | A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. -Psalm 90:02 | Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. -Psalm 90:03 | You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men." -Psalm 90:04 | For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. -Psalm 90:05 | You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. -Psalm 90:06 | In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. -Psalm 90:07 | For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. -Psalm 90:08 | You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. -Psalm 90:09 | For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. -Psalm 90:10 | The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labour and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. -Psalm 90:11 | Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? -Psalm 90:12 | So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. -Psalm 90:13 | Relent, LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants! -Psalm 90:14 | Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. -Psalm 90:15 | Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil. -Psalm 90:16 | Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children. -Psalm 90:17 | Let the favour of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands. -Psalm 91:01 | He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. -Psalm 91:02 | I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust." -Psalm 91:03 | For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. -Psalm 91:04 | He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. -Psalm 91:05 | You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, -Psalm 91:06 | nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday. -Psalm 91:07 | A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. -Psalm 91:08 | You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked. -Psalm 91:09 | Because you have made Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, -Psalm 91:10 | no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. -Psalm 91:11 | For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. -Psalm 91:12 | They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone. -Psalm 91:13 | You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot. -Psalm 91:14 | "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. -Psalm 91:15 | He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honour him. -Psalm 91:16 | I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation." -Psalm 92:01 | A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, Most High, -Psalm 92:02 | to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, -Psalm 92:03 | with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre. -Psalm 92:04 | For you, Lord, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands. -Psalm 92:05 | How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep. -Psalm 92:06 | A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this: -Psalm 92:07 | though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. -Psalm 92:08 | But you, Lord, are on high forever more. -Psalm 92:09 | For, behold, your enemies, Lord, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered. -Psalm 92:10 | But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil. -Psalm 92:11 | My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me. -Psalm 92:12 | The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. -Psalm 92:13 | They are planted in the Lord’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. -Psalm 92:14 | They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, -Psalm 92:15 | to show that the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. -Psalm 93:01 | The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty! The Lord is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved. -Psalm 93:02 | Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting. -Psalm 93:03 | The floods have lifted up, Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. -Psalm 93:04 | Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, The Lord on high is mighty. -Psalm 93:05 | Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Lord, forever more. -Psalm 94:01 | Lord, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. -Psalm 94:02 | Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. -Psalm 94:03 | Lord, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? -Psalm 94:04 | They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast. -Psalm 94:05 | They break your people in pieces, Lord, and afflict your heritage. -Psalm 94:06 | They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. -Psalm 94:07 | They say, "The Lord will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider." -Psalm 94:08 | Consider, you senseless amongst the people; you fools, when will you be wise? -Psalm 94:09 | He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see? -Psalm 94:10 | He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. -Psalm 94:11 | The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. -Psalm 94:12 | Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Lord, and teach out of your law, -Psalm 94:13 | that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. -Psalm 94:14 | For the Lord won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. -Psalm 94:15 | For judgement will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. -Psalm 94:16 | Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? -Psalm 94:17 | Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence. -Psalm 94:18 | When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Lord, held me up. -Psalm 94:19 | In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul. -Psalm 94:20 | Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? -Psalm 94:21 | They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. -Psalm 94:22 | But the Lord has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge. -Psalm 94:23 | He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The Lord, our God, will cut them off. -Psalm 95:01 | Oh come, let’s sing to the Lord. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! -Psalm 95:02 | Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs! -Psalm 95:03 | For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods. -Psalm 95:04 | In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. -Psalm 95:05 | The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land. -Psalm 95:06 | Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the Lord, our Maker, -Psalm 95:07 | for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! -Psalm 95:08 | Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, -Psalm 95:09 | when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. -Psalm 95:10 | Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways." -Psalm 95:11 | Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won’t enter into my rest." -Psalm 96:01 | Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. -Psalm 96:02 | Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! -Psalm 96:03 | Declare his glory amongst the nations, his marvellous works amongst all the peoples. -Psalm 96:04 | For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods. -Psalm 96:05 | For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. -Psalm 96:06 | Honour and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. -Psalm 96:07 | Ascribe to the Lord, you families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. -Psalm 96:08 | Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. -Psalm 96:09 | Worship the Lord in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. -Psalm 96:10 | Say amongst the nations, "The Lord reigns." The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. -Psalm 96:11 | Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness! -Psalm 96:12 | Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy -Psalm 96:13 | before the Lord; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth. -Psalm 97:01 | The Lord reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad! -Psalm 97:02 | Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. -Psalm 97:03 | A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. -Psalm 97:04 | His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. -Psalm 97:05 | The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. -Psalm 97:06 | The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory. -Psalm 97:07 | Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods! -Psalm 97:08 | Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgements, Lord. -Psalm 97:09 | For you, Lord, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods. -Psalm 97:10 | You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. -Psalm 97:11 | Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. -Psalm 97:12 | Be glad in the Lord, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name. -Psalm 98:01 | A Psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. -Psalm 98:02 | The Lord has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. -Psalm 98:03 | He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness towards the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. -Psalm 98:04 | Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! -Psalm 98:05 | Sing praises to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. -Psalm 98:06 | With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord. -Psalm 98:07 | Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. -Psalm 98:08 | Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together. -Psalm 98:09 | Let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. -Psalm 99:01 | The Lord reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned amongst the cherubim. Let the earth be moved. -Psalm 99:02 | The Lord is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples. -Psalm 99:03 | Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy! -Psalm 99:04 | The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob. -Psalm 99:05 | Exalt the Lord our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy! -Psalm 99:06 | Moses and Aaron were amongst his priests, Samuel was amongst those who call on his name. They called on the Lord, and he answered them. -Psalm 99:07 | He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them. -Psalm 99:08 | You answered them, Lord our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings. -Psalm 99:09 | Exalt the Lord, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for the Lord, our God, is holy! -Psalm 9:01 | For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son." A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvellous works. -Psalm 9:02 | I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. -Psalm 9:03 | When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence. -Psalm 9:04 | For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously. -Psalm 9:05 | You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever. -Psalm 9:06 | The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. -Psalm 9:07 | But the Lord reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgement. -Psalm 9:08 | He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgement to the peoples in uprightness. -Psalm 9:09 | The Lord will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. -Psalm 9:10 | Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. -Psalm 9:11 | Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion, and declare amongst the people what he has done. -Psalm 9:12 | For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted. -Psalm 9:13 | Have mercy on me, Lord. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death, -Psalm 9:14 | that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion. -Psalm 9:15 | The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. -Psalm 9:16 | The Lord has made himself known. He has executed judgement. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah. -Psalm 9:17 | The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God. -Psalm 9:18 | For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. -Psalm 9:19 | Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. -Psalm 9:20 | Put them in fear, Lord. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah. -Revelation 10:01 | I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. -Revelation 10:02 | He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land. -Revelation 10:03 | He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. -Revelation 10:04 | When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them." -Revelation 10:05 | The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky, -Revelation 10:06 | and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay, -Revelation 10:07 | but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets. -Revelation 10:08 | The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land." -Revelation 10:09 | I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." -Revelation 10:10 | I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. -Revelation 10:11 | They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings." -Revelation 11:01 | A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. -Revelation 11:02 | Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. -Revelation 11:03 | I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand and two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." -Revelation 11:04 | These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth. -Revelation 11:05 | If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. -Revelation 11:06 | These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. -Revelation 11:07 | When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. -Revelation 11:08 | Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. -Revelation 11:09 | From amongst the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. -Revelation 11:10 | Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. -Revelation 11:11 | After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. -Revelation 11:12 | I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them. -Revelation 11:13 | In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven. -Revelation 11:14 | The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly. -Revelation 11:15 | The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!" -Revelation 11:17 | "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned. -Revelation 11:18 | The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." -Revelation 11:19 | God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed. -Revelation 12:01 | A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. -Revelation 12:02 | She was with child. She cried out in pain, labouring to give birth. -Revelation 12:03 | Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. -Revelation 12:04 | His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child. -Revelation 12:05 | She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. -Revelation 12:06 | The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand and two hundred and sixty days. -Revelation 12:07 | There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. -Revelation 12:08 | They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven. -Revelation 12:09 | The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. -Revelation 12:10 | I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. -Revelation 12:11 | They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death. -Revelation 12:12 | Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." -Revelation 12:13 | When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. -Revelation 12:14 | Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. -Revelation 12:15 | The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. -Revelation 12:16 | The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth. -Revelation 12:17 | The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony. -Revelation 13:01 | Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. -Revelation 13:02 | The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. -Revelation 13:03 | One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marvelled at the beast. -Revelation 13:04 | They worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" -Revelation 13:05 | A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. -Revelation 13:06 | He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven. -Revelation 13:07 | It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. -Revelation 13:08 | All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed. -Revelation 13:10 | If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints. -Revelation 13:11 | I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. -Revelation 13:12 | He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. -Revelation 13:13 | He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. -Revelation 13:14 | He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. -Revelation 13:15 | It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed. -Revelation 13:16 | He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads; -Revelation 13:17 | and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. -Revelation 13:18 | Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred and sixty-six. -Revelation 14:01 | I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. -Revelation 14:02 | I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps. -Revelation 14:03 | They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. -Revelation 14:04 | These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from amongst men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. -Revelation 14:05 | In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless. -Revelation 14:06 | I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people. -Revelation 14:07 | He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgement has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!" -Revelation 14:08 | Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality." -Revelation 14:09 | Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand, -Revelation 14:10 | he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. -Revelation 14:11 | The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. -Revelation 14:12 | Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." -Revelation 14:13 | I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow with them." -Revelation 14:14 | I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. -Revelation 14:15 | Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!" -Revelation 14:16 | He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. -Revelation 14:17 | Another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. -Revelation 14:18 | Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!" -Revelation 14:19 | The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. -Revelation 14:20 | The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand and six hundred stadia. -Revelation 15:01 | I saw another great and marvellous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished. -Revelation 15:02 | I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. -Revelation 15:03 | They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvellous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations. -Revelation 15:04 | Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed." -Revelation 15:05 | After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. -Revelation 15:06 | The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts. -Revelation 15:07 | One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. -Revelation 15:08 | The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished. -Revelation 16:01 | I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!" -Revelation 16:02 | The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshipped his image. -Revelation 16:03 | The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died. -Revelation 16:04 | The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. -Revelation 16:05 | I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things. -Revelation 16:06 | For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this." -Revelation 16:07 | I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgements." -Revelation 16:08 | The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. -Revelation 16:09 | People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory. -Revelation 16:10 | The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, -Revelation 16:11 | and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They still didn’t repent of their works. -Revelation 16:12 | The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise. -Revelation 16:13 | I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; -Revelation 16:14 | for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty. -Revelation 16:15 | "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame." -Revelation 16:16 | He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, "Megiddo". -Revelation 16:17 | The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" -Revelation 16:18 | There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not happened since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty. -Revelation 16:19 | The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. -Revelation 16:20 | Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. -Revelation 16:21 | Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe. -Revelation 17:01 | One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgement of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, -Revelation 17:02 | with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality." -Revelation 17:03 | He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. -Revelation 17:04 | The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. -Revelation 17:05 | And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." -Revelation 17:06 | I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement. -Revelation 17:07 | The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. -Revelation 17:08 | The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present. -Revelation 17:09 | Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. -Revelation 17:10 | They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while. -Revelation 17:11 | The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction. -Revelation 17:12 | The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. -Revelation 17:13 | These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast. -Revelation 17:14 | These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful." -Revelation 17:15 | He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. -Revelation 17:16 | The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire. -Revelation 17:17 | For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished. -Revelation 17:18 | The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth." -Revelation 18:01 | After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. -Revelation 18:02 | He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird! -Revelation 18:03 | For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury." -Revelation 18:04 | I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues, -Revelation 18:05 | for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities. -Revelation 18:06 | Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. -Revelation 18:07 | However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’ -Revelation 18:08 | Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burnt with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong. -Revelation 18:09 | The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning, -Revelation 18:10 | standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgement has come in one hour.’ -Revelation 18:11 | The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more: -Revelation 18:12 | merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; -Revelation 18:13 | and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls. -Revelation 18:14 | The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all. -Revelation 18:15 | The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, saying, -Revelation 18:16 | ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls! -Revelation 18:17 | For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away, -Revelation 18:18 | and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’ -Revelation 18:19 | They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour. -Revelation 18:20 | "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgement on her." -Revelation 18:21 | A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all. -Revelation 18:22 | The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you. -Revelation 18:23 | The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived. -Revelation 18:24 | In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth." -Revelation 19:01 | After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God; -Revelation 19:02 | for his judgements are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." -Revelation 19:03 | A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever." -Revelation 19:04 | The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" -Revelation 19:05 | A voice came from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!" -Revelation 19:06 | I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! -Revelation 19:07 | Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." -Revelation 19:08 | It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. -Revelation 19:09 | He said to me, "Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’" He said to me, "These are true words of God." -Revelation 19:10 | I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." -Revelation 19:11 | I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. -Revelation 19:12 | His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. -Revelation 19:13 | He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God." -Revelation 19:14 | The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. -Revelation 19:15 | Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. -Revelation 19:16 | He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND Lord OF LORDS." -Revelation 19:17 | I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, -Revelation 19:18 | that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great." -Revelation 19:19 | I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. -Revelation 19:20 | The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur. -Revelation 19:21 | The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. So all the birds were filled with their flesh. -Revelation 1:01 | This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, -Revelation 1:02 | who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw. -Revelation 1:03 | Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand. -Revelation 1:04 | John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; -Revelation 1:05 | and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood— -Revelation 1:06 | and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. -Revelation 1:07 | Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. -Revelation 1:08 | "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." -Revelation 1:09 | I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ. -Revelation 1:10 | I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet, saying, -Revelation 1:11 | "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." -Revelation 1:12 | I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands. -Revelation 1:13 | And amongst the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest. -Revelation 1:14 | His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. -Revelation 1:15 | His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. -Revelation 1:16 | He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. -Revelation 1:17 | When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, -Revelation 1:18 | and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades. -Revelation 1:19 | Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter. -Revelation 1:20 | The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies. -Revelation 20:01 | I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. -Revelation 20:02 | He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, -Revelation 20:03 | and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time. -Revelation 20:04 | I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. -Revelation 20:05 | The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. -Revelation 20:06 | Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years. -Revelation 20:07 | And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, -Revelation 20:08 | and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. -Revelation 20:09 | They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them. -Revelation 20:10 | The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever. -Revelation 20:11 | I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. -Revelation 20:12 | I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. -Revelation 20:13 | The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. -Revelation 20:14 | Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. -Revelation 20:15 | If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. -Revelation 21:01 | I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. -Revelation 21:02 | I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. -Revelation 21:03 | I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. -Revelation 21:04 | He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away." -Revelation 21:05 | He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true." -Revelation 21:06 | He said to me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. -Revelation 21:07 | He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. -Revelation 21:08 | But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death." -Revelation 21:09 | One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride." -Revelation 21:10 | He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, -Revelation 21:11 | having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal; -Revelation 21:12 | having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. -Revelation 21:13 | On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. -Revelation 21:14 | The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. -Revelation 21:15 | He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. -Revelation 21:16 | The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand and twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal. -Revelation 21:17 | Its wall is one hundred and forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. -Revelation 21:18 | The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass. -Revelation 21:19 | The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; -Revelation 21:20 | the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst. -Revelation 21:21 | The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. -Revelation 21:22 | I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. -Revelation 21:23 | The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. -Revelation 21:24 | The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. -Revelation 21:25 | Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there), -Revelation 21:26 | and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it so that they may enter. -Revelation 21:27 | There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. -Revelation 22:01 | He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, -Revelation 22:02 | in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. -Revelation 22:03 | There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him. -Revelation 22:04 | They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. -Revelation 22:05 | There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever. -Revelation 22:06 | He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon." -Revelation 22:07 | "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." -Revelation 22:08 | Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things. -Revelation 22:09 | He said to me, "See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God." -Revelation 22:10 | He said to me, "Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. -Revelation 22:11 | He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still." -Revelation 22:12 | "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. -Revelation 22:13 | I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. -Revelation 22:14 | Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. -Revelation 22:15 | Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. -Revelation 22:16 | I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star." -Revelation 22:17 | The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely. -Revelation 22:18 | I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. -Revelation 22:19 | If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. -Revelation 22:20 | He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus. -Revelation 22:21 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen. -Revelation 2:01 | "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks amongst the seven golden lamp stands says these things: -Revelation 2:02 | "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. -Revelation 2:03 | You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary. -Revelation 2:04 | But I have this against you, that you left your first love. -Revelation 2:05 | Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent. -Revelation 2:06 | But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. -Revelation 2:07 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God. -Revelation 2:08 | "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things: -Revelation 2:09 | "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. -Revelation 2:10 | Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. -Revelation 2:11 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death. -Revelation 2:12 | "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things: -Revelation 2:13 | "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed amongst you, where Satan dwells. -Revelation 2:14 | But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. -Revelation 2:15 | So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise. -Revelation 2:16 | Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. -Revelation 2:17 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it. -Revelation 2:18 | "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things: -Revelation 2:19 | "I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first. -Revelation 2:20 | But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. -Revelation 2:21 | I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. -Revelation 2:22 | Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression, unless they repent of her works. -Revelation 2:23 | I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. -Revelation 2:24 | But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you. -Revelation 2:25 | Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come. -Revelation 2:26 | He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. -Revelation 2:27 | He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: -Revelation 2:28 | and I will give him the morning star. -Revelation 2:29 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. -Revelation 3:01 | "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. -Revelation 3:02 | Wake up and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. -Revelation 3:03 | Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you. -Revelation 3:04 | Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. -Revelation 3:05 | He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. -Revelation 3:06 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. -Revelation 3:07 | "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: -Revelation 3:08 | "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name. -Revelation 3:09 | Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. -Revelation 3:10 | Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. -Revelation 3:11 | I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. -Revelation 3:12 | He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. -Revelation 3:13 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. -Revelation 3:14 | "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things: -Revelation 3:15 | "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. -Revelation 3:16 | So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. -Revelation 3:17 | Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; -Revelation 3:18 | I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. -Revelation 3:19 | As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. -Revelation 3:20 | Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me. -Revelation 3:21 | He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne. -Revelation 3:22 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies." -Revelation 4:01 | After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this." -Revelation 4:02 | Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne -Revelation 4:03 | that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at. -Revelation 4:04 | Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads. -Revelation 4:05 | Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. -Revelation 4:06 | Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. -Revelation 4:07 | The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. -Revelation 4:08 | The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!" -Revelation 4:09 | When the living creatures give glory, honour, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, -Revelation 4:11 | "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honour, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!" -Revelation 5:01 | I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. -Revelation 5:02 | I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?" -Revelation 5:03 | No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it. -Revelation 5:04 | Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it. -Revelation 5:05 | One of the elders said to me, "Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals." -Revelation 5:06 | I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. -Revelation 5:07 | Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. -Revelation 5:08 | Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. -Revelation 5:09 | They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, -Revelation 5:10 | and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth." -Revelation 5:12 | saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honour, glory, and blessing!" -Revelation 5:13 | I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honour, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!" -Revelation 5:14 | The four living creatures said, "Amen!" Then the elders fell down and worshipped. -Revelation 6:01 | I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!" -Revelation 6:02 | Then a white horse appeared, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. -Revelation 6:03 | When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!" -Revelation 6:04 | Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword. -Revelation 6:05 | When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. -Revelation 6:06 | I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!" -Revelation 6:07 | When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!" -Revelation 6:08 | And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him. -Revelation 6:09 | When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. -Revelation 6:10 | They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" -Revelation 6:11 | A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course. -Revelation 6:12 | I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. -Revelation 6:13 | The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. -Revelation 6:14 | The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place. -Revelation 6:15 | The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. -Revelation 6:16 | They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, -Revelation 6:17 | for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?" -Revelation 7:01 | After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. -Revelation 7:02 | I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, -Revelation 7:03 | "Don’t harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" -Revelation 7:09 | After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. -Revelation 7:10 | They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" -Revelation 7:11 | All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshipped God, saying, -Revelation 7:12 | "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honour, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen." -Revelation 7:13 | One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?" -Revelation 7:14 | I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood. -Revelation 7:15 | Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them. -Revelation 7:16 | They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat; -Revelation 7:17 | for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." -Revelation 8:01 | When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. -Revelation 8:02 | I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. -Revelation 8:03 | Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. -Revelation 8:04 | The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand. -Revelation 8:05 | The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, then threw it on the earth. Thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake followed. -Revelation 8:06 | The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. -Revelation 8:07 | The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. -Revelation 8:08 | The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood, -Revelation 8:09 | and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed. -Revelation 8:10 | The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters. -Revelation 8:11 | The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter. -Revelation 8:12 | The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way. -Revelation 8:13 | I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!" -Revelation 9:01 | The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. -Revelation 9:02 | He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. -Revelation 9:03 | Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. -Revelation 9:04 | They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads. -Revelation 9:05 | They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person. -Revelation 9:06 | In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them. -Revelation 9:07 | The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces. -Revelation 9:08 | They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions. -Revelation 9:09 | They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war. -Revelation 9:10 | They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. -Revelation 9:11 | They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon", but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon". -Revelation 9:12 | The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this. -Revelation 9:13 | The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, -Revelation 9:14 | saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" -Revelation 9:15 | The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind. -Revelation 9:16 | The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them. -Revelation 9:17 | Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulphur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulphur. -Revelation 9:18 | By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur, which proceeded out of their mouths. -Revelation 9:19 | For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm. -Revelation 9:20 | The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk. -Revelation 9:21 | They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts. -Romans 10:01 | Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. -Romans 10:02 | For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. -Romans 10:03 | For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. -Romans 10:04 | For Christ is the fulfilment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. -Romans 10:05 | For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them." -Romans 10:06 | But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down); -Romans 10:07 | or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" -Romans 10:08 | But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart" that is, the word of faith which we preach: -Romans 10:09 | that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:10 | For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. -Romans 10:11 | For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed." -Romans 10:12 | For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. -Romans 10:13 | For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." -Romans 10:14 | How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? -Romans 10:15 | And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" -Romans 10:16 | But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" -Romans 10:17 | So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. -Romans 10:18 | But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." -Romans 10:19 | But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding." -Romans 10:20 | Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me." -Romans 10:21 | But about Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people." -Romans 11:01 | I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. -Romans 11:03 | "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life." -Romans 11:04 | But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." -Romans 11:05 | Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. -Romans 11:06 | And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. -Romans 11:07 | What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. -Romans 11:08 | According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day." -Romans 11:09 | David says, "Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. -Romans 11:10 | Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent." -Romans 11:11 | I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. -Romans 11:12 | Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? -Romans 11:13 | For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; -Romans 11:14 | if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. -Romans 11:15 | For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? -Romans 11:16 | If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. -Romans 11:17 | But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in amongst them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, -Romans 11:18 | don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. -Romans 11:19 | You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." -Romans 11:20 | True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; -Romans 11:21 | for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. -Romans 11:22 | See then the goodness and severity of God. Towards those who fell, severity; but towards you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. -Romans 11:23 | They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. -Romans 11:24 | For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? -Romans 11:25 | For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, -Romans 11:26 | and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. -Romans 11:27 | This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins." -Romans 11:28 | Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. -Romans 11:29 | For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. -Romans 11:30 | For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, -Romans 11:31 | even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. -Romans 11:32 | For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. -Romans 11:33 | Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past tracing out! -Romans 11:34 | "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?" -Romans 11:35 | "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?" -Romans 11:36 | For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen. -Romans 12:01 | Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. -Romans 12:02 | Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. -Romans 12:03 | For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is amongst you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. -Romans 12:04 | For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, -Romans 12:05 | so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another, -Romans 12:06 | having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; -Romans 12:07 | or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; -Romans 12:08 | or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. -Romans 12:09 | Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. -Romans 12:10 | In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honour preferring one another; -Romans 12:11 | not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; -Romans 12:12 | rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer; -Romans 12:13 | contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality. -Romans 12:14 | Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse. -Romans 12:15 | Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. -Romans 12:16 | Be of the same mind one towards another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits. -Romans 12:17 | Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honourable in the sight of all men. -Romans 12:18 | If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. -Romans 12:19 | Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." -Romans 12:20 | Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." -Romans 12:21 | Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. -Romans 13:01 | Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. -Romans 13:02 | Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgement. -Romans 13:03 | For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority, -Romans 13:04 | for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil. -Romans 13:05 | Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. -Romans 13:06 | For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing. -Romans 13:07 | Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour. -Romans 13:08 | Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law. -Romans 13:09 | For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." -Romans 13:10 | Love doesn’t harm a neighbour. Love therefore is the fulfilment of the law. -Romans 13:11 | Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. -Romans 13:12 | The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armour of light. -Romans 13:13 | Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. -Romans 13:14 | But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. -Romans 14:01 | Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. -Romans 14:02 | One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. -Romans 14:03 | Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. -Romans 14:04 | Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand. -Romans 14:05 | One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. -Romans 14:06 | He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks. -Romans 14:07 | For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. -Romans 14:08 | For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. -Romans 14:09 | For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. -Romans 14:10 | But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgement seat of Christ. -Romans 14:11 | For it is written, "‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’" -Romans 14:12 | So then each one of us will give account of himself to God. -Romans 14:13 | Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. -Romans 14:14 | I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. -Romans 14:15 | Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. -Romans 14:16 | Then don’t let your good be slandered, -Romans 14:17 | for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. -Romans 14:18 | For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. -Romans 14:19 | So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. -Romans 14:20 | Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. -Romans 14:21 | It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak. -Romans 14:22 | Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves. -Romans 14:23 | But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. -Romans 15:01 | Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. -Romans 15:02 | Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, to be building him up. -Romans 15:03 | For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me." -Romans 15:04 | For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. -Romans 15:05 | Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, -Romans 15:06 | that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Romans 15:07 | Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. -Romans 15:08 | Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, -Romans 15:09 | and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you amongst the Gentiles and sing to your name." -Romans 15:10 | Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people." -Romans 15:11 | Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him." -Romans 15:12 | Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope." -Romans 15:13 | Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. -Romans 15:14 | I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. -Romans 15:15 | But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, -Romans 15:16 | that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. -Romans 15:17 | I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. -Romans 15:18 | For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, -Romans 15:19 | in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ; -Romans 15:20 | yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation. -Romans 15:21 | But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven’t heard will understand." -Romans 15:22 | Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, -Romans 15:23 | but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you, -Romans 15:24 | whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. -Romans 15:25 | But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. -Romans 15:26 | For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor amongst the saints who are at Jerusalem. -Romans 15:27 | Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things. -Romans 15:28 | When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. -Romans 15:29 | I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ. -Romans 15:30 | Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, -Romans 15:31 | that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, -Romans 15:32 | that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest. -Romans 15:33 | Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. -Romans 16:01 | I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, -Romans 16:02 | that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self. -Romans 16:16 | Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you. -Romans 16:17 | Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learnt, and turn away from them. -Romans 16:18 | For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. -Romans 16:19 | For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil. -Romans 16:20 | And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. -Romans 16:24 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen. -Romans 16:26 | But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: -Romans 16:27 | To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. -Romans 1:01 | Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, -Romans 1:02 | which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, -Romans 1:03 | concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, -Romans 1:04 | who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, -Romans 1:05 | through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith amongst all the nations for his name’s sake; -Romans 1:06 | amongst whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ; -Romans 1:07 | to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. -Romans 1:08 | First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. -Romans 1:09 | For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, -Romans 1:10 | requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. -Romans 1:11 | For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; -Romans 1:12 | that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. -Romans 1:13 | Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit amongst you also, even as amongst the rest of the Gentiles. -Romans 1:14 | I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. -Romans 1:15 | So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. -Romans 1:16 | For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. -Romans 1:17 | For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith." -Romans 1:18 | For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, -Romans 1:19 | because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. -Romans 1:20 | For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. -Romans 1:21 | Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. -Romans 1:22 | Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, -Romans 1:23 | and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. -Romans 1:24 | Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured amongst themselves; -Romans 1:25 | who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. -Romans 1:26 | For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. -Romans 1:27 | Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burnt in their lust towards one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. -Romans 1:28 | Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; -Romans 1:32 | who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practise them. -Romans 2:01 | Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practise the same things. -Romans 2:02 | We know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those who practise such things. -Romans 2:03 | Do you think this, O man who judges those who practise such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgement of God? -Romans 2:04 | Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? -Romans 2:05 | But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgement of God; -Romans 2:06 | who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" -Romans 2:07 | to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honour, and incorruptibility, eternal life; -Romans 2:08 | but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, -Romans 2:09 | oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. -Romans 2:10 | But glory, honour, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. -Romans 2:11 | For there is no partiality with God. -Romans 2:12 | For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. -Romans 2:13 | For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified -Romans 2:14 | (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, -Romans 2:15 | in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts amongst themselves accusing or else excusing them) -Romans 2:16 | in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ. -Romans 2:17 | Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God, -Romans 2:18 | know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, -Romans 2:19 | and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, -Romans 2:20 | a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. -Romans 2:21 | You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? -Romans 2:22 | You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? -Romans 2:23 | You who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by disobeying the law? -Romans 2:24 | For "the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written. -Romans 2:25 | For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. -Romans 2:26 | If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? -Romans 2:27 | Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? -Romans 2:28 | For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; -Romans 2:29 | but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. -Romans 3:01 | Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? -Romans 3:02 | Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God. -Romans 3:03 | For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? -Romans 3:04 | May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgement." -Romans 3:05 | But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. -Romans 3:06 | May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? -Romans 3:07 | For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? -Romans 3:08 | Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let’s do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned. -Romans 3:09 | What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. -Romans 3:10 | As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. -Romans 3:11 | There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. -Romans 3:12 | They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one." -Romans 3:13 | "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips." -Romans 3:14 | "Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." -Romans 3:15 | "Their feet are swift to shed blood. -Romans 3:16 | Destruction and misery are in their ways. -Romans 3:17 | The way of peace, they haven’t known." -Romans 3:18 | "There is no fear of God before their eyes." -Romans 3:19 | Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgement of God. -Romans 3:20 | Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. -Romans 3:21 | But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; -Romans 3:22 | even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, -Romans 3:23 | for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; -Romans 3:24 | being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; -Romans 3:25 | whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; -Romans 3:26 | to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. -Romans 3:27 | Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. -Romans 3:28 | We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. -Romans 3:29 | Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, -Romans 3:30 | since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. -Romans 3:31 | Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law. -Romans 4:01 | What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? -Romans 4:02 | For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not towards God. -Romans 4:03 | For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." -Romans 4:04 | Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. -Romans 4:05 | But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. -Romans 4:06 | Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, -Romans 4:07 | "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. -Romans 4:08 | Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin." -Romans 4:09 | Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. -Romans 4:10 | How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. -Romans 4:11 | He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. -Romans 4:12 | He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. -Romans 4:13 | For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. -Romans 4:14 | For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. -Romans 4:15 | For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. -Romans 4:16 | For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. -Romans 4:17 | As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. -Romans 4:18 | Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your offspring be." -Romans 4:19 | Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. -Romans 4:20 | Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, -Romans 4:21 | and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. -Romans 4:22 | Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness." -Romans 4:23 | Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, -Romans 4:24 | but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, -Romans 4:25 | who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification. -Romans 5:01 | Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; -Romans 5:02 | through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. -Romans 5:03 | Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; -Romans 5:04 | and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: -Romans 5:05 | and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. -Romans 5:06 | For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. -Romans 5:07 | For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die. -Romans 5:08 | But God commends his own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5:09 | Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. -Romans 5:10 | For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life. -Romans 5:11 | Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. -Romans 5:12 | Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned. -Romans 5:13 | For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. -Romans 5:14 | Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. -Romans 5:15 | But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. -Romans 5:16 | The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgement came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. -Romans 5:17 | For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. -Romans 5:18 | So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. -Romans 5:19 | For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. -Romans 5:20 | The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; -Romans 5:21 | that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -Romans 6:01 | What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? -Romans 6:02 | May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? -Romans 6:03 | Or don’t you know that all we who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? -Romans 6:04 | We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. -Romans 6:05 | For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; -Romans 6:06 | knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. -Romans 6:07 | For he who has died has been freed from sin. -Romans 6:08 | But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; -Romans 6:09 | knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! -Romans 6:10 | For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. -Romans 6:11 | Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 6:12 | Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. -Romans 6:13 | Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. -Romans 6:14 | For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. -Romans 6:15 | What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be! -Romans 6:16 | Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? -Romans 6:17 | But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. -Romans 6:18 | Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. -Romans 6:19 | I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. -Romans 6:20 | For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. -Romans 6:21 | What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. -Romans 6:22 | But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. -Romans 6:23 | For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 7:01 | Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? -Romans 7:02 | For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. -Romans 7:03 | So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. -Romans 7:04 | Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. -Romans 7:05 | For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. -Romans 7:06 | But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. -Romans 7:07 | What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." -Romans 7:08 | But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. -Romans 7:09 | I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. -Romans 7:10 | The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death; -Romans 7:11 | for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. -Romans 7:12 | Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. -Romans 7:13 | Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful. -Romans 7:14 | For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. -Romans 7:15 | For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practise what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. -Romans 7:16 | But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. -Romans 7:17 | So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. -Romans 7:18 | For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. -Romans 7:19 | For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practise. -Romans 7:20 | But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. -Romans 7:21 | I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. -Romans 7:22 | For I delight in God’s law after the inward person, -Romans 7:23 | but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. -Romans 7:24 | What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? -Romans 7:25 | I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law. -Romans 8:01 | There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. -Romans 8:02 | For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. -Romans 8:03 | For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; -Romans 8:04 | that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. -Romans 8:05 | For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. -Romans 8:06 | For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; -Romans 8:07 | because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. -Romans 8:08 | Those who are in the flesh can’t please God. -Romans 8:09 | But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. -Romans 8:10 | If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. -Romans 8:11 | But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. -Romans 8:12 | So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. -Romans 8:13 | For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. -Romans 8:14 | For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. -Romans 8:15 | For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" -Romans 8:16 | The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; -Romans 8:17 | and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. -Romans 8:18 | For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed towards us. -Romans 8:19 | For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. -Romans 8:20 | For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope -Romans 8:21 | that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. -Romans 8:22 | For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. -Romans 8:23 | Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. -Romans 8:24 | For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? -Romans 8:25 | But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. -Romans 8:26 | In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. -Romans 8:27 | He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. -Romans 8:28 | We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. -Romans 8:29 | For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn amongst many brothers. -Romans 8:30 | Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. -Romans 8:31 | What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? -Romans 8:32 | He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? -Romans 8:33 | Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. -Romans 8:34 | Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. -Romans 8:35 | Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? -Romans 8:36 | Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." -Romans 8:37 | No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. -Romans 8:38 | For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, -Romans 8:39 | nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 9:01 | I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit -Romans 9:02 | that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. -Romans 9:03 | For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh -Romans 9:04 | who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; -Romans 9:05 | of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. -Romans 9:06 | But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel. -Romans 9:07 | Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, "your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac." -Romans 9:08 | That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs. -Romans 9:09 | For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son." -Romans 9:10 | Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. -Romans 9:11 | For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, -Romans 9:12 | it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." -Romans 9:13 | Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." -Romans 9:14 | What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! -Romans 9:15 | For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." -Romans 9:16 | So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. -Romans 9:17 | For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." -Romans 9:18 | So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. -Romans 9:19 | You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" -Romans 9:20 | But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" -Romans 9:21 | Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honour, and another for dishonour? -Romans 9:22 | What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, -Romans 9:23 | and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, -Romans 9:24 | us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? -Romans 9:25 | As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved." -Romans 9:26 | "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’" -Romans 9:27 | Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved; -Romans 9:28 | for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth." -Romans 9:29 | As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah." -Romans 9:30 | What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; -Romans 9:31 | but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness. -Romans 9:32 | Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; -Romans 9:33 | even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offence; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed." -Ruth 1:01 | In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. -Ruth 1:04 | They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years. -Ruth 1:06 | Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. -Ruth 1:07 | She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah. -Ruth 1:08 | Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. -Ruth 1:09 | May The Lord grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept. -Ruth 1:10 | They said to her, "No, but we will return with you to your people." -Ruth 1:11 | Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? -Ruth 1:12 | Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons, -Ruth 1:13 | would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for the Lord’s hand has gone out against me." -Ruth 1:14 | They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her. -Ruth 1:15 | She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law." -Ruth 1:16 | Ruth said, "Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. -Ruth 1:17 | Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me." -Ruth 1:18 | When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. -Ruth 1:19 | So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, "Is this Naomi?" -Ruth 1:20 | She said to them, "Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. -Ruth 1:21 | I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?" -Ruth 1:22 | So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. -Ruth 2:01 | Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. -Ruth 2:02 | Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean amongst the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favour." She said to her, "Go, my daughter." -Ruth 2:03 | She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. -Ruth 2:04 | Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, "May The Lord be with you." They answered him, "May The Lord bless you." -Ruth 2:05 | Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, "Whose young lady is this?" -Ruth 2:06 | The servant who was set over the reapers answered, "It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. -Ruth 2:07 | She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house." -Ruth 2:08 | Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens. -Ruth 2:09 | Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn." -Ruth 2:10 | Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favour in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?" -Ruth 2:11 | Boaz answered her, "I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before. -Ruth 2:12 | May the Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge." -Ruth 2:13 | Then she said, "Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants." -Ruth 2:14 | At meal time Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it. -Ruth 2:15 | When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even amongst the sheaves, and don’t reproach her. -Ruth 2:16 | Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her." -Ruth 2:17 | So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. -Ruth 2:18 | She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough. -Ruth 2:19 | Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, "The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz." -Ruth 2:20 | Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the Lord, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen." -Ruth 2:21 | Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’" -Ruth 2:22 | Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field." -Ruth 2:23 | So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law. -Ruth 3:01 | Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? -Ruth 3:02 | Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor. -Ruth 3:03 | Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. -Ruth 3:04 | It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do." -Ruth 3:05 | She said to her, "All that you say, I will do." -Ruth 3:06 | She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her. -Ruth 3:07 | When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down. -Ruth 3:08 | At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. -Ruth 3:09 | He said, "Who are you?" She answered, "I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman." -Ruth 3:10 | He said, "You are blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich. -Ruth 3:11 | Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman. -Ruth 3:12 | Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I. -Ruth 3:13 | Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as the Lord lives. Lie down until the morning." -Ruth 3:14 | She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." -Ruth 3:15 | He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city. -Ruth 3:16 | When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done for her. -Ruth 3:17 | She said, "He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’" -Ruth 3:18 | Then she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today." -Ruth 4:01 | Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He came over, and sat down. -Ruth 4:02 | Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here," and they sat down. -Ruth 4:03 | He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. -Ruth 4:04 | I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it." -Ruth 4:05 | Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance." -Ruth 4:06 | The near kinsman said, "I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it." -Ruth 4:07 | Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel. -Ruth 4:08 | So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," then he took off his sandal. -Ruth 4:09 | Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, "You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. -Ruth 4:10 | Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from amongst his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today." -Ruth 4:11 | All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. -Ruth 4:12 | Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give you by this young woman." -Ruth 4:13 | So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. -Ruth 4:14 | The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel. -Ruth 4:15 | He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him." -Ruth 4:16 | Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him. -Ruth 4:17 | The women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, "A son is born to Naomi". They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. -Song of Solomon 1:02 | Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine. -Song of Solomon 1:03 | Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you. -Song of Solomon 1:04 | Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you. -Song of Solomon 1:05 | I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains. -Song of Solomon 1:06 | Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard. -Song of Solomon 1:07 | Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? -Song of Solomon 1:08 | If you don’t know, most beautiful amongst women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents. -Song of Solomon 1:09 | I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots. -Song of Solomon 1:10 | Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. -Song of Solomon 1:11 | We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. -Song of Solomon 1:12 | While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. -Song of Solomon 1:13 | My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts. -Song of Solomon 1:14 | My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. -Song of Solomon 1:15 | Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves. -Song of Solomon 1:16 | Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. -Song of Solomon 1:17 | The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. -Song of Solomon 2:01 | I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. -Song of Solomon 2:02 | As a lily amongst thorns, so is my love amongst the daughters. -Song of Solomon 2:03 | As the apple tree amongst the trees of the wood, so is my beloved amongst the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste. -Song of Solomon 2:04 | He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love. -Song of Solomon 2:05 | Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love. -Song of Solomon 2:06 | His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me. -Song of Solomon 2:07 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. -Song of Solomon 2:08 | The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. -Song of Solomon 2:09 | My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice. -Song of Solomon 2:10 | My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. -Song of Solomon 2:11 | For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. -Song of Solomon 2:12 | The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. -Song of Solomon 2:13 | The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." -Song of Solomon 2:14 | My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. -Song of Solomon 2:15 | Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. -Song of Solomon 2:16 | My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses amongst the lilies. -Song of Solomon 2:17 | Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether. -Song of Solomon 3:01 | By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. -Song of Solomon 3:02 | I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. -Song of Solomon 3:03 | The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" -Song of Solomon 3:04 | I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me. -Song of Solomon 3:05 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires. -Song of Solomon 3:06 | Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant? -Song of Solomon 3:07 | Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel. -Song of Solomon 3:08 | They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night. -Song of Solomon 3:09 | King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon. -Song of Solomon 3:10 | He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem. -Song of Solomon 3:11 | Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. -Song of Solomon 4:01 | Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. -Song of Solomon 4:02 | Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved amongst them. -Song of Solomon 4:03 | Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. -Song of Solomon 4:04 | Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armoury, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men. -Song of Solomon 4:05 | Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed amongst the lilies. -Song of Solomon 4:06 | Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense. -Song of Solomon 4:07 | You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you. -Song of Solomon 4:08 | Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. -Song of Solomon 4:09 | You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. -Song of Solomon 4:10 | How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices! -Song of Solomon 4:11 | Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. -Song of Solomon 4:12 | My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain. -Song of Solomon 4:13 | Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, -Song of Solomon 4:14 | spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, -Song of Solomon 4:15 | a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. -Song of Solomon 4:16 | Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. -Song of Solomon 5:01 | I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. -Song of Solomon 5:02 | I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night." -Song of Solomon 5:03 | I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? -Song of Solomon 5:04 | My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him. -Song of Solomon 5:05 | I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. -Song of Solomon 5:06 | I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer. -Song of Solomon 5:07 | The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me. -Song of Solomon 5:08 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. -Song of Solomon 5:09 | How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest amongst women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? -Song of Solomon 5:10 | My beloved is white and ruddy. The best amongst ten thousand. -Song of Solomon 5:11 | His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven. -Song of Solomon 5:12 | His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels. -Song of Solomon 5:13 | His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. -Song of Solomon 5:14 | His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. -Song of Solomon 5:15 | His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. -Song of Solomon 5:16 | His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. -Song of Solomon 6:01 | Where has your beloved gone, you fairest amongst women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? -Song of Solomon 6:02 | My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. -Song of Solomon 6:03 | I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses amongst the lilies. -Song of Solomon 6:04 | You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. -Song of Solomon 6:05 | Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead. -Song of Solomon 6:06 | Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved amongst them. -Song of Solomon 6:07 | Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. -Song of Solomon 6:08 | There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number. -Song of Solomon 6:09 | My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favourite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her. -Song of Solomon 6:10 | Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners? -Song of Solomon 6:11 | I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower. -Song of Solomon 6:12 | Without realising it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. -Song of Solomon 6:13 | Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim? -Song of Solomon 7:01 | How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skilful workman. -Song of Solomon 7:02 | Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. -Song of Solomon 7:03 | Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe. -Song of Solomon 7:04 | Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks towards Damascus. -Song of Solomon 7:05 | Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses. -Song of Solomon 7:06 | How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! -Song of Solomon 7:07 | This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit. -Song of Solomon 7:08 | I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples. -Song of Solomon 7:09 | Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. -Song of Solomon 7:10 | I am my beloved’s. His desire is towards me. -Song of Solomon 7:11 | Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages. -Song of Solomon 7:12 | Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love. -Song of Solomon 7:13 | The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved. -Song of Solomon 8:01 | Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me. -Song of Solomon 8:02 | I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. -Song of Solomon 8:03 | His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me. -Song of Solomon 8:04 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. -Song of Solomon 8:05 | Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labour and bore you. -Song of Solomon 8:06 | Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord. -Song of Solomon 8:07 | Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. -Song of Solomon 8:08 | We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for? -Song of Solomon 8:09 | If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. -Song of Solomon 8:10 | I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace. -Song of Solomon 8:11 | Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. -Song of Solomon 8:12 | My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit. -Song of Solomon 8:13 | You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! -Song of Solomon 8:14 | Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices! -Titus 1:01 | Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, -Titus 1:02 | in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began; -Titus 1:03 | but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour; -Titus 1:04 | to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. -Titus 1:05 | I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you, -Titus 1:06 | if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behaviour. -Titus 1:07 | For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; -Titus 1:08 | but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled, -Titus 1:09 | holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. -Titus 1:10 | For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, -Titus 1:11 | whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake. -Titus 1:12 | One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons." -Titus 1:13 | This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, -Titus 1:14 | not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. -Titus 1:15 | To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. -Titus 1:16 | They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. -Titus 2:01 | But say the things which fit sound doctrine, -Titus 2:02 | that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance: -Titus 2:03 | and that older women likewise be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, -Titus 2:04 | that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, -Titus 2:05 | to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed. -Titus 2:06 | Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded. -Titus 2:07 | In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, -Titus 2:08 | and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. -Titus 2:09 | Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting, -Titus 2:10 | not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Saviour, in all things. -Titus 2:11 | For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, -Titus 2:12 | instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age; -Titus 2:13 | looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, -Titus 2:14 | who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works. -Titus 2:15 | Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you. -Titus 3:01 | Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, -Titus 3:02 | to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility towards all men. -Titus 3:03 | For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. -Titus 3:04 | But when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love towards mankind appeared, -Titus 3:05 | not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, -Titus 3:06 | whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; -Titus 3:07 | that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. -Titus 3:08 | This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men; -Titus 3:09 | but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. -Titus 3:10 | Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning, -Titus 3:11 | knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned. -Titus 3:12 | When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there. -Titus 3:13 | Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them. -Titus 3:14 | Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful. -Titus 3:15 | All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. -Zechariah 10:01 | Ask of the Lord rain in the spring time, The Lord who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field. -Zechariah 10:02 | For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd. -Zechariah 10:03 | My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats, for the Lord of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle. -Zechariah 10:04 | From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together. -Zechariah 10:05 | They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded. -Zechariah 10:06 | "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them. -Zechariah 10:07 | Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in the Lord. -Zechariah 10:08 | I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased. -Zechariah 10:09 | I will sow them amongst the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return. -Zechariah 10:10 | I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them. -Zechariah 10:11 | He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt will depart. -Zechariah 10:12 | I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they will walk up and down in his name," says the Lord. -Zechariah 11:01 | Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. -Zechariah 11:02 | Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down. -Zechariah 11:03 | A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined. -Zechariah 11:04 | The Lord my God says: "Feed the flock of slaughter. -Zechariah 11:05 | Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them. -Zechariah 11:06 | For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says the Lord; "but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them." -Zechariah 11:07 | So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favour", and the other I called "Union", and I fed the flock. -Zechariah 11:08 | I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. -Zechariah 11:09 | Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh." -Zechariah 11:10 | I took my staff Favour, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. -Zechariah 11:11 | It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the Lord’s word. -Zechariah 11:12 | I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. -Zechariah 11:13 | The Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the Lord’s house. -Zechariah 11:14 | Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. -Zechariah 11:15 | The Lord said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. -Zechariah 11:16 | For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. -Zechariah 11:17 | Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!" -Zechariah 12:01 | A revelation: the Lord’s word concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: -Zechariah 12:02 | "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. -Zechariah 12:03 | It will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. -Zechariah 12:04 | In that day," says the Lord, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. -Zechariah 12:05 | The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of Armies their God.’ -Zechariah 12:06 | In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire amongst wood, and like a flaming torch amongst sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem. -Zechariah 12:07 | The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. -Zechariah 12:08 | In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble amongst them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like the Lord’s angel before them. -Zechariah 12:09 | It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. -Zechariah 12:10 | I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn. -Zechariah 12:11 | In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. -Zechariah 12:12 | The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; -Zechariah 12:13 | the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; -Zechariah 12:14 | all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. -Zechariah 13:01 | "In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. -Zechariah 13:02 | It will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. -Zechariah 13:03 | It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in the Lord’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. -Zechariah 13:04 | It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive, -Zechariah 13:05 | but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’ -Zechariah 13:06 | One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’ -Zechariah 13:07 | "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says the Lord of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones. -Zechariah 13:08 | It shall happen that in all the land," says the Lord, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it. -Zechariah 13:09 | I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’" -Zechariah 14:01 | Behold, a day of the Lord comes, when your plunder will be divided within you. -Zechariah 14:02 | For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. -Zechariah 14:03 | Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. -Zechariah 14:04 | His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move towards the north, and half of it towards the south. -Zechariah 14:05 | You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. The Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with you. -Zechariah 14:06 | It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost. -Zechariah 14:07 | It will be a unique day which is known to the Lord; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light. -Zechariah 14:08 | It will happen in that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them towards the eastern sea, and half of them towards the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter. -Zechariah 14:09 | The Lord will be King over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be one, and his name one. -Zechariah 14:10 | All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. -Zechariah 14:11 | Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely. -Zechariah 14:12 | This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. -Zechariah 14:13 | It will happen in that day, that a great panic from the Lord will be amongst them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbour, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbour. -Zechariah 14:14 | Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, silver, and clothing, in great abundance. -Zechariah 14:15 | A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps. -Zechariah 14:16 | It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths. -Zechariah 14:17 | It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, on them there will be no rain. -Zechariah 14:18 | If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. -Zechariah 14:19 | This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. -Zechariah 14:20 | In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO THE LORD"; and the pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. -Zechariah 14:21 | Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Armies. -Zechariah 1:03 | Therefore tell them: the Lord of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord of Armies. -Zechariah 1:04 | Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The Lord of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says the Lord. -Zechariah 1:05 | Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? -Zechariah 1:06 | But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the Lord of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’" -Zechariah 1:08 | "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood amongst the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses. -Zechariah 1:09 | Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are." -Zechariah 1:10 | The man who stood amongst the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones the Lord has sent to go back and forth through the earth." -Zechariah 1:11 | They reported to the Lord’s angel who stood amongst the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace." -Zechariah 1:12 | Then the Lord’s angel replied, "O Lord of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?" -Zechariah 1:13 | The Lord answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. -Zechariah 1:14 | So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. -Zechariah 1:15 | I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity." -Zechariah 1:16 | Therefore the Lord says: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the Lord of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."’ -Zechariah 1:17 | "Proclaim further, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem." -Zechariah 1:19 | I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." -Zechariah 1:21 | Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it." -Zechariah 2:01 | I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. -Zechariah 2:02 | Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length." -Zechariah 2:03 | Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him, -Zechariah 2:04 | and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. -Zechariah 2:05 | For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her. -Zechariah 2:06 | Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the Lord; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the Lord. -Zechariah 2:07 | ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’ -Zechariah 2:08 | For the Lord of Armies says: ‘For honour he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. -Zechariah 2:09 | For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me. -Zechariah 2:10 | Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says the Lord. -Zechariah 2:11 | Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell amongst you, and you shall know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. -Zechariah 2:12 | The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. -Zechariah 2:13 | Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!" -Zechariah 3:01 | He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Lord’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. -Zechariah 3:02 | The Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?" -Zechariah 3:03 | Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. -Zechariah 3:04 | He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing." -Zechariah 3:05 | I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head." So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the Lord’s angel was standing by. -Zechariah 3:07 | "The Lord of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access amongst these who stand by. -Zechariah 3:08 | Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch. -Zechariah 3:09 | For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. -Zechariah 3:10 | In that day,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.’" -Zechariah 4:01 | The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. -Zechariah 4:02 | He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; -Zechariah 4:03 | and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it." -Zechariah 4:04 | I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?" -Zechariah 4:05 | Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don’t you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." -Zechariah 4:06 | Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the Lord’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of Armies. -Zechariah 4:07 | Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’" -Zechariah 4:09 | "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. -Zechariah 4:10 | Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the Lord’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth." -Zechariah 4:11 | Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?" -Zechariah 4:12 | I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?" -Zechariah 4:13 | He answered me, "Don’t you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." -Zechariah 4:14 | Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth." -Zechariah 5:01 | Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. -Zechariah 5:02 | He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits." -Zechariah 5:03 | Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. -Zechariah 5:04 | I will cause it to go out," says the Lord of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones." -Zechariah 5:05 | Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing." -Zechariah 5:06 | I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is their appearance in all the land -Zechariah 5:07 | (and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket." -Zechariah 5:08 | He said, "This is Wickedness" and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth. -Zechariah 5:09 | Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky. -Zechariah 5:10 | Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?" -Zechariah 5:11 | He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place." -Zechariah 6:01 | Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze. -Zechariah 6:02 | In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses; -Zechariah 6:03 | in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. -Zechariah 6:04 | Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" -Zechariah 6:05 | The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth. -Zechariah 6:06 | The one with the black horses goes out towards the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out towards the south country." -Zechariah 6:07 | The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth. -Zechariah 6:08 | Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go towards the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country." -Zechariah 6:10 | "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon. -Zechariah 6:11 | Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; -Zechariah 6:12 | and speak to him, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the Lord’s temple; -Zechariah 6:13 | even he shall build the Lord’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. -Zechariah 6:14 | The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the Lord’s temple. -Zechariah 6:15 | Those who are far off shall come and build in the Lord’s temple; and you shall know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the Lord your God’s voice." -Zechariah 7:01 | In the fourth year of king Darius, the Lord’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. -Zechariah 7:02 | The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the Lord’s favour, -Zechariah 7:03 | and to speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" -Zechariah 7:05 | "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? -Zechariah 7:06 | When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? -Zechariah 7:07 | Aren’t these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’" -Zechariah 7:09 | "Thus has the Lord of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgement, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. -Zechariah 7:10 | Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’ -Zechariah 7:11 | But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. -Zechariah 7:12 | Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of Armies. -Zechariah 7:13 | It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the Lord of Armies; -Zechariah 7:14 | "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind amongst all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate." -Zechariah 8:02 | The Lord of Armies says: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath." -Zechariah 8:03 | The Lord says: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the Lord of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’" -Zechariah 8:04 | The Lord of Armies says: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. -Zechariah 8:05 | The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets." -Zechariah 8:06 | The Lord of Armies says: "If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes?" says the Lord of Armies. -Zechariah 8:07 | The Lord of Armies says: "Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; -Zechariah 8:08 | and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness." -Zechariah 8:09 | The Lord of Armies says: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. -Zechariah 8:10 | For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbour. -Zechariah 8:11 | But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says the Lord of Armies. -Zechariah 8:12 | "For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. -Zechariah 8:13 | It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse amongst the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong." -Zechariah 8:14 | For the Lord of Armies says: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says the Lord of Armies, "and I didn’t repent; -Zechariah 8:15 | so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid. -Zechariah 8:16 | These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbour. Execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates, -Zechariah 8:17 | and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says the Lord. -Zechariah 8:19 | The Lord of Armies says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace." -Zechariah 8:20 | The Lord of Armies says: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; -Zechariah 8:21 | and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Armies. I will go also.’ -Zechariah 8:22 | Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favour of the Lord." -Zechariah 8:23 | The Lord of Armies says: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’" -Zechariah 9:01 | A revelation. The Lord’s word is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is towards the LORD; -Zechariah 9:02 | and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise. -Zechariah 9:03 | Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets. -Zechariah 9:04 | Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire. -Zechariah 9:05 | Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. -Zechariah 9:06 | Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. -Zechariah 9:07 | I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. -Zechariah 9:08 | I will encamp around my house against the army, that no one pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes. -Zechariah 9:09 | Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. -Zechariah 9:10 | I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. -Zechariah 9:11 | As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. -Zechariah 9:12 | Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. -Zechariah 9:13 | For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man. -Zechariah 9:14 | The Lord will be seen over them; and his arrow will flash like lightning; and the Lord God will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south. -Zechariah 9:15 | The Lord of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar. -Zechariah 9:16 | The Lord their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land. -Zechariah 9:17 | For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins. -Zephaniah 1:01 | The Lord’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. -Zephaniah 1:02 | I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says the Lord. -Zephaniah 1:03 | I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says the Lord. -Zephaniah 1:04 | I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, -Zephaniah 1:05 | those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the Lord and also swear by Malcam, -Zephaniah 1:06 | those who have turned back from following the Lord, and those who haven’t sought the Lord nor enquired after him. -Zephaniah 1:07 | Be silent at the presence of the Lord GOD, for the day of the Lord is at hand. For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests. -Zephaniah 1:08 | It will happen in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing. -Zephaniah 1:09 | In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit. -Zephaniah 1:10 | In that day, says the Lord, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills. -Zephaniah 1:11 | Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off. -Zephaniah 1:12 | It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil." -Zephaniah 1:13 | Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine. -Zephaniah 1:14 | The great day of the Lord is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of the Lord. The mighty man cries there bitterly. -Zephaniah 1:15 | That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, -Zephaniah 1:16 | a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements. -Zephaniah 1:17 | I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. -Zephaniah 1:18 | Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land. -Zephaniah 2:01 | Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame, -Zephaniah 2:02 | before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord’s anger comes on you. -Zephaniah 2:03 | Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger. -Zephaniah 2:04 | For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. -Zephaniah 2:05 | Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The Lord’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant. -Zephaniah 2:06 | The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. -Zephaniah 2:07 | The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord, their God, will visit them, and restore them. -Zephaniah 2:08 | I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. -Zephaniah 2:09 | Therefore as I live, says the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. -Zephaniah 2:10 | This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Armies. -Zephaniah 2:11 | The Lord will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations. -Zephaniah 2:12 | You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword. -Zephaniah 2:13 | He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness. -Zephaniah 2:14 | Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. -Zephaniah 2:15 | This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists. -Zephaniah 3:01 | Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! -Zephaniah 3:02 | She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in the Lord. She didn’t draw near to her God. -Zephaniah 3:03 | Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day. -Zephaniah 3:04 | Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law. -Zephaniah 3:05 | The Lord, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame. -Zephaniah 3:06 | I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant. -Zephaniah 3:07 | I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings. -Zephaniah 3:08 | "Therefore wait for me", says the Lord, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. -Zephaniah 3:09 | For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the Lord’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder. -Zephaniah 3:10 | From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshippers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering. -Zephaniah 3:11 | In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from amongst you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain. -Zephaniah 3:12 | But I will leave amongst you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the Lord’s name. -Zephaniah 3:13 | The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid." -Zephaniah 3:14 | Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem. -Zephaniah 3:15 | The Lord has taken away your judgements. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, the Lord, is amongst you. You will not be afraid of evil any more. -Zephaniah 3:16 | In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak." -Zephaniah 3:17 | The Lord, your God, is amongst you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing. -Zephaniah 3:18 | I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you. -Zephaniah 3:19 | Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honour, whose shame has been in all the earth. -Zephaniah 3:20 | At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honour and praise amongst all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord. -1 Esdras 1:01 | Josias held the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month; -1 Esdras 1:02 | having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord. -1 Esdras 1:03 | And he spoke to the Levites, the temple-servants of Israel, that they should make themselves holy to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built: -1 Esdras 1:04 | [and said] You shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister to his people Israel, and prepare you after your fathers’ houses and kindred, -1 Esdras 1:05 | according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the holy place according to the several divisions of the families of you the Levites, who [minister] in the presence of your kindred the children of Israel, -1 Esdras 1:06 | offer the Passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given to Moses. -1 Esdras 1:07 | And to the people which were present Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, [and] three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s substance, according as he promised, to the people, and to the priests and Levites. -1 Esdras 1:10 | And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in comely order according to the kindred, -1 Esdras 1:11 | and according to the several divisions by fathers’ houses, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus [did they] in the morning. -1 Esdras 1:12 | And they roasted the Passover with fire, as appertains: and the sacrifices they sod in the brazen vessels and cauldrons with a good savour, -1 Esdras 1:16 | Moreover the gatekeepers were at every gate; none had need to depart from his daily course: for their kindred the Levites prepared for them. -1 Esdras 1:17 | Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, in holding the Passover, -1 Esdras 1:18 | and offering sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias. -1 Esdras 1:19 | So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. -1 Esdras 1:20 | And such a Passover was not held in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel. -1 Esdras 1:21 | Yes, all the kings of Israel held not such a Passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were present in their dwelling place at Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 1:22 | In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this Passover held. -1 Esdras 1:23 | And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness. -1 Esdras 1:24 | Moreover the things that came to pass in his days have been written in times past, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above every people and kingdom, and how they grieved him exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord were confirmed against Israel. -1 Esdras 1:25 | Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchemish upon Euphrates: and Josias went out against him. -1 Esdras 1:26 | But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judea? -1 Esdras 1:27 | I am not sent out from the Lord God against you; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yes, the Lord is with me hastening me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord. -1 Esdras 1:28 | However Josias didn’t turn back to his chariot, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy [spoken] by the mouth of the Lord: -1 Esdras 1:29 | but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came down against King Josias. -1 Esdras 1:30 | Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the army. -1 Esdras 1:31 | Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers. -1 Esdras 1:32 | And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him, to this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel. -1 Esdras 1:33 | These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now [recited], are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. -1 Esdras 1:34 | And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old. -1 Esdras 1:35 | And he reigned in Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 1:36 | And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. -1 Esdras 1:37 | The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 1:48 | And after king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Esdras 1:49 | Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 1:50 | And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place. -1 Esdras 1:51 | But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spoke [to them] they scoffed at his prophets: -1 Esdras 1:52 | so far forth, that he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them; -1 Esdras 1:53 | who killed their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child; but he delivered all into their hands. -1 Esdras 1:54 | And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon. -1 Esdras 1:55 | And they burnt the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burnt the towers thereof with fire: -1 Esdras 1:56 | and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nothing: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried to Babylon: -1 Esdras 1:57 | and they were servants to him and to his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy: -1 Esdras 1:58 | Until the land has enjoyed her Sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. -1 Esdras 2:01 | In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished, -1 Esdras 2:02 | the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing, saying, -1 Esdras 2:03 | Cyrus king of the Persians says: The Lord of Israel, the Most High Lord, has made me king of the whole world, -1 Esdras 2:04 | and commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judea. -1 Esdras 2:05 | If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: he is the Lord that dwells in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 2:07 | with gifts, with horses also and cattle, beside the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 2:08 | Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 2:09 | And those who lived round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed of a great number whose minds were stirred up [thereto.] -1 Esdras 2:13 | And this was the number of them: A thousand golden cups, a thousand cups of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand and four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. -1 Esdras 2:14 | So all the vessels of gold and of silver were brought up, even five thousand and four hundred threescore and nine, -1 Esdras 2:15 | and were carried back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 2:17 | To king Artaxerxes our Lord, Your servants, Rathumus the recorder, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia. -1 Esdras 2:18 | Be it now known to our lord the king, that the Jews that have come up from you to us, having come to Jerusalem, are building that rebellious and wicked city, and are repairing its marketplaces and walls, and are laying the foundation of a temple. -1 Esdras 2:19 | Now if this city is built and the walls [thereof] are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings. -1 Esdras 2:20 | And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter, -1 Esdras 2:21 | but to speak to our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be your pleasure, search may be made in the books of your fathers: -1 Esdras 2:22 | and you shall find in the chronicles what is written concerning these things, and shall understand that that city was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities: -1 Esdras 2:23 | and that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein of old time; for the which cause even this city was laid waste. -1 Esdras 2:24 | Wherefore now we do declare to you, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, you shall from henceforth have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia. -1 Esdras 2:25 | Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the recorder, and Beeltethmus, and Samellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and lived in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, after this manner: -1 Esdras 2:26 | I have read the letter which you have sent to me: therefore I commanded to make search, and it has been found that that city of old time has made insurrection against kings; -1 Esdras 2:27 | and the men were given to rebellion and war therein: and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tribute in Coelesyria and Phoenicia. -1 Esdras 2:28 | Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this [order; ] -1 Esdras 2:29 | and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings. -1 Esdras 2:30 | Then king Artaxerxes, his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste to Jerusalem with horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians. -1 Esdras 3:01 | Now king Darius made a great feast to all his subjects, and to all that were born in his house, and to all the princes of Media and of Persia, -1 Esdras 3:02 | and to all the local governors and captains and governors that were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the hundred and twenty and seven provinces. -1 Esdras 3:03 | And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and awaked out of his sleep. -1 Esdras 3:05 | Let every one of us say one thing which shall be strongest: and he whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, to him shall Darius the king give great gifts, and great honours in token of victory: -1 Esdras 3:06 | as, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and a turban of fine linen, and a chain about his neck: -1 Esdras 3:07 | and he shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin. -1 Esdras 3:08 | And then they wrote every one his sentence, and set to their seals, and laid [the writing] under king Darius his pillow, -1 Esdras 3:09 | and said, When the king is risen, some shall give him the writing; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as it is written. -1 Esdras 3:12 | The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth bears away the victory. -1 Esdras 3:13 | Now when the king was risen up, they took the writing, and gave it to him, and so he read it: -1 Esdras 3:14 | and sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and of Media, and the local governors, and the captains, and the governors, and the chief officers; -1 Esdras 3:15 | and sat him down in the royal seat of judgement; and the writing was read before them. -1 Esdras 3:16 | And he said, Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called, and came in. -1 Esdras 3:17 | And they said to them, Declare to us your mind concerning the things you have written. Then began the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine, -1 Esdras 3:18 | and said thus, O sirs, how exceedingly strong is wine! it causes all men to err that drink it: -1 Esdras 3:19 | it makes the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich: -1 Esdras 3:20 | it turns also every thought into cheer and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt: -1 Esdras 3:21 | and it makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor local governor; and it makes to speak all things by talents: -1 Esdras 3:22 | and when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and kindred, and a little after draw their swords: -1 Esdras 3:23 | but when they awake from their wine, they remember not what they have done. -1 Esdras 3:24 | O sirs, is not wine the strongest, seeing that it enforces to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace. -1 Esdras 4:01 | Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, -1 Esdras 4:02 | O sirs, do not men excel in strength, that bear rule over the sea and land, and all things in them? -1 Esdras 4:03 | But yet is the king stronger: and he is their lord, and has dominion over them; and in whatever he commands them they obey him. -1 Esdras 4:04 | If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: and if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and overcome mountains, walls, and towers. -1 Esdras 4:05 | They kill and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the plunder, as all things else. -1 Esdras 4:06 | Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king. -1 Esdras 4:07 | And he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare; -1 Esdras 4:08 | if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build; -1 Esdras 4:09 | if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant. -1 Esdras 4:10 | So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest: -1 Esdras 4:11 | and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him [in anything.] -1 Esdras 4:12 | O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace. -1 Esdras 4:13 | Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak. -1 Esdras 4:14 | O sirs, is not the king great, and men are many, and wine is strong? who is it then that rules them, or has the lordship over them? are they not women? -1 Esdras 4:15 | Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land. -1 Esdras 4:16 | Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine comes. -1 Esdras 4:17 | These also make garments for men; these bring glory to men; and without women can’t men be. -1 Esdras 4:18 | Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other goodly thing, and see a woman which is comely in favour and beauty, -1 Esdras 4:19 | they let all those things go, and gape after her, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have all more desire to her than to gold or silver, or any goodly thing whatever. -1 Esdras 4:20 | A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and joins with his wife. -1 Esdras 4:21 | And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country. -1 Esdras 4:22 | By this also you must know that women have dominion over you: do you not labour and toil, and give and bring all to women? -1 Esdras 4:23 | Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes forth to make outroads, and to rob and to steal, and to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; -1 Esdras 4:24 | and looks upon a lion, and walks in the darkness; and when he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to his love. -1 Esdras 4:25 | Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother. -1 Esdras 4:26 | Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes. -1 Esdras 4:27 | Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women. -1 Esdras 4:28 | And now do you not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him? -1 Esdras 4:29 | Yet did I see him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king, -1 Esdras 4:30 | and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; yes, she struck the king with her left hand: -1 Esdras 4:31 | and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. -1 Esdras 4:32 | O sirs, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus? -1 Esdras 4:33 | Then the king and the nobles looked one upon another: so he began to speak concerning truth. -1 Esdras 4:34 | O sirs, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he encircles the heavens round about, and fetches his course again to his own place in one day. -1 Esdras 4:35 | Is he not great that makes these things? therefore great is truth, and stronger than all things. -1 Esdras 4:36 | All the earth calls upon truth, and the heaven blesses her: all works shake and tremble, but with her is no unrighteous thing. -1 Esdras 4:37 | Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all the children of men are unrighteous, and unrighteous are all such their works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish. -1 Esdras 4:38 | But truth remains, and is strong forever; she lives and conquers forevermore. -1 Esdras 4:39 | With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she does the things that are just, [and refrains] from all unrighteous and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works. -1 Esdras 4:40 | Neither in her judgement is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, and the kingdom, and the power, and the majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth. -1 Esdras 4:41 | And with that he held his tongue. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and strong above all things. -1 Esdras 4:42 | Then said the king to him, Ask what you will more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it you, inasmuch as you are found wisest; and you shall sit next me, and shall be called my cousin. -1 Esdras 4:43 | Then said he to the king, Remember your vow, which you did vow to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom, -1 Esdras 4:44 | and to send away all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them again there. -1 Esdras 4:45 | You did also vow to build up the temple, which the Edomites burnt when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans. -1 Esdras 4:46 | And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that shall proceed from you: I pray therefore that you make good the vow, the performance whereof you have vowed to the King of heaven with your own mouth. -1 Esdras 4:47 | Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those that should go up with him to build Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 4:48 | He wrote letters also to all the governors that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him. -1 Esdras 4:49 | Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that should go out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors; -1 Esdras 4:50 | and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held: -1 Esdras 4:51 | and that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built; -1 Esdras 4:52 | and other ten talents yearly, for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen: -1 Esdras 4:53 | and that all those who should come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that came. -1 Esdras 4:54 | He wrote also [to give them] their charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister; -1 Esdras 4:55 | and for the Levites he wrote that their charges should be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem built up. -1 Esdras 4:56 | And he commanded to give to all that kept the city lands and wages. -1 Esdras 4:57 | He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he charged also to be done, and sent to Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 4:58 | Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven towards Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven, -1 Esdras 4:59 | and said, From you comes victory, from you comes wisdom, and your is the glory, and I am your servant. -1 Esdras 4:60 | Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom: and to you I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers. -1 Esdras 4:61 | And so he took the letters, and went out, and came to Babylon, and told it all his kindred. -1 Esdras 4:62 | And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty -1 Esdras 4:63 | to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days. -1 Esdras 5:01 | After this were the chiefs of fathers’ houses chosen to go up according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle. -1 Esdras 5:02 | And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes. -1 Esdras 5:03 | And all their kindred played, and he made them go up together with them. -1 Esdras 5:04 | And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families amongst their tribes, after their several divisions. -1 Esdras 5:05 | The priests, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedek, the son of Saraias, and Joakim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah; -1 Esdras 5:06 | who spoke wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month. -1 Esdras 5:35 | All the temple-servants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred and seventy and two. -1 Esdras 5:36 | These came up from Thermeleth, and Thelersas, Charaathalan leading them, and Allar; -1 Esdras 5:37 | and they could not show their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of Dalan the son of Ban, the sons of Nekodan, six hundred and fifty and two. -1 Esdras 5:38 | And of the priests, those who usurped the office of the priesthood and were not found: the sons of Obdia, the sons of Akkos, the sons of Jaddus, who married Augia one of the daughters of Zorzelleus, and was called after his name. -1 Esdras 5:39 | And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood: -1 Esdras 5:40 | for to them said Nehemias and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest wearing Urim and Thummim. -1 Esdras 5:41 | So all they of Israel, from twelve years old [and upward] beside menservants and women servants, were [in number] forty and two thousand and three hundred and sixty. -1 Esdras 5:42 | Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand and three hundred and thirty and seven: the minstrels and singers, two hundred and forty and five: -1 Esdras 5:43 | four hundred and thirty and five camels, seven thousand and thirty and six horses, two hundred and forty and five mules, five thousand and five hundred and twenty and five beasts of burden. -1 Esdras 5:44 | And certain of the chief men of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in its own place according to their ability, -1 Esdras 5:45 | and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments. -1 Esdras 5:46 | And the priests and the Levites and those who were of the people lived in Jerusalem and the country; the holy singers also and the gatekeepers and all Israel in their villages. -1 Esdras 5:47 | But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the broad place before the first porch which is towards the east. -1 Esdras 5:48 | Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his kindred, and made ready the altar of the God of Israel, -1 Esdras 5:49 | to offer burnt sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God. -1 Esdras 5:50 | And certain were gathered to them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening. -1 Esdras 5:51 | Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and [offered] sacrifices daily, as was meet: -1 Esdras 5:52 | and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifices of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all the consecrated feasts. -1 Esdras 5:53 | And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the new moon of the seventh month, although the temple of God was not yet built. -1 Esdras 5:54 | And they gave money to the masons and carpenters; and meat and drink, -1 Esdras 5:55 | and cars to them of Sidon and Tyre, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, [and] convey them in floats to the haven of Joppa, according to the commandment which was written for them by Cyrus king of the Persians. -1 Esdras 5:56 | And in the second year after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and their kindred, and the Levitical priests, and all those who were come to Jerusalem out of the captivity: -1 Esdras 5:57 | and they laid the foundation of the temple of God on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they were come to Jewry and Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 5:58 | And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and kindred, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Jesus, Emadabun, and the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, and their sons and kindred, all the Levites, with one accord started the business, labouring to advance the works in the house of God. So the builders built the temple of the Lord. -1 Esdras 5:59 | And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with their cymbals, -1 Esdras 5:60 | singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord, after the order of David king of Israel. -1 Esdras 5:61 | And they sang aloud, praising the Lord in songs of thanksgiving, because his goodness and his glory are forever in all Israel. -1 Esdras 5:62 | And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord. -1 Esdras 5:63 | Also of the Levitical priests, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping. -1 Esdras 5:65 | insomuch that the people heard not the trumpets for the weeping of the people: for the multitude sounded marvellously, so that it was heard afar off. -1 Esdras 5:66 | Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean. -1 Esdras 5:67 | And they perceived that those who were of the captivity did build the temple to the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Esdras 5:68 | So they went to Zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief men of the families, and said to them, we will build together with you. -1 Esdras 5:69 | For we likewise, as you, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice to him from the days of Asbasareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us here. -1 Esdras 5:70 | Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief men of the families of Israel said to them, It is not for you to build the house to the Lord our God. -1 Esdras 5:71 | We ourselves alone will build to the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us. -1 Esdras 5:72 | But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building; -1 Esdras 5:73 | and by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius. -1 Esdras 6:01 | Now in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem; in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, [prophesied they] to them. -1 Esdras 6:02 | Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, [and] helping them. -1 Esdras 6:03 | At the same time came to them Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, with Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them, -1 Esdras 6:04 | By whose appointment do you build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the builders that perform these things? -1 Esdras 6:05 | Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favour, because the Lord had visited the captivity; -1 Esdras 6:06 | and they were not hindered from building, until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer signified. -1 Esdras 6:07 | The copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius; -1 Esdras 6:08 | To king Darius, greeting: Let all things be known to our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity -1 Esdras 6:09 | building a house to the Lord, great [and] new, of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls. -1 Esdras 6:10 | And those works are done with great speed, and the work goes on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence it is accomplished. -1 Esdras 6:11 | Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build you this house, and lay the foundations of these works? -1 Esdras 6:12 | Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the chief doers, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men. -1 Esdras 6:13 | So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth. -1 Esdras 6:14 | And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished. -1 Esdras 6:15 | But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans; -1 Esdras 6:16 | and they pulled down the house, and burnt it, and carried away the people captives to Babylon. -1 Esdras 6:17 | But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house. -1 Esdras 6:18 | And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set up in his own temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple in Babylonia, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the governor, -1 Esdras 6:19 | with commandment that he should carry away all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in its place. -1 Esdras 6:20 | Then Sanabassarus, being come here, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended. -1 Esdras 6:21 | Now therefore, if it seem good, O king, let search be made amongst the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon: -1 Esdras 6:22 | and if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and it seem good to our lord the king, let him signify to us thereof. -1 Esdras 6:23 | Then commanded King Darius to seek amongst the archives that were laid up at Babylon: and so at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a scroll where these things were recorded. -1 Esdras 6:24 | In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, where they do sacrifice with continual fire: -1 Esdras 6:25 | whose height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus: -1 Esdras 6:26 | and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before. -1 Esdras 6:27 | And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place. -1 Esdras 6:28 | And I also do command to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of Judea, till the house of the Lord be finished: -1 Esdras 6:29 | and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion be carefully given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, [that is] to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs; -1 Esdras 6:30 | and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent: -1 Esdras 6:31 | that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives. -1 Esdras 6:32 | And that commandment be given that whoever shall transgress, yes, or neglect anything written here, out of his own [house] shall a tree be taken, and he be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king. -1 Esdras 6:33 | The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that shall stretch out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 6:34 | I Darius the king have ordained that according to these things it be done with diligence. -1 Esdras 7:01 | Then Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius, -1 Esdras 7:02 | did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple. -1 Esdras 7:03 | And so the holy works prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied. -1 Esdras 7:04 | And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians. -1 Esdras 7:05 | [And thus] was the house finished by the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius. -1 Esdras 7:06 | And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added [to them] did according to the things [written] in the book of Moses. -1 Esdras 7:07 | And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; -1 Esdras 7:08 | [and] twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve princes of the tribes of Israel. -1 Esdras 7:09 | The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the gatekeepers at every gate. -1 Esdras 7:10 | And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together, -1 Esdras 7:11 | and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together, -1 Esdras 7:12 | and they offered the Passover for all them of the captivity, and for their kindred the priests, and for themselves. -1 Esdras 7:13 | And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord. -1 Esdras 7:14 | And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord, -1 Esdras 7:15 | for that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria towards them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Esdras 8:01 | And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Esdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem, -1 Esdras 8:02 | the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest. -1 Esdras 8:03 | This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel. -1 Esdras 8:04 | And the king did him honour: for he found grace in his sight in all his requests. -1 Esdras 8:05 | There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and temple servants, to Jerusalem, -1 Esdras 8:06 | in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them for his sake. -1 Esdras 8:07 | For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, [but] taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements. -1 Esdras 8:08 | Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy; -1 Esdras 8:09 | King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting: -1 Esdras 8:10 | Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 8:11 | As many therefore as have a mind [thereto] let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counsellors; -1 Esdras 8:12 | that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord, -1 Esdras 8:13 | and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem, -1 Esdras 8:14 | with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining; -1 Esdras 8:15 | to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 8:16 | And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God. -1 Esdras 8:17 | And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem: -1 Esdras 8:18 | and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury. -1 Esdras 8:19 | And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence, -1 Esdras 8:20 | to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred measures, and a hundred firkins of wine, and salt in abundance. -1 Esdras 8:21 | Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons. -1 Esdras 8:22 | I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them. -1 Esdras 8:23 | And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach. -1 Esdras 8:24 | And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment. -1 Esdras 8:25 | Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem: -1 Esdras 8:26 | and has honoured me in the sight of the king, and his counsellors, and all his friends and nobles. -1 Esdras 8:47 | And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us men of understanding of the sons of Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen, -1 Esdras 8:48 | and Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men; -1 Esdras 8:49 | and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed. -1 Esdras 8:50 | And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us: -1 Esdras 8:51 | for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries. -1 Esdras 8:52 | For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways. -1 Esdras 8:53 | And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favourable [to us.] -1 Esdras 8:54 | Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them: -1 Esdras 8:55 | and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counsellors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given. -1 Esdras 8:56 | And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold, -1 Esdras 8:57 | and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold. -1 Esdras 8:58 | And I said to them, Both you are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers. -1 Esdras 8:59 | Watch you, and keep them till you deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord. -1 Esdras 8:60 | So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord. -1 Esdras 8:61 | And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from [assault by] the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 8:62 | And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to Marmoth the priest the son of Urias. -1 Esdras 8:63 | And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all [was delivered them] by number and weight. -1 Esdras 8:65 | Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams, -1 Esdras 8:66 | threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord. -1 Esdras 8:67 | And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honoured the people and the temple of the Lord. -1 Esdras 8:68 | Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said, -1 Esdras 8:69 | The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away [from them] the strange people of the land, nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, [to wit] of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites. -1 Esdras 8:70 | For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity. -1 Esdras 8:71 | And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness. -1 Esdras 8:72 | So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice. -1 Esdras 8:73 | Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord, -1 Esdras 8:74 | I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face; -1 Esdras 8:75 | for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven, -1 Esdras 8:76 | ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day. -1 Esdras 8:77 | And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day. -1 Esdras 8:78 | And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary; -1 Esdras 8:79 | and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, [and] to give us food in the time of our servitude. -1 Esdras 8:80 | Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food, -1 Esdras 8:81 | and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem. -1 Esdras 8:82 | And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, -1 Esdras 8:83 | That the land, which you enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness. -1 Esdras 8:84 | Therefore now shall you not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you take their daughters to your sons. -1 Esdras 8:85 | Neither shall you seek to have peace with them forever, that you may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore. -1 Esdras 8:86 | And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light, -1 Esdras 8:87 | and did give to us such a root: [but] we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land. -1 Esdras 8:88 | You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name. -1 Esdras 8:89 | O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day. -1 Esdras 8:90 | Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things. -1 Esdras 8:91 | And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping amongst the multitude. -1 Esdras 8:92 | Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel aloft. -1 Esdras 8:93 | Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which [we have taken] of the strangers, with their children, -1 Esdras 8:94 | like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord. -1 Esdras 8:95 | Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly. -1 Esdras 8:96 | So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and [so] they sware. -1 Esdras 9:01 | Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib, -1 Esdras 9:02 | and lodged there, and did eat no bread nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude. -1 Esdras 9:03 | And there was made proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all those who were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem: -1 Esdras 9:04 | and that whoever met not there within two or three days, according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from the multitude of those who were of the captivity. -1 Esdras 9:06 | And all the multitude sat together trembling in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather. -1 Esdras 9:07 | So Esdras arose up and said to them, you have transgressed the law and married strange wives to increase the sins of Israel. -1 Esdras 9:08 | And now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers, -1 Esdras 9:09 | and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women. -1 Esdras 9:10 | Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Just as you have spoken, so will we do. -1 Esdras 9:11 | But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far: -1 Esdras 9:12 | therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed, -1 Esdras 9:13 | and with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter. -1 Esdras 9:38 | And the whole multitude were gathered together with one accord into the broad place before the porch of the temple towards the east: -1 Esdras 9:39 | and they said to Esdras the priest and reader, Bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord, the God of Israel. -1 Esdras 9:40 | So Esdras the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude both of men and women, and to all the priests, to hear the law on the new moon of the seventh month. -1 Esdras 9:41 | And he read in the broad place before the porch of the temple from morning to mid-day, before both men and women; and all the multitude gave heed to the law. -1 Esdras 9:42 | And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon the pulpit of wood, which was made [for that purpose.] -1 Esdras 9:45 | Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude, and sat honourably in the first place before all. -1 Esdras 9:46 | And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God Most High, the God of armies, Almighty. -1 Esdras 9:47 | And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord. -1 Esdras 9:49 | Then said Attharates to Esdras the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all, -1 Esdras 9:50 | This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:) -1 Esdras 9:51 | go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing; -1 Esdras 9:52 | for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honour. -1 Esdras 9:53 | So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful. -1 Esdras 9:54 | Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give portions to those who had nothing, and to make great cheer; -1 Esdras 9:55 | because they understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled. +1 Corinthians 16:14 | Let all that you do be done in love. +1 Corinthians 16:15 | Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints— +1 Corinthians 16:16 | that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labours. +1 Corinthians 16:17 | I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. +1 Corinthians 16:18 | For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that. +1 Corinthians 16:19 | The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house. +1 Corinthians 16:20 | All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. +1 Corinthians 16:21 | This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand. +1 Corinthians 16:22 | If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord! +1 Corinthians 16:23 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. +1 Corinthians 16:24 | My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. +1 Esdras 01:01 | Josias held the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month; +1 Esdras 01:02 | having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord. +1 Esdras 01:03 | And he spoke to the Levites, the temple-servants of Israel, that they should make themselves holy to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built: +1 Esdras 01:04 | [and said] You shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister to his people Israel, and prepare you after your fathers’ houses and kindred, +1 Esdras 01:05 | according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the holy place according to the several divisions of the families of you the Levites, who [minister] in the presence of your kindred the children of Israel, +1 Esdras 01:06 | offer the Passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given to Moses. +1 Esdras 01:07 | And to the people which were present Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, [and] three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s substance, according as he promised, to the people, and to the priests and Levites. +1 Esdras 01:10 | And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in comely order according to the kindred, +1 Esdras 01:11 | and according to the several divisions by fathers’ houses, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus [did they] in the morning. +1 Esdras 01:12 | And they roasted the Passover with fire, as appertains: and the sacrifices they sod in the brazen vessels and cauldrons with a good savour, +1 Esdras 01:16 | Moreover the gatekeepers were at every gate; none had need to depart from his daily course: for their kindred the Levites prepared for them. +1 Esdras 01:17 | Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, in holding the Passover, +1 Esdras 01:18 | and offering sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias. +1 Esdras 01:19 | So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. +1 Esdras 01:20 | And such a Passover was not held in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel. +1 Esdras 01:21 | Yes, all the kings of Israel held not such a Passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were present in their dwelling place at Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 01:22 | In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this Passover held. +1 Esdras 01:23 | And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness. +1 Esdras 01:24 | Moreover the things that came to pass in his days have been written in times past, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above every people and kingdom, and how they grieved him exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord were confirmed against Israel. +1 Esdras 01:25 | Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchemish upon Euphrates: and Josias went out against him. +1 Esdras 01:26 | But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judea? +1 Esdras 01:27 | I am not sent out from the Lord God against you; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yes, the Lord is with me hastening me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord. +1 Esdras 01:28 | However Josias didn’t turn back to his chariot, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy [spoken] by the mouth of the Lord: +1 Esdras 01:29 | but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came down against King Josias. +1 Esdras 01:30 | Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the army. +1 Esdras 01:31 | Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers. +1 Esdras 01:32 | And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him, to this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel. +1 Esdras 01:33 | These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now [recited], are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. +1 Esdras 01:34 | And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old. +1 Esdras 01:35 | And he reigned in Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 01:36 | And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. +1 Esdras 01:37 | The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 01:48 | And after king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Esdras 01:49 | Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 01:50 | And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place. +1 Esdras 01:51 | But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spoke [to them] they scoffed at his prophets: +1 Esdras 01:52 | so far forth, that he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them; +1 Esdras 01:53 | who killed their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child; but he delivered all into their hands. +1 Esdras 01:54 | And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon. +1 Esdras 01:55 | And they burnt the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burnt the towers thereof with fire: +1 Esdras 01:56 | and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nothing: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried to Babylon: +1 Esdras 01:57 | and they were servants to him and to his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy: +1 Esdras 01:58 | Until the land has enjoyed her Sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. +1 Esdras 02:01 | In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished, +1 Esdras 02:02 | the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing, saying, +1 Esdras 02:03 | Cyrus king of the Persians says: The Lord of Israel, the Most High Lord, has made me king of the whole world, +1 Esdras 02:04 | and commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judea. +1 Esdras 02:05 | If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: he is the Lord that dwells in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 02:07 | with gifts, with horses also and cattle, beside the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 02:08 | Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 02:09 | And those who lived round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed of a great number whose minds were stirred up [thereto.] +1 Esdras 02:13 | And this was the number of them: A thousand golden cups, a thousand cups of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand and four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. +1 Esdras 02:14 | So all the vessels of gold and of silver were brought up, even five thousand and four hundred threescore and nine, +1 Esdras 02:15 | and were carried back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 02:17 | To king Artaxerxes our Lord, Your servants, Rathumus the recorder, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia. +1 Esdras 02:18 | Be it now known to our lord the king, that the Jews that have come up from you to us, having come to Jerusalem, are building that rebellious and wicked city, and are repairing its marketplaces and walls, and are laying the foundation of a temple. +1 Esdras 02:19 | Now if this city is built and the walls [thereof] are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings. +1 Esdras 02:20 | And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter, +1 Esdras 02:21 | but to speak to our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be your pleasure, search may be made in the books of your fathers: +1 Esdras 02:22 | and you shall find in the chronicles what is written concerning these things, and shall understand that that city was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities: +1 Esdras 02:23 | and that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein of old time; for the which cause even this city was laid waste. +1 Esdras 02:24 | Wherefore now we do declare to you, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, you shall from henceforth have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia. +1 Esdras 02:25 | Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the recorder, and Beeltethmus, and Samellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and lived in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, after this manner: +1 Esdras 02:26 | I have read the letter which you have sent to me: therefore I commanded to make search, and it has been found that that city of old time has made insurrection against kings; +1 Esdras 02:27 | and the men were given to rebellion and war therein: and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tribute in Coelesyria and Phoenicia. +1 Esdras 02:28 | Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this [order; ] +1 Esdras 02:29 | and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings. +1 Esdras 02:30 | Then king Artaxerxes, his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste to Jerusalem with horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians. +1 Esdras 03:01 | Now king Darius made a great feast to all his subjects, and to all that were born in his house, and to all the princes of Media and of Persia, +1 Esdras 03:02 | and to all the local governors and captains and governors that were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the hundred and twenty and seven provinces. +1 Esdras 03:03 | And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and awaked out of his sleep. +1 Esdras 03:05 | Let every one of us say one thing which shall be strongest: and he whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, to him shall Darius the king give great gifts, and great honours in token of victory: +1 Esdras 03:06 | as, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and a turban of fine linen, and a chain about his neck: +1 Esdras 03:07 | and he shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin. +1 Esdras 03:08 | And then they wrote every one his sentence, and set to their seals, and laid [the writing] under king Darius his pillow, +1 Esdras 03:09 | and said, When the king is risen, some shall give him the writing; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as it is written. +1 Esdras 03:12 | The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth bears away the victory. +1 Esdras 03:13 | Now when the king was risen up, they took the writing, and gave it to him, and so he read it: +1 Esdras 03:14 | and sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and of Media, and the local governors, and the captains, and the governors, and the chief officers; +1 Esdras 03:15 | and sat him down in the royal seat of judgement; and the writing was read before them. +1 Esdras 03:16 | And he said, Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called, and came in. +1 Esdras 03:17 | And they said to them, Declare to us your mind concerning the things you have written. Then began the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine, +1 Esdras 03:18 | and said thus, O sirs, how exceedingly strong is wine! it causes all men to err that drink it: +1 Esdras 03:19 | it makes the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich: +1 Esdras 03:20 | it turns also every thought into cheer and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt: +1 Esdras 03:21 | and it makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor local governor; and it makes to speak all things by talents: +1 Esdras 03:22 | and when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and kindred, and a little after draw their swords: +1 Esdras 03:23 | but when they awake from their wine, they remember not what they have done. +1 Esdras 03:24 | O sirs, is not wine the strongest, seeing that it enforces to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace. +1 Esdras 04:01 | Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, +1 Esdras 04:02 | O sirs, do not men excel in strength, that bear rule over the sea and land, and all things in them? +1 Esdras 04:03 | But yet is the king stronger: and he is their lord, and has dominion over them; and in whatever he commands them they obey him. +1 Esdras 04:04 | If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: and if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and overcome mountains, walls, and towers. +1 Esdras 04:05 | They kill and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the plunder, as all things else. +1 Esdras 04:06 | Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king. +1 Esdras 04:07 | And he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare; +1 Esdras 04:08 | if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build; +1 Esdras 04:09 | if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant. +1 Esdras 04:10 | So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest: +1 Esdras 04:11 | and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him [in anything.] +1 Esdras 04:12 | O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace. +1 Esdras 04:13 | Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak. +1 Esdras 04:14 | O sirs, is not the king great, and men are many, and wine is strong? who is it then that rules them, or has the lordship over them? are they not women? +1 Esdras 04:15 | Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land. +1 Esdras 04:16 | Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine comes. +1 Esdras 04:17 | These also make garments for men; these bring glory to men; and without women can’t men be. +1 Esdras 04:18 | Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other goodly thing, and see a woman which is comely in favour and beauty, +1 Esdras 04:19 | they let all those things go, and gape after her, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have all more desire to her than to gold or silver, or any goodly thing whatever. +1 Esdras 04:20 | A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and joins with his wife. +1 Esdras 04:21 | And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country. +1 Esdras 04:22 | By this also you must know that women have dominion over you: do you not labour and toil, and give and bring all to women? +1 Esdras 04:23 | Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes forth to make outroads, and to rob and to steal, and to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; +1 Esdras 04:24 | and looks upon a lion, and walks in the darkness; and when he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to his love. +1 Esdras 04:25 | Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother. +1 Esdras 04:26 | Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes. +1 Esdras 04:27 | Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women. +1 Esdras 04:28 | And now do you not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him? +1 Esdras 04:29 | Yet did I see him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king, +1 Esdras 04:30 | and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; yes, she struck the king with her left hand: +1 Esdras 04:31 | and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. +1 Esdras 04:32 | O sirs, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus? +1 Esdras 04:33 | Then the king and the nobles looked one upon another: so he began to speak concerning truth. +1 Esdras 04:34 | O sirs, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he encircles the heavens round about, and fetches his course again to his own place in one day. +1 Esdras 04:35 | Is he not great that makes these things? therefore great is truth, and stronger than all things. +1 Esdras 04:36 | All the earth calls upon truth, and the heaven blesses her: all works shake and tremble, but with her is no unrighteous thing. +1 Esdras 04:37 | Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all the children of men are unrighteous, and unrighteous are all such their works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish. +1 Esdras 04:38 | But truth remains, and is strong forever; she lives and conquers forevermore. +1 Esdras 04:39 | With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she does the things that are just, [and refrains] from all unrighteous and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works. +1 Esdras 04:40 | Neither in her judgement is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, and the kingdom, and the power, and the majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth. +1 Esdras 04:41 | And with that he held his tongue. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and strong above all things. +1 Esdras 04:42 | Then said the king to him, Ask what you will more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it you, inasmuch as you are found wisest; and you shall sit next me, and shall be called my cousin. +1 Esdras 04:43 | Then said he to the king, Remember your vow, which you did vow to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom, +1 Esdras 04:44 | and to send away all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them again there. +1 Esdras 04:45 | You did also vow to build up the temple, which the Edomites burnt when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans. +1 Esdras 04:46 | And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that shall proceed from you: I pray therefore that you make good the vow, the performance whereof you have vowed to the King of heaven with your own mouth. +1 Esdras 04:47 | Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those that should go up with him to build Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 04:48 | He wrote letters also to all the governors that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him. +1 Esdras 04:49 | Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that should go out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors; +1 Esdras 04:50 | and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held: +1 Esdras 04:51 | and that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built; +1 Esdras 04:52 | and other ten talents yearly, for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen: +1 Esdras 04:53 | and that all those who should come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that came. +1 Esdras 04:54 | He wrote also [to give them] their charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister; +1 Esdras 04:55 | and for the Levites he wrote that their charges should be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem built up. +1 Esdras 04:56 | And he commanded to give to all that kept the city lands and wages. +1 Esdras 04:57 | He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he charged also to be done, and sent to Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 04:58 | Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven towards Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven, +1 Esdras 04:59 | and said, From you comes victory, from you comes wisdom, and your is the glory, and I am your servant. +1 Esdras 04:60 | Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom: and to you I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers. +1 Esdras 04:61 | And so he took the letters, and went out, and came to Babylon, and told it all his kindred. +1 Esdras 04:62 | And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty +1 Esdras 04:63 | to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days. +1 Esdras 05:01 | After this were the chiefs of fathers’ houses chosen to go up according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle. +1 Esdras 05:02 | And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes. +1 Esdras 05:03 | And all their kindred played, and he made them go up together with them. +1 Esdras 05:04 | And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families amongst their tribes, after their several divisions. +1 Esdras 05:05 | The priests, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedek, the son of Saraias, and Joakim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah; +1 Esdras 05:06 | who spoke wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month. +1 Esdras 05:35 | All the temple-servants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred and seventy and two. +1 Esdras 05:36 | These came up from Thermeleth, and Thelersas, Charaathalan leading them, and Allar; +1 Esdras 05:37 | and they could not show their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of Dalan the son of Ban, the sons of Nekodan, six hundred and fifty and two. +1 Esdras 05:38 | And of the priests, those who usurped the office of the priesthood and were not found: the sons of Obdia, the sons of Akkos, the sons of Jaddus, who married Augia one of the daughters of Zorzelleus, and was called after his name. +1 Esdras 05:39 | And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood: +1 Esdras 05:40 | for to them said Nehemias and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest wearing Urim and Thummim. +1 Esdras 05:41 | So all they of Israel, from twelve years old [and upward] beside menservants and women servants, were [in number] forty and two thousand and three hundred and sixty. +1 Esdras 05:42 | Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand and three hundred and thirty and seven: the minstrels and singers, two hundred and forty and five: +1 Esdras 05:43 | four hundred and thirty and five camels, seven thousand and thirty and six horses, two hundred and forty and five mules, five thousand and five hundred and twenty and five beasts of burden. +1 Esdras 05:44 | And certain of the chief men of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in its own place according to their ability, +1 Esdras 05:45 | and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments. +1 Esdras 05:46 | And the priests and the Levites and those who were of the people lived in Jerusalem and the country; the holy singers also and the gatekeepers and all Israel in their villages. +1 Esdras 05:47 | But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the broad place before the first porch which is towards the east. +1 Esdras 05:48 | Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his kindred, and made ready the altar of the God of Israel, +1 Esdras 05:49 | to offer burnt sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God. +1 Esdras 05:50 | And certain were gathered to them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening. +1 Esdras 05:51 | Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and [offered] sacrifices daily, as was meet: +1 Esdras 05:52 | and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifices of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all the consecrated feasts. +1 Esdras 05:53 | And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the new moon of the seventh month, although the temple of God was not yet built. +1 Esdras 05:54 | And they gave money to the masons and carpenters; and meat and drink, +1 Esdras 05:55 | and cars to them of Sidon and Tyre, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, [and] convey them in floats to the haven of Joppa, according to the commandment which was written for them by Cyrus king of the Persians. +1 Esdras 05:56 | And in the second year after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and their kindred, and the Levitical priests, and all those who were come to Jerusalem out of the captivity: +1 Esdras 05:57 | and they laid the foundation of the temple of God on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they were come to Jewry and Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 05:58 | And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and kindred, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Jesus, Emadabun, and the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, and their sons and kindred, all the Levites, with one accord started the business, labouring to advance the works in the house of God. So the builders built the temple of the Lord. +1 Esdras 05:59 | And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with their cymbals, +1 Esdras 05:60 | singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord, after the order of David king of Israel. +1 Esdras 05:61 | And they sang aloud, praising the Lord in songs of thanksgiving, because his goodness and his glory are forever in all Israel. +1 Esdras 05:62 | And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord. +1 Esdras 05:63 | Also of the Levitical priests, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping. +1 Esdras 05:65 | insomuch that the people heard not the trumpets for the weeping of the people: for the multitude sounded marvellously, so that it was heard afar off. +1 Esdras 05:66 | Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean. +1 Esdras 05:67 | And they perceived that those who were of the captivity did build the temple to the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Esdras 05:68 | So they went to Zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief men of the families, and said to them, we will build together with you. +1 Esdras 05:69 | For we likewise, as you, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice to him from the days of Asbasareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us here. +1 Esdras 05:70 | Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief men of the families of Israel said to them, It is not for you to build the house to the Lord our God. +1 Esdras 05:71 | We ourselves alone will build to the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us. +1 Esdras 05:72 | But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building; +1 Esdras 05:73 | and by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius. +1 Esdras 06:01 | Now in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem; in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, [prophesied they] to them. +1 Esdras 06:02 | Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, [and] helping them. +1 Esdras 06:03 | At the same time came to them Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, with Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them, +1 Esdras 06:04 | By whose appointment do you build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the builders that perform these things? +1 Esdras 06:05 | Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favour, because the Lord had visited the captivity; +1 Esdras 06:06 | and they were not hindered from building, until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer signified. +1 Esdras 06:07 | The copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius; +1 Esdras 06:08 | To king Darius, greeting: Let all things be known to our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity +1 Esdras 06:09 | building a house to the Lord, great [and] new, of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls. +1 Esdras 06:10 | And those works are done with great speed, and the work goes on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence it is accomplished. +1 Esdras 06:11 | Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build you this house, and lay the foundations of these works? +1 Esdras 06:12 | Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the chief doers, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men. +1 Esdras 06:13 | So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth. +1 Esdras 06:14 | And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished. +1 Esdras 06:15 | But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans; +1 Esdras 06:16 | and they pulled down the house, and burnt it, and carried away the people captives to Babylon. +1 Esdras 06:17 | But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house. +1 Esdras 06:18 | And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set up in his own temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple in Babylonia, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the governor, +1 Esdras 06:19 | with commandment that he should carry away all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in its place. +1 Esdras 06:20 | Then Sanabassarus, being come here, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended. +1 Esdras 06:21 | Now therefore, if it seem good, O king, let search be made amongst the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon: +1 Esdras 06:22 | and if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and it seem good to our lord the king, let him signify to us thereof. +1 Esdras 06:23 | Then commanded King Darius to seek amongst the archives that were laid up at Babylon: and so at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a scroll where these things were recorded. +1 Esdras 06:24 | In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, where they do sacrifice with continual fire: +1 Esdras 06:25 | whose height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus: +1 Esdras 06:26 | and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before. +1 Esdras 06:27 | And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place. +1 Esdras 06:28 | And I also do command to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of Judea, till the house of the Lord be finished: +1 Esdras 06:29 | and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion be carefully given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, [that is] to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs; +1 Esdras 06:30 | and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent: +1 Esdras 06:31 | that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives. +1 Esdras 06:32 | And that commandment be given that whoever shall transgress, yes, or neglect anything written here, out of his own [house] shall a tree be taken, and he be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king. +1 Esdras 06:33 | The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that shall stretch out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 06:34 | I Darius the king have ordained that according to these things it be done with diligence. +1 Esdras 07:01 | Then Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius, +1 Esdras 07:02 | did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple. +1 Esdras 07:03 | And so the holy works prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied. +1 Esdras 07:04 | And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians. +1 Esdras 07:05 | [And thus] was the house finished by the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius. +1 Esdras 07:06 | And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added [to them] did according to the things [written] in the book of Moses. +1 Esdras 07:07 | And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; +1 Esdras 07:08 | [and] twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve princes of the tribes of Israel. +1 Esdras 07:09 | The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the gatekeepers at every gate. +1 Esdras 07:10 | And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together, +1 Esdras 07:11 | and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together, +1 Esdras 07:12 | and they offered the Passover for all them of the captivity, and for their kindred the priests, and for themselves. +1 Esdras 07:13 | And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord. +1 Esdras 07:14 | And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord, +1 Esdras 07:15 | for that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria towards them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Esdras 08:01 | And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Esdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem, +1 Esdras 08:02 | the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest. +1 Esdras 08:03 | This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel. +1 Esdras 08:04 | And the king did him honour: for he found grace in his sight in all his requests. +1 Esdras 08:05 | There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and temple servants, to Jerusalem, +1 Esdras 08:06 | in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them for his sake. +1 Esdras 08:07 | For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, [but] taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements. +1 Esdras 08:08 | Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy; +1 Esdras 08:09 | King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting: +1 Esdras 08:10 | Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 08:11 | As many therefore as have a mind [thereto] let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counsellors; +1 Esdras 08:12 | that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord, +1 Esdras 08:13 | and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem, +1 Esdras 08:14 | with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining; +1 Esdras 08:15 | to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 08:16 | And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God. +1 Esdras 08:17 | And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem: +1 Esdras 08:18 | and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury. +1 Esdras 08:19 | And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence, +1 Esdras 08:20 | to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred measures, and a hundred firkins of wine, and salt in abundance. +1 Esdras 08:21 | Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons. +1 Esdras 08:22 | I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them. +1 Esdras 08:23 | And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach. +1 Esdras 08:24 | And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment. +1 Esdras 08:25 | Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem: +1 Esdras 08:26 | and has honoured me in the sight of the king, and his counsellors, and all his friends and nobles. +1 Esdras 08:47 | And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us men of understanding of the sons of Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen, +1 Esdras 08:48 | and Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men; +1 Esdras 08:49 | and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed. +1 Esdras 08:50 | And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us: +1 Esdras 08:51 | for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries. +1 Esdras 08:52 | For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways. +1 Esdras 08:53 | And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favourable [to us.] +1 Esdras 08:54 | Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them: +1 Esdras 08:55 | and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counsellors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given. +1 Esdras 08:56 | And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold, +1 Esdras 08:57 | and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold. +1 Esdras 08:58 | And I said to them, Both you are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers. +1 Esdras 08:59 | Watch you, and keep them till you deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord. +1 Esdras 08:60 | So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord. +1 Esdras 08:61 | And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from [assault by] the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 08:62 | And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to Marmoth the priest the son of Urias. +1 Esdras 08:63 | And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all [was delivered them] by number and weight. +1 Esdras 08:65 | Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams, +1 Esdras 08:66 | threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord. +1 Esdras 08:67 | And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honoured the people and the temple of the Lord. +1 Esdras 08:68 | Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said, +1 Esdras 08:69 | The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away [from them] the strange people of the land, nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, [to wit] of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites. +1 Esdras 08:70 | For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity. +1 Esdras 08:71 | And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness. +1 Esdras 08:72 | So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice. +1 Esdras 08:73 | Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord, +1 Esdras 08:74 | I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face; +1 Esdras 08:75 | for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven, +1 Esdras 08:76 | ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day. +1 Esdras 08:77 | And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day. +1 Esdras 08:78 | And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary; +1 Esdras 08:79 | and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, [and] to give us food in the time of our servitude. +1 Esdras 08:80 | Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food, +1 Esdras 08:81 | and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem. +1 Esdras 08:82 | And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, +1 Esdras 08:83 | That the land, which you enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness. +1 Esdras 08:84 | Therefore now shall you not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you take their daughters to your sons. +1 Esdras 08:85 | Neither shall you seek to have peace with them forever, that you may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore. +1 Esdras 08:86 | And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light, +1 Esdras 08:87 | and did give to us such a root: [but] we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land. +1 Esdras 08:88 | You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name. +1 Esdras 08:89 | O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day. +1 Esdras 08:90 | Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things. +1 Esdras 08:91 | And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping amongst the multitude. +1 Esdras 08:92 | Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel aloft. +1 Esdras 08:93 | Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which [we have taken] of the strangers, with their children, +1 Esdras 08:94 | like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord. +1 Esdras 08:95 | Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly. +1 Esdras 08:96 | So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and [so] they sware. +1 Esdras 09:01 | Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib, +1 Esdras 09:02 | and lodged there, and did eat no bread nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude. +1 Esdras 09:03 | And there was made proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all those who were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem: +1 Esdras 09:04 | and that whoever met not there within two or three days, according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from the multitude of those who were of the captivity. +1 Esdras 09:06 | And all the multitude sat together trembling in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather. +1 Esdras 09:07 | So Esdras arose up and said to them, you have transgressed the law and married strange wives to increase the sins of Israel. +1 Esdras 09:08 | And now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers, +1 Esdras 09:09 | and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women. +1 Esdras 09:10 | Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Just as you have spoken, so will we do. +1 Esdras 09:11 | But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far: +1 Esdras 09:12 | therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed, +1 Esdras 09:13 | and with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter. +1 Esdras 09:38 | And the whole multitude were gathered together with one accord into the broad place before the porch of the temple towards the east: +1 Esdras 09:39 | and they said to Esdras the priest and reader, Bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Esdras 09:40 | So Esdras the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude both of men and women, and to all the priests, to hear the law on the new moon of the seventh month. +1 Esdras 09:41 | And he read in the broad place before the porch of the temple from morning to mid-day, before both men and women; and all the multitude gave heed to the law. +1 Esdras 09:42 | And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon the pulpit of wood, which was made [for that purpose.] +1 Esdras 09:45 | Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude, and sat honourably in the first place before all. +1 Esdras 09:46 | And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God Most High, the God of armies, Almighty. +1 Esdras 09:47 | And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord. +1 Esdras 09:49 | Then said Attharates to Esdras the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all, +1 Esdras 09:50 | This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:) +1 Esdras 09:51 | go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing; +1 Esdras 09:52 | for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honour. +1 Esdras 09:53 | So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful. +1 Esdras 09:54 | Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give portions to those who had nothing, and to make great cheer; +1 Esdras 09:55 | because they understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled. +1 John 01:01 | That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life +1 John 01:02 | (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us); +1 John 01:03 | that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. +1 John 01:04 | And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled. +1 John 01:05 | This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. +1 John 01:06 | If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. +1 John 01:07 | But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. +1 John 01:08 | If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. +1 John 01:09 | If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. +1 John 01:10 | If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. +1 John 02:01 | My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counsellor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. +1 John 02:02 | And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. +1 John 02:03 | This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. +1 John 02:04 | One who says, "I know him," and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. +1 John 02:04 | Whoever says, "I know Him", but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. +1 John 02:05 | But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: +1 John 02:06 | he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked. +1 John 02:06 | Whoever claims to live in Him must live as Jesus did. +1 John 02:07 | Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. +1 John 02:08 | Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines. +1 John 02:09 | He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now. +1 John 02:10 | He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. +1 John 02:11 | But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. +1 John 02:12 | I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. +1 John 02:13 | I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father. +1 John 02:14 | I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. +1 John 02:15 | Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. +1 John 02:15-16 | Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – comes not from the Father but from the world. +1 John 02:16 | For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. +1 John 02:17 | The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever. +1 John 02:18 | Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour. +1 John 02:19 | They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us. +1 John 02:20 | You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. +1 John 02:21 | I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. +1 John 02:22 | Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. +1 John 02:23 | Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. +1 John 02:24 | Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father. +1 John 02:25 | This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. +1 John 02:26 | These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray. +1 John 02:27 | As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him. +1 John 02:28 | Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. +1 John 02:29 | If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. +1 John 03:01 | See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. +1 John 03:01-03 | See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure. +1 John 03:02 | Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. +1 John 03:03 | Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. +1 John 03:04 | Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. +1 John 03:05 | You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him. +1 John 03:06 | Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him. +1 John 03:07 | Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. +1 John 03:08 | He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil. +1 John 03:09 | Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. +1 John 03:10 | In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother. +1 John 03:11 | For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; +1 John 03:12 | unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous. +1 John 03:13 | Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. +1 John 03:14 | We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death. +1 John 03:15 | Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. +1 John 03:16 | By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. +1 John 03:17 | But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? +1 John 03:18 | My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. +1 John 03:19 | And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, +1 John 03:20 | because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. +1 John 03:21 | Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness towards God; +1 John 03:22 | so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. +1 John 03:22 | Whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. +1 John 03:23 | This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. +1 John 03:24 | He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us. +1 John 04:01 | Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. +1 John 04:02 | By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, +1 John 04:03 | and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already. +1 John 04:04 | You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. +1 John 04:05 | They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. +1 John 04:06 | We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. +1 John 04:07 | Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. +1 John 04:08 | He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. +1 John 04:09 | By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him. +1 John 04:10 | In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. +1 John 04:11 | Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. +1 John 04:12 | No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. +1 John 04:12 | No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. +1 John 04:13 | By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. +1 John 04:14 | We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world. +1 John 04:15 | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. +1 John 04:16 | And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. +1 John 04:16 | We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. +1 John 04:17 | In this, love has been made perfect amongst us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement, because as he is, even so we are in this world. +1 John 04:18 | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. +1 John 04:19 | We love him, because he first loved us. +1 John 04:20 | If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? +1 John 04:20 | Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. +1 John 04:21 | This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. +1 John 05:01 | Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. +1 John 05:02 | By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. +1 John 05:03 | For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. +1 John 05:04 | For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. +1 John 05:05 | Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? +1 John 05:06 | This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. +1 John 05:07 | For there are three who testify: +1 John 05:08 | the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one. +1 John 05:09 | If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son. +1 John 05:10 | He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. +1 John 05:11 | The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. +1 John 05:12 | He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. +1 John 05:13 | These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. +1 John 05:14 | This is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. +1 John 05:15 | And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. +1 John 05:16 | If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this. +1 John 05:17 | All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. +1 John 05:18 | We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him. +1 John 05:19 | We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. +1 John 05:20 | We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. +1 John 05:21 | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. +1 Kings 01:01 | Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm. +1 Kings 01:02 | Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm." +1 Kings 01:03 | So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. +1 Kings 01:04 | The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately. +1 Kings 01:05 | Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. +1 Kings 01:06 | His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom. +1 Kings 01:07 | He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him. +1 Kings 01:08 | But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. +1 Kings 01:09 | Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants; +1 Kings 01:10 | but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother. +1 Kings 01:11 | Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it? +1 Kings 01:12 | Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life. +1 Kings 01:13 | Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, "Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?" Why then does Adonijah reign?’ +1 Kings 01:14 | Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words." +1 Kings 01:15 | Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king. +1 Kings 01:16 | Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, "What would you like?" +1 Kings 01:17 | She said to him, "My lord, you swore by the Lord your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’ +1 Kings 01:18 | Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it. +1 Kings 01:19 | He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant. +1 Kings 01:20 | You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. +1 Kings 01:21 | Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals." +1 Kings 01:22 | Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. +1 Kings 01:23 | They told the king, saying, "Behold, Nathan the prophet!" When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. +1 Kings 01:24 | Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’ +1 Kings 01:25 | For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’ +1 Kings 01:26 | But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon. +1 Kings 01:27 | Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?" +1 Kings 01:28 | Then king David answered, "Call Bathsheba in to me." She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king. +1 Kings 01:29 | The king swore, and said, "As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, +1 Kings 01:30 | most certainly as I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today." +1 Kings 01:31 | Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!" +1 Kings 01:32 | King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king. +1 Kings 01:33 | The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. +1 Kings 01:34 | Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’ +1 Kings 01:35 | Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah." +1 Kings 01:36 | Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "Amen. May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so. +1 Kings 01:37 | As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David." +1 Kings 01:38 | So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. +1 Kings 01:39 | Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live king Solomon!" +1 Kings 01:40 | All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound. +1 Kings 01:41 | Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?" +1 Kings 01:42 | While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, "Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news." +1 Kings 01:43 | Jonathan answered Adonijah, "Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king. +1 Kings 01:44 | The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule. +1 Kings 01:45 | Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard. +1 Kings 01:47 | Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed. +1 Kings 01:48 | Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’" +1 Kings 01:49 | All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way. +1 Kings 01:50 | Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar. +1 Kings 01:51 | Solomon was told, "Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’" +1 Kings 01:52 | Solomon said, "If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die." +1 Kings 01:53 | So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." +1 Kings 02:02 | "I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; +1 Kings 02:03 | and keep the instruction of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. +1 Kings 02:04 | Then the Lord may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’ +1 Kings 02:05 | "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet. +1 Kings 02:06 | Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his grey head go down to Sheol in peace. +1 Kings 02:07 | But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be amongst those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother. +1 Kings 02:08 | "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’ +1 Kings 02:09 | Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his grey head down to Sheol with blood." +1 Kings 02:10 | David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city. +1 Kings 02:11 | The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. +1 Kings 02:12 | Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established. +1 Kings 02:14 | He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on." +1 Kings 02:15 | He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from the Lord. +1 Kings 02:16 | Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me." She said to him, "Say on." +1 Kings 02:17 | He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife." +1 Kings 02:20 | Then she said, "I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me." The king said to her, "Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you." +1 Kings 02:21 | She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife." +1 Kings 02:22 | King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah." +1 Kings 02:23 | Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. +1 Kings 02:24 | Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today." +1 Kings 02:25 | King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died. +1 Kings 02:26 | To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord GOD’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted." +1 Kings 02:27 | So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfil the Lord’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. +1 Kings 02:28 | This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the Lord’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar. +1 Kings 02:29 | King Solomon was told, "Joab has fled to the Lord’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him." +1 Kings 02:30 | Benaiah came to the Lord’s Tent, and said to him, "The king says, ‘Come out!’" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me." +1 Kings 02:31 | The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house. +1 Kings 02:32 | The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. +1 Kings 02:33 | So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from the Lord." +1 Kings 02:34 | Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. +1 Kings 02:35 | The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar. +1 Kings 02:36 | The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else. +1 Kings 02:37 | For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head." +1 Kings 02:38 | Shimei said to the king, "What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. +1 Kings 02:39 | At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your slaves are in Gath." +1 Kings 02:40 | Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath. +1 Kings 02:41 | Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again. +1 Kings 02:42 | The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Didn’t I adjure you by the Lord, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’ +1 Kings 02:43 | Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?" +1 Kings 02:44 | The king said moreover to Shimei, "You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord will return your wickedness on your own head. +1 Kings 02:45 | But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the Lord forever." +1 Kings 02:46 | So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. +1 Kings 03:01 | Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, the Lord’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem. +1 Kings 03:02 | However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the Lord’s name. +1 Kings 03:03 | Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +1 Kings 03:04 | The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. +1 Kings 03:05 | In Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask for what I should give you." +1 Kings 03:06 | Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. +1 Kings 03:07 | Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. +1 Kings 03:08 | Your servant is amongst your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. +1 Kings 03:09 | Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?" +1 Kings 03:10 | This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. +1 Kings 03:11 | God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; +1 Kings 03:12 | behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you. +1 Kings 03:13 | I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honour, so that there will not be any amongst the kings like you for all your days. +1 Kings 03:14 | If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days." +1 Kings 03:15 | Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. +1 Kings 03:16 | Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. +1 Kings 03:17 | The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. +1 Kings 03:18 | The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. +1 Kings 03:19 | This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. +1 Kings 03:20 | She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. +1 Kings 03:21 | When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore." +1 Kings 03:22 | The other woman said, "No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." The first one said, "No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." They argued like this before the king. +1 Kings 03:23 | Then the king said, "One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’" +1 Kings 03:24 | The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king. +1 Kings 03:25 | The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other." +1 Kings 03:26 | Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!" But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him." +1 Kings 03:27 | Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother." +1 Kings 03:28 | All Israel heard of the judgement which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice. +1 Kings 04:21 | Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. +1 Kings 04:24 | For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him. +1 Kings 04:25 | Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. +1 Kings 04:27 | Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking. +1 Kings 04:28 | They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty. +1 Kings 04:29 | God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. +1 Kings 04:30 | Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. +1 Kings 04:31 | For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around. +1 Kings 04:32 | He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand and five. +1 Kings 04:33 | He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. +1 Kings 04:34 | People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. +1 Kings 05:01 | Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David. +1 Kings 05:03 | "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the Lord put his enemies under the soles of his feet. +1 Kings 05:04 | But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence. +1 Kings 05:05 | Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’ +1 Kings 05:07 | When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed is the Lord today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people." +1 Kings 05:08 | Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber. +1 Kings 05:09 | My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household." +1 Kings 05:11 | Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. +1 Kings 05:12 | The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together. +1 Kings 06:01 | In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the Lord’s house. +1 Kings 06:12 | "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. +1 Kings 06:13 | I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel." +1 Kings 06:19 | He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of the Lord’s covenant there. +1 Kings 07:48 | Solomon made all the vessels that were in the Lord’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold; +1 Kings 07:51 | Thus all the work that king Solomon did in the Lord’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the Lord’s house. +1 Kings 08:01 | Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. +1 Kings 08:02 | All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. +1 Kings 08:03 | All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark. +1 Kings 08:04 | They brought up the Lord’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up. +1 Kings 08:05 | King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. +1 Kings 08:06 | The priests brought in the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings. +1 Kings 08:07 | For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. +1 Kings 08:08 | The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day. +1 Kings 08:09 | There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. +1 Kings 08:10 | It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the Lord’s house, +1 Kings 08:11 | so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the Lord’s glory filled the Lord’s house. +1 Kings 08:12 | Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. +1 Kings 08:13 | I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever." +1 Kings 08:14 | The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. +1 Kings 08:16 | ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ +1 Kings 08:17 | "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Kings 08:18 | But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. +1 Kings 08:19 | Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ +1 Kings 08:20 | The Lord has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. +1 Kings 08:21 | There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the Lord’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt." +1 Kings 08:22 | Solomon stood before the Lord’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven; +1 Kings 08:23 | and he said, "LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart; +1 Kings 08:24 | who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. +1 Kings 08:25 | Now therefore, may Lord, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ +1 Kings 08:26 | "Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. +1 Kings 08:27 | But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built! +1 Kings 08:28 | Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today; +1 Kings 08:29 | that your eyes may be open towards this house night and day, even towards the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays towards this place. +1 Kings 08:30 | Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray towards this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive. +1 Kings 08:31 | "If a man sins against his neighbour, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house; +1 Kings 08:32 | then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. +1 Kings 08:33 | "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house; +1 Kings 08:34 | then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. +1 Kings 08:35 | "When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray towards this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, +1 Kings 08:36 | then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. +1 Kings 08:37 | "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; +1 Kings 08:38 | whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands towards this house, +1 Kings 08:39 | then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men); +1 Kings 08:40 | that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. +1 Kings 08:41 | "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake +1 Kings 08:42 | (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays towards this house; +1 Kings 08:43 | hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. +1 Kings 08:44 | "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord towards the city which you have chosen, and towards the house which I have built for your name; +1 Kings 08:45 | then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. +1 Kings 08:46 | If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; +1 Kings 08:47 | yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’ +1 Kings 08:48 | if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you towards their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; +1 Kings 08:49 | then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; +1 Kings 08:50 | and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them +1 Kings 08:51 | (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace); +1 Kings 08:52 | that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you. +1 Kings 08:53 | For you separated them from amongst all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD." +1 Kings 08:54 | It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out towards heaven. +1 Kings 08:56 | "Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. +1 Kings 08:57 | May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us; +1 Kings 08:58 | that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. +1 Kings 08:59 | Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires; +1 Kings 08:60 | that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord himself is God. There is no one else. +1 Kings 08:61 | "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today." +1 Kings 08:62 | The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord. +1 Kings 08:63 | Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the Lord’s house. +1 Kings 08:64 | The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the Lord’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. +1 Kings 08:65 | So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days. +1 Kings 08:66 | On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people. +1 Kings 09:01 | When Solomon had finished the building of the Lord’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, +1 Kings 09:02 | The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. +1 Kings 09:03 | The Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. +1 Kings 09:04 | As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; +1 Kings 09:05 | then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ +1 Kings 09:06 | But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; +1 Kings 09:07 | then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples. +1 Kings 09:08 | Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’ +1 Kings 09:09 | and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshipped them, and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this evil on them.’" +1 Kings 09:10 | At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house +1 Kings 09:11 | (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. +1 Kings 09:12 | Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him. +1 Kings 09:13 | He said, "What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" He called them the land of Cabul to this day. +1 Kings 09:15 | This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the Lord’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. +1 Kings 09:16 | Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burnt it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. +1 Kings 09:19 | all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. +1 Kings 09:21 | their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. +1 Kings 09:24 | But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo. +1 Kings 09:25 | Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house. +1 Kings 09:26 | King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. +1 Kings 09:27 | Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. +1 Kings 09:28 | They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. +1 Kings 10:01 | When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the Lord’s name, she came to test him with hard questions. +1 Kings 10:02 | She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart. +1 Kings 10:03 | Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her. +1 Kings 10:04 | When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, +1 Kings 10:05 | the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the Lord’s house; there was no more spirit in her. +1 Kings 10:06 | She said to the king, "It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. +1 Kings 10:07 | However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. +1 Kings 10:08 | Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom. +1 Kings 10:09 | Blessed is the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness." +1 Kings 10:10 | She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. +1 Kings 10:11 | The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones. +1 Kings 10:12 | The king made of the almug trees pillars for the Lord’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day. +1 Kings 10:13 | King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants. +1 Kings 10:14 | Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, +1 Kings 10:15 | in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country. +1 Kings 10:16 | King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler. +1 Kings 10:17 | he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. +1 Kings 10:18 | Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. +1 Kings 10:19 | There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. +1 Kings 10:20 | Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom. +1 Kings 10:21 | All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon. +1 Kings 10:22 | For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. +1 Kings 10:23 | So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. +1 Kings 10:24 | All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. +1 Kings 10:25 | Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armour, spices, horses, and mules. +1 Kings 10:26 | Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. +1 Kings 10:27 | The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. +1 Kings 10:28 | The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. +1 Kings 10:29 | A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria. +1 Kings 11:01 | Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; +1 Kings 11:02 | of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go amongst them, neither shall they come amongst you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon joined to these in love. +1 Kings 11:03 | He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away. +1 Kings 11:04 | When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father was. +1 Kings 11:05 | For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. +1 Kings 11:06 | Solomon did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and didn’t go fully after the Lord, as David his father did. +1 Kings 11:07 | Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. +1 Kings 11:08 | So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods. +1 Kings 11:09 | The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, +1 Kings 11:10 | and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which the Lord commanded. +1 Kings 11:11 | Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. +1 Kings 11:12 | Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand. +1 Kings 11:13 | However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen." +1 Kings 11:14 | The Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom. +1 Kings 11:15 | For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom +1 Kings 11:16 | (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom); +1 Kings 11:17 | Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child. +1 Kings 11:18 | They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land. +1 Kings 11:19 | Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. +1 Kings 11:20 | The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house amongst the sons of Pharaoh. +1 Kings 11:21 | When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country." +1 Kings 11:22 | Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?" He answered, "Nothing, however only let me depart." +1 Kings 11:23 | God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. +1 Kings 11:24 | He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus. +1 Kings 11:25 | He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria. +1 Kings 11:26 | Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king. +1 Kings 11:27 | This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city. +1 Kings 11:28 | The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labour of the house of Joseph. +1 Kings 11:29 | At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field. +1 Kings 11:30 | Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces. +1 Kings 11:31 | He said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces; for the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you +1 Kings 11:32 | (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel); +1 Kings 11:33 | because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did. +1 Kings 11:34 | "‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes; +1 Kings 11:35 | but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes. +1 Kings 11:36 | I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there. +1 Kings 11:37 | I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. +1 Kings 11:38 | It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. +1 Kings 11:39 | I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’" +1 Kings 11:40 | Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. +1 Kings 11:41 | Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon? +1 Kings 11:42 | The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. +1 Kings 11:43 | Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. +1 Kings 12:04 | "Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you." +1 Kings 12:05 | He said to them, "Depart for three days, then come back to me." So the people departed. +1 Kings 12:06 | King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to answer these people?" +1 Kings 12:07 | They replied, "If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever." +1 Kings 12:08 | But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. +1 Kings 12:09 | He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’" +1 Kings 12:10 | The young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. +1 Kings 12:11 | Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’" +1 Kings 12:12 | So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day." +1 Kings 12:13 | The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, +1 Kings 12:14 | and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." +1 Kings 12:15 | So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from the Lord, that he might establish his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. +1 Kings 12:16 | When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents. +1 Kings 12:17 | But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +1 Kings 12:18 | Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labour; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. +1 Kings 12:19 | So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day. +1 Kings 12:20 | When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only. +1 Kings 12:21 | When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. +1 Kings 12:24 | ‘The Lord says, "You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me." So they listened to the Lord’s word, and returned and went their way, according to the Lord’s word. +1 Kings 12:25 | Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel. +1 Kings 12:26 | Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to David’s house. +1 Kings 12:27 | If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah." +1 Kings 12:28 | So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" +1 Kings 12:29 | He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. +1 Kings 12:30 | This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there. +1 Kings 12:31 | He made houses of high places, and made priests from amongst all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. +1 Kings 12:32 | Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. +1 Kings 12:33 | He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense. +1 Kings 13:01 | Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the Lord’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. +1 Kings 13:02 | He cried against the altar by the Lord’s word, and said, "Altar! Altar! the Lord says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’" +1 Kings 13:03 | He gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the Lord has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out." +1 Kings 13:04 | When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself. +1 Kings 13:05 | The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the Lord’s word. +1 Kings 13:06 | The king answered the man of God, "Now intercede for the favour of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again." The man of God interceded with the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before. +1 Kings 13:07 | The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." +1 Kings 13:08 | The man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; +1 Kings 13:09 | for so was it commanded me by the Lord’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’" +1 Kings 13:10 | So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel. +1 Kings 13:11 | Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king. +1 Kings 13:12 | Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah. +1 Kings 13:13 | He said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it. +1 Kings 13:14 | He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am." +1 Kings 13:15 | Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread." +1 Kings 13:16 | He said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place. +1 Kings 13:17 | For it was said to me by the Lord’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’" +1 Kings 13:18 | He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the Lord’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’" He lied to him. +1 Kings 13:19 | So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water. +1 Kings 13:20 | As they sat at the table, the Lord’s word came to the prophet who brought him back; +1 Kings 13:21 | and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "The Lord says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to the Lord’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you, +1 Kings 13:22 | but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water" your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’" +1 Kings 13:23 | After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. +1 Kings 13:24 | When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body. +1 Kings 13:25 | Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. +1 Kings 13:26 | When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the Lord’s mouth. Therefore the Lord has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke to him." +1 Kings 13:27 | He said to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me," and they saddled it. +1 Kings 13:28 | He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey. +1 Kings 13:29 | The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him. +1 Kings 13:30 | He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" +1 Kings 13:31 | After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. +1 Kings 13:32 | For the saying which he cried by the Lord’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen." +1 Kings 13:33 | After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from amongst all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. +1 Kings 13:34 | This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth. +1 Kings 14:01 | At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. +1 Kings 14:02 | Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognised as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people. +1 Kings 14:03 | Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child." +1 Kings 14:04 | Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. +1 Kings 14:05 | The Lord said to Ahijah, "Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to enquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman." +1 Kings 14:06 | So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news. +1 Kings 14:07 | Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘The Lord, the God of Israel, says: "Because I exalted you from amongst the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, +1 Kings 14:08 | and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, +1 Kings 14:09 | but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back; +1 Kings 14:10 | therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone. +1 Kings 14:11 | The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for the Lord has spoken it."’ +1 Kings 14:12 | Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die. +1 Kings 14:13 | All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. +1 Kings 14:14 | Moreover the Lord will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now. +1 Kings 14:15 | For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger. +1 Kings 14:16 | He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin." +1 Kings 14:22 | Judah did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. +1 Kings 14:23 | For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. +1 Kings 14:24 | There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord drove out before the children of Israel. +1 Kings 14:25 | In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, +1 Kings 14:26 | and he took away the treasures of the Lord’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made. +1 Kings 17:03 | "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. +1 Kings 17:04 | You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." +1 Kings 17:05 | So he went and did according to the Lord’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. +1 Kings 17:06 | The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. +1 Kings 17:07 | After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. +1 Kings 17:09 | "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you." +1 Kings 17:10 | So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink." +1 Kings 17:11 | As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." +1 Kings 17:12 | She said, "As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." +1 Kings 17:13 | Elijah said to her, "Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. +1 Kings 17:14 | For the Lord, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.’" +1 Kings 17:15 | She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days. +1 Kings 17:16 | The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke by Elijah. +1 Kings 17:17 | After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. +1 Kings 17:18 | She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!" +1 Kings 17:19 | He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. +1 Kings 17:20 | He cried to the Lord, and said, "LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?" +1 Kings 17:21 | He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said, "LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again." +1 Kings 17:22 | The Lord listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. +1 Kings 17:23 | Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives." +1 Kings 17:24 | The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the Lord’s word in your mouth is truth." +1 Kings 18:01 | After many days, the Lord’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth." +1 Kings 18:02 | Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. +1 Kings 18:03 | Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly; +1 Kings 18:04 | for when Jezebel cut off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) +1 Kings 18:05 | Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals." +1 Kings 18:06 | So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. +1 Kings 18:07 | As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognised him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?" +1 Kings 18:08 | He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’" +1 Kings 18:09 | He said, "How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? +1 Kings 18:10 | As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you. +1 Kings 18:11 | Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."’ +1 Kings 18:12 | It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the Lord’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord from my youth. +1 Kings 18:13 | Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the Lord’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of the Lord’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? +1 Kings 18:14 | Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here".’ He will kill me." +1 Kings 18:15 | Elijah said, "As the Lord of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today." +1 Kings 18:16 | So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. +1 Kings 18:17 | When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?" +1 Kings 18:18 | He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the Lord’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals. +1 Kings 18:19 | Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred and fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table." +1 Kings 18:20 | So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. +1 Kings 18:21 | Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people didn’t say a word. +1 Kings 18:22 | Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left as a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. +1 Kings 18:23 | Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. +1 Kings 18:24 | You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the Lord’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "What you say is good." +1 Kings 18:25 | Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it." +1 Kings 18:26 | They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, "Baal, hear us!" But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leapt about the altar which was made. +1 Kings 18:27 | At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened." +1 Kings 18:28 | They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. +1 Kings 18:29 | When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention. +1 Kings 18:30 | Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me!"; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the Lord’s altar that had been thrown down. +1 Kings 18:31 | Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord’s word came, saying, "Israel shall be your name." +1 Kings 18:32 | With the stones he built an altar in the Lord’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed. +1 Kings 18:33 | He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood." +1 Kings 18:34 | He said, "Do it a second time" and they did it the second time. He said, "Do it a third time" and they did it the third time. +1 Kings 18:35 | The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water. +1 Kings 18:36 | At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. +1 Kings 18:37 | Hear me, Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you, Lord, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again." +1 Kings 18:38 | Then the Lord’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. +1 Kings 18:39 | When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "The Lord, he is God! the Lord, he is God!" +1 Kings 18:40 | Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!" They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. +1 Kings 18:41 | Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain." +1 Kings 18:42 | So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. +1 Kings 18:43 | He said to his servant, "Go up now, and look towards the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times. +1 Kings 18:44 | On the seventh time, he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’" +1 Kings 18:45 | In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. +1 Kings 18:46 | The Lord’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. +1 Kings 19:01 | Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. +1 Kings 19:02 | Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!" +1 Kings 19:03 | When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. +1 Kings 19:04 | But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." +1 Kings 19:05 | He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat!" +1 Kings 19:06 | He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. +1 Kings 19:07 | The Lord’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." +1 Kings 19:08 | He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain. +1 Kings 19:09 | He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, the Lord’s word came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" +1 Kings 19:10 | He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." +1 Kings 19:11 | He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord." Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. +1 Kings 19:12 | After the earthquake a fire passed; but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice. +1 Kings 19:13 | When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" +1 Kings 19:14 | He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." +1 Kings 19:15 | The Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. +1 Kings 19:16 | Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place. +1 Kings 19:17 | He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. +1 Kings 19:18 | Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him." +1 Kings 19:19 | So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him. +1 Kings 19:20 | Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?" +1 Kings 19:21 | He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him. +1 Kings 20:01 | Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. +1 Kings 20:03 | ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’" +1 Kings 20:04 | The king of Israel answered, "It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have." +1 Kings 20:05 | The messengers came again, and said, "Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, "You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; +1 Kings 20:06 | but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away." +1 Kings 20:07 | Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him." +1 Kings 20:08 | All the elders and all the people said to him, "Don’t listen, and don’t consent." +1 Kings 20:09 | Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, "Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’" The messengers departed, and brought him back the message. +1 Kings 20:10 | Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me." +1 Kings 20:11 | The king of Israel answered, "Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armour brag like he who takes it off.’" +1 Kings 20:12 | When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, "Prepare to attack!" So they prepared to attack the city. +1 Kings 20:13 | Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, "The Lord says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’" +1 Kings 20:14 | Ahab said, "By whom?" He said, "The Lord says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’" Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" He answered, "You." +1 Kings 20:15 | Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. +1 Kings 20:16 | They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him. +1 Kings 20:17 | The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out from Samaria." +1 Kings 20:18 | He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive." +1 Kings 20:19 | So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them. +1 Kings 20:20 | They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. +1 Kings 20:21 | The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. +1 Kings 20:22 | The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you." +1 Kings 20:23 | The servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they. +1 Kings 20:24 | Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place. +1 Kings 20:25 | Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are." He listened to their voice, and did so. +1 Kings 20:26 | At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. +1 Kings 20:27 | The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country. +1 Kings 20:28 | A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, "The Lord says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, "The Lord is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys" therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’" +1 Kings 20:29 | They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day. +1 Kings 20:30 | But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room. +1 Kings 20:31 | His servants said to him, "See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life." +1 Kings 20:32 | So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’" He said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother." +1 Kings 20:33 | Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, "Your brother Ben Hadad." Then he said, "Go, bring him." Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. +1 Kings 20:34 | Ben Hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." "I", said Ahab, "will let you go with this covenant." So he made a covenant with him, and let him go. +1 Kings 20:35 | A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the Lord’s word, "Please strike me!" The man refused to strike him. +1 Kings 20:36 | Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the Lord’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you." As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him. +1 Kings 20:37 | Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him and wounded him. +1 Kings 20:38 | So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. +1 Kings 20:39 | As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’ +1 Kings 20:40 | As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgement be. You yourself have decided it." +1 Kings 20:41 | He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognised that he was one of the prophets. +1 Kings 20:42 | He said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’" +1 Kings 20:43 | The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria. +1 Kings 21:01 | After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. +1 Kings 21:02 | Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money." +1 Kings 21:03 | Naboth said to Ahab, "May the Lord forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!" +1 Kings 21:04 | Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. +1 Kings 21:05 | But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?" +1 Kings 21:06 | He said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’" +1 Kings 21:07 | Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." +1 Kings 21:08 | So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. +1 Kings 21:09 | She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high amongst the people. +1 Kings 21:10 | Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death." +1 Kings 21:11 | The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them. +1 Kings 21:12 | They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high amongst the people. +1 Kings 21:13 | The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones. +1 Kings 21:14 | Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned, and is dead." +1 Kings 21:15 | When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead." +1 Kings 21:16 | When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. +1 Kings 21:18 | "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. +1 Kings 21:19 | You shall speak to him, saying, ‘The Lord says, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘The Lord says, "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours." +1 Kings 21:20 | Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the Lord’s sight. +1 Kings 21:21 | Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. +1 Kings 21:22 | I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin." +1 Kings 21:23 | The Lord also spoke of Jezebel, saying, "The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. +1 Kings 21:24 | The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field." +1 Kings 21:25 | But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. +1 Kings 21:26 | He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. +1 Kings 21:27 | When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. +1 Kings 21:29 | "See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day." +1 Kings 22:02 | In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. +1 Kings 22:03 | The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?" +1 Kings 22:04 | He said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?" Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." +1 Kings 22:05 | Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please enquire first for the Lord’s word." +1 Kings 22:06 | Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?" They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." +1 Kings 22:07 | But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there here a prophet of the Lord, that we may enquire of him?" +1 Kings 22:08 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don’t let the king say so." +1 Kings 22:09 | Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah." +1 Kings 22:10 | Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. +1 Kings 22:11 | Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, "The Lord says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’" +1 Kings 22:12 | All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." +1 Kings 22:13 | The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good." +1 Kings 22:14 | Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak." +1 Kings 22:15 | When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" He answered him, "Go up and prosper; and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." +1 Kings 22:16 | The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the Lord’s name?" +1 Kings 22:17 | He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. The Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’" +1 Kings 22:18 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" +1 Kings 22:19 | Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the Lord’s word. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. +1 Kings 22:20 | The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another. +1 Kings 22:21 | A spirit came out and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ +1 Kings 22:22 | The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’ +1 Kings 22:23 | Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you." +1 Kings 22:24 | Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Lord’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?" +1 Kings 22:25 | Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself." +1 Kings 22:26 | The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son. +1 Kings 22:27 | Say, ‘The king says, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace." +1 Kings 22:28 | Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!" +1 Kings 22:29 | So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. +1 Kings 22:30 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes." The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. +1 Kings 22:31 | Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, "Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel." +1 Kings 22:32 | When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely that is the king of Israel!" and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out. +1 Kings 22:33 | When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. +1 Kings 22:34 | A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armour. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded." +1 Kings 22:35 | The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. +1 Kings 22:36 | A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!" +1 Kings 22:37 | So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. +1 Kings 22:38 | They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the Lord’s word which he spoke. +1 Kings 22:39 | Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +1 Kings 22:40 | So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. +1 Kings 22:41 | Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. +1 Kings 22:42 | Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +1 Kings 22:43 | He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in the Lord’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. +1 Kings 22:44 | Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. +1 Kings 22:45 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +1 Kings 22:46 | The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. +1 Kings 22:47 | There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled. +1 Kings 22:48 | Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber. +1 Kings 22:49 | Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not. +1 Kings 22:50 | Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place. +1 Kings 22:51 | Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. +1 Kings 22:52 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin. +1 Kings 22:53 | He served Baal and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so. +1 Maccabees 01:02 | And he fought many battles, and won many strongholds, and killed the kings of the earth, +1 Maccabees 01:03 | and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up, +1 Maccabees 01:04 | and he gathered together an exceedingly strong army, and ruled over countries and nations and principalities, and they became tributary to him. +1 Maccabees 01:05 | And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die. +1 Maccabees 01:06 | And he called his servants, which were honourable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive. +1 Maccabees 01:09 | And they did all put diadems upon themselves after that he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years: and they multiplied evils in the earth. +1 Maccabees 01:10 | And there came forth out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. +1 Maccabees 01:11 | In those days came there forth out of Israel transgressors of the law, and persuaded many, saying, let’s go and make a covenant with the Gentiles that are round about us; for since we were parted from them many evils have befallen us. +1 Maccabees 01:13 | And certain of the people were forward [herein] and went to the king, and he gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the Gentiles. +1 Maccabees 01:14 | And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem according to the laws of the Gentiles; +1 Maccabees 01:15 | and they made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the Gentiles, and sold themselves to do evil. +1 Maccabees 01:16 | And the kingdom was well ordered in the sight of Antiochus, and he thought to reign over Egypt, that he might reign over the two kingdoms. +1 Maccabees 01:17 | And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and with elephants, and with horsemen, and with a great navy; +1 Maccabees 01:18 | and he made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt; and Ptolemy was put to shame before him, and fled; and many fell wounded to death. +1 Maccabees 01:19 | And they got possession of the strong cities in the land of Egypt; and he took the spoils of Egypt. +1 Maccabees 01:20 | And Antiochus, after he had struck Egypt, returned in the hundred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude, +1 Maccabees 01:21 | and entered presumptuously into the sanctuary, and took the golden altar, and the candlestick of the light, and all that pertained thereto, +1 Maccabees 01:22 | and the table of the show bread, and the cups to pour withal, and the bowls, and the golden censers, and the veil, and the crowns, and the adorning of gold which was on the face of the temple, and he peeled it all off. +1 Maccabees 01:23 | And he took the silver and the gold and the precious vessels; and he took the hidden treasures which he found. +1 Maccabees 01:24 | And when he had taken all, he went away into his own land, and he made a great slaughter, and spoke very presumptuously. +1 Maccabees 01:25 | And there came great mourning upon Israel, in every place where they were; +1 Maccabees 01:26 | and the rulers and elders groaned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed. +1 Maccabees 01:27 | Every bridegroom took up lamentation, she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness. +1 Maccabees 01:28 | And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame. +1 Maccabees 01:29 | And after two full years the king sent a chief collector of tribute to the cities of Judah, and he came to Jerusalem with a great multitude. +1 Maccabees 01:30 | And he spoke words of peace to them in subtlety, and they gave him credence: and he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it very sore, and destroyed much people out of Israel. +1 Maccabees 01:31 | And he took the spoils of the city, and set it on fire, and pulled down the houses thereof and the walls thereof on every side. +1 Maccabees 01:32 | And they led captive the women and the children, and the cattle they took in possession. +1 Maccabees 01:33 | And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, with strong towers, and it became to them a citadel. +1 Maccabees 01:34 | And they put there a sinful nation, transgressors of the law, and they strengthened themselves therein. +1 Maccabees 01:35 | And they stored up arms and food, and gathering together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and they became a sore snare: +1 Maccabees 01:36 | and it became a place to lie in wait in against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel continually. +1 Maccabees 01:37 | And they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary. +1 Maccabees 01:38 | And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them; and she became a habitation of strangers, and she became strange to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her. +1 Maccabees 01:39 | Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honour into contempt. +1 Maccabees 01:40 | According to her glory, so was her dishonour multiplied, and her high estate was turned into mourning. +1 Maccabees 01:41 | And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people, +1 Maccabees 01:42 | and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king; +1 Maccabees 01:43 | and many of Israel consented to his worship, and sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath. +1 Maccabees 01:44 | And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land, +1 Maccabees 01:45 | and should forbid whole burnt offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the sanctuary; and should profane the Sabbaths and feasts, +1 Maccabees 01:47 | that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine’s flesh and unclean beasts: +1 Maccabees 01:48 | and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation; +1 Maccabees 01:49 | so that they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances. +1 Maccabees 01:50 | And whoever shall not do according to the word of the king, he shall die. +1 Maccabees 01:51 | According to all these words wrote he to his whole kingdom; and he appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city. +1 Maccabees 01:52 | And from the people were gathered together to them many, every one that had forsaken the law; and they did evil things in the land; +1 Maccabees 01:53 | and they made israel to hide themselves in every place of refuge which they had. +1 Maccabees 01:54 | And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the hundred and forty and fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they built [idol] altars. +1 Maccabees 01:55 | And at the doors of the houses and in the streets they burnt incense. +1 Maccabees 01:56 | And they tore in pieces the books of the law which they found, and set them on fire. +1 Maccabees 01:57 | And wherever was found with any a book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death. +1 Maccabees 01:58 | Thus did they in their might to Israel, to those that were found month by month in the cities. +1 Maccabees 01:59 | And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the [idol] altar [of God.] +1 Maccabees 01:60 | And the women that had circumcised their children they put to death according to the commandment. +1 Maccabees 01:61 | And they hanged their babes about their necks, and [destroyed] their houses, and those who had circumcised them. +1 Maccabees 01:62 | And many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat unclean things. +1 Maccabees 01:63 | And they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died. +1 Maccabees 01:64 | And there came exceedingly great wrath upon Israel. +1 Maccabees 02:06 | And he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem, +1 Maccabees 02:07 | and he said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens? +1 Maccabees 02:09 | her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy. +1 Maccabees 02:10 | What nation has not inherited her palaces, and gotten possession of her spoils? +1 Maccabees 02:11 | her adorning is all taken away; instead of a free woman she is become a bond woman: +1 Maccabees 02:12 | and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them. +1 Maccabees 02:14 | And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly. +1 Maccabees 02:15 | And the king’s officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice. +1 Maccabees 02:16 | And many of Israel came to them, and Mattathias and his sons were gathered together. +1 Maccabees 02:17 | And the king’s officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and kindred: +1 Maccabees 02:18 | now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and those who remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king’s Friends, and you and your sons shall be honoured with silver and gold and many gifts. +1 Maccabees 02:19 | And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments, +1 Maccabees 02:20 | yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers. +1 Maccabees 02:21 | Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances. +1 Maccabees 02:22 | We will not listen to the king’s words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left. +1 Maccabees 02:23 | And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment. +1 Maccabees 02:24 | And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar. +1 Maccabees 02:25 | And the king’s officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar. +1 Maccabees 02:27 | And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me. +1 Maccabees 02:28 | And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city. +1 Maccabees 02:29 | Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there, +1 Maccabees 02:30 | they, and their sons, and their wives, and their cattle; because evils were multiplied upon them. +1 Maccabees 02:31 | And it was told the king’s officers, and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness; +1 Maccabees 02:32 | and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day. +1 Maccabees 02:33 | And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you shall live. +1 Maccabees 02:34 | And they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day. +1 Maccabees 02:36 | And they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, saying +1 Maccabees 02:37 | Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you put us to death without trial. +1 Maccabees 02:39 | And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly. +1 Maccabees 02:40 | And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth. +1 Maccabees 02:41 | And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places. +1 Maccabees 02:42 | Then were gathered together to them a company of Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law. +1 Maccabees 02:43 | And all those who fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them. +1 Maccabees 02:44 | And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety. +1 Maccabees 02:45 | And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars; +1 Maccabees 02:46 | and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel. +1 Maccabees 02:47 | And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand. +1 Maccabees 02:48 | And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph. +1 Maccabees 02:49 | And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons, Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation. +1 Maccabees 02:50 | And now, my children, be you zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers. +1 Maccabees 02:51 | And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name. +1 Maccabees 02:52 | Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness? +1 Maccabees 02:53 | Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and became lord of Egypt. +1 Maccabees 02:54 | Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood. +1 Maccabees 02:55 | Joshua for fulfilling the word became a judge in Israel. +1 Maccabees 02:56 | Caleb for bearing witness in the congregation obtained a heritage in the land. +1 Maccabees 02:57 | David for being merciful inherited the throne of a kingdom forever and ever. +1 Maccabees 02:58 | Elijah, for that he was exceedingly zealous for the law, was taken up into heaven. +1 Maccabees 02:59 | Hananiah, Azariah, Mishael, believed, and were saved out of the flame. +1 Maccabees 02:60 | Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions. +1 Maccabees 02:61 | And thus consider you from generation to generation, that none that put their trust in him shall lack for strength. +1 Maccabees 02:62 | And be not afraid of the words of a sinful man; for his glory shall be dung and worms. +1 Maccabees 02:63 | To-day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished. +1 Maccabees 02:64 | And you, my children, be strong, and show yourselves men in behalf of the law; for therein shall you obtain glory. +1 Maccabees 02:65 | And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you. +1 Maccabees 02:66 | And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and shall fight the battle of the people. +1 Maccabees 02:67 | And take you to you all the doers of the law, and avenge the wrong of your people. +1 Maccabees 02:68 | Render a recompense to the Gentiles, and take heed to the commandments of the law. +1 Maccabees 02:69 | And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers. +1 Maccabees 02:70 | And he died in the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him. +1 Maccabees 03:01 | And his son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead. +1 Maccabees 03:02 | And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel. +1 Maccabees 03:03 | And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword. +1 Maccabees 03:04 | And he was like a lion in his deeds, and as a lion’s whelp roaring for prey. +1 Maccabees 03:05 | And he pursued the lawless, seeking them out, and he burnt up those that troubled his people. +1 Maccabees 03:06 | And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand. +1 Maccabees 03:07 | And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever. +1 Maccabees 03:08 | And he went about amongst the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel: +1 Maccabees 03:09 | and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish. +1 Maccabees 03:10 | And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great army from Samaria, to fight against Israel. +1 Maccabees 03:11 | And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled. +1 Maccabees 03:12 | And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days. +1 Maccabees 03:13 | And Seron, the commander of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war; +1 Maccabees 03:14 | And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and those who are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king. +1 Maccabees 03:15 | And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel. +1 Maccabees 03:16 | And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company. +1 Maccabees 03:17 | But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day. +1 Maccabees 03:18 | And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few: +1 Maccabees 03:19 | for victory in battle stands not in the multitude of an army; but strength is from heaven. +1 Maccabees 03:20 | They come to us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to plunder us: +1 Maccabees 03:21 | but we fight for our lives and our laws. +1 Maccabees 03:22 | And he himself will discomfit them before our face: but as for you, be you not afraid of them. +1 Maccabees 03:23 | Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him. +1 Maccabees 03:24 | And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines. +1 Maccabees 03:25 | And the fear of Judas and his kindred, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them: +1 Maccabees 03:26 | and his name came near even to the king, and every nation told of the battles of Judas. +1 Maccabees 03:27 | But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceedingly strong army. +1 Maccabees 03:28 | And he opened his treasury, and gave his forces pay for a year, and commanded them to be ready for every need. +1 Maccabees 03:29 | And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days; +1 Maccabees 03:30 | and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him. +1 Maccabees 03:31 | And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money. +1 Maccabees 03:32 | And he left Lysias, an honourable man, and one of the seed royal, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt, +1 Maccabees 03:34 | And he delivered to him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem, +1 Maccabees 03:35 | that he should send an army against them, to root out and destroy the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from the place; +1 Maccabees 03:36 | And that he should make strangers to dwell on all their coasts, and should divide their land to them by lot. +1 Maccabees 03:37 | And the king took the half that remained of the forces, and removed from Antioch, from his royal city, the hundred and forty and seventh year; and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the upper countries. +1 Maccabees 03:38 | And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s Friends; +1 Maccabees 03:39 | and with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horse, to go into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king. +1 Maccabees 03:40 | And they removed with all their army, and came and pitched near to Emmaus in the plain country. +1 Maccabees 03:41 | And the merchants of the country heard the fame of them, and took silver and gold exceedingly much, with fetters, and came into the camp to take the children of Israel for servants: and there were added to them the forces of Syria and of the land of the Philistines. +1 Maccabees 03:42 | And Judas and his kindred saw that evils were multiplied, and that the forces were encamping in their borders; and they took knowledge of the king’s words which he had commanded, to destroy the people and make an end of them; +1 Maccabees 03:43 | and they said each man to his neighbour, Let’s raise up the ruin of our people, and let’s fight for our people and the holy place. +1 Maccabees 03:44 | And the congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask for mercy and compassion. +1 Maccabees 03:45 | And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased. +1 Maccabees 03:46 | And they gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh was there a place of prayer aforetime for Israel. +1 Maccabees 03:47 | And they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and [put] ashes upon their heads, and tore their clothes, +1 Maccabees 03:48 | and laid open the book of the law, concerning which the Gentiles were wont to enquire, seeking the likenesses of their idols. +1 Maccabees 03:49 | And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days. +1 Maccabees 03:50 | And they cried aloud towards heaven, saying, What shall we do with these men, and where shall we carry them away? +1 Maccabees 03:51 | And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low. +1 Maccabees 03:52 | And, behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us: you know what things they imagine against us. +1 Maccabees 03:53 | How shall we be able to stand before them, except you be our help? +1 Maccabees 03:54 | And they sounded with the trumpets, and cried with a loud voice. +1 Maccabees 03:55 | And after this Judas appointed leaders of the people, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens. +1 Maccabees 03:56 | And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law. +1 Maccabees 03:57 | And the army removed, and encamped upon the south side of Emmaus. +1 Maccabees 03:58 | And Judas said, Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be in readiness against the morning, that you may fight with these Gentiles, that are assembled together against us to destroy us, and our holy place: +1 Maccabees 03:59 | for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place. +1 Maccabees 03:60 | Nevertheless, as may be the will in heaven, so shall he do. +1 Maccabees 04:01 | And Gorgias took five thousand footmen, and a thousand chosen horse, and the army removed by night, +1 Maccabees 04:02 | that it might fall upon the army of the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men of the citadel were his guides. +1 Maccabees 04:03 | And Judas heard thereof, and removed, he and the valiant men, that he might strike the king’s army which was at Emmaus, +1 Maccabees 04:05 | And Gorgias came into the camp of Judas by night, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains; for he said, These men flee from us. +1 Maccabees 04:06 | And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: however they didn’t have the armour and swords they desired. +1 Maccabees 04:07 | And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong [and] fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war. +1 Maccabees 04:08 | And Judas said to the men that were with him, Fear you not their multitude, neither be you afraid of their onset. +1 Maccabees 04:09 | Remember how our fathers were saved in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army. +1 Maccabees 04:10 | And now let’s cry to heaven, if he will have us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this army before our face today: +1 Maccabees 04:11 | and all the Gentiles shall know that there is one who redeems and saves Israel. +1 Maccabees 04:12 | And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming near them: +1 Maccabees 04:13 | and they went out of the camp to battle. And those who were with Judas sounded their trumpets, +1 Maccabees 04:14 | and joined battle, and the Gentiles were discomfited, and fled into the plain. +1 Maccabees 04:15 | But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men. +1 Maccabees 04:17 | and he said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoils, inasmuch as there is a battle before us; +1 Maccabees 04:18 | and Gorgias and his army are near to us in the mountain. But stand you now against our enemies, and fight against them, and afterwards take the spoils with boldness. +1 Maccabees 04:19 | While Judas was yet making an end of these words, there appeared a part of them looking out from the mountain: +1 Maccabees 04:20 | and they saw that their army had been put to flight, and that the Jews were burning the camp; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done. +1 Maccabees 04:21 | But when they perceived these things, they were sore afraid; and perceiving also the army of Judas in the plain ready for battle, +1 Maccabees 04:23 | And Judas returned to plunder the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue, and sea purple, and great riches. +1 Maccabees 04:24 | And they returned home, and sang a song of thanksgiving, and gave praise to heaven; because [his mercy] is good, because his mercy endures forever. +1 Maccabees 04:25 | And Israel had a great deliverance that day. +1 Maccabees 04:26 | But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened: +1 Maccabees 04:27 | but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he desired been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass. +1 Maccabees 04:28 | And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them. +1 Maccabees 04:30 | And he saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said, Blessed are you, O Saviour of Israel, who did quell the onset of the mighty man by the hand of your servant David, and did deliver the army of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer: +1 Maccabees 04:31 | shut up this army in the hand of your people Israel, and let them be ashamed for their army and their horsemen: +1 Maccabees 04:32 | give them faintness of heart, and cause the boldness of their strength to melt away, and let them quake at their destruction: +1 Maccabees 04:33 | cast them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all that know your name praise you with thanksgiving. +1 Maccabees 04:34 | And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them. +1 Maccabees 04:35 | But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company. +1 Maccabees 04:36 | But Judas and his kindred said, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let’s go up to cleanse the holy place, and to dedicate it afresh. +1 Maccabees 04:37 | And all the army was gathered together, and they went up to mount Sion. +1 Maccabees 04:38 | And they saw the sanctuary laid desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down; +1 Maccabees 04:39 | and they tore their clothes, and made great lamentation, and put ashes upon their heads, +1 Maccabees 04:40 | and fell on their faces to the ground, and blew with the solemn trumpets, and cried towards heaven. +1 Maccabees 04:41 | Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place. +1 Maccabees 04:42 | And he chose blameless priests, such as had pleasure in the law: +1 Maccabees 04:43 | and they cleansed the holy place, and bare out the stones of defilement into an unclean place. +1 Maccabees 04:44 | And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it: +1 Maccabees 04:45 | and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar, +1 Maccabees 04:46 | and laid up the stones in the mountain of the house in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to give an answer concerning them. +1 Maccabees 04:47 | And they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar after the fashion of the former; +1 Maccabees 04:48 | and they built the holy place, and the inner parts of the house; and they hallowed the courts. +1 Maccabees 04:49 | And they made the holy vessels new, and they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense, and the table, into the temple. +1 Maccabees 04:50 | And they burnt incense upon the altar, and they lighted the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple. +1 Maccabees 04:51 | And they set loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they made. +1 Maccabees 04:52 | And they rose up early in the morning, on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in the hundred and forty and eighth year, +1 Maccabees 04:53 | and offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings which they had made. +1 Maccabees 04:54 | At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on that [day] was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals. +1 Maccabees 04:55 | And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshipped, and gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success. +1 Maccabees 04:56 | And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance and praise. +1 Maccabees 04:57 | And they decked the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold and small shields, and dedicated afresh the gates and the priests’ chambers, and made doors for them. +1 Maccabees 04:58 | And there was exceedingly great gladness amongst the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away. +1 Maccabees 04:59 | And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy. +1 Maccabees 04:60 | And at that season they built up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest perhaps the Gentiles should come and tread them down, as they had done aforetime. +1 Maccabees 04:61 | And he set there a force to keep it, and they fortified Bethsura to keep it; that the people might have a stronghold near Idumaea. +1 Maccabees 05:01 | And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated as aforetime, they were exceedingly angry. +1 Maccabees 05:02 | And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy amongst the people. +1 Maccabees 05:03 | And Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumaea at Akrabattine, because they besieged Israel: and he struck them with a great slaughter, and brought down their pride, and took their spoils. +1 Maccabees 05:04 | And he remembered the wickedness of the children of Baean, who were to the people a snare and a stumbling block, lying in wait for them in the ways. +1 Maccabees 05:05 | And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burnt with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein. +1 Maccabees 05:06 | And he passed over to the children of Ammon, and found a mighty band, and much people, with Timotheus for their leader. +1 Maccabees 05:07 | And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited before his face; and he struck them, +1 Maccabees 05:08 | and got possession of Jazer, and the villages thereof, and returned again into Judea. +1 Maccabees 05:09 | And the Gentiles that were in Gilead gathered themselves together against the Israelites that were on their borders, to destroy them. And they fled to the stronghold of Dathema, +1 Maccabees 05:10 | and sent letters to Judas and his kindred, saying, The Gentiles that are round about us are gathered together against us to destroy us: +1 Maccabees 05:11 | and they are preparing to come and get possession of the stronghold whereunto we are fled for refuge, and Timotheus is the leader of their army. +1 Maccabees 05:12 | Now therefore come and deliver us from their hand, for many of us are fallen. +1 Maccabees 05:13 | And all our kindred that were in the land of Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men. +1 Maccabees 05:14 | While the letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes torn, bringing a report after this wise, saying, +1 Maccabees 05:15 | That there were gathered together against them those of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles to consume them. +1 Maccabees 05:16 | Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled together a great congregation, to consult what they should do for their kindred, that were in suffering, and were assaulted of them. +1 Maccabees 05:17 | And Judas said to Simon his brother, Choose you out men, and go and deliver your kindred that are in Galilee, but I and Jonathan my brother will go into the land of Gilead. +1 Maccabees 05:18 | And he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, as leaders of the people, with the remnant of the army, in Judea, for to keep it. +1 Maccabees 05:19 | And he gave commandment to them, saying, Take you the charge of this people, and fight no battle with the Gentiles until that we come again. +1 Maccabees 05:20 | And to Simon were divided three thousand men to go into Galilee, but to Judas eight thousand men [to go] into the land of Gilead. +1 Maccabees 05:21 | And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were discomfited before him. +1 Maccabees 05:22 | And he pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; and there fell of the Gentiles about three thousand men, and he took their spoils. +1 Maccabees 05:23 | And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness. +1 Maccabees 05:24 | And Judas Maccabaeus and his brother Jonathan passed over Jordan, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness; +1 Maccabees 05:25 | and they met with the Nabathaeans, and these met them in a peaceful manner, and told them all things that had befallen their kindred in the land of Gilead: +1 Maccabees 05:26 | and how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great: +1 Maccabees 05:27 | and how that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the land of Gilead, and that tomorrow they have appointed to encamp against the strongholds, and to take them, and to destroy all these men in one day. +1 Maccabees 05:28 | And Judas and his army turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness to Bosora; and he took the city, and killed all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt the city with fire. +1 Maccabees 05:29 | And he removed from thence by night, and went till he came to the stronghold. +1 Maccabees 05:30 | And the morning came, and they lifted up their eyes, and, behold, much people which could not be counted, bearing ladders and engines of war, to take the stronghold; and they were fighting against them. +1 Maccabees 05:31 | And Judas saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets and a great sound, +1 Maccabees 05:32 | and he said to the men of his army, Fight this day for your kindred. +1 Maccabees 05:33 | And he went forth behind them in three companies, and they sounded with their trumpets, and cried out in prayer. +1 Maccabees 05:34 | And the army of Timotheus perceived that it was Maccabaeus, and they fled from before him: and he struck them with a great slaughter; and there fell of them on that day about eight thousand men. +1 Maccabees 05:35 | And he turned away to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it with fire. +1 Maccabees 05:36 | From thence he removed, and took Casphor, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the land of Gilead. +1 Maccabees 05:37 | Now after these things Timotheus gathered another army, and encamped near Raphon beyond the brook. +1 Maccabees 05:38 | And Judas sent men to spy on the army; and they brought him word, saying, All the Gentiles that are around us are gathered together to them, an exceedingly great army. +1 Maccabees 05:39 | And they have hired Arabians to help them, and are encamping beyond the brook, ready to come against you to battle. And Judas went to meet them. +1 Maccabees 05:40 | And Timotheus said to the captains of his army, when Judas and his army drew near to the brook of water, If he pass over first to us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us: +1 Maccabees 05:41 | but if he be afraid, and encamp beyond the river, we will cross over to him, and prevail against him. +1 Maccabees 05:42 | Now when Judas came near to the brook of water, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook, and gave commandment to them, saying, Suffer no man to encamp, but let all come to the battle. +1 Maccabees 05:43 | And he crossed over the first against them, and all the people after him: and all the Gentiles were discomfited before his face, and cast away their arms, and fled to the temple at Carnaim. +1 Maccabees 05:44 | And they took the city, and burnt the temple with fire, together with all that were therein. And Carnaim was subdued, neither could they stand any longer before the face of Judas. +1 Maccabees 05:45 | And Judas gathered together all Israel, those who were in the land of Gilead, from the least to the greatest, and their wives, and their children, and their stuff, an exceedingly great army, that they might come into the land of Judah. +1 Maccabees 05:46 | And they came as far as Ephron, and this same city was great, [and it was] in the way as they should go, exceedingly strong: they could not turn away from it on the right hand or on the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it. +1 Maccabees 05:47 | And they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones. +1 Maccabees 05:48 | And Judas sent to them with words of peace, saying, We will pass through your land to go into our own land, and none shall do you any hurt, we will only pass by on our feet. And they would not open to him. +1 Maccabees 05:49 | And Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the army, that each man should encamp in the place where he was. +1 Maccabees 05:50 | And the men of the army encamped, and fought against the city all that day and all that night, and the city was delivered into his hands; +1 Maccabees 05:51 | and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain. +1 Maccabees 05:52 | And they went over Jordan into the great plain near Bethshan. +1 Maccabees 05:53 | And Judas gathered together those that lagged behind, and encouraged the people all the way through, until he came into the land of Judah. +1 Maccabees 05:54 | And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace. +1 Maccabees 05:55 | And in the days when Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais, +1 Maccabees 05:56 | Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, rulers of the army, heard of their exploits and of the war, what things they had done; +1 Maccabees 05:57 | and they said, Let’s also get us a name, and let’s go fight against the Gentiles that are around us. +1 Maccabees 05:58 | And they gave charge to the men of the army that was with them, and went towards Jamnia. +1 Maccabees 05:59 | And Gorgias and his men came out of the city to meet them in battle. +1 Maccabees 05:60 | And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men. +1 Maccabees 05:61 | And there was a great overthrow amongst the people, because they didn’t listen to Judas and his kindred, thinking to do some exploit. +1 Maccabees 05:62 | But they were not of the seed of those men, by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel. +1 Maccabees 05:63 | And the man Judas and his kindred were glorified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard of; +1 Maccabees 05:65 | And Judas and his kindred went forth, and fought against the children of Esau in the land towards the south; and he struck Hebron and the villages thereof, and pulled down the strongholds thereof, and burnt the towers thereof round about. +1 Maccabees 05:66 | And he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and he went through Samaria. +1 Maccabees 05:67 | In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as he went out to battle unadvisedly. +1 Maccabees 05:68 | And Judas turned towards Azotus, to the land of the Philistines, and pulled down their altars, and burnt the carved images of their gods with fire, and took the plunder of their cities, and returned into the land of Judah. +1 Maccabees 06:01 | And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold; +1 Maccabees 06:02 | and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first amongst the Greeks, left behind there. +1 Maccabees 06:03 | And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city, +1 Maccabees 06:04 | and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon. +1 Maccabees 06:05 | And there came one bringing him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judah, had been put to flight; +1 Maccabees 06:06 | and that Lysias went first with a strong army, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off; +1 Maccabees 06:07 | and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem; and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and Bethsura, his city. +1 Maccabees 06:08 | And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for. +1 Maccabees 06:09 | And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die. +1 Maccabees 06:10 | And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care. +1 Maccabees 06:11 | And I said in my heart, To what suffering am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power. +1 Maccabees 06:12 | But now I remember the evils which I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of silver and gold that were therein, and sent forth to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without a cause. +1 Maccabees 06:13 | I perceive that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land. +1 Maccabees 06:14 | And he called for Philip, one of his Friends, and set him over all his kingdom, +1 Maccabees 06:15 | and gave him his diadem, and his robe, and his signet ring, to the end he should bring Antiochus his son, and nourish him up that he might be king. +1 Maccabees 06:16 | And king Antiochus died there in the hundred and forty and ninth year. +1 Maccabees 06:17 | And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator. +1 Maccabees 06:18 | And those who were in the citadel shut up Israel round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the Gentiles. +1 Maccabees 06:19 | And Judas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them. +1 Maccabees 06:20 | And they were gathered together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftieth year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war. +1 Maccabees 06:21 | And there came forth some of those who were shut up, and there were joined to them certain ungodly men of Israel. +1 Maccabees 06:22 | And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred? +1 Maccabees 06:23 | We were willing to serve your father, and to walk after his words, and to follow his commandments; +1 Maccabees 06:24 | and for this cause the children of our people besieged the citadel, and were alienated from us; but as many of us as they could light on they killed, and plundered our inheritances. +1 Maccabees 06:25 | And not against us only did they stretch out their hand, but also against all their borders. +1 Maccabees 06:26 | And, behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem, to take it: and the sanctuary and Bethsura have they fortified. +1 Maccabees 06:27 | And if you are not beforehand with them quickly, they will do greater things than these, and you shall not be able to control them. +1 Maccabees 06:28 | And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his Friends, [even the] rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse. +1 Maccabees 06:29 | And there came to him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers. +1 Maccabees 06:30 | And the number of his forces was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants trained for war. +1 Maccabees 06:31 | And they went through Idumaea, and encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war; and they [of Bethsura] came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly. +1 Maccabees 06:32 | And Judas removed from the citadel, and encamped at Bethzacharias, near the king’s camp. +1 Maccabees 06:33 | And the king rose early in the morning, and removed his army at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias, and his forces made them ready to battle, and sounded with the trumpets. +1 Maccabees 06:34 | And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle. +1 Maccabees 06:35 | And they divided the beasts amongst the phalanxes, and they set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and helmets of brass on their heads; and for each beast were appointed five hundred chosen horsemen. +1 Maccabees 06:36 | These were ready beforehand, wherever the beast was; and wherever the beast went, they went with him; they departed not from him. +1 Maccabees 06:37 | And towers of wood were upon them, strong [and] covered, one upon each beast, girded fast upon him with cunning contrivances; and upon each [beast] were two and thirty valiant men that fought upon them, beside his Indian +1 Maccabees 06:38 | (and the residue of the horsemen he set on this side and that side at the two parts of the army), striking terror [into the enemy] and protected by the phalanxes. +1 Maccabees 06:39 | Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains shone therewith, and blazed like torches of fire. +1 Maccabees 06:40 | And a part of the king’s army was spread upon the high mountains, and some on the low ground, and they went on firmly and in order. +1 Maccabees 06:41 | And all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the multitude, and the rattling of the arms, did quake: for the army was exceedingly great and strong. +1 Maccabees 06:42 | And Judas and his army drew near for battle, and there fell of the king’s army six hundred men. +1 Maccabees 06:43 | And Eleazar, who was [called] Avaran, saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the beasts, and the king seemed to be upon him; +1 Maccabees 06:44 | and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name; +1 Maccabees 06:45 | and he ran upon him courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and killed on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that. +1 Maccabees 06:46 | And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and [the elephant] fell to the earth upon him, and he died there. +1 Maccabees 06:47 | And they saw the strength of the kingdom, and the fierce onset of the army, and turned away from them. +1 Maccabees 06:48 | But they of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped towards Judea, and towards mount Sion. +1 Maccabees 06:49 | And he made peace with them of Bethsura; and he came out of the city, because they had no food there to endure the siege, because it was a Sabbath to the land. +1 Maccabees 06:50 | And the king took Bethsura, and appointed a garrison there to keep it. +1 Maccabees 06:51 | And he encamped against the sanctuary many days; and set there mounds to shoot from, and engines of war, and instruments for casting fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings. +1 Maccabees 06:52 | And they also made engines against their engines, and fought for many days. +1 Maccabees 06:53 | But there were no food in the sanctuary, because it was the seventh year, and those who fled for safety into Judea from amongst the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the store; +1 Maccabees 06:54 | and there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine prevailed against them, and they were scattered, each man to his own place. +1 Maccabees 06:55 | And Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he was yet alive, appointed to nourish up his son Antiochus, that he might be king, +1 Maccabees 06:56 | was returned from Persia and Media, and with him the forces that went with the king, and that he was seeking to take to him the government. +1 Maccabees 06:57 | And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us: +1 Maccabees 06:58 | now therefore let’s give the right hand to these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation, +1 Maccabees 06:59 | and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things. +1 Maccabees 06:60 | And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and he sent to them to make peace; and they accepted thereof. +1 Maccabees 06:61 | And the king and the princes sware to them: thereupon they came forth from the stronghold. +1 Maccabees 06:62 | And the king entered into mount Sion; and he saw the strength of the place, and set at nothing the oath which he had sworn, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about. +1 Maccabees 06:63 | And he removed in haste, and returned to Antioch, and found Philip master of the city; and he fought against him, and took the city by force. +1 Maccabees 07:01 | In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus came forth from Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there. +1 Maccabees 07:02 | And it came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him. +1 Maccabees 07:03 | And the thing was known to him, and he said, show me not their faces. +1 Maccabees 07:04 | And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom. +1 Maccabees 07:05 | And there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; and Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest; +1 Maccabees 07:06 | and they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land. +1 Maccabees 07:07 | Now therefore send a man whom you trust, and let him go and see all the havock which he has made of us, and of the king’s country, and [how] he has punished them and all that helped them. +1 Maccabees 07:08 | And the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s Friends, who was ruler in the country beyond the river, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king. +1 Maccabees 07:09 | And he sent him, and that ungodly Alcimus, and made sure to him the high priesthood, and he commanded him to take vengeance upon the children of Israel. +1 Maccabees 07:10 | And they removed, and came with a great army into the land of Judah, and he sent messengers to Judas and his kindred with words of peace deceitfully. +1 Maccabees 07:11 | And they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great army. +1 Maccabees 07:12 | And there were gathered together to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to seek for justice. +1 Maccabees 07:13 | And the Hasidaeans were the first amongst the children of Israel that sought peace of them; +1 Maccabees 07:14 | for they said, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with the forces, and he will do us no wrong. +1 Maccabees 07:15 | And he spoke with them words of peace, and sware to them, saying, We will seek the hurt neither of you nor your friends. +1 Maccabees 07:16 | And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which [the psalmist] wrote, +1 Maccabees 07:17 | The flesh of your saints [did they cast out] And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem; And there was no man to bury them. +1 Maccabees 07:18 | And the fear and the dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, There is neither truth nor judgement in them; for they have broken the covenant and the oath which they sware. +1 Maccabees 07:19 | And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them, [and cast them] into the great pit. +1 Maccabees 07:20 | And he made sure the country to Alcimus, and left with him a force to aid him; and Bacchides went away to the king. +1 Maccabees 07:22 | And there were gathered to him all those who troubled their people, and they got the mastery of the land of Judah, and did great hurt in Israel. +1 Maccabees 07:23 | And Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done amongst the children of Israel, [even] above the Gentiles, +1 Maccabees 07:24 | and he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance on the men that had deserted from him, and they were restrained from going forth into the country. +1 Maccabees 07:25 | But when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company waxed strong, and knew that he was not able to withstand them, he returned to the king, and brought evil accusations against them. +1 Maccabees 07:26 | And the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that hated Israel and was their enemy, and commanded him to destroy the people. +1 Maccabees 07:27 | And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army; and he sent to Judas and his kindred deceitfully with words of peace, saying, +1 Maccabees 07:28 | Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see your faces in peace. +1 Maccabees 07:29 | And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. And the enemies were ready to take away Judas by violence. +1 Maccabees 07:30 | And the thing was known to Judas, [to wit] that he came to him with deceit, and he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more. +1 Maccabees 07:31 | And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered; and he went out to meet Judas in battle beside Capharsalama; +1 Maccabees 07:32 | and there fell of Nicanor’s side about five hundred men, and they fled into the city of David. +1 Maccabees 07:33 | And after these things Nicanor went up to mount Sion: and there came some of the priests out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to show him the whole burnt sacrifice that was being offered for the king. +1 Maccabees 07:34 | And he mocked them, and laughed at them, and entreated them shamefully, and spoke haughtily, +1 Maccabees 07:35 | and sware in a rage, saying, Unless Judas and his army be now delivered into my hands, it shall be that, if I come again in peace, I will burn up this house: and he went out in a great rage. +1 Maccabees 07:36 | And the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple; and they wept, and said, +1 Maccabees 07:37 | You did choose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people: +1 Maccabees 07:38 | take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer. +1 Maccabees 07:39 | And Nicanor went forth from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bethhoron, and there met him the army of Syria. +1 Maccabees 07:40 | And Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed and said, +1 Maccabees 07:41 | When those who came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck amongst them a hundred and fourscore and five thousand. +1 Maccabees 07:42 | Even so discomfit you this army before us today, and let all the rest know that he has spoken wickedly against your sanctuary, and judge you him according to his wickedness. +1 Maccabees 07:43 | And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle. +1 Maccabees 07:44 | Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled. +1 Maccabees 07:45 | And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the solemn trumpets. +1 Maccabees 07:46 | And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left. +1 Maccabees 07:47 | And they took the spoils, and the booty, and they struck off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so haughtily, and brought them, and hanged them up beside Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 07:48 | And the people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness. +1 Maccabees 07:49 | And they ordained to keep this day year by year, [to wit] the thirteenth day of Adar. +1 Maccabees 08:01 | And Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are valiant men, and have pleasure in all that join themselves to them, and make friends with all such as come to them, +1 Maccabees 08:02 | and that they are valiant men. And they told him of their wars and exploits which they do amongst the Gauls, and how that they conquered them, and brought them under tribute; +1 Maccabees 08:03 | and what things they did in the land of Spain, that they might become masters of the mines of silver and gold which were there; +1 Maccabees 08:04 | and how that by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had discomfited them, and struck them very sore; and how the rest give them tribute year by year: +1 Maccabees 08:05 | and Philip, and Perseus, king of Chittim, and those who lifted up themselves against them, did they discomfit in battle, and conquered them: +1 Maccabees 08:06 | Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, who came against them to battle, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horse, and chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was discomfited by them, +1 Maccabees 08:07 | and they took him alive, and appointed that both he and such as reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcel [of land, to wit, ] +1 Maccabees 08:08 | the country of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes: +1 Maccabees 08:09 | and how they of Greece took counsel to come and destroy them; +1 Maccabees 08:10 | and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day: +1 Maccabees 08:11 | and the residue of the kingdoms and of the isles, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants; +1 Maccabees 08:12 | but with their friends and such as relied upon them they stayed friends; and they conquered the kingdoms that were near and those that were far off, and all that heard of their fame were afraid of them: +1 Maccabees 08:13 | moreover, whoever they will to help and to make kings, these do they make kings; and whoever they will, do they depose; and they are exalted exceedingly: +1 Maccabees 08:14 | and for all this none of them did ever put on a diadem, neither did they clothe themselves with purple, to be magnified by it: +1 Maccabees 08:15 | and how they had made for themselves a senate house, and day by day three hundred and twenty men sat in council, consulting always for the people, to the end they might be well ordered: +1 Maccabees 08:16 | and how they commit their government to one man year by year, that he should rule over them, and be lord over all their country, and all are obedient to that one, and there is neither envy nor emulation amongst them. +1 Maccabees 08:18 | and that they should take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks did keep Israel in bondage. +1 Maccabees 08:20 | Judas, who is also [called] Maccabaeus, and his kindred, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your allies and friends. +1 Maccabees 08:22 | And this is the copy of the writing which they wrote back again on tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of peace and confederacy: +1 Maccabees 08:23 | Good success be to the Romans, and to the nation of the Jews, by sea and by land forever: the sword also and the enemy be far from them. +1 Maccabees 08:24 | But if war arise for Rome first, or any of their allies in all their dominion, +1 Maccabees 08:25 | the nation of the Jews shall help them as allies, as the occasion shall prescribe to them, with all their heart: +1 Maccabees 08:26 | and to those who make war upon them they shall not give, neither supply, food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome, and they shall keep their ordinances without taking anything therefore. +1 Maccabees 08:27 | In the same manner, moreover, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them as allies with all their soul, as the occasion shall prescribe to them: +1 Maccabees 08:28 | and to those who are allies [with their foes] there shall not be given food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome; and they shall keep these ordinances, and that without deceit. +1 Maccabees 08:29 | According to these words have the Romans made a covenant thus with the people of the Jews. +1 Maccabees 08:30 | But if hereafter the one party and the other shall take counsel to add or diminish anything, they shall do it at their pleasure, and whatever they shall add or take away shall be established. +1 Maccabees 08:31 | And as touching the evils which king Demetrius does to them, we have written to him, saying, Wherefore have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews? +1 Maccabees 08:32 | If therefore they plead any more against you, we will do them justice, and fight with you by sea and by land. +1 Maccabees 09:01 | And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing [of his army] with them: +1 Maccabees 09:02 | and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people. +1 Maccabees 09:03 | And the first month of the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem: +1 Maccabees 09:04 | and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse. +1 Maccabees 09:05 | And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him: +1 Maccabees 09:06 | and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men. +1 Maccabees 09:07 | And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint. +1 Maccabees 09:08 | And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them. +1 Maccabees 09:09 | And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again, [we] and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few. +1 Maccabees 09:10 | And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory. +1 Maccabees 09:11 | And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle. +1 Maccabees 09:12 | But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets. +1 Maccabees 09:13 | And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening. +1 Maccabees 09:14 | And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart, +1 Maccabees 09:15 | and the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus. +1 Maccabees 09:16 | And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him: +1 Maccabees 09:17 | and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death. +1 Maccabees 09:19 | And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin. +1 Maccabees 09:20 | And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said, +1 Maccabees 09:21 | How is the mighty fallen, the saviour of Israel! +1 Maccabees 09:22 | And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many. +1 Maccabees 09:23 | And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up +1 Maccabees 09:24 | (in those days there was an exceedingly great famine), and the country went over with them. +1 Maccabees 09:25 | And Bacchides chose out the ungodly men, and made them lords of the country. +1 Maccabees 09:26 | And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully. +1 Maccabees 09:27 | And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them. +1 Maccabees 09:28 | And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan, +1 Maccabees 09:29 | Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and amongst them of our nation that hate us. +1 Maccabees 09:30 | Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles. +1 Maccabees 09:31 | And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas. +1 Maccabees 09:33 | And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar. +1 Maccabees 09:34 | And Bacchides knew it on the Sabbath day, and came, he and all his army, over Jordan. +1 Maccabees 09:35 | And [Jonathan] sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much. +1 Maccabees 09:36 | And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it. +1 Maccabees 09:37 | But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan. +1 Maccabees 09:38 | And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain: +1 Maccabees 09:39 | and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons. +1 Maccabees 09:40 | And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils. +1 Maccabees 09:41 | And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation. +1 Maccabees 09:42 | And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan. +1 Maccabees 09:43 | And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great army. +1 Maccabees 09:44 | And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not [with us] today, as yesterday and the day before. +1 Maccabees 09:45 | For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape. +1 Maccabees 09:46 | Now therefore cry to heaven, that you may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies. +1 Maccabees 09:47 | And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him. +1 Maccabees 09:48 | And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them. +1 Maccabees 09:53 | And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 09:54 | And in the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets; +1 Maccabees 09:55 | and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house. +1 Maccabees 09:57 | And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years. +1 Maccabees 09:58 | And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night. +1 Maccabees 09:60 | And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them. +1 Maccabees 09:61 | And [those who were of Jonathan’s part] laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them. +1 Maccabees 09:62 | And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong. +1 Maccabees 09:63 | And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea. +1 Maccabees 09:64 | And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war. +1 Maccabees 09:65 | And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men. +1 Maccabees 09:66 | And he struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tent. +1 Maccabees 09:67 | And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war, +1 Maccabees 09:68 | and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad. +1 Maccabees 09:69 | And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land. +1 Maccabees 09:70 | And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives. +1 Maccabees 09:71 | And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life. +1 Maccabees 09:72 | And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders. +1 Maccabees 09:73 | And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel. 1 Maccabees 10:02 | And king Demetrius heard thereof, and he gathered together exceedingly great forces, and went forth to meet him in battle. 1 Maccabees 10:03 | And Demetrius sent letters to Jonathan with words of peace, so as to magnify him. 1 Maccabees 10:04 | For he said, let’s go beforehand to make peace with them, before he makes peace with Alexander against us: @@ -28500,513 +2648,2821 @@ Zephaniah 3:20 | At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gathe 1 Maccabees 16:22 | And when he heard, he was sore amazed; and he laid hands on the men that came to destroy him, and killed them; for he perceived that they were seeking to destroy him. 1 Maccabees 16:23 | And the rest of the acts of John, and of his wars, and of his valiant deeds which he did, and of the building of the walls which he built, and of his doings, 1 Maccabees 16:24 | behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father. -1 Maccabees 1:02 | And he fought many battles, and won many strongholds, and killed the kings of the earth, -1 Maccabees 1:03 | and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up, -1 Maccabees 1:04 | and he gathered together an exceedingly strong army, and ruled over countries and nations and principalities, and they became tributary to him. -1 Maccabees 1:05 | And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die. -1 Maccabees 1:06 | And he called his servants, which were honourable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive. -1 Maccabees 1:09 | And they did all put diadems upon themselves after that he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years: and they multiplied evils in the earth. -1 Maccabees 1:10 | And there came forth out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. -1 Maccabees 1:11 | In those days came there forth out of Israel transgressors of the law, and persuaded many, saying, let’s go and make a covenant with the Gentiles that are round about us; for since we were parted from them many evils have befallen us. -1 Maccabees 1:13 | And certain of the people were forward [herein] and went to the king, and he gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the Gentiles. -1 Maccabees 1:14 | And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem according to the laws of the Gentiles; -1 Maccabees 1:15 | and they made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the Gentiles, and sold themselves to do evil. -1 Maccabees 1:16 | And the kingdom was well ordered in the sight of Antiochus, and he thought to reign over Egypt, that he might reign over the two kingdoms. -1 Maccabees 1:17 | And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and with elephants, and with horsemen, and with a great navy; -1 Maccabees 1:18 | and he made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt; and Ptolemy was put to shame before him, and fled; and many fell wounded to death. -1 Maccabees 1:19 | And they got possession of the strong cities in the land of Egypt; and he took the spoils of Egypt. -1 Maccabees 1:20 | And Antiochus, after he had struck Egypt, returned in the hundred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude, -1 Maccabees 1:21 | and entered presumptuously into the sanctuary, and took the golden altar, and the candlestick of the light, and all that pertained thereto, -1 Maccabees 1:22 | and the table of the show bread, and the cups to pour withal, and the bowls, and the golden censers, and the veil, and the crowns, and the adorning of gold which was on the face of the temple, and he peeled it all off. -1 Maccabees 1:23 | And he took the silver and the gold and the precious vessels; and he took the hidden treasures which he found. -1 Maccabees 1:24 | And when he had taken all, he went away into his own land, and he made a great slaughter, and spoke very presumptuously. -1 Maccabees 1:25 | And there came great mourning upon Israel, in every place where they were; -1 Maccabees 1:26 | and the rulers and elders groaned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed. -1 Maccabees 1:27 | Every bridegroom took up lamentation, she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness. -1 Maccabees 1:28 | And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame. -1 Maccabees 1:29 | And after two full years the king sent a chief collector of tribute to the cities of Judah, and he came to Jerusalem with a great multitude. -1 Maccabees 1:30 | And he spoke words of peace to them in subtlety, and they gave him credence: and he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it very sore, and destroyed much people out of Israel. -1 Maccabees 1:31 | And he took the spoils of the city, and set it on fire, and pulled down the houses thereof and the walls thereof on every side. -1 Maccabees 1:32 | And they led captive the women and the children, and the cattle they took in possession. -1 Maccabees 1:33 | And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, with strong towers, and it became to them a citadel. -1 Maccabees 1:34 | And they put there a sinful nation, transgressors of the law, and they strengthened themselves therein. -1 Maccabees 1:35 | And they stored up arms and food, and gathering together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and they became a sore snare: -1 Maccabees 1:36 | and it became a place to lie in wait in against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel continually. -1 Maccabees 1:37 | And they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary. -1 Maccabees 1:38 | And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them; and she became a habitation of strangers, and she became strange to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her. -1 Maccabees 1:39 | Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honour into contempt. -1 Maccabees 1:40 | According to her glory, so was her dishonour multiplied, and her high estate was turned into mourning. -1 Maccabees 1:41 | And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people, -1 Maccabees 1:42 | and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king; -1 Maccabees 1:43 | and many of Israel consented to his worship, and sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath. -1 Maccabees 1:44 | And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land, -1 Maccabees 1:45 | and should forbid whole burnt offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the sanctuary; and should profane the Sabbaths and feasts, -1 Maccabees 1:47 | that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine’s flesh and unclean beasts: -1 Maccabees 1:48 | and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation; -1 Maccabees 1:49 | so that they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances. -1 Maccabees 1:50 | And whoever shall not do according to the word of the king, he shall die. -1 Maccabees 1:51 | According to all these words wrote he to his whole kingdom; and he appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city. -1 Maccabees 1:52 | And from the people were gathered together to them many, every one that had forsaken the law; and they did evil things in the land; -1 Maccabees 1:53 | and they made israel to hide themselves in every place of refuge which they had. -1 Maccabees 1:54 | And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the hundred and forty and fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they built [idol] altars. -1 Maccabees 1:55 | And at the doors of the houses and in the streets they burnt incense. -1 Maccabees 1:56 | And they tore in pieces the books of the law which they found, and set them on fire. -1 Maccabees 1:57 | And wherever was found with any a book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death. -1 Maccabees 1:58 | Thus did they in their might to Israel, to those that were found month by month in the cities. -1 Maccabees 1:59 | And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the [idol] altar [of God.] -1 Maccabees 1:60 | And the women that had circumcised their children they put to death according to the commandment. -1 Maccabees 1:61 | And they hanged their babes about their necks, and [destroyed] their houses, and those who had circumcised them. -1 Maccabees 1:62 | And many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat unclean things. -1 Maccabees 1:63 | And they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died. -1 Maccabees 1:64 | And there came exceedingly great wrath upon Israel. -1 Maccabees 2:06 | And he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem, -1 Maccabees 2:07 | and he said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens? -1 Maccabees 2:09 | her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy. -1 Maccabees 2:10 | What nation has not inherited her palaces, and gotten possession of her spoils? -1 Maccabees 2:11 | her adorning is all taken away; instead of a free woman she is become a bond woman: -1 Maccabees 2:12 | and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them. -1 Maccabees 2:14 | And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly. -1 Maccabees 2:15 | And the king’s officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice. -1 Maccabees 2:16 | And many of Israel came to them, and Mattathias and his sons were gathered together. -1 Maccabees 2:17 | And the king’s officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and kindred: -1 Maccabees 2:18 | now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and those who remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king’s Friends, and you and your sons shall be honoured with silver and gold and many gifts. -1 Maccabees 2:19 | And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments, -1 Maccabees 2:20 | yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers. -1 Maccabees 2:21 | Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances. -1 Maccabees 2:22 | We will not listen to the king’s words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left. -1 Maccabees 2:23 | And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment. -1 Maccabees 2:24 | And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar. -1 Maccabees 2:25 | And the king’s officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar. -1 Maccabees 2:27 | And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me. -1 Maccabees 2:28 | And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city. -1 Maccabees 2:29 | Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there, -1 Maccabees 2:30 | they, and their sons, and their wives, and their cattle; because evils were multiplied upon them. -1 Maccabees 2:31 | And it was told the king’s officers, and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness; -1 Maccabees 2:32 | and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day. -1 Maccabees 2:33 | And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you shall live. -1 Maccabees 2:34 | And they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day. -1 Maccabees 2:36 | And they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, saying -1 Maccabees 2:37 | Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you put us to death without trial. -1 Maccabees 2:39 | And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly. -1 Maccabees 2:40 | And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth. -1 Maccabees 2:41 | And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places. -1 Maccabees 2:42 | Then were gathered together to them a company of Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law. -1 Maccabees 2:43 | And all those who fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them. -1 Maccabees 2:44 | And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety. -1 Maccabees 2:45 | And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars; -1 Maccabees 2:46 | and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel. -1 Maccabees 2:47 | And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand. -1 Maccabees 2:48 | And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph. -1 Maccabees 2:49 | And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons, Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation. -1 Maccabees 2:50 | And now, my children, be you zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers. -1 Maccabees 2:51 | And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name. -1 Maccabees 2:52 | Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness? -1 Maccabees 2:53 | Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and became lord of Egypt. -1 Maccabees 2:54 | Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood. -1 Maccabees 2:55 | Joshua for fulfilling the word became a judge in Israel. -1 Maccabees 2:56 | Caleb for bearing witness in the congregation obtained a heritage in the land. -1 Maccabees 2:57 | David for being merciful inherited the throne of a kingdom forever and ever. -1 Maccabees 2:58 | Elijah, for that he was exceedingly zealous for the law, was taken up into heaven. -1 Maccabees 2:59 | Hananiah, Azariah, Mishael, believed, and were saved out of the flame. -1 Maccabees 2:60 | Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions. -1 Maccabees 2:61 | And thus consider you from generation to generation, that none that put their trust in him shall lack for strength. -1 Maccabees 2:62 | And be not afraid of the words of a sinful man; for his glory shall be dung and worms. -1 Maccabees 2:63 | To-day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished. -1 Maccabees 2:64 | And you, my children, be strong, and show yourselves men in behalf of the law; for therein shall you obtain glory. -1 Maccabees 2:65 | And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you. -1 Maccabees 2:66 | And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and shall fight the battle of the people. -1 Maccabees 2:67 | And take you to you all the doers of the law, and avenge the wrong of your people. -1 Maccabees 2:68 | Render a recompense to the Gentiles, and take heed to the commandments of the law. -1 Maccabees 2:69 | And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers. -1 Maccabees 2:70 | And he died in the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him. -1 Maccabees 3:01 | And his son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead. -1 Maccabees 3:02 | And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel. -1 Maccabees 3:03 | And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword. -1 Maccabees 3:04 | And he was like a lion in his deeds, and as a lion’s whelp roaring for prey. -1 Maccabees 3:05 | And he pursued the lawless, seeking them out, and he burnt up those that troubled his people. -1 Maccabees 3:06 | And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand. -1 Maccabees 3:07 | And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever. -1 Maccabees 3:08 | And he went about amongst the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel: -1 Maccabees 3:09 | and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish. -1 Maccabees 3:10 | And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great army from Samaria, to fight against Israel. -1 Maccabees 3:11 | And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled. -1 Maccabees 3:12 | And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days. -1 Maccabees 3:13 | And Seron, the commander of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war; -1 Maccabees 3:14 | And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and those who are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king. -1 Maccabees 3:15 | And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel. -1 Maccabees 3:16 | And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company. -1 Maccabees 3:17 | But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day. -1 Maccabees 3:18 | And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few: -1 Maccabees 3:19 | for victory in battle stands not in the multitude of an army; but strength is from heaven. -1 Maccabees 3:20 | They come to us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to plunder us: -1 Maccabees 3:21 | but we fight for our lives and our laws. -1 Maccabees 3:22 | And he himself will discomfit them before our face: but as for you, be you not afraid of them. -1 Maccabees 3:23 | Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him. -1 Maccabees 3:24 | And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines. -1 Maccabees 3:25 | And the fear of Judas and his kindred, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them: -1 Maccabees 3:26 | and his name came near even to the king, and every nation told of the battles of Judas. -1 Maccabees 3:27 | But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceedingly strong army. -1 Maccabees 3:28 | And he opened his treasury, and gave his forces pay for a year, and commanded them to be ready for every need. -1 Maccabees 3:29 | And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days; -1 Maccabees 3:30 | and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him. -1 Maccabees 3:31 | And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money. -1 Maccabees 3:32 | And he left Lysias, an honourable man, and one of the seed royal, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt, -1 Maccabees 3:34 | And he delivered to him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem, -1 Maccabees 3:35 | that he should send an army against them, to root out and destroy the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from the place; -1 Maccabees 3:36 | And that he should make strangers to dwell on all their coasts, and should divide their land to them by lot. -1 Maccabees 3:37 | And the king took the half that remained of the forces, and removed from Antioch, from his royal city, the hundred and forty and seventh year; and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the upper countries. -1 Maccabees 3:38 | And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s Friends; -1 Maccabees 3:39 | and with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horse, to go into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king. -1 Maccabees 3:40 | And they removed with all their army, and came and pitched near to Emmaus in the plain country. -1 Maccabees 3:41 | And the merchants of the country heard the fame of them, and took silver and gold exceedingly much, with fetters, and came into the camp to take the children of Israel for servants: and there were added to them the forces of Syria and of the land of the Philistines. -1 Maccabees 3:42 | And Judas and his kindred saw that evils were multiplied, and that the forces were encamping in their borders; and they took knowledge of the king’s words which he had commanded, to destroy the people and make an end of them; -1 Maccabees 3:43 | and they said each man to his neighbour, Let’s raise up the ruin of our people, and let’s fight for our people and the holy place. -1 Maccabees 3:44 | And the congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask for mercy and compassion. -1 Maccabees 3:45 | And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased. -1 Maccabees 3:46 | And they gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh was there a place of prayer aforetime for Israel. -1 Maccabees 3:47 | And they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and [put] ashes upon their heads, and tore their clothes, -1 Maccabees 3:48 | and laid open the book of the law, concerning which the Gentiles were wont to enquire, seeking the likenesses of their idols. -1 Maccabees 3:49 | And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days. -1 Maccabees 3:50 | And they cried aloud towards heaven, saying, What shall we do with these men, and where shall we carry them away? -1 Maccabees 3:51 | And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low. -1 Maccabees 3:52 | And, behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us: you know what things they imagine against us. -1 Maccabees 3:53 | How shall we be able to stand before them, except you be our help? -1 Maccabees 3:54 | And they sounded with the trumpets, and cried with a loud voice. -1 Maccabees 3:55 | And after this Judas appointed leaders of the people, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens. -1 Maccabees 3:56 | And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law. -1 Maccabees 3:57 | And the army removed, and encamped upon the south side of Emmaus. -1 Maccabees 3:58 | And Judas said, Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be in readiness against the morning, that you may fight with these Gentiles, that are assembled together against us to destroy us, and our holy place: -1 Maccabees 3:59 | for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place. -1 Maccabees 3:60 | Nevertheless, as may be the will in heaven, so shall he do. -1 Maccabees 4:01 | And Gorgias took five thousand footmen, and a thousand chosen horse, and the army removed by night, -1 Maccabees 4:02 | that it might fall upon the army of the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men of the citadel were his guides. -1 Maccabees 4:03 | And Judas heard thereof, and removed, he and the valiant men, that he might strike the king’s army which was at Emmaus, -1 Maccabees 4:05 | And Gorgias came into the camp of Judas by night, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains; for he said, These men flee from us. -1 Maccabees 4:06 | And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: however they didn’t have the armour and swords they desired. -1 Maccabees 4:07 | And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong [and] fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war. -1 Maccabees 4:08 | And Judas said to the men that were with him, Fear you not their multitude, neither be you afraid of their onset. -1 Maccabees 4:09 | Remember how our fathers were saved in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army. -1 Maccabees 4:10 | And now let’s cry to heaven, if he will have us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this army before our face today: -1 Maccabees 4:11 | and all the Gentiles shall know that there is one who redeems and saves Israel. -1 Maccabees 4:12 | And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming near them: -1 Maccabees 4:13 | and they went out of the camp to battle. And those who were with Judas sounded their trumpets, -1 Maccabees 4:14 | and joined battle, and the Gentiles were discomfited, and fled into the plain. -1 Maccabees 4:15 | But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men. -1 Maccabees 4:17 | and he said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoils, inasmuch as there is a battle before us; -1 Maccabees 4:18 | and Gorgias and his army are near to us in the mountain. But stand you now against our enemies, and fight against them, and afterwards take the spoils with boldness. -1 Maccabees 4:19 | While Judas was yet making an end of these words, there appeared a part of them looking out from the mountain: -1 Maccabees 4:20 | and they saw that their army had been put to flight, and that the Jews were burning the camp; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done. -1 Maccabees 4:21 | But when they perceived these things, they were sore afraid; and perceiving also the army of Judas in the plain ready for battle, -1 Maccabees 4:23 | And Judas returned to plunder the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue, and sea purple, and great riches. -1 Maccabees 4:24 | And they returned home, and sang a song of thanksgiving, and gave praise to heaven; because [his mercy] is good, because his mercy endures forever. -1 Maccabees 4:25 | And Israel had a great deliverance that day. -1 Maccabees 4:26 | But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened: -1 Maccabees 4:27 | but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he desired been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass. -1 Maccabees 4:28 | And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them. -1 Maccabees 4:30 | And he saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said, Blessed are you, O Saviour of Israel, who did quell the onset of the mighty man by the hand of your servant David, and did deliver the army of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer: -1 Maccabees 4:31 | shut up this army in the hand of your people Israel, and let them be ashamed for their army and their horsemen: -1 Maccabees 4:32 | give them faintness of heart, and cause the boldness of their strength to melt away, and let them quake at their destruction: -1 Maccabees 4:33 | cast them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all that know your name praise you with thanksgiving. -1 Maccabees 4:34 | And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them. -1 Maccabees 4:35 | But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company. -1 Maccabees 4:36 | But Judas and his kindred said, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let’s go up to cleanse the holy place, and to dedicate it afresh. -1 Maccabees 4:37 | And all the army was gathered together, and they went up to mount Sion. -1 Maccabees 4:38 | And they saw the sanctuary laid desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down; -1 Maccabees 4:39 | and they tore their clothes, and made great lamentation, and put ashes upon their heads, -1 Maccabees 4:40 | and fell on their faces to the ground, and blew with the solemn trumpets, and cried towards heaven. -1 Maccabees 4:41 | Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place. -1 Maccabees 4:42 | And he chose blameless priests, such as had pleasure in the law: -1 Maccabees 4:43 | and they cleansed the holy place, and bare out the stones of defilement into an unclean place. -1 Maccabees 4:44 | And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it: -1 Maccabees 4:45 | and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar, -1 Maccabees 4:46 | and laid up the stones in the mountain of the house in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to give an answer concerning them. -1 Maccabees 4:47 | And they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar after the fashion of the former; -1 Maccabees 4:48 | and they built the holy place, and the inner parts of the house; and they hallowed the courts. -1 Maccabees 4:49 | And they made the holy vessels new, and they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense, and the table, into the temple. -1 Maccabees 4:50 | And they burnt incense upon the altar, and they lighted the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple. -1 Maccabees 4:51 | And they set loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they made. -1 Maccabees 4:52 | And they rose up early in the morning, on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in the hundred and forty and eighth year, -1 Maccabees 4:53 | and offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings which they had made. -1 Maccabees 4:54 | At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on that [day] was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals. -1 Maccabees 4:55 | And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshipped, and gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success. -1 Maccabees 4:56 | And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance and praise. -1 Maccabees 4:57 | And they decked the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold and small shields, and dedicated afresh the gates and the priests’ chambers, and made doors for them. -1 Maccabees 4:58 | And there was exceedingly great gladness amongst the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away. -1 Maccabees 4:59 | And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy. -1 Maccabees 4:60 | And at that season they built up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest perhaps the Gentiles should come and tread them down, as they had done aforetime. -1 Maccabees 4:61 | And he set there a force to keep it, and they fortified Bethsura to keep it; that the people might have a stronghold near Idumaea. -1 Maccabees 5:01 | And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated as aforetime, they were exceedingly angry. -1 Maccabees 5:02 | And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy amongst the people. -1 Maccabees 5:03 | And Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumaea at Akrabattine, because they besieged Israel: and he struck them with a great slaughter, and brought down their pride, and took their spoils. -1 Maccabees 5:04 | And he remembered the wickedness of the children of Baean, who were to the people a snare and a stumbling block, lying in wait for them in the ways. -1 Maccabees 5:05 | And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burnt with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein. -1 Maccabees 5:06 | And he passed over to the children of Ammon, and found a mighty band, and much people, with Timotheus for their leader. -1 Maccabees 5:07 | And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited before his face; and he struck them, -1 Maccabees 5:08 | and got possession of Jazer, and the villages thereof, and returned again into Judea. -1 Maccabees 5:09 | And the Gentiles that were in Gilead gathered themselves together against the Israelites that were on their borders, to destroy them. And they fled to the stronghold of Dathema, -1 Maccabees 5:10 | and sent letters to Judas and his kindred, saying, The Gentiles that are round about us are gathered together against us to destroy us: -1 Maccabees 5:11 | and they are preparing to come and get possession of the stronghold whereunto we are fled for refuge, and Timotheus is the leader of their army. -1 Maccabees 5:12 | Now therefore come and deliver us from their hand, for many of us are fallen. -1 Maccabees 5:13 | And all our kindred that were in the land of Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men. -1 Maccabees 5:14 | While the letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes torn, bringing a report after this wise, saying, -1 Maccabees 5:15 | That there were gathered together against them those of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles to consume them. -1 Maccabees 5:16 | Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled together a great congregation, to consult what they should do for their kindred, that were in suffering, and were assaulted of them. -1 Maccabees 5:17 | And Judas said to Simon his brother, Choose you out men, and go and deliver your kindred that are in Galilee, but I and Jonathan my brother will go into the land of Gilead. -1 Maccabees 5:18 | And he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, as leaders of the people, with the remnant of the army, in Judea, for to keep it. -1 Maccabees 5:19 | And he gave commandment to them, saying, Take you the charge of this people, and fight no battle with the Gentiles until that we come again. -1 Maccabees 5:20 | And to Simon were divided three thousand men to go into Galilee, but to Judas eight thousand men [to go] into the land of Gilead. -1 Maccabees 5:21 | And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were discomfited before him. -1 Maccabees 5:22 | And he pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; and there fell of the Gentiles about three thousand men, and he took their spoils. -1 Maccabees 5:23 | And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness. -1 Maccabees 5:24 | And Judas Maccabaeus and his brother Jonathan passed over Jordan, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness; -1 Maccabees 5:25 | and they met with the Nabathaeans, and these met them in a peaceful manner, and told them all things that had befallen their kindred in the land of Gilead: -1 Maccabees 5:26 | and how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great: -1 Maccabees 5:27 | and how that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the land of Gilead, and that tomorrow they have appointed to encamp against the strongholds, and to take them, and to destroy all these men in one day. -1 Maccabees 5:28 | And Judas and his army turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness to Bosora; and he took the city, and killed all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt the city with fire. -1 Maccabees 5:29 | And he removed from thence by night, and went till he came to the stronghold. -1 Maccabees 5:30 | And the morning came, and they lifted up their eyes, and, behold, much people which could not be counted, bearing ladders and engines of war, to take the stronghold; and they were fighting against them. -1 Maccabees 5:31 | And Judas saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets and a great sound, -1 Maccabees 5:32 | and he said to the men of his army, Fight this day for your kindred. -1 Maccabees 5:33 | And he went forth behind them in three companies, and they sounded with their trumpets, and cried out in prayer. -1 Maccabees 5:34 | And the army of Timotheus perceived that it was Maccabaeus, and they fled from before him: and he struck them with a great slaughter; and there fell of them on that day about eight thousand men. -1 Maccabees 5:35 | And he turned away to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it with fire. -1 Maccabees 5:36 | From thence he removed, and took Casphor, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the land of Gilead. -1 Maccabees 5:37 | Now after these things Timotheus gathered another army, and encamped near Raphon beyond the brook. -1 Maccabees 5:38 | And Judas sent men to spy on the army; and they brought him word, saying, All the Gentiles that are around us are gathered together to them, an exceedingly great army. -1 Maccabees 5:39 | And they have hired Arabians to help them, and are encamping beyond the brook, ready to come against you to battle. And Judas went to meet them. -1 Maccabees 5:40 | And Timotheus said to the captains of his army, when Judas and his army drew near to the brook of water, If he pass over first to us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us: -1 Maccabees 5:41 | but if he be afraid, and encamp beyond the river, we will cross over to him, and prevail against him. -1 Maccabees 5:42 | Now when Judas came near to the brook of water, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook, and gave commandment to them, saying, Suffer no man to encamp, but let all come to the battle. -1 Maccabees 5:43 | And he crossed over the first against them, and all the people after him: and all the Gentiles were discomfited before his face, and cast away their arms, and fled to the temple at Carnaim. -1 Maccabees 5:44 | And they took the city, and burnt the temple with fire, together with all that were therein. And Carnaim was subdued, neither could they stand any longer before the face of Judas. -1 Maccabees 5:45 | And Judas gathered together all Israel, those who were in the land of Gilead, from the least to the greatest, and their wives, and their children, and their stuff, an exceedingly great army, that they might come into the land of Judah. -1 Maccabees 5:46 | And they came as far as Ephron, and this same city was great, [and it was] in the way as they should go, exceedingly strong: they could not turn away from it on the right hand or on the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it. -1 Maccabees 5:47 | And they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones. -1 Maccabees 5:48 | And Judas sent to them with words of peace, saying, We will pass through your land to go into our own land, and none shall do you any hurt, we will only pass by on our feet. And they would not open to him. -1 Maccabees 5:49 | And Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the army, that each man should encamp in the place where he was. -1 Maccabees 5:50 | And the men of the army encamped, and fought against the city all that day and all that night, and the city was delivered into his hands; -1 Maccabees 5:51 | and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain. -1 Maccabees 5:52 | And they went over Jordan into the great plain near Bethshan. -1 Maccabees 5:53 | And Judas gathered together those that lagged behind, and encouraged the people all the way through, until he came into the land of Judah. -1 Maccabees 5:54 | And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace. -1 Maccabees 5:55 | And in the days when Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais, -1 Maccabees 5:56 | Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, rulers of the army, heard of their exploits and of the war, what things they had done; -1 Maccabees 5:57 | and they said, Let’s also get us a name, and let’s go fight against the Gentiles that are around us. -1 Maccabees 5:58 | And they gave charge to the men of the army that was with them, and went towards Jamnia. -1 Maccabees 5:59 | And Gorgias and his men came out of the city to meet them in battle. -1 Maccabees 5:60 | And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men. -1 Maccabees 5:61 | And there was a great overthrow amongst the people, because they didn’t listen to Judas and his kindred, thinking to do some exploit. -1 Maccabees 5:62 | But they were not of the seed of those men, by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel. -1 Maccabees 5:63 | And the man Judas and his kindred were glorified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard of; -1 Maccabees 5:65 | And Judas and his kindred went forth, and fought against the children of Esau in the land towards the south; and he struck Hebron and the villages thereof, and pulled down the strongholds thereof, and burnt the towers thereof round about. -1 Maccabees 5:66 | And he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and he went through Samaria. -1 Maccabees 5:67 | In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as he went out to battle unadvisedly. -1 Maccabees 5:68 | And Judas turned towards Azotus, to the land of the Philistines, and pulled down their altars, and burnt the carved images of their gods with fire, and took the plunder of their cities, and returned into the land of Judah. -1 Maccabees 6:01 | And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold; -1 Maccabees 6:02 | and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first amongst the Greeks, left behind there. -1 Maccabees 6:03 | And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city, -1 Maccabees 6:04 | and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon. -1 Maccabees 6:05 | And there came one bringing him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judah, had been put to flight; -1 Maccabees 6:06 | and that Lysias went first with a strong army, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off; -1 Maccabees 6:07 | and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem; and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and Bethsura, his city. -1 Maccabees 6:08 | And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for. -1 Maccabees 6:09 | And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die. -1 Maccabees 6:10 | And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care. -1 Maccabees 6:11 | And I said in my heart, To what suffering am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power. -1 Maccabees 6:12 | But now I remember the evils which I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of silver and gold that were therein, and sent forth to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without a cause. -1 Maccabees 6:13 | I perceive that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land. -1 Maccabees 6:14 | And he called for Philip, one of his Friends, and set him over all his kingdom, -1 Maccabees 6:15 | and gave him his diadem, and his robe, and his signet ring, to the end he should bring Antiochus his son, and nourish him up that he might be king. -1 Maccabees 6:16 | And king Antiochus died there in the hundred and forty and ninth year. -1 Maccabees 6:17 | And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator. -1 Maccabees 6:18 | And those who were in the citadel shut up Israel round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the Gentiles. -1 Maccabees 6:19 | And Judas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them. -1 Maccabees 6:20 | And they were gathered together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftieth year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war. -1 Maccabees 6:21 | And there came forth some of those who were shut up, and there were joined to them certain ungodly men of Israel. -1 Maccabees 6:22 | And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred? -1 Maccabees 6:23 | We were willing to serve your father, and to walk after his words, and to follow his commandments; -1 Maccabees 6:24 | and for this cause the children of our people besieged the citadel, and were alienated from us; but as many of us as they could light on they killed, and plundered our inheritances. -1 Maccabees 6:25 | And not against us only did they stretch out their hand, but also against all their borders. -1 Maccabees 6:26 | And, behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem, to take it: and the sanctuary and Bethsura have they fortified. -1 Maccabees 6:27 | And if you are not beforehand with them quickly, they will do greater things than these, and you shall not be able to control them. -1 Maccabees 6:28 | And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his Friends, [even the] rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse. -1 Maccabees 6:29 | And there came to him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers. -1 Maccabees 6:30 | And the number of his forces was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants trained for war. -1 Maccabees 6:31 | And they went through Idumaea, and encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war; and they [of Bethsura] came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly. -1 Maccabees 6:32 | And Judas removed from the citadel, and encamped at Bethzacharias, near the king’s camp. -1 Maccabees 6:33 | And the king rose early in the morning, and removed his army at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias, and his forces made them ready to battle, and sounded with the trumpets. -1 Maccabees 6:34 | And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle. -1 Maccabees 6:35 | And they divided the beasts amongst the phalanxes, and they set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and helmets of brass on their heads; and for each beast were appointed five hundred chosen horsemen. -1 Maccabees 6:36 | These were ready beforehand, wherever the beast was; and wherever the beast went, they went with him; they departed not from him. -1 Maccabees 6:37 | And towers of wood were upon them, strong [and] covered, one upon each beast, girded fast upon him with cunning contrivances; and upon each [beast] were two and thirty valiant men that fought upon them, beside his Indian -1 Maccabees 6:38 | (and the residue of the horsemen he set on this side and that side at the two parts of the army), striking terror [into the enemy] and protected by the phalanxes. -1 Maccabees 6:39 | Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains shone therewith, and blazed like torches of fire. -1 Maccabees 6:40 | And a part of the king’s army was spread upon the high mountains, and some on the low ground, and they went on firmly and in order. -1 Maccabees 6:41 | And all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the multitude, and the rattling of the arms, did quake: for the army was exceedingly great and strong. -1 Maccabees 6:42 | And Judas and his army drew near for battle, and there fell of the king’s army six hundred men. -1 Maccabees 6:43 | And Eleazar, who was [called] Avaran, saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the beasts, and the king seemed to be upon him; -1 Maccabees 6:44 | and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name; -1 Maccabees 6:45 | and he ran upon him courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and killed on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that. -1 Maccabees 6:46 | And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and [the elephant] fell to the earth upon him, and he died there. -1 Maccabees 6:47 | And they saw the strength of the kingdom, and the fierce onset of the army, and turned away from them. -1 Maccabees 6:48 | But they of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped towards Judea, and towards mount Sion. -1 Maccabees 6:49 | And he made peace with them of Bethsura; and he came out of the city, because they had no food there to endure the siege, because it was a Sabbath to the land. -1 Maccabees 6:50 | And the king took Bethsura, and appointed a garrison there to keep it. -1 Maccabees 6:51 | And he encamped against the sanctuary many days; and set there mounds to shoot from, and engines of war, and instruments for casting fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings. -1 Maccabees 6:52 | And they also made engines against their engines, and fought for many days. -1 Maccabees 6:53 | But there were no food in the sanctuary, because it was the seventh year, and those who fled for safety into Judea from amongst the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the store; -1 Maccabees 6:54 | and there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine prevailed against them, and they were scattered, each man to his own place. -1 Maccabees 6:55 | And Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he was yet alive, appointed to nourish up his son Antiochus, that he might be king, -1 Maccabees 6:56 | was returned from Persia and Media, and with him the forces that went with the king, and that he was seeking to take to him the government. -1 Maccabees 6:57 | And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us: -1 Maccabees 6:58 | now therefore let’s give the right hand to these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation, -1 Maccabees 6:59 | and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things. -1 Maccabees 6:60 | And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and he sent to them to make peace; and they accepted thereof. -1 Maccabees 6:61 | And the king and the princes sware to them: thereupon they came forth from the stronghold. -1 Maccabees 6:62 | And the king entered into mount Sion; and he saw the strength of the place, and set at nothing the oath which he had sworn, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about. -1 Maccabees 6:63 | And he removed in haste, and returned to Antioch, and found Philip master of the city; and he fought against him, and took the city by force. -1 Maccabees 7:01 | In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus came forth from Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there. -1 Maccabees 7:02 | And it came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him. -1 Maccabees 7:03 | And the thing was known to him, and he said, show me not their faces. -1 Maccabees 7:04 | And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom. -1 Maccabees 7:05 | And there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; and Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest; -1 Maccabees 7:06 | and they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land. -1 Maccabees 7:07 | Now therefore send a man whom you trust, and let him go and see all the havock which he has made of us, and of the king’s country, and [how] he has punished them and all that helped them. -1 Maccabees 7:08 | And the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s Friends, who was ruler in the country beyond the river, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king. -1 Maccabees 7:09 | And he sent him, and that ungodly Alcimus, and made sure to him the high priesthood, and he commanded him to take vengeance upon the children of Israel. -1 Maccabees 7:10 | And they removed, and came with a great army into the land of Judah, and he sent messengers to Judas and his kindred with words of peace deceitfully. -1 Maccabees 7:11 | And they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great army. -1 Maccabees 7:12 | And there were gathered together to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to seek for justice. -1 Maccabees 7:13 | And the Hasidaeans were the first amongst the children of Israel that sought peace of them; -1 Maccabees 7:14 | for they said, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with the forces, and he will do us no wrong. -1 Maccabees 7:15 | And he spoke with them words of peace, and sware to them, saying, We will seek the hurt neither of you nor your friends. -1 Maccabees 7:16 | And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which [the psalmist] wrote, -1 Maccabees 7:17 | The flesh of your saints [did they cast out] And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem; And there was no man to bury them. -1 Maccabees 7:18 | And the fear and the dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, There is neither truth nor judgement in them; for they have broken the covenant and the oath which they sware. -1 Maccabees 7:19 | And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them, [and cast them] into the great pit. -1 Maccabees 7:20 | And he made sure the country to Alcimus, and left with him a force to aid him; and Bacchides went away to the king. -1 Maccabees 7:22 | And there were gathered to him all those who troubled their people, and they got the mastery of the land of Judah, and did great hurt in Israel. -1 Maccabees 7:23 | And Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done amongst the children of Israel, [even] above the Gentiles, -1 Maccabees 7:24 | and he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance on the men that had deserted from him, and they were restrained from going forth into the country. -1 Maccabees 7:25 | But when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company waxed strong, and knew that he was not able to withstand them, he returned to the king, and brought evil accusations against them. -1 Maccabees 7:26 | And the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that hated Israel and was their enemy, and commanded him to destroy the people. -1 Maccabees 7:27 | And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army; and he sent to Judas and his kindred deceitfully with words of peace, saying, -1 Maccabees 7:28 | Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see your faces in peace. -1 Maccabees 7:29 | And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. And the enemies were ready to take away Judas by violence. -1 Maccabees 7:30 | And the thing was known to Judas, [to wit] that he came to him with deceit, and he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more. -1 Maccabees 7:31 | And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered; and he went out to meet Judas in battle beside Capharsalama; -1 Maccabees 7:32 | and there fell of Nicanor’s side about five hundred men, and they fled into the city of David. -1 Maccabees 7:33 | And after these things Nicanor went up to mount Sion: and there came some of the priests out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to show him the whole burnt sacrifice that was being offered for the king. -1 Maccabees 7:34 | And he mocked them, and laughed at them, and entreated them shamefully, and spoke haughtily, -1 Maccabees 7:35 | and sware in a rage, saying, Unless Judas and his army be now delivered into my hands, it shall be that, if I come again in peace, I will burn up this house: and he went out in a great rage. -1 Maccabees 7:36 | And the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple; and they wept, and said, -1 Maccabees 7:37 | You did choose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people: -1 Maccabees 7:38 | take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer. -1 Maccabees 7:39 | And Nicanor went forth from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bethhoron, and there met him the army of Syria. -1 Maccabees 7:40 | And Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed and said, -1 Maccabees 7:41 | When those who came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck amongst them a hundred and fourscore and five thousand. -1 Maccabees 7:42 | Even so discomfit you this army before us today, and let all the rest know that he has spoken wickedly against your sanctuary, and judge you him according to his wickedness. -1 Maccabees 7:43 | And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle. -1 Maccabees 7:44 | Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled. -1 Maccabees 7:45 | And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the solemn trumpets. -1 Maccabees 7:46 | And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left. -1 Maccabees 7:47 | And they took the spoils, and the booty, and they struck off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so haughtily, and brought them, and hanged them up beside Jerusalem. -1 Maccabees 7:48 | And the people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness. -1 Maccabees 7:49 | And they ordained to keep this day year by year, [to wit] the thirteenth day of Adar. -1 Maccabees 8:01 | And Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are valiant men, and have pleasure in all that join themselves to them, and make friends with all such as come to them, -1 Maccabees 8:02 | and that they are valiant men. And they told him of their wars and exploits which they do amongst the Gauls, and how that they conquered them, and brought them under tribute; -1 Maccabees 8:03 | and what things they did in the land of Spain, that they might become masters of the mines of silver and gold which were there; -1 Maccabees 8:04 | and how that by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had discomfited them, and struck them very sore; and how the rest give them tribute year by year: -1 Maccabees 8:05 | and Philip, and Perseus, king of Chittim, and those who lifted up themselves against them, did they discomfit in battle, and conquered them: -1 Maccabees 8:06 | Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, who came against them to battle, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horse, and chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was discomfited by them, -1 Maccabees 8:07 | and they took him alive, and appointed that both he and such as reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcel [of land, to wit, ] -1 Maccabees 8:08 | the country of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes: -1 Maccabees 8:09 | and how they of Greece took counsel to come and destroy them; -1 Maccabees 8:10 | and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day: -1 Maccabees 8:11 | and the residue of the kingdoms and of the isles, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants; -1 Maccabees 8:12 | but with their friends and such as relied upon them they stayed friends; and they conquered the kingdoms that were near and those that were far off, and all that heard of their fame were afraid of them: -1 Maccabees 8:13 | moreover, whoever they will to help and to make kings, these do they make kings; and whoever they will, do they depose; and they are exalted exceedingly: -1 Maccabees 8:14 | and for all this none of them did ever put on a diadem, neither did they clothe themselves with purple, to be magnified by it: -1 Maccabees 8:15 | and how they had made for themselves a senate house, and day by day three hundred and twenty men sat in council, consulting always for the people, to the end they might be well ordered: -1 Maccabees 8:16 | and how they commit their government to one man year by year, that he should rule over them, and be lord over all their country, and all are obedient to that one, and there is neither envy nor emulation amongst them. -1 Maccabees 8:18 | and that they should take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks did keep Israel in bondage. -1 Maccabees 8:20 | Judas, who is also [called] Maccabaeus, and his kindred, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your allies and friends. -1 Maccabees 8:22 | And this is the copy of the writing which they wrote back again on tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of peace and confederacy: -1 Maccabees 8:23 | Good success be to the Romans, and to the nation of the Jews, by sea and by land forever: the sword also and the enemy be far from them. -1 Maccabees 8:24 | But if war arise for Rome first, or any of their allies in all their dominion, -1 Maccabees 8:25 | the nation of the Jews shall help them as allies, as the occasion shall prescribe to them, with all their heart: -1 Maccabees 8:26 | and to those who make war upon them they shall not give, neither supply, food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome, and they shall keep their ordinances without taking anything therefore. -1 Maccabees 8:27 | In the same manner, moreover, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them as allies with all their soul, as the occasion shall prescribe to them: -1 Maccabees 8:28 | and to those who are allies [with their foes] there shall not be given food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome; and they shall keep these ordinances, and that without deceit. -1 Maccabees 8:29 | According to these words have the Romans made a covenant thus with the people of the Jews. -1 Maccabees 8:30 | But if hereafter the one party and the other shall take counsel to add or diminish anything, they shall do it at their pleasure, and whatever they shall add or take away shall be established. -1 Maccabees 8:31 | And as touching the evils which king Demetrius does to them, we have written to him, saying, Wherefore have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews? -1 Maccabees 8:32 | If therefore they plead any more against you, we will do them justice, and fight with you by sea and by land. -1 Maccabees 9:01 | And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing [of his army] with them: -1 Maccabees 9:02 | and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people. -1 Maccabees 9:03 | And the first month of the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem: -1 Maccabees 9:04 | and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse. -1 Maccabees 9:05 | And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him: -1 Maccabees 9:06 | and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men. -1 Maccabees 9:07 | And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint. -1 Maccabees 9:08 | And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them. -1 Maccabees 9:09 | And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again, [we] and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few. -1 Maccabees 9:10 | And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory. -1 Maccabees 9:11 | And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle. -1 Maccabees 9:12 | But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets. -1 Maccabees 9:13 | And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening. -1 Maccabees 9:14 | And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart, -1 Maccabees 9:15 | and the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus. -1 Maccabees 9:16 | And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him: -1 Maccabees 9:17 | and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death. -1 Maccabees 9:19 | And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin. -1 Maccabees 9:20 | And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said, -1 Maccabees 9:21 | How is the mighty fallen, the saviour of Israel! -1 Maccabees 9:22 | And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many. -1 Maccabees 9:23 | And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up -1 Maccabees 9:24 | (in those days there was an exceedingly great famine), and the country went over with them. -1 Maccabees 9:25 | And Bacchides chose out the ungodly men, and made them lords of the country. -1 Maccabees 9:26 | And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully. -1 Maccabees 9:27 | And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them. -1 Maccabees 9:28 | And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan, -1 Maccabees 9:29 | Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and amongst them of our nation that hate us. -1 Maccabees 9:30 | Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles. -1 Maccabees 9:31 | And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas. -1 Maccabees 9:33 | And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar. -1 Maccabees 9:34 | And Bacchides knew it on the Sabbath day, and came, he and all his army, over Jordan. -1 Maccabees 9:35 | And [Jonathan] sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much. -1 Maccabees 9:36 | And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it. -1 Maccabees 9:37 | But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan. -1 Maccabees 9:38 | And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain: -1 Maccabees 9:39 | and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons. -1 Maccabees 9:40 | And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils. -1 Maccabees 9:41 | And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation. -1 Maccabees 9:42 | And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan. -1 Maccabees 9:43 | And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great army. -1 Maccabees 9:44 | And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not [with us] today, as yesterday and the day before. -1 Maccabees 9:45 | For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape. -1 Maccabees 9:46 | Now therefore cry to heaven, that you may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies. -1 Maccabees 9:47 | And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him. -1 Maccabees 9:48 | And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them. -1 Maccabees 9:53 | And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem. -1 Maccabees 9:54 | And in the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets; -1 Maccabees 9:55 | and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house. -1 Maccabees 9:57 | And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years. -1 Maccabees 9:58 | And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night. -1 Maccabees 9:60 | And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them. -1 Maccabees 9:61 | And [those who were of Jonathan’s part] laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them. -1 Maccabees 9:62 | And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong. -1 Maccabees 9:63 | And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea. -1 Maccabees 9:64 | And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war. -1 Maccabees 9:65 | And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men. -1 Maccabees 9:66 | And he struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tent. -1 Maccabees 9:67 | And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war, -1 Maccabees 9:68 | and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad. -1 Maccabees 9:69 | And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land. -1 Maccabees 9:70 | And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives. -1 Maccabees 9:71 | And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life. -1 Maccabees 9:72 | And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders. -1 Maccabees 9:73 | And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel. +1 Peter 01:02 | according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. +1 Peter 01:03 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, +1 Peter 01:04 | to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, +1 Peter 01:05 | who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. +1 Peter 01:06 | Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials, +1 Peter 01:07 | that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ— +1 Peter 01:08 | whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, +1 Peter 01:09 | receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. +1 Peter 01:10 | Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you, +1 Peter 01:11 | searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. +1 Peter 01:12 | To them it was revealed, that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into. +1 Peter 01:13 | Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— +1 Peter 01:14 | as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, +1 Peter 01:15 | but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behaviour; +1 Peter 01:17 | If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, +1 Peter 01:18 | knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, +1 Peter 01:19 | but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, +1 Peter 01:20 | who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake, +1 Peter 01:21 | who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God. +1 Peter 01:22 | Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently, +1 Peter 01:23 | having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. +1 Peter 01:23-25 | You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for "all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever." +1 Peter 01:24 | For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; +1 Peter 01:25 | but the Lord’s word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you. +1 Peter 02:01 | Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, +1 Peter 02:02 | as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, +1 Peter 02:03 | if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: +1 Peter 02:04 | coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. +1 Peter 02:05 | You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. +1 Peter 02:06 | Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed." +1 Peter 02:07 | For you who believe therefore is the honour, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone," +1 Peter 02:07 | The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. +1 Peter 02:08 | and, "a stumbling stone and a rock of offence." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. +1 Peter 02:09 | But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. +1 Peter 02:09-10 | You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. +1 Peter 02:10 | In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. +1 Peter 02:11 | Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; +1 Peter 02:11 | Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. +1 Peter 02:12 | having good behaviour amongst the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation. +1 Peter 02:13 | Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; +1 Peter 02:14 | or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well. +1 Peter 02:15 | For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: +1 Peter 02:16 | as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. +1 Peter 02:16 | Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. +1 Peter 02:17 | Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. +1 Peter 02:18 | Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. +1 Peter 02:19 | For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience towards God. +1 Peter 02:20 | For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God. +1 Peter 02:21 | For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, +1 Peter 02:22 | who didn’t sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." +1 Peter 02:23 | When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously. +1 Peter 02:24 | He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds. +1 Peter 02:25 | For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. +1 Peter 03:01 | In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behaviour of their wives without a word, +1 Peter 03:02 | seeing your pure behaviour in fear. +1 Peter 03:03 | Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; +1 Peter 03:04 | but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. +1 Peter 03:05 | For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands. +1 Peter 03:06 | So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. +1 Peter 03:07 | In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered. +1 Peter 03:07 | You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. +1 Peter 03:08 | Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, +1 Peter 03:09 | not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. +1 Peter 03:10 | For, "He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. +1 Peter 03:11 | Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. +1 Peter 03:12 | For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." +1 Peter 03:13 | Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good? +1 Peter 03:14 | But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. "Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled." +1 Peter 03:15 | But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear, +1 Peter 03:16 | having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ. +1 Peter 03:17 | For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. +1 Peter 03:18 | Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, +1 Peter 03:19 | in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, +1 Peter 03:20 | who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. +1 Peter 03:21 | This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, +1 Peter 03:22 | who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him. +1 Peter 04:01 | Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, +1 Peter 04:02 | that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. +1 Peter 04:03 | For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. +1 Peter 04:04 | They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming. +1 Peter 04:05 | They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. +1 Peter 04:06 | For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit. +1 Peter 04:07 | But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. +1 Peter 04:08 | And above all things be earnest in your love amongst yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. +1 Peter 04:08 | Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. +1 Peter 04:09 | Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. +1 Peter 04:10 | As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. +1 Peter 04:11 | If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. +1 Peter 04:12 | Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. +1 Peter 04:13 | But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. +1 Peter 04:14 | If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. +1 Peter 04:15 | For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters. +1 Peter 04:16 | But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. +1 Peter 04:17 | For the time has come for judgement to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God? +1 Peter 04:18 | "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?" +1 Peter 04:19 | Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator. +1 Peter 05:01 | Therefore I exhort the elders amongst you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed: +1 Peter 05:02 | Shepherd the flock of God which is amongst you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; +1 Peter 05:03 | not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock. +1 Peter 05:04 | When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away. +1 Peter 05:05 | Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." +1 Peter 05:06 | Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, +1 Peter 05:07 | Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. +1 Peter 05:07 | casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. +1 Peter 05:08 | Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. +1 Peter 05:09 | Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. +1 Peter 05:10 | But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. +1 Peter 05:10 | The God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. +1 Peter 05:11 | To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. +1 Peter 05:12 | Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. +1 Peter 05:13 | She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son. +1 Peter 05:14 | Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen. +1 Samuel 01:03 | This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the Lord, were there. +1 Samuel 01:04 | When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters; +1 Samuel 01:05 | but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up her womb. +1 Samuel 01:06 | Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had shut up her womb. +1 Samuel 01:07 | So year by year, when she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat. +1 Samuel 01:08 | Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?" +1 Samuel 01:09 | So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple. +1 Samuel 01:10 | She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly. +1 Samuel 01:11 | She vowed a vow, and said, "The Lord of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head." +1 Samuel 01:12 | As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli saw her mouth. +1 Samuel 01:13 | Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. +1 Samuel 01:14 | Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!" +1 Samuel 01:15 | Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the Lord. +1 Samuel 01:16 | Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation." +1 Samuel 01:17 | Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him." +1 Samuel 01:18 | She said, "Let your servant find favour in your sight." So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more. +1 Samuel 01:19 | They rose up in the morning early and worshipped the Lord, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her. +1 Samuel 01:20 | When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked him of the Lord." +1 Samuel 01:21 | The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and his vow. +1 Samuel 01:22 | But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and stay there forever." +1 Samuel 01:23 | Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the Lord establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him. +1 Samuel 01:24 | When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to the Lord’s house in Shiloh. The child was young. +1 Samuel 01:25 | They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. +1 Samuel 01:26 | She said, "Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the Lord. +1 Samuel 01:27 | I prayed for this child, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of him. +1 Samuel 01:28 | Therefore I have also given him to the Lord. As long as he lives he is given to the Lord." He worshipped the Lord there. +1 Samuel 02:01 | Hannah prayed, and said: "My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. +1 Samuel 02:02 | There is no one as holy as the Lord, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God. +1 Samuel 02:03 | "Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed. +1 Samuel 02:04 | "The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength. +1 Samuel 02:05 | Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. +1 Samuel 02:06 | "The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up. +1 Samuel 02:07 | The Lord makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. +1 Samuel 02:08 | He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s. He has set the world on them. +1 Samuel 02:09 | He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength. +1 Samuel 02:10 | Those who strive with the Lord shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed." +1 Samuel 02:11 | Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the Lord before Eli the priest. +1 Samuel 02:12 | Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the Lord. +1 Samuel 02:13 | The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; +1 Samuel 02:14 | and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh. +1 Samuel 02:15 | Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw." +1 Samuel 02:16 | If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burnt first, and then take as much as your soul desires" then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force." +1 Samuel 02:17 | The sin of the young men was very great before the Lord; for the men despised the Lord’s offering. +1 Samuel 02:18 | But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod. +1 Samuel 02:19 | Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. +1 Samuel 02:20 | Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "May The Lord give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of the Lord." Then they went to their own home. +1 Samuel 02:21 | The Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the Lord. +1 Samuel 02:22 | Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +1 Samuel 02:23 | He said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. +1 Samuel 02:24 | No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the Lord’s people disobey. +1 Samuel 02:25 | If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who will intercede for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because the Lord intended to kill them. +1 Samuel 02:26 | The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favour both with the Lord and also with men. +1 Samuel 02:27 | A man of God came to Eli and said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house? +1 Samuel 02:28 | Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? +1 Samuel 02:29 | Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honour your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’ +1 Samuel 02:30 | "Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honour me I will honour, and those who despise me will be cursed. +1 Samuel 02:31 | Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house. +1 Samuel 02:32 | You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever. +1 Samuel 02:33 | The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age. +1 Samuel 02:34 | This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die. +1 Samuel 02:35 | I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever. +1 Samuel 02:36 | It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, "Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread." +1 Samuel 03:01 | The child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. The Lord’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then. +1 Samuel 03:02 | At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see), +1 Samuel 03:03 | and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in the Lord’s temple where God’s ark was, +1 Samuel 03:04 | The Lord called Samuel. He said, "Here I am." +1 Samuel 03:05 | He ran to Eli and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He said, "I didn’t call. Lie down again." He went and lay down. +1 Samuel 03:06 | The Lord called yet again, "Samuel!" Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He answered, "I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again." +1 Samuel 03:07 | Now Samuel didn’t yet know the Lord, neither was the Lord’s word yet revealed to him. +1 Samuel 03:08 | The Lord called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am; for you called me." Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child. +1 Samuel 03:09 | Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, the Lord; for your servant hears.’" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. +1 Samuel 03:10 | The Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" Then Samuel said, "Speak; for your servant hears." +1 Samuel 03:11 | The Lord said to Samuel, "Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. +1 Samuel 03:12 | In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. +1 Samuel 03:13 | For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them. +1 Samuel 03:14 | Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever." +1 Samuel 03:15 | Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the Lord’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision. +1 Samuel 03:16 | Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" He said, "Here I am." +1 Samuel 03:17 | He said, "What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you." +1 Samuel 03:18 | Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, "It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him." +1 Samuel 03:19 | Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. +1 Samuel 03:20 | All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord. +1 Samuel 03:21 | The Lord appeared again in Shiloh; for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the Lord’s word. +1 Samuel 04:01 | The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. +1 Samuel 04:02 | The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field. +1 Samuel 04:03 | When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come amongst us and save us out of the hand of our enemies." +1 Samuel 04:04 | So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. +1 Samuel 04:05 | When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded. +1 Samuel 04:06 | When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" They understood that the Lord’s ark had come into the camp. +1 Samuel 04:07 | The Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp." They said, "Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before. +1 Samuel 04:08 | Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness. +1 Samuel 04:09 | Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!" +1 Samuel 04:10 | The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell. +1 Samuel 04:11 | God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. +1 Samuel 04:12 | A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. +1 Samuel 04:13 | When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out. +1 Samuel 04:14 | When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, "What does the noise of this tumult mean?" The man hurried, and came and told Eli. +1 Samuel 04:16 | The man said to Eli, "I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army." He said, "How did the matter go, my son?" +1 Samuel 04:17 | He who brought the news answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter amongst the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured." +1 Samuel 04:18 | When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. +1 Samuel 04:19 | His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her. +1 Samuel 04:20 | About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son." But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it. +1 Samuel 04:21 | She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. +1 Samuel 04:22 | She said, "The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken." +1 Samuel 05:04 | When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the Lord’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact. +1 Samuel 05:05 | Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. +1 Samuel 05:06 | But the Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumours, even Ashdod and its borders. +1 Samuel 05:07 | When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god." +1 Samuel 05:08 | They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath." They carried the ark of the God of Israel there. +1 Samuel 05:09 | It was so, that after they had carried it there, the Lord’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumours broke out on them. +1 Samuel 05:10 | So they sent God’s ark to Ekron. As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people." +1 Samuel 05:11 | They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, "Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people." For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there. +1 Samuel 05:12 | The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumours; and the cry of the city went up to heaven. +1 Samuel 06:01 | The Lord’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months. +1 Samuel 06:02 | The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the Lord’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place." +1 Samuel 06:03 | They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you." +1 Samuel 06:04 | Then they said, "What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumours and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. +1 Samuel 06:05 | Therefore you shall make images of your tumours and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land. +1 Samuel 06:06 | Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully amongst them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed? +1 Samuel 06:07 | "Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; +1 Samuel 06:08 | and take the Lord’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go. +1 Samuel 06:09 | Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us." +1 Samuel 06:10 | The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. +1 Samuel 06:11 | They put the Lord’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumours. +1 Samuel 06:12 | The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh. +1 Samuel 06:13 | The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. +1 Samuel 06:14 | The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to the Lord. +1 Samuel 06:15 | The Levites took down the Lord’s ark and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to the Lord. +1 Samuel 06:16 | When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day. +1 Samuel 06:17 | These are the golden tumours which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; +1 Samuel 06:18 | and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down the Lord’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. +1 Samuel 06:19 | He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the Lord’s ark, he struck fifty thousand and seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter. +1 Samuel 06:20 | The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?" +1 Samuel 06:21 | They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the Lord’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves." +1 Samuel 07:01 | The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took the Lord’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the Lord’s ark. +1 Samuel 07:02 | From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. +1 Samuel 07:03 | Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from amongst you, and direct your hearts to the Lord, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." +1 Samuel 07:04 | Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only. +1 Samuel 07:05 | Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you." +1 Samuel 07:06 | They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the Lord." Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah. +1 Samuel 07:07 | When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. +1 Samuel 07:08 | The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don’t stop crying to the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines." +1 Samuel 07:09 | Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. +1 Samuel 07:10 | As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel. +1 Samuel 07:11 | The men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and struck them until they came under Beth Kar. +1 Samuel 07:12 | Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, "The Lord helped us until now." +1 Samuel 07:13 | So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. The Lord’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. +1 Samuel 07:14 | The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites. +1 Samuel 07:15 | Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. +1 Samuel 07:16 | He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. +1 Samuel 07:17 | His return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to the Lord there. +1 Samuel 08:01 | When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. +1 Samuel 08:02 | Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba. +1 Samuel 08:03 | His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice. +1 Samuel 08:04 | Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah. +1 Samuel 08:05 | They said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." +1 Samuel 08:06 | But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to the Lord. +1 Samuel 08:07 | The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them. +1 Samuel 08:08 | According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do to you. +1 Samuel 08:09 | Now therefore, listen to their voice. However, you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them." +1 Samuel 08:10 | Samuel told all the Lord’s words to the people who asked him for a king. +1 Samuel 08:11 | He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots. +1 Samuel 08:12 | He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plough his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots. +1 Samuel 08:13 | He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers. +1 Samuel 08:14 | He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants. +1 Samuel 08:15 | He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants. +1 Samuel 08:16 | He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work. +1 Samuel 08:17 | He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants. +1 Samuel 08:18 | You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and the Lord will not answer you in that day." +1 Samuel 08:19 | But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No, but we will have a king over us, +1 Samuel 08:20 | that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." +1 Samuel 08:21 | Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord. +1 Samuel 08:22 | The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Everyone go to your own city." +1 Samuel 09:01 | Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour. +1 Samuel 09:02 | He had a son whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not amongst the children of Israel a more handsome person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people. +1 Samuel 09:03 | The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, "Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys." +1 Samuel 09:04 | He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them. +1 Samuel 09:05 | When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys and be anxious for us." +1 Samuel 09:06 | The servant said to him, "Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honour. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go." +1 Samuel 09:07 | Then Saul said to his servant, "But behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?" +1 Samuel 09:08 | The servant answered Saul again and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way." +1 Samuel 09:09 | (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, he said, "Come! Let’s go to the seer" for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.) +1 Samuel 09:10 | Then Saul said to his servant, "Well said. Come! Let’s go." So they went to the city where the man of God was. +1 Samuel 09:11 | As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?" +1 Samuel 09:12 | They answered them and said, "He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place. +1 Samuel 09:13 | As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find him." +1 Samuel 09:14 | They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out towards them to go up to the high place. +1 Samuel 09:16 | "Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me." +1 Samuel 09:17 | When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people." +1 Samuel 09:18 | Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, "Please tell me where the seer’s house is." +1 Samuel 09:19 | Samuel answered Saul and said, "I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart. +1 Samuel 09:20 | As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them, for they have been found. For whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you and all your father’s house?" +1 Samuel 09:21 | Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?" +1 Samuel 09:22 | Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place amongst those who were invited, who were about thirty persons. +1 Samuel 09:23 | Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’" +1 Samuel 09:24 | The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, "Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have invited the people.’" So Saul ate with Samuel that day. +1 Samuel 09:25 | When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop. +1 Samuel 09:26 | They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, "Get up, that I may send you away." Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together. +1 Samuel 09:27 | As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to go on ahead of us." He went ahead, then Samuel said, "But stand still first, that I may cause you to hear God’s message." +1 Samuel 10:01 | Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on his head, then kissed him and said, "Hasn’t the Lord anointed you to be prince over his inheritance? +1 Samuel 10:02 | When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do for my son?"’ +1 Samuel 10:03 | "Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel: one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine. +1 Samuel 10:04 | They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand. +1 Samuel 10:05 | "After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying. +1 Samuel 10:06 | Then the Lord’s Spirit will come mightily on you, then you will prophesy with them and will be turned into another man. +1 Samuel 10:07 | Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you. +1 Samuel 10:08 | "Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you and show you what you are to do." +1 Samuel 10:09 | It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day. +1 Samuel 10:10 | When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied amongst them. +1 Samuel 10:11 | When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, "What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also amongst the prophets?" +1 Samuel 10:12 | One from the same place answered, "Who is their father?" Therefore it became a proverb, "Is Saul also amongst the prophets?" +1 Samuel 10:13 | When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place. +1 Samuel 10:14 | Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" He said, "To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel." +1 Samuel 10:15 | Saul’s uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you." +1 Samuel 10:16 | Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys were found." But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him. +1 Samuel 10:17 | Samuel called the people together to the Lord to Mizpah; +1 Samuel 10:18 | and he said to the children of Israel, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’ +1 Samuel 10:19 | But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands." +1 Samuel 10:20 | So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen. +1 Samuel 10:21 | He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found. +1 Samuel 10:22 | Therefore they asked of the Lord further, "Is there yet a man to come here?" The Lord answered, "Behold, he has hidden himself amongst the baggage." +1 Samuel 10:23 | They ran and got him there. When he stood amongst the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. +1 Samuel 10:24 | Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him amongst all the people?" All the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!" +1 Samuel 10:25 | Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. +1 Samuel 10:26 | Saul also went to his house in Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched. +1 Samuel 10:27 | But certain worthless fellows said, "How could this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace. +1 Samuel 11:01 | Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you." +1 Samuel 11:02 | Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonour all Israel." +1 Samuel 11:03 | The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you." +1 Samuel 11:04 | Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept. +1 Samuel 11:05 | Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh. +1 Samuel 11:06 | God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burnt hot. +1 Samuel 11:07 | He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." The dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out as one man. +1 Samuel 11:08 | He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. +1 Samuel 11:09 | They said to the messengers who came, "Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’" The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. +1 Samuel 11:10 | Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you." +1 Samuel 11:11 | On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together. +1 Samuel 11:12 | The people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!" +1 Samuel 11:13 | Saul said, "No man shall be put to death today; for today the Lord has rescued Israel." +1 Samuel 11:14 | Then Samuel said to the people, "Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there." +1 Samuel 11:15 | All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. +1 Samuel 12:01 | Samuel said to all Israel, "Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. +1 Samuel 12:02 | Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and grey-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day. +1 Samuel 12:03 | Here I am. Witness against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you." +1 Samuel 12:04 | They said, "You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand." +1 Samuel 12:05 | He said to them, "The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand." They said, "He is witness." +1 Samuel 12:06 | Samuel said to the people, "It is the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. +1 Samuel 12:07 | Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers. +1 Samuel 12:08 | "When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place. +1 Samuel 12:09 | But they forgot the Lord their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them. +1 Samuel 12:10 | They cried to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ +1 Samuel 12:11 | The Lord sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety. +1 Samuel 12:12 | "When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king. +1 Samuel 12:13 | Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen and whom you have asked for. Behold, the Lord has set a king over you. +1 Samuel 12:14 | If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of the Lord your God. +1 Samuel 12:15 | But if you will not listen to the Lord’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the Lord’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers. +1 Samuel 12:16 | "Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. +1 Samuel 12:17 | Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the Lord’s sight, in asking for a king." +1 Samuel 12:18 | So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. +1 Samuel 12:19 | All the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king." +1 Samuel 12:20 | Samuel said to the people, "Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. +1 Samuel 12:21 | Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain. +1 Samuel 12:22 | For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself. +1 Samuel 12:23 | Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. +1 Samuel 12:24 | Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you. +1 Samuel 12:25 | But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king." +1 Samuel 13:01 | Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years. +1 Samuel 13:02 | Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents. +1 Samuel 13:03 | Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear!" +1 Samuel 13:04 | All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal. +1 Samuel 13:05 | The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. +1 Samuel 13:06 | When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits. +1 Samuel 13:07 | Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. +1 Samuel 13:08 | He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. +1 Samuel 13:09 | Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings." He offered the burnt offering. +1 Samuel 13:10 | It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. +1 Samuel 13:11 | Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash, +1 Samuel 13:12 | therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favour of the Lord.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering." +1 Samuel 13:13 | Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you; for now the Lord would have established your kingdom on Israel forever. +1 Samuel 13:14 | But now your kingdom will not continue. The Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and the Lord has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which the Lord commanded you." +1 Samuel 13:15 | Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. +1 Samuel 13:16 | Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. +1 Samuel 13:17 | The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; +1 Samuel 13:18 | another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim towards the wilderness. +1 Samuel 13:19 | Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears"; +1 Samuel 13:20 | but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own ploughshare, mattock, axe, and sickle. +1 Samuel 13:21 | The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, ploughshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads. +1 Samuel 13:22 | So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them. +1 Samuel 13:23 | The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. +1 Samuel 14:01 | Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armour, "Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side." But he didn’t tell his father. +1 Samuel 14:02 | Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men, +1 Samuel 14:03 | including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone. +1 Samuel 14:04 | Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. +1 Samuel 14:05 | The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. +1 Samuel 14:06 | Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armour, "Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for there is no restraint on the Lord to save by many or by few." +1 Samuel 14:07 | His armour bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according to your heart." +1 Samuel 14:08 | Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them. +1 Samuel 14:09 | If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. +1 Samuel 14:10 | But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up, for the Lord has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us." +1 Samuel 14:11 | Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, "Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!" +1 Samuel 14:12 | The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armour bearer, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you something!" Jonathan said to his armour bearer, "Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel." +1 Samuel 14:13 | Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armour bearer after him, and they fell before Jonathan; and his armour bearer killed them after him. +1 Samuel 14:14 | That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land. +1 Samuel 14:15 | There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and amongst all the people; the garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling. +1 Samuel 14:16 | The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered. +1 Samuel 14:17 | Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count now, and see who is missing from us." When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armour bearer were not there. +1 Samuel 14:18 | Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring God’s ark here." For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time. +1 Samuel 14:19 | While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!" +1 Samuel 14:20 | Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in very great confusion. +1 Samuel 14:21 | Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before and who went up with them into the camp from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. +1 Samuel 14:22 | Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. +1 Samuel 14:23 | So the Lord saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven. +1 Samuel 14:24 | The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food. +1 Samuel 14:25 | All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground. +1 Samuel 14:26 | When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. +1 Samuel 14:27 | But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened. +1 Samuel 14:28 | Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’" So the people were faint. +1 Samuel 14:29 | Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. +1 Samuel 14:30 | How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter amongst the Philistines." +1 Samuel 14:31 | They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint; +1 Samuel 14:32 | and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. +1 Samuel 14:33 | Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!" +1 Samuel 14:34 | Saul said, "Disperse yourselves amongst the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against the Lord in eating meat with the blood.’" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there. +1 Samuel 14:35 | Saul built an altar to the Lord. This was the first altar that he built to the Lord. +1 Samuel 14:36 | Saul said, "Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder amongst them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let’s draw near here to God." +1 Samuel 14:37 | Saul asked counsel of God: "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn’t answer him that day. +1 Samuel 14:38 | Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today. +1 Samuel 14:39 | For as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man amongst all the people who answered him. +1 Samuel 14:40 | Then he said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." The people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you." +1 Samuel 14:41 | Therefore Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, "Show the right." Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped. +1 Samuel 14:42 | Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Jonathan was selected. +1 Samuel 14:43 | Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die." +1 Samuel 14:44 | Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan." +1 Samuel 14:45 | The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today!" So the people rescued Jonathan, so he didn’t die. +1 Samuel 14:46 | Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place. +1 Samuel 14:47 | Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them. +1 Samuel 14:48 | He did valiantly and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. +1 Samuel 14:49 | Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. +1 Samuel 14:50 | The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. +1 Samuel 14:51 | Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. +1 Samuel 14:52 | There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he took him into his service. +1 Samuel 15:01 | Samuel said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the Lord’s words. +1 Samuel 15:02 | The Lord of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt. +1 Samuel 15:03 | Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’" +1 Samuel 15:04 | Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah. +1 Samuel 15:05 | Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley. +1 Samuel 15:06 | Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from amongst the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from amongst the Amalekites. +1 Samuel 15:07 | Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt. +1 Samuel 15:08 | He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. +1 Samuel 15:09 | But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. +1 Samuel 15:11 | "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night. +1 Samuel 15:12 | Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal." +1 Samuel 15:13 | Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the Lord." +1 Samuel 15:14 | Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?" +1 Samuel 15:15 | Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to the Lord your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest." +1 Samuel 15:16 | Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on." +1 Samuel 15:17 | Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel; +1 Samuel 15:18 | and the Lord sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ +1 Samuel 15:19 | Why then didn’t you obey the Lord’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight?" +1 Samuel 15:20 | Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the Lord’s voice, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. +1 Samuel 15:21 | But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal." +1 Samuel 15:22 | Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the Lord’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. +1 Samuel 15:23 | For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the Lord’s word, he has also rejected you from being king." +1 Samuel 15:24 | Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. +1 Samuel 15:25 | Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord." +1 Samuel 15:26 | Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the Lord’s word, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel." +1 Samuel 15:27 | As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore. +1 Samuel 15:28 | Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you. +1 Samuel 15:29 | Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent." +1 Samuel 15:30 | Then he said, "I have sinned; yet please honour me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God." +1 Samuel 15:31 | So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshipped the Lord. +1 Samuel 15:32 | Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!" Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." +1 Samuel 15:33 | Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless amongst women!" Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal. +1 Samuel 15:34 | Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. +1 Samuel 15:35 | Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. The Lord grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel. +1 Samuel 16:01 | The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself amongst his sons." +1 Samuel 16:02 | Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." The Lord said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. +1 Samuel 16:03 | Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you." +1 Samuel 16:04 | Samuel did that which the Lord spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?" +1 Samuel 16:05 | He said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. +1 Samuel 16:06 | When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, "Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him." +1 Samuel 16:07 | But the Lord said to Samuel, "Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." +1 Samuel 16:08 | Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, "The Lord has not chosen this one, either." +1 Samuel 16:09 | Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, "The Lord has not chosen this one, either." +1 Samuel 16:10 | Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these." +1 Samuel 16:11 | Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?" He said, "There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here." +1 Samuel 16:12 | He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. The Lord said, "Arise! Anoint him, for this is he." +1 Samuel 16:13 | Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then the Lord’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. +1 Samuel 16:14 | Now the Lord’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. +1 Samuel 16:15 | Saul’s servants said to him, "See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you. +1 Samuel 16:16 | Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skilful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well." +1 Samuel 16:17 | Saul said to his servants, "Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me." +1 Samuel 16:18 | Then one of the young men answered and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skilful in playing, a mighty man of valour, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and the Lord is with him." +1 Samuel 16:19 | Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep." +1 Samuel 16:20 | Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul. +1 Samuel 16:21 | David came to Saul and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armour bearer. +1 Samuel 16:22 | Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me, for he has found favour in my sight." +1 Samuel 16:23 | When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. +1 Samuel 17:01 | Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephesdammim. +1 Samuel 17:02 | Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. +1 Samuel 17:03 | The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. +1 Samuel 17:04 | A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out. +1 Samuel 17:05 | He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. +1 Samuel 17:06 | He had bronze shin armour on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. +1 Samuel 17:07 | The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him. +1 Samuel 17:08 | He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. +1 Samuel 17:09 | If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us." +1 Samuel 17:10 | The Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!" +1 Samuel 17:11 | When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. +1 Samuel 17:12 | Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul. +1 Samuel 17:13 | The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. +1 Samuel 17:14 | David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul. +1 Samuel 17:15 | Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. +1 Samuel 17:16 | The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. +1 Samuel 17:17 | Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers; +1 Samuel 17:19 | Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. +1 Samuel 17:20 | David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle. +1 Samuel 17:21 | Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army. +1 Samuel 17:22 | David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. +1 Samuel 17:23 | As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them. +1 Samuel 17:24 | All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were terrified. +1 Samuel 17:25 | The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel." +1 Samuel 17:26 | David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" +1 Samuel 17:27 | The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him." +1 Samuel 17:28 | Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burnt against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle." +1 Samuel 17:29 | David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?" +1 Samuel 17:30 | He turned away from him towards another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way. +1 Samuel 17:32 | David said to Saul, "Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." +1 Samuel 17:33 | Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." +1 Samuel 17:34 | David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, +1 Samuel 17:35 | I went out after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, struck him, and killed him. +1 Samuel 17:36 | Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God." +1 Samuel 17:37 | David said, "The Lord, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go! The Lord will be with you." +1 Samuel 17:38 | Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. +1 Samuel 17:39 | David strapped his sword on his clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, "I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them." Then David took them off. +1 Samuel 17:40 | He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine. +1 Samuel 17:41 | The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him. +1 Samuel 17:42 | When the Philistine looked around and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face. +1 Samuel 17:43 | The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" The Philistine cursed David by his gods. +1 Samuel 17:44 | The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and to the animals of the field." +1 Samuel 17:45 | Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. +1 Samuel 17:46 | Today, the Lord will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the wild animals of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, +1 Samuel 17:47 | and that all this assembly may know that the Lord doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hand." +1 Samuel 17:48 | When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine. +1 Samuel 17:49 | David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. +1 Samuel 17:50 | So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword David’s hand. +1 Samuel 17:51 | Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. +1 Samuel 17:52 | The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron. +1 Samuel 17:53 | The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp. +1 Samuel 17:54 | David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armour in his tent. +1 Samuel 17:55 | When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell." +1 Samuel 17:56 | The king said, "Enquire whose son the young man is!" +1 Samuel 17:57 | As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. +1 Samuel 17:58 | Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." +1 Samuel 18:01 | When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. +1 Samuel 18:02 | Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. +1 Samuel 18:03 | Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. +1 Samuel 18:04 | Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash. +1 Samuel 18:05 | David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. +1 Samuel 18:06 | As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. +1 Samuel 18:07 | The women sang to one another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." +1 Samuel 18:08 | Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, "They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?" +1 Samuel 18:09 | Saul watched David from that day and forward. +1 Samuel 18:10 | On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; +1 Samuel 18:11 | and Saul threw the spear, for he said, "I will pin David to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice. +1 Samuel 18:12 | Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and had departed from Saul. +1 Samuel 18:13 | Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. +1 Samuel 18:14 | David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him. +1 Samuel 18:15 | When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. +1 Samuel 18:16 | But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. +1 Samuel 18:17 | Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles." For Saul said, "Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him." +1 Samuel 18:18 | David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" +1 Samuel 18:19 | But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. +1 Samuel 18:20 | Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. +1 Samuel 18:21 | Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall today be my son-in-law." +1 Samuel 18:22 | Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’" +1 Samuel 18:23 | Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and little known?" +1 Samuel 18:24 | The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this." +1 Samuel 18:25 | Saul said, "Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’" Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. +1 Samuel 18:26 | When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline, +1 Samuel 18:27 | David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. +1 Samuel 18:28 | Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him. +1 Samuel 18:29 | Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually. +1 Samuel 18:30 | Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. +1 Samuel 19:01 | Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. +1 Samuel 19:02 | Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself. +1 Samuel 19:03 | I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you." +1 Samuel 19:04 | Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good towards you; +1 Samuel 19:05 | for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?" +1 Samuel 19:06 | Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, "As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death." +1 Samuel 19:07 | Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before. +1 Samuel 19:08 | There was war again. David went out and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. +1 Samuel 19:09 | An evil spirit from the Lord was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand. +1 Samuel 19:10 | Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night. +1 Samuel 19:11 | Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, "If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." +1 Samuel 19:12 | So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. +1 Samuel 19:13 | Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes. +1 Samuel 19:14 | When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." +1 Samuel 19:15 | Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." +1 Samuel 19:16 | When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. +1 Samuel 19:17 | Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’" +1 Samuel 19:18 | Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. +1 Samuel 19:19 | Saul was told, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah." +1 Samuel 19:20 | Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied. +1 Samuel 19:21 | When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. +1 Samuel 19:22 | Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" One said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." +1 Samuel 19:23 | He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. +1 Samuel 19:24 | He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also amongst the prophets?" +1 Samuel 20:01 | David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" +1 Samuel 20:02 | He said to him, "Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so." +1 Samuel 20:03 | David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favour in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death." +1 Samuel 20:04 | Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you." +1 Samuel 20:05 | David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. +1 Samuel 20:06 | If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’ +1 Samuel 20:07 | If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him. +1 Samuel 20:08 | Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?" +1 Samuel 20:09 | Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?" +1 Samuel 20:10 | Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?" +1 Samuel 20:11 | Jonathan said to David, "Come! Let’s go out into the field." They both went out into the field. +1 Samuel 20:12 | Jonathan said to David, "By the Lord, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good towards David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you? +1 Samuel 20:13 | The Lord do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father. +1 Samuel 20:14 | You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the Lord while I still live, that I not die; +1 Samuel 20:15 | but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth." +1 Samuel 20:16 | So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, "The Lord will require it at the hand of David’s enemies." +1 Samuel 20:17 | Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. +1 Samuel 20:18 | Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. +1 Samuel 20:19 | When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel. +1 Samuel 20:20 | I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark. +1 Samuel 20:21 | Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come, for there is peace to you and no danger, as the Lord lives. +1 Samuel 20:22 | But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for the Lord has sent you away. +1 Samuel 20:23 | Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever." +1 Samuel 20:24 | So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food. +1 Samuel 20:25 | The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty. +1 Samuel 20:26 | Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean." +1 Samuel 20:27 | On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?" +1 Samuel 20:28 | Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. +1 Samuel 20:29 | He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favour in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table." +1 Samuel 20:30 | Then Saul’s anger burnt against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? +1 Samuel 20:31 | For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!" +1 Samuel 20:32 | Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" +1 Samuel 20:33 | Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. +1 Samuel 20:34 | So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully. +1 Samuel 20:35 | In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. +1 Samuel 20:36 | He said to his boy, "Run, find now the arrows which I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. +1 Samuel 20:37 | When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, "Isn’t the arrow beyond you?" +1 Samuel 20:38 | Jonathan cried after the boy, "Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!" Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. +1 Samuel 20:39 | But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. +1 Samuel 20:40 | Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, "Go, carry them to the city." +1 Samuel 20:41 | As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most. +1 Samuel 20:42 | Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the Lord’s name, saying, ‘The Lord is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city. +1 Samuel 21:01 | Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?" +1 Samuel 21:02 | David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’ +1 Samuel 21:03 | Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available." +1 Samuel 21:04 | The priest answered David, and said, "I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." +1 Samuel 21:05 | David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?" +1 Samuel 21:06 | So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the Lord, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away. +1 Samuel 21:07 | Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul. +1 Samuel 21:08 | David said to Ahimelech, "Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste." +1 Samuel 21:09 | The priest said, "Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me." +1 Samuel 21:10 | David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. +1 Samuel 21:11 | The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’" +1 Samuel 21:12 | David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. +1 Samuel 21:13 | He changed his behaviour before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard. +1 Samuel 21:14 | Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me? +1 Samuel 21:15 | Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?" +1 Samuel 22:01 | David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. +1 Samuel 22:02 | Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men. +1 Samuel 22:03 | David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out to you, until I know what God will do for me." +1 Samuel 22:04 | He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. +1 Samuel 22:05 | The prophet Gad said to David, "Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth. +1 Samuel 22:06 | Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. +1 Samuel 22:07 | Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds? +1 Samuel 22:08 | Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?" +1 Samuel 22:09 | Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. +1 Samuel 22:10 | He enquired of the Lord for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." +1 Samuel 22:11 | Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king. +1 Samuel 22:12 | Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord." +1 Samuel 22:13 | Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?" +1 Samuel 22:14 | Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who amongst all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honoured in your house? +1 Samuel 22:15 | Have I today begun to enquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more." +1 Samuel 22:16 | The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house." +1 Samuel 22:17 | The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the Lord. +1 Samuel 22:18 | The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. +1 Samuel 22:19 | He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. +1 Samuel 22:20 | One of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. +1 Samuel 22:21 | Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests. +1 Samuel 22:22 | David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house. +1 Samuel 22:23 | Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. You will be safe with me." +1 Samuel 23:01 | David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors." +1 Samuel 23:02 | Therefore David enquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" The Lord said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah." +1 Samuel 23:03 | David’s men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?" +1 Samuel 23:04 | Then David enquired of the Lord yet again. The Lord answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand." +1 Samuel 23:05 | David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. +1 Samuel 23:06 | When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand. +1 Samuel 23:07 | Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars." +1 Samuel 23:08 | Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men. +1 Samuel 23:09 | David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." +1 Samuel 23:10 | Then David said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. +1 Samuel 23:11 | Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Lord, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." The Lord said, "He will come down." +1 Samuel 23:12 | Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" The Lord said, "They will deliver you up." +1 Samuel 23:13 | Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there. +1 Samuel 23:14 | David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand. +1 Samuel 23:15 | David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods. +1 Samuel 23:16 | Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God. +1 Samuel 23:17 | He said to him, "Don’t be afraid, for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also." +1 Samuel 23:18 | They both made a covenant before the Lord. Then David stayed in the woods and Jonathan went to his house. +1 Samuel 23:19 | Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? +1 Samuel 23:20 | Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand." +1 Samuel 23:21 | Saul said, "You are blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me. +1 Samuel 23:22 | Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning. +1 Samuel 23:23 | See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out amongst all the thousands of Judah." +1 Samuel 23:24 | They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. +1 Samuel 23:25 | Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. +1 Samuel 23:26 | Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them. +1 Samuel 23:27 | But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!" +1 Samuel 23:28 | So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth. +1 Samuel 24:01 | When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi." +1 Samuel 24:02 | Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. +1 Samuel 24:03 | He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave. +1 Samuel 24:04 | David’s men said to him, "Behold, the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’" Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly. +1 Samuel 24:05 | Afterward, David’s heart struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt. +1 Samuel 24:06 | He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed." +1 Samuel 24:07 | So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. +1 Samuel 24:08 | David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect. +1 Samuel 24:09 | David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’ +1 Samuel 24:10 | Behold, today your eyes have seen how the Lord had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’ +1 Samuel 24:11 | Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it. +1 Samuel 24:12 | May the Lord judge between me and you, and may the Lord avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you. +1 Samuel 24:13 | As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you. +1 Samuel 24:14 | Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? +1 Samuel 24:15 | May the Lord therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand." +1 Samuel 24:16 | It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice and wept. +1 Samuel 24:17 | He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you. +1 Samuel 24:18 | You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when the Lord had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me. +1 Samuel 24:19 | For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the Lord reward you good for that which you have done to me today. +1 Samuel 24:20 | Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. +1 Samuel 24:21 | Swear now therefore to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house." +1 Samuel 24:22 | David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. +1 Samuel 25:01 | Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. +1 Samuel 25:02 | There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. +1 Samuel 25:03 | Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb. +1 Samuel 25:04 | David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. +1 Samuel 25:05 | David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. +1 Samuel 25:06 | Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have! +1 Samuel 25:07 | Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel. +1 Samuel 25:08 | Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favour in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’" +1 Samuel 25:09 | When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited. +1 Samuel 25:10 | Nabal answered David’s servants and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days. +1 Samuel 25:11 | Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?" +1 Samuel 25:12 | So David’s young men turned on their way and went back, and came and told him all these words. +1 Samuel 25:13 | David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage. +1 Samuel 25:14 | But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master; and he insulted them. +1 Samuel 25:15 | But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields. +1 Samuel 25:16 | They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. +1 Samuel 25:17 | Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him." +1 Samuel 25:18 | Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. +1 Samuel 25:19 | She said to her young men, "Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you." But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal. +1 Samuel 25:20 | As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down towards her, and she met them. +1 Samuel 25:21 | Now David had said, "Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good. +1 Samuel 25:22 | God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall." +1 Samuel 25:23 | When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground. +1 Samuel 25:24 | She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant. +1 Samuel 25:25 | Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent. +1 Samuel 25:26 | Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. +1 Samuel 25:27 | Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. +1 Samuel 25:28 | Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the Lord’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days. +1 Samuel 25:29 | Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket. +1 Samuel 25:30 | It will come to pass, when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel, +1 Samuel 25:31 | that this shall be no grief to you, nor offence of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant." +1 Samuel 25:32 | David said to Abigail, "Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me! +1 Samuel 25:33 | Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand. +1 Samuel 25:34 | For indeed, as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall." +1 Samuel 25:35 | So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice and have granted your request." +1 Samuel 25:36 | Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light. +1 Samuel 25:37 | In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. +1 Samuel 25:38 | About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, so that he died. +1 Samuel 25:39 | When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. The Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife. +1 Samuel 25:40 | When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife." +1 Samuel 25:41 | She arose and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, "Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." +1 Samuel 25:42 | Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. +1 Samuel 25:43 | David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives. +1 Samuel 25:44 | Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. +1 Samuel 26:01 | The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?" +1 Samuel 26:02 | Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. +1 Samuel 26:03 | Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. +1 Samuel 26:04 | David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come. +1 Samuel 26:05 | Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him. +1 Samuel 26:06 | Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?" Abishai said, "I will go down with you." +1 Samuel 26:07 | So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him. +1 Samuel 26:08 | Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time." +1 Samuel 26:09 | David said to Abishai, "Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?" +1 Samuel 26:10 | David said, "As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish. +1 Samuel 26:11 | The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go." +1 Samuel 26:12 | So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them. +1 Samuel 26:13 | Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain far away, a great space being between them; +1 Samuel 26:14 | and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don’t you answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who calls to the king?" +1 Samuel 26:15 | David said to Abner, "Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy your lord the king. +1 Samuel 26:16 | This thing isn’t good that you have done. As the Lord lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head." +1 Samuel 26:17 | Saul recognised David’s voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king." +1 Samuel 26:18 | He said, "Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand? +1 Samuel 26:19 | Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that the Lord has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before the Lord; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to the Lord’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’ +1 Samuel 26:20 | Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains." +1 Samuel 26:21 | Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." +1 Samuel 26:22 | David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and get it. +1 Samuel 26:23 | The Lord will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because the Lord delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. +1 Samuel 26:24 | Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the Lord’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression." +1 Samuel 26:25 | Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. +1 Samuel 27:01 | David said in his heart, "I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand." +1 Samuel 27:02 | David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. +1 Samuel 27:03 | David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife. +1 Samuel 27:04 | Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him. +1 Samuel 27:05 | David said to Achish, "If now I have found favour in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?" +1 Samuel 27:06 | Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day. +1 Samuel 27:07 | The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. +1 Samuel 27:08 | David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. +1 Samuel 27:09 | David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish. +1 Samuel 27:10 | Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites." +1 Samuel 27:11 | David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’" +1 Samuel 27:12 | Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever." +1 Samuel 28:01 | In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men." +1 Samuel 28:02 | David said to Achish, "Therefore you will know what your servant can do." Achish said to David, "Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever." +1 Samuel 28:03 | Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. +1 Samuel 28:04 | The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa. +1 Samuel 28:05 | When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. +1 Samuel 28:06 | When Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets. +1 Samuel 28:07 | Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and enquire of her." His servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor." +1 Samuel 28:08 | Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, "Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you." +1 Samuel 28:09 | The woman said to him, "Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?" +1 Samuel 28:10 | Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying, "As the Lord lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing." +1 Samuel 28:11 | Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up to you?" He said, "Bring Samuel up for me." +1 Samuel 28:12 | When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, "Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!" +1 Samuel 28:13 | The king said to her, "Don’t be afraid! What do you see?" The woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth." +1 Samuel 28:14 | He said to her, "What does he look like?" She said, "An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe." Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect. +1 Samuel 28:15 | Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do." +1 Samuel 28:16 | Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has departed from you and has become your adversary? +1 Samuel 28:17 | The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me. The Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour, even to David. +1 Samuel 28:18 | Because you didn’t obey the Lord’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you today. +1 Samuel 28:19 | Moreover the Lord will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The Lord will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines." +1 Samuel 28:20 | Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long. +1 Samuel 28:21 | The woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, "Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me. +1 Samuel 28:22 | Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way." +1 Samuel 28:23 | But he refused, and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed. +1 Samuel 28:24 | The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it. +1 Samuel 28:25 | She brought it before Saul and before his servants, and they ate. Then they rose up and went away that night. +1 Samuel 29:01 | Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel. +1 Samuel 29:02 | The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish. +1 Samuel 29:03 | Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today." +1 Samuel 29:04 | But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men? +1 Samuel 29:05 | Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’" +1 Samuel 29:06 | Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the Lord lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favour you. +1 Samuel 29:07 | Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines." +1 Samuel 29:08 | David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" +1 Samuel 29:09 | Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’ +1 Samuel 29:10 | Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart." +1 Samuel 29:11 | So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel. +1 Samuel 30:01 | When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burnt it with fire, +1 Samuel 30:02 | and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way. +1 Samuel 30:03 | When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive. +1 Samuel 30:04 | Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. +1 Samuel 30:05 | David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +1 Samuel 30:06 | David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. +1 Samuel 30:07 | David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod here to me." Abiathar brought the ephod to David. +1 Samuel 30:08 | David enquired of the Lord, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all." +1 Samuel 30:09 | So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. +1 Samuel 30:10 | But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor. +1 Samuel 30:11 | They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. +1 Samuel 30:12 | They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights. +1 Samuel 30:13 | David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick. +1 Samuel 30:14 | We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burnt Ziklag with fire." +1 Samuel 30:15 | David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop." +1 Samuel 30:16 | When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. +1 Samuel 30:17 | David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. +1 Samuel 30:18 | David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. +1 Samuel 30:19 | There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back. +1 Samuel 30:20 | David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David’s plunder." +1 Samuel 30:21 | David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them. +1 Samuel 30:22 | Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, "Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart." +1 Samuel 30:23 | Then David said, "Do not do so, my brothers, with that which the Lord has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. +1 Samuel 30:24 | Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike." +1 Samuel 30:25 | It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day. +1 Samuel 30:26 | When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you from the plunder of the Lord’s enemies." +1 Samuel 31:04 | Then Saul said to his armour bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!" But his armour bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it. +1 Samuel 31:05 | When his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. +1 Samuel 31:06 | So Saul died with his three sons, his armour bearer, and all his men that same day together. +1 Samuel 31:07 | When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. +1 Samuel 31:08 | On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. +1 Samuel 31:09 | They cut off his head, stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people. +1 Samuel 31:10 | They put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. +1 Samuel 31:12 | all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burnt them there. +1 Samuel 31:13 | They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. +1 Thessalonians 01:01 | Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +1 Thessalonians 01:02 | We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, +1 Thessalonians 01:03 | remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. +1 Thessalonians 01:04 | We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen, +1 Thessalonians 01:05 | and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be amongst you for your sake. +1 Thessalonians 01:06 | You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, +1 Thessalonians 01:07 | so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. +1 Thessalonians 01:08 | For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything. +1 Thessalonians 01:09 | For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, +1 Thessalonians 01:10 | and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. +1 Thessalonians 02:01 | For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, +1 Thessalonians 02:02 | but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict. +1 Thessalonians 02:03 | For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. +1 Thessalonians 02:04 | But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. +1 Thessalonians 02:05 | For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), +1 Thessalonians 02:06 | nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. +1 Thessalonians 02:07 | But we were gentle amongst you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. +1 Thessalonians 02:08 | Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. +1 Thessalonians 02:09 | For you remember, brothers, our labour and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God. +1 Thessalonians 02:10 | You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves towards you who believe. +1 Thessalonians 02:11 | As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, +1 Thessalonians 02:12 | to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory. +1 Thessalonians 02:13 | For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. +1 Thessalonians 02:14 | For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews +1 Thessalonians 02:15 | who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men, +1 Thessalonians 02:16 | forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. +1 Thessalonians 02:17 | But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire, +1 Thessalonians 02:18 | because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us. +1 Thessalonians 02:19 | For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? +1 Thessalonians 02:20 | For you are our glory and our joy. +1 Thessalonians 03:01 | Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, +1 Thessalonians 03:02 | and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith, +1 Thessalonians 03:03 | that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. +1 Thessalonians 03:04 | For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. +1 Thessalonians 03:05 | For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour would have been in vain. +1 Thessalonians 03:06 | But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you, +1 Thessalonians 03:07 | for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. +1 Thessalonians 03:08 | For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. +1 Thessalonians 03:09 | For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God, +1 Thessalonians 03:10 | night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? +1 Thessalonians 03:11 | Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. +1 Thessalonians 03:12 | May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another, and towards all men, even as we also do towards you, +1 Thessalonians 03:13 | to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. +1 Thessalonians 04:01 | Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. +1 Thessalonians 04:02 | For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. +1 Thessalonians 04:03 | For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, +1 Thessalonians 04:04 | that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honour, +1 Thessalonians 04:05 | not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, +1 Thessalonians 04:06 | that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. +1 Thessalonians 04:07 | For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. +1 Thessalonians 04:08 | Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. +1 Thessalonians 04:09 | But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, +1 Thessalonians 04:10 | for indeed you do it towards all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; +1 Thessalonians 04:11 | and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; +1 Thessalonians 04:12 | that you may walk properly towards those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. +1 Thessalonians 04:13 | But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. +1 Thessalonians 04:14 | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. +1 Thessalonians 04:15 | For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. +1 Thessalonians 04:16 | For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, +1 Thessalonians 04:17 | then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. +1 Thessalonians 04:18 | Therefore comfort one another with these words. +1 Thessalonians 05:01 | But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. +1 Thessalonians 05:02 | For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. +1 Thessalonians 05:03 | For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. +1 Thessalonians 05:04 | But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. +1 Thessalonians 05:05 | You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, +1 Thessalonians 05:06 | so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. +1 Thessalonians 05:07 | For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. +1 Thessalonians 05:08 | But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. +1 Thessalonians 05:09 | For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, +1 Thessalonians 05:10 | who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. +1 Thessalonians 05:11 | Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. +1 Thessalonians 05:11 | Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. +1 Thessalonians 05:12 | But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labour amongst you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, +1 Thessalonians 05:13 | and to respect and honour them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace amongst yourselves. +1 Thessalonians 05:14 | We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient towards all. +1 Thessalonians 05:15 | See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all. +1 Thessalonians 05:16 | Always rejoice. +1 Thessalonians 05:17 | Pray without ceasing. +1 Thessalonians 05:18 | In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you. +1 Thessalonians 05:19 | Don’t quench the Spirit. +1 Thessalonians 05:21 | Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. +1 Thessalonians 05:22 | Abstain from every form of evil. +1 Thessalonians 05:23 | May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. +1 Thessalonians 05:24 | He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. +1 Thessalonians 05:26 | Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. +1 Thessalonians 05:27 | I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers. +1 Thessalonians 05:28 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. +1 Timothy 01:01 | Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Saviour and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope; +1 Timothy 01:02 | to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. +1 Timothy 01:03 | As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, +1 Timothy 01:04 | and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith— +1 Timothy 01:05 | but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith, +1 Timothy 01:06 | from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking, +1 Timothy 01:07 | desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm. +1 Timothy 01:08 | But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully, +1 Timothy 01:09 | as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, +1 Timothy 01:10 | for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine, +1 Timothy 01:11 | according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. +1 Timothy 01:12 | I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service; +1 Timothy 01:13 | although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. +1 Timothy 01:14 | The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. +1 Timothy 01:15 | The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. +1 Timothy 01:16 | However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life. +1 Timothy 01:17 | Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honour and glory forever and ever. Amen. +1 Timothy 01:18 | I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare, +1 Timothy 01:19 | holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith, +1 Timothy 01:20 | of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme. +1 Timothy 02:01 | I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men: +1 Timothy 02:02 | for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. +1 Timothy 02:03 | For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, +1 Timothy 02:04 | who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. +1 Timothy 02:05 | For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, +1 Timothy 02:06 | who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times, +1 Timothy 02:07 | to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. +1 Timothy 02:08 | I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. +1 Timothy 02:09 | In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing, +1 Timothy 02:10 | but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness. +1 Timothy 02:11 | Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission. +1 Timothy 02:12 | But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. +1 Timothy 02:13 | For Adam was formed first, then Eve. +1 Timothy 02:14 | Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; +1 Timothy 02:15 | but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety. +1 Timothy 03:01 | This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work. +1 Timothy 03:02 | The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; +1 Timothy 03:03 | not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; +1 Timothy 03:04 | one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; +1 Timothy 03:05 | (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?) +1 Timothy 03:06 | not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. +1 Timothy 03:07 | Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. +1 Timothy 03:08 | Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money, +1 Timothy 03:09 | holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. +1 Timothy 03:10 | Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless. +1 Timothy 03:11 | Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things. +1 Timothy 03:12 | Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. +1 Timothy 03:13 | For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. +1 Timothy 03:14 | These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; +1 Timothy 03:15 | but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. +1 Timothy 03:16 | Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached amongst the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. +1 Timothy 04:01 | But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, +1 Timothy 04:02 | through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron, +1 Timothy 04:03 | forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. +1 Timothy 04:04 | For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. +1 Timothy 04:05 | For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. +1 Timothy 04:06 | If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed. +1 Timothy 04:07 | But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself towards godliness. +1 Timothy 04:08 | For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come. +1 Timothy 04:09 | This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance. +1 Timothy 04:10 | For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those who believe. +1 Timothy 04:12 | Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. +1 Timothy 04:13 | Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching. +1 Timothy 04:14 | Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders. +1 Timothy 04:15 | Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all. +1 Timothy 04:16 | Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. +1 Timothy 05:01 | Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; +1 Timothy 05:02 | the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. +1 Timothy 05:03 | Honour widows who are widows indeed. +1 Timothy 05:04 | But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God. +1 Timothy 05:05 | Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day. +1 Timothy 05:06 | But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives. +1 Timothy 05:07 | Also command these things, that they may be without reproach. +1 Timothy 05:08 | But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. +1 Timothy 05:09 | Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, +1 Timothy 05:10 | being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work. +1 Timothy 05:11 | But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, +1 Timothy 05:12 | having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge. +1 Timothy 05:13 | Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. +1 Timothy 05:14 | I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting. +1 Timothy 05:15 | For already some have turned away after Satan. +1 Timothy 05:16 | If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed. +1 Timothy 05:17 | Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and in teaching. +1 Timothy 05:18 | For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The labourer is worthy of his wages." +1 Timothy 05:19 | Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses. +1 Timothy 05:20 | Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear. +1 Timothy 05:21 | I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. +1 Timothy 05:22 | Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure. +1 Timothy 05:23 | Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities. +1 Timothy 05:24 | Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgement, and some also follow later. +1 Timothy 05:25 | In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden. +1 Timothy 06:01 | Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. +1 Timothy 06:02 | Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things. +1 Timothy 06:03 | If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, +1 Timothy 06:04 | he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, +1 Timothy 06:05 | constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such. +1 Timothy 06:06 | But godliness with contentment is great gain. +1 Timothy 06:07 | For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. +1 Timothy 06:08 | But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. +1 Timothy 06:09 | But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. +1 Timothy 06:10 | For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. +1 Timothy 06:11 | But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. +1 Timothy 06:12 | Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. +1 Timothy 06:13 | I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession, +1 Timothy 06:14 | that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, +1 Timothy 06:15 | which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. +1 Timothy 06:16 | He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and eternal power. Amen. +1 Timothy 06:17 | Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; +1 Timothy 06:18 | that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; +1 Timothy 06:19 | laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life. +1 Timothy 06:20 | Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge, +1 Timothy 06:21 | which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. +2 Chronicles 01:01 | Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great. +2 Chronicles 01:02 | Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households. +2 Chronicles 01:03 | So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which the Lord’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness. +2 Chronicles 01:04 | But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 01:05 | Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the Lord’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there. +2 Chronicles 01:06 | Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it. +2 Chronicles 01:07 | That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for what you want me to give you." +2 Chronicles 01:08 | Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place. +2 Chronicles 01:09 | Now, Lord God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. +2 Chronicles 01:10 | Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?" +2 Chronicles 01:11 | God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honour, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king, +2 Chronicles 01:12 | therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you, and none after you will have." +2 Chronicles 01:13 | So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel. +2 Chronicles 01:14 | Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 01:15 | The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. +2 Chronicles 01:16 | The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue. +2 Chronicles 01:17 | They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty. They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian kings. +2 Chronicles 02:01 | Now Solomon decided to build a house for the Lord’s name, and a house for his kingdom. +2 Chronicles 02:02 | Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. +2 Chronicles 02:03 | Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me. +2 Chronicles 02:04 | Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel. +2 Chronicles 02:05 | "The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods. +2 Chronicles 02:06 | But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him? +2 Chronicles 02:07 | "Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skilful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. +2 Chronicles 02:08 | "Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants, +2 Chronicles 02:09 | even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful. +2 Chronicles 02:10 | Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil." +2 Chronicles 02:11 | Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them." +2 Chronicles 02:12 | Huram continued, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for the Lord, and a house for his kingdom. +2 Chronicles 02:13 | Now I have sent a skilful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi, +2 Chronicles 02:14 | the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David your father. +2 Chronicles 02:15 | "Now therefore the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants; +2 Chronicles 02:16 | and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem." +2 Chronicles 02:17 | Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred. +2 Chronicles 02:18 | He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to assign the people their work. +2 Chronicles 03:01 | Then Solomon began to build the Lord’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. +2 Chronicles 03:02 | He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. +2 Chronicles 03:03 | Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. +2 Chronicles 03:04 | The porch that was in front, its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. +2 Chronicles 03:05 | He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. +2 Chronicles 03:06 | He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim. +2 Chronicles 03:07 | He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. +2 Chronicles 03:08 | He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. +2 Chronicles 03:09 | The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold. +2 Chronicles 03:10 | In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving; and they overlaid them with gold. +2 Chronicles 03:11 | The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. +2 Chronicles 03:12 | The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub. +2 Chronicles 03:13 | The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were towards the house. +2 Chronicles 03:14 | He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim. +2 Chronicles 03:15 | Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. +2 Chronicles 03:16 | He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. +2 Chronicles 03:17 | He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. +2 Chronicles 04:01 | Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. +2 Chronicles 04:02 | Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. +2 Chronicles 04:03 | Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. +2 Chronicles 04:04 | It stood on twelve oxen, three looking towards the north, and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards the south, and three looking towards the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. +2 Chronicles 04:05 | It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths. +2 Chronicles 04:06 | He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. +2 Chronicles 04:07 | He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. +2 Chronicles 04:08 | He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold. +2 Chronicles 04:09 | Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze. +2 Chronicles 04:10 | He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, towards the south. +2 Chronicles 04:11 | Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house: +2 Chronicles 04:12 | the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, +2 Chronicles 04:13 | and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. +2 Chronicles 04:14 | He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases; +2 Chronicles 04:16 | Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for the Lord’s house, of bright bronze. +2 Chronicles 04:17 | The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. +2 Chronicles 04:18 | Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the bronze could not be determined. +2 Chronicles 04:19 | Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them; +2 Chronicles 04:20 | and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; +2 Chronicles 04:21 | and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold; +2 Chronicles 04:22 | and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold. +2 Chronicles 05:01 | Thus all the work that Solomon did for the Lord’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house. +2 Chronicles 05:02 | Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. +2 Chronicles 05:03 | So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month. +2 Chronicles 05:04 | All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark; +2 Chronicles 05:05 | and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the Levitical priests brought up. +2 Chronicles 05:06 | King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. +2 Chronicles 05:07 | The priests brought in the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. +2 Chronicles 05:08 | For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. +2 Chronicles 05:09 | The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day. +2 Chronicles 05:10 | There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. +2 Chronicles 05:11 | When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions; +2 Chronicles 05:12 | also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets); +2 Chronicles 05:13 | when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!" then the house was filled with a cloud, even the Lord’s house, +2 Chronicles 05:14 | so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the Lord’s glory filled God’s house. +2 Chronicles 06:01 | Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. +2 Chronicles 06:02 | But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever." +2 Chronicles 06:03 | The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. +2 Chronicles 06:05 | ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel; +2 Chronicles 06:06 | but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ +2 Chronicles 06:07 | Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. +2 Chronicles 06:08 | But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart; +2 Chronicles 06:09 | nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ +2 Chronicles 06:10 | "The Lord has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. +2 Chronicles 06:11 | There I have set the ark, in which is the Lord’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel." +2 Chronicles 06:12 | He stood before the Lord’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands +2 Chronicles 06:13 | (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven) +2 Chronicles 06:14 | and he said, "LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; +2 Chronicles 06:15 | who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. +2 Chronicles 06:16 | "Now therefore, Lord, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’ +2 Chronicles 06:17 | Now therefore, Lord, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David. +2 Chronicles 06:18 | "But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built! +2 Chronicles 06:19 | Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; +2 Chronicles 06:20 | that your eyes may be open towards this house day and night, even towards the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray towards this place. +2 Chronicles 06:21 | Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray towards this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive. +2 Chronicles 06:22 | "If a man sins against his neighbour, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house; +2 Chronicles 06:23 | then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. +2 Chronicles 06:24 | "If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; +2 Chronicles 06:25 | then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers. +2 Chronicles 06:26 | "When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray towards this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them; +2 Chronicles 06:27 | then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. +2 Chronicles 06:28 | "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; +2 Chronicles 06:29 | whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands towards this house; +2 Chronicles 06:30 | then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men) +2 Chronicles 06:31 | that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. +2 Chronicles 06:32 | "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they come and pray towards this house; +2 Chronicles 06:33 | then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. +2 Chronicles 06:34 | "If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you towards this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; +2 Chronicles 06:35 | then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. +2 Chronicles 06:36 | "If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; +2 Chronicles 06:37 | yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’ +2 Chronicles 06:38 | if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray towards their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and towards the house which I have built for your name; +2 Chronicles 06:39 | then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. +2 Chronicles 06:40 | "Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. +2 Chronicles 06:41 | "Now therefore arise, Lord God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. +2 Chronicles 06:42 | "LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant." +2 Chronicles 07:01 | Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the Lord’s glory filled the house. +2 Chronicles 07:02 | The priests could not enter into the Lord’s house, because the Lord’s glory filled the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 07:03 | All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the Lord’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshipped, and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever." +2 Chronicles 07:04 | Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. +2 Chronicles 07:05 | King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house. +2 Chronicles 07:06 | The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the Lord, which David the king had made to give thanks to the Lord, when David praised by their ministry, saying "For his loving kindness endures forever." The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. +2 Chronicles 07:07 | Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before the Lord’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat. +2 Chronicles 07:08 | So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. +2 Chronicles 07:09 | On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. +2 Chronicles 07:10 | On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the Lord had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people. +2 Chronicles 07:11 | Thus Solomon finished the Lord’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the Lord’s house and in his own house. +2 Chronicles 07:12 | The Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice. +2 Chronicles 07:13 | "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence amongst my people; +2 Chronicles 07:14 | If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. +2 Chronicles 07:14 | if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. +2 Chronicles 07:15 | Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place. +2 Chronicles 07:16 | For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. +2 Chronicles 07:17 | "As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; +2 Chronicles 07:18 | then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’ +2 Chronicles 07:19 | But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; +2 Chronicles 07:20 | then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples. +2 Chronicles 07:21 | This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this house?’ +2 Chronicles 07:22 | They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshipped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’" +2 Chronicles 08:01 | At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the Lord’s house and his own house, +2 Chronicles 08:02 | Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. +2 Chronicles 08:03 | Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it. +2 Chronicles 08:04 | He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath. +2 Chronicles 08:05 | Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; +2 Chronicles 08:06 | and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. +2 Chronicles 08:07 | As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; +2 Chronicles 08:08 | of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labour to this day. +2 Chronicles 08:09 | But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. +2 Chronicles 08:10 | These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people. +2 Chronicles 08:11 | Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the Lord’s ark has come are holy." +2 Chronicles 08:12 | Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the Lord’s altar, which he had built before the porch, +2 Chronicles 08:13 | even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths. +2 Chronicles 08:14 | He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded. +2 Chronicles 08:15 | They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. +2 Chronicles 08:16 | Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of the Lord’s house until it was finished. So the Lord’s house was completed. +2 Chronicles 08:17 | Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. +2 Chronicles 08:18 | Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. +2 Chronicles 09:01 | When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart. +2 Chronicles 09:02 | Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her. +2 Chronicles 09:03 | When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, +2 Chronicles 09:04 | the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the Lord’s house; there was no more spirit in her. +2 Chronicles 09:05 | She said to the king, "It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. +2 Chronicles 09:06 | However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard! +2 Chronicles 09:07 | Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. +2 Chronicles 09:08 | Blessed be the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness." +2 Chronicles 09:09 | She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. +2 Chronicles 09:10 | The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones. +2 Chronicles 09:11 | The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for the Lord’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah. +2 Chronicles 09:12 | King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants. +2 Chronicles 09:13 | Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, +2 Chronicles 09:14 | in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. +2 Chronicles 09:15 | King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one buckler. +2 Chronicles 09:16 | He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. +2 Chronicles 09:17 | Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. +2 Chronicles 09:18 | There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. +2 Chronicles 09:19 | Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom. +2 Chronicles 09:20 | All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. +2 Chronicles 09:21 | For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. +2 Chronicles 09:22 | So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. +2 Chronicles 09:23 | All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. +2 Chronicles 09:24 | They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armour, spices, horses, and mules every year. +2 Chronicles 09:25 | Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 09:26 | He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. +2 Chronicles 09:27 | The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. +2 Chronicles 09:28 | They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands. +2 Chronicles 09:29 | Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? +2 Chronicles 09:30 | Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. +2 Chronicles 09:31 | Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. +2 Chronicles 10:04 | "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you." +2 Chronicles 10:05 | He said to them, "Come again to me after three days." So the people departed. +2 Chronicles 10:06 | King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?" +2 Chronicles 10:07 | They spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." +2 Chronicles 10:08 | But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. +2 Chronicles 10:09 | He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’" +2 Chronicles 10:10 | The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. +2 Chronicles 10:11 | Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’" +2 Chronicles 10:12 | So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day." +2 Chronicles 10:13 | The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men, +2 Chronicles 10:14 | and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." +2 Chronicles 10:15 | So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that the Lord might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. +2 Chronicles 10:16 | When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents. +2 Chronicles 10:17 | But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +2 Chronicles 10:18 | Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labour; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 10:19 | So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day. +2 Chronicles 11:01 | When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. +2 Chronicles 11:04 | ‘The Lord says, "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me." So they listened to the Lord’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam. +2 Chronicles 11:11 | He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine. +2 Chronicles 11:12 | He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. +2 Chronicles 11:13 | The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory. +2 Chronicles 11:14 | For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to the Lord. +2 Chronicles 11:15 | He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. +2 Chronicles 11:16 | After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 11:17 | So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon. +2 Chronicles 11:19 | She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. +2 Chronicles 11:20 | After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. +2 Chronicles 11:23 | He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them. +2 Chronicles 12:01 | When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the Lord’s law, and all Israel with him. +2 Chronicles 12:02 | In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the Lord, +2 Chronicles 12:04 | He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 12:05 | Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "The Lord says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’" +2 Chronicles 12:06 | Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The Lord is righteous." +2 Chronicles 12:07 | When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the Lord’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. +2 Chronicles 12:08 | Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." +2 Chronicles 13:05 | Ought you not to know that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? +2 Chronicles 13:07 | Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them. +2 Chronicles 13:08 | "Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you. +2 Chronicles 13:09 | Haven’t you driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods. +2 Chronicles 13:10 | "But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work; +2 Chronicles 13:11 | and they burn to the Lord every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken him. +2 Chronicles 13:12 | Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper." +2 Chronicles 13:14 | When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. +2 Chronicles 13:15 | Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. +2 Chronicles 13:16 | The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. +2 Chronicles 13:18 | Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the Lord, the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 13:20 | Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. The Lord struck him, and he died. +2 Chronicles 14:02 | Asa did that which was good and right in the Lord his God’s eyes; +2 Chronicles 14:04 | and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command. +2 Chronicles 14:05 | Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him. +2 Chronicles 14:06 | He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because the Lord had given him rest. +2 Chronicles 14:07 | For he said to Judah, "Let’s build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought the Lord our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered. +2 Chronicles 14:08 | Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valour. +2 Chronicles 14:09 | Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah. +2 Chronicles 14:10 | Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. +2 Chronicles 14:11 | Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, "LORD, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Lord our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Lord, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you." +2 Chronicles 14:12 | So the Lord struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. +2 Chronicles 14:13 | Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord and before his army; and they carried away very much booty. +2 Chronicles 14:14 | They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of the Lord came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them. +2 Chronicles 14:15 | They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 15:01 | The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: +2 Chronicles 15:02 | and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. +2 Chronicles 15:03 | Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law. +2 Chronicles 15:04 | But when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them. +2 Chronicles 15:05 | In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. +2 Chronicles 15:06 | They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity. +2 Chronicles 15:07 | But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded." +2 Chronicles 15:08 | When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the Lord’s altar that was before the Lord’s porch. +2 Chronicles 15:09 | He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. +2 Chronicles 15:12 | They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; +2 Chronicles 15:13 | and that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. +2 Chronicles 15:14 | They swore to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets. +2 Chronicles 15:15 | All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then the Lord gave them rest all around. +2 Chronicles 15:16 | Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. +2 Chronicles 15:17 | But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. +2 Chronicles 15:18 | He brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house. +2 Chronicles 15:19 | There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign. +2 Chronicles 16:03 | "Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." +2 Chronicles 16:05 | When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease. +2 Chronicles 16:07 | At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, "Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand. +2 Chronicles 16:08 | Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your hand. +2 Chronicles 16:09 | For the Lord’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars." +2 Chronicles 16:10 | Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. +2 Chronicles 16:12 | In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord, but just the physicians. +2 Chronicles 16:14 | They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him. +2 Chronicles 17:03 | The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals, +2 Chronicles 17:04 | but sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel. +2 Chronicles 17:05 | Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honour in abundance. +2 Chronicles 17:06 | His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah. +2 Chronicles 17:09 | They taught in Judah, having the book of the Lord’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught amongst the people. +2 Chronicles 17:10 | The fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. +2 Chronicles 18:03 | Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?" He answered him, "I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war." +2 Chronicles 18:04 | Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please enquire first for the Lord’s word." +2 Chronicles 18:05 | Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king." +2 Chronicles 18:06 | But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we may enquire of him?" +2 Chronicles 18:07 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the Lord; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla." Jehoshaphat said, "Don’t let the king say so." +2 Chronicles 18:08 | Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly." +2 Chronicles 18:09 | Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. +2 Chronicles 18:10 | Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, "The Lord says, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’" +2 Chronicles 18:11 | All the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king." +2 Chronicles 18:12 | The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good." +2 Chronicles 18:13 | Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, I will say what my God says." +2 Chronicles 18:14 | When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" He said, "Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand." +2 Chronicles 18:15 | The king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the Lord’s name?" +2 Chronicles 18:16 | He said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. The Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’" +2 Chronicles 18:17 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" +2 Chronicles 18:18 | Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the Lord’s word: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. +2 Chronicles 18:19 | The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way. +2 Chronicles 18:20 | A spirit came out, stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ "The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ +2 Chronicles 18:21 | "He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ "He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’ +2 Chronicles 18:22 | "Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you." +2 Chronicles 18:23 | Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Lord’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?" +2 Chronicles 18:24 | Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself." +2 Chronicles 18:25 | The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; +2 Chronicles 18:26 | and say, ‘The king says, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace." +2 Chronicles 18:27 | Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, you people, all of you!" +2 Chronicles 18:28 | So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. +2 Chronicles 18:29 | The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle. +2 Chronicles 18:30 | Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel." +2 Chronicles 18:31 | When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is the king of Israel!" Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; and God moved them to depart from him. +2 Chronicles 18:32 | When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. +2 Chronicles 18:33 | A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armour. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded." +2 Chronicles 18:34 | The battle increased that day. However the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and at about sunset, he died. +2 Chronicles 19:01 | Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 19:02 | Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the Lord. +2 Chronicles 19:03 | Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God." +2 Chronicles 19:04 | Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again amongst the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 19:05 | He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, +2 Chronicles 19:06 | and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for the Lord; and he is with you in the judgement. +2 Chronicles 19:07 | Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes." +2 Chronicles 19:08 | Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgement of the Lord, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 19:09 | He commanded them, saying, "You shall do this in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. +2 Chronicles 19:10 | Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards the Lord, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty. +2 Chronicles 19:11 | Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may the Lord be with the good." +2 Chronicles 20:01 | After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. +2 Chronicles 20:02 | Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi). +2 Chronicles 20:03 | Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to the Lord. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. +2 Chronicles 20:04 | Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from the Lord. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek the Lord. +2 Chronicles 20:05 | Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the Lord’s house, before the new court; +2 Chronicles 20:06 | and he said, "LORD, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you. +2 Chronicles 20:07 | Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever? +2 Chronicles 20:09 | ‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgement, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ +2 Chronicles 20:10 | Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them; +2 Chronicles 20:11 | behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. +2 Chronicles 20:12 | Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you." +2 Chronicles 20:13 | All Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. +2 Chronicles 20:14 | Then the Lord’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the middle of the assembly; +2 Chronicles 20:15 | and he said, "Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. The Lord says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. +2 Chronicles 20:16 | Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. +2 Chronicles 20:17 | You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.’" +2 Chronicles 20:18 | Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshipping the Lord. +2 Chronicles 20:19 | The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice. +2 Chronicles 20:20 | They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper." +2 Chronicles 20:21 | When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the Lord; for his loving kindness endures forever." +2 Chronicles 20:22 | When they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. +2 Chronicles 20:23 | For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other. +2 Chronicles 20:24 | When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. +2 Chronicles 20:25 | When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found amongst them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much. +2 Chronicles 20:26 | On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed the Lord. Therefore the name of that place was called "Beracah Valley" to this day. +2 Chronicles 20:27 | Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies. +2 Chronicles 20:28 | They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 20:29 | The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel. +2 Chronicles 20:30 | So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around. +2 Chronicles 20:31 | Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +2 Chronicles 20:32 | He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in the Lord’s eyes. +2 Chronicles 20:33 | However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 20:34 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel. +2 Chronicles 20:37 | Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, the Lord has destroyed your works." The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish. +2 Chronicles 21:01 | Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. +2 Chronicles 21:02 | He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. +2 Chronicles 21:03 | Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. +2 Chronicles 21:04 | Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel. +2 Chronicles 21:05 | Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 21:06 | He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. +2 Chronicles 21:07 | However the Lord would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always. +2 Chronicles 21:08 | In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. +2 Chronicles 21:09 | Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots. +2 Chronicles 21:10 | So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers. +2 Chronicles 21:11 | Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray. +2 Chronicles 21:12 | A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "the Lord, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, +2 Chronicles 21:13 | but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself, +2 Chronicles 21:14 | behold, the Lord will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions; +2 Chronicles 21:15 | and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’" +2 Chronicles 21:16 | The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians; +2 Chronicles 21:17 | and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. +2 Chronicles 21:18 | After all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. +2 Chronicles 21:19 | In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. +2 Chronicles 21:20 | He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings. +2 Chronicles 22:01 | The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. +2 Chronicles 22:02 | Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. +2 Chronicles 22:03 | He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counsellor in acting wickedly. +2 Chronicles 22:04 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction. +2 Chronicles 22:05 | He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. +2 Chronicles 22:06 | He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. +2 Chronicles 22:07 | Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house. +2 Chronicles 22:09 | He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart." The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom. +2 Chronicles 22:10 | Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah. +2 Chronicles 22:12 | He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land. +2 Chronicles 23:02 | They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 23:03 | All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, "Behold, the king’s son must reign, as the Lord has spoken concerning the sons of David. +2 Chronicles 23:04 | This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds. +2 Chronicles 23:05 | A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 23:06 | But let no one come into the Lord’s house, except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow the Lord’s instructions. +2 Chronicles 23:07 | The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out." +2 Chronicles 23:08 | So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift. +2 Chronicles 23:09 | Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house. +2 Chronicles 23:10 | He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king. +2 Chronicles 23:11 | Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king!" +2 Chronicles 23:12 | When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 23:13 | Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! treason!" +2 Chronicles 23:14 | Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Don’t kill her in the Lord’s house." +2 Chronicles 23:15 | So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there. +2 Chronicles 23:16 | Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord’s people. +2 Chronicles 23:17 | All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. +2 Chronicles 23:18 | Jehoiada appointed the officers of the Lord’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the Lord’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered. +2 Chronicles 23:19 | He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the Lord’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in. +2 Chronicles 23:20 | He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the Lord’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. +2 Chronicles 23:21 | So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword. +2 Chronicles 24:01 | Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. +2 Chronicles 24:02 | Joash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest. +2 Chronicles 24:04 | After this, Joash intended to restore the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 24:05 | He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn’t do it right away. +2 Chronicles 24:06 | The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, "Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?" +2 Chronicles 24:07 | For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the Lord’s house to the Baals. +2 Chronicles 24:08 | So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 24:09 | They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. +2 Chronicles 24:10 | All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it. +2 Chronicles 24:11 | Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. +2 Chronicles 24:12 | The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the Lord’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the Lord’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 24:13 | So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it. +2 Chronicles 24:14 | When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the Lord’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the Lord’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada. +2 Chronicles 24:15 | But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred and thirty years old when he died. +2 Chronicles 24:16 | They buried him in David’s city amongst the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and towards God and his house. +2 Chronicles 24:17 | Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. +2 Chronicles 24:18 | They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. +2 Chronicles 24:19 | Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the Lord, and they testified against them; but they would not listen. +2 Chronicles 24:20 | The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, "God says, ‘Why do you disobey the Lord’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has also forsaken you.’" +2 Chronicles 24:21 | They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 24:22 | Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May the Lord look at it, and repay it." +2 Chronicles 24:23 | At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from amongst the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus. +2 Chronicles 24:24 | For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgement on Joash. +2 Chronicles 24:25 | When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings. +2 Chronicles 24:26 | These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. +2 Chronicles 24:27 | Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place. +2 Chronicles 25:01 | Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 25:02 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart. +2 Chronicles 25:03 | Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. +2 Chronicles 25:04 | But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin." +2 Chronicles 25:05 | Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield. +2 Chronicles 25:06 | He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. +2 Chronicles 25:07 | A man of God came to him, saying, "O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim. +2 Chronicles 25:08 | But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow." +2 Chronicles 25:09 | Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this." +2 Chronicles 25:10 | Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger. +2 Chronicles 25:11 | Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir. +2 Chronicles 28:11 | Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is on you." +2 Chronicles 28:13 | and said to them, "You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against the Lord, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel." +2 Chronicles 28:14 | So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly. +2 Chronicles 28:15 | The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked amongst them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. +2 Chronicles 28:16 | At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. +2 Chronicles 28:17 | For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives. +2 Chronicles 28:19 | For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against the Lord. +2 Chronicles 28:20 | Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. +2 Chronicles 28:21 | For Ahaz took away a portion out of the Lord’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him. +2 Chronicles 28:22 | In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the Lord, this same king Ahaz. +2 Chronicles 29:04 | He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east, +2 Chronicles 29:05 | and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place. +2 Chronicles 29:06 | For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the Lord our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs. +2 Chronicles 29:07 | Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. +2 Chronicles 29:08 | Therefore the Lord’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. +2 Chronicles 29:09 | For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. +2 Chronicles 29:10 | Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. +2 Chronicles 29:11 | My sons, don’t be negligent now; for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense." +2 Chronicles 29:15 | They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the Lord’s words, to cleanse the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 29:16 | The priests went into the inner part of the Lord’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the Lord’s temple into the court of the Lord’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron. +2 Chronicles 29:17 | Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the Lord’s porch. They sanctified the Lord’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. +2 Chronicles 29:18 | Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, "We have cleansed all the Lord’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels. +2 Chronicles 29:19 | Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which king Ahaz threw away in his reign, when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before the Lord’s altar." +2 Chronicles 29:20 | Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 29:21 | They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the Lord’s altar. +2 Chronicles 29:22 | So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. +2 Chronicles 29:23 | They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them. +2 Chronicles 29:24 | Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. +2 Chronicles 29:25 | He set the Levites in the Lord’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the Lord by his prophets. +2 Chronicles 29:26 | The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets. +2 Chronicles 29:27 | Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the Lord’s song also began, along with the trumpets and instruments of David king of Israel. +2 Chronicles 29:28 | All the assembly worshipped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. +2 Chronicles 29:29 | When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped. +2 Chronicles 30:01 | Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the Lord’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. +2 Chronicles 30:02 | For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month. +2 Chronicles 30:03 | For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 30:04 | The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. +2 Chronicles 30:05 | So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written. +2 Chronicles 30:06 | So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, "You children of Israel, turn again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. +2 Chronicles 30:07 | Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. +2 Chronicles 30:08 | Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. +2 Chronicles 30:09 | For if you turn again to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him." +2 Chronicles 30:10 | So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them. +2 Chronicles 30:11 | Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 30:12 | Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the Lord’s word. +2 Chronicles 30:13 | Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. +2 Chronicles 30:14 | They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron. +2 Chronicles 30:15 | Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 30:16 | They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites. +2 Chronicles 30:17 | For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord. +2 Chronicles 30:18 | For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good the Lord pardon everyone +2 Chronicles 30:19 | who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary." +2 Chronicles 30:20 | The Lord listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. +2 Chronicles 30:21 | The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments to the Lord. +2 Chronicles 30:22 | Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of the Lord. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord, the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 30:23 | The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness. +2 Chronicles 30:24 | For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. +2 Chronicles 30:25 | All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced. +2 Chronicles 30:26 | So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 30:27 | Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven. +2 Chronicles 31:01 | Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. +2 Chronicles 31:02 | Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the Lord’s camp. +2 Chronicles 31:03 | He also appointed the king’s portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the Lord’s law. +2 Chronicles 31:04 | Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Lord’s law. +2 Chronicles 31:05 | As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly. +2 Chronicles 31:06 | The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps. +2 Chronicles 31:07 | In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. +2 Chronicles 31:08 | When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel. +2 Chronicles 31:09 | Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps. +2 Chronicles 31:10 | Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, "Since people began to bring the offerings into the Lord’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store." +2 Chronicles 31:11 | Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the Lord’s house, and they prepared them. +2 Chronicles 32:01 | After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself. +2 Chronicles 32:02 | When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem, +2 Chronicles 32:03 | he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him. +2 Chronicles 32:04 | So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?" +2 Chronicles 32:05 | He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance. +2 Chronicles 32:07 | "Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. +2 Chronicles 32:08 | An arm of flesh is with him, but the Lord our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles." The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. +2 Chronicles 32:11 | Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’ +2 Chronicles 32:12 | Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’ +2 Chronicles 32:13 | Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? +2 Chronicles 32:14 | Who was there amongst all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? +2 Chronicles 32:15 | Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?" +2 Chronicles 32:16 | His servants spoke yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. +2 Chronicles 32:17 | He also wrote letters insulting the Lord, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand." +2 Chronicles 32:18 | They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. +2 Chronicles 32:19 | They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands. +2 Chronicles 32:20 | Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. +2 Chronicles 32:21 | The Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword. +2 Chronicles 32:22 | Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. +2 Chronicles 32:23 | Many brought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on. +2 Chronicles 32:24 | In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to the Lord; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. +2 Chronicles 32:25 | But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 32:26 | Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the Lord’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah. +2 Chronicles 32:27 | Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honour. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; +2 Chronicles 32:28 | also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds. +2 Chronicles 32:29 | Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions. +2 Chronicles 33:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. +2 Chronicles 33:03 | For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them. +2 Chronicles 33:04 | He built altars in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." +2 Chronicles 33:05 | He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 33:06 | He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practised sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. +2 Chronicles 33:07 | He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. +2 Chronicles 33:08 | I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses." +2 Chronicles 33:09 | Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. +2 Chronicles 33:10 | The Lord spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen. +2 Chronicles 33:11 | Therefore the Lord brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. +2 Chronicles 33:12 | When he was in distress, he begged the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. +2 Chronicles 33:13 | He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God. +2 Chronicles 33:14 | Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. +2 Chronicles 33:15 | He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the Lord’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the Lord’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. +2 Chronicles 33:16 | He built up the Lord’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. +2 Chronicles 33:17 | Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to the Lord their God. +2 Chronicles 33:18 | Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are written amongst the acts of the kings of Israel. +2 Chronicles 33:19 | His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. +2 Chronicles 33:22 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. +2 Chronicles 33:23 | He didn’t humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. +2 Chronicles 33:24 | His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. +2 Chronicles 34:01 | Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 34:02 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. +2 Chronicles 34:03 | For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images. +2 Chronicles 34:04 | They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. +2 Chronicles 34:05 | He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 34:06 | He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. +2 Chronicles 34:07 | He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 34:08 | Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. +2 Chronicles 34:09 | They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 34:10 | They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the Lord’s house; and the workmen who laboured in the Lord’s house gave it to mend and repair the house. +2 Chronicles 34:11 | They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders, to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. +2 Chronicles 34:12 | The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skilful with musical instruments. +2 Chronicles 34:13 | Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. +2 Chronicles 34:14 | When they brought out the money that was brought into the Lord’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the Lord’s law given by Moses. +2 Chronicles 34:15 | Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s house." So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. +2 Chronicles 34:16 | Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, "All that was committed to your servants, they are doing. +2 Chronicles 34:17 | They have emptied out the money that was found in the Lord’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen." +2 Chronicles 34:18 | Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book." Shaphan read from it to the king. +2 Chronicles 34:19 | When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. +2 Chronicles 34:21 | "Go enquire of the Lord for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the Lord’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the Lord’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book." +2 Chronicles 34:22 | So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect. +2 Chronicles 34:23 | She said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, +2 Chronicles 34:24 | "The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. +2 Chronicles 34:25 | Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’"’ +2 Chronicles 34:26 | But to the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, you shall tell him this, ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says: "About the words which you have heard, +2 Chronicles 34:27 | because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you," says the Lord. +2 Chronicles 34:28 | "Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants." They brought back word to the king. +2 Chronicles 34:29 | Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 34:30 | The king went up to the Lord’s house, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 34:31 | The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. +2 Chronicles 34:32 | He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 34:33 | Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. +2 Chronicles 35:01 | Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. +2 Chronicles 35:02 | He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of the Lord’s house. +2 Chronicles 35:03 | He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God, and his people Israel. +2 Chronicles 35:04 | Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. +2 Chronicles 35:05 | Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites. +2 Chronicles 35:06 | Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the Lord’s word by Moses." +2 Chronicles 35:07 | Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance. +2 Chronicles 35:08 | His princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle. +2 Chronicles 35:09 | Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle. +2 Chronicles 35:10 | So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment. +2 Chronicles 35:11 | They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites skinned them. +2 Chronicles 35:12 | They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. +2 Chronicles 35:13 | They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. +2 Chronicles 35:14 | Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron. +2 Chronicles 35:15 | The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them. +2 Chronicles 35:16 | So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the Lord’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah. +2 Chronicles 35:17 | The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. +2 Chronicles 35:18 | There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 35:19 | This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah. +2 Chronicles 35:20 | After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him. +2 Chronicles 35:21 | But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, "What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you." +2 Chronicles 35:22 | Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. +2 Chronicles 35:23 | The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!" +2 Chronicles 35:24 | So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. +2 Chronicles 35:25 | Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations. +2 Chronicles 35:26 | Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the Lord’s law, +2 Chronicles 35:27 | and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. +2 Chronicles 36:01 | Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 36:02 | Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 36:03 | The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. +2 Chronicles 36:04 | The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. +2 Chronicles 36:05 | Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the Lord his God’s sight. +2 Chronicles 36:06 | Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. +2 Chronicles 36:07 | Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the Lord’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. +2 Chronicles 36:08 | Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. +2 Chronicles 36:09 | Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. +2 Chronicles 36:10 | At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the Lord’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 36:11 | Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 36:12 | He did that which was evil in the Lord his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the Lord’s mouth. +2 Chronicles 36:13 | He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel. +2 Chronicles 36:14 | Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the Lord’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. +2 Chronicles 36:15 | The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; +2 Chronicles 36:16 | but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy. +2 Chronicles 36:17 | Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or grey-headed. He gave them all into his hand. +2 Chronicles 36:18 | All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. +2 Chronicles 36:19 | They burnt God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels. +2 Chronicles 36:20 | He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, +2 Chronicles 36:21 | to fulfil the Lord’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfil seventy years. +2 Corinthians 01:01 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: +2 Corinthians 01:02 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +2 Corinthians 01:03 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; +2 Corinthians 01:03-04 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. +2 Corinthians 01:04 | who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. +2 Corinthians 01:05 | For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. +2 Corinthians 01:06 | But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. +2 Corinthians 01:07 | Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort. +2 Corinthians 01:08 | For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. +2 Corinthians 01:09 | Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, +2 Corinthians 01:10 | who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; +2 Corinthians 01:11 | you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf. +2 Corinthians 01:12 | For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you. +2 Corinthians 01:13 | For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end, +2 Corinthians 01:14 | as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. +2 Corinthians 01:15 | In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit, +2 Corinthians 01:16 | and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. +2 Corinthians 01:17 | When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" +2 Corinthians 01:18 | But as God is faithful, our word towards you was not "Yes and no." +2 Corinthians 01:19 | For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached amongst you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes." +2 Corinthians 01:20 | For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen", to the glory of God through us. +2 Corinthians 01:21 | Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, +2 Corinthians 01:22 | who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. +2 Corinthians 01:23 | But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you. +2 Corinthians 01:24 | We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith. +2 Corinthians 02:01 | But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. +2 Corinthians 02:02 | For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me? +2 Corinthians 02:03 | And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you. +2 Corinthians 02:04 | For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. +2 Corinthians 02:05 | But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. +2 Corinthians 02:06 | This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one; +2 Corinthians 02:07 | so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. +2 Corinthians 02:08 | Therefore I beg you to confirm your love towards him. +2 Corinthians 02:09 | For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. +2 Corinthians 02:10 | Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, +2 Corinthians 02:11 | that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. +2 Corinthians 02:12 | Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, +2 Corinthians 02:13 | I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia. +2 Corinthians 02:14 | Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. +2 Corinthians 02:15 | For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish: +2 Corinthians 02:16 | to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? +2 Corinthians 02:17 | For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ. +2 Corinthians 03:01 | Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? +2 Corinthians 03:02 | You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, +2 Corinthians 03:03 | being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. +2 Corinthians 03:04 | Such confidence we have through Christ towards God, +2 Corinthians 03:05 | not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, +2 Corinthians 03:06 | who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. +2 Corinthians 03:07 | But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away, +2 Corinthians 03:08 | won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory? +2 Corinthians 03:09 | For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. +2 Corinthians 03:10 | For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses. +2 Corinthians 03:11 | For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. +2 Corinthians 03:12 | Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, +2 Corinthians 03:13 | and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away. +2 Corinthians 03:14 | But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. +2 Corinthians 03:15 | But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. +2 Corinthians 03:16 | But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. +2 Corinthians 03:17 | Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. +2 Corinthians 03:18 | But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit. +2 Corinthians 04:01 | Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. +2 Corinthians 04:02 | But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. +2 Corinthians 04:03 | Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying, +2 Corinthians 04:04 | in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. +2 Corinthians 04:05 | For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake, +2 Corinthians 04:06 | seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. +2 Corinthians 04:07 | But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. +2 Corinthians 04:08 | We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; +2 Corinthians 04:09 | pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; +2 Corinthians 04:10 | always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. +2 Corinthians 04:11 | For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. +2 Corinthians 04:12 | So then death works in us, but life in you. +2 Corinthians 04:13 | But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke." We also believe, and therefore we also speak; +2 Corinthians 04:14 | knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you. +2 Corinthians 04:15 | For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. +2 Corinthians 04:16 | Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day. +2 Corinthians 04:16-18 | So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. +2 Corinthians 04:17 | For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, +2 Corinthians 04:18 | while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. +2 Corinthians 05:01 | For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. +2 Corinthians 05:02 | For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, +2 Corinthians 05:03 | if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked. +2 Corinthians 05:04 | For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. +2 Corinthians 05:05 | Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. +2 Corinthians 05:06 | Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; +2 Corinthians 05:06-09 | So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him. +2 Corinthians 05:07 | for we walk by faith, not by sight. +2 Corinthians 05:08 | We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. +2 Corinthians 05:09 | Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. +2 Corinthians 05:10 | For we must all be revealed before the judgement seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. +2 Corinthians 05:11 | Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences. +2 Corinthians 05:12 | For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart. +2 Corinthians 05:13 | For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. +2 Corinthians 05:14 | For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. +2 Corinthians 05:15 | He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again. +2 Corinthians 05:16 | Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. +2 Corinthians 05:17 | Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. +2 Corinthians 05:18 | But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; +2 Corinthians 05:19 | namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. +2 Corinthians 05:20 | We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. +2 Corinthians 05:21 | For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. +2 Corinthians 06:01 | Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain, +2 Corinthians 06:02 | for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. +2 Corinthians 06:03 | We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed, +2 Corinthians 06:04 | but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, +2 Corinthians 06:05 | in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; +2 Corinthians 06:06 | in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love, +2 Corinthians 06:07 | in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, +2 Corinthians 06:08 | by glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; +2 Corinthians 06:09 | as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed; +2 Corinthians 06:10 | as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. +2 Corinthians 06:11 | Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. +2 Corinthians 06:12 | You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. +2 Corinthians 06:13 | Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts. +2 Corinthians 06:14 | Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? +2 Corinthians 06:15 | What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever? +2 Corinthians 06:16 | What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people." +2 Corinthians 06:17 | Therefore "‘Come out from amongst them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. +2 Corinthians 06:18 | I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty." +2 Corinthians 07:01 | Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. +2 Corinthians 07:02 | Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one. +2 Corinthians 07:03 | I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together. +2 Corinthians 07:04 | Great is my boldness of speech towards you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction. +2 Corinthians 07:05 | For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside. +2 Corinthians 07:06 | Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus, +2 Corinthians 07:07 | and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. +2 Corinthians 07:08 | For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while. +2 Corinthians 07:09 | I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. +2 Corinthians 07:10 | For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death. +2 Corinthians 07:11 | For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defence, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter. +2 Corinthians 07:12 | So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God. +2 Corinthians 07:13 | Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. +2 Corinthians 07:14 | For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth. +2 Corinthians 07:15 | His affection is more abundantly towards you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him. +2 Corinthians 07:16 | I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you. +2 Corinthians 08:01 | Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, +2 Corinthians 08:02 | how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity. +2 Corinthians 08:03 | For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, +2 Corinthians 08:04 | begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints. +2 Corinthians 08:05 | This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. +2 Corinthians 08:06 | So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace. +2 Corinthians 08:07 | But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace. +2 Corinthians 08:07 | Since you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you — see that you also excel in this grace of giving. +2 Corinthians 08:08 | I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. +2 Corinthians 08:09 | For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich. +2 Corinthians 08:10 | I give a judgement in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing. +2 Corinthians 08:11 | But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability. +2 Corinthians 08:12 | For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have. +2 Corinthians 08:13 | For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed, +2 Corinthians 08:14 | but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality. +2 Corinthians 08:15 | As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack." +2 Corinthians 08:16 | But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. +2 Corinthians 08:17 | For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord. +2 Corinthians 08:18 | We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies. +2 Corinthians 08:19 | Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. +2 Corinthians 08:20 | We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us. +2 Corinthians 08:21 | Having regard for honourable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. +2 Corinthians 08:22 | We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. +2 Corinthians 08:23 | As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ. +2 Corinthians 08:24 | Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf. +2 Corinthians 09:01 | It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, +2 Corinthians 09:02 | for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. +2 Corinthians 09:03 | But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, +2 Corinthians 09:04 | lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting. +2 Corinthians 09:05 | I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. +2 Corinthians 09:06 | Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. +2 Corinthians 09:06 | Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. +2 Corinthians 09:07 | Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. +2 Corinthians 09:07 | Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. +2 Corinthians 09:08 | And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. +2 Corinthians 09:09 | As it is written, "He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever." +2 Corinthians 09:09 | They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever. +2 Corinthians 09:10 | Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, +2 Corinthians 09:11 | you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. +2 Corinthians 09:12 | For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack amongst the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God, +2 Corinthians 09:13 | seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all, +2 Corinthians 09:14 | while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. +2 Corinthians 09:15 | Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift! +2 Corinthians 10:01 | Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly amongst you, but being absent am bold towards you. +2 Corinthians 10:02 | Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh. +2 Corinthians 10:03 | For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; +2 Corinthians 10:04 | for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, +2 Corinthians 10:05 | throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, +2 Corinthians 10:06 | and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full. +2 Corinthians 10:07 | Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s. +2 Corinthians 10:08 | For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed, +2 Corinthians 10:09 | that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. +2 Corinthians 10:10 | For, "His letters", they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised." +2 Corinthians 10:11 | Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. +2 Corinthians 10:12 | For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. +2 Corinthians 10:13 | But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. +2 Corinthians 10:14 | For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ, +2 Corinthians 10:15 | not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labours, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, +2 Corinthians 10:16 | so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done. +2 Corinthians 10:17 | But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." +2 Corinthians 10:18 | For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends. +2 Corinthians 11:01 | I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. +2 Corinthians 11:02 | For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. +2 Corinthians 11:03 | But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. +2 Corinthians 11:04 | For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different "good news", which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough. +2 Corinthians 11:05 | For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. +2 Corinthians 11:06 | But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. +2 Corinthians 11:07 | Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? +2 Corinthians 11:08 | I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. +2 Corinthians 11:09 | When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. +2 Corinthians 11:10 | As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. +2 Corinthians 11:11 | Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows. +2 Corinthians 11:12 | But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we. +2 Corinthians 11:13 | For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. +2 Corinthians 11:14 | And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. +2 Corinthians 11:15 | It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. +2 Corinthians 11:16 | I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. +2 Corinthians 11:17 | That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. +2 Corinthians 11:18 | Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. +2 Corinthians 11:19 | For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. +2 Corinthians 11:20 | For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face. +2 Corinthians 11:21 | I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. +2 Corinthians 11:22 | Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I. +2 Corinthians 11:23 | Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often. +2 Corinthians 11:24 | Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. +2 Corinthians 11:25 | Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. +2 Corinthians 11:26 | I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils amongst false brothers; +2 Corinthians 11:27 | in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. +2 Corinthians 11:28 | Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. +2 Corinthians 11:29 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation? +2 Corinthians 11:30 | If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. +2 Corinthians 11:31 | The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. +2 Corinthians 11:32 | In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me. +2 Corinthians 11:33 | I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands. +2 Corinthians 12:01 | It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. +2 Corinthians 12:02 | I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. +2 Corinthians 12:03 | I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows), +2 Corinthians 12:04 | how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. +2 Corinthians 12:05 | On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. +2 Corinthians 12:06 | For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me. +2 Corinthians 12:07 | By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. +2 Corinthians 12:08 | Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. +2 Corinthians 12:09 | He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. +2 Corinthians 12:09 | My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. +2 Corinthians 12:10 | Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong. +2 Corinthians 12:11 | I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. +2 Corinthians 12:12 | Truly the signs of an apostle were worked amongst you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works. +2 Corinthians 12:13 | For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong. +2 Corinthians 12:14 | Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. +2 Corinthians 12:15 | I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? +2 Corinthians 12:16 | Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. "But, being crafty, I caught you with deception." +2 Corinthians 12:17 | Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you? +2 Corinthians 12:18 | I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps? +2 Corinthians 12:19 | Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying. +2 Corinthians 12:20 | For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots, +2 Corinthians 12:21 | that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed. +2 Corinthians 13:01 | This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." +2 Corinthians 13:02 | I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare; +2 Corinthians 13:03 | seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who towards you is not weak, but is powerful in you. +2 Corinthians 13:04 | For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God towards you. +2 Corinthians 13:05 | Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. +2 Corinthians 13:06 | But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified. +2 Corinthians 13:07 | Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honourable, though we are as reprobate. +2 Corinthians 13:08 | For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. +2 Corinthians 13:09 | For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect. +2 Corinthians 13:10 | For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down. +2 Corinthians 13:11 | Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. +2 Corinthians 13:12 | Greet one another with a holy kiss. +2 Corinthians 13:13 | All the saints greet you. +2 Corinthians 13:14 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. +2 John 01:01 | The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth, +2 John 01:02 | for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: +2 John 01:03 | Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. +2 John 01:04 | I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father. +2 John 01:05 | Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. +2 John 01:06 | This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. +2 John 01:07 | For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. +2 John 01:08 | Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward. +2 John 01:09 | Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. +2 John 01:10 | If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him, +2 John 01:11 | for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds. +2 John 01:12 | Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. +2 John 01:13 | The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen. +2 Kings 01:02 | Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, "Go, enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness." +2 Kings 01:03 | But the Lord’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? +2 Kings 01:04 | Now therefore the Lord says, "You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die." Then Elijah departed. +2 Kings 01:05 | The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why is it that you have returned?" +2 Kings 01:06 | They said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, "The Lord says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’" +2 Kings 01:07 | He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?" +2 Kings 01:08 | They answered him, "He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist." He said, "It’s Elijah the Tishbite." +2 Kings 01:09 | Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’" +2 Kings 01:10 | Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. +2 Kings 01:11 | Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’" +2 Kings 01:12 | Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. +2 Kings 01:13 | Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight. +2 Kings 01:14 | Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight." +2 Kings 01:15 | The Lord’s angel said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him." Then he arose, and went down with him to the king. +2 Kings 01:16 | He said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’" +2 Kings 01:17 | So he died according to the Lord’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son. +2 Kings 02:01 | When the Lord was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. +2 Kings 02:02 | Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel." Elisha said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel. +2 Kings 02:03 | The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from your head today?" He said, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace." +2 Kings 02:04 | Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho." He said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho. +2 Kings 02:05 | The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from your head today?" He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace." +2 Kings 02:06 | Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." Then they both went on. +2 Kings 02:07 | Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan. +2 Kings 02:08 | Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground. +2 Kings 02:09 | When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me." +2 Kings 02:10 | He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so." +2 Kings 02:11 | As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. +2 Kings 02:12 | Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. +2 Kings 02:13 | He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. +2 Kings 02:14 | He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?" When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over. +2 Kings 02:15 | When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. +2 Kings 02:16 | They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Lord’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley." He said, "Don’t send them." +2 Kings 02:17 | When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, "Send them." Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him. +2 Kings 02:18 | They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’" +2 Kings 02:19 | The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren." +2 Kings 02:20 | He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." Then they brought it to him. +2 Kings 02:21 | He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "The Lord says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’" +2 Kings 02:22 | So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke. +2 Kings 02:23 | He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!" +2 Kings 02:24 | He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the Lord’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths. +2 Kings 02:25 | He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. +2 Kings 03:01 | Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. +2 Kings 03:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. +2 Kings 03:03 | Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them. +2 Kings 03:04 | Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams. +2 Kings 03:05 | But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. +2 Kings 03:06 | King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. +2 Kings 03:07 | He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?" He said, "I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." +2 Kings 03:08 | He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom." +2 Kings 03:09 | So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them. +2 Kings 03:10 | The king of Israel said, "Alas! For the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab." +2 Kings 03:11 | But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn’t there a prophet of the Lord here, that we may enquire of the Lord by him?" One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here." +2 Kings 03:12 | Jehoshaphat said, "The Lord’s word is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. +2 Kings 03:13 | Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab." +2 Kings 03:14 | Elisha said, "As the Lord of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look towards you, nor see you. +2 Kings 03:15 | But now bring me a musician." When the musician played, the Lord’s hand came on him. +2 Kings 03:16 | He said, "The Lord says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ +2 Kings 03:17 | For the Lord says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals. +2 Kings 03:18 | This is an easy thing in the Lord’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. +2 Kings 03:19 | You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’" +2 Kings 03:20 | In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. +2 Kings 03:21 | Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armour, young and old, and stood on the border. +2 Kings 03:22 | They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. +2 Kings 03:23 | They said, "This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!" +2 Kings 03:24 | When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites. +2 Kings 03:25 | They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it. +2 Kings 03:26 | When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. +2 Kings 03:27 | Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land. +2 Kings 04:01 | Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves." +2 Kings 04:02 | Elisha said to her, "What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil." +2 Kings 04:03 | Then he said, "Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbours. Don’t borrow just a few containers. +2 Kings 04:04 | Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full." +2 Kings 04:05 | So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil. +2 Kings 04:06 | When the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn’t another container." Then the oil stopped flowing. +2 Kings 04:07 | Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest." +2 Kings 04:08 | One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. +2 Kings 04:09 | She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually. +2 Kings 04:10 | Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there." +2 Kings 04:11 | One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there. +2 Kings 04:12 | He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him. +2 Kings 04:13 | He said to him, "Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’" She answered, "I dwell amongst my own people." +2 Kings 04:14 | He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old." +2 Kings 04:15 | He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door. +2 Kings 04:16 | He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant." +2 Kings 04:17 | The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her. +2 Kings 04:18 | When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers. +2 Kings 04:19 | He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother." +2 Kings 04:20 | When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. +2 Kings 04:21 | She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out. +2 Kings 04:22 | She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again." +2 Kings 04:23 | He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath." She said, "It’s all right." +2 Kings 04:24 | Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to." +2 Kings 04:25 | So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite. +2 Kings 04:26 | Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’" She answered, "It is well." +2 Kings 04:27 | When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me." +2 Kings 04:28 | Then she said, "Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?" +2 Kings 04:29 | Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face." +2 Kings 04:30 | The child’s mother said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So he arose, and followed her. +2 Kings 04:31 | Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, "The child has not awakened." +2 Kings 04:32 | When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed. +2 Kings 04:33 | He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to the Lord. +2 Kings 04:34 | He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm. +2 Kings 04:35 | Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. +2 Kings 04:36 | He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son." +2 Kings 04:37 | Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out. +2 Kings 04:38 | Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets." +2 Kings 04:39 | One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognise them. +2 Kings 04:40 | So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it. +2 Kings 04:41 | But he said, "Then bring meal." He threw it into the pot; and he said, "Serve it to the people, that they may eat." And there was nothing harmful in the pot. +2 Kings 04:42 | A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat." +2 Kings 04:43 | His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for the Lord says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’" +2 Kings 04:44 | So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the Lord’s word. +2 Kings 05:02 | The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. +2 Kings 05:03 | She said to her mistress, "I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy." +2 Kings 05:04 | Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, "The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this." +2 Kings 05:05 | The king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing. +2 Kings 05:06 | He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy." +2 Kings 05:07 | When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me." +2 Kings 05:08 | It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." +2 Kings 05:09 | So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. +2 Kings 05:10 | Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean." +2 Kings 05:11 | But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’ +2 Kings 05:12 | Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. +2 Kings 05:13 | His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’" +2 Kings 05:14 | Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. +2 Kings 05:15 | He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant." +2 Kings 05:16 | But he said, "As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none." He urged him to take it; but he refused. +2 Kings 05:17 | Naaman said, "If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord. +2 Kings 05:18 | In this thing may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant in this thing." +2 Kings 05:19 | He said to him, "Go in peace." So he departed from him a little way. +2 Kings 05:20 | But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him, and take something from him." +2 Kings 05:21 | So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?" +2 Kings 05:22 | He said, "All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’" +2 Kings 05:23 | Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him. +2 Kings 05:24 | When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. +2 Kings 05:25 | But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, "Where did you come from, Gehazi?" He said, "Your servant went nowhere." +2 Kings 05:26 | He said to him, "Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? +2 Kings 05:27 | Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever." He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow. +2 Kings 06:01 | The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us. +2 Kings 06:02 | Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live." He answered, "Go!" +2 Kings 06:03 | One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go." +2 Kings 06:04 | So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. +2 Kings 06:05 | But as one was cutting down a tree, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed." +2 Kings 06:06 | The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. +2 Kings 06:07 | He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it. +2 Kings 06:08 | Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place." +2 Kings 06:09 | The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there." +2 Kings 06:10 | The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice. +2 Kings 06:11 | The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, "Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?" +2 Kings 06:12 | One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom." +2 Kings 06:13 | He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." He was told, "Behold, he is in Dothan." +2 Kings 06:14 | Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city. +2 Kings 06:15 | When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" +2 Kings 06:16 | He answered, "Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." +2 Kings 06:17 | Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD, please open his eyes, that he may see." the Lord opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. +2 Kings 06:18 | When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to Elisha’s word. +2 Kings 06:19 | Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria. +2 Kings 06:20 | When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, "LORD, open these men’s eyes, that they may see." The Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria. +2 Kings 06:21 | The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?" +2 Kings 06:22 | He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master." +2 Kings 06:23 | He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel. +2 Kings 06:24 | After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. +2 Kings 06:25 | There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. +2 Kings 06:26 | As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!" +2 Kings 06:27 | He said, "If the Lord doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" +2 Kings 06:28 | The king said to her, "What is your problem?" She answered, "This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ +2 Kings 06:29 | So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son." +2 Kings 06:30 | When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body. +2 Kings 06:31 | Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today." +2 Kings 06:32 | But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?" +2 Kings 06:33 | While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Behold, this evil is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?" +2 Kings 07:01 | Elisha said, "Hear the Lord’s word. The Lord says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’" +2 Kings 07:02 | Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if the Lord made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it." +2 Kings 07:03 | Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, "Why do we sit here until we die? +2 Kings 07:04 | If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die." +2 Kings 07:05 | They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there. +2 Kings 07:06 | For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us." +2 Kings 07:07 | Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. +2 Kings 07:08 | When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them. +2 Kings 07:09 | Then they said to one another, "We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household." +2 Kings 07:10 | So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were." +2 Kings 07:11 | He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king’s household within. +2 Kings 07:12 | The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’" +2 Kings 07:13 | One of his servants answered, "Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let’s send and see." +2 Kings 07:14 | Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see." +2 Kings 07:15 | They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king. +2 Kings 07:16 | The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the Lord’s word. +2 Kings 07:17 | The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. +2 Kings 07:18 | It happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria" +2 Kings 07:19 | and that captain answered the man of God, and said, "Now, behold, if the Lord made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?" and he said, "Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it." +2 Kings 07:20 | It happened like that to him; for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died. +2 Kings 08:01 | Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years." +2 Kings 08:02 | The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. +2 Kings 08:03 | At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land. +2 Kings 08:04 | Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done." +2 Kings 08:05 | As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life." +2 Kings 08:06 | When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now." +2 Kings 08:07 | Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, "The man of God has come here." +2 Kings 08:08 | The king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’" +2 Kings 08:09 | So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’" +2 Kings 08:10 | Elisha said to him, "Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however the Lord has shown me that he will surely die." +2 Kings 08:11 | He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept. +2 Kings 08:12 | Hazael said, "Why do you weep, my lord?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women." +2 Kings 08:13 | Hazael said, "But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Syria." +2 Kings 09:04 | So the young man, even the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. +2 Kings 09:05 | When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, "I have a message for you, captain." Jehu said, "To which of us all?" He said, "To you, O captain." +2 Kings 09:06 | He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel. +2 Kings 09:07 | You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel. +2 Kings 09:08 | For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. +2 Kings 09:09 | I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. +2 Kings 09:10 | The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’" Then he opened the door and fled. +2 Kings 09:12 | They said, "That is a lie. Tell us now." He said, "He said to me, ‘The Lord says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’" +2 Kings 09:13 | Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, "Jehu is king." +2 Kings 09:17 | Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’" +2 Kings 09:18 | So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, "the king says, ‘Is it peace?’" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" The watchman said, "The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back." +2 Kings 09:19 | Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, "The king says, ‘Is it peace?’" Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" +2 Kings 09:20 | The watchman said, "He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." +2 Kings 09:21 | Joram said, "Get ready!" They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land. +2 Kings 09:22 | When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?" +2 Kings 09:23 | Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, "This is treason, Ahaziah!" +2 Kings 09:24 | Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. +2 Kings 09:25 | Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden on him: +2 Kings 09:26 | ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the Lord’s word." +2 Kings 09:27 | But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, "Strike him also in the chariot!" They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. +2 Kings 09:28 | His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city. +2 Kings 09:31 | As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, "Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?" +2 Kings 09:32 | He lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. +2 Kings 09:33 | He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot. +2 Kings 09:34 | When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter." +2 Kings 09:35 | They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands. +2 Kings 09:36 | Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, "This is the Lord’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel, +2 Kings 09:37 | and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, "This is Jezebel." +2 Kings 10:02 | "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armour, +2 Kings 10:03 | Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house." +2 Kings 10:04 | But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?" +2 Kings 10:05 | He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes." +2 Kings 10:06 | Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time." Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. +2 Kings 10:07 | When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel. +2 Kings 10:08 | A messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king’s sons." He said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning." +2 Kings 10:09 | In the morning, he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? +2 Kings 10:10 | Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of the Lord’s word, which the Lord spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For the Lord has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah." +2 Kings 10:11 | So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining. +2 Kings 10:12 | He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way, +2 Kings 10:13 | Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?" They answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen." +2 Kings 10:14 | He said, "Take them alive!" They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them. +2 Kings 10:15 | When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" Jehonadab answered, "It is." "If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. +2 Kings 10:16 | He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord." So they made him ride in his chariot. +2 Kings 10:17 | When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke to Elijah. +2 Kings 10:18 | Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. +2 Kings 10:19 | Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live." But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshippers of Baal. +2 Kings 10:20 | Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!" So they proclaimed it. +2 Kings 10:21 | Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another. +2 Kings 10:22 | He said to him who kept the wardrobe, "Bring out robes for all the worshippers of Baal!" So he brought robes out to them. +2 Kings 10:30 | The Lord said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." +2 Kings 11:03 | He was with her hidden in the Lord’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land. +2 Kings 11:04 | In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the Lord’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the Lord’s house, and showed them the king’s son. +2 Kings 11:05 | He commanded them, saying, "This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; +2 Kings 11:06 | a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. +2 Kings 11:07 | The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the Lord’s house around the king. +2 Kings 11:08 | You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in." +2 Kings 11:09 | The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. +2 Kings 11:10 | The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 11:11 | The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king. +2 Kings 11:12 | Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!" +2 Kings 11:13 | When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the Lord’s house: +2 Kings 11:14 | and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!" +2 Kings 11:15 | Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword." For the priest said, "Don’t let her be slain in the Lord’s house." +2 Kings 11:16 | So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there. +2 Kings 11:17 | Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; also between the king and the people. +2 Kings 11:18 | All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 11:19 | He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the Lord’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings. +2 Kings 11:20 | So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house. +2 Kings 12:01 | Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. +2 Kings 12:02 | Jehoash did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. +2 Kings 12:03 | However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +2 Kings 12:04 | Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the Lord’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the Lord’s house, +2 Kings 12:05 | let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found." +2 Kings 12:06 | But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. +2 Kings 12:07 | Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, "Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house." +2 Kings 12:08 | The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house. +2 Kings 12:09 | But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the Lord’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the Lord’s house into it. +2 Kings 12:10 | When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 12:11 | They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the Lord’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the Lord’s house, +2 Kings 12:12 | and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. +2 Kings 12:13 | But there were not made for the Lord’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the Lord’s house; +2 Kings 12:14 | for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the Lord’s house with it. +2 Kings 12:15 | Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. +2 Kings 12:16 | The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the Lord’s house. It was the priests’. +2 Kings 12:17 | Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. +2 Kings 12:18 | Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the Lord’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem. +2 Kings 12:19 | Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +2 Kings 12:20 | His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. +2 Kings 12:21 | For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. +2 Kings 17:17 | They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. +2 Kings 17:18 | Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only. +2 Kings 17:19 | Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. +2 Kings 17:20 | The Lord rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight. +2 Kings 17:21 | For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin. +2 Kings 17:22 | The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them +2 Kings 17:23 | until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. +2 Kings 17:24 | The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities. +2 Kings 17:25 | So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions amongst them, which killed some of them. +2 Kings 17:26 | Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions amongst them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land." +2 Kings 17:27 | Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land." +2 Kings 17:28 | So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord. +2 Kings 17:29 | However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. +2 Kings 17:30 | The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, +2 Kings 17:31 | and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. +2 Kings 17:32 | So they feared the Lord, and also made from amongst themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. +2 Kings 17:33 | They feared the Lord, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from amongst whom they had been carried away. +2 Kings 17:34 | To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; +2 Kings 17:35 | with whom the Lord had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; +2 Kings 17:36 | but you shall fear the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him. +2 Kings 17:37 | The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods. +2 Kings 17:38 | You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods. +2 Kings 17:39 | But you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies." +2 Kings 17:40 | However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before. +2 Kings 17:41 | So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day. +2 Kings 18:01 | Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. +2 Kings 18:02 | He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. +2 Kings 18:03 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done. +2 Kings 18:04 | He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. +2 Kings 18:05 | He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him amongst all the kings of Judah, nor amongst them that were before him. +2 Kings 18:06 | For he joined with the Lord. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. +2 Kings 18:07 | The Lord was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him. +2 Kings 18:08 | He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. +2 Kings 18:09 | In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. +2 Kings 18:10 | At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. +2 Kings 18:11 | The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, +2 Kings 18:12 | because they didn’t obey the Lord their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear it or do it. +2 Kings 18:13 | Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. +2 Kings 18:15 | Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the Lord’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house. +2 Kings 18:16 | At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the Lord’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. +2 Kings 18:17 | The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. +2 Kings 18:18 | When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them. +2 Kings 18:19 | Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, "What confidence is this in which you trust? +2 Kings 18:20 | You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? +2 Kings 18:21 | Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him. +2 Kings 18:22 | But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’ +2 Kings 18:23 | Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. +2 Kings 18:24 | How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? +2 Kings 18:25 | Have I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? the Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’" +2 Kings 18:26 | Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." +2 Kings 18:27 | But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?" +2 Kings 18:28 | Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. +2 Kings 18:29 | The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. +2 Kings 18:30 | Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." +2 Kings 18:31 | Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern; +2 Kings 18:32 | until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "The Lord will deliver us." +2 Kings 18:33 | Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +2 Kings 18:34 | Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? +2 Kings 18:35 | Who are they amongst all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’" +2 Kings 18:36 | But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, "Don’t answer him." +2 Kings 19:01 | When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 19:02 | He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. +2 Kings 19:03 | They said to him, "Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. +2 Kings 19:04 | It may be the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’" +2 Kings 19:06 | Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master this: ‘The Lord says, "Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. +2 Kings 19:07 | Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." +2 Kings 19:10 | ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: "Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. +2 Kings 19:11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? +2 Kings 19:12 | Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? +2 Kings 19:13 | Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?" +2 Kings 19:14 | Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s house, and spread it before the Lord. +2 Kings 19:15 | Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, "LORD, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. +2 Kings 19:16 | Incline your ear, Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, Lord, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. +2 Kings 19:17 | Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, +2 Kings 19:18 | and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. +2 Kings 19:19 | Now therefore, Lord our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are God alone." +2 Kings 19:20 | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you. +2 Kings 19:21 | This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. +2 Kings 19:22 | Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! +2 Kings 19:23 | By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. +2 Kings 19:24 | I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet." +2 Kings 19:25 | Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. +2 Kings 19:26 | Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up. +2 Kings 19:27 | But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. +2 Kings 19:28 | Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’ +2 Kings 19:29 | "This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. +2 Kings 19:30 | The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +2 Kings 19:31 | For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The Lord’s zeal will perform this. +2 Kings 19:32 | "Therefore the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. +2 Kings 19:33 | He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says the Lord. +2 Kings 19:34 | ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’" +2 Kings 19:35 | That night, the Lord’s angel went out, and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. +2 Kings 19:37 | As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. +2 Kings 20:03 | "Remember now, Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. +2 Kings 20:05 | "Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘The Lord, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 20:06 | I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake." +2 Kings 20:07 | Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. +2 Kings 20:08 | Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the Lord’s house the third day?" +2 Kings 20:09 | Isaiah said, "This will be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?" +2 Kings 20:10 | Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps." +2 Kings 20:11 | Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz. +2 Kings 20:12 | At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. +2 Kings 20:13 | Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them. +2 Kings 20:14 | Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, even from Babylon." +2 Kings 20:15 | He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them." +2 Kings 20:17 | ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. +2 Kings 20:18 | ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’" +2 Kings 20:19 | Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The Lord’s word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?" +2 Kings 20:20 | Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +2 Kings 20:21 | Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place. +2 Kings 21:01 | Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. +2 Kings 21:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. +2 Kings 21:03 | For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them. +2 Kings 21:04 | He built altars in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem." +2 Kings 21:05 | He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 21:06 | He made his son to pass through the fire, practised sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. +2 Kings 21:07 | He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever; +2 Kings 21:08 | I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them." +2 Kings 21:09 | But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. +2 Kings 21:11 | "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols; +2 Kings 21:12 | therefore the Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. +2 Kings 21:13 | I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. +2 Kings 21:14 | I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies, +2 Kings 21:15 | because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’" +2 Kings 21:16 | Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. +2 Kings 22:02 | He did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. +2 Kings 22:05 | Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the Lord’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the Lord’s house, to repair the damage to the house, +2 Kings 22:06 | to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. +2 Kings 22:07 | However no accounting shall be made with them of the money delivered into their hand; for they deal faithfully." +2 Kings 22:08 | Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s house." Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. +2 Kings 22:09 | Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of the Lord’s house." +2 Kings 22:10 | Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me." Then Shaphan read it before the king. +2 Kings 22:11 | When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. +2 Kings 22:13 | "Go enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us." +2 Kings 22:14 | So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her. +2 Kings 22:15 | She said to them, "The Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, +2 Kings 22:16 | "The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. +2 Kings 22:17 | Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’" +2 Kings 22:18 | But to the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of The Lord, tell him, "the Lord the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard, +2 Kings 22:19 | because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says the Lord. +2 Kings 22:20 | ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’" So they brought this message back to the king. +2 Kings 23:01 | The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. +2 Kings 23:02 | The king went up to the Lord’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 23:03 | The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant. +2 Kings 23:04 | The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burnt them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. +2 Kings 23:05 | He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burnt incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. +2 Kings 23:06 | He brought out the Asherah from the Lord’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. +2 Kings 23:07 | He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the Lord’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. +2 Kings 23:08 | He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city. +2 Kings 23:09 | Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread amongst their brothers. +2 Kings 23:10 | He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. +2 Kings 23:11 | He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the Lord’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burnt the chariots of the sun with fire. +2 Kings 23:12 | The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the Lord’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. +2 Kings 23:13 | The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon. +2 Kings 23:14 | He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones. +2 Kings 23:15 | Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burnt the high place and beat it to dust, and burnt the Asherah. +2 Kings 23:16 | As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burnt them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the Lord’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. +2 Kings 23:17 | Then he said, "What monument is that which I see?" The men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel." +2 Kings 23:18 | He said, "Let him be! Let no one move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. +2 Kings 23:19 | All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. +2 Kings 23:20 | He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burnt men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem. +2 Kings 23:21 | The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant." +2 Kings 23:22 | Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; +2 Kings 23:23 | but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem. +2 Kings 23:24 | Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the Lord’s house. +2 Kings 23:25 | There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him. +2 Kings 23:26 | Notwithstanding, the Lord didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burnt against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. +2 Kings 23:27 | The Lord said, "I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’" +2 Kings 24:03 | Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, +2 Kings 24:04 | and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon. +2 Maccabees 01:01 | The kindred, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greeting to the kindred, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, [and wish them] good peace: +2 Maccabees 01:02 | and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants; +2 Maccabees 01:03 | and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul; +2 Maccabees 01:04 | and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace, +2 Maccabees 01:05 | and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time. +2 Maccabees 01:06 | And now we here are praying for you. +2 Maccabees 01:07 | In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have [already] written to you in the suffering and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom, +2 Maccabees 01:08 | and set the gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal [offering] and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the show bread. +2 Maccabees 01:09 | And now [see] that you keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev. +2 Maccabees 01:10 | [Written] in the hundred fourscore and eighth year. THEY that are in Jerusalem and those who are in Judea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health. +2 Maccabees 01:11 | Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly. +2 Maccabees 01:12 | For he cast forth into Persia those who arrayed themselves [against us] in the holy city. +2 Maccabees 01:13 | For when the prince was come [there] and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests. +2 Maccabees 01:14 | For Antiochus, on the pretence that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry. +2 Maccabees 01:15 | And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set the treasures forth, and he was come there with a small company within the wall of the precincts, they shut to the temple when Antiochus was come in: +2 Maccabees 01:16 | and opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the prince, and they hewed [him and his company] in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without. +2 Maccabees 01:17 | Blessed [be] our God in all things, who gave [for a prey] those who had committed impiety. +2 Maccabees 01:18 | Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the [month] Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that you also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and [a memorial] of the fire [which was given] when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar. +2 Maccabees 01:19 | For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made [it] sure, so that the place was unknown to all men. +2 Maccabees 01:20 | Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests that hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick water, +2 Maccabees 01:21 | he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring [to him:] and when the sacrifices had been offered [on the altar] Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with the water both the wood and the things laid thereupon. +2 Maccabees 01:22 | And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clouds, there was kindled a great blaze, so that all men marvelled. +2 Maccabees 01:23 | And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all [others] Jonathan leading and the rest answering, as Nehemiah did. +2 Maccabees 01:24 | And the prayer was after this manner: O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are terrible and strong and righteous and merciful, who alone are King and gracious, +2 Maccabees 01:25 | who alone supply [every need] who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers [your] chosen, and did sanctify them: +2 Maccabees 01:26 | accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it. +2 Maccabees 01:27 | Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage amongst the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God. +2 Maccabees 01:28 | Torment those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us. +2 Maccabees 01:29 | Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said. +2 Maccabees 01:31 | And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded to pour [on] great stones the water that was left. +2 Maccabees 01:32 | And when this was done, a flame was kindled; but when the light from the altar shone near it, [all] was consumed. +2 Maccabees 01:33 | And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared the water, wherewith also Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice, +2 Maccabees 01:34 | then the king, inclosing [the place] made it sacred, after he had proved the matter. +2 Maccabees 01:35 | And when the king would show favour to any, he would take [from them] many presents and give them some of [this water.] +2 Maccabees 01:36 | And Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cleansing; but most men call it Nephthai. +2 Maccabees 02:01 | It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take of the fire, as has been signified [above: ] +2 Maccabees 02:02 | and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord, neither be led astray in their minds, when they saw images of gold and silver, and the adornment thereof. +2 Maccabees 02:03 | And with other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their heart. +2 Maccabees 02:04 | And it was [contained] in the writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, when he went forth into the mountain where Moses went up and saw the heritage of God. +2 Maccabees 02:05 | And Jeremiah came and found a chamber in the rock, and there he brought in the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense; and he made fast the door. +2 Maccabees 02:06 | And some of those that followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it. +2 Maccabees 02:07 | But when Jeremiah perceived it, he blamed them, saying, Yes and the place shall be unknown until God gather the people again together, and mercy come: +2 Maccabees 02:08 | and then shall the Lord disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord shall be seen, and the cloud. As also it was showed with Moses; as also Solomon implored that the place might be consecrated greatly, +2 Maccabees 02:09 | and it was also declared that he, having wisdom, offered a sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple; [so we would have it now.] +2 Maccabees 02:10 | As Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down out of heaven and consumed the sacrifice, even so prayed Solomon also, and the fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings; +2 Maccabees 02:11 | (and Moses said, Because the sin offering had not been eaten, it was consumed in like manner [with the rest];) +2 Maccabees 02:13 | And the same things were related both in the public archives and in the records that concern Nehemiah; and how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the [books] of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts. +2 Maccabees 02:14 | And in like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those [writings] that had been scattered by reason of the war that befell, and they are [still] with us. +2 Maccabees 02:15 | If therefore you have need thereof, send some to fetch them to you. +2 Maccabees 02:16 | Seeing then that we are about to keep the purification, we write to you; you will therefore do well if you keep the days. +2 Maccabees 02:17 | Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the hallowing, +2 Maccabees 02:18 | even as he promised through the law,— in God have we hope, that he will quickly have mercy upon us, and gather [us] together out of all the earth to the holy place: for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place. +2 Maccabees 02:19 | Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his kindred, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar, +2 Maccabees 02:20 | and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son, +2 Maccabees 02:21 | and the manifestations that came from heaven to those that vied with one another in manful deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they rescued the whole country, and chased the barbarous multitudes, +2 Maccabees 02:22 | and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and restored the laws which were like to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became gracious to them with all forbearance: +2 Maccabees 02:23 | [these things, I say] which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one work. +2 Maccabees 02:24 | For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter, +2 Maccabees 02:25 | we were careful that they who choose to read may be attracted, and that they who wish well [to our cause] may find it easy to recall [what we have written] and that all readers may have profit. +2 Maccabees 02:26 | And although to us, who have taken upon us the painful labour of the abridgement, the task is not easy, but [a matter] of sweat and watching +2 Maccabees 02:27 | (even as it is no light thing to him that prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others); yet for the sake of the gratitude of the many we will gladly endure the painful labour, +2 Maccabees 02:28 | leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again having no strength to fill in the outlines of our abridgement. +2 Maccabees 02:29 | For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole structure, and again he that undertakes to decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for the adorning thereof; even so I think it is also with us. +2 Maccabees 02:30 | To occupy the ground, and to indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, becomes the first author of the history: +2 Maccabees 02:31 | but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a laboured fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form. +2 Maccabees 02:32 | Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding thus much to that which has been already said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history [itself.] +2 Maccabees 03:01 | WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness, +2 Maccabees 03:02 | it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honour the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents; +2 Maccabees 03:03 | insomuch that even Seleucus the king of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices. +2 Maccabees 03:04 | But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the ruling of the market in the city. +2 Maccabees 03:05 | And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius [the son] of Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia: +2 Maccabees 03:06 | and he brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power. +2 Maccabees 03:07 | And when Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money whereof he had been told; and the [king] appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a commandment to accomplish the removal of the aforesaid money. +2 Maccabees 03:08 | So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under a colour of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose. +2 Maccabees 03:09 | And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest of the city, he laid before [them] an account of the information which had been given [him] and declared wherefore he was come; and he enquired if in truth these things were so. +2 Maccabees 03:10 | And the high priest explained to him that there were [in the treasury] deposits of widows and orphans, +2 Maccabees 03:11 | and moreover some [money] belonging to Hyrcanus the [son] of Tobias, a man in very high place, [and that the case was] not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold; +2 Maccabees 03:12 | and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honoured over all the world. +2 Maccabees 03:13 | But Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandments given him, said that in any case this [money] must be confiscated for the king’s treasury. +2 Maccabees 03:14 | So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the enquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city. +2 Maccabees 03:15 | And the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and [looking] towards heaven, called upon him that gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these [treasures] safe for those that had deposited them. +2 Maccabees 03:16 | And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his colour betrayed the distress of his soul. +2 Maccabees 03:17 | For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked upon him. +2 Maccabees 03:18 | And those who were in the houses rushed flocking out to make a universal supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. +2 Maccabees 03:19 | And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ward ran together, some to the gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows. +2 Maccabees 03:20 | And all, stretching forth their hands towards heaven, made their solemn supplication. +2 Maccabees 03:21 | Then it would have pitied a man to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the expectation of the high priest in his sore distress. +2 Maccabees 03:22 | While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted [to them] safe and sure for those that had entrusted them, +2 Maccabees 03:24 | But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great apparition, so that all that had presumed to come [in] with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted and were sore afraid. +2 Maccabees 03:25 | For there was seen by them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete armour of gold. +2 Maccabees 03:26 | Two others also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes. +2 Maccabees 03:27 | And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, [his guards] caught him up and put him into a litter, +2 Maccabees 03:28 | and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognise the sovereignty of God. +2 Maccabees 03:29 | And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate, +2 Maccabees 03:30 | they blessed the Lord, that made marvellous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared. +2 Maccabees 03:31 | But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp. +2 Maccabees 03:32 | And the high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery towards Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the deliverance of the man. +2 Maccabees 03:33 | But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life; +2 Maccabees 03:34 | and do you, since you have been scourged from heaven, publish to all men the sovereign majesty of God. And when they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight. +2 Maccabees 03:35 | So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king. +2 Maccabees 03:36 | And he testified to all men the works of the great God which he had seen with his eyes. +2 Maccabees 03:37 | And when the king asked Heliodorus, what manner of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said, +2 Maccabees 03:38 | If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you shall receive him back well scourged, if he even escape with his life; because of a truth there is about the place a power of God. +2 Maccabees 03:39 | For he that has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes upon that place, and helps it; and those who come to hurt it he strikes and destroys. +2 Maccabees 03:40 | And such was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury. +2 Maccabees 04:01 | But the aforesaid Simon, he who had given information of the money, and [had betrayed] his country, slandered Onias, [saying] that it was he who had incited Heliodorus, and made himself the author of these evils. +2 Maccabees 04:02 | And him that was the benefactor of the city, and the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws, he dared to call a conspirator against the state. +2 Maccabees 04:03 | But when the growing enmity [between them] waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s trusted followers, +2 Maccabees 04:04 | Onias, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apollonius [the son] of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice, +2 Maccabees 04:05 | betook himself to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the people, both public and private; +2 Maccabees 04:06 | for he saw that without the king’s providence it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness. +2 Maccabees 04:07 | But when Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted [his brother] in the high priesthood, +2 Maccabees 04:08 | having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and [out] of another fund eighty talents; +2 Maccabees 04:09 | and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him through the king’s authority to set him up a [Greek] place of exercise and [form] a body of youths [to be trained therein] and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as [citizens] of Antioch. +2 Maccabees 04:10 | And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion. +2 Maccabees 04:11 | And setting aside the royal ordinances of special favour to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the ambassage to the Romans for friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful modes of life, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law: +2 Maccabees 04:12 | for he eagerly established a [Greek] place of exercise under the citadel itself; and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the [Greek] cap. +2 Maccabees 04:13 | And thus there was an extreme of hellenization, and an advance of an alien religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly man and no high priest; +2 Maccabees 04:14 | so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar: but despising the sanctuary, and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the palaestra, after the summons of the discus; +2 Maccabees 04:15 | making of no account the honours of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks best of all. +2 Maccabees 04:16 | By reason whereof sore calamity beset them; and the men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these became their enemies and punished them. +2 Maccabees 04:17 | For it is not a light thing to do impiously against the laws of God: but these things the time following shall declare. +2 Maccabees 04:18 | Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present, +2 Maccabees 04:19 | the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for [any] sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to expend on another charge. +2 Maccabees 04:20 | And though in the purpose of the sender this [money was] for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of present circumstances it went to the equipment of the galleys. +2 Maccabees 04:21 | Now when Apollonius the [son] of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the enthronement of [Ptolemy] Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that [Ptolemy] had shown himself ill affected towards the state, took thought for the security of his realm; wherefore, going [by sea] to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem. +2 Maccabees 04:22 | And being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. This done, he afterward led his army down into Phoenicia. +2 Maccabees 04:23 | Now after a space of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money to the king, and to make reports concerning some necessary matters. +2 Maccabees 04:24 | But he being commended to the king, and having glorified himself by the display of his authority, got the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. +2 Maccabees 04:25 | And having received the royal mandates he came [to Jerusalem] bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast. +2 Maccabees 04:26 | And whereas Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites, +2 Maccabees 04:27 | Menelaus had possession of the office: but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing was duly paid, and that though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it +2 Maccabees 04:28 | (for to him appertained the gathering of the revenues); for which cause they were both called by the king to his presence. +2 Maccabees 04:29 | And Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus [left] Crates, who was over the Cyprians. +2 Maccabees 04:30 | Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine. +2 Maccabees 04:31 | The king therefore came [to Cilicia] in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank. +2 Maccabees 04:32 | And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favourable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other [vessels] also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about. +2 Maccabees 04:33 | And when Onias had sure knowledge [of this] he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch. +2 Maccabees 04:34 | Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him to kill Onias. And coming to Onias, and being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, [Andronicus] gave him his right hand with oaths [of fidelity] and, though he was suspected [by him, so] persuaded him to come forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith he despatched him without regard of justice. +2 Maccabees 04:35 | For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man. +2 Maccabees 04:36 | And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city pleaded before [him against Andronicus] (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain. +2 Maccabees 04:37 | Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead; +2 Maccabees 04:38 | and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved. +2 Maccabees 04:39 | Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the report of them was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed. +2 Maccabees 04:40 | And when the multitudes were rising against [him] and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began [the conflict] one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading [the attack.] +2 Maccabees 04:41 | But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him; +2 Maccabees 04:42 | by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all [of them] they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury. +2 Maccabees 04:43 | But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus. +2 Maccabees 04:44 | And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him. +2 Maccabees 04:45 | But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the [son] of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king. +2 Maccabees 04:46 | Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind: +2 Maccabees 04:47 | and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death. +2 Maccabees 04:48 | Soon then did those who were spokesmen for the city and the families [of Israel] and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty. +2 Maccabees 04:49 | For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial. +2 Maccabees 04:50 | But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of those who were in power remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens. +2 Maccabees 05:01 | Now about this time Antiochus made his second inroad into Egypt. +2 Maccabees 05:02 | And it [so] befell that throughout all the city, for the space of almost forty days, there appeared in the midst of the sky horsemen in swift motion, wearing robes inwrought with gold and [carrying] spears, equipped in troops for battle; +2 Maccabees 05:03 | and drawing of swords; and [on the other side] squadrons of horse in array; and encounters and pursuits of both [armies;] and shaking of shields, and multitudes of lances, and casting of darts, and flashing of golden trappings, and girding on of all sorts of armour. +2 Maccabees 05:04 | Wherefore all men implored that the vision might have been given for good. +2 Maccabees 05:05 | But when a false rumour had arisen that Antiochus was deceased, Jason took not less than a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and those who were upon the wall being routed, and the city being now at length well near taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel. +2 Maccabees 05:06 | But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen. +2 Maccabees 05:07 | The office [however] he didn’t get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites. +2 Maccabees 05:08 | At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been shut up at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as an apostate from the laws, and held in abomination as the butcher of his country and his fellow-citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt; +2 Maccabees 05:09 | and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished [himself] in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter [there] because they were near of kin; +2 Maccabees 05:10 | and he that had cast out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him, nor had he any funeral at all, or place in the sepulchre of his fathers. +2 Maccabees 05:11 | Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, +2 Maccabees 05:12 | and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses; +2 Maccabees 05:13 | and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants. +2 Maccabees 05:14 | And in all the three days [of the slaughter] there were destroyed fourscore thousand, [whereof] forty thousand [were slain] in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain. +2 Maccabees 05:15 | But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country), +2 Maccabees 05:16 | even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place. +2 Maccabees 05:17 | And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was [then] turned away from the place. +2 Maccabees 05:18 | But had it not so been that they were already bound by many sins, this man, even as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus the king to view the treasury, would, so soon as he pressed forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed. +2 Maccabees 05:19 | However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake. +2 Maccabees 05:20 | Wherefore also the place itself, having shared in the calamities that befell the nation, did afterward share in [its] benefits; and the [place] which was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was, at the reconciliation of the great Sovereign, restored again with all glory. +2 Maccabees 05:21 | As for Antiochus, when he had carried away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot, because his heart was lifted up. +2 Maccabees 05:22 | And moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him that set him there; +2 Maccabees 05:23 | and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. And having a malicious mind towards the Jews [whom he had made] his citizens, +2 Maccabees 05:24 | he sent that lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to kill all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men. +2 Maccabees 05:25 | And he coming to Jerusalem, and playing the man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade in arms. +2 Maccabees 05:26 | And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes. +2 Maccabees 05:27 | But Judas, who is also [called] Maccabaeus, with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains after the manner of wild beasts; and they continued feeding on such poor herbs as grew there, that they might not be partakers of the [threatened] pollution. +2 Maccabees 06:01 | And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God; +2 Maccabees 06:02 | and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of Jupiter Olympius, and [to call] the [sanctuary] in Gerizim by the name of Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they were that lived in the place. +2 Maccabees 06:03 | But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil. +2 Maccabees 06:04 | For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting; +2 Maccabees 06:05 | and the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws. +2 Maccabees 06:06 | And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew. +2 Maccabees 06:07 | And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honour of Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy. +2 Maccabees 06:08 | A decree went out to the neighbouring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices; +2 Maccabees 06:09 | and that they should kill such as didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see: +2 Maccabees 06:10 | for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall. +2 Maccabees 06:11 | And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burnt together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honour of that most solemn day. +2 Maccabees 06:12 | I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but account that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race. +2 Maccabees 06:13 | For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but immediately meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence. +2 Maccabees 06:14 | For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with patience forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of [their] sins; but not so judged he as touching us, +2 Maccabees 06:15 | that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, when we be come to the height of our sins. +2 Maccabees 06:16 | Wherefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, yet does he not forsake his own people. +2 Maccabees 06:17 | However let this that we have spoken suffice to put [you] in remembrance; but after [these] few words we must come to the narrative. +2 Maccabees 06:18 | Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh. +2 Maccabees 06:19 | But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth [the flesh] +2 Maccabees 06:20 | [coming forward] as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not [even] for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste. +2 Maccabees 06:21 | But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was befitting for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king; +2 Maccabees 06:22 | that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly. +2 Maccabees 06:23 | But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and the grey hairs which he had reached with honour, and his excellent education from a child, or rather [that became] the holy laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him to Hades. +2 Maccabees 06:24 | For it becomes not our years to dissemble, [said he] that [through this] many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over to an alien religion; +2 Maccabees 06:25 | and [so] they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, and [thus] I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age. +2 Maccabees 06:26 | For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead. +2 Maccabees 06:27 | Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age, +2 Maccabees 06:28 | and leave behind a noble example to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture. +2 Maccabees 06:29 | And when they changed the good will they bore towards him a little before into ill will, because these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness, +2 Maccabees 06:30 | and when he was at the point to die with the stripes, he groaned aloud and said, "To the Lord, who has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him." +2 Maccabees 06:31 | So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an example of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation. +2 Maccabees 07:01 | And it came to pass that seven kindred also with their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh. +2 Maccabees 07:02 | But one of them made himself the spokesman and said, What would you ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers. +2 Maccabees 07:03 | And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and cauldrons: +2 Maccabees 07:04 | and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his kindred and his mother looking on. +2 Maccabees 07:05 | And when he was utterly maimed, [the king] commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapour of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus: +2 Maccabees 07:06 | The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesses against [the people] to their faces, saying, And he shall be entreated for his servants. +2 Maccabees 07:07 | And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, "Will you eat, before your body is punished in every limb?" +2 Maccabees 07:08 | But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, "No." Therefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done. +2 Maccabees 07:09 | And when he was at the last gasp, he said, "You, miscreant, release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life." +2 Maccabees 07:10 | And after him was the third made a mocking-stock. And when he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched forth his hands courageously, +2 Maccabees 07:11 | and nobly said, From heaven I possess these; and for his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt; and from him I hope to receive these back again: +2 Maccabees 07:12 | insomuch that the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains. +2 Maccabees 07:13 | And when he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in like manner. +2 Maccabees 07:14 | And being come near to death he said thus: It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hopes which are [given] by God, that we shall be raised up again by him; for as for you, you shall have no resurrection to life. +2 Maccabees 07:15 | And next after him they brought the fifth, and shamefully handled him. +2 Maccabees 07:16 | But he looked towards the king and said, Because you have authority amongst men, though you are [yourself] corruptible, you do what you will; yet think not that our race has been forsaken of God; +2 Maccabees 07:17 | but hold you on your way, and behold his sovereign majesty, how it will torture you and your seed. +2 Maccabees 07:18 | And after him they brought the sixth. And when he was at the point to die he said, Be not vainly deceived, for we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God: marvellous things are come to pass; +2 Maccabees 07:19 | but think not you that you shall be unpunished, having assayed to fight against God. +2 Maccabees 07:20 | But above all was the mother marvellous and worthy of honourable memory; for when she looked on seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bare [the sight] with a good courage for the hopes [that she had set] on the Lord. +2 Maccabees 07:21 | And she exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble temper and stirring up her womanish thought with manly passion, saying to them, +2 Maccabees 07:22 | I know not how you came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you. +2 Maccabees 07:23 | Therefore the Creator of the world, who fashioned the generation of man and devised the generation of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your spirit and your life, as you now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws’ sake. +2 Maccabees 07:24 | But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal [to him] by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the [customs] of his fathers, and that he would take him for his Friend and entrust him with affairs. +2 Maccabees 07:25 | But when the young man would in no wise give heed, the king called to him his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the lad to save himself. +2 Maccabees 07:26 | And when he had exhorted her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son. +2 Maccabees 07:27 | But bending towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke thus in the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried you nine months in my womb, and gave you suck three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you. +2 Maccabees 07:28 | I beseech you, my child, to lift your eyes to the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognise that God made them not of things that were, and [that] the race of men in this wise comes into being. +2 Maccabees 07:29 | Don’t be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your kindred, accept your death, that in the mercy [of God] I may receive you again with your kindred. +2 Maccabees 07:30 | But before she had yet ended speaking, the young man said, Whom wait you for? I obey not the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses. +2 Maccabees 07:31 | But you, that have devised all manner of evil against the Hebrews, shall in no wise escape the hands of God. +2 Maccabees 07:32 | For we are suffering because of our own sins; +2 Maccabees 07:33 | and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants. +2 Maccabees 07:34 | But you, O unholy man and of all most vile, be not vainly lifted up in your wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising your hand against the heavenly children; +2 Maccabees 07:35 | For not yet have you escaped the judgement of the Almighty God that sees [all things.] +2 Maccabees 07:36 | For these our kindred, having endured a short pain that brings everlasting life, have now died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogance. +2 Maccabees 07:37 | But I, as my kindred, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God; +2 Maccabees 07:38 | and that in me and my kindred you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race. +2 Maccabees 07:39 | But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking. +2 Maccabees 07:40 | So he also died pure [from pollution] putting his whole trust in the Lord. +2 Maccabees 07:42 | Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the [enforcement of] sacrificial feasts and the [king’s] exceeding barbarities. +2 Maccabees 08:01 | But Judas, who is also [called] Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way privily into the villages, called to them their kinsfolk; and taking to them such as had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together as many as six thousand. +2 Maccabees 08:02 | And they called upon the Lord, [beseeching him] to look upon the people that was oppressed by all; and to have compassion on the sanctuary also that had been profaned by the ungodly men; +2 Maccabees 08:03 | and to have pity on the city also that was suffering ruin and ready to be made level with the ground; and to listen to the blood that cried to him; +2 Maccabees 08:04 | and to remember also the lawless slaughter of the innocent infants, and the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to show his hatred of wickedness. +2 Maccabees 08:05 | And when Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for that the wrath of the Lord was turned into pity. +2 Maccabees 08:06 | And coming unawares he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies, +2 Maccabees 08:07 | he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. And his courage was loudly talked of everywhere. +2 Maccabees 08:08 | But when Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause. +2 Maccabees 08:09 | And [Ptolemy] quickly appointed Nicanor the [son] of Patroclus, one of the [king’s] Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war. +2 Maccabees 08:10 | And Nicanor undertook by [the sale of] the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans. +2 Maccabees 08:11 | And immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty. +2 Maccabees 08:12 | But tidings came to Judas concerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army, +2 Maccabees 08:13 | those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God ran away and left the country. +2 Maccabees 08:14 | And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold [as slaves] by the impious Nicanor before he ever met them; +2 Maccabees 08:15 | and [this] if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name. +2 Maccabees 08:16 | And Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be stricken with dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them; but to contend nobly, +2 Maccabees 08:17 | setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors. +2 Maccabees 08:18 | For they, said he, trust to arms, and withal to deeds of daring; but we trust on the almighty God, since he is able at a beck to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world. +2 Maccabees 08:19 | And moreover he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both the [help given] in the days of Sennacherib, how that a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished, +2 Maccabees 08:20 | and the [help given] in the land of Babylon, even the battle that was fought against the Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, [and how that] the Macedonians being hard pressed, the six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help which they had from heaven, and took great booty. +2 Maccabees 08:21 | And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts; +2 Maccabees 08:22 | appointing his kindred to be with himself leaders of the several bands, [to wit] Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, giving each the command of fifteen hundred men, +2 Maccabees 08:23 | and moreover Eleazer also: [then] having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, THE HELP OF GOD, leading the first band himself, he joined battle with Nicanor. +2 Maccabees 08:24 | And, since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed of the enemy above nine thousand, and wounded and disabled the more part of Nicanor’s army, and compelled all to flee: +2 Maccabees 08:25 | and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day; +2 Maccabees 08:26 | for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far. +2 Maccabees 08:27 | And when they had gathered the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they occupied themselves about the Sabbath, blessing and thanking the Lord exceedingly, who had saved them to this day, for that he had caused a beginning of mercy to distil upon them. +2 Maccabees 08:28 | And after the Sabbath, when they had given of the spoils to the maimed, and to the widows and orphans, the residue they distributed amongst themselves and their children. +2 Maccabees 08:29 | And when they had accomplished these things, and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants. +2 Maccabees 08:30 | And having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed above twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of strongholds exceedingly high, and divided very much plunder, giving the maimed and orphans and widows, and moreover the aged also, an equal share with themselves. +2 Maccabees 08:31 | And when they had gathered the arms of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem. +2 Maccabees 08:32 | And they killed the phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt. +2 Maccabees 08:33 | And as they kept the feast of victory in the city of their fathers, they burnt those that had set the sacred gates on fire, [and amongst them] Callisthenes, who had fled into an outhouse; and [so] they received the meet reward of their impiety. +2 Maccabees 08:34 | And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews [for slaves, ] +2 Maccabees 08:35 | being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and [passing] through the midland, shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, having, [as he thought] had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed. +2 Maccabees 08:36 | And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him. +2 Maccabees 09:01 | Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned in disorder from the region of Persia. +2 Maccabees 09:02 | For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and [Antiochus and his men] turned to make defence with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace. +2 Maccabees 09:03 | And while he was at Ecbatana, news was brought him what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus. +2 Maccabees 09:04 | And being lifted up by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evil-doing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, the judgement from heaven even now accompanying him, he gave order to his charioteer to drive without ceasing and despatch the journey; for thus he arrogantly spoke: I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews, when I come there. +2 Maccabees 09:05 | But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a fatal and invisible stroke; and as soon as he had ceased speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, and bitter torments of the inner parts; +2 Maccabees 09:06 | and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings. +2 Maccabees 09:07 | But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; no, still more was he filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body. +2 Maccabees 09:08 | And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s; +2 Maccabees 09:09 | so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption. +2 Maccabees 09:10 | And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench. +2 Maccabees 09:11 | Therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogance, being broken [in spirit] and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. +2 Maccabees 09:12 | And when he himself could not stand his own smell, he said these words: It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not be minded arrogantly. +2 Maccabees 09:13 | And the vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying on this wise: +2 Maccabees 09:14 | that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free; +2 Maccabees 09:15 | and as touching the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the beasts with their infants, for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens; +2 Maccabees 09:16 | and the holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with goodliest offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices; +2 Maccabees 09:17 | and, beside all this, that he would become a Jew, and would visit every inhabited place, publishing abroad the might of God. +2 Maccabees 09:18 | But when his sufferings did in no wise cease, for the judgement of God had come upon him in righteousness, having given up all hope of himself, he wrote to the Jews the letter written below, having the nature of a supplication, to this effect: +2 Maccabees 09:19 | To the worthy Jews, his fellow-citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity. +2 Maccabees 09:20 | May you and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven, +2 Maccabees 09:21 | I remembered with affection your honour and good will [towards me.] Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all, +2 Maccabees 09:22 | not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness. +2 Maccabees 09:23 | But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor, +2 Maccabees 09:24 | to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they [that remained] in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled; +2 Maccabees 09:25 | and, beside all this, observing how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours to my kingdom watch opportunities, and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus [to be] king, whom I often committed and commended to most of you, when I was hastening to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written below. +2 Maccabees 09:26 | I exhort you therefore and beseech you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve each of you your present good will towards me and my son. +2 Maccabees 09:27 | For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence. +2 Maccabees 09:28 | So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life amongst the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land. +2 Maccabees 09:29 | And Philip his foster brother conveyed the body [home;] and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt. 2 Maccabees 10:01 | And Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city; 2 Maccabees 10:02 | and they pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the aliens, and also [the walls of] sacred inclosures. 2 Maccabees 10:03 | And having cleansed the sanctuary they made another altar of sacrifice; and striking stones and taking fire out of them, they offered sacrifices, after [they had ceased for] two years, and [burnt] incense, and [lighted] lamps, and set forth the show bread. @@ -29239,758 +5695,14474 @@ Zephaniah 3:20 | At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gathe 2 Maccabees 15:37 | THIS then having been the issue of the attempt of Nicanor, and the city having from those times been held by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my book. 2 Maccabees 15:38 | And if [I have written] well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if meanly and indifferently, this is all I could attain to. 2 Maccabees 15:39 | For as it is distasteful to drink wine alone and in like manner again [to drink] water [alone] while the mingling of wine with water at once gives full pleasantness to the flavour; so also the fashioning of the language delights the ears of those who read the story. And here shall be the end. -2 Maccabees 1:01 | The kindred, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greeting to the kindred, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, [and wish them] good peace: -2 Maccabees 1:02 | and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants; -2 Maccabees 1:03 | and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul; -2 Maccabees 1:04 | and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace, -2 Maccabees 1:05 | and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time. -2 Maccabees 1:06 | And now we here are praying for you. -2 Maccabees 1:07 | In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have [already] written to you in the suffering and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom, -2 Maccabees 1:08 | and set the gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal [offering] and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the show bread. -2 Maccabees 1:09 | And now [see] that you keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev. -2 Maccabees 1:10 | [Written] in the hundred fourscore and eighth year. THEY that are in Jerusalem and those who are in Judea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health. -2 Maccabees 1:11 | Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly. -2 Maccabees 1:12 | For he cast forth into Persia those who arrayed themselves [against us] in the holy city. -2 Maccabees 1:13 | For when the prince was come [there] and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests. -2 Maccabees 1:14 | For Antiochus, on the pretence that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry. -2 Maccabees 1:15 | And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set the treasures forth, and he was come there with a small company within the wall of the precincts, they shut to the temple when Antiochus was come in: -2 Maccabees 1:16 | and opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the prince, and they hewed [him and his company] in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without. -2 Maccabees 1:17 | Blessed [be] our God in all things, who gave [for a prey] those who had committed impiety. -2 Maccabees 1:18 | Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the [month] Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that you also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and [a memorial] of the fire [which was given] when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar. -2 Maccabees 1:19 | For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made [it] sure, so that the place was unknown to all men. -2 Maccabees 1:20 | Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests that hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick water, -2 Maccabees 1:21 | he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring [to him:] and when the sacrifices had been offered [on the altar] Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with the water both the wood and the things laid thereupon. -2 Maccabees 1:22 | And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clouds, there was kindled a great blaze, so that all men marvelled. -2 Maccabees 1:23 | And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all [others] Jonathan leading and the rest answering, as Nehemiah did. -2 Maccabees 1:24 | And the prayer was after this manner: O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are terrible and strong and righteous and merciful, who alone are King and gracious, -2 Maccabees 1:25 | who alone supply [every need] who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers [your] chosen, and did sanctify them: -2 Maccabees 1:26 | accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it. -2 Maccabees 1:27 | Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage amongst the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God. -2 Maccabees 1:28 | Torment those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us. -2 Maccabees 1:29 | Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said. -2 Maccabees 1:31 | And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded to pour [on] great stones the water that was left. -2 Maccabees 1:32 | And when this was done, a flame was kindled; but when the light from the altar shone near it, [all] was consumed. -2 Maccabees 1:33 | And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared the water, wherewith also Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice, -2 Maccabees 1:34 | then the king, inclosing [the place] made it sacred, after he had proved the matter. -2 Maccabees 1:35 | And when the king would show favour to any, he would take [from them] many presents and give them some of [this water.] -2 Maccabees 1:36 | And Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cleansing; but most men call it Nephthai. -2 Maccabees 2:01 | It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take of the fire, as has been signified [above: ] -2 Maccabees 2:02 | and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord, neither be led astray in their minds, when they saw images of gold and silver, and the adornment thereof. -2 Maccabees 2:03 | And with other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their heart. -2 Maccabees 2:04 | And it was [contained] in the writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, when he went forth into the mountain where Moses went up and saw the heritage of God. -2 Maccabees 2:05 | And Jeremiah came and found a chamber in the rock, and there he brought in the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense; and he made fast the door. -2 Maccabees 2:06 | And some of those that followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it. -2 Maccabees 2:07 | But when Jeremiah perceived it, he blamed them, saying, Yes and the place shall be unknown until God gather the people again together, and mercy come: -2 Maccabees 2:08 | and then shall the Lord disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord shall be seen, and the cloud. As also it was showed with Moses; as also Solomon implored that the place might be consecrated greatly, -2 Maccabees 2:09 | and it was also declared that he, having wisdom, offered a sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple; [so we would have it now.] -2 Maccabees 2:10 | As Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down out of heaven and consumed the sacrifice, even so prayed Solomon also, and the fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings; -2 Maccabees 2:11 | (and Moses said, Because the sin offering had not been eaten, it was consumed in like manner [with the rest];) -2 Maccabees 2:13 | And the same things were related both in the public archives and in the records that concern Nehemiah; and how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the [books] of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts. -2 Maccabees 2:14 | And in like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those [writings] that had been scattered by reason of the war that befell, and they are [still] with us. -2 Maccabees 2:15 | If therefore you have need thereof, send some to fetch them to you. -2 Maccabees 2:16 | Seeing then that we are about to keep the purification, we write to you; you will therefore do well if you keep the days. -2 Maccabees 2:17 | Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the hallowing, -2 Maccabees 2:18 | even as he promised through the law,— in God have we hope, that he will quickly have mercy upon us, and gather [us] together out of all the earth to the holy place: for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place. -2 Maccabees 2:19 | Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his kindred, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar, -2 Maccabees 2:20 | and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son, -2 Maccabees 2:21 | and the manifestations that came from heaven to those that vied with one another in manful deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they rescued the whole country, and chased the barbarous multitudes, -2 Maccabees 2:22 | and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and restored the laws which were like to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became gracious to them with all forbearance: -2 Maccabees 2:23 | [these things, I say] which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one work. -2 Maccabees 2:24 | For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter, -2 Maccabees 2:25 | we were careful that they who choose to read may be attracted, and that they who wish well [to our cause] may find it easy to recall [what we have written] and that all readers may have profit. -2 Maccabees 2:26 | And although to us, who have taken upon us the painful labour of the abridgement, the task is not easy, but [a matter] of sweat and watching -2 Maccabees 2:27 | (even as it is no light thing to him that prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others); yet for the sake of the gratitude of the many we will gladly endure the painful labour, -2 Maccabees 2:28 | leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again having no strength to fill in the outlines of our abridgement. -2 Maccabees 2:29 | For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole structure, and again he that undertakes to decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for the adorning thereof; even so I think it is also with us. -2 Maccabees 2:30 | To occupy the ground, and to indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, becomes the first author of the history: -2 Maccabees 2:31 | but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a laboured fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form. -2 Maccabees 2:32 | Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding thus much to that which has been already said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history [itself.] -2 Maccabees 3:01 | WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness, -2 Maccabees 3:02 | it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honour the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents; -2 Maccabees 3:03 | insomuch that even Seleucus the king of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices. -2 Maccabees 3:04 | But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the ruling of the market in the city. -2 Maccabees 3:05 | And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius [the son] of Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia: -2 Maccabees 3:06 | and he brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power. -2 Maccabees 3:07 | And when Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money whereof he had been told; and the [king] appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a commandment to accomplish the removal of the aforesaid money. -2 Maccabees 3:08 | So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under a colour of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose. -2 Maccabees 3:09 | And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest of the city, he laid before [them] an account of the information which had been given [him] and declared wherefore he was come; and he enquired if in truth these things were so. -2 Maccabees 3:10 | And the high priest explained to him that there were [in the treasury] deposits of widows and orphans, -2 Maccabees 3:11 | and moreover some [money] belonging to Hyrcanus the [son] of Tobias, a man in very high place, [and that the case was] not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold; -2 Maccabees 3:12 | and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honoured over all the world. -2 Maccabees 3:13 | But Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandments given him, said that in any case this [money] must be confiscated for the king’s treasury. -2 Maccabees 3:14 | So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the enquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city. -2 Maccabees 3:15 | And the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and [looking] towards heaven, called upon him that gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these [treasures] safe for those that had deposited them. -2 Maccabees 3:16 | And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his colour betrayed the distress of his soul. -2 Maccabees 3:17 | For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked upon him. -2 Maccabees 3:18 | And those who were in the houses rushed flocking out to make a universal supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. -2 Maccabees 3:19 | And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ward ran together, some to the gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows. -2 Maccabees 3:20 | And all, stretching forth their hands towards heaven, made their solemn supplication. -2 Maccabees 3:21 | Then it would have pitied a man to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the expectation of the high priest in his sore distress. -2 Maccabees 3:22 | While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted [to them] safe and sure for those that had entrusted them, -2 Maccabees 3:24 | But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great apparition, so that all that had presumed to come [in] with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted and were sore afraid. -2 Maccabees 3:25 | For there was seen by them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete armour of gold. -2 Maccabees 3:26 | Two others also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes. -2 Maccabees 3:27 | And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, [his guards] caught him up and put him into a litter, -2 Maccabees 3:28 | and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognise the sovereignty of God. -2 Maccabees 3:29 | And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate, -2 Maccabees 3:30 | they blessed the Lord, that made marvellous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared. -2 Maccabees 3:31 | But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp. -2 Maccabees 3:32 | And the high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery towards Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the deliverance of the man. -2 Maccabees 3:33 | But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life; -2 Maccabees 3:34 | and do you, since you have been scourged from heaven, publish to all men the sovereign majesty of God. And when they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight. -2 Maccabees 3:35 | So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king. -2 Maccabees 3:36 | And he testified to all men the works of the great God which he had seen with his eyes. -2 Maccabees 3:37 | And when the king asked Heliodorus, what manner of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said, -2 Maccabees 3:38 | If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you shall receive him back well scourged, if he even escape with his life; because of a truth there is about the place a power of God. -2 Maccabees 3:39 | For he that has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes upon that place, and helps it; and those who come to hurt it he strikes and destroys. -2 Maccabees 3:40 | And such was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury. -2 Maccabees 4:01 | But the aforesaid Simon, he who had given information of the money, and [had betrayed] his country, slandered Onias, [saying] that it was he who had incited Heliodorus, and made himself the author of these evils. -2 Maccabees 4:02 | And him that was the benefactor of the city, and the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws, he dared to call a conspirator against the state. -2 Maccabees 4:03 | But when the growing enmity [between them] waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s trusted followers, -2 Maccabees 4:04 | Onias, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apollonius [the son] of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice, -2 Maccabees 4:05 | betook himself to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the people, both public and private; -2 Maccabees 4:06 | for he saw that without the king’s providence it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness. -2 Maccabees 4:07 | But when Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted [his brother] in the high priesthood, -2 Maccabees 4:08 | having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and [out] of another fund eighty talents; -2 Maccabees 4:09 | and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him through the king’s authority to set him up a [Greek] place of exercise and [form] a body of youths [to be trained therein] and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as [citizens] of Antioch. -2 Maccabees 4:10 | And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion. -2 Maccabees 4:11 | And setting aside the royal ordinances of special favour to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the ambassage to the Romans for friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful modes of life, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law: -2 Maccabees 4:12 | for he eagerly established a [Greek] place of exercise under the citadel itself; and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the [Greek] cap. -2 Maccabees 4:13 | And thus there was an extreme of hellenization, and an advance of an alien religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly man and no high priest; -2 Maccabees 4:14 | so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar: but despising the sanctuary, and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the palaestra, after the summons of the discus; -2 Maccabees 4:15 | making of no account the honours of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks best of all. -2 Maccabees 4:16 | By reason whereof sore calamity beset them; and the men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these became their enemies and punished them. -2 Maccabees 4:17 | For it is not a light thing to do impiously against the laws of God: but these things the time following shall declare. -2 Maccabees 4:18 | Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present, -2 Maccabees 4:19 | the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for [any] sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to expend on another charge. -2 Maccabees 4:20 | And though in the purpose of the sender this [money was] for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of present circumstances it went to the equipment of the galleys. -2 Maccabees 4:21 | Now when Apollonius the [son] of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the enthronement of [Ptolemy] Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that [Ptolemy] had shown himself ill affected towards the state, took thought for the security of his realm; wherefore, going [by sea] to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem. -2 Maccabees 4:22 | And being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. This done, he afterward led his army down into Phoenicia. -2 Maccabees 4:23 | Now after a space of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money to the king, and to make reports concerning some necessary matters. -2 Maccabees 4:24 | But he being commended to the king, and having glorified himself by the display of his authority, got the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. -2 Maccabees 4:25 | And having received the royal mandates he came [to Jerusalem] bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast. -2 Maccabees 4:26 | And whereas Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites, -2 Maccabees 4:27 | Menelaus had possession of the office: but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing was duly paid, and that though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it -2 Maccabees 4:28 | (for to him appertained the gathering of the revenues); for which cause they were both called by the king to his presence. -2 Maccabees 4:29 | And Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus [left] Crates, who was over the Cyprians. -2 Maccabees 4:30 | Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine. -2 Maccabees 4:31 | The king therefore came [to Cilicia] in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank. -2 Maccabees 4:32 | And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favourable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other [vessels] also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about. -2 Maccabees 4:33 | And when Onias had sure knowledge [of this] he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch. -2 Maccabees 4:34 | Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him to kill Onias. And coming to Onias, and being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, [Andronicus] gave him his right hand with oaths [of fidelity] and, though he was suspected [by him, so] persuaded him to come forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith he despatched him without regard of justice. -2 Maccabees 4:35 | For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man. -2 Maccabees 4:36 | And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city pleaded before [him against Andronicus] (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain. -2 Maccabees 4:37 | Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead; -2 Maccabees 4:38 | and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved. -2 Maccabees 4:39 | Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the report of them was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed. -2 Maccabees 4:40 | And when the multitudes were rising against [him] and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began [the conflict] one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading [the attack.] -2 Maccabees 4:41 | But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him; -2 Maccabees 4:42 | by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all [of them] they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury. -2 Maccabees 4:43 | But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus. -2 Maccabees 4:44 | And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him. -2 Maccabees 4:45 | But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the [son] of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king. -2 Maccabees 4:46 | Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind: -2 Maccabees 4:47 | and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death. -2 Maccabees 4:48 | Soon then did those who were spokesmen for the city and the families [of Israel] and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty. -2 Maccabees 4:49 | For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial. -2 Maccabees 4:50 | But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of those who were in power remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens. -2 Maccabees 5:01 | Now about this time Antiochus made his second inroad into Egypt. -2 Maccabees 5:02 | And it [so] befell that throughout all the city, for the space of almost forty days, there appeared in the midst of the sky horsemen in swift motion, wearing robes inwrought with gold and [carrying] spears, equipped in troops for battle; -2 Maccabees 5:03 | and drawing of swords; and [on the other side] squadrons of horse in array; and encounters and pursuits of both [armies;] and shaking of shields, and multitudes of lances, and casting of darts, and flashing of golden trappings, and girding on of all sorts of armour. -2 Maccabees 5:04 | Wherefore all men implored that the vision might have been given for good. -2 Maccabees 5:05 | But when a false rumour had arisen that Antiochus was deceased, Jason took not less than a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and those who were upon the wall being routed, and the city being now at length well near taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel. -2 Maccabees 5:06 | But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen. -2 Maccabees 5:07 | The office [however] he didn’t get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites. -2 Maccabees 5:08 | At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been shut up at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as an apostate from the laws, and held in abomination as the butcher of his country and his fellow-citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt; -2 Maccabees 5:09 | and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished [himself] in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter [there] because they were near of kin; -2 Maccabees 5:10 | and he that had cast out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him, nor had he any funeral at all, or place in the sepulchre of his fathers. -2 Maccabees 5:11 | Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, -2 Maccabees 5:12 | and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses; -2 Maccabees 5:13 | and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants. -2 Maccabees 5:14 | And in all the three days [of the slaughter] there were destroyed fourscore thousand, [whereof] forty thousand [were slain] in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain. -2 Maccabees 5:15 | But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country), -2 Maccabees 5:16 | even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place. -2 Maccabees 5:17 | And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was [then] turned away from the place. -2 Maccabees 5:18 | But had it not so been that they were already bound by many sins, this man, even as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus the king to view the treasury, would, so soon as he pressed forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed. -2 Maccabees 5:19 | However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake. -2 Maccabees 5:20 | Wherefore also the place itself, having shared in the calamities that befell the nation, did afterward share in [its] benefits; and the [place] which was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was, at the reconciliation of the great Sovereign, restored again with all glory. -2 Maccabees 5:21 | As for Antiochus, when he had carried away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot, because his heart was lifted up. -2 Maccabees 5:22 | And moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him that set him there; -2 Maccabees 5:23 | and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. And having a malicious mind towards the Jews [whom he had made] his citizens, -2 Maccabees 5:24 | he sent that lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to kill all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men. -2 Maccabees 5:25 | And he coming to Jerusalem, and playing the man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade in arms. -2 Maccabees 5:26 | And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes. -2 Maccabees 5:27 | But Judas, who is also [called] Maccabaeus, with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains after the manner of wild beasts; and they continued feeding on such poor herbs as grew there, that they might not be partakers of the [threatened] pollution. -2 Maccabees 6:01 | And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God; -2 Maccabees 6:02 | and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of Jupiter Olympius, and [to call] the [sanctuary] in Gerizim by the name of Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they were that lived in the place. -2 Maccabees 6:03 | But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil. -2 Maccabees 6:04 | For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting; -2 Maccabees 6:05 | and the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws. -2 Maccabees 6:06 | And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew. -2 Maccabees 6:07 | And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honour of Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy. -2 Maccabees 6:08 | A decree went out to the neighbouring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices; -2 Maccabees 6:09 | and that they should kill such as didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see: -2 Maccabees 6:10 | for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall. -2 Maccabees 6:11 | And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burnt together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honour of that most solemn day. -2 Maccabees 6:12 | I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but account that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race. -2 Maccabees 6:13 | For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but immediately meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence. -2 Maccabees 6:14 | For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with patience forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of [their] sins; but not so judged he as touching us, -2 Maccabees 6:15 | that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, when we be come to the height of our sins. -2 Maccabees 6:16 | Wherefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, yet does he not forsake his own people. -2 Maccabees 6:17 | However let this that we have spoken suffice to put [you] in remembrance; but after [these] few words we must come to the narrative. -2 Maccabees 6:18 | Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh. -2 Maccabees 6:19 | But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth [the flesh] -2 Maccabees 6:20 | [coming forward] as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not [even] for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste. -2 Maccabees 6:21 | But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was befitting for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king; -2 Maccabees 6:22 | that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly. -2 Maccabees 6:23 | But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and the grey hairs which he had reached with honour, and his excellent education from a child, or rather [that became] the holy laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him to Hades. -2 Maccabees 6:24 | For it becomes not our years to dissemble, [said he] that [through this] many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over to an alien religion; -2 Maccabees 6:25 | and [so] they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, and [thus] I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age. -2 Maccabees 6:26 | For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead. -2 Maccabees 6:27 | Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age, -2 Maccabees 6:28 | and leave behind a noble example to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture. -2 Maccabees 6:29 | And when they changed the good will they bore towards him a little before into ill will, because these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness, -2 Maccabees 6:30 | and when he was at the point to die with the stripes, he groaned aloud and said, "To the Lord, who has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him." -2 Maccabees 6:31 | So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an example of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation. -2 Maccabees 7:01 | And it came to pass that seven kindred also with their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh. -2 Maccabees 7:02 | But one of them made himself the spokesman and said, What would you ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers. -2 Maccabees 7:03 | And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and cauldrons: -2 Maccabees 7:04 | and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his kindred and his mother looking on. -2 Maccabees 7:05 | And when he was utterly maimed, [the king] commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapour of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus: -2 Maccabees 7:06 | The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesses against [the people] to their faces, saying, And he shall be entreated for his servants. -2 Maccabees 7:07 | And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, "Will you eat, before your body is punished in every limb?" -2 Maccabees 7:08 | But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, "No." Therefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done. -2 Maccabees 7:09 | And when he was at the last gasp, he said, "You, miscreant, release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life." -2 Maccabees 7:10 | And after him was the third made a mocking-stock. And when he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched forth his hands courageously, -2 Maccabees 7:11 | and nobly said, From heaven I possess these; and for his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt; and from him I hope to receive these back again: -2 Maccabees 7:12 | insomuch that the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains. -2 Maccabees 7:13 | And when he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in like manner. -2 Maccabees 7:14 | And being come near to death he said thus: It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hopes which are [given] by God, that we shall be raised up again by him; for as for you, you shall have no resurrection to life. -2 Maccabees 7:15 | And next after him they brought the fifth, and shamefully handled him. -2 Maccabees 7:16 | But he looked towards the king and said, Because you have authority amongst men, though you are [yourself] corruptible, you do what you will; yet think not that our race has been forsaken of God; -2 Maccabees 7:17 | but hold you on your way, and behold his sovereign majesty, how it will torture you and your seed. -2 Maccabees 7:18 | And after him they brought the sixth. And when he was at the point to die he said, Be not vainly deceived, for we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God: marvellous things are come to pass; -2 Maccabees 7:19 | but think not you that you shall be unpunished, having assayed to fight against God. -2 Maccabees 7:20 | But above all was the mother marvellous and worthy of honourable memory; for when she looked on seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bare [the sight] with a good courage for the hopes [that she had set] on the Lord. -2 Maccabees 7:21 | And she exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble temper and stirring up her womanish thought with manly passion, saying to them, -2 Maccabees 7:22 | I know not how you came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you. -2 Maccabees 7:23 | Therefore the Creator of the world, who fashioned the generation of man and devised the generation of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your spirit and your life, as you now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws’ sake. -2 Maccabees 7:24 | But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal [to him] by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the [customs] of his fathers, and that he would take him for his Friend and entrust him with affairs. -2 Maccabees 7:25 | But when the young man would in no wise give heed, the king called to him his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the lad to save himself. -2 Maccabees 7:26 | And when he had exhorted her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son. -2 Maccabees 7:27 | But bending towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke thus in the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried you nine months in my womb, and gave you suck three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you. -2 Maccabees 7:28 | I beseech you, my child, to lift your eyes to the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognise that God made them not of things that were, and [that] the race of men in this wise comes into being. -2 Maccabees 7:29 | Don’t be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your kindred, accept your death, that in the mercy [of God] I may receive you again with your kindred. -2 Maccabees 7:30 | But before she had yet ended speaking, the young man said, Whom wait you for? I obey not the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses. -2 Maccabees 7:31 | But you, that have devised all manner of evil against the Hebrews, shall in no wise escape the hands of God. -2 Maccabees 7:32 | For we are suffering because of our own sins; -2 Maccabees 7:33 | and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants. -2 Maccabees 7:34 | But you, O unholy man and of all most vile, be not vainly lifted up in your wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising your hand against the heavenly children; -2 Maccabees 7:35 | For not yet have you escaped the judgement of the Almighty God that sees [all things.] -2 Maccabees 7:36 | For these our kindred, having endured a short pain that brings everlasting life, have now died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogance. -2 Maccabees 7:37 | But I, as my kindred, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God; -2 Maccabees 7:38 | and that in me and my kindred you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race. -2 Maccabees 7:39 | But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking. -2 Maccabees 7:40 | So he also died pure [from pollution] putting his whole trust in the Lord. -2 Maccabees 7:42 | Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the [enforcement of] sacrificial feasts and the [king’s] exceeding barbarities. -2 Maccabees 8:01 | But Judas, who is also [called] Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way privily into the villages, called to them their kinsfolk; and taking to them such as had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together as many as six thousand. -2 Maccabees 8:02 | And they called upon the Lord, [beseeching him] to look upon the people that was oppressed by all; and to have compassion on the sanctuary also that had been profaned by the ungodly men; -2 Maccabees 8:03 | and to have pity on the city also that was suffering ruin and ready to be made level with the ground; and to listen to the blood that cried to him; -2 Maccabees 8:04 | and to remember also the lawless slaughter of the innocent infants, and the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to show his hatred of wickedness. -2 Maccabees 8:05 | And when Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for that the wrath of the Lord was turned into pity. -2 Maccabees 8:06 | And coming unawares he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies, -2 Maccabees 8:07 | he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. And his courage was loudly talked of everywhere. -2 Maccabees 8:08 | But when Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause. -2 Maccabees 8:09 | And [Ptolemy] quickly appointed Nicanor the [son] of Patroclus, one of the [king’s] Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war. -2 Maccabees 8:10 | And Nicanor undertook by [the sale of] the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans. -2 Maccabees 8:11 | And immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty. -2 Maccabees 8:12 | But tidings came to Judas concerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army, -2 Maccabees 8:13 | those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God ran away and left the country. -2 Maccabees 8:14 | And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold [as slaves] by the impious Nicanor before he ever met them; -2 Maccabees 8:15 | and [this] if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name. -2 Maccabees 8:16 | And Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be stricken with dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them; but to contend nobly, -2 Maccabees 8:17 | setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors. -2 Maccabees 8:18 | For they, said he, trust to arms, and withal to deeds of daring; but we trust on the almighty God, since he is able at a beck to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world. -2 Maccabees 8:19 | And moreover he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both the [help given] in the days of Sennacherib, how that a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished, -2 Maccabees 8:20 | and the [help given] in the land of Babylon, even the battle that was fought against the Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, [and how that] the Macedonians being hard pressed, the six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help which they had from heaven, and took great booty. -2 Maccabees 8:21 | And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts; -2 Maccabees 8:22 | appointing his kindred to be with himself leaders of the several bands, [to wit] Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, giving each the command of fifteen hundred men, -2 Maccabees 8:23 | and moreover Eleazer also: [then] having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, THE HELP OF GOD, leading the first band himself, he joined battle with Nicanor. -2 Maccabees 8:24 | And, since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed of the enemy above nine thousand, and wounded and disabled the more part of Nicanor’s army, and compelled all to flee: -2 Maccabees 8:25 | and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day; -2 Maccabees 8:26 | for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far. -2 Maccabees 8:27 | And when they had gathered the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they occupied themselves about the Sabbath, blessing and thanking the Lord exceedingly, who had saved them to this day, for that he had caused a beginning of mercy to distil upon them. -2 Maccabees 8:28 | And after the Sabbath, when they had given of the spoils to the maimed, and to the widows and orphans, the residue they distributed amongst themselves and their children. -2 Maccabees 8:29 | And when they had accomplished these things, and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants. -2 Maccabees 8:30 | And having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed above twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of strongholds exceedingly high, and divided very much plunder, giving the maimed and orphans and widows, and moreover the aged also, an equal share with themselves. -2 Maccabees 8:31 | And when they had gathered the arms of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem. -2 Maccabees 8:32 | And they killed the phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt. -2 Maccabees 8:33 | And as they kept the feast of victory in the city of their fathers, they burnt those that had set the sacred gates on fire, [and amongst them] Callisthenes, who had fled into an outhouse; and [so] they received the meet reward of their impiety. -2 Maccabees 8:34 | And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews [for slaves, ] -2 Maccabees 8:35 | being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and [passing] through the midland, shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, having, [as he thought] had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed. -2 Maccabees 8:36 | And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him. -2 Maccabees 9:01 | Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned in disorder from the region of Persia. -2 Maccabees 9:02 | For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and [Antiochus and his men] turned to make defence with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace. -2 Maccabees 9:03 | And while he was at Ecbatana, news was brought him what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus. -2 Maccabees 9:04 | And being lifted up by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evil-doing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, the judgement from heaven even now accompanying him, he gave order to his charioteer to drive without ceasing and despatch the journey; for thus he arrogantly spoke: I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews, when I come there. -2 Maccabees 9:05 | But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a fatal and invisible stroke; and as soon as he had ceased speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, and bitter torments of the inner parts; -2 Maccabees 9:06 | and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings. -2 Maccabees 9:07 | But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; no, still more was he filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body. -2 Maccabees 9:08 | And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s; -2 Maccabees 9:09 | so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption. -2 Maccabees 9:10 | And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench. -2 Maccabees 9:11 | Therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogance, being broken [in spirit] and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. -2 Maccabees 9:12 | And when he himself could not stand his own smell, he said these words: It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not be minded arrogantly. -2 Maccabees 9:13 | And the vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying on this wise: -2 Maccabees 9:14 | that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free; -2 Maccabees 9:15 | and as touching the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the beasts with their infants, for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens; -2 Maccabees 9:16 | and the holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with goodliest offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices; -2 Maccabees 9:17 | and, beside all this, that he would become a Jew, and would visit every inhabited place, publishing abroad the might of God. -2 Maccabees 9:18 | But when his sufferings did in no wise cease, for the judgement of God had come upon him in righteousness, having given up all hope of himself, he wrote to the Jews the letter written below, having the nature of a supplication, to this effect: -2 Maccabees 9:19 | To the worthy Jews, his fellow-citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity. -2 Maccabees 9:20 | May you and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven, -2 Maccabees 9:21 | I remembered with affection your honour and good will [towards me.] Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all, -2 Maccabees 9:22 | not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness. -2 Maccabees 9:23 | But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor, -2 Maccabees 9:24 | to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they [that remained] in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled; -2 Maccabees 9:25 | and, beside all this, observing how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours to my kingdom watch opportunities, and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus [to be] king, whom I often committed and commended to most of you, when I was hastening to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written below. -2 Maccabees 9:26 | I exhort you therefore and beseech you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve each of you your present good will towards me and my son. -2 Maccabees 9:27 | For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence. -2 Maccabees 9:28 | So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life amongst the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land. -2 Maccabees 9:29 | And Philip his foster brother conveyed the body [home;] and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt. -3 Maccabees 1:01 | Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped. -3 Maccabees 1:02 | And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war. -3 Maccabees 1:03 | But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other. -3 Maccabees 1:04 | A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them each two minas of gold. -3 Maccabees 1:05 | It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners. -3 Maccabees 1:06 | Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighbouring cities, and encourage them. -3 Maccabees 1:07 | By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence. -3 Maccabees 1:08 | The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest-gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city. -3 Maccabees 1:09 | Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court, -3 Maccabees 1:10 | he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself. -3 Maccabees 1:11 | And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way. -3 Maccabees 1:12 | Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honour, I ought not to be. -3 Maccabees 1:13 | And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbade him? -3 Maccabees 1:15 | Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent? -3 Maccabees 1:16 | And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears, -3 Maccabees 1:17 | then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event. -3 Maccabees 1:18 | Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries. -3 Maccabees 1:19 | Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner. -3 Maccabees 1:20 | New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple. -3 Maccabees 1:21 | Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king. -3 Maccabees 1:22 | Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose. -3 Maccabees 1:23 | Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defence of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before. -3 Maccabees 1:24 | During this time the multitude kept on praying. -3 Maccabees 1:25 | The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed. -3 Maccabees 1:26 | He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onward with the view of carrying out this design. -3 Maccabees 1:27 | Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness. -3 Maccabees 1:28 | Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued. -3 Maccabees 1:29 | Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled. -3 Maccabees 2:01 | Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication: -3 Maccabees 2:02 | O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy amongst the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who celebrates in his confidence and strength. -3 Maccabees 2:03 | It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence. -3 Maccabees 2:04 | It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, amongst whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood. -3 Maccabees 2:05 | It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceedingly iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone. -3 Maccabees 2:06 | You did make known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions. -3 Maccabees 2:07 | And you rolled the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation. -3 Maccabees 2:08 | These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you the Almighty. -3 Maccabees 2:09 | You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honourable name. -3 Maccabees 2:10 | And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer. -3 Maccabees 2:11 | Truly you are faithful and true. -3 Maccabees 2:12 | And when you did often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and delivered them out of gret dangers, -3 Maccabees 2:13 | see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless. -3 Maccabees 2:14 | We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonour this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty. -3 Maccabees 2:15 | Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men. -3 Maccabees 2:16 | But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory amongst your people Israel, you did sanctify this place. -3 Maccabees 2:17 | Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say, -3 Maccabees 2:18 | We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon. -3 Maccabees 2:19 | Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour. -3 Maccabees 2:20 | Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth. -3 Maccabees 2:21 | At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy amongst the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. -3 Maccabees 2:22 | Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralysed; by a righteous judgement deprived of the faculty of speech. -3 Maccabees 2:23 | His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him. -3 Maccabees 2:24 | When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. -3 Maccabees 2:25 | He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness; -3 Maccabees 2:26 | and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will. -3 Maccabees 2:27 | His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it: -3 Maccabees 2:28 | That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered amongst the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death; -3 Maccabees 2:29 | that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights. -3 Maccabees 2:30 | To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians. -3 Maccabees 2:31 | Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honour from a future connection with him. -3 Maccabees 2:32 | A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration: -3 Maccabees 2:33 | cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse. -3 Maccabees 3:01 | On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives. -3 Maccabees 3:02 | While this was going on, an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law. -3 Maccabees 3:03 | Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty towards the kings, -3 Maccabees 3:04 | yet, as they worshipped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium; -3 Maccabees 3:05 | although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world. -3 Maccabees 3:06 | What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners; -3 Maccabees 3:07 | who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them. -3 Maccabees 3:08 | Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favourable turn of affairs: -3 Maccabees 3:09 | He who knows all things, will not, [said they] disregard so great a people. -3 Maccabees 3:10 | Some of the neighbours, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them. -3 Maccabees 3:11 | Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews. -3 Maccabees 3:12 | King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness! -3 Maccabees 3:14 | Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigour, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation, -3 Maccabees 3:15 | we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors. -3 Maccabees 3:16 | So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honour the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly. -3 Maccabees 3:17 | To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honour it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts, -3 Maccabees 3:18 | they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance towards all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them. -3 Maccabees 3:19 | And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone amongst the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable. -3 Maccabees 3:20 | We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting. -3 Maccabees 3:21 | Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen [at Jerusalem] but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities. -3 Maccabees 3:22 | All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil, -3 Maccabees 3:23 | have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few amongst them who are heartily disposed towards us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform. -3 Maccabees 3:24 | Having then, received certain proofs that these [Jews] bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult amongst ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies. -3 Maccabees 3:25 | As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those [Jews] who dwell amongst you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected. -3 Maccabees 3:26 | For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis. -3 Maccabees 3:27 | Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death. -3 Maccabees 3:28 | Whoever shall inform against the [Jews] besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned. -3 Maccabees 3:29 | Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come. -3 Maccabees 4:01 | Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly. -3 Maccabees 4:02 | The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them. -3 Maccabees 4:03 | What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation? -3 Maccabees 4:04 | They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion. -3 Maccabees 4:05 | A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed. -3 Maccabees 4:06 | Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry instead of the marriage hymn. -3 Maccabees 4:07 | Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship. -3 Maccabees 4:08 | The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful celebration, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand. -3 Maccabees 4:09 | They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters. -3 Maccabees 4:10 | The planks of the deck above them blocked out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage. -3 Maccabees 4:11 | They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; no, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation. -3 Maccabees 4:12 | When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims, -3 Maccabees 4:13 | was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one bit milder) treatment. -3 Maccabees 4:14 | The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labour which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties. -3 Maccabees 4:15 | The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days. -3 Maccabees 4:16 | The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God. -3 Maccabees 4:17 | At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration, -3 Maccabees 4:18 | inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work. -3 Maccabees 4:19 | The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said. -3 Maccabees 4:20 | They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose. -3 Maccabees 4:21 | Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven. -3 Maccabees 5:01 | Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design, -3 Maccabees 5:02 | he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense [infused] to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews. -3 Maccabees 5:03 | The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most. -3 Maccabees 5:04 | The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually. -3 Maccabees 5:05 | The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about evening and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together. -3 Maccabees 5:06 | The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about. -3 Maccabees 5:07 | they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power, -3 Maccabees 5:08 | to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them. -3 Maccabees 5:09 | Their litany so earnest went up to heaven. -3 Maccabees 5:10 | Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mixed wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof. -3 Maccabees 5:11 | He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king. -3 Maccabees 5:12 | By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified. -3 Maccabees 5:13 | But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles. -3 Maccabees 5:14 | The middle of the tenth hour had well near arrived, when the person who sent invitations, seeing the guests who were invited present, came and shook the king. -3 Maccabees 5:15 | He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him. -3 Maccabees 5:16 | The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him. -3 Maccabees 5:17 | This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet. -3 Maccabees 5:18 | Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and enquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day. -3 Maccabees 5:19 | Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends. -3 Maccabees 5:20 | The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews. -3 Maccabees 5:21 | When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home. -3 Maccabees 5:22 | Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable. -3 Maccabees 5:23 | The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade. -3 Maccabees 5:24 | The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn. -3 Maccabees 5:25 | The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily. -3 Maccabees 5:26 | The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realised. -3 Maccabees 5:27 | The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, enquired the object of this earnest preparation. -3 Maccabees 5:28 | But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose. -3 Maccabees 5:29 | Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction. -3 Maccabees 5:30 | The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows: -3 Maccabees 5:31 | Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served. -3 Maccabees 5:32 | Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs. -3 Maccabees 5:33 | Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance. -3 Maccabees 5:34 | The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations. -3 Maccabees 5:35 | The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him. -3 Maccabees 5:36 | Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth. -3 Maccabees 5:37 | And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons? -3 Maccabees 5:38 | Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow. -3 Maccabees 5:39 | His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves: -3 Maccabees 5:40 | O king, how long do you make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions. -3 Maccabees 5:41 | For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered. -3 Maccabees 5:42 | The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants. -3 Maccabees 5:43 | He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there. -3 Maccabees 5:44 | Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city. -3 Maccabees 5:45 | And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments. -3 Maccabees 5:46 | About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand. -3 Maccabees 5:47 | The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned [Jews]. -3 Maccabees 5:48 | But the [Jews], when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd, -3 Maccabees 5:49 | thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk. -3 Maccabees 5:50 | Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the help previously granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and -3 Maccabees 5:51 | sent up an exceedingly great cry asking the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades. -3 Maccabees 6:01 | And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus: -3 Maccabees 6:02 | O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy, -3 Maccabees 6:03 | look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land. -3 Maccabees 6:04 | You destroyed Pharaoh, with his army of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army. -3 Maccabees 6:05 | When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations. -3 Maccabees 6:06 | When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries. -3 Maccabees 6:07 | It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light. -3 Maccabees 6:08 | When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own. -3 Maccabees 6:09 | And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles. -3 Maccabees 6:10 | If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer. -3 Maccabees 6:11 | Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them. -3 Maccabees 6:12 | You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men. -3 Maccabees 6:13 | Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob. -3 Maccabees 6:14 | The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you. -3 Maccabees 6:15 | Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfil this saying, O Lord. -3 Maccabees 6:16 | Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power. -3 Maccabees 6:17 | When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army. -3 Maccabees 6:18 | Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews. -3 Maccabees 6:19 | And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters. -3 Maccabees 6:20 | And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit. -3 Maccabees 6:21 | They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them. -3 Maccabees 6:22 | The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations. -3 Maccabees 6:23 | For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying, -3 Maccabees 6:24 | You have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you have laboured to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom. -3 Maccabees 6:25 | Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country? -3 Maccabees 6:26 | Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will towards us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings? -3 Maccabees 6:27 | Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done. -3 Maccabees 6:28 | Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs. -3 Maccabees 6:29 | These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour. -3 Maccabees 6:30 | The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction. -3 Maccabees 6:31 | Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths. -3 Maccabees 6:32 | Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy. -3 Maccabees 6:33 | So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him. -3 Maccabees 6:34 | Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out. -3 Maccabees 6:35 | But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms. -3 Maccabees 6:36 | They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them. -3 Maccabees 6:37 | They requested the king to send them back to their homes. -3 Maccabees 6:38 | They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days. -3 Maccabees 6:39 | The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed. -3 Maccabees 6:40 | They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away. -3 Maccabees 6:41 | The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city. -3 Maccabees 7:01 | King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength. -3 Maccabees 7:02 | We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish. -3 Maccabees 7:03 | Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment. -3 Maccabees 7:04 | They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people. -3 Maccabees 7:05 | They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom. -3 Maccabees 7:06 | For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons; -3 Maccabees 7:07 | and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity towards us and towards our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge. -3 Maccabees 7:08 | And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past. -3 Maccabees 7:09 | For know you, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare you well. -3 Maccabees 7:10 | When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God. -3 Maccabees 7:11 | They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king. -3 Maccabees 7:12 | The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions. -3 Maccabees 7:13 | Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed. -3 Maccabees 7:14 | Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way; -3 Maccabees 7:15 | slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy. -3 Maccabees 7:16 | They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel. -3 Maccabees 7:17 | Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days, -3 Maccabees 7:18 | they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home. -3 Maccabees 7:19 | They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness. -3 Maccabees 7:20 | These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home. -3 Maccabees 7:21 | They had more weight than before amongst their enemies; and were honoured and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods. -3 Maccabees 7:22 | Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God made perfect wonders for their salvation. -3 Maccabees 7:23 | Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen. -Baruch 1:04 | and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud. -Baruch 1:05 | And they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord; -Baruch 1:06 | they made also a collection of money according to every man’s power: -Baruch 1:07 | and they sent [it] to Jerusalem to Joakim the [high] priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem, -Baruch 1:08 | at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to return [them] into the land of Judah, the tenth day of [the month] Sivan, [namely] silver vessels, which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made, -Baruch 1:09 | after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon. -Baruch 1:10 | And they said, Behold, we have sent you money; buy you therefore with the money burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God; -Baruch 1:11 | and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be as the days of heaven above the earth: -Baruch 1:12 | and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight. -Baruch 1:13 | Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us. -Baruch 1:14 | And you shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly. -Baruch 1:15 | And you shall say, To the Lord our God [belongs] righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, -Baruch 1:16 | and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers: -Baruch 1:17 | for that we have sinned before the Lord, -Baruch 1:18 | and disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us: -Baruch 1:19 | since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not listening to his voice. -Baruch 1:20 | Wherefore the plagues clave to us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his servant [to pronounce] in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day. -Baruch 1:21 | Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets, whom he sent to us: -Baruch 1:22 | but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God. -Baruch 2:01 | Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah, -Baruch 2:02 | to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses; -Baruch 2:03 | That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter. -Baruch 2:04 | Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation amongst all the people round about, where the Lord has scattered them. -Baruch 2:05 | Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not listening to his voice. -Baruch 2:06 | To the Lord our God [belongs] righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. -Baruch 2:07 | [For] all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord has pronounced against us. -Baruch 2:08 | Yet have we not entreated the favour of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart. -Baruch 2:09 | Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has brought [them] upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us. -Baruch 2:10 | Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us. -Baruch 2:11 | And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day: -Baruch 2:12 | O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances. -Baruch 2:13 | Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left amongst the heathen, where you have scattered us. -Baruch 2:14 | Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away captive: -Baruch 2:15 | that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name. -Baruch 2:16 | O Lord, look down from your holy house, and consider us: incline your ear, O Lord, and hear: -Baruch 2:17 | open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness: -Baruch 2:18 | but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord. -Baruch 2:19 | For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings. -Baruch 2:20 | For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, [saying, ] -Baruch 2:21 | The Lord says, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers. -Baruch 2:22 | But if you will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon, -Baruch 2:23 | I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from the region near Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant. -Baruch 2:24 | But we would not listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, [namely] that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places. -Baruch 2:25 | And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence. -Baruch 2:26 | And the house which is called by your name have you laid [waste] as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah. -Baruch 2:27 | Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all your great mercy, -Baruch 2:28 | as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying, -Baruch 2:29 | If you will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small [number] amongst the nations, where I will scatter them. -Baruch 2:30 | For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart, -Baruch 2:31 | and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear: -Baruch 2:32 | and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name, -Baruch 2:33 | and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord. -Baruch 2:34 | And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished. -Baruch 2:35 | And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people Israel out of the land that I have given them. -Baruch 3:01 | O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you. -Baruch 3:02 | Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you. -Baruch 3:03 | For you sit [as king] forever, and we perish evermore. -Baruch 3:04 | O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that didn’t listen to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us. -Baruch 3:05 | Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name [now] at this time. -Baruch 3:06 | For you are the Lord our God, and you, O Lord, will we praise. -Baruch 3:07 | For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you. -Baruch 3:08 | Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God. -Baruch 3:09 | Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom. -Baruch 3:10 | How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead, -Baruch 3:11 | that you are counted with those who [go down] into the grave? -Baruch 3:12 | You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom. -Baruch 3:13 | [For] if you had walked in the way of God, you should have dwelled in peace forever. -Baruch 3:14 | Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace. -Baruch 3:15 | Who has found out her place? and who has come into her treasuries? -Baruch 3:16 | Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts that are upon the earth; -Baruch 3:17 | those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end? -Baruch 3:18 | For those who made in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out, -Baruch 3:19 | they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads. -Baruch 3:20 | Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known, -Baruch 3:21 | neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children embraced it: they are far off from their way. -Baruch 3:22 | It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman. -Baruch 3:23 | The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths. -Baruch 3:24 | O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession! -Baruch 3:26 | There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, [and] expert in war. -Baruch 3:27 | God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them; -Baruch 3:28 | so they perished, because they had no wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness. -Baruch 3:29 | Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? -Baruch 3:30 | Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for choice gold? -Baruch 3:31 | There is none that knows her way, nor any that comprehends her path. -Baruch 3:32 | But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore has filled it with four-footed beasts: -Baruch 3:33 | he that sends forth the light, and it goes; he called it, and it obeyed him with fear: -Baruch 3:34 | and the stars shone in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, "Here we are." They shone with gladness to him that made them. -Baruch 3:35 | This is our God, [and] there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him. -Baruch 3:36 | He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him. -Baruch 3:37 | Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men. -Baruch 4:01 | This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever: all those who hold it fast [are appointed] to life; but such as leave it shall die. -Baruch 4:02 | Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof. -Baruch 4:03 | Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation. -Baruch 4:04 | O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us. -Baruch 4:05 | Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. -Baruch 4:06 | You were sold to the nations, [but] not for destruction: because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries. -Baruch 4:07 | For you provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God. -Baruch 4:08 | You forgot the everlasting God, that brought you up; you grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you. -Baruch 4:09 | For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Listen, you [women] that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning; -Baruch 4:10 | for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. -Baruch 4:11 | For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning. -Baruch 4:12 | Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned away from the law of God, -Baruch 4:13 | and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness. -Baruch 4:14 | Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. -Baruch 4:15 | For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child. -Baruch 4:16 | And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters. -Baruch 4:18 | For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies. -Baruch 4:19 | Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate. -Baruch 4:20 | I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live. -Baruch 4:21 | Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies. -Baruch 4:22 | For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from your Everlasting Saviour. -Baruch 4:23 | For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever. -Baruch 4:24 | For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting. -Baruch 4:25 | My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon their necks. -Baruch 4:26 | My delicate ones have gone rough ways; they were taken away as a flock carried off by the enemies. -Baruch 4:27 | Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry to God: for you shall be remembered of him that has brought [these things] upon you. -Baruch 4:28 | For as it was your mind to go astray from God: [so] return and seek him ten times more. -Baruch 4:29 | For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation. -Baruch 4:30 | Be of good cheer, O Jerusalem: for he that called you by name will comfort you. -Baruch 4:31 | Miserable are those who afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall. -Baruch 4:32 | Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons. -Baruch 4:33 | For as she rejoiced at your fall, and was glad of your ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation. -Baruch 4:34 | And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning. -Baruch 4:35 | For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time. -Baruch 4:36 | O Jerusalem, look about you towards the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God. -Baruch 4:37 | Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God. -Baruch 5:01 | Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory that [comes] from God forever. -Baruch 5:02 | Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which [comes] from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting. -Baruch 5:03 | For God will show your brightness to every [region] under heaven. -Baruch 5:04 | For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness. -Baruch 5:05 | Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you towards the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them. -Baruch 5:06 | For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, as [on] a royal throne. -Baruch 5:07 | For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God. -Baruch 5:08 | Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God. -Baruch 5:09 | For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him. -Baruch 6:01 | A copy of a letter, which Jeremy sent to them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God. -Baruch 6:02 | Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you shall be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians. -Baruch 6:03 | So when you come to Babylon, you shall remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations: and after that I will bring you out peaceably from thence. -Baruch 6:04 | But now shall you see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear. -Baruch 6:05 | Beware therefore that you in no wise become like to the strangers, neither let fear take hold upon you because of them, when you see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them. -Baruch 6:06 | But say you in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship you. -Baruch 6:07 | For my angel is with you, and I myself do care for your souls. -Baruch 6:08 | For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak. -Baruch 6:09 | And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods: -Baruch 6:10 | and sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves; -Baruch 6:11 | and will even give thereof to the common prostitutes: and they deck them as men with garments, [even] the gods of silver, and gods of gold, and of wood. -Baruch 6:12 | Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment. -Baruch 6:13 | They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them. -Baruch 6:14 | And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country. -Baruch 6:15 | He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe: but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers. -Baruch 6:16 | Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not. -Baruch 6:17 | For like as a vessel that a man uses is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temples their eyes be full of dust through the feet of those who come in. -Baruch 6:18 | And as the courts are made sure on every side upon him that offends the king, as being committed to suffer death; [even so] the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers. -Baruch 6:19 | They light them candles, yes, more than for themselves, whereof they can’t see one. -Baruch 6:20 | They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not -Baruch 6:21 | when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple: -Baruch 6:22 | bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads; and in like manner the cats also. -Baruch 6:23 | Whereby you may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not. -Baruch 6:24 | Notwithstanding the gold wherewith they are beset to make them beautiful, except one wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for not even when they were molten did they feel it. -Baruch 6:25 | Things wherein there is no breath are bought at any cost. -Baruch 6:26 | Having no feet, they are borne upon shoulders, whereby they declare to men that they be nothing worth. -Baruch 6:27 | They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men. -Baruch 6:28 | And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend; and in like manner their wives also lay up part thereof in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they will give nothing thereof. -Baruch 6:29 | The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods, fear them not. -Baruch 6:30 | For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood. -Baruch 6:31 | And in their temples the priests sit on seats, having their clothes tore, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. -Baruch 6:32 | They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead. -Baruch 6:33 | The priests also take off garments from them, and clothe their wives and children withal. -Baruch 6:34 | Whether it be evil that one does to them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down. -Baruch 6:35 | In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow to them, and keep it not, they will never exact it. -Baruch 6:36 | They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty. -Baruch 6:37 | They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, nor deliver any that is in distress. -Baruch 6:38 | They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless. -Baruch 6:39 | They are like the stones that be [hewn] out of the mountain, [these gods] of wood, and that are overlaid with gold and with silver: those who minister to them shall be confounded. -Baruch 6:40 | How should a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them? -Baruch 6:41 | Who if they shall see one mute that can’t speak, they bring him, and entreat him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand. -Baruch 6:42 | Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them: for they have no understanding. -Baruch 6:43 | The women also with cords about them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense: but if any of them, drawn by some that passes by, lie with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. -Baruch 6:44 | Whatsoever is done amongst them is false: how should a man then think or say that they are gods? -Baruch 6:45 | They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be. -Baruch 6:46 | And they themselves that fashioned them can never continue long; how then should the things that are fashioned by them? -Baruch 6:47 | For they have left lies and reproaches to those who come after. -Baruch 6:48 | For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them. -Baruch 6:49 | How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague? -Baruch 6:50 | For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false: -Baruch 6:51 | and it shall be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them. -Baruch 6:52 | Who then may not know that they are no gods? -Baruch 6:53 | For neither can they set up a king in a land, nor give rain to men. -Baruch 6:54 | Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth. -Baruch 6:55 | For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood, or overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves shall be burnt apart like beams. -Baruch 6:56 | Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies: how should a man then allow or think that they be gods? -Baruch 6:57 | Neither are those gods of wood, and overlaid with silver or with gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers. -Baruch 6:58 | Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong will take from them, and go away withal: neither shall they be able to help themselves. -Baruch 6:59 | Therefore it is better to be a king that shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for that whereof the owner shall have need, than such false gods; or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods. -Baruch 6:60 | For sun, and moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient. -Baruch 6:61 | Likewise also the lightning when it glitters is fair to see; and after the same manner the wind also blows in every country. -Baruch 6:62 | And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told. -Baruch 6:63 | And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded: but these are to be likened to them neither in show nor power. -Baruch 6:64 | Wherefore a man should neither think nor say that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good to men. -Baruch 6:65 | Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not. -Baruch 6:66 | For they can neither curse nor bless kings: -Baruch 6:67 | neither can they show signs in the heavens amongst the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon. -Baruch 6:68 | The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves. -Baruch 6:69 | In no wise then is it manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not. -Baruch 6:70 | For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver. -Baruch 6:71 | Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark. -Baruch 6:72 | And you shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rots upon them: And they themselves afterward shall be consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country. -Baruch 6:73 | Better therefore is the just man that has none idols: for he shall be far from reproach. +2 Peter 01:01 | Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ: +2 Peter 01:02 | Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, +2 Peter 01:03 | seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, +2 Peter 01:04 | by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. +2 Peter 01:05 | Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; +2 Peter 01:06 | and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; +2 Peter 01:07 | and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. +2 Peter 01:08 | For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. +2 Peter 01:09 | For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. +2 Peter 01:10 | Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. +2 Peter 01:11 | For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. +2 Peter 01:12 | Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. +2 Peter 01:13 | I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, +2 Peter 01:14 | knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. +2 Peter 01:15 | Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure. +2 Peter 01:16 | For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. +2 Peter 01:17 | For he received from God the Father honour and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." +2 Peter 01:18 | We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. +2 Peter 01:19 | We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts: +2 Peter 01:20 | knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. +2 Peter 01:21 | For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit. +2 Peter 02:01 | But false prophets also arose amongst the people, as false teachers will also be amongst you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. +2 Peter 02:02 | Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. +2 Peter 02:03 | In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. +2 Peter 02:04 | For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgement; +2 Peter 02:05 | and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; +2 Peter 02:06 | and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way; +2 Peter 02:07 | and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked +2 Peter 02:08 | (for that righteous man dwelling amongst them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): +2 Peter 02:09 | the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement, +2 Peter 02:10 | but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; +2 Peter 02:11 | whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgement against them before the Lord. +2 Peter 02:12 | But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, +2 Peter 02:13 | receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, revelling in their deceit while they feast with you; +2 Peter 02:14 | having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; +2 Peter 02:15 | forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; +2 Peter 02:16 | but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. +2 Peter 02:17 | These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. +2 Peter 02:18 | For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; +2 Peter 02:19 | promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him. +2 Peter 02:20 | For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. +2 Peter 02:21 | For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. +2 Peter 02:22 | But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire." +2 Peter 03:01 | This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you +2 Peter 03:02 | that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: +2 Peter 03:03 | knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts +2 Peter 03:04 | and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." +2 Peter 03:05 | For this they wilfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God, +2 Peter 03:06 | by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished. +2 Peter 03:07 | But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgement and destruction of ungodly men. +2 Peter 03:08 | But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. +2 Peter 03:09 | The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. +2 Peter 03:10 | But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burnt up. +2 Peter 03:11 | Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, +2 Peter 03:12 | looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? +2 Peter 03:13 | But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. +2 Peter 03:14 | Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight. +2 Peter 03:15 | Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, +2 Peter 03:16 | as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. +2 Peter 03:17 | You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. +2 Peter 03:18 | But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. +2 Samuel 01:01 | After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; +2 Samuel 01:02 | on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect. +2 Samuel 01:03 | David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel." +2 Samuel 01:04 | David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also." +2 Samuel 01:05 | David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?" +2 Samuel 01:06 | The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him. +2 Samuel 01:07 | When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’ +2 Samuel 01:08 | He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ +2 Samuel 01:09 | He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’ +2 Samuel 01:10 | So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord." +2 Samuel 01:11 | Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise. +2 Samuel 01:12 | They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword. +2 Samuel 01:13 | David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite." +2 Samuel 01:14 | David said to him, "Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?" +2 Samuel 01:15 | David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and cut him down!" He struck him so that he died. +2 Samuel 01:16 | David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain the Lord’s anointed.’" +2 Samuel 01:17 | David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son +2 Samuel 01:18 | (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar): +2 Samuel 01:19 | "Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! +2 Samuel 01:20 | Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. +2 Samuel 01:21 | You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil. +2 Samuel 01:22 | From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty. +2 Samuel 01:23 | Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions. +2 Samuel 01:24 | You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing. +2 Samuel 01:25 | How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places. +2 Samuel 01:26 | I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. +2 Samuel 01:27 | How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!" +2 Samuel 02:01 | After this, David enquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" The Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "Where shall I go up?" He said, "To Hebron." +2 Samuel 02:02 | So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +2 Samuel 02:03 | David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron. +2 Samuel 02:04 | The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul." +2 Samuel 02:05 | David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, "Blessed are you by the Lord, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. +2 Samuel 02:06 | Now may the Lord show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing. +2 Samuel 02:07 | Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them." +2 Samuel 02:13 | Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. +2 Samuel 02:14 | Abner said to Joab, "Please let the young men arise and play before us!" Joab said, "Let them arise!" +2 Samuel 02:15 | Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants. +2 Samuel 02:16 | They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim. +2 Samuel 02:17 | The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants. +2 Samuel 02:19 | Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner. +2 Samuel 02:20 | Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Is that you, Asahel?" He answered, "It is." +2 Samuel 02:21 | Abner said to him, "Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armour." But Asahel would not turn away from following him. +2 Samuel 02:22 | Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?" +2 Samuel 02:23 | However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still. +2 Samuel 02:24 | But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. +2 Samuel 02:25 | The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. +2 Samuel 02:26 | Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?" +2 Samuel 02:27 | Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother." +2 Samuel 02:28 | So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more. +2 Samuel 02:29 | Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim. +2 Samuel 02:30 | Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing. +2 Samuel 02:31 | But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred and sixty men died. +2 Samuel 02:32 | They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron. +2 Samuel 03:01 | Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker. +2 Samuel 03:02 | Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; +2 Samuel 03:06 | While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house. +2 Samuel 03:07 | Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?" +2 Samuel 03:08 | Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, "Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman! +2 Samuel 03:09 | God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the Lord has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him; +2 Samuel 03:10 | to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba." +2 Samuel 03:11 | He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him. +2 Samuel 03:12 | Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?" and saying, "Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you." +2 Samuel 03:13 | He said, "Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face." +2 Samuel 03:14 | David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines." +2 Samuel 03:15 | Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish. +2 Samuel 03:16 | Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go! Return!" and he returned. +2 Samuel 03:17 | Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you. +2 Samuel 03:18 | Now then do it; for the Lord has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’" +2 Samuel 03:19 | Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin. +2 Samuel 03:21 | Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires." David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. +2 Samuel 03:22 | Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. +2 Samuel 03:23 | When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace." +2 Samuel 03:24 | Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone? +2 Samuel 03:25 | You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do." +2 Samuel 03:26 | When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it. +2 Samuel 03:27 | When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. +2 Samuel 03:28 | Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. +2 Samuel 03:29 | Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread." +2 Samuel 03:31 | David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner." King David followed the bier. +2 Samuel 03:32 | They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept. +2 Samuel 03:33 | The king lamented for Abner, and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies? +2 Samuel 03:34 | Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him. +2 Samuel 03:35 | All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down." +2 Samuel 03:36 | All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people. +2 Samuel 03:37 | So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. +2 Samuel 03:38 | The king said to his servants, "Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel? +2 Samuel 03:39 | I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May the Lord reward the evildoer according to his wickedness." +2 Samuel 04:01 | When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. +2 Samuel 04:03 | and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today). +2 Samuel 04:04 | Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. +2 Samuel 04:06 | They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. +2 Samuel 04:07 | Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. +2 Samuel 04:08 | They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! The Lord has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring." +2 Samuel 04:09 | David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, +2 Samuel 04:10 | when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. +2 Samuel 04:11 | How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?" +2 Samuel 04:12 | David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron. +2 Samuel 05:01 | Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. +2 Samuel 05:02 | In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. The Lord said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’" +2 Samuel 05:03 | So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over Israel. +2 Samuel 05:04 | David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. +2 Samuel 05:05 | In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. +2 Samuel 05:06 | The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, "The blind and the lame will keep you out of here" thinking, "David can’t come in here." +2 Samuel 05:07 | Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city. +2 Samuel 05:08 | David said on that day, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul." Therefore they say, "The blind and the lame can’t come into the house." +2 Samuel 05:09 | David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward. +2 Samuel 05:10 | David grew greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of Armies, was with him. +2 Samuel 05:11 | Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. +2 Samuel 05:12 | David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake. +2 Samuel 05:13 | David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David. +2 Samuel 05:17 | When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. +2 Samuel 05:18 | Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. +2 Samuel 05:19 | David enquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" The Lord said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand." +2 Samuel 05:20 | David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, "The Lord has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. +2 Samuel 05:21 | They left their images there; and David and his men took them away. +2 Samuel 05:22 | The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. +2 Samuel 05:23 | When David enquired of the Lord, he said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees. +2 Samuel 05:24 | When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines." +2 Samuel 05:25 | David did so, as the Lord commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer. +2 Samuel 06:01 | David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. +2 Samuel 06:02 | David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the Lord of Armies who sits above the cherubim. +2 Samuel 06:03 | They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. +2 Samuel 06:04 | They brought it out of Abinadab’s house, which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark. +2 Samuel 06:05 | David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals. +2 Samuel 06:06 | When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled. +2 Samuel 06:07 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark. +2 Samuel 06:08 | David was displeased, because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. +2 Samuel 06:09 | David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, "How could the Lord’s ark come to me?" +2 Samuel 06:10 | So David would not move the Lord’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house. +2 Samuel 06:11 | The Lord’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his house. +2 Samuel 06:12 | King David was told, "The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark." So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy. +2 Samuel 06:13 | When those who bore the Lord’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. +2 Samuel 06:14 | David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. +2 Samuel 06:15 | So David and all the house of Israel brought up the Lord’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. +2 Samuel 06:16 | As the Lord’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. +2 Samuel 06:17 | They brought in the Lord’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. +2 Samuel 06:18 | When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Armies. +2 Samuel 06:19 | He gave to all the people, even amongst the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house. +2 Samuel 06:20 | Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" +2 Samuel 06:21 | David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before the Lord. +2 Samuel 06:22 | I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honour me." +2 Samuel 06:23 | Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. +2 Samuel 07:01 | When the king lived in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around, +2 Samuel 07:02 | the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains." +2 Samuel 07:03 | Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for the Lord is with you." +2 Samuel 07:05 | "Go and tell my servant David, ‘The Lord says, "Should you build me a house for me to dwell in? +2 Samuel 07:06 | For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. +2 Samuel 07:07 | In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’"’ +2 Samuel 07:08 | Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘The Lord of Armies says, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel. +2 Samuel 07:09 | I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. +2 Samuel 07:10 | I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first, +2 Samuel 07:11 | and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover the Lord tells you that the Lord will make you a house. +2 Samuel 07:12 | When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. +2 Samuel 07:13 | He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. +2 Samuel 07:14 | I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; +2 Samuel 07:15 | but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. +2 Samuel 07:16 | Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever." +2 Samuel 07:17 | Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision. +2 Samuel 07:18 | Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord; and he said, "Who am I, Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? +2 Samuel 07:19 | This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this amongst men, Lord GOD! +2 Samuel 07:20 | What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD. +2 Samuel 07:21 | For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. +2 Samuel 07:22 | Therefore you are great, Lord God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. +2 Samuel 07:23 | What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods? +2 Samuel 07:24 | You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Lord, became their God. +2 Samuel 07:25 | Now, Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken. +2 Samuel 07:26 | Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’ +2 Samuel 07:27 | For you, Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. +2 Samuel 07:28 | "Now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. +2 Samuel 07:29 | Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord GOD, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing." +2 Samuel 08:01 | After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines. +2 Samuel 08:04 | David took from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. +2 Samuel 08:05 | When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians. +2 Samuel 08:06 | Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. +2 Samuel 08:07 | David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 08:11 | King David also dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued; +2 Samuel 08:13 | David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt. +2 Samuel 08:14 | He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. +2 Samuel 08:15 | David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people. +2 Samuel 09:01 | David said, "Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?" +2 Samuel 09:02 | There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "I am your servant." +2 Samuel 09:03 | The king said, "Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet." +2 Samuel 09:04 | The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar." +2 Samuel 09:05 | Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. +2 Samuel 09:06 | Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, "Mephibosheth." He answered, "Behold, your servant!" +2 Samuel 09:07 | David said to him, "Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually." +2 Samuel 09:08 | He bowed down, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?" +2 Samuel 09:09 | Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son. +2 Samuel 09:10 | Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. +2 Samuel 09:11 | Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons. +2 Samuel 10:01 | After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. +2 Samuel 10:02 | David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. +2 Samuel 10:03 | But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honours your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" +2 Samuel 10:04 | So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. +2 Samuel 10:05 | When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return." +2 Samuel 10:06 | When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men. +2 Samuel 10:07 | When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. +2 Samuel 10:08 | The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. +2 Samuel 10:09 | Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. +2 Samuel 10:10 | The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. +2 Samuel 10:11 | He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. +2 Samuel 10:12 | Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him." +2 Samuel 10:13 | So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. +2 Samuel 10:14 | When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 10:15 | When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. +2 Samuel 10:16 | Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. +2 Samuel 10:17 | David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. +2 Samuel 10:18 | The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there. +2 Samuel 10:19 | When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more. +2 Samuel 11:01 | At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 11:02 | At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at. +2 Samuel 11:03 | David sent and enquired after the woman. One said, "Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?" +2 Samuel 11:04 | David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. +2 Samuel 11:05 | The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child." +2 Samuel 11:06 | David sent to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David. +2 Samuel 11:07 | When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. +2 Samuel 11:08 | David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him. +2 Samuel 11:09 | But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house. +2 Samuel 11:10 | When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn’t go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?" +2 Samuel 11:11 | Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!" +2 Samuel 11:12 | David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day. +2 Samuel 11:13 | When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house. +2 Samuel 11:14 | In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. +2 Samuel 11:15 | He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die." +2 Samuel 11:16 | When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. +2 Samuel 11:17 | The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also. +2 Samuel 11:20 | it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall? +2 Samuel 11:21 | Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’" +2 Samuel 11:22 | So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. +2 Samuel 11:23 | The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate. +2 Samuel 11:24 | The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead." +2 Samuel 11:25 | Then David said to the messenger, "Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him." +2 Samuel 11:26 | When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. +2 Samuel 11:27 | When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. +2 Samuel 12:01 | The Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. +2 Samuel 12:03 | but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him. +2 Samuel 12:04 | A traveller came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him." +2 Samuel 12:05 | David’s anger burnt hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die! +2 Samuel 12:06 | He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!" +2 Samuel 12:07 | Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. +2 Samuel 12:08 | I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things. +2 Samuel 12:09 | Why have you despised the Lord’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. +2 Samuel 12:10 | Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’ +2 Samuel 12:11 | "This is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbour, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. +2 Samuel 12:12 | For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’" +2 Samuel 12:13 | David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin. You will not die. +2 Samuel 12:14 | However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the Lord’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die." +2 Samuel 12:15 | Nathan departed to his house. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick. +2 Samuel 12:16 | David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground. +2 Samuel 12:17 | The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them. +2 Samuel 12:18 | On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?" +2 Samuel 12:19 | But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead." +2 Samuel 12:20 | Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the Lord’s house, and worshipped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate. +2 Samuel 12:21 | Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread." +2 Samuel 12:22 | He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ +2 Samuel 12:23 | But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me." +2 Samuel 12:24 | David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The Lord loved him; +2 Samuel 12:28 | Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name." +2 Samuel 12:29 | David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. +2 Samuel 12:30 | He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city. +2 Samuel 12:31 | He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 13:02 | Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her. +2 Samuel 13:03 | But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. +2 Samuel 13:04 | He said to him, "Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister." +2 Samuel 13:05 | Jonadab said to him, "Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’" +2 Samuel 13:06 | So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand." +2 Samuel 13:07 | Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him." +2 Samuel 13:08 | So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. +2 Samuel 13:09 | She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, "Have all men leave me." Then every man went out from him. +2 Samuel 13:10 | Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand." Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother. +2 Samuel 13:11 | When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!" +2 Samuel 13:12 | She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly. +2 Samuel 13:13 | As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you." +2 Samuel 13:14 | However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her. +2 Samuel 13:15 | Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, "Arise, be gone!" +2 Samuel 13:16 | She said to him, "Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!" But he would not listen to her. +2 Samuel 13:17 | Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her." +2 Samuel 13:18 | She had a garment of various colours on her; for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her. +2 Samuel 13:19 | Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colours that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went. +2 Samuel 13:20 | Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart." So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house. +2 Samuel 13:21 | But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry. +2 Samuel 13:22 | Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. +2 Samuel 13:23 | After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons. +2 Samuel 13:24 | Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant." +2 Samuel 13:25 | The king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him. +2 Samuel 13:26 | Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" +2 Samuel 13:27 | But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him. +2 Samuel 13:28 | Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!" +2 Samuel 13:29 | The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled. +2 Samuel 13:30 | While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, "Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!" +2 Samuel 13:31 | Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn. +2 Samuel 13:32 | Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, "Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar. +2 Samuel 13:33 | Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead." +2 Samuel 13:34 | But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him. +2 Samuel 13:35 | Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king’s sons are coming! It is as your servant said." +2 Samuel 13:36 | As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly. +2 Samuel 13:39 | King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead. +2 Samuel 14:01 | Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was towards Absalom. +2 Samuel 14:02 | Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, "Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead. +2 Samuel 14:03 | Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth. +2 Samuel 14:04 | When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, "Help, O king!" +2 Samuel 14:05 | The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. +2 Samuel 14:06 | Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him. +2 Samuel 14:07 | Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth." +2 Samuel 14:08 | The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you." +2 Samuel 14:09 | The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless." +2 Samuel 14:10 | The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more." +2 Samuel 14:11 | Then she said, "Please let the king remember the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth." +2 Samuel 14:12 | Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on." +2 Samuel 14:13 | The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one. +2 Samuel 14:14 | For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him. +2 Samuel 14:15 | Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’ +2 Samuel 14:16 | For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. +2 Samuel 14:17 | Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the Lord, your God, be with you.’" +2 Samuel 14:18 | Then the king answered the woman, "Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak." +2 Samuel 14:19 | The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant. +2 Samuel 14:20 | Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth." +2 Samuel 14:21 | The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back." +2 Samuel 14:22 | Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favour in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant." +2 Samuel 14:23 | So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 14:24 | The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face. +2 Samuel 14:25 | Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him. +2 Samuel 14:26 | When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight. +2 Samuel 14:27 | Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face. +2 Samuel 14:28 | Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face. +2 Samuel 14:29 | Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come. +2 Samuel 14:30 | Therefore he said to his servants, "Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire. +2 Samuel 14:31 | Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?" +2 Samuel 14:32 | Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me." +2 Samuel 14:33 | So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom. +2 Samuel 15:01 | After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him. +2 Samuel 15:02 | Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgement, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel." +2 Samuel 15:03 | Absalom said to him, "Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you." +2 Samuel 15:04 | Absalom said moreover, "Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!" +2 Samuel 15:05 | It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. +2 Samuel 15:06 | Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgement. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. +2 Samuel 15:07 | At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron. +2 Samuel 15:08 | For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the Lord shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’" +2 Samuel 15:09 | The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron. +2 Samuel 15:10 | But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’" +2 Samuel 15:11 | Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything. +2 Samuel 15:12 | Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. +2 Samuel 15:13 | A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom." +2 Samuel 15:14 | David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword." +2 Samuel 15:15 | The king’s servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses." +2 Samuel 15:16 | The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. +2 Samuel 15:17 | The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak. +2 Samuel 15:18 | All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. +2 Samuel 15:19 | Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place. +2 Samuel 15:20 | Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you." +2 Samuel 15:21 | Ittai answered the king, and said, "As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also." +2 Samuel 15:22 | David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him. +2 Samuel 15:23 | All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness. +2 Samuel 15:24 | Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city. +2 Samuel 15:25 | The king said to Zadok, "Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favour in the Lord’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation; +2 Samuel 15:26 | but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him." +2 Samuel 15:27 | The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. +2 Samuel 15:28 | Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me." +2 Samuel 15:29 | Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there. +2 Samuel 15:30 | David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. +2 Samuel 15:31 | Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is amongst the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness." +2 Samuel 15:32 | When David had come to the top, where God was worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head. +2 Samuel 15:33 | David said to him, "If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me; +2 Samuel 15:34 | but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ +2 Samuel 15:35 | Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. +2 Samuel 15:36 | Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them." +2 Samuel 15:37 | So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 16:01 | When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine. +2 Samuel 16:02 | The king said to Ziba, "What do you mean by these?" Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink." +2 Samuel 16:03 | The king said, "Where is your master’s son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’" +2 Samuel 16:04 | Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours." Ziba said, "I bow down. Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, O king." +2 Samuel 16:05 | When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came. +2 Samuel 16:06 | He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. +2 Samuel 16:07 | Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow! +2 Samuel 16:08 | The Lord has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! The Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!" +2 Samuel 16:09 | Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head." +2 Samuel 16:10 | The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’" +2 Samuel 16:11 | David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord has invited him. +2 Samuel 16:12 | It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me good for the cursing of me today." +2 Samuel 16:13 | So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust. +2 Samuel 16:14 | The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there. +2 Samuel 16:15 | Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. +2 Samuel 16:16 | When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!" +2 Samuel 16:17 | Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?" +2 Samuel 16:18 | Hushai said to Absalom, "No; but whomever the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him. +2 Samuel 16:19 | Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence." +2 Samuel 16:20 | Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel what we shall do." +2 Samuel 16:21 | Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong." +2 Samuel 16:22 | So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. +2 Samuel 16:23 | The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man enquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom. +2 Samuel 17:01 | Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight. +2 Samuel 17:02 | I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, +2 Samuel 17:03 | and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace." +2 Samuel 17:04 | The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. +2 Samuel 17:05 | Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says." +2 Samuel 17:06 | When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up." +2 Samuel 17:07 | Hushai said to Absalom, "The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good." +2 Samuel 17:08 | Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. +2 Samuel 17:09 | Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter amongst the people who follow Absalom!’ +2 Samuel 17:10 | Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. +2 Samuel 17:11 | But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. +2 Samuel 17:12 | So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him. +2 Samuel 17:13 | Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there." +2 Samuel 17:14 | Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil on Absalom. +2 Samuel 17:16 | Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’" +2 Samuel 17:17 | Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city. +2 Samuel 17:18 | But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there. +2 Samuel 17:19 | The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known. +2 Samuel 17:20 | Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 17:21 | After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, "Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you." +2 Samuel 17:22 | Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan. +2 Samuel 17:23 | When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father. +2 Samuel 17:25 | Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. +2 Samuel 17:27 | When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, +2 Samuel 18:01 | David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. +2 Samuel 18:02 | David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will also surely go out with you myself." +2 Samuel 18:03 | But the people said, "You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city." +2 Samuel 18:04 | The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. +2 Samuel 18:05 | The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom." All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom. +2 Samuel 18:06 | So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. +2 Samuel 18:07 | The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. +2 Samuel 18:08 | For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. +2 Samuel 18:09 | Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on. +2 Samuel 18:10 | A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak." +2 Samuel 18:11 | Joab said to the man who told him, "Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash." +2 Samuel 18:12 | The man said to Joab, "Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’ +2 Samuel 18:13 | Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me." +2 Samuel 18:14 | Then Joab said, "I’m not going to wait like this with you." He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak. +2 Samuel 18:15 | Ten young men who bore Joab’s armour surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him. +2 Samuel 18:16 | Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back. +2 Samuel 18:17 | They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent. +2 Samuel 18:18 | Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day. +2 Samuel 18:19 | Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me now run and carry the king news, how the Lord has avenged him of his enemies." +2 Samuel 18:20 | Joab said to him, "You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead." +2 Samuel 18:21 | Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen!" The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran. +2 Samuel 18:22 | Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, "But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab said, "Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?" +2 Samuel 18:23 | "But come what may," he said, "I will run." He said to him, "Run!" Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. +2 Samuel 18:24 | Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. +2 Samuel 18:25 | The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, "If he is alone, there is news in his mouth." He came closer and closer. +2 Samuel 18:26 | The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, "Behold, a man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings news." +2 Samuel 18:27 | The watchman said, "I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." The king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good news." +2 Samuel 18:28 | Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, "All is well." He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed is the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!" +2 Samuel 18:29 | The king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was." +2 Samuel 18:30 | The king said, "Come and stand here." He came, and stood still. +2 Samuel 18:31 | Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, "News for my lord the king, for the Lord has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you." +2 Samuel 18:32 | The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" The Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is." +2 Samuel 18:33 | The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!" +2 Samuel 19:01 | Joab was told, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom." +2 Samuel 19:02 | The victory that day was turned into mourning amongst all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son." +2 Samuel 19:03 | The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. +2 Samuel 19:04 | The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!" +2 Samuel 19:05 | Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines; +2 Samuel 19:06 | in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and we had all died today, then it would have pleased you well. +2 Samuel 19:07 | Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the Lord, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now." +2 Samuel 19:08 | Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent. +2 Samuel 19:09 | All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom. +2 Samuel 19:10 | Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?" +2 Samuel 19:11 | King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house. +2 Samuel 19:12 | You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’ +2 Samuel 19:13 | Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’" +2 Samuel 19:14 | He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants." +2 Samuel 19:15 | So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. +2 Samuel 19:17 | There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king. +2 Samuel 19:18 | A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan. +2 Samuel 19:19 | He said to the king, "Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. +2 Samuel 19:20 | For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king." +2 Samuel 19:21 | But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?" +2 Samuel 19:22 | David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?" +2 Samuel 19:23 | The king said to Shimei, "You will not die." The king swore to him. +2 Samuel 19:24 | Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. +2 Samuel 19:25 | When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?" +2 Samuel 19:26 | He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame. +2 Samuel 19:27 | He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes. +2 Samuel 19:28 | For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant amongst those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?" +2 Samuel 19:29 | The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land." +2 Samuel 19:30 | Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house." +2 Samuel 19:31 | Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan. +2 Samuel 19:32 | Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. +2 Samuel 19:33 | The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem." +2 Samuel 19:34 | Barzillai said to the king, "How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? +2 Samuel 19:35 | I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king? +2 Samuel 19:36 | Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? +2 Samuel 19:37 | Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you." +2 Samuel 19:38 | The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you." +2 Samuel 19:39 | All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place. +2 Samuel 19:40 | So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel. +2 Samuel 19:41 | Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?" +2 Samuel 19:42 | All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?" +2 Samuel 19:43 | The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. +2 Samuel 20:01 | There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!" +2 Samuel 20:02 | So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. +2 Samuel 20:03 | David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood. +2 Samuel 20:04 | Then the king said to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present." +2 Samuel 20:05 | So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him. +2 Samuel 20:06 | David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight." +2 Samuel 20:07 | Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. +2 Samuel 20:08 | When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out. +2 Samuel 20:09 | Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. +2 Samuel 20:10 | But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. +2 Samuel 20:11 | One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, "He who favours Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!" +2 Samuel 20:12 | Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still. +2 Samuel 20:13 | When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. +2 Samuel 20:14 | He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him. +2 Samuel 20:15 | They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. +2 Samuel 20:16 | Then a wise woman cried out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’" +2 Samuel 20:17 | He came near to her; and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Hear the words of your servant." He answered, "I’m listening." +2 Samuel 20:18 | Then she spoke, saying, "They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter. +2 Samuel 20:19 | I am amongst those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?" +2 Samuel 20:20 | Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. +2 Samuel 20:21 | The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall." +2 Samuel 20:22 | Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. +2 Samuel 20:24 | Adoram was over the men subject to forced labour, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder, +2 Samuel 20:25 | Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests, +2 Samuel 21:01 | There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death." +2 Samuel 21:02 | The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah); +2 Samuel 21:03 | and David said to the Gibeonites, "What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the Lord’s inheritance?" +2 Samuel 21:04 | The Gibeonites said to him, "It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." He said, "I will do for you whatever you say." +2 Samuel 21:05 | They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, +2 Samuel 21:06 | let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord." The king said, "I will give them." +2 Samuel 21:08 | But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. +2 Samuel 21:09 | He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. +2 Samuel 21:11 | David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. +2 Samuel 21:12 | So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; +2 Samuel 21:13 | and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged. +2 Samuel 21:14 | They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land. +2 Samuel 21:20 | There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand, and six toes on every foot, twenty four in count; and he also was born to the giant. +2 Samuel 21:21 | When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him. +2 Samuel 22:01 | David spoke to the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, +2 Samuel 22:02 | and he said: "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; +2 Samuel 22:03 | God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My saviour, you save me from violence. +2 Samuel 22:04 | I call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. +2 Samuel 22:05 | For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. +2 Samuel 22:06 | The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. +2 Samuel 22:07 | In my distress, I called on the Lord. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears. +2 Samuel 22:08 | Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. +2 Samuel 22:09 | Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. +2 Samuel 22:10 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. +2 Samuel 22:11 | He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. +2 Samuel 22:12 | He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. +2 Samuel 22:13 | At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. +2 Samuel 22:14 | The Lord thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. +2 Samuel 22:15 | He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them. +2 Samuel 22:16 | Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the Lord’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. +2 Samuel 22:17 | He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters. +2 Samuel 22:18 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. +2 Samuel 22:19 | They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. +2 Samuel 22:20 | He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. +2 Samuel 22:21 | The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. +2 Samuel 22:22 | For I have kept the Lord’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God. +2 Samuel 22:23 | For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them. +2 Samuel 22:24 | I was also perfect towards him. I kept myself from my iniquity. +2 Samuel 22:25 | Therefore the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight. +2 Samuel 22:26 | With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. +2 Samuel 22:27 | With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. +2 Samuel 22:28 | You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down. +2 Samuel 22:29 | For you are my lamp, Lord. The Lord will light up my darkness. +2 Samuel 22:30 | For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. +2 Samuel 22:31 | As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. +2 Samuel 22:32 | For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God? +2 Samuel 22:33 | God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. +2 Samuel 22:34 | He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places. +2 Samuel 22:35 | He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. +2 Samuel 22:36 | You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great. +2 Samuel 22:37 | You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. +2 Samuel 22:38 | I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed. +2 Samuel 22:39 | I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. +2 Samuel 22:40 | For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. +2 Samuel 22:41 | You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. +2 Samuel 22:42 | They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the Lord, but he didn’t answer them. +2 Samuel 22:43 | Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. +2 Samuel 22:44 | You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. +2 Samuel 22:45 | The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. +2 Samuel 22:46 | The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. +2 Samuel 22:47 | The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, +2 Samuel 22:48 | even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me, +2 Samuel 22:49 | who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. +2 Samuel 22:50 | Therefore I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the nations, and will sing praises to your name. +2 Samuel 22:51 | He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more." +2 Samuel 23:02 | "The Lord’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. +2 Samuel 23:03 | The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, +2 Samuel 23:04 | shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’ +2 Samuel 23:05 | Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow. +2 Samuel 23:06 | But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand. +2 Samuel 23:07 | The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burnt with fire in their place." +2 Samuel 23:08 | These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time. +2 Samuel 23:10 | He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and the Lord worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder. +2 Samuel 23:11 | After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. +2 Samuel 23:12 | But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the Lord worked a great victory. +2 Samuel 23:13 | Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. +2 Samuel 23:14 | David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. +2 Samuel 23:15 | David longed, and said, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!" +2 Samuel 23:16 | The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord. +2 Samuel 23:17 | He said, "Be it far from me, Lord, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?" Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things. +2 Samuel 23:18 | Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name amongst the three. +2 Samuel 23:19 | Wasn’t he most honourable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three. +2 Samuel 23:20 | Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow. +2 Samuel 23:21 | He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. +2 Samuel 24:01 | Again the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, count Israel and Judah." +2 Samuel 24:02 | The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people." +2 Samuel 24:03 | Joab said to the king, "Now may the Lord your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?" +2 Samuel 24:04 | Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel. +2 Samuel 24:09 | Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. +2 Samuel 24:10 | David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the Lord, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." +2 Samuel 24:12 | "Go and speak to David, ‘The Lord says, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you." +2 Samuel 24:13 | So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me." +2 Samuel 24:14 | David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into the Lord’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand." +2 Samuel 24:15 | So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba. +2 Samuel 24:16 | When the angel stretched out his hand towards Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now withdraw your hand." The Lord’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. +2 Samuel 24:17 | David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house." +2 Samuel 24:18 | Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." +2 Samuel 24:19 | David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the Lord commanded. +2 Samuel 24:20 | Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. +2 Samuel 24:21 | Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people." +2 Samuel 24:22 | Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. +2 Samuel 24:24 | The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. +2 Samuel 24:25 | David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel. +2 Thessalonians 01:02 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +2 Thessalonians 01:03 | We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds, +2 Thessalonians 01:04 | so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. +2 Thessalonians 01:05 | This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgement of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer. +2 Thessalonians 01:06 | Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, +2 Thessalonians 01:07 | and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, +2 Thessalonians 01:08 | punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, +2 Thessalonians 01:09 | who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, +2 Thessalonians 01:10 | when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired amongst all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. +2 Thessalonians 01:11 | To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, +2 Thessalonians 01:12 | that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. +2 Thessalonians 02:01 | Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you +2 Thessalonians 02:02 | not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come. +2 Thessalonians 02:03 | Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, +2 Thessalonians 02:04 | he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. +2 Thessalonians 02:05 | Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? +2 Thessalonians 02:06 | Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. +2 Thessalonians 02:07 | For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. +2 Thessalonians 02:08 | Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; +2 Thessalonians 02:09 | even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, +2 Thessalonians 02:10 | and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. +2 Thessalonians 02:11 | Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; +2 Thessalonians 02:12 | that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. +2 Thessalonians 02:13 | But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth, +2 Thessalonians 02:14 | to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. +2 Thessalonians 02:15 | So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter. +2 Thessalonians 02:16 | Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, +2 Thessalonians 02:17 | comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. +2 Thessalonians 03:01 | Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you, +2 Thessalonians 03:02 | and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith. +2 Thessalonians 03:03 | But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. +2 Thessalonians 03:03 | The Lord is faithful and He will strengthen, and protect you from the evil one. +2 Thessalonians 03:04 | We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command. +2 Thessalonians 03:05 | May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ. +2 Thessalonians 03:06 | Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. +2 Thessalonians 03:07 | For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously amongst you, +2 Thessalonians 03:08 | neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labour and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, +2 Thessalonians 03:09 | not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us. +2 Thessalonians 03:10 | For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat." +2 Thessalonians 03:10 | While we were with you, we gave you the order: "Whoever doesn’t want to work shouldn’t be allowed to eat." +2 Thessalonians 03:11 | For we hear of some who walk amongst you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies. +2 Thessalonians 03:12 | Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread. +2 Thessalonians 03:13 | But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right. +2 Thessalonians 03:14 | If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. +2 Thessalonians 03:15 | Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. +2 Thessalonians 03:16 | Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. +2 Thessalonians 03:16 | Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. +2 Thessalonians 03:17 | The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write. +2 Thessalonians 03:18 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. +2 Timothy 01:01 | Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, +2 Timothy 01:02 | to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. +2 Timothy 01:03 | I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day +2 Timothy 01:04 | longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; +2 Timothy 01:05 | having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also. +2 Timothy 01:06 | For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. +2 Timothy 01:07 | For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. +2 Timothy 01:07 | God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. +2 Timothy 01:08 | Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, +2 Timothy 01:09 | who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, +2 Timothy 01:10 | but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News. +2 Timothy 01:11 | For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. +2 Timothy 01:12 | For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day. +2 Timothy 01:13 | Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. +2 Timothy 01:14 | That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. +2 Timothy 01:15 | This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. +2 Timothy 01:16 | May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, +2 Timothy 01:17 | but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me +2 Timothy 01:18 | (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well. +2 Timothy 02:01 | You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. +2 Timothy 02:02 | The things which you have heard from me amongst many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. +2 Timothy 02:03 | You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. +2 Timothy 02:04 | No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. +2 Timothy 02:05 | Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules. +2 Timothy 02:06 | The farmer who labours must be the first to get a share of the crops. +2 Timothy 02:06-07 | Hardworking farmers should be the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you understand all these things. +2 Timothy 02:07 | Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. +2 Timothy 02:08 | Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News, +2 Timothy 02:09 | in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained. +2 Timothy 02:10 | Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. +2 Timothy 02:11 | This saying is trustworthy: "For if we died with him, we will also live with him. +2 Timothy 02:12 | If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. +2 Timothy 02:13 | If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself." +2 Timothy 02:14 | Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear. +2 Timothy 02:15 | Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. +2 Timothy 02:16 | But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, +2 Timothy 02:17 | and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus: +2 Timothy 02:18 | men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some. +2 Timothy 02:19 | However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness." +2 Timothy 02:20 | Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honour, and some for dishonour. +2 Timothy 02:21 | If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honour, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work. +2 Timothy 02:22 | Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. +2 Timothy 02:23 | But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. +2 Timothy 02:24 | The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, +2 Timothy 02:25 | in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, +2 Timothy 02:26 | and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will. +2 Timothy 03:01 | But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. +2 Timothy 03:01-05 | Mark this! There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. +2 Timothy 03:02 | For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, +2 Timothy 03:03 | without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, +2 Timothy 03:04 | traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, +2 Timothy 03:05 | holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. +2 Timothy 03:06 | For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, +2 Timothy 03:07 | always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. +2 Timothy 03:08 | Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected. +2 Timothy 03:09 | But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. +2 Timothy 03:10 | But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, +2 Timothy 03:11 | persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. +2 Timothy 03:12 | Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. +2 Timothy 03:13 | But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. +2 Timothy 03:14 | But you remain in the things which you have learnt and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learnt them. +2 Timothy 03:15 | From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. +2 Timothy 03:16 | Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, +2 Timothy 03:17 | that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. +2 Timothy 04:01 | I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: +2 Timothy 04:02 | preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching. +2 Timothy 04:03 | For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, +2 Timothy 04:04 | and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables. +2 Timothy 04:05 | But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfil your ministry. +2 Timothy 04:06 | For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. +2 Timothy 04:07 | I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. +2 Timothy 04:07-08 | I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. +2 Timothy 04:08 | From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing. +2 Timothy 04:09 | Be diligent to come to me soon, +2 Timothy 04:10 | for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia. +2 Timothy 04:11 | Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service. +2 Timothy 04:13 | Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments. +2 Timothy 04:14 | Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds, +2 Timothy 04:15 | of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words. +2 Timothy 04:16 | At my first defence, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. +2 Timothy 04:17 | But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. +2 Timothy 04:18 | And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. +2 Timothy 04:19 | Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. +2 Timothy 04:20 | Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick. +2 Timothy 04:21 | Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers. +2 Timothy 04:22 | The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. +3 John 01:01 | The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. +3 John 01:02 | Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. +3 John 01:03 | For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. +3 John 01:04 | I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. +3 John 01:05 | Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. +3 John 01:06 | They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God, +3 John 01:07 | because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. +3 John 01:08 | We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth. +3 John 01:09 | I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first amongst them, doesn’t accept what we say. +3 John 01:10 | Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly. +3 John 01:11 | Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God. +3 John 01:12 | Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true. +3 John 01:13 | I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; +3 John 01:14 | but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. +3 Maccabees 01:01 | Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped. +3 Maccabees 01:02 | And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war. +3 Maccabees 01:03 | But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other. +3 Maccabees 01:04 | A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them each two minas of gold. +3 Maccabees 01:05 | It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners. +3 Maccabees 01:06 | Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighbouring cities, and encourage them. +3 Maccabees 01:07 | By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence. +3 Maccabees 01:08 | The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest-gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city. +3 Maccabees 01:09 | Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court, +3 Maccabees 01:10 | he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself. +3 Maccabees 01:11 | And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way. +3 Maccabees 01:12 | Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honour, I ought not to be. +3 Maccabees 01:13 | And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbade him? +3 Maccabees 01:15 | Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent? +3 Maccabees 01:16 | And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears, +3 Maccabees 01:17 | then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event. +3 Maccabees 01:18 | Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries. +3 Maccabees 01:19 | Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner. +3 Maccabees 01:20 | New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple. +3 Maccabees 01:21 | Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king. +3 Maccabees 01:22 | Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose. +3 Maccabees 01:23 | Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defence of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before. +3 Maccabees 01:24 | During this time the multitude kept on praying. +3 Maccabees 01:25 | The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed. +3 Maccabees 01:26 | He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onward with the view of carrying out this design. +3 Maccabees 01:27 | Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness. +3 Maccabees 01:28 | Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued. +3 Maccabees 01:29 | Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled. +3 Maccabees 02:01 | Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication: +3 Maccabees 02:02 | O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy amongst the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who celebrates in his confidence and strength. +3 Maccabees 02:03 | It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence. +3 Maccabees 02:04 | It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, amongst whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood. +3 Maccabees 02:05 | It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceedingly iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone. +3 Maccabees 02:06 | You did make known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions. +3 Maccabees 02:07 | And you rolled the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation. +3 Maccabees 02:08 | These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you the Almighty. +3 Maccabees 02:09 | You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honourable name. +3 Maccabees 02:10 | And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer. +3 Maccabees 02:11 | Truly you are faithful and true. +3 Maccabees 02:12 | And when you did often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and delivered them out of gret dangers, +3 Maccabees 02:13 | see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless. +3 Maccabees 02:14 | We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonour this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty. +3 Maccabees 02:15 | Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men. +3 Maccabees 02:16 | But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory amongst your people Israel, you did sanctify this place. +3 Maccabees 02:17 | Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say, +3 Maccabees 02:18 | We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon. +3 Maccabees 02:19 | Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour. +3 Maccabees 02:20 | Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth. +3 Maccabees 02:21 | At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy amongst the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. +3 Maccabees 02:22 | Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralysed; by a righteous judgement deprived of the faculty of speech. +3 Maccabees 02:23 | His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him. +3 Maccabees 02:24 | When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. +3 Maccabees 02:25 | He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness; +3 Maccabees 02:26 | and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will. +3 Maccabees 02:27 | His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it: +3 Maccabees 02:28 | That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered amongst the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death; +3 Maccabees 02:29 | that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights. +3 Maccabees 02:30 | To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians. +3 Maccabees 02:31 | Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honour from a future connection with him. +3 Maccabees 02:32 | A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration: +3 Maccabees 02:33 | cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse. +3 Maccabees 03:01 | On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives. +3 Maccabees 03:02 | While this was going on, an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law. +3 Maccabees 03:03 | Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty towards the kings, +3 Maccabees 03:04 | yet, as they worshipped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium; +3 Maccabees 03:05 | although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world. +3 Maccabees 03:06 | What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners; +3 Maccabees 03:07 | who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them. +3 Maccabees 03:08 | Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favourable turn of affairs: +3 Maccabees 03:09 | He who knows all things, will not, [said they] disregard so great a people. +3 Maccabees 03:10 | Some of the neighbours, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them. +3 Maccabees 03:11 | Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews. +3 Maccabees 03:12 | King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness! +3 Maccabees 03:14 | Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigour, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation, +3 Maccabees 03:15 | we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors. +3 Maccabees 03:16 | So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honour the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly. +3 Maccabees 03:17 | To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honour it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts, +3 Maccabees 03:18 | they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance towards all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them. +3 Maccabees 03:19 | And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone amongst the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable. +3 Maccabees 03:20 | We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting. +3 Maccabees 03:21 | Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen [at Jerusalem] but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities. +3 Maccabees 03:22 | All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil, +3 Maccabees 03:23 | have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few amongst them who are heartily disposed towards us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform. +3 Maccabees 03:24 | Having then, received certain proofs that these [Jews] bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult amongst ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies. +3 Maccabees 03:25 | As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those [Jews] who dwell amongst you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected. +3 Maccabees 03:26 | For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis. +3 Maccabees 03:27 | Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death. +3 Maccabees 03:28 | Whoever shall inform against the [Jews] besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned. +3 Maccabees 03:29 | Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come. +3 Maccabees 04:01 | Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly. +3 Maccabees 04:02 | The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them. +3 Maccabees 04:03 | What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation? +3 Maccabees 04:04 | They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion. +3 Maccabees 04:05 | A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed. +3 Maccabees 04:06 | Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry instead of the marriage hymn. +3 Maccabees 04:07 | Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship. +3 Maccabees 04:08 | The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful celebration, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand. +3 Maccabees 04:09 | They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters. +3 Maccabees 04:10 | The planks of the deck above them blocked out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage. +3 Maccabees 04:11 | They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; no, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation. +3 Maccabees 04:12 | When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims, +3 Maccabees 04:13 | was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one bit milder) treatment. +3 Maccabees 04:14 | The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labour which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties. +3 Maccabees 04:15 | The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days. +3 Maccabees 04:16 | The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God. +3 Maccabees 04:17 | At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration, +3 Maccabees 04:18 | inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work. +3 Maccabees 04:19 | The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said. +3 Maccabees 04:20 | They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose. +3 Maccabees 04:21 | Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven. +3 Maccabees 05:01 | Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design, +3 Maccabees 05:02 | he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense [infused] to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews. +3 Maccabees 05:03 | The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most. +3 Maccabees 05:04 | The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually. +3 Maccabees 05:05 | The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about evening and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together. +3 Maccabees 05:06 | The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about. +3 Maccabees 05:07 | they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power, +3 Maccabees 05:08 | to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them. +3 Maccabees 05:09 | Their litany so earnest went up to heaven. +3 Maccabees 05:10 | Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mixed wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof. +3 Maccabees 05:11 | He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king. +3 Maccabees 05:12 | By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified. +3 Maccabees 05:13 | But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles. +3 Maccabees 05:14 | The middle of the tenth hour had well near arrived, when the person who sent invitations, seeing the guests who were invited present, came and shook the king. +3 Maccabees 05:15 | He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him. +3 Maccabees 05:16 | The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him. +3 Maccabees 05:17 | This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet. +3 Maccabees 05:18 | Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and enquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day. +3 Maccabees 05:19 | Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends. +3 Maccabees 05:20 | The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews. +3 Maccabees 05:21 | When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home. +3 Maccabees 05:22 | Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable. +3 Maccabees 05:23 | The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade. +3 Maccabees 05:24 | The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn. +3 Maccabees 05:25 | The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily. +3 Maccabees 05:26 | The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realised. +3 Maccabees 05:27 | The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, enquired the object of this earnest preparation. +3 Maccabees 05:28 | But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose. +3 Maccabees 05:29 | Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction. +3 Maccabees 05:30 | The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows: +3 Maccabees 05:31 | Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served. +3 Maccabees 05:32 | Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs. +3 Maccabees 05:33 | Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance. +3 Maccabees 05:34 | The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations. +3 Maccabees 05:35 | The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him. +3 Maccabees 05:36 | Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth. +3 Maccabees 05:37 | And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons? +3 Maccabees 05:38 | Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow. +3 Maccabees 05:39 | His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves: +3 Maccabees 05:40 | O king, how long do you make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions. +3 Maccabees 05:41 | For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered. +3 Maccabees 05:42 | The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants. +3 Maccabees 05:43 | He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there. +3 Maccabees 05:44 | Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city. +3 Maccabees 05:45 | And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments. +3 Maccabees 05:46 | About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand. +3 Maccabees 05:47 | The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned [Jews]. +3 Maccabees 05:48 | But the [Jews], when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd, +3 Maccabees 05:49 | thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk. +3 Maccabees 05:50 | Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the help previously granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and +3 Maccabees 05:51 | sent up an exceedingly great cry asking the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades. +3 Maccabees 06:01 | And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus: +3 Maccabees 06:02 | O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy, +3 Maccabees 06:03 | look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land. +3 Maccabees 06:04 | You destroyed Pharaoh, with his army of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army. +3 Maccabees 06:05 | When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations. +3 Maccabees 06:06 | When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries. +3 Maccabees 06:07 | It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light. +3 Maccabees 06:08 | When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own. +3 Maccabees 06:09 | And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles. +3 Maccabees 06:10 | If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer. +3 Maccabees 06:11 | Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them. +3 Maccabees 06:12 | You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men. +3 Maccabees 06:13 | Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob. +3 Maccabees 06:14 | The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you. +3 Maccabees 06:15 | Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfil this saying, O Lord. +3 Maccabees 06:16 | Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power. +3 Maccabees 06:17 | When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army. +3 Maccabees 06:18 | Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews. +3 Maccabees 06:19 | And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters. +3 Maccabees 06:20 | And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit. +3 Maccabees 06:21 | They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them. +3 Maccabees 06:22 | The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations. +3 Maccabees 06:23 | For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying, +3 Maccabees 06:24 | You have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you have laboured to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom. +3 Maccabees 06:25 | Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country? +3 Maccabees 06:26 | Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will towards us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings? +3 Maccabees 06:27 | Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done. +3 Maccabees 06:28 | Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs. +3 Maccabees 06:29 | These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour. +3 Maccabees 06:30 | The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction. +3 Maccabees 06:31 | Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths. +3 Maccabees 06:32 | Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy. +3 Maccabees 06:33 | So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him. +3 Maccabees 06:34 | Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out. +3 Maccabees 06:35 | But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms. +3 Maccabees 06:36 | They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them. +3 Maccabees 06:37 | They requested the king to send them back to their homes. +3 Maccabees 06:38 | They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days. +3 Maccabees 06:39 | The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed. +3 Maccabees 06:40 | They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away. +3 Maccabees 06:41 | The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city. +3 Maccabees 07:01 | King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength. +3 Maccabees 07:02 | We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish. +3 Maccabees 07:03 | Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment. +3 Maccabees 07:04 | They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people. +3 Maccabees 07:05 | They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom. +3 Maccabees 07:06 | For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons; +3 Maccabees 07:07 | and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity towards us and towards our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge. +3 Maccabees 07:08 | And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past. +3 Maccabees 07:09 | For know you, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare you well. +3 Maccabees 07:10 | When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God. +3 Maccabees 07:11 | They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king. +3 Maccabees 07:12 | The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions. +3 Maccabees 07:13 | Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed. +3 Maccabees 07:14 | Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way; +3 Maccabees 07:15 | slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy. +3 Maccabees 07:16 | They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel. +3 Maccabees 07:17 | Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days, +3 Maccabees 07:18 | they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home. +3 Maccabees 07:19 | They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness. +3 Maccabees 07:20 | These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home. +3 Maccabees 07:21 | They had more weight than before amongst their enemies; and were honoured and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods. +3 Maccabees 07:22 | Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God made perfect wonders for their salvation. +3 Maccabees 07:23 | Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen. +Acts 01:01 | The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, +Acts 01:02 | until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. +Acts 01:03 | To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom. +Acts 01:04 | Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. +Acts 01:05 | For John indeed baptised in water, but you will be baptised in the Holy Spirit not many days from now." +Acts 01:06 | Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?" +Acts 01:07 | He said to them, "It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. +Acts 01:08 | But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth." +Acts 01:09 | When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. +Acts 01:10 | While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, +Acts 01:11 | who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky." +Acts 01:12 | Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away. +Acts 01:13 | When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. +Acts 01:14 | All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. +Acts 01:15 | In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred and twenty), and said, +Acts 01:16 | "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus. +Acts 01:17 | For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry. +Acts 01:18 | Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out. +Acts 01:19 | It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’ +Acts 01:20 | For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’ +Acts 01:21 | "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst us, +Acts 01:22 | beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection." +Acts 01:23 | They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. +Acts 01:24 | They prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen +Acts 01:25 | to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place." +Acts 01:26 | They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles. +Acts 01:6b-8a | "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority". You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. +Acts 02:01 | Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. +Acts 02:02 | Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. +Acts 02:03 | Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. +Acts 02:04 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. +Acts 02:05 | Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky. +Acts 02:06 | When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. +Acts 02:07 | They were all amazed and marvelled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans? +Acts 02:08 | How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? +Acts 02:09 | Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, +Acts 02:10 | Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, +Acts 02:11 | Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!" +Acts 02:12 | They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" +Acts 02:13 | Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine." +Acts 02:14 | But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words. +Acts 02:15 | For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day. +Acts 02:16 | But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: +Acts 02:17 | In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. +Acts 02:17 | ‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. +Acts 02:18 | Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. +Acts 02:19 | I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. +Acts 02:20 | The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. +Acts 02:21 | It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ +Acts 02:22 | "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him amongst you, even as you yourselves know, +Acts 02:23 | him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; +Acts 02:24 | whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it. +Acts 02:25 | For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. +Acts 02:26 | Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope; +Acts 02:27 | because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. +Acts 02:28 | You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ +Acts 02:29 | "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. +Acts 02:30 | Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, +Acts 02:31 | he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay. +Acts 02:32 | This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses. +Acts 02:33 | Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear. +Acts 02:34 | For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand +Acts 02:36 | "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." +Acts 02:36 | Let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah. +Acts 02:37 | Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" +Acts 02:38 | Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. +Acts 02:38 | Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. +Acts 02:39 | For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself." +Acts 02:40 | With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!" +Acts 02:41 | Then those who gladly received his word were baptised. There were added that day about three thousand souls. +Acts 02:42 | They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. +Acts 02:43 | Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. +Acts 02:44 | All who believed were together, and had all things in common. +Acts 02:45 | They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need. +Acts 02:46 | Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, +Acts 02:47 | praising God, and having favour with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved. +Acts 03:01 | Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. +Acts 03:02 | A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple. +Acts 03:03 | Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy. +Acts 03:04 | Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at us." +Acts 03:05 | He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them. +Acts 03:06 | But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" +Acts 03:07 | He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. +Acts 03:08 | Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. +Acts 03:10 | They recognised him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. +Acts 03:11 | As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. +Acts 03:12 | When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? +Acts 03:13 | The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. +Acts 03:14 | But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, +Acts 03:15 | and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. +Acts 03:16 | By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. +Acts 03:17 | "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. +Acts 03:18 | But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. +Acts 03:19 | "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, +Acts 03:19 | Repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. +Acts 03:20 | and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, +Acts 03:21 | whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. +Acts 03:22 | For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from amongst your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. +Acts 03:23 | It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from amongst the people.’ +Acts 03:24 | Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. +Acts 03:25 | You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’ +Acts 03:26 | God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness." +Acts 04:01 | As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, +Acts 04:02 | being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. +Acts 04:03 | They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening. +Acts 04:04 | But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand. +Acts 04:05 | In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. +Acts 04:06 | Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest. +Acts 04:07 | When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they enquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?" +Acts 04:08 | Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, +Acts 04:09 | if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, +Acts 04:10 | may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him. +Acts 04:11 | He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’ +Acts 04:11 | Jesus is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. +Acts 04:12 | Salvation is found in no one else but Jesus, for there is no other name under Heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. +Acts 04:12 | There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given amongst men, by which we must be saved!" +Acts 04:13 | Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled. They recognised that they had been with Jesus. +Acts 04:14 | Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. +Acts 04:15 | But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred amongst themselves, saying, +Acts 04:16 | "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it. +Acts 04:17 | But so that this spreads no further amongst the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name." +Acts 04:18 | They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. +Acts 04:19 | But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves, +Acts 04:20 | for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard." +Acts 04:21 | When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done. +Acts 04:22 | For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old. +Acts 04:23 | Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. +Acts 04:24 | When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; +Acts 04:25 | who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? +Acts 04:26 | The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’ +Acts 04:27 | "For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, +Acts 04:28 | to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen. +Acts 04:29 | Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, +Acts 04:30 | while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus." +Acts 04:31 | When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. +Acts 04:32 | The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. +Acts 04:33 | With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all. +Acts 04:34 | For neither was there amongst them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, +Acts 04:35 | and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need. +Acts 04:36 | Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race, +Acts 04:37 | having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet. +Acts 05:01 | But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, +Acts 05:02 | and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. +Acts 05:03 | But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? +Acts 05:04 | While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God." +Acts 05:05 | Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things. +Acts 05:06 | The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him. +Acts 05:07 | About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. +Acts 05:08 | Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." She said, "Yes, for so much." +Acts 05:09 | But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out." +Acts 05:10 | She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband. +Acts 05:11 | Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things. +Acts 05:12 | By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done amongst the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch. +Acts 05:13 | None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honoured them. +Acts 05:14 | More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women. +Acts 05:15 | They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at least his shadow might overshadow some of them. +Acts 05:16 | The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed. +Acts 05:17 | But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy +Acts 05:18 | and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody. +Acts 05:20 | "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." +Acts 05:21 | When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. +Acts 05:22 | But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported, +Acts 05:23 | "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!" +Acts 05:24 | Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this. +Acts 05:25 | One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people." +Acts 05:26 | Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them. +Acts 05:28 | "Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us." +Acts 05:29 | But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. +Acts 05:30 | The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. +Acts 05:31 | God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. +Acts 05:32 | We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him." +Acts 05:33 | But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them. +Acts 05:34 | But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honoured by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while. +Acts 05:35 | He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do. +Acts 05:36 | For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing. +Acts 05:37 | After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrolment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad. +Acts 05:38 | Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. +Acts 05:39 | But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!" +Acts 05:40 | They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. +Acts 05:41 | They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for Jesus’ name. +Acts 05:42 | Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ. +Acts 06:01 | Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. +Acts 06:02 | The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables. +Acts 06:03 | Therefore select from amongst you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. +Acts 06:04 | But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word." +Acts 06:05 | These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch; +Acts 06:06 | whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. +Acts 06:07 | The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. +Acts 06:08 | Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs amongst the people. +Acts 06:09 | But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines", and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen. +Acts 06:10 | They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. +Acts 06:11 | Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." +Acts 06:12 | They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council, +Acts 06:13 | and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. +Acts 06:14 | For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us." +Acts 06:15 | All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel. +Acts 07:01 | The high priest said, "Are these things so?" +Acts 07:02 | He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, +Acts 07:03 | and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’ +Acts 07:04 | Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. +Acts 07:05 | He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child. +Acts 07:06 | God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. +Acts 07:07 | ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’ +Acts 07:08 | He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. +Acts 07:09 | "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him, +Acts 07:10 | and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. +Acts 07:11 | Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. +Acts 07:12 | But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. +Acts 07:13 | On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh. +Acts 07:14 | Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. +Acts 07:15 | Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers, +Acts 07:16 | and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem. +Acts 07:17 | "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, +Acts 07:18 | until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph. +Acts 07:19 | The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive. +Acts 07:20 | At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house. +Acts 07:21 | When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son. +Acts 07:22 | Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. +Acts 07:23 | But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. +Acts 07:24 | Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. +Acts 07:25 | He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand. +Acts 07:26 | "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’ +Acts 07:27 | But he who did his neighbour wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? +Acts 07:28 | Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ +Acts 07:29 | Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. +Acts 07:30 | "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. +Acts 07:31 | When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him, +Acts 07:32 | ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look. +Acts 07:33 | The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground. +Acts 07:34 | I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’ +Acts 07:35 | "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. +Acts 07:36 | This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. +Acts 07:37 | This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from amongst your brothers, like me.’ +Acts 07:38 | This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us, +Acts 07:39 | to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, +Acts 07:40 | saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ +Acts 07:41 | They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. +Acts 07:42 | But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? +Acts 07:43 | You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’ +Acts 07:44 | "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen; +Acts 07:45 | which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, +Acts 07:46 | who found favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. +Acts 07:48 | However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says, +Acts 07:49 | ‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest? +Acts 07:49-50 | "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me?" says the Lord. "Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things?" +Acts 07:50 | Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ +Acts 07:51 | "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. +Acts 07:52 | Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. +Acts 07:53 | You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!" +Acts 07:54 | Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. +Acts 07:55 | But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, +Acts 07:56 | and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" +Acts 07:57 | But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord. +Acts 07:58 | They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. +Acts 07:59 | They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" +Acts 07:60 | He knelt down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep. +Acts 08:01 | Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. +Acts 08:02 | Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him. +Acts 08:03 | But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison. +Acts 08:04 | Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word. +Acts 08:05 | Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ. +Acts 08:06 | The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did. +Acts 08:07 | For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralysed and lame were healed. +Acts 08:09 | But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practise sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one, +Acts 08:10 | to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God." +Acts 08:11 | They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries. +Acts 08:12 | But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women. +Acts 08:13 | Simon himself also believed. Being baptised, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed. +Acts 08:14 | Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, +Acts 08:15 | who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit; +Acts 08:16 | for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptised in the name of Christ Jesus. +Acts 08:17 | Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. +Acts 08:18 | Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, +Acts 08:19 | "Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit." +Acts 08:20 | But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! +Acts 08:21 | You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God. +Acts 08:22 | Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. +Acts 08:23 | For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." +Acts 08:24 | Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me." +Acts 08:25 | They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans. +Acts 08:26 | But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go towards the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert." +Acts 08:27 | He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. +Acts 08:28 | He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. +Acts 08:29 | The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot." +Acts 08:30 | Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" +Acts 08:31 | He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. +Acts 08:32 | Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth. +Acts 08:33 | In his humiliation, his judgement was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth." +Acts 08:34 | The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?" +Acts 08:35 | Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus. +Acts 08:36 | As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptised?" +Acts 08:38 | He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him. +Acts 08:39 | When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing. +Acts 08:40 | But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea. +Acts 09:01 | But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest +Acts 09:02 | and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. +Acts 09:03 | As he travelled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. +Acts 09:04 | He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" +Acts 09:05 | He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. +Acts 09:06 | But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do." +Acts 09:07 | The men who travelled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one. +Acts 09:08 | Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. +Acts 09:09 | He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank. +Acts 09:10 | Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it’s me, Lord." +Acts 09:11 | The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, +Acts 09:12 | and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight." +Acts 09:13 | But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem. +Acts 09:14 | Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name." +Acts 09:15 | But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. +Acts 09:16 | For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake." +Acts 09:17 | Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." +Acts 09:18 | Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptised. +Acts 09:19 | He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus. +Acts 09:20 | Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God. +Acts 09:21 | All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!" +Acts 09:22 | But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. +Acts 09:23 | When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him, +Acts 09:24 | but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him, +Acts 09:25 | but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket. +Acts 09:26 | When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. +Acts 09:27 | But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. +Acts 09:28 | He was with them entering into Jerusalem, +Acts 09:29 | preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him. +Acts 09:30 | When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus. +Acts 09:31 | So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. +Acts 09:32 | As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. +Acts 09:33 | There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralysed. +Acts 09:34 | Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose. +Acts 09:35 | All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. +Acts 09:36 | Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did. +Acts 09:37 | In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. +Acts 09:38 | As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. +Acts 09:39 | Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. +Acts 09:40 | Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. +Acts 09:41 | He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive. +Acts 09:42 | This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. +Acts 09:43 | He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon. +Acts 10:02 | a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God. +Acts 10:03 | At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!" +Acts 10:04 | He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God. +Acts 10:06 | He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside. +Acts 10:07 | When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually. +Acts 10:08 | Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. +Acts 10:09 | Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon. +Acts 10:10 | He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. +Acts 10:11 | He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, +Acts 10:12 | in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky. +Acts 10:13 | A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!" +Acts 10:14 | But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." +Acts 10:15 | A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean." +Acts 10:16 | This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven. +Acts 10:17 | Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made enquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate, +Acts 10:18 | and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there. +Acts 10:19 | While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you. +Acts 10:20 | But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them." +Acts 10:21 | Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?" +Acts 10:22 | They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say." +Acts 10:23 | So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. +Acts 10:24 | On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends. +Acts 10:25 | When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. +Acts 10:26 | But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man." +Acts 10:27 | As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together. +Acts 10:28 | He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean. +Acts 10:29 | Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?" +Acts 10:30 | Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, +Acts 10:31 | and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God. +Acts 10:32 | Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’ +Acts 10:33 | Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God." +Acts 10:34 | Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favouritism; +Acts 10:35 | but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. +Acts 10:36 | The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all— +Acts 10:37 | you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; +Acts 10:38 | even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. +Acts 10:39 | We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree. +Acts 10:40 | God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, +Acts 10:41 | not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. +Acts 10:42 | He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead. +Acts 10:43 | All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins." +Acts 10:44 | While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. +Acts 10:45 | They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. +Acts 10:46 | For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, +Acts 10:47 | "Can anyone forbid these people from being baptised with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us." +Acts 10:48 | He commanded them to be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days. +Acts 11:01 | Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. +Acts 11:02 | When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him, +Acts 11:05 | "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me. +Acts 11:06 | When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. +Acts 11:07 | I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’ +Acts 11:08 | But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’ +Acts 11:09 | But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’ +Acts 11:10 | This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven. +Acts 11:11 | Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me. +Acts 11:12 | The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house. +Acts 11:13 | He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter, +Acts 11:14 | who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’ +Acts 11:15 | As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. +Acts 11:16 | I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptised in water, but you will be baptised in the Holy Spirit.’ +Acts 11:17 | If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?" +Acts 11:18 | When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!" +Acts 11:19 | They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only. +Acts 11:20 | But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. +Acts 11:21 | The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. +Acts 11:22 | The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch, +Acts 11:23 | who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord. +Acts 11:24 | For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord. +Acts 11:26 | When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. +Acts 11:27 | Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. +Acts 11:28 | One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius. +Acts 11:29 | As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea; +Acts 11:30 | which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. +Acts 12:01 | Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. +Acts 12:02 | He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. +Acts 12:03 | When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread. +Acts 12:04 | When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. +Acts 12:05 | Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him. +Acts 12:06 | The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison. +Acts 12:07 | And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off his hands. +Acts 12:08 | The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak and follow me." +Acts 12:09 | And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. +Acts 12:10 | When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. +Acts 12:11 | When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting." +Acts 12:12 | Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. +Acts 12:13 | When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. +Acts 12:14 | When she recognised Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate. +Acts 12:15 | They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel." +Acts 12:16 | But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. +Acts 12:17 | But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place. +Acts 12:18 | Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir amongst the soldiers about what had become of Peter. +Acts 12:19 | When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there. +Acts 12:20 | Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food. +Acts 12:21 | On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them. +Acts 12:22 | The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!" +Acts 12:23 | Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died. +Acts 12:24 | But the word of God grew and multiplied. +Acts 12:25 | Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark. +Acts 13:01 | Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. +Acts 13:02 | As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them." +Acts 13:03 | Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. +Acts 13:04 | So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. +Acts 13:05 | When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant. +Acts 13:06 | When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus, +Acts 13:07 | who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God. +Acts 13:08 | But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. +Acts 13:09 | But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, +Acts 13:10 | and said, "You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? +Acts 13:11 | Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand. +Acts 13:12 | Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. +Acts 13:13 | Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. +Acts 13:14 | But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. +Acts 13:15 | After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak." +Acts 13:16 | Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen. +Acts 13:17 | The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it. +Acts 13:18 | For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. +Acts 13:19 | When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. +Acts 13:20 | After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. +Acts 13:21 | Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. +Acts 13:22 | When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ +Acts 13:23 | From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise, +Acts 13:24 | before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel. +Acts 13:25 | As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’ +Acts 13:26 | Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those amongst you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you. +Acts 13:27 | For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. +Acts 13:28 | Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed. +Acts 13:29 | When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. +Acts 13:30 | But God raised him from the dead, +Acts 13:31 | and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. +Acts 13:32 | We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, +Acts 13:33 | that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’ +Acts 13:34 | "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’ +Acts 13:35 | Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’ +Acts 13:36 | For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. +Acts 13:37 | But he whom God raised up saw no decay. +Acts 13:38 | Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, +Acts 13:39 | and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. +Acts 13:40 | Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets: +Acts 13:41 | ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’" +Acts 13:42 | So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. +Acts 13:43 | Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. +Acts 13:44 | The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God. +Acts 13:45 | But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed. +Acts 13:46 | Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. +Acts 13:47 | For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’" +Acts 13:48 | As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed. +Acts 13:49 | The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region. +Acts 13:50 | But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders. +Acts 13:51 | But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium. +Acts 13:52 | The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. +Acts 14:01 | In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. +Acts 14:02 | But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. +Acts 14:03 | Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. +Acts 14:04 | But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles. +Acts 14:05 | When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, +Acts 14:06 | they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region. +Acts 14:08 | At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked. +Acts 14:09 | He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, +Acts 14:10 | said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leapt up and walked. +Acts 14:11 | When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" +Acts 14:12 | They called Barnabas "Jupiter", and Paul "Mercury", because he was the chief speaker. +Acts 14:13 | The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes. +Acts 14:14 | But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, +Acts 14:15 | "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; +Acts 14:16 | who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. +Acts 14:17 | Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." +Acts 14:18 | Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them. +Acts 14:19 | But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. +Acts 14:20 | But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe. +Acts 14:21 | When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, +Acts 14:22 | strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom. +Acts 14:23 | When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed. +Acts 14:24 | They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia. +Acts 14:25 | When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. +Acts 14:26 | From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled. +Acts 14:27 | When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations. +Acts 14:28 | They stayed there with the disciples for a long time. +Acts 15:01 | Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved." +Acts 15:02 | Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. +Acts 15:03 | They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers. +Acts 15:04 | When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them. +Acts 15:05 | But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses." +Acts 15:06 | The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter. +Acts 15:07 | When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice amongst you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe. +Acts 15:08 | God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us. +Acts 15:09 | He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. +Acts 15:10 | Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? +Acts 15:11 | But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are." +Acts 15:12 | All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done amongst the nations through them. +Acts 15:13 | After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me. +Acts 15:14 | Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name. +Acts 15:15 | This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written, +Acts 15:16 | ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up +Acts 15:17 | that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’ +Acts 15:18 | "All of God’s works are known to him from eternity. +Acts 15:19 | Therefore my judgement is that we don’t trouble those from amongst the Gentiles who turn to God, +Acts 15:20 | but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. +Acts 15:21 | For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath." +Acts 15:22 | Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men amongst the brothers. +Acts 15:23 | They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings. +Acts 15:24 | Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment; +Acts 15:25 | it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, +Acts 15:26 | men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. +Acts 15:27 | We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth. +Acts 15:28 | For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: +Acts 15:29 | that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell." +Acts 15:30 | So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter. +Acts 15:31 | When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement. +Acts 15:32 | Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them. +Acts 15:33 | After they had spent some time there, they were dismissed in peace from the brothers to the apostles. +Acts 15:35 | But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. +Acts 15:36 | After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing." +Acts 15:37 | Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also. +Acts 15:38 | But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work. +Acts 15:39 | Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, +Acts 15:40 | but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God. +Acts 15:41 | He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. +Acts 16:01 | He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. +Acts 16:02 | The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him. +Acts 16:03 | Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. +Acts 16:04 | As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. +Acts 16:05 | So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. +Acts 16:06 | When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. +Acts 16:07 | When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them. +Acts 16:09 | A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us." +Acts 16:10 | When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them. +Acts 16:11 | Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; +Acts 16:12 | and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city. +Acts 16:13 | On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. +Acts 16:14 | A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshipped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. +Acts 16:15 | When she and her household were baptised, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." So she persuaded us. +Acts 16:16 | As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. +Acts 16:17 | Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!" +Acts 16:18 | She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour. +Acts 16:19 | But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. +Acts 16:20 | When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city +Acts 16:21 | and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans." +Acts 16:22 | The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods. +Acts 16:23 | When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, +Acts 16:24 | who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. +Acts 16:25 | But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. +Acts 16:26 | Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. +Acts 16:27 | The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. +Acts 16:28 | But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!" +Acts 16:29 | He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, +Acts 16:30 | brought them out, and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" +Acts 16:31 | They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." +Acts 16:32 | They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. +Acts 16:33 | He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptised, he and all his household. +Acts 16:34 | He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God. +Acts 16:35 | But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go." +Acts 16:36 | The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace." +Acts 16:37 | But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!" +Acts 16:38 | The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, +Acts 16:39 | and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city. +Acts 16:40 | They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed. +Acts 17:01 | Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. +Acts 17:02 | Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, +Acts 17:03 | explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ." +Acts 17:04 | Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women. +Acts 17:05 | But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. +Acts 17:06 | When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, +Acts 17:07 | whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!" +Acts 17:08 | The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. +Acts 17:09 | When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. +Acts 17:10 | The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. +Acts 17:11 | Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. +Acts 17:12 | Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. +Acts 17:13 | But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. +Acts 17:14 | Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. +Acts 17:15 | But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed. +Acts 17:16 | Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. +Acts 17:17 | So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. +Acts 17:18 | Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. +Acts 17:19 | They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about? +Acts 17:20 | For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean." +Acts 17:21 | Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. +Acts 17:22 | Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. +Acts 17:23 | For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you. +Acts 17:24 | The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands. +Acts 17:24-25 | The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. +Acts 17:25 | He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. +Acts 17:26 | He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, +Acts 17:27 | that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. +Acts 17:28 | In Him we live and move and have our being. +Acts 17:28 | ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ +Acts 17:29 | Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man. +Acts 17:29 | Since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone – an image made by human design and skill. +Acts 17:30 | The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, +Acts 17:31 | because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead." +Acts 17:31 | He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead. +Acts 17:32 | Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this." +Acts 17:34 | But certain men joined with him and believed, amongst whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. +Acts 18:01 | After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. +Acts 18:02 | He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them, +Acts 18:03 | and because he practised the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. +Acts 18:04 | He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks. +Acts 18:05 | But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. +Acts 18:06 | When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!" +Acts 18:07 | He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. +Acts 18:08 | Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptised. +Acts 18:09 | The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent; +Acts 18:10 | for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city." +Acts 18:11 | He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God amongst them. +Acts 18:12 | But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgement seat, saying, +Acts 18:13 | "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law." +Acts 18:14 | But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; +Acts 18:15 | but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters." +Acts 18:17 | Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgement seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things. +Acts 18:18 | Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. +Acts 18:19 | He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. +Acts 18:20 | When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined; +Acts 18:21 | but taking his leave of them, he said, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills." Then he set sail from Ephesus. +Acts 18:22 | When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch. +Acts 18:23 | Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples. +Acts 18:24 | Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. +Acts 18:25 | This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. +Acts 18:26 | He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately. +Acts 18:27 | When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace; +Acts 18:28 | for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. +Acts 19:01 | While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples. +Acts 19:02 | He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." +Acts 19:03 | He said, "Into what then were you baptised?" They said, "Into John’s baptism." +Acts 19:04 | Paul said, "John indeed baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus." +Acts 19:05 | When they heard this, they were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. +Acts 19:06 | When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied. +Acts 19:08 | He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom. +Acts 19:09 | But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. +Acts 19:10 | This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. +Acts 19:11 | God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, +Acts 19:12 | so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out. +Acts 19:13 | But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." +Acts 19:14 | There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this. +Acts 19:15 | The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" +Acts 19:16 | The man in whom the evil spirit was leapt on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. +Acts 19:17 | This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. +Acts 19:18 | Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. +Acts 19:19 | Many of those who practised magical arts brought their books together and burnt them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. +Acts 19:20 | So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty. +Acts 19:21 | Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome." +Acts 19:22 | Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. +Acts 19:23 | About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way. +Acts 19:24 | For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, +Acts 19:25 | whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. +Acts 19:26 | You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands. +Acts 19:27 | Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships." +Acts 19:28 | When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" +Acts 19:29 | The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel. +Acts 19:30 | When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him. +Acts 19:31 | Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theatre. +Acts 19:32 | Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together. +Acts 19:33 | They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defence to the people. +Acts 19:34 | But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" +Acts 19:35 | When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus? +Acts 19:36 | Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash. +Acts 19:37 | For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess. +Acts 19:38 | If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another. +Acts 19:39 | But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly. +Acts 19:40 | For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion." +Acts 19:41 | When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly. +Acts 20:01 | After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. +Acts 20:02 | When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece. +Acts 20:03 | When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia. +Acts 20:04 | These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. +Acts 20:05 | But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas. +Acts 20:06 | We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days. +Acts 20:07 | On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight. +Acts 20:08 | There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together. +Acts 20:09 | A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead. +Acts 20:10 | Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him." +Acts 20:11 | When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed. +Acts 20:12 | They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted. +Acts 20:13 | But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land. +Acts 20:14 | When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene. +Acts 20:15 | Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus. +Acts 20:16 | For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. +Acts 20:17 | From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly. +Acts 20:18 | When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time, +Acts 20:19 | serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews; +Acts 20:20 | how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, +Acts 20:21 | testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus. +Acts 20:22 | Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; +Acts 20:23 | except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me. +Acts 20:24 | But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God. +Acts 20:25 | "Now, behold, I know that you all, amongst whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more. +Acts 20:26 | Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men, +Acts 20:27 | for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. +Acts 20:28 | Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood. +Acts 20:28c-30 | Be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. +Acts 20:29 | For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in amongst you, not sparing the flock. +Acts 20:30 | Men will arise from amongst your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. +Acts 20:31 | Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. +Acts 20:32 | Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance amongst all those who are sanctified. +Acts 20:33 | I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing. +Acts 20:34 | You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. +Acts 20:35 | [Paul] In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." +Acts 20:35 | In all things I gave you an example, that so labouring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’" +Acts 20:36 | When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. +Acts 20:37 | They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him, +Acts 20:38 | sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship. +Acts 21:01 | When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. +Acts 21:02 | Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail. +Acts 21:03 | When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo. +Acts 21:04 | Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem. +Acts 21:05 | When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed. +Acts 21:06 | After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again. +Acts 21:07 | When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day. +Acts 21:08 | On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. +Acts 21:09 | Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. +Acts 21:10 | As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. +Acts 21:11 | Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’" +Acts 21:12 | When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. +Acts 21:13 | Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." +Acts 21:14 | When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord’s will be done." +Acts 21:15 | After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem. +Acts 21:16 | Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay. +Acts 21:17 | When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. +Acts 21:18 | The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present. +Acts 21:19 | When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked amongst the Gentiles through his ministry. +Acts 21:20 | They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are amongst the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law. +Acts 21:21 | They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are amongst the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs. +Acts 21:22 | What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come. +Acts 21:23 | Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow. +Acts 21:24 | Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law. +Acts 21:25 | But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality." +Acts 21:26 | Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfilment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them. +Acts 21:27 | When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him, +Acts 21:28 | crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!" +Acts 21:29 | For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. +Acts 21:30 | All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut. +Acts 21:31 | As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. +Acts 21:32 | Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul. +Acts 21:33 | Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and enquired who he was and what he had done. +Acts 21:34 | Some shouted one thing, and some another, amongst the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks. +Acts 21:35 | When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; +Acts 21:36 | for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!" +Acts 21:37 | As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek? +Acts 21:38 | Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?" +Acts 21:39 | But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people." +Acts 22:01 | "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." +Acts 22:02 | When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said, +Acts 22:03 | "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today. +Acts 22:04 | I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, +Acts 22:05 | as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and travelled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished. +Acts 22:06 | As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky. +Acts 22:07 | I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ +Acts 22:08 | I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’ +Acts 22:09 | "Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me. +Acts 22:10 | I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’ +Acts 22:11 | When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus. +Acts 22:12 | One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus, +Acts 22:13 | came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him. +Acts 22:14 | He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. +Acts 22:15 | For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard. +Acts 22:16 | Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptised, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’ +Acts 22:17 | "When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance, +Acts 22:18 | and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’ +Acts 22:19 | I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you. +Acts 22:20 | When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’ +Acts 22:21 | "He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’" +Acts 22:22 | They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!" +Acts 22:23 | As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air, +Acts 22:24 | the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that. +Acts 22:25 | When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?" +Acts 22:26 | When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!" +Acts 22:27 | The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes." +Acts 22:28 | The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman." +Acts 22:29 | Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realised that he was a Roman, because he had bound him. +Acts 22:30 | But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them. +Acts 23:01 | Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today." +Acts 23:02 | The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. +Acts 23:03 | Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?" +Acts 23:04 | Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God’s high priest?" +Acts 23:05 | Paul said, "I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’" +Acts 23:06 | But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!" +Acts 23:07 | When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided. +Acts 23:08 | For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these. +Acts 23:09 | A great clamour arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!" +Acts 23:10 | When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from amongst them, and bring him into the barracks. +Acts 23:11 | The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome." +Acts 23:12 | When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. +Acts 23:13 | There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. +Acts 23:14 | They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. +Acts 23:15 | Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near." +Acts 23:16 | But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul. +Acts 23:17 | Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him." +Acts 23:18 | So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you." +Acts 23:19 | The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?" +Acts 23:20 | He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to enquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. +Acts 23:21 | Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you." +Acts 23:22 | So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me." +Acts 23:23 | He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night." +Acts 23:24 | He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor. +Acts 23:26 | "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings. +Acts 23:27 | "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learnt that he was a Roman. +Acts 23:28 | Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council. +Acts 23:29 | I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment. +Acts 23:30 | When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell." +Acts 23:31 | So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. +Acts 23:32 | But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks. +Acts 23:33 | When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. +Acts 23:34 | When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said, +Acts 23:35 | "I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace. +Acts 24:01 | After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul. +Acts 24:02 | When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight, +Acts 24:03 | we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. +Acts 24:04 | But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words. +Acts 24:05 | For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections amongst all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. +Acts 24:06 | He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him. +Acts 24:08 | By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him." +Acts 24:09 | The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so. +Acts 24:10 | When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defence, +Acts 24:11 | seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem. +Acts 24:12 | In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city. +Acts 24:13 | Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me. +Acts 24:14 | But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets; +Acts 24:15 | having hope towards God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. +Acts 24:16 | In this I also practise always having a conscience void of offence towards God and men. +Acts 24:17 | Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings; +Acts 24:18 | amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil. +Acts 24:19 | They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me. +Acts 24:20 | Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council, +Acts 24:21 | unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing amongst them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’" +Acts 24:22 | But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case." +Acts 24:23 | He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him. +Acts 24:24 | But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. +Acts 24:25 | As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgement to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you." +Acts 24:26 | Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him. +Acts 24:27 | But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favour with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds. +Acts 25:01 | Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. +Acts 25:02 | Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him, +Acts 25:03 | asking a favour against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way. +Acts 25:04 | However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly. +Acts 25:05 | "Let them therefore", he said, "that are in power amongst you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him." +Acts 25:06 | When he had stayed amongst them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgement seat, and commanded Paul to be brought. +Acts 25:07 | When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove, +Acts 25:08 | while he said in his defence, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all." +Acts 25:09 | But Festus, desiring to gain favour with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?" +Acts 25:10 | But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar’s judgement seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well. +Acts 25:11 | For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!" +Acts 25:12 | Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go." +Acts 25:13 | Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus. +Acts 25:14 | As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix; +Acts 25:15 | about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him. +Acts 25:16 | I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defence concerning the matter laid against him. +Acts 25:17 | When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgement seat and commanded the man to be brought. +Acts 25:18 | When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed; +Acts 25:19 | but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. +Acts 25:20 | Being perplexed how to enquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters. +Acts 25:21 | But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar." +Acts 25:22 | Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him." +Acts 25:23 | So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. +Acts 25:24 | Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. +Acts 25:25 | But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him, +Acts 25:26 | of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write. +Acts 25:27 | For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him." +Acts 26:01 | Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defence. +Acts 26:02 | "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defence before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews, +Acts 26:03 | especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are amongst the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently. +Acts 26:04 | "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning amongst my own nation and at Jerusalem; +Acts 26:05 | having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. +Acts 26:06 | Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, +Acts 26:07 | which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa! +Acts 26:08 | Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? +Acts 26:09 | "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. +Acts 26:10 | I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. +Acts 26:11 | Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. +Acts 26:12 | "Whereupon as I travelled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, +Acts 26:13 | at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who travelled with me. +Acts 26:14 | When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ +Acts 26:15 | "I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ "He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. +Acts 26:16 | But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; +Acts 26:17 | delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, +Acts 26:18 | to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance amongst those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ +Acts 26:19 | "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, +Acts 26:20 | but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. +Acts 26:21 | For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. +Acts 26:22 | Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen, +Acts 26:23 | how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles." +Acts 26:24 | As he thus made his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!" +Acts 26:25 | But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness. +Acts 26:26 | For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner. +Acts 26:27 | King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe." +Acts 26:28 | Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?" +Acts 26:29 | Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds." +Acts 26:30 | The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them. +Acts 26:31 | When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds." +Acts 26:32 | Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar." +Acts 27:01 | When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. +Acts 27:02 | Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. +Acts 27:03 | The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself. +Acts 27:04 | Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. +Acts 27:05 | When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. +Acts 27:06 | There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board. +Acts 27:07 | When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone. +Acts 27:08 | With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea. +Acts 27:09 | When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them +Acts 27:10 | and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives." +Acts 27:11 | But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul. +Acts 27:12 | Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest. +Acts 27:13 | When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore. +Acts 27:14 | But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. +Acts 27:15 | When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. +Acts 27:16 | Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat. +Acts 27:17 | After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along. +Acts 27:18 | As we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. +Acts 27:19 | On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands. +Acts 27:20 | When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away. +Acts 27:21 | When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss. +Acts 27:22 | Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life amongst you, but only of the ship. +Acts 27:23 | For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve, saying, +Acts 27:24 | ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ +Acts 27:25 | Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me. +Acts 27:26 | But we must run aground on a certain island." +Acts 27:27 | But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land. +Acts 27:28 | They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms. +Acts 27:29 | Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. +Acts 27:30 | As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, +Acts 27:31 | Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved." +Acts 27:32 | Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off. +Acts 27:33 | While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. +Acts 27:34 | Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads." +Acts 27:35 | When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat. +Acts 27:36 | Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. +Acts 27:37 | In all, we were two hundred and seventy-six souls on the ship. +Acts 27:38 | When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. +Acts 27:39 | When it was day, they didn’t recognise the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it. +Acts 27:40 | Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach. +Acts 27:41 | But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves. +Acts 27:42 | The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape. +Acts 27:43 | But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go towards the land; +Acts 27:44 | and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land. +Acts 28:01 | When we had escaped, then they learnt that the island was called Malta. +Acts 28:02 | The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold. +Acts 28:03 | But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. +Acts 28:04 | When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live." +Acts 28:05 | However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed. +Acts 28:06 | But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. +Acts 28:07 | Now in the neighbourhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days. +Acts 28:08 | The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him. +Acts 28:09 | Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured. +Acts 28:10 | They also honoured us with many honours, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed. +Acts 28:11 | After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was "The Twin Brothers." +Acts 28:12 | Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days. +Acts 28:13 | From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli, +Acts 28:14 | where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome. +Acts 28:15 | From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage. +Acts 28:16 | When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him. +Acts 28:17 | After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, +Acts 28:18 | who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me. +Acts 28:19 | But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation. +Acts 28:20 | For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain." +Acts 28:21 | They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you. +Acts 28:22 | But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against." +Acts 28:23 | When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening. +Acts 28:24 | Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved. +Acts 28:25 | When they didn’t agree amongst themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying, +Acts 28:26 | ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive. +Acts 28:27 | For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’ +Acts 28:28 | "Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen." +Acts 28:29 | When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute amongst themselves. +Acts 28:30 | Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him, +Acts 28:31 | preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance. +Amos 01:01 | The words of Amos, who was amongst the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. +Amos 01:02 | He said: "The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither." +Amos 01:03 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; +Amos 01:04 | but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. +Amos 01:05 | I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says the Lord. +Amos 01:06 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom; +Amos 01:07 | but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its palaces. +Amos 01:08 | I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord GOD. +Amos 01:09 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant; +Amos 01:10 | but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces." +Amos 01:11 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever; +Amos 01:12 | but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah." +Amos 01:13 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. +Amos 01:14 | But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind; +Amos 01:15 | and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together," says the Lord. +Amos 02:01 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime; +Amos 02:02 | but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; +Amos 02:03 | and I will cut off the judge from amongst them, and will kill all its princes with him," says the Lord. +Amos 02:04 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the Lord’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; +Amos 02:05 | but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem." +Amos 02:06 | The Lord says: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; +Amos 02:07 | They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name; +Amos 02:08 | and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined. +Amos 02:09 | Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. +Amos 02:10 | Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. +Amos 02:11 | I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?" says the Lord. +Amos 02:12 | "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’ +Amos 02:13 | Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain. +Amos 02:14 | Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; +Amos 02:15 | neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself; +Amos 02:16 | and he who is courageous amongst the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says the Lord. +Amos 03:02 | "I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins." +Amos 03:03 | Do two walk together, unless they have agreed? +Amos 03:04 | Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing? +Amos 03:05 | Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch? +Amos 03:06 | Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the Lord hasn’t done it? +Amos 03:07 | Surely the Lord God will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets. +Amos 03:08 | The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken. Who can but prophesy? +Amos 03:09 | Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is amongst them." +Amos 03:10 | "Indeed they don’t know to do right," says the Lord, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces." +Amos 03:11 | Therefore the Lord God says: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered." +Amos 03:12 | The Lord says: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed." +Amos 03:13 | "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies. +Amos 03:14 | "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground. +Amos 03:15 | I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says the Lord. +Amos 04:01 | Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!" +Amos 04:02 | The Lord God has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks. +Amos 04:03 | You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says the Lord. +Amos 04:04 | "Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, +Amos 04:05 | offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord GOD. +Amos 04:06 | "I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. +Amos 04:07 | "I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered. +Amos 04:08 | So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. +Amos 04:09 | "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. +Amos 04:10 | "I sent plagues amongst you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. +Amos 04:11 | "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me," says the Lord. +Amos 04:12 | "Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. +Amos 04:13 | For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness and treads on the high places of the earth: The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name." +Amos 04:13 | He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals His thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the Earth - the Lord God Almighty is His name. +Amos 05:01 | Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. +Amos 05:02 | "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." +Amos 05:03 | For the Lord God says: "The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." +Amos 05:04 | For the Lord says to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live; +Amos 05:05 | but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. +Amos 05:06 | Seek the Lord and live, or He will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. +Amos 05:06 | Seek the Lord, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel. +Amos 05:07 | There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground. +Amos 05:07 | You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: +Amos 05:08 | seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name, +Amos 05:09 | who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress. +Amos 05:10 | There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth. +Amos 05:10 | They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly. +Amos 05:11 | Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. +Amos 05:12 | For I know how many are your offences, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts. +Amos 05:12-13 | I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins are. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts. Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil. +Amos 05:13 | Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time. +Amos 05:14 | Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. +Amos 05:14-15 | Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say He is. Hate evil, love good and maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph. +Amos 05:15 | Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph." +Amos 05:16 | Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: "Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skilful in lamentation to wailing. +Amos 05:17 | In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you," says the Lord. +Amos 05:18 | "Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light. +Amos 05:18 | Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. +Amos 05:18,22b,23 | I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. +Amos 05:19 | As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. +Amos 05:20 | Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? +Amos 05:21 | I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. +Amos 05:22 | Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. +Amos 05:23 | Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. +Amos 05:24 | But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream. +Amos 05:25 | "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? +Amos 05:26 | You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. +Amos 05:27 | Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is the God of Armies. +Amos 06:01 | Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! +Amos 06:02 | Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border? +Amos 06:03 | Alas for those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near, +Amos 06:04 | who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall, +Amos 06:05 | who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; +Amos 06:06 | who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. +Amos 06:07 | Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end. +Amos 06:08 | "The Lord God has sworn by himself," says the Lord, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. +Amos 06:09 | It will happen that if ten men remain in one house, they will die. +Amos 06:10 | "When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention the Lord’s name.’ +Amos 06:11 | "For, behold, the Lord commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. +Amos 06:12 | Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plough there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness; +Amos 06:13 | you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’ +Amos 06:14 | For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says the Lord, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah." +Amos 07:01 | Thus the Lord God showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest. +Amos 07:02 | When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." +Amos 07:03 | The Lord relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says the Lord. +Amos 07:04 | Thus the Lord God showed me and behold, the Lord God called for judgement by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. +Amos 07:05 | Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." +Amos 07:06 | The Lord relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord GOD. +Amos 07:07 | Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. +Amos 07:08 | The Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. +Amos 07:09 | The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." +Amos 07:10 | Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. +Amos 07:11 | For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’" +Amos 07:12 | Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: +Amos 07:13 | but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!" +Amos 07:14 | Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs; +Amos 07:14-15 | Amos answered Amaziah, "I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel." +Amos 07:15 | and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ +Amos 07:16 | Now therefore listen to the Lord’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’ +Amos 07:17 | Therefore the Lord says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’" +Amos 08:01 | Thus the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. +Amos 08:02 | He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. +Amos 08:03 | The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day," says the Lord GOD. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence. +Amos 08:04 | Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, +Amos 08:05 | Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; +Amos 08:06 | that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’" +Amos 08:07 | The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works. +Amos 08:08 | Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. +Amos 08:09 | It will happen in that day," says the Lord GOD, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. +Amos 08:10 | I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day. +Amos 08:11 | Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Lord’s words. +Amos 08:11-13 | "The days are coming!" declares the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land, not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it." In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst." +Amos 08:12 | They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the Lord’s word, and will not find it. +Amos 08:13 | In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst. +Amos 08:14 | Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again." +Amos 09:01 | I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. +Amos 09:02 | Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. +Amos 09:03 | Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. +Amos 09:04 | Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. +Amos 09:05 | For the Lord, the Lord of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. +Amos 09:06 | It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; the Lord is his name. +Amos 09:07 | Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says the Lord. "Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? +Amos 09:08 | Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says the Lord. +Amos 09:09 | "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel amongst all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. +Amos 09:10 | All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’ +Amos 09:11 | In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; +Amos 09:12 | that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says the Lord who does this. +Amos 09:13 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills. +Amos 09:14 | I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit. +Amos 09:15 | I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says the Lord your God. +Baruch 01:04 | and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud. +Baruch 01:05 | And they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord; +Baruch 01:06 | they made also a collection of money according to every man’s power: +Baruch 01:07 | and they sent [it] to Jerusalem to Joakim the [high] priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem, +Baruch 01:08 | at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to return [them] into the land of Judah, the tenth day of [the month] Sivan, [namely] silver vessels, which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made, +Baruch 01:09 | after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon. +Baruch 01:10 | And they said, Behold, we have sent you money; buy you therefore with the money burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God; +Baruch 01:11 | and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be as the days of heaven above the earth: +Baruch 01:12 | and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight. +Baruch 01:13 | Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us. +Baruch 01:14 | And you shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly. +Baruch 01:15 | And you shall say, To the Lord our God [belongs] righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, +Baruch 01:16 | and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers: +Baruch 01:17 | for that we have sinned before the Lord, +Baruch 01:18 | and disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us: +Baruch 01:19 | since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not listening to his voice. +Baruch 01:20 | Wherefore the plagues clave to us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his servant [to pronounce] in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day. +Baruch 01:21 | Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets, whom he sent to us: +Baruch 01:22 | but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God. +Baruch 02:01 | Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah, +Baruch 02:02 | to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses; +Baruch 02:03 | That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter. +Baruch 02:04 | Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation amongst all the people round about, where the Lord has scattered them. +Baruch 02:05 | Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not listening to his voice. +Baruch 02:06 | To the Lord our God [belongs] righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. +Baruch 02:07 | [For] all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord has pronounced against us. +Baruch 02:08 | Yet have we not entreated the favour of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart. +Baruch 02:09 | Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has brought [them] upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us. +Baruch 02:10 | Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us. +Baruch 02:11 | And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day: +Baruch 02:12 | O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances. +Baruch 02:13 | Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left amongst the heathen, where you have scattered us. +Baruch 02:14 | Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away captive: +Baruch 02:15 | that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name. +Baruch 02:16 | O Lord, look down from your holy house, and consider us: incline your ear, O Lord, and hear: +Baruch 02:17 | open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness: +Baruch 02:18 | but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord. +Baruch 02:19 | For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings. +Baruch 02:20 | For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, [saying, ] +Baruch 02:21 | The Lord says, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers. +Baruch 02:22 | But if you will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon, +Baruch 02:23 | I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from the region near Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant. +Baruch 02:24 | But we would not listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, [namely] that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places. +Baruch 02:25 | And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence. +Baruch 02:26 | And the house which is called by your name have you laid [waste] as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah. +Baruch 02:27 | Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all your great mercy, +Baruch 02:28 | as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying, +Baruch 02:29 | If you will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small [number] amongst the nations, where I will scatter them. +Baruch 02:30 | For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart, +Baruch 02:31 | and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear: +Baruch 02:32 | and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name, +Baruch 02:33 | and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord. +Baruch 02:34 | And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished. +Baruch 02:35 | And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people Israel out of the land that I have given them. +Baruch 03:01 | O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you. +Baruch 03:02 | Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you. +Baruch 03:03 | For you sit [as king] forever, and we perish evermore. +Baruch 03:04 | O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that didn’t listen to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us. +Baruch 03:05 | Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name [now] at this time. +Baruch 03:06 | For you are the Lord our God, and you, O Lord, will we praise. +Baruch 03:07 | For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you. +Baruch 03:08 | Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God. +Baruch 03:09 | Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom. +Baruch 03:10 | How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead, +Baruch 03:11 | that you are counted with those who [go down] into the grave? +Baruch 03:12 | You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom. +Baruch 03:13 | [For] if you had walked in the way of God, you should have dwelled in peace forever. +Baruch 03:14 | Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace. +Baruch 03:15 | Who has found out her place? and who has come into her treasuries? +Baruch 03:16 | Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts that are upon the earth; +Baruch 03:17 | those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end? +Baruch 03:18 | For those who made in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out, +Baruch 03:19 | they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads. +Baruch 03:20 | Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known, +Baruch 03:21 | neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children embraced it: they are far off from their way. +Baruch 03:22 | It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman. +Baruch 03:23 | The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths. +Baruch 03:24 | O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession! +Baruch 03:26 | There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, [and] expert in war. +Baruch 03:27 | God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them; +Baruch 03:28 | so they perished, because they had no wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness. +Baruch 03:29 | Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? +Baruch 03:30 | Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for choice gold? +Baruch 03:31 | There is none that knows her way, nor any that comprehends her path. +Baruch 03:32 | But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore has filled it with four-footed beasts: +Baruch 03:33 | he that sends forth the light, and it goes; he called it, and it obeyed him with fear: +Baruch 03:34 | and the stars shone in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, "Here we are." They shone with gladness to him that made them. +Baruch 03:35 | This is our God, [and] there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him. +Baruch 03:36 | He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him. +Baruch 03:37 | Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men. +Baruch 04:01 | This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever: all those who hold it fast [are appointed] to life; but such as leave it shall die. +Baruch 04:02 | Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof. +Baruch 04:03 | Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation. +Baruch 04:04 | O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us. +Baruch 04:05 | Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. +Baruch 04:06 | You were sold to the nations, [but] not for destruction: because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries. +Baruch 04:07 | For you provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God. +Baruch 04:08 | You forgot the everlasting God, that brought you up; you grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you. +Baruch 04:09 | For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Listen, you [women] that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning; +Baruch 04:10 | for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. +Baruch 04:11 | For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning. +Baruch 04:12 | Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned away from the law of God, +Baruch 04:13 | and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness. +Baruch 04:14 | Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. +Baruch 04:15 | For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child. +Baruch 04:16 | And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters. +Baruch 04:18 | For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies. +Baruch 04:19 | Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate. +Baruch 04:20 | I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live. +Baruch 04:21 | Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies. +Baruch 04:22 | For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from your Everlasting Saviour. +Baruch 04:23 | For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever. +Baruch 04:24 | For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting. +Baruch 04:25 | My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon their necks. +Baruch 04:26 | My delicate ones have gone rough ways; they were taken away as a flock carried off by the enemies. +Baruch 04:27 | Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry to God: for you shall be remembered of him that has brought [these things] upon you. +Baruch 04:28 | For as it was your mind to go astray from God: [so] return and seek him ten times more. +Baruch 04:29 | For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation. +Baruch 04:30 | Be of good cheer, O Jerusalem: for he that called you by name will comfort you. +Baruch 04:31 | Miserable are those who afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall. +Baruch 04:32 | Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons. +Baruch 04:33 | For as she rejoiced at your fall, and was glad of your ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation. +Baruch 04:34 | And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning. +Baruch 04:35 | For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time. +Baruch 04:36 | O Jerusalem, look about you towards the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God. +Baruch 04:37 | Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God. +Baruch 05:01 | Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory that [comes] from God forever. +Baruch 05:02 | Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which [comes] from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting. +Baruch 05:03 | For God will show your brightness to every [region] under heaven. +Baruch 05:04 | For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness. +Baruch 05:05 | Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you towards the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them. +Baruch 05:06 | For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, as [on] a royal throne. +Baruch 05:07 | For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God. +Baruch 05:08 | Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God. +Baruch 05:09 | For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him. +Baruch 06:01 | A copy of a letter, which Jeremy sent to them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God. +Baruch 06:02 | Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you shall be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians. +Baruch 06:03 | So when you come to Babylon, you shall remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations: and after that I will bring you out peaceably from thence. +Baruch 06:04 | But now shall you see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear. +Baruch 06:05 | Beware therefore that you in no wise become like to the strangers, neither let fear take hold upon you because of them, when you see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them. +Baruch 06:06 | But say you in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship you. +Baruch 06:07 | For my angel is with you, and I myself do care for your souls. +Baruch 06:08 | For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak. +Baruch 06:09 | And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods: +Baruch 06:10 | and sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves; +Baruch 06:11 | and will even give thereof to the common prostitutes: and they deck them as men with garments, [even] the gods of silver, and gods of gold, and of wood. +Baruch 06:12 | Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment. +Baruch 06:13 | They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them. +Baruch 06:14 | And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country. +Baruch 06:15 | He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe: but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers. +Baruch 06:16 | Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not. +Baruch 06:17 | For like as a vessel that a man uses is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temples their eyes be full of dust through the feet of those who come in. +Baruch 06:18 | And as the courts are made sure on every side upon him that offends the king, as being committed to suffer death; [even so] the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers. +Baruch 06:19 | They light them candles, yes, more than for themselves, whereof they can’t see one. +Baruch 06:20 | They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not +Baruch 06:21 | when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple: +Baruch 06:22 | bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads; and in like manner the cats also. +Baruch 06:23 | Whereby you may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not. +Baruch 06:24 | Notwithstanding the gold wherewith they are beset to make them beautiful, except one wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for not even when they were molten did they feel it. +Baruch 06:25 | Things wherein there is no breath are bought at any cost. +Baruch 06:26 | Having no feet, they are borne upon shoulders, whereby they declare to men that they be nothing worth. +Baruch 06:27 | They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men. +Baruch 06:28 | And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend; and in like manner their wives also lay up part thereof in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they will give nothing thereof. +Baruch 06:29 | The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods, fear them not. +Baruch 06:30 | For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood. +Baruch 06:31 | And in their temples the priests sit on seats, having their clothes tore, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. +Baruch 06:32 | They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead. +Baruch 06:33 | The priests also take off garments from them, and clothe their wives and children withal. +Baruch 06:34 | Whether it be evil that one does to them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down. +Baruch 06:35 | In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow to them, and keep it not, they will never exact it. +Baruch 06:36 | They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty. +Baruch 06:37 | They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, nor deliver any that is in distress. +Baruch 06:38 | They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless. +Baruch 06:39 | They are like the stones that be [hewn] out of the mountain, [these gods] of wood, and that are overlaid with gold and with silver: those who minister to them shall be confounded. +Baruch 06:40 | How should a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them? +Baruch 06:41 | Who if they shall see one mute that can’t speak, they bring him, and entreat him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand. +Baruch 06:42 | Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them: for they have no understanding. +Baruch 06:43 | The women also with cords about them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense: but if any of them, drawn by some that passes by, lie with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. +Baruch 06:44 | Whatsoever is done amongst them is false: how should a man then think or say that they are gods? +Baruch 06:45 | They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be. +Baruch 06:46 | And they themselves that fashioned them can never continue long; how then should the things that are fashioned by them? +Baruch 06:47 | For they have left lies and reproaches to those who come after. +Baruch 06:48 | For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them. +Baruch 06:49 | How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague? +Baruch 06:50 | For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false: +Baruch 06:51 | and it shall be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them. +Baruch 06:52 | Who then may not know that they are no gods? +Baruch 06:53 | For neither can they set up a king in a land, nor give rain to men. +Baruch 06:54 | Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth. +Baruch 06:55 | For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood, or overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves shall be burnt apart like beams. +Baruch 06:56 | Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies: how should a man then allow or think that they be gods? +Baruch 06:57 | Neither are those gods of wood, and overlaid with silver or with gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers. +Baruch 06:58 | Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong will take from them, and go away withal: neither shall they be able to help themselves. +Baruch 06:59 | Therefore it is better to be a king that shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for that whereof the owner shall have need, than such false gods; or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods. +Baruch 06:60 | For sun, and moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient. +Baruch 06:61 | Likewise also the lightning when it glitters is fair to see; and after the same manner the wind also blows in every country. +Baruch 06:62 | And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told. +Baruch 06:63 | And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded: but these are to be likened to them neither in show nor power. +Baruch 06:64 | Wherefore a man should neither think nor say that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good to men. +Baruch 06:65 | Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not. +Baruch 06:66 | For they can neither curse nor bless kings: +Baruch 06:67 | neither can they show signs in the heavens amongst the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon. +Baruch 06:68 | The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves. +Baruch 06:69 | In no wise then is it manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not. +Baruch 06:70 | For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver. +Baruch 06:71 | Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark. +Baruch 06:72 | And you shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rots upon them: And they themselves afterward shall be consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country. +Baruch 06:73 | Better therefore is the just man that has none idols: for he shall be far from reproach. +Colossians 01:01 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, +Colossians 01:02 | to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +Colossians 01:03 | We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, +Colossians 01:04 | having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have towards all the saints, +Colossians 01:05 | because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News +Colossians 01:06 | which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth, +Colossians 01:07 | even as you learnt of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf, +Colossians 01:08 | who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. +Colossians 01:09 | For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, +Colossians 01:10 | that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, +Colossians 01:11 | strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy, +Colossians 01:12 | giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, +Colossians 01:13 | who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, +Colossians 01:14 | in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. +Colossians 01:15 | He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. +Colossians 01:16 | For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. +Colossians 01:17 | He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. +Colossians 01:18 | He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. +Colossians 01:19 | For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him, +Colossians 01:20 | and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross. +Colossians 01:21 | You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds, +Colossians 01:22 | yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him, +Colossians 01:23 | if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant. +Colossians 01:24 | Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly, +Colossians 01:25 | of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me towards you to fulfil the word of God, +Colossians 01:26 | the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, +Colossians 01:27 | to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery amongst the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. +Colossians 01:28 | We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; +Colossians 01:29 | for which I also labour, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily. +Colossians 02:01 | For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; +Colossians 02:02 | that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, +Colossians 02:03 | in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. +Colossians 02:04 | Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. +Colossians 02:05 | For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. +Colossians 02:06 | As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, +Colossians 02:07 | rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. +Colossians 02:08 | Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. +Colossians 02:09 | For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, +Colossians 02:10 | and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. +Colossians 02:11 | In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, +Colossians 02:12 | having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. +Colossians 02:13 | You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, +Colossians 02:14 | wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. +Colossians 02:15 | Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. +Colossians 02:16 | Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, +Colossians 02:17 | which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. +Colossians 02:18 | Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, +Colossians 02:19 | and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth. +Colossians 02:20 | If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, +Colossians 02:22 | (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? +Colossians 02:23 | These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. +Colossians 03:01 | If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. +Colossians 03:02 | Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. +Colossians 03:03 | For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. +Colossians 03:04 | When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory. +Colossians 03:05 | Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. +Colossians 03:06 | For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. +Colossians 03:07 | You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; +Colossians 03:08 | but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. +Colossians 03:09 | Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, +Colossians 03:09-10 | Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. +Colossians 03:10 | and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, +Colossians 03:11 | where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all. +Colossians 03:12 | Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; +Colossians 03:12,14 | As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. +Colossians 03:13 | Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. +Colossians 03:13 | bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. +Colossians 03:14 | Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. +Colossians 03:15 | And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. +Colossians 03:15 | Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. +Colossians 03:16 | Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. +Colossians 03:16 | Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. +Colossians 03:17 | Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. +Colossians 03:17 | Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. +Colossians 03:18 | Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. +Colossians 03:18-19 | Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. +Colossians 03:19 | Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them. +Colossians 03:20 | Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. +Colossians 03:21 | Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. +Colossians 03:21 | Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged. +Colossians 03:22 | Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. +Colossians 03:23 | And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, +Colossians 03:23-24 | Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ. +Colossians 03:24 | knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. +Colossians 03:25 | But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality. +Colossians 04:01 | Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. +Colossians 04:02 | Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving, +Colossians 04:03 | praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds, +Colossians 04:04 | that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. +Colossians 04:05 | Walk in wisdom towards those who are outside, redeeming the time. +Colossians 04:06 | Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. +Colossians 04:07 | All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. +Colossians 04:08 | I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts, +Colossians 04:09 | together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here. +Colossians 04:10 | Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"), +Colossians 04:11 | and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me. +Colossians 04:12 | Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. +Colossians 04:13 | For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis. +Colossians 04:14 | Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you. +Colossians 04:15 | Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house. +Colossians 04:16 | When this letter has been read amongst you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea. +Colossians 04:17 | Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfil it." +Colossians 04:18 | The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. +Daniel 01:01 | In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. +Daniel 01:04 | youths in whom was no defect, but well-favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans. +Daniel 01:05 | The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king. +Daniel 01:08 | But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. +Daniel 01:09 | Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. +Daniel 01:10 | The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king." +Daniel 01:11 | Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: +Daniel 01:12 | "Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink. +Daniel 01:13 | Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants." +Daniel 01:15 | At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties. +Daniel 01:16 | So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they were given to drink, and gave them vegetables. +Daniel 01:17 | Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. +Daniel 01:18 | At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. +Daniel 01:19 | The king talked with them; and amongst them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king. +Daniel 01:20 | In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. +Daniel 01:21 | Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus. +Daniel 02:02 | Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. +Daniel 02:03 | The king said to them, "I have dreamt a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream." +Daniel 02:04 | Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." +Daniel 02:05 | The king answered the Chaldeans, "The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill. +Daniel 02:06 | But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honour. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation." +Daniel 02:07 | They answered the second time and said, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." +Daniel 02:08 | The king answered, "I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me. +Daniel 02:09 | But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation." +Daniel 02:10 | The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, "There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, enchanter, or Chaldean. +Daniel 02:11 | It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh." +Daniel 02:12 | Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. +Daniel 02:13 | So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain. +Daniel 02:14 | Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. +Daniel 02:15 | He answered Arioch the king’s captain, "Why is the decree so urgent from the king?" Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. +Daniel 02:16 | Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation. +Daniel 02:17 | Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: +Daniel 02:18 | that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. +Daniel 02:19 | Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. +Daniel 02:20 | Daniel answered, "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his. +Daniel 02:20b-23 | Daniel praised the God of heaven and said: "Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His. He changes times and seasons, He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things, He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him. I thank and praise You, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, You have made known to me what we asked of You. You have made known to us the dream of the king." +Daniel 02:21 | He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding. +Daniel 02:22 | He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. +Daniel 02:23 | I thank you and praise you, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter." +Daniel 02:24 | Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: "Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation." +Daniel 02:25 | Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: "I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation." +Daniel 02:26 | The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?" +Daniel 02:27 | Daniel answered before the king, and said, "The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers; +Daniel 02:28 | but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: +Daniel 02:29 | "As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen. +Daniel 02:30 | But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart. +Daniel 02:31 | "You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying. +Daniel 02:32 | As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, +Daniel 02:33 | its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. +Daniel 02:34 | You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. +Daniel 02:35 | Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. +Daniel 02:36 | "This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king. +Daniel 02:37 | You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory. +Daniel 02:38 | Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold. +Daniel 02:39 | "After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. +Daniel 02:40 | The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush. +Daniel 02:41 | Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. +Daniel 02:42 | As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken. +Daniel 02:43 | Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay. +Daniel 02:44 | "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. +Daniel 02:45 | Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure." +Daniel 02:46 | Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours to him. +Daniel 02:47 | The king answered to Daniel, and said, "Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealler of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret." +Daniel 02:48 | Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. +Daniel 02:49 | Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate. +Daniel 03:01 | Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. +Daniel 03:02 | Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. +Daniel 03:03 | Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. +Daniel 03:04 | Then the herald cried aloud, "To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages, +Daniel 03:05 | that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. +Daniel 03:06 | Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour." +Daniel 03:07 | Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. +Daniel 03:08 | Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews. +Daniel 03:09 | They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, "O king, live for ever! +Daniel 03:10 | You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music shall fall down and worship the golden image; +Daniel 03:11 | and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. +Daniel 03:12 | There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up." +Daniel 03:13 | Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king. +Daniel 03:14 | Nebuchadnezzar answered them, "Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? +Daniel 03:15 | Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god who will deliver you out of my hands?" +Daniel 03:16 | Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, "Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. +Daniel 03:17 | If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. +Daniel 03:17-18 | If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and He will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if He does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. +Daniel 03:18 | But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up." +Daniel 03:19 | Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. +Daniel 03:20 | He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. +Daniel 03:21 | Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. +Daniel 03:22 | Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. +Daniel 03:23 | These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. +Daniel 03:24 | Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counsellors, "Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king." +Daniel 03:25 | He answered, "Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods." +Daniel 03:26 | Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire. +Daniel 03:27 | The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them. +Daniel 03:28 | Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. +Daniel 03:29 | Then Nebuchadnezzar said, "I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way." +Daniel 03:29 | Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this." +Daniel 03:30 | Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon. +Daniel 04:01 | Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. +Daniel 04:02 | It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked towards me. +Daniel 04:03 | How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation. +Daniel 04:04 | I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. +Daniel 04:05 | I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. +Daniel 04:06 | Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. +Daniel 04:07 | Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation. +Daniel 04:09 | "Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation. +Daniel 04:10 | These were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great. +Daniel 04:11 | The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth. +Daniel 04:12 | Its leaves were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. +Daniel 04:13 | "I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky. +Daniel 04:14 | He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches. +Daniel 04:15 | Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth. +Daniel 04:16 | Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him. +Daniel 04:17 | "‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’ +Daniel 04:18 | "This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you." +Daniel 04:19 | Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, "Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you." Belteshazzar answered, "My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries. +Daniel 04:20 | The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth; +Daniel 04:21 | whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation: +Daniel 04:22 | it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth. +Daniel 04:23 | "Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.’ +Daniel 04:24 | "This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king: +Daniel 04:25 | that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will. +Daniel 04:26 | Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule. +Daniel 04:27 | Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity." +Daniel 04:29 | At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. +Daniel 04:30 | The king spoke and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?" +Daniel 04:31 | While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, "O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you. +Daniel 04:32 | You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’" +Daniel 04:33 | This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. +Daniel 04:34 | At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation. +Daniel 04:35 | All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and amongst the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, "What are you doing?" +Daniel 04:36 | At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counsellors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me. +Daniel 04:37 | Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase. +Daniel 05:01 | Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. +Daniel 05:02 | Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. +Daniel 05:03 | Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. +Daniel 05:04 | They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone. +Daniel 05:05 | In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote. +Daniel 05:06 | Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another. +Daniel 05:07 | The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." +Daniel 05:08 | Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation. +Daniel 05:09 | Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed. +Daniel 05:10 | The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, "O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed. +Daniel 05:11 | There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king, Nebuchadnezzar, your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, +Daniel 05:12 | because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation." +Daniel 05:13 | Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? +Daniel 05:14 | I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you. +Daniel 05:15 | Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing. +Daniel 05:16 | But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." +Daniel 05:17 | Then Daniel answered before the king, "Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. +Daniel 05:18 | "To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty. +Daniel 05:19 | Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to. +Daniel 05:20 | But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. +Daniel 05:21 | He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will. +Daniel 05:22 | "You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, +Daniel 05:23 | but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways. +Daniel 05:24 | Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed. +Daniel 05:25 | "This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’ +Daniel 05:26 | "This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end. +Daniel 05:27 | TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. +Daniel 05:28 | PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." +Daniel 05:29 | Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. +Daniel 05:30 | In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. +Daniel 05:31 | Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. +Daniel 06:01 | It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; +Daniel 06:02 | and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss. +Daniel 06:03 | Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. +Daniel 06:04 | Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him. +Daniel 06:05 | Then these men said, "We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God." +Daniel 06:06 | Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, "King Darius, live forever! +Daniel 06:07 | All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. +Daniel 06:08 | Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter." +Daniel 06:09 | Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. +Daniel 06:10 | When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room towards Jerusalem) and he knelt on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before. +Daniel 06:11 | Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. +Daniel 06:12 | Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: "Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered, "This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter." +Daniel 06:13 | Then they answered and said before the king, "That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day." +Daniel 06:14 | Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he laboured until the going down of the sun to rescue him. +Daniel 06:15 | Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed." +Daniel 06:16 | Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you." +Daniel 06:17 | A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. +Daniel 06:18 | Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. +Daniel 06:19 | Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions. +Daniel 06:20 | When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?" +Daniel 06:21 | Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever! +Daniel 06:22 | My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm." +Daniel 06:23 | Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. +Daniel 06:24 | The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den. +Daniel 06:25 | Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: "Peace be multiplied to you. +Daniel 06:26 | "I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; "for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end. +Daniel 06:26b-27 | He is the living God and He endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed, His dominion will never end. He rescues and He saves; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions. +Daniel 06:27 | He delivers and rescues. He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions." +Daniel 06:28 | So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. +Daniel 07:01 | In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. +Daniel 07:02 | Daniel spoke and said, "I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea. +Daniel 07:03 | Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another. +Daniel 07:04 | "The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it. +Daniel 07:05 | "Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’ +Daniel 07:06 | "After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it. +Daniel 07:07 | "After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns. +Daniel 07:08 | "I considered the horns, and behold, there came up amongst them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. +Daniel 07:09 | "I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire. +Daniel 07:10 | A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgement was set. The books were opened. +Daniel 07:11 | "I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burnt with fire. +Daniel 07:12 | As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. +Daniel 07:13 | "I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. +Daniel 07:14 | Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom one that which will not be destroyed. +Daniel 07:15 | "As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. +Daniel 07:16 | I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. "So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. +Daniel 07:17 | ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth. +Daniel 07:18 | But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’ +Daniel 07:19 | "Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; +Daniel 07:20 | and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows. +Daniel 07:21 | I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them, +Daniel 07:22 | until the ancient of days came, and judgement was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. +Daniel 07:23 | "So he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces. +Daniel 07:24 | As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings. +Daniel 07:25 | He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. +Daniel 07:26 | "‘But the judgement will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end. +Daniel 07:27 | The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’ +Daniel 07:28 | "Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart." +Daniel 08:01 | In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. +Daniel 08:02 | I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. +Daniel 08:03 | Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a ram which had two horns stood before the river. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. +Daniel 08:04 | I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself. +Daniel 08:05 | As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes. +Daniel 08:06 | He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. +Daniel 08:07 | I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand. +Daniel 08:08 | The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns towards the four winds of the sky. +Daniel 08:09 | Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the glorious land. +Daniel 08:10 | It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them. +Daniel 08:11 | Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. +Daniel 08:12 | The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered. +Daniel 08:13 | Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, "How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?" +Daniel 08:14 | He said to me, "To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed." +Daniel 08:15 | When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man. +Daniel 08:16 | I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision." +Daniel 08:17 | So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, "Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end." +Daniel 08:18 | Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face towards the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. +Daniel 08:19 | He said, "Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end. +Daniel 08:20 | The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. +Daniel 08:21 | The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. +Daniel 08:22 | As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power. +Daniel 08:23 | "In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up. +Daniel 08:24 | His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people. +Daniel 08:25 | Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand. +Daniel 08:26 | "The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come." +Daniel 08:27 | I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it. +Daniel 09:01 | In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, +Daniel 09:02 | in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. +Daniel 09:03 | I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. +Daniel 09:04 | I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, "Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, +Daniel 09:05 | we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances. +Daniel 09:06 | We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. +Daniel 09:07 | "Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. +Daniel 09:08 | Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. +Daniel 09:09 | To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him. +Daniel 09:10 | We haven’t obeyed the Lord our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. +Daniel 09:11 | Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. "Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him. +Daniel 09:12 | He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem. +Daniel 09:13 | As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favour of the Lord our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth. +Daniel 09:14 | Therefore the Lord has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice. +Daniel 09:15 | "Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly. +Daniel 09:16 | Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us. +Daniel 09:17 | "Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. +Daniel 09:18 | My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. +Daniel 09:19 | Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name." +Daniel 09:20 | While I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, +Daniel 09:21 | yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. +Daniel 09:22 | He instructed me and talked with me, and said, "Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding. +Daniel 09:22-23 | He instructed me and said to me, "Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision." +Daniel 09:23 | At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision. +Daniel 09:24 | "Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. +Daniel 09:25 | "Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. +Daniel 09:26 | After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined. +Daniel 09:27 | He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate." +Daniel 10:01 | In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. +Daniel 10:02 | In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. +Daniel 10:03 | I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled. +Daniel 10:04 | In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, +Daniel 10:05 | I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz. +Daniel 10:06 | His body also was like beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude. +Daniel 10:07 | I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves. +Daniel 10:08 | So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength. +Daniel 10:09 | Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face towards the ground. +Daniel 10:10 | Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands. +Daniel 10:11 | He said to me, "Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now." When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling. +Daniel 10:12 | Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. +Daniel 10:12 | Then he said to me, "Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake. +Daniel 10:13 | But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia. +Daniel 10:14 | Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days." +Daniel 10:15 | When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face towards the ground, and was mute. +Daniel 10:16 | Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, "My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength. +Daniel 10:17 | For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me." +Daniel 10:18 | Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me. +Daniel 10:19 | "Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed" he said. "Peace! Be strong now, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength." +Daniel 10:19 | He said, "Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me." +Daniel 10:20 | Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. +Daniel 10:21 | But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince. +Daniel 11:01 | "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. +Daniel 11:02 | "Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece. +Daniel 11:03 | A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. +Daniel 11:04 | When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided towards the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these. +Daniel 11:05 | "The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion. +Daniel 11:06 | At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times. +Daniel 11:07 | "But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail. +Daniel 11:08 | He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north. +Daniel 11:09 | He will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land. +Daniel 11:10 | His sons will wage war, and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through. They will return and wage war, even to his fortress. +Daniel 11:11 | "The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand. +Daniel 11:12 | The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail. +Daniel 11:13 | The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance. +Daniel 11:14 | "In those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the children of the violent amongst your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will fall. +Daniel 11:15 | So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand. +Daniel 11:16 | But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand. +Daniel 11:17 | He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand, and won’t be for him. +Daniel 11:18 | After this he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many; but a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn on him. +Daniel 11:19 | Then he will turn his face towards the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found. +Daniel 11:20 | "Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle. +Daniel 11:21 | "In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honour of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries. +Daniel 11:22 | The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant. +Daniel 11:23 | After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people. +Daniel 11:24 | In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter amongst them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time. +Daniel 11:25 | "He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him. +Daniel 11:26 | Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain. +Daniel 11:27 | As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time. +Daniel 11:28 | Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land. +Daniel 11:29 | "He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former. +Daniel 11:30 | For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant. +Daniel 11:31 | "Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate. +Daniel 11:32 | He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action. +Daniel 11:33 | "Those who are wise amongst the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days. +Daniel 11:34 | Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries. +Daniel 11:35 | Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed. +Daniel 11:36 | "The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvellous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done. +Daniel 11:37 | He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all. +Daniel 11:38 | But in his place he will honour the god of fortresses. He will honour a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things. +Daniel 11:39 | He will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for a price. +Daniel 11:40 | "At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through. +Daniel 11:41 | He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. +Daniel 11:42 | He will also stretch out his hand on the countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape. +Daniel 11:43 | But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps. +Daniel 11:44 | But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many. +Daniel 11:45 | He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him. +Daniel 12:01 | "At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book. +Daniel 12:02 | Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. +Daniel 12:03 | Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever. +Daniel 12:04 | But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased." +Daniel 12:05 | Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side. +Daniel 12:06 | One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, "How long will it be to the end of these wonders?" +Daniel 12:07 | I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished. +Daniel 12:08 | I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?" +Daniel 12:09 | He said, "Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. +Daniel 12:10 | Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand. +Daniel 12:11 | "From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand and two hundred and ninety days. +Daniel 12:12 | Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand and three hundred and thirty-five days. +Daniel 12:13 | "But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days." +Deuteronomy 01:01 | These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. +Deuteronomy 01:02 | It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. +Deuteronomy 01:03 | In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them, +Deuteronomy 01:04 | after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. +Deuteronomy 01:06 | "The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain. +Deuteronomy 01:07 | Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. +Deuteronomy 01:08 | Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’" +Deuteronomy 01:09 | I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone. +Deuteronomy 01:10 | The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude. +Deuteronomy 01:11 | The Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! +Deuteronomy 01:12 | How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife? +Deuteronomy 01:13 | Take wise men of understanding who are respected amongst your tribes, and I will make them heads over you." +Deuteronomy 01:14 | You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do." +Deuteronomy 01:15 | So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. +Deuteronomy 01:16 | I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. +Deuteronomy 01:17 | You shall not show partiality in judgement; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgement is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it." +Deuteronomy 01:18 | I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. +Deuteronomy 01:19 | We travelled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea. +Deuteronomy 01:20 | I said to you, "You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives to us. +Deuteronomy 01:21 | Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed." +Deuteronomy 01:22 | You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, "Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come." +Deuteronomy 01:23 | The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe. +Deuteronomy 01:24 | They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. +Deuteronomy 01:25 | They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which the Lord our God gives to us." +Deuteronomy 01:26 | Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 01:27 | You murmured in your tents, and said, "Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. +Deuteronomy 01:28 | Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’" +Deuteronomy 01:29 | Then I said to you, "Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them. +Deuteronomy 01:30 | The Lord your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, +Deuteronomy 01:31 | and in the wilderness where you have seen how that the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place." +Deuteronomy 01:32 | Yet in this thing you didn’t believe the Lord your God, +Deuteronomy 01:33 | who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. +Deuteronomy 01:35 | "Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers, +Deuteronomy 01:36 | except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed the Lord." +Deuteronomy 01:37 | Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, "You also shall not go in there. +Deuteronomy 01:38 | Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. +Deuteronomy 01:39 | Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it. +Deuteronomy 01:40 | But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea." +Deuteronomy 01:41 | Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country. +Deuteronomy 01:42 | The Lord said to me, "Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not amongst you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’" +Deuteronomy 01:43 | So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. +Deuteronomy 01:44 | The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. +Deuteronomy 01:45 | You returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you. +Deuteronomy 01:46 | So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained. +Deuteronomy 02:01 | Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. +Deuteronomy 02:03 | "You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward. +Deuteronomy 02:04 | Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful. +Deuteronomy 02:05 | Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. +Deuteronomy 02:06 | You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’" +Deuteronomy 02:07 | For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing. +Deuteronomy 02:08 | So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. +Deuteronomy 02:09 | The Lord said to me, "Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession." +Deuteronomy 02:10 | (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim. +Deuteronomy 02:11 | These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. +Deuteronomy 02:12 | The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the Lord gave to them.) +Deuteronomy 02:13 | "Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered." We went over the brook Zered. +Deuteronomy 02:14 | The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the Lord swore to them. +Deuteronomy 02:15 | Moreover the Lord’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed. +Deuteronomy 02:16 | So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from amongst the people, +Deuteronomy 02:19 | When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession." +Deuteronomy 02:20 | (That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, +Deuteronomy 02:21 | a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place; +Deuteronomy 02:22 | as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day. +Deuteronomy 02:23 | Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.) +Deuteronomy 02:24 | "Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. +Deuteronomy 02:25 | Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you." +Deuteronomy 02:27 | "Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. +Deuteronomy 02:28 | You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet, +Deuteronomy 02:29 | as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives us." +Deuteronomy 02:30 | But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today. +Deuteronomy 02:31 | The Lord said to me, "Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land." +Deuteronomy 02:33 | The Lord our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people. +Deuteronomy 02:34 | We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining. +Deuteronomy 02:35 | Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken. +Deuteronomy 02:36 | From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God delivered up all before us. +Deuteronomy 02:37 | Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God forbade us. +Deuteronomy 03:02 | The Lord said to me, "Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon." +Deuteronomy 03:03 | So the Lord our God also delivered into our hand Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining. +Deuteronomy 03:04 | We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. +Deuteronomy 03:05 | All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls. +Deuteronomy 03:06 | We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. +Deuteronomy 03:07 | But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves. +Deuteronomy 03:08 | We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon. +Deuteronomy 03:09 | (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.) +Deuteronomy 03:10 | We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. +Deuteronomy 03:11 | (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.) +Deuteronomy 03:12 | This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites; +Deuteronomy 03:13 | and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. +Deuteronomy 03:14 | Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) +Deuteronomy 03:16 | To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; +Deuteronomy 03:17 | the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. +Deuteronomy 03:18 | I commanded you at that time, saying, "The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valour shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel. +Deuteronomy 03:19 | But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you, +Deuteronomy 03:20 | until the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you." +Deuteronomy 03:21 | I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So shall the Lord do to all the kingdoms where you go over. +Deuteronomy 03:22 | You shall not fear them; for the Lord your God himself fights for you." +Deuteronomy 03:24 | "Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours? +Deuteronomy 03:25 | Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon." +Deuteronomy 03:26 | But the Lord was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. The Lord said to me, "That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter. +Deuteronomy 03:27 | Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan. +Deuteronomy 03:28 | But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see." +Deuteronomy 04:01 | Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you. +Deuteronomy 04:02 | You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. +Deuteronomy 04:03 | Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 04:04 | But you who were faithful to the Lord your God are all alive today. +Deuteronomy 04:05 | Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. +Deuteronomy 04:06 | Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." +Deuteronomy 04:07 | For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is whenever we call on him? +Deuteronomy 04:08 | What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today? +Deuteronomy 04:09 | Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children— +Deuteronomy 04:10 | the day that you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, "Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." +Deuteronomy 04:11 | You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burnt with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. +Deuteronomy 04:12 | The Lord spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice. +Deuteronomy 04:13 | He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets. +Deuteronomy 04:14 | The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. +Deuteronomy 04:15 | Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the Lord spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, +Deuteronomy 04:16 | lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, +Deuteronomy 04:17 | the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, +Deuteronomy 04:18 | the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; +Deuteronomy 04:19 | and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. +Deuteronomy 04:20 | But the Lord has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today. +Deuteronomy 04:21 | Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance; +Deuteronomy 04:22 | but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land. +Deuteronomy 04:23 | Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. +Deuteronomy 04:24 | For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. +Deuteronomy 04:25 | When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the Lord your God’s sight to provoke him to anger, +Deuteronomy 04:26 | I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed. +Deuteronomy 04:27 | The Lord will scatter you amongst the peoples, and you will be left few in number amongst the nations where the Lord will lead you away. +Deuteronomy 04:28 | There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. +Deuteronomy 04:29 | But from there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. +Deuteronomy 04:30 | When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the Lord your God and listen to his voice. +Deuteronomy 04:31 | For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. +Deuteronomy 04:32 | For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it? +Deuteronomy 04:33 | Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live? +Deuteronomy 04:34 | Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from amongst another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? +Deuteronomy 04:35 | It was shown to you so that you might know that the Lord is God. There is no one else besides him. +Deuteronomy 04:36 | Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire. +Deuteronomy 04:37 | Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; +Deuteronomy 04:38 | to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. +Deuteronomy 04:39 | Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the Lord himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else. +Deuteronomy 04:40 | You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you for all time. +Deuteronomy 05:01 | Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them." +Deuteronomy 05:02 | The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. +Deuteronomy 05:03 | The Lord didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today. +Deuteronomy 05:04 | The Lord spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, +Deuteronomy 05:06 | "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +Deuteronomy 05:07 | "You shall have no other gods before me. +Deuteronomy 05:08 | "You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. +Deuteronomy 05:09 | You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; +Deuteronomy 05:10 | and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. +Deuteronomy 05:11 | "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name. +Deuteronomy 05:12 | "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. +Deuteronomy 05:13 | You shall labour six days, and do all your work; +Deuteronomy 05:14 | but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. +Deuteronomy 05:15 | You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. +Deuteronomy 05:16 | "Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. +Deuteronomy 05:17 | "You shall not murder. +Deuteronomy 05:18 | "You shall not commit adultery. +Deuteronomy 05:19 | "You shall not steal. +Deuteronomy 05:20 | "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. +Deuteronomy 05:21 | "You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbour’s." +Deuteronomy 05:22 | The Lord spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me. +Deuteronomy 05:23 | When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; +Deuteronomy 05:24 | and you said, "Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives. +Deuteronomy 05:25 | Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the Lord our God’s voice any more, then we shall die. +Deuteronomy 05:26 | For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived? +Deuteronomy 05:27 | Go near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and tell us all that the Lord our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it." +Deuteronomy 05:28 | The Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, "I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken. +Deuteronomy 05:29 | Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! +Deuteronomy 05:30 | "Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’ +Deuteronomy 05:31 | But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess." +Deuteronomy 05:32 | You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left. +Deuteronomy 05:33 | You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess. +Deuteronomy 06:01 | Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess; +Deuteronomy 06:02 | that you might fear the Lord your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. +Deuteronomy 06:03 | Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. +Deuteronomy 06:04 | Hear, Israel: the Lord is our God. The Lord is one. +Deuteronomy 06:05 | You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. +Deuteronomy 06:06 | These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; +Deuteronomy 06:07 | and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. +Deuteronomy 06:08 | You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. +Deuteronomy 06:09 | You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. +Deuteronomy 06:10 | It shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build, +Deuteronomy 06:11 | and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full; +Deuteronomy 06:12 | then beware lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +Deuteronomy 06:13 | You shall fear the Lord your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. +Deuteronomy 06:14 | You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, +Deuteronomy 06:15 | for the Lord your God amongst you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. +Deuteronomy 06:16 | You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in Massah. +Deuteronomy 06:17 | You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. +Deuteronomy 06:18 | You shall do that which is right and good in the Lord’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to your fathers, +Deuteronomy 06:19 | to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken. +Deuteronomy 06:20 | When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you mean?" +Deuteronomy 06:21 | then you shall tell your son, "We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; +Deuteronomy 06:22 | and the Lord showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; +Deuteronomy 06:23 | and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. +Deuteronomy 06:24 | The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. +Deuteronomy 06:25 | It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us." +Deuteronomy 07:01 | When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you; +Deuteronomy 07:02 | and when the Lord your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them. +Deuteronomy 07:03 | You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. +Deuteronomy 07:04 | For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the Lord’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. +Deuteronomy 07:05 | But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire. +Deuteronomy 07:06 | For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. +Deuteronomy 07:07 | The Lord didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; +Deuteronomy 07:08 | but because the Lord loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. +Deuteronomy 07:09 | Know therefore that the Lord your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments, +Deuteronomy 07:10 | and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. +Deuteronomy 07:11 | You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them. +Deuteronomy 07:12 | It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers. +Deuteronomy 07:13 | He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. +Deuteronomy 07:14 | You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren amongst you, or amongst your livestock. +Deuteronomy 07:15 | The Lord will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. +Deuteronomy 07:16 | You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you. +Deuteronomy 07:17 | If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" +Deuteronomy 07:18 | you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: +Deuteronomy 07:19 | the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. +Deuteronomy 07:20 | Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet amongst them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. +Deuteronomy 07:21 | You shall not be scared of them; for the Lord your God is amongst you, a great and awesome God. +Deuteronomy 07:22 | The Lord your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. +Deuteronomy 07:23 | But the Lord your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. +Deuteronomy 07:24 | He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. +Deuteronomy 07:25 | You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 07:26 | You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing. +Deuteronomy 08:01 | You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. +Deuteronomy 08:02 | You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. +Deuteronomy 08:03 | He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the Lord’s mouth. +Deuteronomy 08:04 | Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. +Deuteronomy 08:05 | You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. +Deuteronomy 08:06 | You shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. +Deuteronomy 08:07 | For the Lord your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; +Deuteronomy 08:08 | a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; +Deuteronomy 08:09 | a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. +Deuteronomy 08:10 | You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which he has given you. +Deuteronomy 08:11 | Beware lest you forget the Lord your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; +Deuteronomy 08:12 | lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; +Deuteronomy 08:13 | and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; +Deuteronomy 08:14 | then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; +Deuteronomy 08:15 | who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; +Deuteronomy 08:16 | who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end; +Deuteronomy 08:17 | and lest you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth." +Deuteronomy 08:18 | But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today. +Deuteronomy 08:19 | It shall be, if you shall forget the Lord your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. +Deuteronomy 08:20 | As the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice. +Deuteronomy 09:01 | Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, +Deuteronomy 09:02 | a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, "Who can stand before the sons of Anak?" +Deuteronomy 09:03 | Know therefore today that the Lord your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you. +Deuteronomy 09:04 | Don’t say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out from before you, "For my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land" because the Lord drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. +Deuteronomy 09:05 | Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. +Deuteronomy 09:06 | Know therefore that the Lord your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. +Deuteronomy 09:07 | Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. +Deuteronomy 09:08 | Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you. +Deuteronomy 09:09 | When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. +Deuteronomy 09:10 | The Lord delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly. +Deuteronomy 09:11 | It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. +Deuteronomy 09:12 | The Lord said to me, "Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!" +Deuteronomy 09:13 | Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. +Deuteronomy 09:14 | Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they." +Deuteronomy 09:15 | So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. +Deuteronomy 09:16 | I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a moulded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the Lord had commanded you. +Deuteronomy 09:17 | I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. +Deuteronomy 09:18 | I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger. +Deuteronomy 09:19 | For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry against you to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also. +Deuteronomy 09:20 | The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. +Deuteronomy 09:21 | I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. +Deuteronomy 09:22 | At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. +Deuteronomy 09:23 | When the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you," you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice. +Deuteronomy 09:24 | You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. +Deuteronomy 09:25 | So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. +Deuteronomy 09:26 | I prayed to the Lord, and said, "Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. +Deuteronomy 09:27 | Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, +Deuteronomy 09:28 | lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ +Deuteronomy 09:29 | Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm." +Deuteronomy 10:01 | At that time the Lord said to me, "Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. +Deuteronomy 10:02 | I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark." +Deuteronomy 10:03 | So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. +Deuteronomy 10:04 | He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. +Deuteronomy 10:05 | I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord commanded me. +Deuteronomy 10:06 | (The children of Israel travelled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place. +Deuteronomy 10:07 | From there they travelled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. +Deuteronomy 10:08 | At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. +Deuteronomy 10:09 | Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord your God spoke to him.) +Deuteronomy 10:10 | I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord would not destroy you. +Deuteronomy 10:11 | The Lord said to me, "Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them." +Deuteronomy 10:12 | Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, +Deuteronomy 10:13 | to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good? +Deuteronomy 10:14 | Behold, to the Lord your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein. +Deuteronomy 10:15 | Only the Lord had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today. +Deuteronomy 10:16 | Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. +Deuteronomy 10:17 | For the Lord your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes. +Deuteronomy 10:18 | He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing. +Deuteronomy 10:19 | Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. +Deuteronomy 10:20 | You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name. +Deuteronomy 10:21 | He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. +Deuteronomy 10:22 | Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude. +Deuteronomy 11:01 | Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always. +Deuteronomy 11:02 | Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, +Deuteronomy 11:03 | his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; +Deuteronomy 11:07 | but your eyes have seen all of the Lord’s great work which he did. +Deuteronomy 11:08 | Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess; +Deuteronomy 11:09 | and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. +Deuteronomy 11:10 | For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; +Deuteronomy 11:11 | but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky, +Deuteronomy 11:12 | a land which the Lord your God cares for. The Lord your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. +Deuteronomy 11:13 | It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, +Deuteronomy 11:14 | that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. +Deuteronomy 11:15 | I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. +Deuteronomy 11:16 | Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them; +Deuteronomy 11:17 | and the Lord’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you. +Deuteronomy 11:18 | Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. +Deuteronomy 11:19 | You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. +Deuteronomy 11:20 | You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates; +Deuteronomy 11:21 | that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. +Deuteronomy 11:22 | For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him— +Deuteronomy 11:23 | then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. +Deuteronomy 11:24 | Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border. +Deuteronomy 11:25 | No man will be able to stand before you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you. +Deuteronomy 11:26 | Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: +Deuteronomy 11:27 | the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today; +Deuteronomy 11:28 | and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. +Deuteronomy 11:29 | It shall happen, when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. +Deuteronomy 11:30 | Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? +Deuteronomy 11:31 | For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it. +Deuteronomy 11:32 | You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today. +Deuteronomy 12:01 | These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth. +Deuteronomy 12:02 | You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. +Deuteronomy 12:03 | You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place. +Deuteronomy 12:05 | But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there. +Deuteronomy 12:06 | You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there. +Deuteronomy 12:07 | There you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. +Deuteronomy 12:08 | You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; +Deuteronomy 12:09 | for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you. +Deuteronomy 12:10 | But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety, +Deuteronomy 12:11 | then it shall happen that to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord. +Deuteronomy 12:12 | You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. +Deuteronomy 12:13 | Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; +Deuteronomy 12:14 | but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. +Deuteronomy 12:15 | Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the Lord your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. +Deuteronomy 12:16 | Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. +Deuteronomy 12:17 | You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; +Deuteronomy 12:18 | but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hand to. +Deuteronomy 12:19 | Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. +Deuteronomy 12:20 | When the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul. +Deuteronomy 12:21 | If the place which the Lord your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. +Deuteronomy 12:22 | Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. +Deuteronomy 12:23 | Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat. +Deuteronomy 12:24 | You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. +Deuteronomy 12:25 | You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the Lord’s eyes. +Deuteronomy 12:26 | Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord shall choose. +Deuteronomy 12:27 | You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the Lord your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the Lord your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat. +Deuteronomy 12:28 | Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the Lord your God’s eyes. +Deuteronomy 12:29 | When the Lord your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, +Deuteronomy 12:30 | be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not enquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise." +Deuteronomy 12:31 | You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. +Deuteronomy 12:32 | Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it. +Deuteronomy 13:01 | If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises amongst you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, +Deuteronomy 13:02 | and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let’s go after other gods" (which you have not known) "and let’s serve them," +Deuteronomy 13:03 | you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. +Deuteronomy 13:04 | You shall walk after the Lord your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him. +Deuteronomy 13:05 | That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 13:06 | If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "Let’s go and serve other gods"—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; +Deuteronomy 13:07 | of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth— +Deuteronomy 13:08 | you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; +Deuteronomy 13:09 | but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. +Deuteronomy 13:10 | You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +Deuteronomy 13:11 | All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this amongst you. +Deuteronomy 13:13 | certain wicked fellows have gone out from amongst you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let’s go and serve other gods," which you have not known, +Deuteronomy 13:14 | then you shall enquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done amongst you, +Deuteronomy 13:15 | you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword. +Deuteronomy 13:16 | You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. +Deuteronomy 13:17 | Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers, +Deuteronomy 13:18 | when you listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in the Lord your God’s eyes. +Deuteronomy 14:01 | You are the children of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. +Deuteronomy 14:02 | For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. +Deuteronomy 14:03 | You shall not eat any abominable thing. +Deuteronomy 14:06 | Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, amongst the animals, you may eat. +Deuteronomy 14:07 | Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you. +Deuteronomy 14:08 | The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. +Deuteronomy 14:09 | These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales. +Deuteronomy 14:10 | You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you. +Deuteronomy 14:19 | All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten. +Deuteronomy 14:21 | You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living amongst you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. +Deuteronomy 14:22 | You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. +Deuteronomy 14:23 | You shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. +Deuteronomy 14:24 | If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the Lord your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the Lord your God blesses you, +Deuteronomy 14:25 | then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose. +Deuteronomy 14:26 | You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. +Deuteronomy 14:27 | You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. +Deuteronomy 14:28 | At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. +Deuteronomy 14:29 | The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living amongst you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do. +Deuteronomy 15:01 | At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. +Deuteronomy 15:02 | This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbour. He shall not require payment from his neighbour and his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed. +Deuteronomy 15:03 | Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release. +Deuteronomy 15:04 | However there will be no poor with you (for the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess) +Deuteronomy 15:05 | if only you diligently listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today. +Deuteronomy 15:06 | For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. +Deuteronomy 15:07 | If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; +Deuteronomy 15:08 | but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks. +Deuteronomy 15:09 | Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand," and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin to you. +Deuteronomy 15:10 | You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to. +Deuteronomy 15:11 | For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. +Deuteronomy 15:12 | If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. +Deuteronomy 15:13 | When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty. +Deuteronomy 15:14 | You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. +Deuteronomy 15:15 | You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. +Deuteronomy 15:16 | It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you," because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you, +Deuteronomy 15:17 | then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. +Deuteronomy 15:18 | It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. The Lord your God will bless you in all that you do. +Deuteronomy 15:19 | You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. +Deuteronomy 15:20 | You shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, you and your household. +Deuteronomy 15:21 | If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 15:22 | You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer. +Deuteronomy 15:23 | Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water. +Deuteronomy 16:01 | Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. +Deuteronomy 16:02 | You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. +Deuteronomy 16:03 | You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. +Deuteronomy 16:04 | No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. +Deuteronomy 16:05 | You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; +Deuteronomy 16:06 | but at the place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt. +Deuteronomy 16:07 | You shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents. +Deuteronomy 16:08 | Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work. +Deuteronomy 16:09 | You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. +Deuteronomy 16:10 | You shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how the Lord your God blesses you. +Deuteronomy 16:11 | You shall rejoice before the Lord your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are amongst you, in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. +Deuteronomy 16:12 | You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes. +Deuteronomy 16:13 | You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. +Deuteronomy 16:14 | You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. +Deuteronomy 16:15 | You shall keep a feast to the Lord your God seven days in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. +Deuteronomy 16:16 | Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty. +Deuteronomy 16:17 | Every man shall give as he is able, according to the Lord your God’s blessing which he has given you. +Deuteronomy 16:18 | You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement. +Deuteronomy 16:19 | You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. +Deuteronomy 16:20 | You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you. +Deuteronomy 16:21 | You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the Lord your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves. +Deuteronomy 16:22 | Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which the Lord your God hates. +Deuteronomy 17:01 | You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 17:02 | If there is found amongst you, within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the Lord your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant, +Deuteronomy 17:03 | and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded, +Deuteronomy 17:04 | and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall enquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, +Deuteronomy 17:05 | then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. +Deuteronomy 17:06 | At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. +Deuteronomy 17:07 | The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 17:08 | If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgement, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. +Deuteronomy 17:09 | You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall enquire, and they shall give you the verdict. +Deuteronomy 17:10 | You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the Lord chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you. +Deuteronomy 17:11 | According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgement which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left. +Deuteronomy 17:12 | The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel. +Deuteronomy 17:13 | All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously. +Deuteronomy 17:14 | When you have come to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me," +Deuteronomy 17:15 | you shall surely set him whom the Lord your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from amongst your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. +Deuteronomy 17:16 | Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the Lord has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again." +Deuteronomy 17:17 | He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. +Deuteronomy 17:18 | It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests. +Deuteronomy 17:19 | It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; +Deuteronomy 17:20 | that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel. +Deuteronomy 18:01 | The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire and his portion. +Deuteronomy 18:02 | They shall have no inheritance amongst their brothers. The Lord is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. +Deuteronomy 18:03 | This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts. +Deuteronomy 18:04 | You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep. +Deuteronomy 18:05 | For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the Lord’s name, him and his sons forever. +Deuteronomy 18:06 | If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which the Lord shall choose, +Deuteronomy 18:07 | then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord. +Deuteronomy 18:08 | They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions. +Deuteronomy 18:09 | When you have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. +Deuteronomy 18:10 | There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, +Deuteronomy 18:11 | or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. +Deuteronomy 18:12 | For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. Because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you. +Deuteronomy 18:13 | You shall be blameless with the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 18:14 | For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practise sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you so to do. +Deuteronomy 18:15 | The Lord your God will raise up to you a prophet from amongst you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. +Deuteronomy 18:16 | This is according to all that you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the Lord my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die." +Deuteronomy 18:17 | The Lord said to me, "They have well said that which they have spoken. +Deuteronomy 18:18 | I will raise them up a prophet from amongst their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. +Deuteronomy 18:19 | It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. +Deuteronomy 18:20 | But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die." +Deuteronomy 18:21 | You may say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?" +Deuteronomy 18:22 | When a prophet speaks in the Lord’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him. +Deuteronomy 19:01 | When the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, +Deuteronomy 19:02 | you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess. +Deuteronomy 19:03 | You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there. +Deuteronomy 19:04 | This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past— +Deuteronomy 19:05 | as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbour so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live. +Deuteronomy 19:06 | Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past. +Deuteronomy 19:07 | Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves. +Deuteronomy 19:08 | If the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; +Deuteronomy 19:09 | and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three. +Deuteronomy 19:10 | This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you. +Deuteronomy 19:11 | But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; +Deuteronomy 19:12 | then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. +Deuteronomy 19:13 | Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you. +Deuteronomy 19:14 | You shall not remove your neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess. +Deuteronomy 19:15 | One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. +Deuteronomy 19:16 | If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, +Deuteronomy 19:17 | then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; +Deuteronomy 19:18 | and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, +Deuteronomy 19:19 | then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 19:20 | Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil amongst you. +Deuteronomy 19:21 | Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. +Deuteronomy 20:01 | When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. +Deuteronomy 20:02 | It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, +Deuteronomy 20:03 | and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; +Deuteronomy 20:04 | for the Lord your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." +Deuteronomy 20:05 | The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. +Deuteronomy 20:06 | What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit. +Deuteronomy 20:07 | What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her." +Deuteronomy 20:08 | The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart." +Deuteronomy 20:09 | It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people. +Deuteronomy 20:10 | When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. +Deuteronomy 20:11 | It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced labourers to you, and shall serve you. +Deuteronomy 20:12 | If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. +Deuteronomy 20:13 | When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; +Deuteronomy 20:14 | but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. +Deuteronomy 20:15 | Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. +Deuteronomy 20:16 | But of the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; +Deuteronomy 20:16-17 | In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – as the Lord your God has commanded you. +Deuteronomy 20:17 | but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you; +Deuteronomy 20:18 | that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 20:19 | When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? +Deuteronomy 20:20 | Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. +Deuteronomy 21:01 | If someone is found slain in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him, +Deuteronomy 21:02 | then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain. +Deuteronomy 21:03 | It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke. +Deuteronomy 21:04 | The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. +Deuteronomy 21:05 | The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the Lord your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the Lord’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided. +Deuteronomy 21:06 | All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. +Deuteronomy 21:07 | They shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. +Deuteronomy 21:08 | Forgive, the Lord, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood amongst your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them. +Deuteronomy 21:09 | So you shall put away the innocent blood from amongst you, when you shall do that which is right in the Lord’s eyes. +Deuteronomy 21:10 | When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive, +Deuteronomy 21:11 | and see amongst the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife, +Deuteronomy 21:12 | then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails. +Deuteronomy 21:13 | She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. +Deuteronomy 21:14 | It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her. +Deuteronomy 21:15 | If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated, +Deuteronomy 21:16 | then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn; +Deuteronomy 21:17 | but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his. +Deuteronomy 21:18 | If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them, +Deuteronomy 21:19 | then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. +Deuteronomy 21:20 | They shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard." +Deuteronomy 21:21 | All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. All Israel shall hear, and fear. +Deuteronomy 21:22 | If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, +Deuteronomy 21:23 | his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. +Deuteronomy 22:01 | You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. +Deuteronomy 22:02 | If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him. +Deuteronomy 22:03 | So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself. +Deuteronomy 22:04 | You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again. +Deuteronomy 22:05 | A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 22:06 | If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. +Deuteronomy 22:07 | You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. +Deuteronomy 22:08 | When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there. +Deuteronomy 22:09 | You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. +Deuteronomy 22:10 | You shall not plough with an ox and a donkey together. +Deuteronomy 22:11 | You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. +Deuteronomy 22:12 | You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. +Deuteronomy 22:13 | If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, +Deuteronomy 22:14 | accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity" +Deuteronomy 22:15 | then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. +Deuteronomy 22:16 | The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. +Deuteronomy 22:17 | Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. +Deuteronomy 22:18 | The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. +Deuteronomy 22:19 | They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. +Deuteronomy 22:20 | But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady, +Deuteronomy 22:21 | then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 22:22 | If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. +Deuteronomy 22:23 | If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, +Deuteronomy 22:24 | then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 22:25 | But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die; +Deuteronomy 22:26 | but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbour and kills him, even so is this matter; +Deuteronomy 22:27 | for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her. +Deuteronomy 22:28 | If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found, +Deuteronomy 22:29 | then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days. +Deuteronomy 22:30 | A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt. +Deuteronomy 23:01 | He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into the Lord’s assembly. +Deuteronomy 23:02 | A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into the Lord’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into the Lord’s assembly. +Deuteronomy 23:03 | An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the Lord’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into the Lord’s assembly forever, +Deuteronomy 23:04 | because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. +Deuteronomy 23:05 | Nevertheless the Lord your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loved you. +Deuteronomy 23:06 | You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. +Deuteronomy 23:07 | You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. +Deuteronomy 23:08 | The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the Lord’s assembly. +Deuteronomy 23:09 | When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. +Deuteronomy 23:10 | If there is amongst you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp; +Deuteronomy 23:11 | but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. +Deuteronomy 23:12 | You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself. +Deuteronomy 23:13 | You shall have a trowel amongst your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement; +Deuteronomy 23:14 | for the Lord your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. +Deuteronomy 23:15 | You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you. +Deuteronomy 23:16 | He shall dwell with you, amongst you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him. +Deuteronomy 23:17 | There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. +Deuteronomy 23:18 | You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of the Lord your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 23:19 | You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. +Deuteronomy 23:20 | You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. +Deuteronomy 23:21 | When you vow a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. +Deuteronomy 23:22 | But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you. +Deuteronomy 23:23 | You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to the Lord your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do. +Deuteronomy 23:24 | When you come into your neighbour’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container. +Deuteronomy 23:25 | When you come into your neighbour’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbour’s standing grain. +Deuteronomy 24:01 | When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. +Deuteronomy 24:02 | When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. +Deuteronomy 24:03 | If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; +Deuteronomy 24:04 | her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to the Lord. You shall not cause the land to sin, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. +Deuteronomy 24:05 | When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. +Deuteronomy 24:06 | No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge. +Deuteronomy 24:07 | If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you. +Deuteronomy 24:08 | Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. +Deuteronomy 24:09 | Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt. +Deuteronomy 24:10 | When you lend your neighbour any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. +Deuteronomy 24:11 | You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you. +Deuteronomy 24:12 | If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. +Deuteronomy 24:13 | You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 24:14 | You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. +Deuteronomy 24:15 | In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you. +Deuteronomy 24:16 | The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin. +Deuteronomy 24:17 | You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; +Deuteronomy 24:18 | but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing. +Deuteronomy 24:19 | When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. +Deuteronomy 24:20 | When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. +Deuteronomy 24:21 | When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. +Deuteronomy 24:22 | You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing. +Deuteronomy 25:01 | If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgement and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. +Deuteronomy 25:02 | It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. +Deuteronomy 25:03 | He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight. +Deuteronomy 25:04 | You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. +Deuteronomy 25:05 | If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. +Deuteronomy 25:06 | It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. +Deuteronomy 25:07 | If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me." +Deuteronomy 25:08 | Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, "I don’t want to take her," +Deuteronomy 25:09 | then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house." +Deuteronomy 25:10 | His name shall be called in Israel, "The house of him who had his sandal removed." +Deuteronomy 25:11 | When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts, +Deuteronomy 25:12 | then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity. +Deuteronomy 25:13 | You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. +Deuteronomy 25:14 | You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. +Deuteronomy 25:15 | You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. +Deuteronomy 25:16 | For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 25:17 | Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt; +Deuteronomy 25:18 | how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God. +Deuteronomy 25:19 | Therefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget. +Deuteronomy 26:01 | It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it, +Deuteronomy 26:02 | that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. +Deuteronomy 26:03 | You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, "I profess today to the Lord your God, that I have come to the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us." +Deuteronomy 26:04 | The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the Lord your God’s altar. +Deuteronomy 26:05 | You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, "My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. +Deuteronomy 26:06 | The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labour on us. +Deuteronomy 26:07 | Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers. The Lord heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. +Deuteronomy 26:08 | The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders; +Deuteronomy 26:09 | and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. +Deuteronomy 26:10 | Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, the Lord, have given me." You shall set it down before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 26:11 | You shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is amongst you. +Deuteronomy 26:12 | When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled. +Deuteronomy 26:13 | You shall say before the Lord your God, "I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them. +Deuteronomy 26:14 | I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the Lord my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me. +Deuteronomy 26:15 | Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey." +Deuteronomy 26:16 | Today the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. +Deuteronomy 26:17 | You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. +Deuteronomy 26:18 | The Lord has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments. +Deuteronomy 26:19 | He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour; and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he has spoken. +Deuteronomy 27:01 | Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you today. +Deuteronomy 27:02 | It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster. +Deuteronomy 27:03 | You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. +Deuteronomy 27:04 | It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster. +Deuteronomy 27:05 | There you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them. +Deuteronomy 27:06 | You shall build the Lord your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 27:07 | You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 27:08 | You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly." +Deuteronomy 27:09 | Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 27:10 | You shall therefore obey the Lord your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today." +Deuteronomy 27:12 | "These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. +Deuteronomy 27:13 | These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. +Deuteronomy 27:14 | With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel, +Deuteronomy 27:15 | ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:16 | ‘Cursed is he who dishonours his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:17 | ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbour’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:18 | ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:19 | ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:20 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonours his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:21 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:22 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:23 | ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:24 | ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbour.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:25 | ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ +Deuteronomy 27:26 | ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’" +Deuteronomy 28:01 | It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the Lord your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. +Deuteronomy 28:02 | All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the Lord your God’s voice. +Deuteronomy 28:03 | You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. +Deuteronomy 28:04 | You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. +Deuteronomy 28:05 | Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. +Deuteronomy 28:06 | You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out. +Deuteronomy 28:07 | The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways. +Deuteronomy 28:08 | The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. +Deuteronomy 28:09 | The Lord will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways. +Deuteronomy 28:10 | All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the Lord’s name, and they will be afraid of you. +Deuteronomy 28:11 | The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. +Deuteronomy 28:12 | The Lord will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow. +Deuteronomy 28:13 | The Lord will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today, to observe and to do, +Deuteronomy 28:14 | and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. +Deuteronomy 28:15 | But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. +Deuteronomy 28:16 | You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. +Deuteronomy 28:17 | Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. +Deuteronomy 28:18 | The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed. +Deuteronomy 28:19 | You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out. +Deuteronomy 28:20 | The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me. +Deuteronomy 28:21 | The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it. +Deuteronomy 28:22 | The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish. +Deuteronomy 28:23 | Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. +Deuteronomy 28:24 | The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed. +Deuteronomy 28:25 | The Lord will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth. +Deuteronomy 28:26 | Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away. +Deuteronomy 28:27 | The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumours, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. +Deuteronomy 28:28 | The Lord will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. +Deuteronomy 28:29 | You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you. +Deuteronomy 28:30 | You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit. +Deuteronomy 28:31 | Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you. +Deuteronomy 28:32 | Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand. +Deuteronomy 28:33 | A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always, +Deuteronomy 28:34 | so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad. +Deuteronomy 28:35 | The Lord will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. +Deuteronomy 28:36 | The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone. +Deuteronomy 28:37 | You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. +Deuteronomy 28:38 | You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it. +Deuteronomy 28:39 | You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them. +Deuteronomy 28:40 | You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. +Deuteronomy 28:41 | You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. +Deuteronomy 28:42 | Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground. +Deuteronomy 28:43 | The foreigner who is amongst you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower. +Deuteronomy 28:44 | He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail. +Deuteronomy 28:45 | All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. +Deuteronomy 28:46 | They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever. +Deuteronomy 28:47 | Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; +Deuteronomy 28:48 | therefore you will serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. +Deuteronomy 28:49 | The Lord will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand, +Deuteronomy 28:50 | a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favour to the young. +Deuteronomy 28:51 | They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. +Deuteronomy 28:52 | They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. +Deuteronomy 28:53 | You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. +Deuteronomy 28:54 | The man who is tender amongst you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil towards his brother, towards the wife whom he loves, and towards the remnant of his children whom he has remaining, +Deuteronomy 28:55 | so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates. +Deuteronomy 28:56 | The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil towards the husband that she loves, towards her son, towards her daughter, +Deuteronomy 28:57 | towards her young one who comes out from between her feet, and towards her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates. +Deuteronomy 28:58 | If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE Lord your God, +Deuteronomy 28:59 | then the Lord will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration. +Deuteronomy 28:60 | He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. +Deuteronomy 28:61 | Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring them on you until you are destroyed. +Deuteronomy 28:62 | You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice. +Deuteronomy 28:63 | It will happen that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess. +Deuteronomy 28:64 | The Lord will scatter you amongst all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. +Deuteronomy 28:65 | Amongst these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul. +Deuteronomy 28:66 | Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life. +Deuteronomy 28:67 | In the morning you will say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you will say, "I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see. +Deuteronomy 28:68 | The Lord will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you. +Deuteronomy 29:01 | These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. +Deuteronomy 29:02 | Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; +Deuteronomy 29:03 | the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. +Deuteronomy 29:04 | But the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. +Deuteronomy 29:05 | I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet. +Deuteronomy 29:06 | You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. +Deuteronomy 29:07 | When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them. +Deuteronomy 29:08 | We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. +Deuteronomy 29:09 | Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. +Deuteronomy 29:10 | All of you stand today in the presence of the Lord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, +Deuteronomy 29:11 | your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water, +Deuteronomy 29:12 | that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, +Deuteronomy 29:13 | that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. +Deuteronomy 29:14 | Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only, +Deuteronomy 29:15 | but with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and also with those who are not here with us today +Deuteronomy 29:16 | (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed; +Deuteronomy 29:17 | and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were amongst them); +Deuteronomy 29:18 | lest there should be amongst you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be amongst you a root that produces bitter poison; +Deuteronomy 29:19 | and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart," to destroy the moist with the dry. +Deuteronomy 29:20 | The Lord will not pardon him, but then the Lord’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under the sky. +Deuteronomy 29:21 | The Lord will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. +Deuteronomy 29:22 | The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick, +Deuteronomy 29:23 | that all of its land is sulphur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. +Deuteronomy 29:24 | Even all the nations will say, "Why has the Lord done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?" +Deuteronomy 29:25 | Then men will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, +Deuteronomy 29:26 | and went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. +Deuteronomy 29:27 | Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. +Deuteronomy 29:28 | The Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today." +Deuteronomy 29:29 | The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. +Deuteronomy 30:01 | It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind amongst all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, +Deuteronomy 30:02 | and return to the Lord your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, +Deuteronomy 30:03 | that then the Lord your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. +Deuteronomy 30:04 | If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back. +Deuteronomy 30:05 | The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers. +Deuteronomy 30:06 | The Lord your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. +Deuteronomy 30:07 | The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. +Deuteronomy 30:08 | You shall return and obey the Lord’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today. +Deuteronomy 30:09 | The Lord your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, +Deuteronomy 30:10 | if you will obey the Lord your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. +Deuteronomy 30:11 | For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant. +Deuteronomy 30:12 | It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" +Deuteronomy 30:13 | Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" +Deuteronomy 30:14 | But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. +Deuteronomy 30:15 | Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil. +Deuteronomy 30:16 | For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. +Deuteronomy 30:17 | But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them, +Deuteronomy 30:18 | I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. +Deuteronomy 30:19 | I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants, +Deuteronomy 30:20 | to love the Lord your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. +Deuteronomy 31:01 | Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. +Deuteronomy 31:02 | He said to them, "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ +Deuteronomy 31:03 | The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the Lord has spoken. +Deuteronomy 31:04 | The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. +Deuteronomy 31:05 | The Lord will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. +Deuteronomy 31:06 | Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. +Deuteronomy 31:06 | Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for the Lord your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you." +Deuteronomy 31:06-08 | Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. +Deuteronomy 31:07 | Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. +Deuteronomy 31:08 | It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. +Deuteronomy 31:08 | The Lord himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged." +Deuteronomy 31:09 | Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. +Deuteronomy 31:10 | Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths, +Deuteronomy 31:11 | when all Israel has come to appear before the Lord your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. +Deuteronomy 31:12 | Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law, +Deuteronomy 31:13 | and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it." +Deuteronomy 31:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him." Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. +Deuteronomy 31:15 | The Lord appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door. +Deuteronomy 31:16 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be amongst them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. +Deuteronomy 31:17 | Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not amongst us?’ +Deuteronomy 31:18 | I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods. +Deuteronomy 31:19 | "Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. +Deuteronomy 31:20 | For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. +Deuteronomy 31:21 | It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them." +Deuteronomy 31:22 | So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel. +Deuteronomy 31:23 | He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you." +Deuteronomy 31:24 | When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, +Deuteronomy 31:26 | "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the Lord your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you. +Deuteronomy 31:27 | For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death? +Deuteronomy 31:28 | Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. +Deuteronomy 31:29 | For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands." +Deuteronomy 31:30 | Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished. +Deuteronomy 32:01 | Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. +Deuteronomy 32:02 | My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb. +Deuteronomy 32:03 | For I will proclaim the Lord’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God! +Deuteronomy 32:04 | The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he. +Deuteronomy 32:05 | They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation. +Deuteronomy 32:06 | Is this the way you repay the Lord, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you. +Deuteronomy 32:07 | Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. +Deuteronomy 32:08 | When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. +Deuteronomy 32:09 | For the Lord’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. +Deuteronomy 32:10 | He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. +Deuteronomy 32:11 | As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. +Deuteronomy 32:12 | The Lord alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. +Deuteronomy 32:13 | He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; +Deuteronomy 32:14 | butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine. +Deuteronomy 32:15 | But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation. +Deuteronomy 32:16 | They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. +Deuteronomy 32:17 | They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread. +Deuteronomy 32:19 | The Lord saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. +Deuteronomy 32:20 | He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. +Deuteronomy 32:21 | They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. +Deuteronomy 32:22 | For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire. +Deuteronomy 32:23 | "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. +Deuteronomy 32:24 | They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust. +Deuteronomy 32:25 | Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the grey-haired man. +Deuteronomy 32:26 | I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from amongst men; +Deuteronomy 32:27 | were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, The Lord has not done all this.’" +Deuteronomy 32:28 | For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them. +Deuteronomy 32:29 | Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! +Deuteronomy 32:30 | How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up? +Deuteronomy 32:31 | For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede. +Deuteronomy 32:32 | For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter. +Deuteronomy 32:33 | Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps. +Deuteronomy 32:34 | "Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up amongst my treasures? +Deuteronomy 32:35 | Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them." +Deuteronomy 32:36 | For the Lord will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large. +Deuteronomy 32:37 | He will say, "Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge; +Deuteronomy 32:38 | which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection. +Deuteronomy 32:39 | "See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. +Deuteronomy 32:40 | For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever, +Deuteronomy 32:41 | if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgement; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me. +Deuteronomy 32:42 | I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy." +Deuteronomy 32:43 | Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people. +Deuteronomy 32:44 | Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. +Deuteronomy 32:45 | Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel. +Deuteronomy 32:46 | He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. +Deuteronomy 32:47 | For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it." +Deuteronomy 32:49 | "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession. +Deuteronomy 32:50 | Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people; +Deuteronomy 32:51 | because you trespassed against me amongst the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness amongst the children of Israel. +Deuteronomy 32:52 | For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel." +Deuteronomy 33:01 | This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. +Deuteronomy 33:02 | He said, "The Lord came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them. +Deuteronomy 33:03 | Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words. +Deuteronomy 33:04 | Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. +Deuteronomy 33:05 | He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together. +Deuteronomy 33:06 | "Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few." +Deuteronomy 33:07 | This is for Judah. He said, "Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries." +Deuteronomy 33:08 | About Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah. +Deuteronomy 33:09 | He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant. +Deuteronomy 33:10 | They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar. +Deuteronomy 33:11 | Lord, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again." +Deuteronomy 33:12 | About Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the Lord will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders." +Deuteronomy 33:13 | About Joseph he said, "His land is blessed by the Lord, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath, +Deuteronomy 33:14 | for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield, +Deuteronomy 33:15 | for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills, +Deuteronomy 33:16 | for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. +Deuteronomy 33:17 | Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh." +Deuteronomy 33:18 | About Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents. +Deuteronomy 33:19 | They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand." +Deuteronomy 33:20 | About Gad he said, "He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm and the crown of the head. +Deuteronomy 33:21 | He provided the first part for himself, for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him. He came with the heads of the people. He executed the righteousness of the Lord, His ordinances with Israel." +Deuteronomy 33:22 | About Dan he said, "Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan." +Deuteronomy 33:23 | About Naphtali he said, "Naphtali, satisfied with favour, full of the Lord’s blessing, Possess the west and the south." +Deuteronomy 33:24 | About Asher he said, "Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil. +Deuteronomy 33:25 | Your bars will be iron and bronze. As your days, so your strength will be. +Deuteronomy 33:26 | "There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies. +Deuteronomy 33:27 | The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’ +Deuteronomy 33:27 | The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. +Deuteronomy 33:28 | Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew. +Deuteronomy 33:29 | You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places." +Deuteronomy 34:01 | Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. The Lord showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan, +Deuteronomy 34:02 | and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea, +Deuteronomy 34:03 | and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar. +Deuteronomy 34:04 | The Lord said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there." +Deuteronomy 34:05 | So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the Lord’s word. +Deuteronomy 34:06 | He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day. +Deuteronomy 34:07 | Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone. +Deuteronomy 34:08 | The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. +Deuteronomy 34:09 | Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses. +Deuteronomy 34:10 | Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, +Ecclesiastes 01:01 | The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: +Ecclesiastes 01:02 | "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." +Ecclesiastes 01:03 | What does man gain from all his labour in which he labours under the sun? +Ecclesiastes 01:03-04 | What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. +Ecclesiastes 01:04 | One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever. +Ecclesiastes 01:05 | The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises. +Ecclesiastes 01:06 | The wind goes towards the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses. +Ecclesiastes 01:07 | All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again. +Ecclesiastes 01:08 | All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. +Ecclesiastes 01:09 | That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 01:09-10 | What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? +Ecclesiastes 01:10 | Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us. +Ecclesiastes 01:11 | There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, amongst those that shall come after. +Ecclesiastes 01:12 | I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. +Ecclesiastes 01:13 | I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. +Ecclesiastes 01:14 | I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind... +Ecclesiastes 01:14 | I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 01:15 | That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted. +Ecclesiastes 01:16 | I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." +Ecclesiastes 01:17 | I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 01:18 | For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. +Ecclesiastes 01:18 | With much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. +Ecclesiastes 02:01 | I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure" and behold, this also was vanity. +Ecclesiastes 02:02 | I said of laughter, "It is foolishness" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" +Ecclesiastes 02:03 | I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives. +Ecclesiastes 02:04 | I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. +Ecclesiastes 02:05 | I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. +Ecclesiastes 02:06 | I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown. +Ecclesiastes 02:07 | I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem. +Ecclesiastes 02:08 | I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts. +Ecclesiastes 02:09 | So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. +Ecclesiastes 02:10 | Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour. +Ecclesiastes 02:11 | Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 02:12 | I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago. +Ecclesiastes 02:13 | I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. +Ecclesiastes 02:13 | Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. +Ecclesiastes 02:14 | The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness, but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both... +Ecclesiastes 02:14 | The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. +Ecclesiastes 02:15 | Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 02:16 | For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! +Ecclesiastes 02:16 | The wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die! +Ecclesiastes 02:17 | So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 02:18 | I hated all my labour in which I laboured under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. +Ecclesiastes 02:19 | Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labour in which I have laboured, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 02:20 | Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour in which I had laboured under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 02:21 | For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not laboured for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. +Ecclesiastes 02:22 | For what does a man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, in which he labours under the sun? +Ecclesiastes 02:23 | For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 02:24 | There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. +Ecclesiastes 02:25 | For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? +Ecclesiastes 02:26 | For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 03:01 | For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: +Ecclesiastes 03:01-04 | There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the Heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. +Ecclesiastes 03:02 | a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; +Ecclesiastes 03:03 | a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; +Ecclesiastes 03:04 | a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; +Ecclesiastes 03:05 | a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; +Ecclesiastes 03:06 | a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; +Ecclesiastes 03:07 | a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; +Ecclesiastes 03:08 | a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. +Ecclesiastes 03:09 | What profit has he who works in that in which he labours? +Ecclesiastes 03:10 | I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. +Ecclesiastes 03:11 | He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. +Ecclesiastes 03:11 | He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. +Ecclesiastes 03:12 | I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. +Ecclesiastes 03:12 | I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. +Ecclesiastes 03:13 | Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, is the gift of God. +Ecclesiastes 03:14 | I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him. +Ecclesiastes 03:15 | That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away. +Ecclesiastes 03:16 | Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. +Ecclesiastes 03:17 | I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." +Ecclesiastes 03:18 | I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals. +Ecclesiastes 03:18-19 | I also said to myself, "As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. +Ecclesiastes 03:19 | For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 03:20 | All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. +Ecclesiastes 03:21 | Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?" +Ecclesiastes 03:22 | Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him? +Ecclesiastes 04:01 | Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. +Ecclesiastes 04:02 | Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive. +Ecclesiastes 04:02-03 | I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 04:03 | Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 04:04 | Then I saw all the labour and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. +Ecclesiastes 04:05 | The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself. +Ecclesiastes 04:05-06 | Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves. Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. +Ecclesiastes 04:06 | Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 04:07 | Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 04:08 | There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labour and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business. +Ecclesiastes 04:08 | There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. "For whom am I toiling," he asked, "and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?" +Ecclesiastes 04:09 | Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? +Ecclesiastes 04:09 | Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. +Ecclesiastes 04:10 | For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. +Ecclesiastes 04:11 | Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? +Ecclesiastes 04:12 | If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. +Ecclesiastes 04:12 | Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. +Ecclesiastes 04:13 | Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more. +Ecclesiastes 04:14 | For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor. +Ecclesiastes 04:15 | I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him. +Ecclesiastes 04:16 | There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 05:01 | Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. +Ecclesiastes 05:02 | Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in Heaven and you are on Earth, so let your words be few. +Ecclesiastes 05:02 | Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. +Ecclesiastes 05:03 | For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words. +Ecclesiastes 05:04 | When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. +Ecclesiastes 05:05 | It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. +Ecclesiastes 05:05-06 | It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it. Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. +Ecclesiastes 05:06 | Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? +Ecclesiastes 05:07 | For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God. +Ecclesiastes 05:08 | If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them. +Ecclesiastes 05:09 | Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field. +Ecclesiastes 05:10 | He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 05:10 | Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. +Ecclesiastes 05:11 | As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them? +Ecclesiastes 05:11 | When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes? +Ecclesiastes 05:12 | The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. +Ecclesiastes 05:13 | There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. +Ecclesiastes 05:14 | Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. +Ecclesiastes 05:15 | As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. +Ecclesiastes 05:15 | Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands. +Ecclesiastes 05:16 | This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labours for the wind? +Ecclesiastes 05:17 | All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath. +Ecclesiastes 05:18 | Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour, in which he labours under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. +Ecclesiastes 05:19 | Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour—this is the gift of God. +Ecclesiastes 05:20 | For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart. +Ecclesiastes 06:01 | There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men: +Ecclesiastes 06:02 | a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honour, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. +Ecclesiastes 06:03 | If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say that a stillborn child is better than he: +Ecclesiastes 06:04 | for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. +Ecclesiastes 06:05 | Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other. +Ecclesiastes 06:06 | Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place? +Ecclesiastes 06:07 | All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. +Ecclesiastes 06:07-08 | Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied. What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others? +Ecclesiastes 06:08 | For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? +Ecclesiastes 06:09 | Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. +Ecclesiastes 06:10 | Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he. +Ecclesiastes 06:10-11 | Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger. The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone? +Ecclesiastes 06:11 | For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man? +Ecclesiastes 06:12 | For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun? +Ecclesiastes 07:01 | A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. +Ecclesiastes 07:01 | A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth. +Ecclesiastes 07:02 | It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. +Ecclesiastes 07:02 | It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart. +Ecclesiastes 07:03 | Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. +Ecclesiastes 07:03 | Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. +Ecclesiastes 07:04 | The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure. +Ecclesiastes 07:04 | The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. +Ecclesiastes 07:05 | It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools. +Ecclesiastes 07:06 | For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 07:07 | Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. +Ecclesiastes 07:07 | Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding. +Ecclesiastes 07:08 | Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. +Ecclesiastes 07:08 | The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. +Ecclesiastes 07:09 | Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools. +Ecclesiastes 07:10 | Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" For it is not wise to ask such questions. +Ecclesiastes 07:10 | Don’t say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this. +Ecclesiastes 07:11 | Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun. +Ecclesiastes 07:11-12 | Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun. Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it. +Ecclesiastes 07:12 | For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. +Ecclesiastes 07:13 | Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? +Ecclesiastes 07:14 | In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. +Ecclesiastes 07:15 | All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing. +Ecclesiastes 07:16 | Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? +Ecclesiastes 07:16-18 | Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise... why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool - why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes. +Ecclesiastes 07:17 | Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time? +Ecclesiastes 07:18 | It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all. +Ecclesiastes 07:19 | Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. +Ecclesiastes 07:20 | Indeed, there is no one on Earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins. +Ecclesiastes 07:20 | Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin. +Ecclesiastes 07:21 | Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you; +Ecclesiastes 07:22 | for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others. +Ecclesiastes 07:23 | All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise" but it was far from me. +Ecclesiastes 07:24 | That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? +Ecclesiastes 07:25 | I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness. +Ecclesiastes 07:26 | I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her. +Ecclesiastes 07:27 | "Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "to one another, to find out the scheme +Ecclesiastes 07:28 | which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man amongst a thousand, but I have not found a woman amongst all those. +Ecclesiastes 07:28 | While I was still searching, but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all. +Ecclesiastes 07:29 | Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes." +Ecclesiastes 08:01 | Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. +Ecclesiastes 08:02 | I say, "Keep the king’s command!" because of the oath to God. +Ecclesiastes 08:03 | Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him, +Ecclesiastes 08:04 | for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?" +Ecclesiastes 08:05 | Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure. +Ecclesiastes 08:06 | For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him. +Ecclesiastes 08:07 | For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be? +Ecclesiastes 08:08 | There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practise it. +Ecclesiastes 08:09 | All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt. +Ecclesiastes 08:10 | So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 08:11 | Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. +Ecclesiastes 08:12 | Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. +Ecclesiastes 08:13 | But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God. +Ecclesiastes 08:14 | There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 08:15 | Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 08:16 | When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night), +Ecclesiastes 08:17 | then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labours to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it. +Ecclesiastes 09:01 | For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them. +Ecclesiastes 09:02 | All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. +Ecclesiastes 09:03 | This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. +Ecclesiastes 09:04 | For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. +Ecclesiastes 09:05 | For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. +Ecclesiastes 09:05-06 | The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 09:06 | Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 09:07 | Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. +Ecclesiastes 09:08 | Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil. +Ecclesiastes 09:09 | Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life... +Ecclesiastes 09:09 | Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labour in which you labour under the sun. +Ecclesiastes 09:10 | Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. +Ecclesiastes 09:10 | Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going. +Ecclesiastes 09:11 | I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. +Ecclesiastes 09:12 | As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them. +Ecclesiastes 09:12 | For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them. +Ecclesiastes 09:13 | I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me. +Ecclesiastes 09:14 | There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. +Ecclesiastes 09:15 | Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. +Ecclesiastes 09:16 | So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded. +Ecclesiastes 09:16 | Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. +Ecclesiastes 09:17 | The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. +Ecclesiastes 09:17 | The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules amongst fools. +Ecclesiastes 09:18 | Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. +Ecclesiastes 09:18 | Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good. +Ecclesiastes 10:01 | As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. +Ecclesiastes 10:01 | Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odour; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour. +Ecclesiastes 10:02 | A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left. +Ecclesiastes 10:03 | Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are. +Ecclesiastes 10:03 | Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. +Ecclesiastes 10:04 | If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offences to rest. +Ecclesiastes 10:05 | There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler. +Ecclesiastes 10:06 | Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. +Ecclesiastes 10:07 | I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth. +Ecclesiastes 10:08 | He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. +Ecclesiastes 10:09 | Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered by it. +Ecclesiastes 10:10 | If the axe is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success. +Ecclesiastes 10:11 | If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue. +Ecclesiastes 10:12 | The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips. +Ecclesiastes 10:12 | Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips. +Ecclesiastes 10:13 | The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. +Ecclesiastes 10:14 | A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him? +Ecclesiastes 10:15 | The labour of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city. +Ecclesiastes 10:15 | The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town. +Ecclesiastes 10:16 | Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning! +Ecclesiastes 10:17 | Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness! +Ecclesiastes 10:18 | By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks. +Ecclesiastes 10:18 | Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks. +Ecclesiastes 10:19 | A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things. +Ecclesiastes 10:20 | Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter. +Ecclesiastes 11:01 | Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. +Ecclesiastes 11:02 | Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth. +Ecclesiastes 11:03 | If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls towards the south, or towards the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be. +Ecclesiastes 11:04 | He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap. +Ecclesiastes 11:04 | Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. +Ecclesiastes 11:05 | As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all. +Ecclesiastes 11:06 | In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good. +Ecclesiastes 11:06 | Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. +Ecclesiastes 11:07 | Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun. +Ecclesiastes 11:08 | Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity. +Ecclesiastes 11:09 | Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement. +Ecclesiastes 11:09-10 | You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless. +Ecclesiastes 11:10 | Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. +Ecclesiastes 12:01 | Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them" +Ecclesiastes 12:01 | Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them". +Ecclesiastes 12:02 | Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; +Ecclesiastes 12:03 | in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened, +Ecclesiastes 12:04 | and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; +Ecclesiastes 12:05 | yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: +Ecclesiastes 12:06 | before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern, +Ecclesiastes 12:07 | and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. +Ecclesiastes 12:08 | "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!" +Ecclesiastes 12:09 | Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs. +Ecclesiastes 12:10 | The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth. +Ecclesiastes 12:11 | The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. +Ecclesiastes 12:12 | Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. +Ecclesiastes 12:13 | This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. +Ecclesiastes 12:14 | For God will bring every work into judgement, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil. +Ephesians 01:01 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: +Ephesians 01:02 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +Ephesians 01:03 | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, +Ephesians 01:04 | even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, +Ephesians 01:05 | having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, +Ephesians 01:06 | to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favour in the Beloved, +Ephesians 01:07 | in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, +Ephesians 01:08 | which he made to abound towards us in all wisdom and prudence, +Ephesians 01:09 | making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him +Ephesians 01:10 | to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him. +Ephesians 01:11 | We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will, +Ephesians 01:12 | to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ. +Ephesians 01:13 | In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, +Ephesians 01:14 | who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory. +Ephesians 01:15 | For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is amongst you, and the love which you have towards all the saints, +Ephesians 01:16 | don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, +Ephesians 01:17 | that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, +Ephesians 01:18 | having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, +Ephesians 01:19 | and what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might +Ephesians 01:20 | which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, +Ephesians 01:21 | far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. +Ephesians 01:22 | He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, +Ephesians 01:23 | which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. +Ephesians 02:01 | You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, +Ephesians 02:02 | in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. +Ephesians 02:03 | We also all once lived amongst them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. +Ephesians 02:04 | But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, +Ephesians 02:05 | even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— +Ephesians 02:06 | and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, +Ephesians 02:07 | that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus; +Ephesians 02:08 | for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, +Ephesians 02:08-09 | It is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. +Ephesians 02:09 | not of works, that no one would boast. +Ephesians 02:10 | For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. +Ephesians 02:11 | Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision" (in the flesh, made by hands), +Ephesians 02:12 | that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. +Ephesians 02:13 | But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. +Ephesians 02:14 | For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation, +Ephesians 02:15 | having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, +Ephesians 02:16 | and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it. +Ephesians 02:17 | He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. +Ephesians 02:18 | For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. +Ephesians 02:19 | So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, +Ephesians 02:20 | being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; +Ephesians 02:21 | in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; +Ephesians 02:22 | in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. +Ephesians 03:01 | For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, +Ephesians 03:02 | if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me towards you, +Ephesians 03:03 | how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words, +Ephesians 03:04 | by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ, +Ephesians 03:05 | which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit, +Ephesians 03:06 | that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News, +Ephesians 03:07 | of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. +Ephesians 03:08 | To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, +Ephesians 03:09 | and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ, +Ephesians 03:10 | to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places, +Ephesians 03:11 | according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. +Ephesians 03:12 | In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him. +Ephesians 03:13 | Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory. +Ephesians 03:14 | For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, +Ephesians 03:15 | from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, +Ephesians 03:16 | that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, +Ephesians 03:17 | that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, +Ephesians 03:18 | may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, +Ephesians 03:19 | and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. +Ephesians 03:20 | Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, +Ephesians 03:21 | to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. +Ephesians 04:01 | I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, +Ephesians 04:02 | Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. +Ephesians 04:02 | with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, +Ephesians 04:02-03 | With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. +Ephesians 04:03 | being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. +Ephesians 04:04 | There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling, +Ephesians 04:05 | one Lord, one faith, one baptism, +Ephesians 04:06 | one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all. +Ephesians 04:07 | But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. +Ephesians 04:08 | Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people." +Ephesians 04:09 | Now this, "He ascended", what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? +Ephesians 04:10 | He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. +Ephesians 04:11 | He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; +Ephesians 04:12 | for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ, +Ephesians 04:13 | until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, +Ephesians 04:14 | that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; +Ephesians 04:15 | but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ, +Ephesians 04:16 | from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love. +Ephesians 04:17 | This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, +Ephesians 04:18 | being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. +Ephesians 04:19 | They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. +Ephesians 04:21 | if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: +Ephesians 04:22 | that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit, +Ephesians 04:23 | and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, +Ephesians 04:24 | and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. +Ephesians 04:25 | Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbour. For we are members of one another. +Ephesians 04:26 | "Be angry, and don’t sin." Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, +Ephesians 04:26 | In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry. +Ephesians 04:27 | and don’t give place to the devil. +Ephesians 04:28 | Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need. +Ephesians 04:29 | Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. +Ephesians 04:29 | Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. +Ephesians 04:30 | Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. +Ephesians 04:31 | Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. +Ephesians 04:32 | And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. +Ephesians 04:32 | Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. +Ephesians 05:01 | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. +Ephesians 05:02 | Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. +Ephesians 05:03 | But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned amongst you, as becomes saints; +Ephesians 05:04 | nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks. +Ephesians 05:05 | Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. +Ephesians 05:06 | Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. +Ephesians 05:07 | Therefore don’t be partakers with them. +Ephesians 05:08 | For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, +Ephesians 05:09 | for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, +Ephesians 05:10 | proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. +Ephesians 05:11 | Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. +Ephesians 05:12 | For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. +Ephesians 05:13 | But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. +Ephesians 05:14 | Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." +Ephesians 05:14 | Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. +Ephesians 05:15 | Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, +Ephesians 05:16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil. +Ephesians 05:17 | Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. +Ephesians 05:18 | Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, +Ephesians 05:19 | speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; +Ephesians 05:20 | Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. +Ephesians 05:20 | giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; +Ephesians 05:21 | subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. +Ephesians 05:21 | Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. +Ephesians 05:22 | Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. +Ephesians 05:22 | Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. +Ephesians 05:23 | For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the saviour of the body. +Ephesians 05:24 | But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. +Ephesians 05:25 | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; +Ephesians 05:25-26 | Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through The Word. +Ephesians 05:26 | that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, +Ephesians 05:27 | that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. +Ephesians 05:28 | Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. +Ephesians 05:28 | Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. +Ephesians 05:29 | For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; +Ephesians 05:30 | because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. +Ephesians 05:31 | "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh." +Ephesians 05:32 | This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. +Ephesians 05:33 | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. +Ephesians 06:01 | Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. +Ephesians 06:02 | "Honour your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: +Ephesians 06:03 | "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth." +Ephesians 06:04 | You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. +Ephesians 06:05 | Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, +Ephesians 06:06 | not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, +Ephesians 06:07 | with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men, +Ephesians 06:08 | knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. +Ephesians 06:09 | You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. +Ephesians 06:10 | Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. +Ephesians 06:11 | Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. +Ephesians 06:12 | For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. +Ephesians 06:12 | Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. +Ephesians 06:13 | Therefore put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. +Ephesians 06:14 | Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, +Ephesians 06:15 | and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, +Ephesians 06:16 | above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. +Ephesians 06:17 | And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; +Ephesians 06:18 | with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints: +Ephesians 06:19 | on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, +Ephesians 06:20 | for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. +Ephesians 06:21 | But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things. +Ephesians 06:22 | I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts. +Ephesians 06:23 | Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +Ephesians 06:24 | Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen. +Esther 01:01 | Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces), +Esther 01:02 | in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace, +Esther 01:03 | in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him. +Esther 01:04 | He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred and eighty days. +Esther 01:05 | When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace. +Esther 01:06 | There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble. +Esther 01:07 | They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king. +Esther 01:08 | In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure. +Esther 01:09 | Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus. +Esther 01:11 | to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful. +Esther 01:12 | But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burnt in him. +Esther 01:13 | Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgement; +Esther 01:14 | and next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom), +Esther 01:15 | "What shall we do to Queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?" +Esther 01:16 | Memucan answered before the king and the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. +Esther 01:17 | For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’ +Esther 01:18 | Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. +Esther 01:19 | "If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written amongst the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. +Esther 01:20 | When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honour, both great and small." +Esther 01:21 | This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan: +Esther 01:22 | for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people. +Esther 02:01 | After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. +Esther 02:02 | Then the king’s servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king. +Esther 02:03 | Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them; +Esther 02:04 | and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The thing pleased the king, and he did so. +Esther 02:05 | There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, +Esther 02:06 | who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. +Esther 02:07 | He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. +Esther 02:08 | So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. +Esther 02:09 | The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house. +Esther 02:10 | Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known. +Esther 02:11 | Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her. +Esther 02:12 | Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women). +Esther 02:13 | The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house. +Esther 02:14 | In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name. +Esther 02:15 | Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favour in the sight of all those who looked at her. +Esther 02:16 | So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. +Esther 02:17 | The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favour and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. +Esther 02:18 | Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty. +Esther 02:19 | When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate. +Esther 02:20 | Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him. +Esther 02:21 | In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. +Esther 02:22 | This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name. +Esther 02:23 | When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence. +Esther 03:01 | After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. +Esther 03:02 | All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage. +Esther 03:03 | Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?" +Esther 03:04 | Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. +Esther 03:05 | When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. +Esther 03:06 | But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people. +Esther 03:07 | In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. +Esther 03:08 | Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed amongst the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain. +Esther 03:09 | If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries." +Esther 03:10 | The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. +Esther 03:11 | The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." +Esther 03:12 | Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring. +Esther 03:13 | Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. +Esther 03:14 | A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. +Esther 03:15 | The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed. +Esther 04:01 | Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly. +Esther 04:02 | He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. +Esther 04:03 | In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning amongst the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. +Esther 04:04 | Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it. +Esther 04:05 | Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was. +Esther 04:06 | So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate. +Esther 04:07 | Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. +Esther 04:08 | He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people. +Esther 04:09 | Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. +Esther 04:10 | Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: +Esther 04:11 | "All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." +Esther 04:13 | Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: "Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews. +Esther 04:14 | For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" +Esther 04:16 | "Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish." +Esther 04:17 | So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. +Esther 05:01 | Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. +Esther 05:02 | When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favour in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the sceptre. +Esther 05:03 | Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom." +Esther 05:04 | Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." +Esther 05:05 | Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. +Esther 05:06 | The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." +Esther 05:07 | Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. +Esther 05:08 | If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said." +Esther 05:09 | Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. +Esther 05:10 | Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. +Esther 05:11 | Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. +Esther 05:12 | Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. +Esther 05:13 | Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate." +Esther 05:14 | Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. +Esther 06:01 | On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king. +Esther 06:02 | It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. +Esther 06:03 | The king said, "What honour and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?" Then the king’s servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." +Esther 06:04 | The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. +Esther 06:05 | The king’s servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in." +Esther 06:06 | So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honour more than myself?" +Esther 06:07 | Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honour, +Esther 06:08 | let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set. +Esther 06:09 | Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honour with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!’" +Esther 06:10 | Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken." +Esther 06:11 | Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!" +Esther 06:12 | Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered. +Esther 06:13 | Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him." +Esther 06:14 | While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. +Esther 07:01 | So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. +Esther 07:02 | The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." +Esther 07:03 | Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. +Esther 07:04 | For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss." +Esther 07:05 | Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?" +Esther 07:06 | Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. +Esther 07:07 | The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. +Esther 07:08 | Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. +Esther 07:09 | Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house." The king said, "Hang him on it!" +Esther 07:10 | So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified. +Esther 08:01 | On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. +Esther 08:02 | The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. +Esther 08:03 | Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews. +Esther 08:05 | She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seems right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. +Esther 08:06 | For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?" +Esther 08:07 | Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews. +Esther 08:08 | Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man." +Esther 08:09 | Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. +Esther 08:10 | He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds. +Esther 08:11 | In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions, +Esther 08:12 | on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. +Esther 08:13 | A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. +Esther 08:14 | So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. +Esther 08:15 | Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad. +Esther 08:16 | The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honour. +Esther 08:17 | In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from amongst the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. +Esther 09:01 | Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them), +Esther 09:02 | the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. +Esther 09:03 | All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. +Esther 09:04 | For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater. +Esther 09:05 | The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them. +Esther 09:11 | On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king. +Esther 09:12 | The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done." +Esther 09:13 | Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows." +Esther 09:14 | The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons. +Esther 09:15 | The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. +Esther 09:16 | The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. +Esther 09:17 | This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness. +Esther 09:18 | But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. +Esther 09:19 | Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another. +Esther 09:20 | Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far, +Esther 09:21 | to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly, +Esther 09:22 | as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. +Esther 09:23 | The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them; +Esther 09:24 | because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur", that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; +Esther 09:25 | but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. +Esther 09:26 | Therefore they called these days "Purim", from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them, +Esther 09:27 | the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year; +Esther 09:28 | and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from amongst the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring. +Esther 09:29 | Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. +Esther 09:30 | He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, +Esther 09:31 | to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry. +Esther 09:32 | The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. +Esther 10:01 | King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea. +Esther 10:02 | Aren’t all the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? +Esther 10:03 | For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great amongst the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants. +Exodus 01:01 | Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): +Exodus 01:05 | All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. +Exodus 01:06 | Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. +Exodus 01:07 | The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. +Exodus 01:08 | Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. +Exodus 01:09 | He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. +Exodus 01:10 | Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land." +Exodus 01:11 | Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. +Exodus 01:12 | But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel. +Exodus 01:13 | The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, +Exodus 01:14 | and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. +Exodus 01:15 | The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, +Exodus 01:16 | and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." +Exodus 01:17 | But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. +Exodus 01:18 | The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?" +Exodus 01:19 | The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigourous and give birth before the midwife comes to them." +Exodus 01:20 | God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. +Exodus 01:21 | Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. +Exodus 01:22 | Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive." +Exodus 02:01 | A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. +Exodus 02:02 | The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. +Exodus 02:03 | When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. +Exodus 02:04 | His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. +Exodus 02:05 | Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket amongst the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. +Exodus 02:06 | She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews’ children." +Exodus 02:07 | Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?" +Exodus 02:08 | Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Go." The young woman went and called the child’s mother. +Exodus 02:09 | Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it. +Exodus 02:10 | The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water." +Exodus 02:11 | In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. +Exodus 02:12 | He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. +Exodus 02:13 | He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?" +Exodus 02:14 | He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." +Exodus 02:15 | Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. +Exodus 02:16 | Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. +Exodus 02:17 | The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. +Exodus 02:18 | When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?" +Exodus 02:19 | They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock." +Exodus 02:20 | He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." +Exodus 02:21 | Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. +Exodus 02:22 | She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land." +Exodus 02:23 | In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. +Exodus 02:24 | God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. +Exodus 02:25 | God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them. +Exodus 03:01 | Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. +Exodus 03:02 | The Lord’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burnt with fire, and the bush was not consumed. +Exodus 03:03 | Moses said, "I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." +Exodus 03:04 | When the Lord saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am." +Exodus 03:05 | He said, "Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." +Exodus 03:06 | Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. +Exodus 03:07 | The Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. +Exodus 03:08 | I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +Exodus 03:09 | Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. +Exodus 03:10 | Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." +Exodus 03:11 | Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" +Exodus 03:12 | He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." +Exodus 03:13 | Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?" +Exodus 03:14 | God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’" +Exodus 03:15 | God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. +Exodus 03:16 | Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. +Exodus 03:17 | I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."’ +Exodus 03:18 | They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord, our God.’ +Exodus 03:19 | I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand. +Exodus 03:20 | I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do amongst them, and after that he will let you go. +Exodus 03:21 | I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. +Exodus 03:22 | But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians." +Exodus 04:01 | Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’" +Exodus 04:02 | The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod." +Exodus 04:03 | He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it. +Exodus 04:04 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail." He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand. +Exodus 04:05 | "This is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." +Exodus 04:06 | The Lord said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. +Exodus 04:07 | He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh. +Exodus 04:08 | "It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. +Exodus 04:09 | It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land." +Exodus 04:10 | Moses said to the Lord, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." +Exodus 04:11 | The Lord said to him, "Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD? +Exodus 04:12 | Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak." +Exodus 04:13 | Moses said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else." +Exodus 04:14 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. +Exodus 04:15 | You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. +Exodus 04:16 | He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God. +Exodus 04:17 | You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs." +Exodus 04:18 | Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." +Exodus 04:19 | The Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead." +Exodus 04:20 | Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand. +Exodus 04:21 | The Lord said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. +Exodus 04:22 | You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘The Lord says, Israel is my son, my firstborn, +Exodus 04:23 | and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’" +Exodus 04:24 | On the way at a lodging place, the Lord met Moses and wanted to kill him. +Exodus 04:25 | Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." +Exodus 04:26 | So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision. +Exodus 04:27 | The Lord said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him. +Exodus 04:28 | Moses told Aaron all the Lord’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him. +Exodus 04:29 | Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. +Exodus 04:30 | Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. +Exodus 04:31 | The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. +Exodus 05:01 | Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’" +Exodus 05:02 | Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go." +Exodus 05:03 | They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword." +Exodus 05:04 | The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" +Exodus 05:05 | Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens." +Exodus 05:07 | "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. +Exodus 05:08 | You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’ +Exodus 05:09 | Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labour in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words." +Exodus 05:10 | The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw. +Exodus 05:11 | Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’" +Exodus 05:12 | So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. +Exodus 05:13 | The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfil your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" +Exodus 05:14 | The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?" +Exodus 05:15 | Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? +Exodus 05:16 | No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people." +Exodus 05:17 | But Pharaoh said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ +Exodus 05:18 | Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!" +Exodus 05:19 | The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!" +Exodus 05:20 | They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh. +Exodus 05:21 | They said to them, "May the Lord look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!" +Exodus 05:22 | Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? +Exodus 05:23 | For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!" +Exodus 06:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land." +Exodus 06:02 | God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am the Lord. +Exodus 06:03 | I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name the Lord I was not known to them. +Exodus 06:04 | I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. +Exodus 06:05 | Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. +Exodus 06:06 | Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements. +Exodus 06:07 | I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. +Exodus 06:08 | I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the Lord.’" +Exodus 06:09 | Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. +Exodus 06:11 | "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land." +Exodus 06:12 | Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?" +Exodus 06:13 | The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. +Exodus 06:26 | These are that Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies." +Exodus 06:27 | These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron. +Exodus 06:28 | On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, +Exodus 06:29 | The Lord said to Moses, "I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you." +Exodus 06:30 | Moses said before the Lord, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?" +Exodus 07:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. +Exodus 07:02 | You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. +Exodus 07:03 | I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. +Exodus 07:04 | But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgements. +Exodus 07:05 | The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from amongst them." +Exodus 07:06 | Moses and Aaron did so. As the Lord commanded them, so they did. +Exodus 07:07 | Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. +Exodus 07:09 | "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’" +Exodus 07:10 | Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. +Exodus 07:11 | Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments. +Exodus 07:12 | For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. +Exodus 07:13 | Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. +Exodus 07:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go. +Exodus 07:15 | Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand. +Exodus 07:16 | You shall tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened." +Exodus 07:17 | The Lord says, "In this you shall know that I am the Lord. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. +Exodus 07:18 | The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river." +Exodus 07:19 | The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’" +Exodus 07:20 | Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. +Exodus 07:21 | The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. +Exodus 07:22 | The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. +Exodus 07:23 | Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart. +Exodus 07:24 | All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water. +Exodus 07:25 | Seven days were fulfilled, after the Lord had struck the river. +Exodus 08:01 | The Lord spoke to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. +Exodus 08:02 | If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs. +Exodus 08:03 | The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs. +Exodus 08:04 | The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants." +Exodus 08:05 | The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’" +Exodus 08:06 | Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. +Exodus 08:07 | The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. +Exodus 08:08 | Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat the Lord, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the Lord." +Exodus 08:09 | Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honour of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only." +Exodus 08:10 | Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God. +Exodus 08:11 | The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only." +Exodus 08:12 | Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh. +Exodus 08:13 | The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. +Exodus 08:14 | They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. +Exodus 08:15 | But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. +Exodus 08:16 | The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’" +Exodus 08:17 | They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. +Exodus 08:18 | The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal. +Exodus 08:19 | Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is God’s finger" but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken. +Exodus 08:20 | The Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. +Exodus 08:21 | Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on. +Exodus 08:22 | I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am the Lord on the earth. +Exodus 08:23 | I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow." +Exodus 08:24 | The Lord did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies. +Exodus 08:25 | Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!" +Exodus 08:26 | Moses said, "It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us? +Exodus 08:27 | We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us." +Exodus 08:28 | Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me." +Exodus 08:29 | Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord." +Exodus 08:30 | Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the Lord. +Exodus 08:31 | The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one. +Exodus 08:32 | Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go. +Exodus 09:01 | Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me. +Exodus 09:02 | For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, +Exodus 09:03 | behold, the Lord’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. +Exodus 09:04 | The Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel." +Exodus 09:05 | The Lord appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land." +Exodus 09:06 | The Lord did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died. +Exodus 09:07 | Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go. +Exodus 09:08 | The Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it towards the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. +Exodus 09:09 | It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt." +Exodus 09:10 | They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up towards the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal. +Exodus 09:11 | The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. +Exodus 09:12 | The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. +Exodus 09:13 | The Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me. +Exodus 09:14 | For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. +Exodus 09:15 | For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; +Exodus 09:16 | but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth, +Exodus 09:17 | because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go. +Exodus 09:18 | Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. +Exodus 09:19 | Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die." +Exodus 09:20 | Those who feared the Lord’s word amongst the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses. +Exodus 09:21 | Whoever didn’t respect the Lord’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field. +Exodus 09:22 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand towards the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt." +Exodus 09:23 | Moses stretched out his rod towards the heavens, and the Lord sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. The Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. +Exodus 09:24 | So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. +Exodus 09:25 | The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. +Exodus 09:26 | Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail. +Exodus 09:27 | Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. +Exodus 09:28 | Pray to the Lord; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer." +Exodus 09:29 | Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s. +Exodus 09:30 | But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear the Lord God." +Exodus 09:31 | The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming. +Exodus 09:32 | But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up. +Exodus 09:33 | Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. +Exodus 09:34 | When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. +Exodus 09:35 | The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses. +Exodus 10:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs amongst them; +Exodus 10:02 | and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done amongst them; that you may know that I am the Lord." +Exodus 10:03 | Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. +Exodus 10:04 | Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, +Exodus 10:05 | and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. +Exodus 10:06 | Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh. +Exodus 10:07 | Pharaoh’s servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?" +Exodus 10:08 | Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord your God; but who are those who will go?" +Exodus 10:09 | Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to the Lord." +Exodus 10:10 | He said to them, "The Lord be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. +Exodus 10:11 | Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the Lord; for that is what you desire!" Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence. +Exodus 10:12 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." +Exodus 10:13 | Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. +Exodus 10:14 | The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again. +Exodus 10:15 | For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. +Exodus 10:16 | Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. +Exodus 10:17 | Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the Lord your God, that he may also take away from me this death." +Exodus 10:18 | Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the Lord. +Exodus 10:19 | The Lord sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. +Exodus 10:20 | But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go. +Exodus 10:21 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand towards the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." +Exodus 10:22 | Moses stretched out his hand towards the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. +Exodus 10:23 | They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. +Exodus 10:24 | Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve the Lord. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you." +Exodus 10:25 | Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. +Exodus 10:26 | Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve the Lord our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve the Lord, until we come there." +Exodus 10:27 | But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go. +Exodus 10:28 | Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!" +Exodus 10:29 | Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more." +Exodus 11:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. +Exodus 11:02 | Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." +Exodus 11:03 | The Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people. +Exodus 11:04 | Moses said, "This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt, +Exodus 11:05 | and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock. +Exodus 11:06 | There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more. +Exodus 11:07 | But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. +Exodus 11:08 | All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow you" and after that I will go out.’" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. +Exodus 11:09 | The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." +Exodus 11:10 | Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land. +Exodus 12:02 | "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. +Exodus 12:03 | Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; +Exodus 12:04 | and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbour next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat. +Exodus 12:05 | Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats. +Exodus 12:06 | You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. +Exodus 12:07 | They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. +Exodus 12:08 | They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. +Exodus 12:09 | Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. +Exodus 12:10 | You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. +Exodus 12:11 | This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s Passover. +Exodus 12:12 | For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgements against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. +Exodus 12:13 | The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. +Exodus 12:14 | This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. +Exodus 12:15 | "‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. +Exodus 12:16 | In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you. +Exodus 12:17 | You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. +Exodus 12:18 | In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. +Exodus 12:19 | There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. +Exodus 12:20 | You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’" +Exodus 12:21 | Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover. +Exodus 12:22 | You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. +Exodus 12:23 | For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. +Exodus 12:24 | You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. +Exodus 12:25 | It shall happen when you have come to the land which the Lord will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service. +Exodus 12:26 | It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ +Exodus 12:27 | that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’" The people bowed their heads and worshipped. +Exodus 12:28 | The children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. +Exodus 12:29 | At midnight, the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. +Exodus 12:30 | Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. +Exodus 12:31 | He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from amongst my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said! +Exodus 12:32 | Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!" +Exodus 12:33 | The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." +Exodus 12:34 | The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. +Exodus 12:35 | The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. +Exodus 12:36 | The Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians. +Exodus 12:37 | The children of Israel travelled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children. +Exodus 12:38 | A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock. +Exodus 12:39 | They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves. +Exodus 12:40 | Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. +Exodus 12:41 | At the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the day, all of the Lord’s armies went out from the land of Egypt. +Exodus 12:42 | It is a night to be much observed to the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations. +Exodus 12:43 | The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, +Exodus 12:44 | but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. +Exodus 12:45 | A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. +Exodus 12:46 | It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones. +Exodus 12:47 | All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. +Exodus 12:48 | When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. +Exodus 12:49 | One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you." +Exodus 12:50 | All the children of Israel did so. As the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. +Exodus 12:51 | That same day, the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. +Exodus 13:02 | "Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb amongst the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine." +Exodus 13:03 | Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. +Exodus 13:05 | It shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. +Exodus 13:06 | Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. +Exodus 13:07 | Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders. +Exodus 13:08 | You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ +Exodus 13:09 | It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. +Exodus 13:10 | You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. +Exodus 13:11 | "It shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you, +Exodus 13:12 | that you shall set apart to the Lord all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be the Lord’s. +Exodus 13:13 | Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man amongst your sons. +Exodus 13:14 | It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. +Exodus 13:15 | When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ +Exodus 13:16 | It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt." +Exodus 13:17 | When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt"; +Exodus 13:18 | but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. +Exodus 13:19 | Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you." +Exodus 13:20 | They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. +Exodus 13:21 | The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: +Exodus 13:22 | the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people. +Exodus 14:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea. +Exodus 14:03 | Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’ +Exodus 14:04 | I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honour over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord." They did so. +Exodus 14:05 | The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" +Exodus 14:06 | He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him; +Exodus 14:07 | and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them. +Exodus 14:08 | The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. +Exodus 14:09 | The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon. +Exodus 14:10 | When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the Lord. +Exodus 14:11 | They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt? +Exodus 14:12 | Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." +Exodus 14:13 | Moses said to the people, "Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today. +Exodus 14:14 | The Lord will fight for you, and you shall be still." +Exodus 14:15 | The Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. +Exodus 14:16 | Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground. +Exodus 14:17 | Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honour over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen. +Exodus 14:18 | The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I have gotten myself honour over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen." +Exodus 14:19 | The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them. +Exodus 14:20 | It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night. +Exodus 14:21 | Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. +Exodus 14:22 | The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. +Exodus 14:23 | The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. +Exodus 14:24 | In the morning watch, the Lord looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army. +Exodus 14:25 | He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians!" +Exodus 14:26 | The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." +Exodus 14:27 | Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. The Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. +Exodus 14:28 | The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them. +Exodus 14:29 | But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. +Exodus 14:30 | Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. +Exodus 14:31 | Israel saw the great work which the Lord did to the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord; and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. +Exodus 15:01 | Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea. +Exodus 15:02 | The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him! +Exodus 15:02 | The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. +Exodus 15:03 | The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name. +Exodus 15:04 | He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. +Exodus 15:05 | The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. +Exodus 15:06 | Your right hand, Lord, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Lord, dashes the enemy in pieces. +Exodus 15:07 | In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. +Exodus 15:08 | With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. +Exodus 15:09 | The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’ +Exodus 15:10 | You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. +Exodus 15:11 | Who is like you, Lord, amongst the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? +Exodus 15:12 | You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them. +Exodus 15:13 | "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation. +Exodus 15:14 | The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. +Exodus 15:15 | Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. +Exodus 15:16 | Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Lord, until the people you have purchased pass over. +Exodus 15:17 | You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Lord, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established. +Exodus 15:18 | The Lord will reign forever and ever." +Exodus 15:19 | For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. +Exodus 15:20 | Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. +Exodus 15:21 | Miriam answered them, "Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea." +Exodus 15:22 | Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. +Exodus 15:23 | When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. +Exodus 15:24 | The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" +Exodus 15:25 | Then he cried to the Lord. The Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them. +Exodus 15:26 | He said, "If you will diligently listen to the Lord your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you." +Exodus 15:27 | They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters. +Exodus 16:01 | They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. +Exodus 16:02 | The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; +Exodus 16:03 | and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." +Exodus 16:04 | Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. +Exodus 16:05 | It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." +Exodus 16:06 | Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Egypt. +Exodus 16:07 | In the morning, you shall see the Lord’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against the Lord. Who are we, that you murmur against us?" +Exodus 16:08 | Moses said, "Now the Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because the Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord." +Exodus 16:09 | Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to the Lord, for he has heard your murmurings.’" +Exodus 16:10 | As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness, and behold, the Lord’s glory appeared in the cloud. +Exodus 16:12 | "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’" +Exodus 16:13 | In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. +Exodus 16:14 | When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. +Exodus 16:15 | When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. +Exodus 16:16 | This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’" +Exodus 16:17 | The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less. +Exodus 16:18 | When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating. +Exodus 16:19 | Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." +Exodus 16:20 | Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them. +Exodus 16:21 | They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. +Exodus 16:22 | On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. +Exodus 16:23 | He said to them, "This is that which the Lord has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’" +Exodus 16:24 | They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it. +Exodus 16:25 | Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you shall not find it in the field. +Exodus 16:26 | Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none." +Exodus 16:27 | On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. +Exodus 16:28 | The Lord said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? +Exodus 16:29 | Behold, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." +Exodus 16:30 | So the people rested on the seventh day. +Exodus 16:31 | The house of Israel called its name "Manna", and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey. +Exodus 16:32 | Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’" +Exodus 16:33 | Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations." +Exodus 16:34 | As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. +Exodus 16:35 | The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. +Exodus 17:01 | All the congregation of the children of Israel travelled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the Lord’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. +Exodus 17:02 | Therefore the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?" +Exodus 17:03 | The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?" +Exodus 17:04 | Moses cried to the Lord, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me." +Exodus 17:05 | The Lord said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. +Exodus 17:06 | Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. +Exodus 17:07 | He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarrelled, and because they tested the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord amongst us, or not?" +Exodus 17:08 | Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. +Exodus 17:09 | Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand." +Exodus 17:10 | So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. +Exodus 17:11 | When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. +Exodus 17:12 | But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. +Exodus 17:13 | Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. +Exodus 17:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." +Exodus 17:15 | Moses built an altar, and called its name "The Lord our Banner". +Exodus 17:16 | He said, "The Lord has sworn: ‘The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’" +Exodus 18:01 | Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. +Exodus 18:04 | The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword." +Exodus 18:05 | Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God. +Exodus 18:06 | He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her." +Exodus 18:07 | Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. +Exodus 18:08 | Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the Lord delivered them. +Exodus 18:09 | Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. +Exodus 18:10 | Jethro said, "Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. +Exodus 18:11 | Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly." +Exodus 18:12 | Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. +Exodus 18:13 | On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening. +Exodus 18:14 | When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?" +Exodus 18:15 | Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to enquire of God. +Exodus 18:16 | When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws." +Exodus 18:17 | Moses’ father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good. +Exodus 18:18 | You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone. +Exodus 18:19 | Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God. +Exodus 18:20 | You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. +Exodus 18:21 | Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. +Exodus 18:22 | Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you. +Exodus 18:23 | If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace." +Exodus 18:24 | So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. +Exodus 18:25 | Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. +Exodus 18:26 | They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. +Exodus 18:27 | Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land. +Exodus 19:01 | In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. +Exodus 19:02 | When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. +Exodus 19:03 | Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: +Exodus 19:04 | ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself. +Exodus 19:05 | Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from amongst all peoples; for all the earth is mine; +Exodus 19:06 | and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel." +Exodus 19:07 | Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord commanded him. +Exodus 19:08 | All the people answered together, and said, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. +Exodus 19:09 | The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to the Lord. +Exodus 19:10 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, +Exodus 19:11 | and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. +Exodus 19:12 | You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. +Exodus 19:13 | No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain." +Exodus 19:14 | Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. +Exodus 19:15 | He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman." +Exodus 19:16 | On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. +Exodus 19:17 | Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. +Exodus 19:18 | All of Mount Sinai smoked, because the Lord descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. +Exodus 19:19 | When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. +Exodus 19:20 | The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. +Exodus 19:21 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. +Exodus 19:22 | Let the priests also, who come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break out on them." +Exodus 19:23 | Moses said to the Lord, "The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’" +Exodus 19:24 | The Lord said to him, "Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them." +Exodus 19:25 | So Moses went down to the people, and told them. +Exodus 20:02 | "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +Exodus 20:02 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. +Exodus 20:03 | "You shall have no other gods before me. +Exodus 20:03 | You shall have no other gods before Me. +Exodus 20:04 | "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: +Exodus 20:04-05 | You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God... +Exodus 20:05 | you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, +Exodus 20:06 | and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. +Exodus 20:07 | "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name. +Exodus 20:07 | You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name. +Exodus 20:08 | "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. +Exodus 20:08-09 | Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. +Exodus 20:09 | You shall labour six days, and do all your work, +Exodus 20:10 | but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; +Exodus 20:11 | for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy. +Exodus 20:12 | "Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. +Exodus 20:12 | Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. +Exodus 20:13 | "You shall not murder. +Exodus 20:14 | "You shall not commit adultery. +Exodus 20:14 | You shall never commit adultery. +Exodus 20:15 | "You shall not steal. +Exodus 20:15 | You shall not steal. +Exodus 20:16 | "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. +Exodus 20:16 | You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. +Exodus 20:17 | "You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s." +Exodus 20:17b | Thou shalt not covet neighbour's wife. +Exodus 20:18 | All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. +Exodus 20:19 | They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die." +Exodus 20:20 | Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning." +Exodus 20:20 | Moses said to the people, "Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin." +Exodus 20:21 | The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was. +Exodus 20:22 | The Lord said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. +Exodus 20:23 | You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me. +Exodus 20:24 | You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. +Exodus 20:25 | If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. +Exodus 20:26 | You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’ +Exodus 21:01 | "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them: +Exodus 21:02 | "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. +Exodus 21:03 | If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. +Exodus 21:04 | If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. +Exodus 21:05 | But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’ +Exodus 21:06 | then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. +Exodus 21:07 | "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. +Exodus 21:08 | If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. +Exodus 21:09 | If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. +Exodus 21:10 | If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. +Exodus 21:11 | If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money. +Exodus 21:12 | "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, +Exodus 21:13 | but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. +Exodus 21:14 | If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. +Exodus 21:15 | "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. +Exodus 21:16 | "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. +Exodus 21:17 | "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. +Exodus 21:18 | "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed; +Exodus 21:19 | if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed. +Exodus 21:20 | "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished. +Exodus 21:21 | Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property. +Exodus 21:22 | "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. +Exodus 21:23 | But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, +Exodus 21:24 | eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, +Exodus 21:25 | burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. +Exodus 21:26 | "If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. +Exodus 21:27 | If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake. +Exodus 21:28 | "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. +Exodus 21:29 | But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. +Exodus 21:30 | If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed. +Exodus 21:31 | Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgement it shall be done to him. +Exodus 21:32 | If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned. +Exodus 21:33 | "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, +Exodus 21:34 | the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. +Exodus 21:35 | "If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. +Exodus 21:36 | Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own. +Exodus 22:01 | "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. +Exodus 22:02 | If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. +Exodus 22:03 | If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. +Exodus 22:04 | If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double. +Exodus 22:05 | "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard. +Exodus 22:06 | "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. +Exodus 22:07 | "If a man delivers to his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. +Exodus 22:08 | If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbour’s goods. +Exodus 22:09 | For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbour. +Exodus 22:10 | "If a man delivers to his neighbour a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; +Exodus 22:11 | the oath of the Lord shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbour’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. +Exodus 22:12 | But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its owner. +Exodus 22:13 | If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn. +Exodus 22:14 | "If a man borrows anything of his neighbour’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. +Exodus 22:15 | If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease. +Exodus 22:16 | "If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. +Exodus 22:17 | If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. +Exodus 22:18 | "You shall not allow a sorceress to live. +Exodus 22:19 | "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death. +Exodus 22:20 | "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed. +Exodus 22:21 | "You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. +Exodus 22:22 | "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. +Exodus 22:23 | If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; +Exodus 22:24 | and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. +Exodus 22:25 | "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest. +Exodus 22:26 | If you take your neighbour’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, +Exodus 22:27 | for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious. +Exodus 22:28 | "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people. +Exodus 22:29 | "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. +Exodus 22:30 | You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me. +Exodus 22:31 | "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs. +Exodus 23:01 | "You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. +Exodus 23:02 | "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice. +Exodus 23:03 | You shall not favour a poor man in his cause. +Exodus 23:04 | "If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. +Exodus 23:05 | If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it. +Exodus 23:06 | "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. +Exodus 23:07 | "Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked. +Exodus 23:08 | "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous. +Exodus 23:09 | "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt. +Exodus 23:10 | "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, +Exodus 23:11 | but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. +Exodus 23:12 | "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed. +Exodus 23:13 | "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth. +Exodus 23:14 | "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. +Exodus 23:15 | You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. +Exodus 23:16 | And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labours, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labours out of the field. +Exodus 23:17 | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD. +Exodus 23:18 | "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning. +Exodus 23:19 | You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. +Exodus 23:20 | "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. +Exodus 23:21 | Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. +Exodus 23:22 | But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. +Exodus 23:23 | For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. +Exodus 23:24 | You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. +Exodus 23:25 | You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from amongst you. +Exodus 23:26 | No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfil the number of your days. +Exodus 23:27 | I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. +Exodus 23:28 | I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. +Exodus 23:29 | I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. +Exodus 23:30 | Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. +Exodus 23:31 | I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. +Exodus 23:32 | You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. +Exodus 23:33 | They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you." +Exodus 24:01 | He said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. +Exodus 24:02 | Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him." +Exodus 24:03 | Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which the Lord has spoken will we do." +Exodus 24:04 | Moses wrote all the Lord’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. +Exodus 24:05 | He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the Lord. +Exodus 24:06 | Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. +Exodus 24:07 | He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "We will do all that the Lord has said, and be obedient." +Exodus 24:08 | Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words." +Exodus 24:10 | They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. +Exodus 24:11 | He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank. +Exodus 24:12 | The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them." +Exodus 24:13 | Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain. +Exodus 24:14 | He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them." +Exodus 24:15 | Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. +Exodus 24:16 | The Lord’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud. +Exodus 24:17 | The appearance of the Lord’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. +Exodus 24:18 | Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. +Exodus 25:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. +Exodus 25:09 | According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it. +Exodus 28:01 | "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from amongst the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. +Exodus 28:02 | You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. +Exodus 28:03 | You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. +Exodus 28:29 | Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgement on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually. +Exodus 29:30 | Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place. +Exodus 29:37 | Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy. +Exodus 29:43 | There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. +Exodus 29:45 | I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will be their God. +Exodus 29:46 | They shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell amongst them: I am the Lord their God. +Exodus 30:12 | "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted amongst them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the Lord when you count them, that there be no plague amongst them when you count them. +Exodus 30:13 | They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the Lord. +Exodus 30:14 | Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the Lord. +Exodus 30:15 | The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your souls. +Exodus 30:16 | You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for your souls." +Exodus 30:18 | "You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. +Exodus 30:19 | Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. +Exodus 30:20 | When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Exodus 30:21 | So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations." +Exodus 30:28 | the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. +Exodus 30:29 | You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. +Exodus 30:30 | You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. +Exodus 30:31 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. +Exodus 30:32 | It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you. +Exodus 30:33 | Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’" +Exodus 30:34 | The Lord said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum: sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each. +Exodus 30:35 | You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. +Exodus 30:36 | You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. +Exodus 30:37 | You shall not make this incense, according to its composition, for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the Lord. +Exodus 30:38 | Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people." +Exodus 31:02 | "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. +Exodus 31:03 | I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, +Exodus 31:04 | to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, +Exodus 31:05 | and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship. +Exodus 31:06 | Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: +Exodus 31:07 | the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, +Exodus 31:13 | "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. +Exodus 31:14 | You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people. +Exodus 31:15 | Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. +Exodus 31:16 | Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. +Exodus 31:17 | It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’" +Exodus 31:18 | When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger. +Exodus 32:01 | When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him." +Exodus 32:02 | Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me." +Exodus 32:03 | All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. +Exodus 32:04 | He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a moulded calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt." +Exodus 32:05 | When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord." +Exodus 32:06 | They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. +Exodus 32:07 | The Lord spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! +Exodus 32:08 | They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a moulded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’" +Exodus 32:09 | The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. +Exodus 32:10 | Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation." +Exodus 32:11 | Moses begged the Lord his God, and said, "The Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? +Exodus 32:12 | Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people. +Exodus 32:13 | Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’" +Exodus 32:14 | So The Lord turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people. +Exodus 32:15 | Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other. +Exodus 32:16 | The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. +Exodus 32:17 | When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp." +Exodus 32:18 | He said, "It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear." +Exodus 32:19 | As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. +Exodus 32:20 | He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. +Exodus 32:21 | Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?" +Exodus 32:22 | Aaron said, "Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. +Exodus 32:23 | For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ +Exodus 32:24 | I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf." +Exodus 32:25 | When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision amongst their enemies), +Exodus 32:26 | then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the Lord’s side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. +Exodus 32:27 | He said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.’" +Exodus 32:28 | The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day. +Exodus 32:29 | Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today." +Exodus 32:30 | On the next day, Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin." +Exodus 32:31 | Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. +Exodus 32:32 | Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written." +Exodus 32:33 | The Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book. +Exodus 32:34 | Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." +Exodus 32:35 | The Lord struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made. +Exodus 33:01 | The Lord spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ +Exodus 33:02 | I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +Exodus 33:03 | Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up amongst you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way." +Exodus 33:04 | When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewellery. +Exodus 33:05 | The Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up amongst you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewellery from you, that I may know what to do to you.’" +Exodus 33:06 | The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewellery from Mount Horeb onward. +Exodus 33:07 | Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." Everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. +Exodus 33:08 | When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. +Exodus 33:09 | When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and the Lord spoke with Moses. +Exodus 33:10 | All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshipped, everyone at their tent door. +Exodus 33:11 | The Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent. +Exodus 33:12 | Moses said to the Lord, "Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.’ +Exodus 33:13 | Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favour in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people." +Exodus 33:14 | He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." +Exodus 33:14 | My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. +Exodus 33:15 | Moses said to him, "If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here. +Exodus 33:16 | For how would people know that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?" +Exodus 33:17 | The Lord said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favour in my sight, and I know you by name." +Exodus 33:19 | He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the Lord’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." +Exodus 33:20 | He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." +Exodus 33:21 | The Lord also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. +Exodus 33:22 | It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; +Exodus 33:23 | then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen." +Exodus 34:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. +Exodus 34:02 | Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. +Exodus 34:03 | No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain." +Exodus 34:04 | He chiselled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. +Exodus 34:05 | The Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Lord’s name. +Exodus 34:06 | The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD! The Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, +Exodus 34:07 | keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation." +Exodus 34:08 | Moses hurried and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshipped. +Exodus 34:09 | He said, "If now I have found favour in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go amongst us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance." +Exodus 34:10 | He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people amongst whom you are shall see the work of the Lord; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. +Exodus 34:11 | Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +Exodus 34:12 | Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare amongst you; +Exodus 34:13 | but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles; +Exodus 34:14 | for you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. +Exodus 34:15 | "Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; +Exodus 34:16 | and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods. +Exodus 34:17 | "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves. +Exodus 34:18 | "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt. +Exodus 34:19 | "All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. +Exodus 34:20 | You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty. +Exodus 34:21 | "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in ploughing time and in harvest you shall rest. +Exodus 34:22 | "You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end. +Exodus 34:23 | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. +Exodus 34:24 | For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the Lord, your God, three times in the year. +Exodus 34:25 | "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning. +Exodus 34:26 | "You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk." +Exodus 34:27 | The Lord said to Moses, "Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." +Exodus 34:28 | He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. +Exodus 34:29 | When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. +Exodus 34:30 | When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. +Exodus 34:31 | Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. +Exodus 34:32 | Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. +Exodus 34:33 | When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. +Exodus 34:34 | But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. +Exodus 34:35 | The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him. +Exodus 35:01 | Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which the Lord has commanded, that you should do them. +Exodus 35:02 | ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. +Exodus 35:03 | You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’" +Exodus 35:05 | ‘Take from amongst you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, bronze, +Exodus 35:10 | "‘Let every wise-hearted man amongst you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded: +Exodus 35:29 | The children of Israel brought a free will offering to the Lord; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by Moses. +Exodus 35:30 | Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. +Exodus 35:31 | He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; +Exodus 35:32 | and to make skilful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, +Exodus 35:35 | He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skilful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skilful works. +Exodus 36:01 | "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord has commanded." +Exodus 36:02 | Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it. +Exodus 36:03 | They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning. +Exodus 36:04 | All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did. +Exodus 36:05 | They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the Lord commanded to make." +Exodus 36:06 | Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing. +Exodus 36:07 | For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much. +Exodus 36:08 | All the wise-hearted men amongst those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skilful workman. +Exodus 39:41 | the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office. +Exodus 39:42 | According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. +Exodus 39:43 | Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them. +Exodus 40:02 | "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. +Exodus 40:03 | You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. +Exodus 40:04 | You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps. +Exodus 40:15 | You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." +Exodus 40:16 | Moses did so. According to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did. +Exodus 40:17 | In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up. +Exodus 40:18 | Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. +Exodus 40:31 | Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. +Exodus 40:32 | When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Exodus 40:33 | He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. +Exodus 40:34 | Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the Lord’s glory filled the tabernacle. +Exodus 40:35 | Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the Lord’s glory filled the tabernacle. +Exodus 40:36 | When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; +Exodus 40:37 | but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up. +Exodus 40:38 | For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. +Ezekiel 01:01 | Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was amongst the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. +Ezekiel 01:02 | In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity, +Ezekiel 01:03 | the Lord’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the Lord’s hand was there on him. +Ezekiel 01:04 | I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire. +Ezekiel 01:05 | Out of its centre came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man. +Ezekiel 01:06 | Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings. +Ezekiel 01:07 | Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze. +Ezekiel 01:08 | They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this: +Ezekiel 01:09 | Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward. +Ezekiel 01:10 | As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle. +Ezekiel 01:11 | Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies. +Ezekiel 01:12 | Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went. +Ezekiel 01:13 | As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down amongst the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire. +Ezekiel 01:14 | The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. +Ezekiel 01:15 | Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it. +Ezekiel 01:16 | The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. +Ezekiel 01:17 | When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went. +Ezekiel 01:18 | As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around. +Ezekiel 01:19 | When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. +Ezekiel 01:20 | Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. +Ezekiel 01:21 | When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. +Ezekiel 01:22 | Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above. +Ezekiel 01:23 | Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one towards the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side. +Ezekiel 01:24 | When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings. +Ezekiel 01:25 | There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings. +Ezekiel 01:26 | Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above. +Ezekiel 01:27 | I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him. +Ezekiel 01:28 | As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the Lord’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. +Ezekiel 02:01 | He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you." +Ezekiel 02:02 | The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me. +Ezekiel 02:03 | He said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day. +Ezekiel 02:04 | The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ +Ezekiel 02:05 | They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet amongst them. +Ezekiel 02:06 | You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell amongst scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. +Ezekiel 02:07 | You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious. +Ezekiel 02:08 | But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you." +Ezekiel 02:09 | When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it. +Ezekiel 02:10 | He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it. +Ezekiel 03:01 | He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel." +Ezekiel 03:02 | So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. +Ezekiel 03:03 | He said to me, "Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you." Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. +Ezekiel 03:04 | He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. +Ezekiel 03:05 | For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; +Ezekiel 03:06 | not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. +Ezekiel 03:07 | But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted. +Ezekiel 03:08 | Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. +Ezekiel 03:09 | I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house." +Ezekiel 03:10 | Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you. +Ezekiel 03:11 | Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse." +Ezekiel 03:12 | Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be the Lord’s glory from his place." +Ezekiel 03:13 | I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. +Ezekiel 03:14 | So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the Lord’s hand was strong on me. +Ezekiel 03:15 | eThen I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv who lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed amongst them seven days. +Ezekiel 03:17 | "Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me. +Ezekiel 03:18 | When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand. +Ezekiel 03:19 | Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul." +Ezekiel 03:20 | "Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand. +Ezekiel 03:21 | Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul." +Ezekiel 03:22 | the Lord’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, "Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there." +Ezekiel 03:23 | Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, the Lord’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face. +Ezekiel 03:24 | Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house. +Ezekiel 03:25 | But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out amongst them. +Ezekiel 03:26 | I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house. +Ezekiel 03:27 | But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house." +Ezekiel 04:01 | "You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem. +Ezekiel 04:02 | Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around. +Ezekiel 04:03 | Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face towards it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. +Ezekiel 04:04 | "Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. +Ezekiel 04:05 | For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. +Ezekiel 04:06 | "Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you. +Ezekiel 04:07 | You shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. +Ezekiel 04:08 | Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege. +Ezekiel 04:09 | "Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. +Ezekiel 04:10 | Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it. +Ezekiel 04:11 | You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink. +Ezekiel 04:12 | You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man." +Ezekiel 04:13 | The Lord said, "Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, amongst the nations where I will drive them." +Ezekiel 04:14 | Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!" +Ezekiel 04:15 | Then he said to me, "Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it." +Ezekiel 04:16 | Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay; +Ezekiel 04:17 | that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. +Ezekiel 05:01 | "You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair. +Ezekiel 05:02 | A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. +Ezekiel 05:03 | You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe. +Ezekiel 05:04 | Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel. +Ezekiel 05:05 | "The Lord God says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her. +Ezekiel 05:06 | She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’ +Ezekiel 05:07 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you; +Ezekiel 05:08 | therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgements amongst you in the sight of the nations. +Ezekiel 05:09 | I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations. +Ezekiel 05:10 | Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgements on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds. +Ezekiel 05:11 | Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity. +Ezekiel 05:12 | A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. +Ezekiel 05:13 | "‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath towards them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. +Ezekiel 05:14 | "‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach amongst the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. +Ezekiel 05:15 | So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgements on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, the Lord, have spoken it— +Ezekiel 05:16 | when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread. +Ezekiel 05:17 | I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken it.’" +Ezekiel 06:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, +Ezekiel 06:03 | and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! The Lord God says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: "Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. +Ezekiel 06:04 | Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols. +Ezekiel 06:05 | I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars. +Ezekiel 06:06 | In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. +Ezekiel 06:07 | The slain will fall amongst you, and you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 06:08 | "Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword amongst the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. +Ezekiel 06:09 | Those of you that escape will remember me amongst the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. +Ezekiel 06:10 | They will know that I am the Lord. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."’ +Ezekiel 06:11 | "The Lord God says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, "Alas!" Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. +Ezekiel 06:12 | He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them. +Ezekiel 06:13 | You will know that I am the Lord, when their slain men are amongst their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols. +Ezekiel 06:14 | I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness towards Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 07:02 | "You, son of man, the Lord God says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. +Ezekiel 07:03 | Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations. +Ezekiel 07:04 | My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be amongst you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ +Ezekiel 07:06 | An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes. +Ezekiel 07:07 | Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. +Ezekiel 07:08 | Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations. +Ezekiel 07:09 | My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be amongst you. Then you will know that I, the Lord, strike. +Ezekiel 07:10 | "‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded. +Ezekiel 07:11 | Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value amongst them. +Ezekiel 07:12 | The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude. +Ezekiel 07:13 | For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. +Ezekiel 07:14 | They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude. +Ezekiel 07:15 | "‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence. +Ezekiel 07:16 | But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity. +Ezekiel 07:17 | All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water. +Ezekiel 07:18 | They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. +Ezekiel 07:19 | They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity. +Ezekiel 07:20 | As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing. +Ezekiel 07:21 | I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it. +Ezekiel 07:22 | I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it. +Ezekiel 07:23 | "‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. +Ezekiel 07:24 | Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned. +Ezekiel 07:25 | Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none. +Ezekiel 07:26 | Mischief will come on mischief, and rumour will be on rumour. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. +Ezekiel 07:27 | The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgements I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 08:01 | In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord GOD’s hand fell on me there. +Ezekiel 08:02 | Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. +Ezekiel 08:03 | He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks towards the north, where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. +Ezekiel 08:04 | Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain. +Ezekiel 08:05 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way towards the north." So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. +Ezekiel 08:06 | He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations." +Ezekiel 08:07 | He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. +Ezekiel 08:08 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall." When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door. +Ezekiel 08:09 | He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here." +Ezekiel 08:10 | So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall. +Ezekiel 08:11 | Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up. +Ezekiel 08:12 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has forsaken the land.’" +Ezekiel 08:13 | He said also to me, "You will again see more of the great abominations which they do." +Ezekiel 08:14 | Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz. +Ezekiel 08:15 | Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these." +Ezekiel 08:16 | He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and I saw at the door of the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs towards the Lord’s temple, and their faces towards the east. They were worshipping the sun towards the east. +Ezekiel 08:17 | Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose. +Ezekiel 08:18 | Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them." +Ezekiel 09:01 | Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand." +Ezekiel 09:02 | Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies towards the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. +Ezekiel 09:03 | The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side. +Ezekiel 09:04 | The Lord said to him, "Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it." +Ezekiel 09:05 | To the others he said in my hearing, "Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity. +Ezekiel 09:06 | Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary." Then they began at the old men who were before the house. +Ezekiel 09:07 | He said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" They went out, and struck in the city. +Ezekiel 09:08 | While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, "Ah Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?" +Ezekiel 09:09 | Then he said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord doesn’t see.’ +Ezekiel 09:10 | As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head." +Ezekiel 09:11 | Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, "I have done as you have commanded me." +Ezekiel 10:01 | Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. +Ezekiel 10:02 | He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, "Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." He went in as I watched. +Ezekiel 10:03 | Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. +Ezekiel 10:04 | The Lord’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory. +Ezekiel 10:05 | The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. +Ezekiel 10:06 | It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. +Ezekiel 10:07 | The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. +Ezekiel 10:08 | The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings. +Ezekiel 10:09 | I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. +Ezekiel 10:10 | As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. +Ezekiel 10:11 | When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went. +Ezekiel 10:12 | Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had. +Ezekiel 10:13 | As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "the whirling wheels". +Ezekiel 10:14 | Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle. +Ezekiel 10:15 | The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. +Ezekiel 10:16 | When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them. +Ezekiel 10:17 | When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them. +Ezekiel 10:18 | The Lord’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. +Ezekiel 10:19 | The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. +Ezekiel 10:20 | This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. +Ezekiel 10:21 | Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. +Ezekiel 10:22 | As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward. +Ezekiel 11:01 | Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw amongst them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. +Ezekiel 11:02 | He said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; +Ezekiel 11:03 | who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’ +Ezekiel 11:04 | Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man." +Ezekiel 11:05 | The Lord’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, "Speak, ‘The Lord says: "Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. +Ezekiel 11:06 | You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain." +Ezekiel 11:07 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it. +Ezekiel 11:08 | You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 11:09 | "I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements amongst you. +Ezekiel 11:10 | You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 11:11 | This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel. +Ezekiel 11:12 | You will know that I am the Lord, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you." +Ezekiel 11:13 | When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, "Ah Lord GOD! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?" +Ezekiel 11:15 | "Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the Lord. This land has been given to us for a possession.’ +Ezekiel 11:16 | "Therefore say, ‘The Lord God says: "Whereas I have removed them far off amongst the nations, and whereas I have scattered them amongst the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come."’ +Ezekiel 11:17 | "Therefore say, ‘The Lord God says: "I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel." +Ezekiel 11:18 | "‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. +Ezekiel 11:19 | I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; +Ezekiel 11:20 | that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. +Ezekiel 11:21 | But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 11:22 | Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above. +Ezekiel 11:23 | The Lord’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city. +Ezekiel 11:24 | The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. +Ezekiel 11:25 | Then I spoke to the captives all the things that the Lord had shown me. +Ezekiel 12:02 | "Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house. +Ezekiel 12:03 | "Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. +Ezekiel 12:04 | You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile. +Ezekiel 12:05 | Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way. +Ezekiel 12:06 | In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel." +Ezekiel 12:07 | I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight. +Ezekiel 12:09 | "Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’ +Ezekiel 12:10 | "Say to them, ‘The Lord God says: "This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel amongst whom they are."’ +Ezekiel 12:11 | "Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity. +Ezekiel 12:12 | "‘The prince who is amongst them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes. +Ezekiel 12:13 | I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there. +Ezekiel 12:14 | I will scatter towards every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them. +Ezekiel 12:15 | "‘They will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them amongst the nations, and scatter them through the countries. +Ezekiel 12:16 | But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations amongst the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 12:18 | "Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness. +Ezekiel 12:19 | Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord God says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: "They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein. +Ezekiel 12:20 | The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 12:22 | "Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’ +Ezekiel 12:23 | Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord God says: "I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel"’ but tell them, ‘"The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision. +Ezekiel 12:24 | For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. +Ezekiel 12:25 | For I am the Lord. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 12:27 | "Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’ +Ezekiel 12:28 | "Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 13:02 | "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear the Lord’s word: +Ezekiel 13:03 | The Lord God says, "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! +Ezekiel 13:04 | Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. +Ezekiel 13:05 | You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the Lord’s day. +Ezekiel 13:06 | They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘The Lord says;’ but the Lord has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. +Ezekiel 13:07 | Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘The Lord says;’ but I have not spoken?" +Ezekiel 13:08 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 13:09 | "My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 13:10 | "‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, "Peace" and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash. +Ezekiel 13:11 | Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it. +Ezekiel 13:12 | Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, "Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?" +Ezekiel 13:13 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. +Ezekiel 13:14 | So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 13:15 | Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it; +Ezekiel 13:16 | to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’" says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 13:17 | You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them, +Ezekiel 13:18 | and say, "The Lord God says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? +Ezekiel 13:19 | You have profaned me amongst my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’ +Ezekiel 13:20 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly. +Ezekiel 13:21 | I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 13:22 | Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive. +Ezekiel 13:23 | Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practise divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 14:01 | Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me. +Ezekiel 14:03 | "Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be enquired of at all by them? +Ezekiel 14:04 | Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; +Ezekiel 14:05 | that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."’ +Ezekiel 14:06 | "Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations. +Ezekiel 14:07 | "For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to enquire for himself of me; I the Lord will answer him by myself. +Ezekiel 14:08 | I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from amongst my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 14:09 | "If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from amongst my people Israel. +Ezekiel 14:10 | They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him; +Ezekiel 14:11 | that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 14:13 | "Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal; +Ezekiel 14:14 | though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 14:15 | "If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals; +Ezekiel 14:16 | though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. +Ezekiel 14:17 | "Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’ +Ezekiel 14:18 | though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves. +Ezekiel 14:19 | "Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; +Ezekiel 14:20 | though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness." +Ezekiel 14:21 | For the Lord God says: "How much more when I send my four severe judgements on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal! +Ezekiel 14:22 | Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it. +Ezekiel 14:23 | They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 15:02 | "Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is amongst the trees of the forest? +Ezekiel 15:03 | Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it? +Ezekiel 15:04 | Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burnt. Is it profitable for any work? +Ezekiel 15:05 | Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has been burnt, will it yet be suitable for any work?" +Ezekiel 15:06 | Therefore the Lord God says: "As the vine tree amongst the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +Ezekiel 15:07 | I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them. +Ezekiel 15:08 | I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 16:03 | and say, ‘The Lord God says to Jerusalem: "Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. +Ezekiel 16:04 | As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all. +Ezekiel 16:05 | No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born. +Ezekiel 16:06 | "When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ +Ezekiel 16:07 | I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare. +Ezekiel 16:08 | "Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you," says the Lord GOD, "and you became mine. +Ezekiel 16:09 | "Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. +Ezekiel 16:10 | I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. +Ezekiel 16:11 | I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck. +Ezekiel 16:12 | I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. +Ezekiel 16:13 | Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate. +Ezekiel 16:14 | Your renown went out amongst the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 16:15 | "But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his. +Ezekiel 16:16 | You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colours, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be. +Ezekiel 16:17 | You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them. +Ezekiel 16:18 | You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them. +Ezekiel 16:19 | My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 16:20 | "Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter, +Ezekiel 16:21 | that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them? +Ezekiel 16:22 | In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood. +Ezekiel 16:23 | "It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!" says the Lord GOD— +Ezekiel 16:24 | "that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street. +Ezekiel 16:25 | You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution. +Ezekiel 16:26 | You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. +Ezekiel 16:27 | See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. +Ezekiel 16:28 | You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied. +Ezekiel 16:29 | You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this. +Ezekiel 16:30 | "How weak is your heart," says the Lord GOD, "since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute; +Ezekiel 16:31 | in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. +Ezekiel 16:32 | "Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! +Ezekiel 16:33 | People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution. +Ezekiel 16:34 | You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different."’ +Ezekiel 16:35 | "Therefore, prostitute, hear the Lord’s word: +Ezekiel 16:36 | ‘The Lord God says, "Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; +Ezekiel 16:37 | therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. +Ezekiel 16:38 | I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. +Ezekiel 16:39 | I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare. +Ezekiel 16:40 | They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. +Ezekiel 16:41 | They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgements on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more. +Ezekiel 16:42 | So I will cause my wrath towards you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more. +Ezekiel 16:43 | "Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head," says the Lord GOD: "and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations. +Ezekiel 16:44 | "Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’ +Ezekiel 16:45 | You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. +Ezekiel 16:46 | Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters. +Ezekiel 16:47 | Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. +Ezekiel 16:48 | As I live," says the Lord GOD, "Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. +Ezekiel 16:49 | "Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. +Ezekiel 16:50 | They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it. +Ezekiel 16:51 | Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done. +Ezekiel 16:52 | You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgement for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters. +Ezekiel 16:53 | "I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives amongst them; +Ezekiel 16:54 | that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. +Ezekiel 16:55 | Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate. +Ezekiel 16:56 | For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, +Ezekiel 16:57 | before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around. +Ezekiel 16:58 | You have borne your lewdness and your abominations," says the Lord. +Ezekiel 16:59 | "‘For the Lord God says: "I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. +Ezekiel 16:60 | Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. +Ezekiel 16:61 | Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. +Ezekiel 16:62 | I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the LORD; +Ezekiel 16:63 | that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 17:02 | "Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; +Ezekiel 17:03 | and say, ‘The Lord God says: "A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar. +Ezekiel 17:04 | He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants. +Ezekiel 17:05 | "He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree. +Ezekiel 17:06 | It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs. +Ezekiel 17:07 | "There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots towards him, and shot out its branches towards him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. +Ezekiel 17:08 | It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine."’ +Ezekiel 17:09 | "Say, ‘The Lord God says: "Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people. +Ezekiel 17:10 | Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew." +Ezekiel 17:12 | "Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon. +Ezekiel 17:13 | He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; +Ezekiel 17:14 | that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. +Ezekiel 17:15 | But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape? +Ezekiel 17:16 | "‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die. +Ezekiel 17:17 | Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. +Ezekiel 17:18 | For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape. +Ezekiel 17:19 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken. +Ezekiel 17:20 | I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgement with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. +Ezekiel 17:21 | All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered towards every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken it.’ +Ezekiel 17:22 | "The Lord God says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. +Ezekiel 17:23 | I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches. +Ezekiel 17:24 | All the trees of the field will know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. "‘I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it.’" +Ezekiel 18:02 | "What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? +Ezekiel 18:03 | "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel. +Ezekiel 18:04 | Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die. +Ezekiel 18:05 | "But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, +Ezekiel 18:06 | and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbour’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity, +Ezekiel 18:07 | and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; +Ezekiel 18:08 | he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, +Ezekiel 18:09 | has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 18:10 | "If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things, +Ezekiel 18:11 | or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbour’s wife, +Ezekiel 18:12 | has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, +Ezekiel 18:13 | has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him. +Ezekiel 18:14 | "Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and doesn’t do likewise, +Ezekiel 18:15 | who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbour’s wife, +Ezekiel 18:16 | hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; +Ezekiel 18:17 | who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live. +Ezekiel 18:18 | As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good amongst his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity. +Ezekiel 18:19 | "Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live. +Ezekiel 18:20 | The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. +Ezekiel 18:21 | "But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die. +Ezekiel 18:22 | None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live. +Ezekiel 18:23 | Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?" says the Lord GOD; "and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? +Ezekiel 18:24 | "But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die. +Ezekiel 18:25 | "Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal? +Ezekiel 18:26 | When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die. +Ezekiel 18:27 | Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive. +Ezekiel 18:28 | Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die. +Ezekiel 18:29 | Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair? +Ezekiel 18:30 | "Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways," says the Lord GOD. "Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin. +Ezekiel 18:31 | Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? +Ezekiel 18:32 | For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore turn yourselves, and live! +Ezekiel 19:01 | "Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, +Ezekiel 19:02 | and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched amongst lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs. +Ezekiel 19:03 | She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learnt to catch the prey. He devoured men. +Ezekiel 19:04 | The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. +Ezekiel 19:05 | "‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. +Ezekiel 19:06 | He went up and down amongst the lions. He became a young lion. He learnt to catch the prey. He devoured men. +Ezekiel 19:07 | He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. +Ezekiel 19:08 | Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit. +Ezekiel 19:09 | They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. +Ezekiel 19:10 | "‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. +Ezekiel 19:11 | It had strong branches for the sceptres of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted amongst the thick boughs. They were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. +Ezekiel 19:12 | But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them. +Ezekiel 19:13 | Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. +Ezekiel 19:14 | Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a sceptre to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation." +Ezekiel 20:01 | In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me. +Ezekiel 20:03 | "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Is it to enquire of me that you have come? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be enquired of by you."’ +Ezekiel 20:04 | "Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers. +Ezekiel 20:05 | Tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am the Lord your God;’ +Ezekiel 20:06 | in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. +Ezekiel 20:07 | I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’ +Ezekiel 20:08 | "But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt. +Ezekiel 20:09 | But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, amongst which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. +Ezekiel 20:10 | So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. +Ezekiel 20:11 | I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. +Ezekiel 20:12 | Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. +Ezekiel 20:13 | "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them. +Ezekiel 20:14 | But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. +Ezekiel 20:15 | Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; +Ezekiel 20:16 | because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. +Ezekiel 20:17 | Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness. +Ezekiel 20:18 | I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. +Ezekiel 20:19 | I am the Lord your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them. +Ezekiel 20:20 | Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ +Ezekiel 20:21 | "But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. +Ezekiel 20:22 | Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. +Ezekiel 20:23 | Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them amongst the nations, and disperse them through the countries; +Ezekiel 20:24 | because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. +Ezekiel 20:25 | Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live. +Ezekiel 20:26 | I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord."’ +Ezekiel 20:27 | "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. +Ezekiel 20:28 | For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings. +Ezekiel 20:29 | Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day."’ +Ezekiel 20:30 | "Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations? +Ezekiel 20:31 | When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be enquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you! +Ezekiel 20:32 | "That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’ +Ezekiel 20:33 | As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you. +Ezekiel 20:34 | I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. +Ezekiel 20:35 | I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgement with you face to face. +Ezekiel 20:36 | Just as I entered into judgement with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgement with you," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 20:37 | "I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. +Ezekiel 20:38 | I will purge out from amongst you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 20:39 | "‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord God says: "Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols. +Ezekiel 20:40 | For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things. +Ezekiel 20:41 | I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. +Ezekiel 20:42 | You will know that I am the Lord when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers. +Ezekiel 20:43 | There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed. +Ezekiel 20:44 | You will know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 20:46 | "Son of man, set your face towards the south, and preach towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South. +Ezekiel 20:47 | Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear the Lord’s word: The Lord God says, "Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burnt by it. +Ezekiel 20:48 | All flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it. It will not be quenched." +Ezekiel 20:49 | Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’" +Ezekiel 21:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards Jerusalem, and preach towards the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel. +Ezekiel 21:03 | Tell the land of Israel, ‘The Lord says: "Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. +Ezekiel 21:04 | Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. +Ezekiel 21:05 | All flesh will know that I, the Lord, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more."’ +Ezekiel 21:06 | "Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness. +Ezekiel 21:07 | It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 21:09 | "Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord says: "A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished. +Ezekiel 21:10 | It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree. +Ezekiel 21:11 | It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer."’ +Ezekiel 21:12 | Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people. It is on all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Therefore beat your thigh. +Ezekiel 21:13 | "For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?" says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 21:14 | "You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. Let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the fatally wounded. It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded, which enters into their rooms. +Ezekiel 21:15 | I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter. +Ezekiel 21:16 | Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set. +Ezekiel 21:17 | I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, the Lord, have spoken it." +Ezekiel 21:19 | "Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city. +Ezekiel 21:20 | You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. +Ezekiel 21:21 | For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver. +Ezekiel 21:22 | In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts. +Ezekiel 21:23 | It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. +Ezekiel 21:24 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand. +Ezekiel 21:25 | "‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, +Ezekiel 21:26 | the Lord God says: "Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high. +Ezekiel 21:27 | I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it."’ +Ezekiel 21:28 | "You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord God says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: "A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning; +Ezekiel 21:29 | while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end. +Ezekiel 21:30 | Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you. +Ezekiel 21:31 | I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy. +Ezekiel 21:32 | You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, the Lord, have spoken it." +Ezekiel 22:02 | "You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations. +Ezekiel 22:03 | You shall say, ‘The Lord God says: "A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! +Ezekiel 22:04 | You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. +Ezekiel 22:05 | Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult. +Ezekiel 22:06 | "Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. +Ezekiel 22:07 | In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Amongst you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. +Ezekiel 22:08 | You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. +Ezekiel 22:09 | Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness amongst you. +Ezekiel 22:10 | In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. +Ezekiel 22:11 | One has committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. +Ezekiel 22:12 | In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbours by oppression, and have forgotten me," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 22:13 | "Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you. +Ezekiel 22:14 | Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken it, and will do it. +Ezekiel 22:15 | I will scatter you amongst the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you. +Ezekiel 22:16 | You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 22:18 | "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. +Ezekiel 22:19 | Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. +Ezekiel 22:20 | As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. +Ezekiel 22:21 | Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it. +Ezekiel 22:22 | As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my wrath on you.’" +Ezekiel 22:24 | "Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’ +Ezekiel 22:25 | There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it. +Ezekiel 22:26 | Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned amongst them. +Ezekiel 22:27 | Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. +Ezekiel 22:28 | Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken. +Ezekiel 22:29 | The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully. +Ezekiel 22:30 | "I sought for a man amongst them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. +Ezekiel 22:31 | Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 23:03 | They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there. +Ezekiel 23:04 | Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. +Ezekiel 23:05 | "Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, +Ezekiel 23:06 | who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. +Ezekiel 23:07 | She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after. +Ezekiel 23:08 | She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her. +Ezekiel 23:09 | "Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. +Ezekiel 23:10 | These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword amongst women; for they executed judgements on her. +Ezekiel 23:11 | "Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister. +Ezekiel 23:12 | She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbours, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. +Ezekiel 23:14 | "She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red, +Ezekiel 23:15 | dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. +Ezekiel 23:16 | As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. +Ezekiel 23:17 | The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. +Ezekiel 23:18 | So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister. +Ezekiel 23:19 | Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. +Ezekiel 23:19-20 | She became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. +Ezekiel 23:20 | She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. +Ezekiel 23:21 | Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts. +Ezekiel 23:22 | "Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: +Ezekiel 23:23 | the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. +Ezekiel 23:24 | They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgement to them, and they will judge you according to their judgements. +Ezekiel 23:25 | I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire. +Ezekiel 23:26 | They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels. +Ezekiel 23:27 | Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’ +Ezekiel 23:28 | "For the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated. +Ezekiel 23:29 | They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labour, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution. +Ezekiel 23:30 | These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols. +Ezekiel 23:31 | You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’ +Ezekiel 23:32 | "The Lord God says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much. +Ezekiel 23:33 | You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. +Ezekiel 23:34 | You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 23:35 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’" +Ezekiel 23:36 | The Lord said moreover to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. +Ezekiel 23:37 | For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured. +Ezekiel 23:38 | Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. +Ezekiel 23:39 | For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house. +Ezekiel 23:40 | "Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments, +Ezekiel 23:41 | and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil. +Ezekiel 23:42 | "The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. +Ezekiel 23:43 | Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’ +Ezekiel 23:44 | They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. +Ezekiel 23:45 | Righteous men will judge them with the judgement of adulteresses and with the judgement of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. +Ezekiel 23:46 | "For the Lord God says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. +Ezekiel 23:47 | The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. +Ezekiel 23:48 | "‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you. +Ezekiel 23:49 | They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 24:02 | "Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. +Ezekiel 24:03 | Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says, "Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it. +Ezekiel 24:04 | Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones. +Ezekiel 24:05 | Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron. Make it boil well. Yes, let its bones be boiled within it." +Ezekiel 24:06 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it. +Ezekiel 24:07 | "For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. +Ezekiel 24:08 | That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered." +Ezekiel 24:09 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. +Ezekiel 24:10 | Heap on the wood. Make the fire hot. Boil the meat well. Make the broth thick, and let the bones be burnt. +Ezekiel 24:11 | Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its bronze may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed. +Ezekiel 24:12 | She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her. +Ezekiel 24:13 | "In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath towards you to rest. +Ezekiel 24:14 | "I, the Lord, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 24:16 | "Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. +Ezekiel 24:17 | Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread." +Ezekiel 24:18 | So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded. +Ezekiel 24:19 | The people asked me, "Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?" +Ezekiel 24:21 | ‘Speak to the house of Israel, "The Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. +Ezekiel 24:22 | You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread. +Ezekiel 24:23 | Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one towards another. +Ezekiel 24:24 | Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 24:25 | "You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, +Ezekiel 24:26 | that in that day he who escapes will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? +Ezekiel 24:27 | In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 25:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them. +Ezekiel 25:03 | Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord GOD! The Lord God says, "Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity: +Ezekiel 25:04 | therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk. +Ezekiel 25:05 | I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 25:06 | For the Lord God says: "Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel, +Ezekiel 25:07 | therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 25:08 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’ +Ezekiel 25:09 | therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim, +Ezekiel 25:10 | to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered amongst the nations. +Ezekiel 25:11 | I will execute judgements on Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 25:12 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them" +Ezekiel 25:13 | therefore the Lord God says, "I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan. +Ezekiel 25:14 | I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 25:15 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility" +Ezekiel 25:16 | therefore the Lord God says, "Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. +Ezekiel 25:17 | I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance on them." +Ezekiel 26:02 | "Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’ +Ezekiel 26:03 | therefore the Lord God says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. +Ezekiel 26:04 | They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. +Ezekiel 26:05 | She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘She will become plunder for the nations. +Ezekiel 26:06 | Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’ +Ezekiel 26:07 | "For the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people. +Ezekiel 26:08 | He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you. +Ezekiel 26:09 | He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. +Ezekiel 26:10 | By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open. +Ezekiel 26:11 | He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground. +Ezekiel 26:12 | They will make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters. +Ezekiel 26:13 | I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more. +Ezekiel 26:14 | I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I the Lord have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 26:15 | "The Lord God says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you? +Ezekiel 26:16 | Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. +Ezekiel 26:17 | They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, "How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!" +Ezekiel 26:18 | Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’ +Ezekiel 26:19 | "For the Lord God says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you; +Ezekiel 26:20 | then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. +Ezekiel 26:21 | I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 27:03 | and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord God says: "You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’ +Ezekiel 27:04 | Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty. +Ezekiel 27:05 | They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. +Ezekiel 27:06 | They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim. +Ezekiel 27:07 | Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning. +Ezekiel 27:08 | The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers. Your wise men, Tyre, were in you. They were your pilots. +Ezekiel 27:09 | The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. +Ezekiel 27:10 | "Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you. They showed your beauty. +Ezekiel 27:11 | The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around. They have perfected your beauty. +Ezekiel 27:12 | "Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead. +Ezekiel 27:13 | "Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. +Ezekiel 27:14 | "They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules. +Ezekiel 27:15 | "The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange. +Ezekiel 27:16 | "Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies. +Ezekiel 27:17 | "Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise. +Ezekiel 27:18 | "Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. +Ezekiel 27:19 | "Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were amongst your merchandise. +Ezekiel 27:20 | "Dedan was your trafficker in precious saddlecloths for riding. +Ezekiel 27:21 | "Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants. +Ezekiel 27:22 | "The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. +Ezekiel 27:23 | "Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders. +Ezekiel 27:24 | These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, amongst your merchandise. +Ezekiel 27:25 | "The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise. You were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. +Ezekiel 27:26 | Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. +Ezekiel 27:27 | Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is amongst you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. +Ezekiel 27:28 | At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the pasture lands will shake. +Ezekiel 27:29 | All who handle the oars, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships. They will stand on the land, +Ezekiel 27:30 | and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes. +Ezekiel 27:31 | They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning. +Ezekiel 27:32 | In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’ +Ezekiel 27:33 | When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. +Ezekiel 27:34 | In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you. +Ezekiel 27:35 | All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face. +Ezekiel 27:36 | The merchants amongst the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more." +Ezekiel 28:02 | "Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord God says: "Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God— +Ezekiel 28:03 | behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; +Ezekiel 28:04 | by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries; +Ezekiel 28:05 | by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—" +Ezekiel 28:06 | "‘therefore the Lord God says: "Because you have set your heart as the heart of God, +Ezekiel 28:07 | therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness. +Ezekiel 28:08 | They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas. +Ezekiel 28:09 | Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. +Ezekiel 28:10 | You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 28:12 | "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord God says: "You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. +Ezekiel 28:13 | You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created. +Ezekiel 28:14 | You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire. +Ezekiel 28:15 | You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. +Ezekiel 28:16 | By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire. +Ezekiel 28:17 | Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendour. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you. +Ezekiel 28:18 | By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. +Ezekiel 28:19 | All those who know you amongst the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more." +Ezekiel 28:22 | and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified amongst you. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have executed judgements in her, and am sanctified in her. +Ezekiel 28:23 | For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall within her, with the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 28:24 | "There will no longer be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 28:25 | "‘The Lord God says: "When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples amongst whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. +Ezekiel 28:26 | They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely when I have executed judgements on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God." +Ezekiel 29:04 | I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. +Ezekiel 29:05 | I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky. +Ezekiel 29:06 | "All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. +Ezekiel 29:07 | When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralysed all of their thighs." +Ezekiel 29:08 | "‘Therefore the Lord God says: "Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you. +Ezekiel 29:09 | The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord. "Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’ +Ezekiel 29:10 | therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. +Ezekiel 29:11 | No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years. +Ezekiel 29:12 | I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities amongst the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians amongst the nations, and will disperse them through the countries." +Ezekiel 29:13 | "‘For the Lord God says: "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered. +Ezekiel 29:14 | I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there. +Ezekiel 29:15 | It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations. +Ezekiel 29:16 | It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 29:18 | "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. +Ezekiel 29:19 | Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army. +Ezekiel 29:20 | I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 29:21 | "In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth amongst them. Then they will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 30:02 | "Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’ +Ezekiel 30:03 | For the day is near, even the Lord’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. +Ezekiel 30:04 | A sword will come on Egypt, and anguish will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt. They take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down. +Ezekiel 30:05 | "Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword." +Ezekiel 30:06 | "‘The Lord says: "They also who uphold Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will come down. They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 30:07 | "They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities will be amongst the cities that are wasted. +Ezekiel 30:08 | They will know that I am the Lord when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. +Ezekiel 30:09 | "In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes." +Ezekiel 30:10 | "‘The Lord God says: "I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. +Ezekiel 30:11 | He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. +Ezekiel 30:12 | I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, the Lord, have spoken it." +Ezekiel 30:13 | "‘The Lord God says: "I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis. There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt. I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. +Ezekiel 30:14 | I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgements on No. +Ezekiel 30:15 | I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt. I will cut off the multitude of No. +Ezekiel 30:16 | I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime. +Ezekiel 30:17 | The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword. They will go into captivity. +Ezekiel 30:18 | At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself, when I break the yokes of Egypt, there. The pride of her power will cease in her. As for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity. +Ezekiel 30:19 | Thus I will execute judgements on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 30:21 | "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it may become strong to hold the sword. +Ezekiel 30:22 | Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. +Ezekiel 30:23 | I will scatter the Egyptians amongst the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. +Ezekiel 30:24 | I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man. +Ezekiel 30:25 | I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt. +Ezekiel 30:26 | I will scatter the Egyptians amongst the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 31:02 | "Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness? +Ezekiel 31:03 | Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was amongst the thick boughs. +Ezekiel 31:04 | The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. +Ezekiel 31:05 | Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out. +Ezekiel 31:06 | All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow. +Ezekiel 31:07 | Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters. +Ezekiel 31:08 | The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its boughs. The pine trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty. +Ezekiel 31:09 | I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’ +Ezekiel 31:10 | "Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top amongst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; +Ezekiel 31:11 | I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. +Ezekiel 31:12 | Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him. +Ezekiel 31:13 | All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches; +Ezekiel 31:14 | to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’ +Ezekiel 31:15 | "The Lord God says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. +Ezekiel 31:16 | I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. +Ezekiel 31:17 | They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations. +Ezekiel 31:18 | "‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 32:02 | ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, "You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers." +Ezekiel 32:03 | The Lord God says: "I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net. +Ezekiel 32:04 | I will leave you on the land. I will cast you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you. I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. +Ezekiel 32:05 | I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. +Ezekiel 32:06 | I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood, even to the mountains. The watercourses will be full of you. +Ezekiel 32:07 | When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light. +Ezekiel 32:08 | I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 32:09 | "I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction amongst the nations, into the countries which you have not known. +Ezekiel 32:10 | Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall." +Ezekiel 32:11 | For the Lord God says: "The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. +Ezekiel 32:12 | I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed. +Ezekiel 32:13 | I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters. The foot of man won’t trouble them any more, nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them. +Ezekiel 32:14 | Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 32:15 | "When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I strike all those who dwell therein, then they will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 32:16 | "This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 32:18 | "Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. +Ezekiel 32:19 | Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. +Ezekiel 32:20 | They will fall amongst those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes. +Ezekiel 32:21 | The strong amongst the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword. +Ezekiel 32:22 | "Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, +Ezekiel 32:23 | whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. +Ezekiel 32:24 | "There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. +Ezekiel 32:25 | They have set her a bed amongst the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put amongst those who are slain. +Ezekiel 32:26 | "There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living. +Ezekiel 32:27 | They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. +Ezekiel 32:28 | "But you will be broken amongst the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword. +Ezekiel 32:29 | "There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. +Ezekiel 32:30 | "There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. +Ezekiel 32:31 | "Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 32:32 | "For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid amongst the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 33:02 | "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from amongst them, and set him for their watchman; +Ezekiel 33:03 | if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people; +Ezekiel 33:04 | then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. +Ezekiel 33:05 | He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul. +Ezekiel 33:06 | But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from amongst them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’ +Ezekiel 33:07 | "So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me. +Ezekiel 33:08 | When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand. +Ezekiel 33:09 | Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. +Ezekiel 33:10 | "You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, "Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?"’ +Ezekiel 33:11 | Tell them, ‘"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?"’ +Ezekiel 33:12 | "You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. +Ezekiel 33:13 | When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed. +Ezekiel 33:14 | Again, when I say to the wicked, "You will surely die" if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; +Ezekiel 33:15 | if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die. +Ezekiel 33:16 | None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live. +Ezekiel 33:17 | "‘Yet the children of your people say, "The way of the Lord is not fair" but as for them, their way is not fair. +Ezekiel 33:18 | When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein. +Ezekiel 33:19 | When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it. +Ezekiel 33:20 | Yet you say, "The way of the Lord is not fair." House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’" +Ezekiel 33:21 | In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, "The city has been defeated!" +Ezekiel 33:22 | Now the Lord’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. +Ezekiel 33:24 | "Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’ +Ezekiel 33:25 | Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? +Ezekiel 33:26 | You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbour’s wife. So should you possess the land?"’ +Ezekiel 33:27 | "You shall tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence. +Ezekiel 33:28 | I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through. +Ezekiel 33:29 | Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed."’ +Ezekiel 33:30 | "As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from the Lord.’ +Ezekiel 33:31 | They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. +Ezekiel 33:32 | Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them. +Ezekiel 33:33 | "When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been amongst them." +Ezekiel 34:02 | "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord God says: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? +Ezekiel 34:03 | You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. +Ezekiel 34:04 | You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. +Ezekiel 34:05 | They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. +Ezekiel 34:06 | My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought." +Ezekiel 34:07 | "‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the Lord’s word: +Ezekiel 34:08 | "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep." +Ezekiel 34:09 | Therefore, you shepherds, hear the Lord’s word: +Ezekiel 34:10 | The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them." +Ezekiel 34:11 | "‘For the Lord God says: "Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. +Ezekiel 34:12 | As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is amongst his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. +Ezekiel 34:13 | I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. +Ezekiel 34:14 | I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. +Ezekiel 34:15 | I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 34:16 | "I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice."’ +Ezekiel 34:17 | "As for you, O my flock, the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. +Ezekiel 34:18 | Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet? +Ezekiel 34:19 | As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’ +Ezekiel 34:20 | "Therefore the Lord God says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. +Ezekiel 34:21 | Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; +Ezekiel 34:22 | therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. +Ezekiel 34:23 | I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. +Ezekiel 34:24 | I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David prince amongst them. I, the Lord, have spoken it. +Ezekiel 34:25 | "‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. +Ezekiel 34:26 | I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing. +Ezekiel 34:27 | The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. +Ezekiel 34:28 | They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid. +Ezekiel 34:29 | I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more. +Ezekiel 34:30 | They will know that I, the Lord, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 34:31 | You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 35:02 | "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, +Ezekiel 35:03 | and tell it, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. +Ezekiel 35:04 | I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 35:05 | "Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; +Ezekiel 35:06 | therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you. +Ezekiel 35:07 | Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. +Ezekiel 35:08 | I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses. +Ezekiel 35:09 | I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 35:10 | "Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ whereas the Lord was there: +Ezekiel 35:11 | therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known amongst them when I judge you. +Ezekiel 35:12 | You will know that I, the Lord, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given to us to devour.’ +Ezekiel 35:13 | You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it." +Ezekiel 35:14 | The Lord God says: "When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. +Ezekiel 35:15 | As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 36:01 | You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, "You mountains of Israel, hear the Lord’s word. +Ezekiel 36:02 | The Lord God says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, "Aha!" and, "The ancient high places are ours in possession!"’ +Ezekiel 36:03 | therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people" +Ezekiel 36:04 | therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: The Lord God says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; +Ezekiel 36:05 | therefore the Lord God says: "Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey."’ +Ezekiel 36:06 | Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations." +Ezekiel 36:07 | Therefore the Lord God says: "I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’ +Ezekiel 36:08 | "But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. +Ezekiel 36:09 | For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown. +Ezekiel 36:10 | I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built. +Ezekiel 36:11 | I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 36:12 | Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children." +Ezekiel 36:13 | "‘The Lord God says: "Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’ +Ezekiel 36:14 | therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 36:15 | "I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more," says the Lord GOD.’" +Ezekiel 36:17 | "Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. +Ezekiel 36:18 | Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. +Ezekiel 36:19 | I scattered them amongst the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds. +Ezekiel 36:20 | When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and have left his land.’ +Ezekiel 36:21 | But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned amongst the nations where they went. +Ezekiel 36:22 | "Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned amongst the nations where you went. +Ezekiel 36:23 | I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned amongst the nations, which you have profaned amongst them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord," says the Lord GOD, "when I am proven holy in you before their eyes. +Ezekiel 36:24 | "For I will take you from amongst the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. +Ezekiel 36:25 | I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. +Ezekiel 36:26 | I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. +Ezekiel 36:27 | I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them. +Ezekiel 36:28 | You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God. +Ezekiel 36:29 | I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. +Ezekiel 36:30 | I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine amongst the nations. +Ezekiel 36:31 | "Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. +Ezekiel 36:32 | I don’t do this for your sake," says the Lord GOD. "Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel." +Ezekiel 36:33 | "‘The Lord God says: "In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built. +Ezekiel 36:34 | The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. +Ezekiel 36:35 | They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’ +Ezekiel 36:36 | Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, the Lord, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it." +Ezekiel 36:37 | "‘The Lord God says: "For this, moreover, I will be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. +Ezekiel 36:38 | As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 37:01 | The Lord’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in the Lord’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. +Ezekiel 37:02 | He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. +Ezekiel 37:03 | He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I answered, "Lord GOD, you know." +Ezekiel 37:04 | Again he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear the Lord’s word. +Ezekiel 37:05 | The Lord God says to these bones: "Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live. +Ezekiel 37:06 | I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord." +Ezekiel 37:07 | So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone. +Ezekiel 37:08 | I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. +Ezekiel 37:09 | Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord God says: "Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live." +Ezekiel 37:10 | So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army. +Ezekiel 37:11 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’ +Ezekiel 37:12 | Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. +Ezekiel 37:13 | You will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. +Ezekiel 37:14 | I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it," says the Lord.’" +Ezekiel 37:16 | "You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’ +Ezekiel 37:17 | Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. +Ezekiel 37:18 | "When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’ +Ezekiel 37:19 | tell them, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. +Ezekiel 37:20 | The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes."’ +Ezekiel 37:21 | Say to them, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I will take the children of Israel from amongst the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. +Ezekiel 37:22 | I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. +Ezekiel 37:23 | They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God. +Ezekiel 37:24 | "My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. +Ezekiel 37:25 | They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever. +Ezekiel 37:26 | Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary amongst them forever more. +Ezekiel 37:27 | My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. +Ezekiel 37:28 | The nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is amongst them forever more." +Ezekiel 38:02 | "Son of man, set your face towards Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, +Ezekiel 38:03 | and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. +Ezekiel 38:04 | I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armour, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; +Ezekiel 38:05 | Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; +Ezekiel 38:06 | Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you. +Ezekiel 38:07 | "Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. +Ezekiel 38:08 | After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them. +Ezekiel 38:09 | You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you." +Ezekiel 38:10 | "‘The Lord God says: "It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. +Ezekiel 38:11 | You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, +Ezekiel 38:12 | to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’ +Ezekiel 38:13 | Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its young lions, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’"’ +Ezekiel 38:14 | "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord God says: "In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it? +Ezekiel 38:15 | You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. +Ezekiel 38:16 | You will come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes." +Ezekiel 38:17 | "‘The Lord God says: "Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them? +Ezekiel 38:18 | It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "that my wrath will come up into my nostrils. +Ezekiel 38:19 | For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; +Ezekiel 38:20 | so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground. +Ezekiel 38:21 | I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains," says the Lord GOD. "Every man’s sword will be against his brother. +Ezekiel 38:22 | I will enter into judgement with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulphur. +Ezekiel 38:23 | I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord."’ +Ezekiel 39:01 | "You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord God says: "Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. +Ezekiel 39:02 | I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel. +Ezekiel 39:03 | I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. +Ezekiel 39:04 | You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. +Ezekiel 39:05 | You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 39:06 | "I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am the Lord. +Ezekiel 39:07 | "I will make my holy name known amongst my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. +Ezekiel 39:08 | Behold, it comes, and it will be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the day about which I have spoken. +Ezekiel 39:09 | "Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years; +Ezekiel 39:10 | so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 39:11 | "It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’. +Ezekiel 39:12 | "The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land. +Ezekiel 39:13 | Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 39:14 | "They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search. +Ezekiel 39:15 | Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. +Ezekiel 39:16 | Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land."’ +Ezekiel 39:17 | "You, son of man, the Lord God says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, "Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood. +Ezekiel 39:18 | You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. +Ezekiel 39:19 | You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. +Ezekiel 39:20 | You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war," says the Lord GOD.’ +Ezekiel 39:21 | "I will set my glory amongst the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgement that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. +Ezekiel 39:22 | So the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day and forward. +Ezekiel 39:23 | The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. +Ezekiel 39:24 | I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them. +Ezekiel 39:25 | "Therefore the Lord God says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name. +Ezekiel 39:26 | They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid, +Ezekiel 39:27 | when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. +Ezekiel 39:28 | They will know that I am the Lord their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity amongst the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more. +Ezekiel 39:29 | I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 40:01 | In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day, the Lord’s hand was on me, and he brought me there. +Ezekiel 40:02 | In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south. +Ezekiel 40:03 | He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. +Ezekiel 40:04 | The man said to me, "Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel." +Ezekiel 40:05 | Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. +Ezekiel 40:06 | Then he came to the gate which looks towards the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide. +Ezekiel 40:07 | Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate towards the house was one reed. +Ezekiel 40:08 | He measured also the porch of the gate towards the house, one reed. +Ezekiel 40:09 | Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was towards the house. +Ezekiel 40:10 | The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side. +Ezekiel 40:11 | He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; +Ezekiel 40:12 | and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. +Ezekiel 40:13 | He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door. +Ezekiel 40:14 | He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate. +Ezekiel 40:15 | From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. +Ezekiel 40:16 | There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post. +Ezekiel 40:17 | Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement. +Ezekiel 40:18 | The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. +Ezekiel 40:19 | Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north. +Ezekiel 40:20 | He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces towards the north. +Ezekiel 40:21 | The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. +Ezekiel 40:22 | Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces towards the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them. +Ezekiel 40:23 | There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate. +Ezekiel 40:24 | He led me towards the south; and behold, there was a gate towards the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements. +Ezekiel 40:25 | There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. +Ezekiel 40:26 | There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts. +Ezekiel 40:27 | There was a gate to the inner court towards the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate towards the south. +Ezekiel 40:28 | Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements; +Ezekiel 40:29 | with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. +Ezekiel 40:30 | There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide. +Ezekiel 40:31 | Its arches were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps. +Ezekiel 40:32 | He brought me into the inner court towards the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements; +Ezekiel 40:33 | with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. +Ezekiel 40:34 | Its arches were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps. +Ezekiel 40:35 | He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements; +Ezekiel 40:36 | its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. +Ezekiel 40:37 | Its posts were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps. +Ezekiel 40:38 | A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there. +Ezekiel 40:39 | In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. +Ezekiel 40:40 | On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate towards the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. +Ezekiel 40:41 | Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices. +Ezekiel 40:42 | There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them. +Ezekiel 40:43 | The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables. +Ezekiel 40:44 | Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced towards the south. One at the side of the east gate faced towards the north. +Ezekiel 40:45 | He said to me, "This room, which faces towards the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house. +Ezekiel 40:47 | He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house. +Ezekiel 40:48 | Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. +Ezekiel 40:49 | The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. +Ezekiel 41:01 | He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent. +Ezekiel 41:02 | The width of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits. +Ezekiel 41:03 | Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. +Ezekiel 41:04 | He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, "This is the most holy place." +Ezekiel 41:05 | Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. +Ezekiel 41:06 | The side rooms were in three storeys, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house. +Ezekiel 41:07 | The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level. +Ezekiel 41:08 | I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. +Ezekiel 41:09 | The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. +Ezekiel 41:10 | Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side. +Ezekiel 41:11 | The doors of the side rooms were towards an open area that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around. +Ezekiel 41:12 | The building that was before the separate place at the side towards the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. +Ezekiel 41:13 | So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; +Ezekiel 41:14 | also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place towards the east, one hundred cubits. +Ezekiel 41:15 | He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court +Ezekiel 41:16 | the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three storeys, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), +Ezekiel 41:17 | to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. +Ezekiel 41:18 | It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; +Ezekiel 41:19 | so that there was the face of a man towards the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around. +Ezekiel 41:20 | Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this. +Ezekiel 41:21 | As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple. +Ezekiel 41:22 | The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord." +Ezekiel 41:23 | The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. +Ezekiel 41:24 | The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other. +Ezekiel 41:25 | There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. +Ezekiel 41:26 | There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged. +Ezekiel 42:01 | Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way towards the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building towards the north. +Ezekiel 42:02 | Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits. +Ezekiel 42:03 | Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor. +Ezekiel 42:04 | Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were towards the north. +Ezekiel 42:05 | Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building. +Ezekiel 42:06 | For they were in three storeys, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. +Ezekiel 42:07 | The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, towards the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. +Ezekiel 42:08 | For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. +Ezekiel 42:09 | From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. +Ezekiel 42:10 | In the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms. +Ezekiel 42:11 | The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were towards the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. +Ezekiel 42:12 | According to the doors of the rooms that were towards the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall towards the east, as one enters into them. +Ezekiel 42:13 | Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to the Lord shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. +Ezekiel 42:14 | When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people." +Ezekiel 43:02 | Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory. +Ezekiel 43:03 | It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. +Ezekiel 43:04 | The Lord’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces towards the east. +Ezekiel 43:05 | The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the Lord’s glory filled the house. +Ezekiel 43:06 | I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. +Ezekiel 43:07 | He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell amongst the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places; +Ezekiel 43:08 | in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger. +Ezekiel 43:09 | Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell amongst them forever. +Ezekiel 43:10 | "You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. +Ezekiel 43:11 | If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. +Ezekiel 43:12 | "This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. +Ezekiel 43:13 | "These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. +Ezekiel 43:14 | From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit. +Ezekiel 43:15 | The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. +Ezekiel 43:16 | The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides. +Ezekiel 43:17 | The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look towards the east." +Ezekiel 43:18 | He said to me, "Son of man, the Lord God says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it. +Ezekiel 43:19 | You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘a young bull for a sin offering. +Ezekiel 43:20 | You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way. +Ezekiel 43:21 | You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. +Ezekiel 43:22 | "On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. +Ezekiel 43:23 | When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect. +Ezekiel 43:24 | You shall bring them near to the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord. +Ezekiel 43:25 | "Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect. +Ezekiel 43:26 | Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it. +Ezekiel 43:27 | When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord GOD." +Ezekiel 44:01 | Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks towards the east; and it was shut. +Ezekiel 44:02 | The Lord said to me, "This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. +Ezekiel 44:03 | As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the Lord. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way." +Ezekiel 44:04 | Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the Lord’s glory filled the Lord’s house; so I fell on my face. +Ezekiel 44:05 | The Lord said to me, "Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the Lord’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. +Ezekiel 44:06 | You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord God says: "You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, +Ezekiel 44:07 | in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. +Ezekiel 44:08 | You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves." +Ezekiel 44:09 | The Lord God says, "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are amongst the children of Israel. +Ezekiel 44:10 | "But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. +Ezekiel 44:11 | Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. +Ezekiel 44:12 | Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them," says the Lord GOD, "and they will bear their iniquity. +Ezekiel 44:13 | They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. +Ezekiel 44:14 | Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein. +Ezekiel 44:15 | "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 44:16 | "They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. +Ezekiel 44:17 | "It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. +Ezekiel 44:18 | They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat. +Ezekiel 44:19 | When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments. +Ezekiel 44:20 | "They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. +Ezekiel 44:21 | None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court. +Ezekiel 44:22 | They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. +Ezekiel 44:23 | They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. +Ezekiel 44:24 | "In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy. +Ezekiel 44:25 | "They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. +Ezekiel 44:26 | After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. +Ezekiel 44:27 | In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 44:28 | "‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. +Ezekiel 44:29 | They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. +Ezekiel 44:30 | The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. +Ezekiel 44:31 | The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal. +Ezekiel 45:01 | "Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the Lord, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around. +Ezekiel 45:02 | Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits for its pasture lands all around. +Ezekiel 45:03 | Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. +Ezekiel 45:04 | It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. +Ezekiel 45:05 | Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms. +Ezekiel 45:06 | "You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion. It shall be for the whole house of Israel. +Ezekiel 45:07 | "What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward, and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. +Ezekiel 45:08 | In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes." +Ezekiel 45:09 | "‘The Lord God says: "Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 45:10 | "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. +Ezekiel 45:11 | The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer. +Ezekiel 45:12 | The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. +Ezekiel 45:13 | "This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; +Ezekiel 45:14 | and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;) +Ezekiel 45:15 | and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 45:16 | "All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel. +Ezekiel 45:17 | It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel." +Ezekiel 45:18 | "‘The Lord God says: "In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. +Ezekiel 45:19 | The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. +Ezekiel 45:20 | So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house. +Ezekiel 45:21 | "In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. +Ezekiel 45:22 | On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. +Ezekiel 45:23 | The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. +Ezekiel 45:24 | He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. +Ezekiel 45:25 | "In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil." +Ezekiel 46:01 | "‘The Lord God says: "The gate of the inner court that looks towards the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. +Ezekiel 46:02 | The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. +Ezekiel 46:03 | The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. +Ezekiel 46:04 | The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect; +Ezekiel 46:05 | and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. +Ezekiel 46:06 | On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect. +Ezekiel 46:07 | He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. +Ezekiel 46:08 | When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way. +Ezekiel 46:09 | "But when the people of the land come before the Lord in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him. +Ezekiel 46:10 | The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out. +Ezekiel 46:11 | "In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. +Ezekiel 46:12 | When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to the Lord, one shall open for him the gate that looks towards the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate. +Ezekiel 46:13 | "You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to the Lord daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it. +Ezekiel 46:14 | You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to the Lord continually by a perpetual ordinance. +Ezekiel 46:15 | Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering." +Ezekiel 46:16 | "‘The Lord God says: "If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance. +Ezekiel 46:17 | But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. +Ezekiel 46:18 | Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession." +Ezekiel 46:20 | He said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people." +Ezekiel 46:21 | Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. +Ezekiel 46:23 | There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around. +Ezekiel 46:24 | Then he said to me, "These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people." +Ezekiel 47:06 | He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen?" Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river. +Ezekiel 47:07 | Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. +Ezekiel 47:08 | Then he said to me, "These waters flow out towards the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go towards the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed. +Ezekiel 47:09 | It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes. +Ezekiel 47:10 | It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many. +Ezekiel 47:11 | But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt. +Ezekiel 47:12 | By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing." +Ezekiel 47:13 | The Lord God says: "This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. +Ezekiel 47:14 | You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers. This land will fall to you for inheritance. +Ezekiel 47:22 | It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live amongst you, who will father children amongst you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born amongst the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you amongst the tribes of Israel. +Ezekiel 47:23 | It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance," says the Lord GOD. +Ezekiel 48:14 | They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to the Lord. +Ezekiel 48:20 | All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city. +Ezekiel 48:21 | "The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering towards the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand towards the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. +Ezekiel 48:29 | "This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD. +Ezra 04:08 | Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows; +Ezra 04:09 | then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites, +Ezra 04:10 | and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote. +Ezra 04:11 | This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants the men beyond the River. +Ezra 04:12 | Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations. +Ezra 04:13 | Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings. +Ezra 04:14 | Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore we have sent and informed the king, +Ezra 04:15 | that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed. +Ezra 04:16 | We inform the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River. +Ezra 04:17 | Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River: Peace. +Ezra 04:18 | The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me. +Ezra 04:19 | I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it. +Ezra 04:20 | There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them. +Ezra 04:21 | Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me. +Ezra 04:22 | Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? +Ezra 04:23 | Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms. +Ezra 04:24 | Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. +Ezra 05:01 | Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel. +Ezra 05:02 | Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them. +Ezra 05:03 | At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?" +Ezra 05:04 | They also asked for the names of the men were who were making this building. +Ezra 05:05 | But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it. +Ezra 05:06 | The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows. +Ezra 05:07 | They sent a letter to him, in which was written: To Darius the king, all peace. +Ezra 05:08 | Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands. +Ezra 05:09 | Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?" +Ezra 05:10 | We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head. +Ezra 05:11 | Thus they returned us answer, saying, "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished. +Ezra 05:12 | But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. +Ezra 05:13 | But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. +Ezra 05:14 | The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. +Ezra 05:15 | He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’ +Ezra 05:16 | Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed. +Ezra 05:17 | Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter." +Ezra 06:01 | Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched. +Ezra 06:02 | A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record: +Ezra 06:03 | In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits; +Ezra 06:04 | with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house. +Ezra 06:05 | Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house. +Ezra 06:06 | Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there. +Ezra 06:07 | Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place. +Ezra 06:08 | Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered. +Ezra 06:09 | That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail; +Ezra 06:10 | that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. +Ezra 06:11 | I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. +Ezra 06:12 | May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence. +Ezra 06:16 | The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. +Ezra 06:17 | They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. +Ezra 06:18 | They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. +Ezra 06:20 | Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves. +Ezra 06:21 | The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the Lord, the God of Israel, ate, +Ezra 06:22 | and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house. +Ezra 07:06 | this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the Lord his God’s hand on him. +Ezra 07:07 | Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. +Ezra 07:09 | For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him. +Ezra 07:10 | For Ezra had set his heart to seek the Lord’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel. +Ezra 07:11 | Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the Lord’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel: +Ezra 07:12 | Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. Now +Ezra 07:13 | I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you. +Ezra 07:14 | Because you are sent by the king and his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand, +Ezra 07:16 | and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem; +Ezra 07:17 | therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. +Ezra 07:18 | Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God. +Ezra 07:20 | Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house. +Ezra 07:21 | I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence, +Ezra 07:22 | up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. +Ezra 07:23 | Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? +Ezra 07:24 | Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or labourers of this house of God. +Ezra 07:25 | You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them. +Ezra 07:26 | Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgement be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. +Ezra 07:27 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the Lord’s house which is in Jerusalem; +Ezra 07:28 | and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the Lord my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me. +Ezra 08:17 | I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God. +Ezra 08:18 | According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen; +Ezra 08:19 | and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty; +Ezra 08:20 | and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name. +Ezra 08:21 | Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions. +Ezra 08:22 | For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him." +Ezra 08:23 | So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request. +Ezra 08:24 | Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, +Ezra 08:25 | and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counsellors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered. +Ezra 08:26 | I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold, +Ezra 08:27 | twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold. +Ezra 08:28 | I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. +Ezra 08:29 | Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the Lord’s house." +Ezra 08:30 | So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God. +Ezra 08:31 | Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way. +Ezra 08:33 | On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite; +Ezra 08:34 | everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time. +Ezra 08:35 | The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord. +Ezra 08:36 | They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors, and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house. +Ezra 09:01 | Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. +Ezra 09:02 | For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass." +Ezra 09:03 | When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded. +Ezra 09:04 | Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering. +Ezra 09:05 | At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord my God; +Ezra 09:06 | and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens. +Ezra 09:07 | Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. +Ezra 09:08 | Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revive us a little in our bondage. +Ezra 09:09 | For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. +Ezra 09:10 | "Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, +Ezra 09:11 | which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness. +Ezra 09:12 | Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’ +Ezra 09:13 | "After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, +Ezra 09:14 | shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape? +Ezra 09:15 | Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this." +Ezra 10:01 | Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly. +Ezra 10:03 | Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law. +Ezra 10:04 | Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it." +Ezra 10:05 | Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore. +Ezra 10:06 | Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of the trespass of those of the captivity. +Ezra 10:07 | They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; +Ezra 10:08 | and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity. +Ezra 10:09 | Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain. +Ezra 10:10 | Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. +Ezra 10:11 | Now therefore make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women." +Ezra 10:12 | Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "We must do as you have said concerning us. +Ezra 10:13 | But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. +Ezra 10:14 | Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved." +Ezra 10:15 | Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. +Ezra 10:16 | The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. +Ezra 10:17 | They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month. +Ezra 10:18 | Amongst the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. +Ezra 10:19 | They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. +Galatians 01:01 | Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— +Galatians 01:02 | and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: +Galatians 01:03 | Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, +Galatians 01:04 | who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father— +Galatians 01:05 | to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. +Galatians 01:06 | I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news", +Galatians 01:07 | but there isn’t another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. +Galatians 01:08 | But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. +Galatians 01:09 | As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed. +Galatians 01:10 | For am I now seeking the favour of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. +Galatians 01:11 | But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. +Galatians 01:12 | For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. +Galatians 01:13 | For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it. +Galatians 01:14 | I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age amongst my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. +Galatians 01:15 | But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace +Galatians 01:16 | to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him amongst the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood, +Galatians 01:17 | nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. +Galatians 01:18 | Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. +Galatians 01:19 | But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother. +Galatians 01:20 | Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying. +Galatians 01:21 | Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. +Galatians 01:22 | I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ, +Galatians 01:23 | but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy." +Galatians 01:24 | So they glorified God in me. +Galatians 02:01 | Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. +Galatians 02:02 | I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach amongst the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. +Galatians 02:03 | But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. +Galatians 02:04 | This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage, +Galatians 02:05 | to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you. +Galatians 02:06 | But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, +Galatians 02:07 | but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised— +Galatians 02:08 | for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles— +Galatians 02:09 | and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. +Galatians 02:10 | They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do. +Galatians 02:11 | But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. +Galatians 02:12 | For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. +Galatians 02:13 | And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. +Galatians 02:14 | But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? +Galatians 02:15 | "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, +Galatians 02:16 | yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. +Galatians 02:17 | But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not! +Galatians 02:18 | For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. +Galatians 02:19 | For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. +Galatians 02:20 | I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. +Galatians 02:20 | I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. +Galatians 02:21 | I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!" +Galatians 03:01 | Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed amongst you as crucified? +Galatians 03:02 | I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? +Galatians 03:03 | Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? +Galatians 03:04 | Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? +Galatians 03:05 | He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles amongst you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? +Galatians 03:06 | Even so, Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." +Galatians 03:07 | Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham. +Galatians 03:08 | The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed." +Galatians 03:09 | So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. +Galatians 03:10 | For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." +Galatians 03:11 | Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." +Galatians 03:12 | The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them." +Galatians 03:13 | Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," +Galatians 03:14 | that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. +Galatians 03:15 | Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it. +Galatians 03:16 | Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, "To descendants", as of many, but as of one, "To your offspring", which is Christ. +Galatians 03:17 | Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. +Galatians 03:18 | For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. +Galatians 03:19 | Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. +Galatians 03:20 | Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. +Galatians 03:21 | Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. +Galatians 03:22 | But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. +Galatians 03:23 | But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. +Galatians 03:24 | So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. +Galatians 03:25 | But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. +Galatians 03:26 | For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. +Galatians 03:26-28 | So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. +Galatians 03:27 | For as many of you as were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. +Galatians 03:28 | There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. +Galatians 03:29 | If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise. +Galatians 04:01 | But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all, +Galatians 04:02 | but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. +Galatians 04:03 | So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. +Galatians 04:04 | But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, +Galatians 04:05 | that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. +Galatians 04:06 | And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!" +Galatians 04:07 | So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. +Galatians 04:08 | However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. +Galatians 04:09 | But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? +Galatians 04:10 | You observe days, months, seasons, and years. +Galatians 04:11 | I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labour for you. +Galatians 04:12 | I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, +Galatians 04:13 | but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. +Galatians 04:14 | That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. +Galatians 04:15 | What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. +Galatians 04:16 | So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? +Galatians 04:17 | They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. +Galatians 04:18 | But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. +Galatians 04:19 | My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you— +Galatians 04:20 | but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. +Galatians 04:21 | Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? +Galatians 04:22 | For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. +Galatians 04:23 | However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. +Galatians 04:24 | These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. +Galatians 04:25 | For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. +Galatians 04:26 | But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. +Galatians 04:27 | For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband." +Galatians 04:28 | Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. +Galatians 04:29 | But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. +Galatians 04:30 | However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman." +Galatians 04:31 | So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman. +Galatians 05:01 | Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. +Galatians 05:02 | Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. +Galatians 05:03 | Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law. +Galatians 05:04 | You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. +Galatians 05:05 | For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. +Galatians 05:06 | For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. +Galatians 05:07 | You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? +Galatians 05:08 | This persuasion is not from him who calls you. +Galatians 05:09 | A little yeast grows through the whole lump. +Galatians 05:10 | I have confidence towards you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgement, whoever he is. +Galatians 05:11 | But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed. +Galatians 05:12 | I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. +Galatians 05:13 | For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. +Galatians 05:14 | For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." +Galatians 05:14-15 | The entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself". If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. +Galatians 05:15 | But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another. +Galatians 05:16 | But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfil the lust of the flesh. +Galatians 05:17 | For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. +Galatians 05:18 | But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. +Galatians 05:19 | Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, +Galatians 05:20 | idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, +Galatians 05:21 | envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practise such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom. +Galatians 05:22 | But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, +Galatians 05:22-23 | The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. +Galatians 05:23 | gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. +Galatians 05:24 | Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. +Galatians 05:25 | If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. +Galatians 05:26 | Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. +Galatians 06:01 | Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. +Galatians 06:02 | Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. +Galatians 06:03 | For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. +Galatians 06:03 | If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. +Galatians 06:04 | But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. +Galatians 06:05 | For each man will bear his own burden. +Galatians 06:06 | But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches. +Galatians 06:07 | Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. +Galatians 06:08 | For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. +Galatians 06:09 | Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. +Galatians 06:10 | So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good towards all men, and especially towards those who are of the household of the faith. +Galatians 06:11 | See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand. +Galatians 06:12 | As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. +Galatians 06:13 | For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. +Galatians 06:14 | But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. +Galatians 06:15 | For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. +Galatians 06:16 | As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel. +Galatians 06:17 | From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body. +Galatians 06:18 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. +Genesis 01:01 | In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. +Genesis 01:01-03 | In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. +Genesis 01:02 | The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. +Genesis 01:03 | God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. +Genesis 01:03-05 | And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day. +Genesis 01:04 | God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. +Genesis 01:05 | God called the light "day", and the darkness he called "night". There was evening and there was morning, the first day. +Genesis 01:06 | God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." +Genesis 01:07 | God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. +Genesis 01:08 | God called the expanse "sky". There was evening and there was morning, the second day. +Genesis 01:09 | God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear" and it was so. +Genesis 01:09-10 | And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. +Genesis 01:10 | God called the dry land "earth", and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas". God saw that it was good. +Genesis 01:11 | God said, "Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth" and it was so. +Genesis 01:12 | The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. +Genesis 01:13 | There was evening and there was morning, the third day. +Genesis 01:14 | God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; +Genesis 01:15 | and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth" and it was so. +Genesis 01:16 | God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. +Genesis 01:17 | God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, +Genesis 01:18 | and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. +Genesis 01:19 | There was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. +Genesis 01:20 | God said, "Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky." +Genesis 01:21 | God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. +Genesis 01:22 | God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." +Genesis 01:24 | God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind" and it was so. +Genesis 01:25 | God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. +Genesis 01:26 | God said, "Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." +Genesis 01:27 | God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. +Genesis 01:27-28 | So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the Heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." +Genesis 01:28 | Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the Heavens and over every living thing that moves on the Earth. +Genesis 01:28 | God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." +Genesis 01:29 | God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. +Genesis 01:30 | To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food" and it was so. +Genesis 01:31 | God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. +Genesis 02:01 | The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. +Genesis 02:02 | On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. +Genesis 02:03 | God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done. +Genesis 02:03 | God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done. +Genesis 02:04 | This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. +Genesis 02:05 | No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground, +Genesis 02:06 | but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. +Genesis 02:07 | The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. +Genesis 02:08 | The Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. +Genesis 02:09 | Out of the ground the Lord God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. +Genesis 02:10 | A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. +Genesis 02:11 | The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; +Genesis 02:12 | and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there. +Genesis 02:13 | The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. +Genesis 02:14 | The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. +Genesis 02:15 | The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. +Genesis 02:16 | The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; +Genesis 02:17 | but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." +Genesis 02:18 | The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him." +Genesis 02:18,21-22 | The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.". So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while He was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man. +Genesis 02:19 | Out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. +Genesis 02:20 | The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. +Genesis 02:21 | The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. +Genesis 02:22 | The Lord God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. +Genesis 02:23 | The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man." +Genesis 02:23 | The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man." +Genesis 02:24 | Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. +Genesis 02:25 | The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed. +Genesis 03:01 | Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?" +Genesis 03:02 | The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, +Genesis 03:03 | but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’" +Genesis 03:04 | "You will not certainly die" the serpent said to the woman. +Genesis 03:04 | The serpent said to the woman, "You won’t really die, +Genesis 03:05 | for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." +Genesis 03:06 | When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. +Genesis 03:07 | Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. +Genesis 03:08 | They heard the Lord God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. +Genesis 03:09 | The Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" +Genesis 03:10 | The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself." +Genesis 03:11 | God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" +Genesis 03:12 | The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it." +Genesis 03:13 | The Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." +Genesis 03:14 | The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. +Genesis 03:15 | I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel." +Genesis 03:16 | To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." +Genesis 03:16 | To the woman He said: "I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." +Genesis 03:17 | To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life. +Genesis 03:18 | It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. +Genesis 03:19 | By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. +Genesis 03:19 | You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust." +Genesis 03:20 | Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. +Genesis 03:20 | The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living. +Genesis 03:21 | The Lord God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. +Genesis 03:22 | And God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." +Genesis 03:22 | The Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—" +Genesis 03:23 | Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. +Genesis 03:24 | So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. +Genesis 04:01 | The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with the Lord’s help." +Genesis 04:02 | Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. +Genesis 04:03 | As time passed, Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground. +Genesis 04:04 | Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The Lord respected Abel and his offering, +Genesis 04:05 | but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. +Genesis 04:06 | The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? +Genesis 04:06-07 | The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it." +Genesis 04:07 | If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." +Genesis 04:08 | Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let’s go into the field." While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. +Genesis 04:09 | The Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?" +Genesis 04:10 | The Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground. +Genesis 04:11 | Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. +Genesis 04:12 | From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth." +Genesis 04:13 | Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. +Genesis 04:14 | Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me." +Genesis 04:15 | The Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." The Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him. +Genesis 04:16 | Cain left the Lord’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. +Genesis 04:17 | Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch. +Genesis 04:23 | Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. +Genesis 04:24 | If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times." +Genesis 04:25 | Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, "for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him." +Genesis 04:26 | A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the Lord’s name. +Genesis 05:01 | This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. +Genesis 05:02 | He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam. +Genesis 06:01 | When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, +Genesis 06:02 | God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives. +Genesis 06:03 | "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years." +Genesis 06:03 | The Lord said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred and twenty years." +Genesis 06:04 | The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. +Genesis 06:05 | The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. +Genesis 06:06 | The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. +Genesis 06:07 | The Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them." +Genesis 06:08 | But Noah found favour in the Lord’s eyes. +Genesis 06:09 | This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God. +Genesis 06:11 | The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. +Genesis 06:11,17 | Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. "I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish." +Genesis 06:11-13 | Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth". +Genesis 06:12 | God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. +Genesis 06:13 | God said to Noah, "I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth. +Genesis 06:14 | Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. +Genesis 06:15 | This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. +Genesis 06:16 | You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. +Genesis 06:17 | I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die. +Genesis 06:18 | But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. +Genesis 06:19 | Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. +Genesis 06:20 | Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive. +Genesis 06:21 | Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them." +Genesis 06:22 | Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him. +Genesis 07:01 | The Lord said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. +Genesis 07:02 | You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. +Genesis 07:03 | Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. +Genesis 07:04 | In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground." +Genesis 07:05 | Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him. +Genesis 07:06 | Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. +Genesis 07:07 | Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters. +Genesis 07:08 | Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground +Genesis 07:09 | went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah. +Genesis 07:10 | After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth. +Genesis 07:11 | In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened. +Genesis 07:12 | It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. +Genesis 07:13 | In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship— +Genesis 07:14 | they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. +Genesis 07:15 | Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah. +Genesis 07:16 | Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then the Lord shut him in. +Genesis 07:17 | The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. +Genesis 07:18 | The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. +Genesis 07:19 | The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. +Genesis 07:20 | The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. +Genesis 07:21 | All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. +Genesis 07:22 | All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. +Genesis 07:23 | Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. +Genesis 07:24 | The waters flooded the earth one hundred and fifty days. +Genesis 08:01 | God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. +Genesis 08:02 | The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. +Genesis 08:03 | The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded. +Genesis 08:04 | The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. +Genesis 08:05 | The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. +Genesis 08:06 | At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, +Genesis 08:07 | and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. +Genesis 08:08 | He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, +Genesis 08:09 | but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. +Genesis 08:10 | He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. +Genesis 08:11 | The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. +Genesis 08:12 | He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more. +Genesis 08:13 | In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. +Genesis 08:14 | In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. +Genesis 08:16 | "Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. +Genesis 08:17 | Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." +Genesis 08:18 | Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. +Genesis 08:19 | Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship. +Genesis 08:20 | Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. +Genesis 08:21 | The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done. +Genesis 08:21 | The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. +Genesis 08:22 | While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." +Genesis 09:01 | God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth. +Genesis 09:02 | The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand. +Genesis 09:03 | Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you. +Genesis 09:04 | But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat. +Genesis 09:05 | I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. +Genesis 09:06 | Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God, has God made mankind. +Genesis 09:06 | Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image. +Genesis 09:07 | Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it." +Genesis 09:09 | "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, +Genesis 09:10 | and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. +Genesis 09:11 | I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth." +Genesis 09:12 | God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: +Genesis 09:13 | I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. +Genesis 09:14 | When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, +Genesis 09:15 | I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. +Genesis 09:16 | The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." +Genesis 09:17 | God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." +Genesis 09:19 | These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. +Genesis 09:20 | Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. +Genesis 09:21 | He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. +Genesis 09:22 | Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. +Genesis 09:23 | Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness. +Genesis 09:24 | Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. +Genesis 09:25 | He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers." +Genesis 09:26 | He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant. +Genesis 09:27 | May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant." +Genesis 09:28 | Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. +Genesis 09:29 | All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died. +Genesis 10:32 | These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood. +Genesis 11:01 | The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. +Genesis 11:02 | As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. +Genesis 11:03 | They said to one another, "Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. +Genesis 11:04 | They said, "Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." +Genesis 11:05 | The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. +Genesis 11:06 | The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. +Genesis 11:07 | Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech." +Genesis 11:08 | So the Lord scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. +Genesis 11:09 | Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. From there, the Lord scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. +Genesis 11:29 | Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. +Genesis 11:31 | Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. +Genesis 11:32 | The days of Terah were two hundred and five years. Terah died in Haran. +Genesis 12:01 | Now the Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. +Genesis 12:01-03 | The Lord had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on Earth will be blessed through you." +Genesis 12:02 | I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. +Genesis 12:03 | I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you." +Genesis 12:04 | So Abram went, as the Lord had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. +Genesis 12:05 | Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan. +Genesis 12:06 | Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land. +Genesis 12:07 | The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." He built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. +Genesis 12:08 | He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the Lord’s name. +Genesis 12:09 | Abram travelled, still going on towards the South. +Genesis 12:10 | There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. +Genesis 12:11 | When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. +Genesis 12:12 | It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive. +Genesis 12:13 | Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you." +Genesis 12:14 | When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. +Genesis 12:15 | The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. +Genesis 12:16 | He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. +Genesis 12:17 | The Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. +Genesis 12:18 | Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? +Genesis 12:19 | Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way." +Genesis 12:20 | Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had. +Genesis 13:01 | Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South. +Genesis 13:02 | Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. +Genesis 13:03 | He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, +Genesis 13:04 | to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the Lord’s name. +Genesis 13:05 | Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. +Genesis 13:06 | The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together. +Genesis 13:07 | There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time. +Genesis 13:08 | Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives. +Genesis 13:09 | Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." +Genesis 13:10 | Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. +Genesis 13:13 | Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord. +Genesis 13:14 | The Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, +Genesis 13:15 | for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever. +Genesis 13:16 | I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted. +Genesis 13:17 | Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you." +Genesis 13:18 | Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord. +Genesis 14:11 | They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. +Genesis 14:12 | They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. +Genesis 14:13 | One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram. +Genesis 14:14 | When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred and eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan. +Genesis 14:15 | He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. +Genesis 14:16 | He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people. +Genesis 14:17 | The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). +Genesis 14:18 | Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High. +Genesis 14:19 | He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. +Genesis 14:20 | Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all. +Genesis 14:20 | Praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand. +Genesis 14:21 | The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself." +Genesis 14:22 | Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to the Lord, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, +Genesis 14:23 | that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ +Genesis 14:24 | I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion." +Genesis 15:01 | After these things the Lord’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward." +Genesis 15:02 | Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" +Genesis 15:03 | Abram said, "Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir." +Genesis 15:04 | Behold, the Lord’s word came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir." +Genesis 15:05 | The Lord brought him outside, and said, "Look now towards the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So your offspring will be." +Genesis 15:06 | He believed in the Lord, who credited it to him for righteousness. +Genesis 15:07 | He said to Abram, "I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." +Genesis 15:08 | He said, "Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?" +Genesis 15:09 | He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." +Genesis 15:10 | He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds. +Genesis 15:11 | The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. +Genesis 15:12 | When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. +Genesis 15:13 | He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. +Genesis 15:14 | I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth; +Genesis 15:15 | but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. +Genesis 15:16 | In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." +Genesis 15:17 | It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. +Genesis 15:18 | In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: +Genesis 16:01 | Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. +Genesis 16:02 | Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. +Genesis 16:03 | Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. +Genesis 16:04 | He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. +Genesis 16:05 | Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May The Lord judge between me and you." +Genesis 16:06 | But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. +Genesis 16:07 | The Lord’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. +Genesis 16:08 | He said, "Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai." +Genesis 16:09 | The Lord’s angel said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands." +Genesis 16:10 | The Lord’s angel said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude." +Genesis 16:11 | The Lord’s angel said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. +Genesis 16:12 | He will be like a wild donkey amongst men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers." +Genesis 16:13 | She called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?" +Genesis 16:14 | Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. +Genesis 16:15 | Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. +Genesis 16:16 | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. +Genesis 17:01 | When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. +Genesis 17:02 | I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly." +Genesis 17:04 | "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. +Genesis 17:05 | Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. +Genesis 17:06 | I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you. +Genesis 17:07 | I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you. +Genesis 17:08 | I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are travelling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God." +Genesis 17:09 | God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. +Genesis 17:10 | This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male amongst you shall be circumcised. +Genesis 17:11 | You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you. +Genesis 17:12 | He who is eight days old shall be circumcised amongst you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring. +Genesis 17:13 | He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. +Genesis 17:14 | The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant." +Genesis 17:15 | God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. +Genesis 17:16 | I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." +Genesis 17:17 | Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" +Genesis 17:18 | Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" +Genesis 17:19 | God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. +Genesis 17:20 | As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. +Genesis 17:21 | But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year." +Genesis 17:22 | When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. +Genesis 17:23 | Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male amongst the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. +Genesis 17:24 | Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. +Genesis 17:25 | Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. +Genesis 17:26 | In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. +Genesis 17:27 | All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. +Genesis 18:01 | The Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. +Genesis 18:02 | He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, +Genesis 18:03 | and said, "My lord, if now I have found favour in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant. +Genesis 18:04 | Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. +Genesis 18:05 | I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said." +Genesis 18:06 | Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." +Genesis 18:07 | Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. +Genesis 18:08 | He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate. +Genesis 18:09 | They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "There, in the tent." +Genesis 18:10 | He said, "I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. +Genesis 18:11 | Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. +Genesis 18:12 | Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" +Genesis 18:13 | The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ +Genesis 18:14 | Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son." +Genesis 18:15 | Then Sarah denied it, saying, "I didn’t laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh." +Genesis 18:16 | The men rose up from there, and looked towards Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. +Genesis 18:17 | The Lord said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, +Genesis 18:18 | since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? +Genesis 18:18-19 | Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on Earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him. +Genesis 18:19 | For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him." +Genesis 18:20 | The Lord said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, +Genesis 18:21 | I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know." +Genesis 18:22 | The men turned from there, and went towards Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. +Genesis 18:23 | Abraham came near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? +Genesis 18:24 | What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? +Genesis 18:25 | May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?" +Genesis 18:26 | The Lord said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." +Genesis 18:26 | The Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake." +Genesis 18:27 | Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes. +Genesis 18:28 | What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there." +Genesis 18:29 | He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty’s sake." +Genesis 18:30 | He said, "Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty there." +Genesis 18:31 | He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake." +Genesis 18:32 | He said, "Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake." +Genesis 18:33 | The Lord went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. +Genesis 19:01 | The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, +Genesis 19:02 | and he said, "See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night." +Genesis 19:03 | He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. +Genesis 19:04 | But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. +Genesis 19:05 | They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them." +Genesis 19:06 | Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself. +Genesis 19:07 | He said, "Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. +Genesis 19:08 | See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof." +Genesis 19:09 | They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door. +Genesis 19:10 | But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. +Genesis 19:11 | They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. +Genesis 19:12 | The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: +Genesis 19:13 | for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it." +Genesis 19:14 | Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city!" But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. +Genesis 19:15 | When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." +Genesis 19:16 | But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, the Lord being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. +Genesis 19:17 | It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!" +Genesis 19:19 | See now, your servant has found favour in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. +Genesis 19:20 | See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live." +Genesis 19:21 | He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. +Genesis 19:22 | Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. +Genesis 19:23 | The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. +Genesis 19:24 | Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. +Genesis 19:24 | Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of the sky. +Genesis 19:25 | He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. +Genesis 19:26 | But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. +Genesis 19:27 | Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. +Genesis 19:28 | He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. +Genesis 19:29 | When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. +Genesis 19:30 | Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. +Genesis 19:31 | The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. +Genesis 19:32 | Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line." +Genesis 19:33 | They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. +Genesis 19:34 | It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line." +Genesis 19:34,36 | The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father". So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. +Genesis 19:35 | They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. +Genesis 19:36 | Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father. +Genesis 19:37 | The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. +Genesis 19:38 | The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. +Genesis 20:01 | Abraham travelled from there towards the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. +Genesis 20:02 | Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. +Genesis 20:03 | But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife." +Genesis 20:04 | Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? +Genesis 20:05 | Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands." +Genesis 20:06 | God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her. +Genesis 20:07 | Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours." +Genesis 20:08 | Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. +Genesis 20:09 | Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" +Genesis 20:10 | Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?" +Genesis 20:11 | Abraham said, "Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’ +Genesis 20:12 | Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. +Genesis 20:13 | When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother." +Genesis 20:14 | Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. +Genesis 20:15 | Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you." +Genesis 20:16 | To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated." +Genesis 20:17 | Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. +Genesis 20:18 | For the Lord had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. +Genesis 21:01 | The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had spoken. +Genesis 21:02 | Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. +Genesis 21:03 | Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. +Genesis 21:04 | Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. +Genesis 21:05 | Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. +Genesis 21:06 | Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." +Genesis 21:07 | She said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age." +Genesis 21:08 | The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. +Genesis 21:09 | Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. +Genesis 21:10 | Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac." +Genesis 21:11 | The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. +Genesis 21:12 | God said to Abraham, "Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac. +Genesis 21:13 | I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child." +Genesis 21:14 | Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. +Genesis 21:15 | The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. +Genesis 21:16 | She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don’t let me see the death of the child." She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. +Genesis 21:17 | God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. +Genesis 21:18 | Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation." +Genesis 21:19 | God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink. +Genesis 21:20 | God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer. +Genesis 21:21 | He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. +Genesis 21:22 | At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do. +Genesis 21:23 | Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner." +Genesis 21:25 | Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. +Genesis 21:26 | Abimelech said, "I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today." +Genesis 21:27 | Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. +Genesis 21:28 | Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. +Genesis 21:29 | Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?" +Genesis 21:30 | He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." +Genesis 21:31 | Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there. +Genesis 21:32 | So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. +Genesis 21:33 | Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God. +Genesis 21:34 | Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days. +Genesis 22:01 | After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." +Genesis 22:02 | He said, "Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of." +Genesis 22:03 | Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him. +Genesis 22:04 | On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. +Genesis 22:05 | Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you." +Genesis 22:06 | Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. +Genesis 22:07 | Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" +Genesis 22:08 | Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together. +Genesis 22:09 | They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. +Genesis 22:10 | Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. +Genesis 22:11 | The Lord’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." +Genesis 22:12 | He said, "Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." +Genesis 22:13 | Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. +Genesis 22:14 | Abraham called the name of that place "The Lord Will Provide". As it is said to this day, "On the Lord’s mountain, it will be provided." +Genesis 22:15 | The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, +Genesis 22:16 | and said, "‘I have sworn by myself,’ says the Lord, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, +Genesis 22:17 | that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. +Genesis 22:18 | All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’" +Genesis 22:19 | So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. +Genesis 22:20 | After these things, Abraham was told, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: +Genesis 22:21 | Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, +Genesis 23:04 | "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." +Genesis 23:06 | "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God amongst us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead." +Genesis 23:07 | Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth. +Genesis 23:08 | He talked with them, saying, "If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, +Genesis 23:09 | that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me amongst you as a possession for a burial place." +Genesis 23:11 | "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." +Genesis 23:12 | Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. +Genesis 23:13 | He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there." +Genesis 23:15 | "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead." +Genesis 23:16 | Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard. +Genesis 23:17 | So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded +Genesis 23:18 | to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. +Genesis 23:19 | After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. +Genesis 23:20 | The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place. +Genesis 24:01 | Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. +Genesis 24:02 | Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. +Genesis 24:03 | I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, amongst whom I live. +Genesis 24:04 | But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." +Genesis 24:05 | The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?" +Genesis 24:06 | Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don’t bring my son there again. +Genesis 24:07 | The Lord, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. +Genesis 24:08 | If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again." +Genesis 24:09 | The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. +Genesis 24:10 | The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. +Genesis 24:11 | He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. +Genesis 24:12 | He said, "The Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. +Genesis 24:13 | Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. +Genesis 24:14 | Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." +Genesis 24:15 | Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. +Genesis 24:16 | The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. +Genesis 24:17 | The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher." +Genesis 24:18 | She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink. +Genesis 24:19 | When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking." +Genesis 24:20 | She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. +Genesis 24:21 | The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. +Genesis 24:22 | As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, +Genesis 24:23 | and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?" +Genesis 24:24 | She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." +Genesis 24:25 | She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in." +Genesis 24:26 | The man bowed his head, and worshipped the Lord. +Genesis 24:27 | He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth towards my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives." +Genesis 24:27 | Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives. +Genesis 24:28 | The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words. +Genesis 24:29 | Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. +Genesis 24:30 | When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. +Genesis 24:31 | He said, "Come in, you blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." +Genesis 24:32 | The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. +Genesis 24:33 | Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." Laban said, "Speak on." +Genesis 24:35 | The Lord has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. The Lord has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys. +Genesis 24:36 | Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him. +Genesis 24:37 | My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, +Genesis 24:38 | but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ +Genesis 24:39 | I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’ +Genesis 24:40 | He said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house. +Genesis 24:41 | Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’ +Genesis 24:42 | I came today to the spring, and said, ‘The Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go— +Genesis 24:43 | behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink," +Genesis 24:44 | then she tells me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,"—let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’ +Genesis 24:45 | Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ +Genesis 24:46 | She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink. +Genesis 24:47 | I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. +Genesis 24:48 | I bowed my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son. +Genesis 24:49 | Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left." +Genesis 24:50 | Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the Lord. We can’t speak to you bad or good. +Genesis 24:51 | Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as the Lord has spoken." +Genesis 24:52 | When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the Lord. +Genesis 24:53 | The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother. +Genesis 24:54 | They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master." +Genesis 24:55 | Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go." +Genesis 24:56 | He said to them, "Don’t hinder me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." +Genesis 24:57 | They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her." +Genesis 24:58 | They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." +Genesis 24:59 | They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. +Genesis 24:60 | They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them." +Genesis 24:61 | Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. +Genesis 24:62 | Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South. +Genesis 24:63 | Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming. +Genesis 24:64 | Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel. +Genesis 24:65 | She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself. +Genesis 24:67 | Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. +Genesis 25:07 | These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. +Genesis 25:08 | Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. +Genesis 25:09 | Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre, +Genesis 25:10 | the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife. +Genesis 25:11 | After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi. +Genesis 25:21 | Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. The Lord was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. +Genesis 25:22 | The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it is like this, why do I live?" She went to enquire of the Lord. +Genesis 25:23 | The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger." +Genesis 25:24 | When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. +Genesis 25:25 | The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau. +Genesis 25:26 | After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. +Genesis 25:27 | The boys grew. Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. +Genesis 25:28 | Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob. +Genesis 25:29 | Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. +Genesis 25:30 | Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom. +Genesis 25:31 | Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright." +Genesis 25:32 | Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?" +Genesis 25:33 | Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. +Genesis 25:34 | Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright. +Genesis 26:01 | There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. +Genesis 26:02 | The Lord appeared to him, and said, "Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. +Genesis 26:03 | Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. +Genesis 26:04 | I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, +Genesis 26:05 | because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." +Genesis 26:07 | The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife", lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at." +Genesis 26:08 | When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. +Genesis 26:09 | Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’" +Genesis 26:10 | Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!" +Genesis 26:11 | Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death." +Genesis 26:12 | Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. +Genesis 26:12 | Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The Lord blessed him. +Genesis 26:13 | The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. +Genesis 26:14 | He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. +Genesis 26:16 | Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we." +Genesis 26:17 | Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. +Genesis 26:18 | Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them. +Genesis 26:19 | Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. +Genesis 26:20 | The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. +Genesis 26:21 | They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah. +Genesis 26:22 | He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land." +Genesis 26:24 | The Lord appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake." +Genesis 26:25 | He built an altar there, and called on the Lord’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. +Genesis 26:26 | Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. +Genesis 26:27 | Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?" +Genesis 26:28 | They said, "We saw plainly that the Lord was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you, +Genesis 26:29 | that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of the Lord." +Genesis 26:31 | They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. +Genesis 26:32 | The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water." +Genesis 26:33 | He called it "Shibah". Therefore the name of the city is "Beersheba" to this day. +Genesis 26:34 | When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. +Genesis 27:01 | When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am." +Genesis 27:02 | He said, "See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death. +Genesis 27:03 | Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison. +Genesis 27:04 | Make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die." +Genesis 27:05 | Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. +Genesis 27:07 | ‘Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless you before the Lord before my death.’ +Genesis 27:08 | Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. +Genesis 27:09 | Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savoury food for your father, such as he loves. +Genesis 27:10 | You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death." +Genesis 27:11 | Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. +Genesis 27:12 | What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing." +Genesis 27:13 | His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me." +Genesis 27:14 | He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savoury food, such as his father loved. +Genesis 27:15 | Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. +Genesis 27:16 | She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. +Genesis 27:17 | She gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. +Genesis 27:18 | He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" +Genesis 27:19 | Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me." +Genesis 27:20 | Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because the Lord your God gave me success." +Genesis 27:21 | Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not." +Genesis 27:22 | Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." +Genesis 27:23 | He didn’t recognise him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. +Genesis 27:24 | He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am." +Genesis 27:25 | He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. +Genesis 27:26 | His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son." +Genesis 27:27 | He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. +Genesis 27:28 | God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. +Genesis 27:29 | Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you." +Genesis 27:30 | As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. +Genesis 27:31 | He also made savoury food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me." +Genesis 27:32 | Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." +Genesis 27:33 | Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed." +Genesis 27:34 | When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father." +Genesis 27:35 | He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing." +Genesis 27:36 | He said, "Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?" +Genesis 27:37 | Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?" +Genesis 27:38 | Esau said to his father, "Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. +Genesis 27:39 | Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above. +Genesis 27:40 | You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck." +Genesis 27:41 | Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." +Genesis 27:42 | The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. +Genesis 27:43 | Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. +Genesis 27:44 | Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away— +Genesis 27:45 | until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" +Genesis 27:46 | Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?" +Genesis 28:01 | Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. +Genesis 28:02 | Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. +Genesis 28:03 | May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, +Genesis 28:04 | and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham." +Genesis 28:05 | Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. +Genesis 28:06 | Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan" +Genesis 28:07 | and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. +Genesis 28:08 | Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father. +Genesis 28:09 | So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. +Genesis 28:10 | Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went towards Haran. +Genesis 28:11 | He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. +Genesis 28:12 | He dreamt and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. +Genesis 28:13 | Behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring. +Genesis 28:14 | Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed. +Genesis 28:15 | Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you." +Genesis 28:16 | Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I didn’t know it." +Genesis 28:17 | He was afraid, and said, "How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven." +Genesis 28:18 | Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. +Genesis 28:19 | He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. +Genesis 28:20 | Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, +Genesis 28:21 | so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and the Lord will be my God, +Genesis 28:22 | then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you." +Genesis 29:01 | Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. +Genesis 29:02 | He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large. +Genesis 29:03 | There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back on the well’s mouth in its place. +Genesis 29:04 | Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran." +Genesis 29:05 | He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." +Genesis 29:06 | He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep." +Genesis 29:07 | He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them." +Genesis 29:08 | They said, "We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep." +Genesis 29:09 | While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. +Genesis 29:10 | When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. +Genesis 29:11 | Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. +Genesis 29:12 | Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. +Genesis 29:13 | When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. +Genesis 29:14 | Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." Jacob stayed with him for a month. +Genesis 29:15 | Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" +Genesis 29:16 | Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. +Genesis 29:17 | Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. +Genesis 29:18 | Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." +Genesis 29:18-21 | Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." So Jacob served seven years for Rachel... +Genesis 29:19 | Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." +Genesis 29:20 | Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. +Genesis 29:21 | Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." +Genesis 29:22 | Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. +Genesis 29:23 | In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her. +Genesis 29:24 | Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant. +Genesis 29:25 | In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" +Genesis 29:26 | Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. +Genesis 29:27 | Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years." +Genesis 29:28 | Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. +Genesis 29:29 | Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant. +Genesis 29:30 | He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years. +Genesis 29:31 | The Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. +Genesis 29:32 | Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because the Lord has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me." +Genesis 29:33 | She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. +Genesis 29:34 | She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi. +Genesis 29:35 | She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. +Genesis 30:01 | When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die." +Genesis 30:02 | Jacob’s anger burnt against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" +Genesis 30:03 | She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." +Genesis 30:04 | She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. +Genesis 30:06 | Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan. +Genesis 30:07 | Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. +Genesis 30:08 | Rachel said, "I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali. +Genesis 30:09 | When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. +Genesis 30:1,3-5 | When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her." So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she became pregnant and bore him a son. +Genesis 30:11 | Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad. +Genesis 30:12 | Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son. +Genesis 30:13 | Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher. +Genesis 30:14 | Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes." +Genesis 30:15 | Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes." +Genesis 30:16 | Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes." He lay with her that night. +Genesis 30:17 | God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. +Genesis 30:18 | Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband." She named him Issachar. +Genesis 30:19 | Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. +Genesis 30:20 | Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun. +Genesis 30:21 | Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah. +Genesis 30:22 | God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. +Genesis 30:23 | She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach." +Genesis 30:24 | She named him Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add another son to me." +Genesis 30:25 | When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. +Genesis 30:26 | Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you." +Genesis 30:27 | Laban said to him, "If now I have found favour in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the Lord has blessed me for your sake." +Genesis 30:28 | He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it." +Genesis 30:29 | Jacob said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. +Genesis 30:30 | For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?" +Genesis 30:31 | Laban said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. +Genesis 30:32 | I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one amongst the sheep, and the spotted and speckled amongst the goats. This will be my hire. +Genesis 30:33 | So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted amongst the goats, and black amongst the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen." +Genesis 30:34 | Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word." +Genesis 30:35 | That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones amongst the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. +Genesis 30:36 | He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. +Genesis 30:37 | Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. +Genesis 30:38 | He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink. +Genesis 30:39 | The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted. +Genesis 30:40 | Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock. +Genesis 30:41 | Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive amongst the rods; +Genesis 30:42 | but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. +Genesis 30:43 | The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. +Genesis 31:01 | Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s." +Genesis 31:02 | Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not towards him as before. +Genesis 31:03 | The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you." +Genesis 31:05 | and said to them, "I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not towards me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. +Genesis 31:06 | You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. +Genesis 31:07 | Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. +Genesis 31:08 | If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked. +Genesis 31:09 | Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. +Genesis 31:10 | During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leapt on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. +Genesis 31:11 | The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ +Genesis 31:12 | He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you. +Genesis 31:13 | I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’" +Genesis 31:14 | Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? +Genesis 31:15 | Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money. +Genesis 31:16 | For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do." +Genesis 31:17 | Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, +Genesis 31:18 | and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. +Genesis 31:19 | Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. +Genesis 31:20 | Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away. +Genesis 31:21 | So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face towards the mountain of Gilead. +Genesis 31:22 | Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. +Genesis 31:23 | He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. +Genesis 31:24 | God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad." +Genesis 31:25 | Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. +Genesis 31:26 | Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? +Genesis 31:27 | Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp; +Genesis 31:28 | and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. +Genesis 31:29 | It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’ +Genesis 31:30 | Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?" +Genesis 31:31 | Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ +Genesis 31:32 | Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them. +Genesis 31:33 | Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. +Genesis 31:34 | Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them. +Genesis 31:35 | She said to her father, "Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period." He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim. +Genesis 31:36 | Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? +Genesis 31:37 | Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two. +Genesis 31:38 | "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks. +Genesis 31:39 | That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. +Genesis 31:40 | This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. +Genesis 31:41 | These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. +Genesis 31:42 | Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked you last night." +Genesis 31:43 | Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? +Genesis 31:44 | Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you." +Genesis 31:45 | Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. +Genesis 31:46 | Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. +Genesis 31:47 | Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. +Genesis 31:48 | Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed +Genesis 31:49 | and Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. +Genesis 31:49b | May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. +Genesis 31:50 | If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." +Genesis 31:51 | Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. +Genesis 31:52 | May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. +Genesis 31:53 | The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. +Genesis 31:54 | Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. +Genesis 31:55 | Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place. +Genesis 32:01 | Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. +Genesis 32:02 | When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God’s army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim. +Genesis 32:04 | He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. +Genesis 32:05 | I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in your sight.’" +Genesis 32:06 | The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." +Genesis 32:07 | Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies. +Genesis 32:08 | He said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape." +Genesis 32:09 | Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ +Genesis 32:10 | I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. +Genesis 32:11 | Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children. +Genesis 32:12 | You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’" +Genesis 32:13 | He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother: +Genesis 32:14 | two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, +Genesis 32:15 | thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. +Genesis 32:16 | He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd." +Genesis 32:17 | He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’ +Genesis 32:18 | Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’" +Genesis 32:19 | He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. +Genesis 32:20 | You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me." +Genesis 32:21 | So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. +Genesis 32:22 | He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok. +Genesis 32:23 | He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. +Genesis 32:24 | Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. +Genesis 32:25 | When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled. +Genesis 32:26 | The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won’t let you go unless you bless me." +Genesis 32:27 | He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob". +Genesis 32:28 | He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed." +Genesis 32:29 | Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" So he blessed him there. +Genesis 32:30 | Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." +Genesis 32:31 | The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh. +Genesis 32:32 | Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip. +Genesis 33:01 | Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. +Genesis 33:02 | He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. +Genesis 33:03 | He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. +Genesis 33:04 | Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. +Genesis 33:05 | He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." +Genesis 33:06 | Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. +Genesis 33:07 | Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. +Genesis 33:08 | Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favour in the sight of my lord." +Genesis 33:09 | Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours." +Genesis 33:10 | Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favour in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. +Genesis 33:11 | Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it. +Genesis 33:12 | Esau said, "Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you." +Genesis 33:13 | Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. +Genesis 33:14 | Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir." +Genesis 33:15 | Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favour in the sight of my lord." +Genesis 33:16 | So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. +Genesis 33:17 | Jacob travelled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. +Genesis 33:18 | Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city. +Genesis 33:19 | He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. +Genesis 33:20 | He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel. +Genesis 34:01 | Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. +Genesis 34:02 | Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. +Genesis 34:03 | His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. +Genesis 34:04 | Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife." +Genesis 34:05 | Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. +Genesis 34:06 | Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. +Genesis 34:07 | The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done. +Genesis 34:08 | Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. +Genesis 34:09 | Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. +Genesis 34:10 | You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it." +Genesis 34:11 | Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. +Genesis 34:12 | Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife." +Genesis 34:13 | The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, +Genesis 34:14 | and said to them, "We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. +Genesis 34:15 | Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised, +Genesis 34:16 | then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. +Genesis 34:17 | But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone." +Genesis 34:19 | The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honoured above all the house of his father. +Genesis 34:21 | "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters. +Genesis 34:22 | Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male amongst us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. +Genesis 34:23 | Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us." +Genesis 34:24 | All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. +Genesis 34:25 | On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. +Genesis 34:26 | They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. +Genesis 34:27 | Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. +Genesis 34:28 | They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, +Genesis 34:29 | and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. +Genesis 34:30 | Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, amongst the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house." +Genesis 34:31 | They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?" +Genesis 35:01 | God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother." +Genesis 35:02 | Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are amongst you, purify yourselves, change your garments. +Genesis 35:03 | Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went." +Genesis 35:04 | They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. +Genesis 35:05 | They travelled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. +Genesis 35:06 | So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. +Genesis 35:07 | He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. +Genesis 35:08 | Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth. +Genesis 35:09 | God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. +Genesis 35:10 | God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel. +Genesis 35:11 | God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. +Genesis 35:12 | The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land." +Genesis 35:13 | God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. +Genesis 35:14 | Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. +Genesis 35:15 | Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel". +Genesis 35:16 | They travelled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labour. +Genesis 35:17 | When she was in hard labour, the midwife said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son." +Genesis 35:18 | As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. +Genesis 35:19 | Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem). +Genesis 35:20 | Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. +Genesis 35:21 | Israel travelled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. +Genesis 35:29 | Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him. +Genesis 36:06 | Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. +Genesis 36:07 | For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock. +Genesis 37:03 | Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colours. +Genesis 37:04 | His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him. +Genesis 37:05 | Joseph dreamt a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. +Genesis 37:06 | He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamt: +Genesis 37:07 | for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." +Genesis 37:08 | His brothers asked him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. +Genesis 37:09 | He dreamt yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamt yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me." +Genesis 37:10 | He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamt? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to the earth before you?" +Genesis 37:11 | His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. +Genesis 37:12 | His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. +Genesis 37:13 | Israel said to Joseph, "Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am." +Genesis 37:14 | He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. +Genesis 37:15 | A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?" +Genesis 37:16 | He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock." +Genesis 37:17 | The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. +Genesis 37:18 | They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. +Genesis 37:19 | They said to one another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. +Genesis 37:20 | Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams." +Genesis 37:21 | Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let’s not take his life." +Genesis 37:22 | Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. +Genesis 37:23 | When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colours that was on him; +Genesis 37:24 | and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it. +Genesis 37:26 | Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? +Genesis 37:27 | Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him. +Genesis 37:28 | Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt. +Genesis 37:29 | Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes. +Genesis 37:30 | He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?" +Genesis 37:31 | They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood. +Genesis 37:32 | They took the tunic of many colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not." +Genesis 37:33 | He recognised it, and said, "It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces." +Genesis 37:34 | Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. +Genesis 37:35 | All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." His father wept for him. +Genesis 38:01 | At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. +Genesis 38:02 | There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her. +Genesis 38:03 | She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. +Genesis 38:06 | Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. +Genesis 38:07 | Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight. So the Lord killed him. +Genesis 38:08 | Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." +Genesis 38:08-10 | Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfil your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother." But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to avoid providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also. +Genesis 38:09 | Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. +Genesis 38:10 | The thing which he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, and he killed him also. +Genesis 38:11 | Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. +Genesis 38:14 | She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife. +Genesis 38:15 | When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. +Genesis 38:16 | He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" +Genesis 38:17 | He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?" +Genesis 38:18 | He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. +Genesis 38:19 | She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. +Genesis 38:20 | Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her. +Genesis 38:21 | Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here." +Genesis 38:22 | He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’" +Genesis 38:23 | Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her." +Genesis 38:24 | About three months later, Judah was told, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burnt." +Genesis 38:25 | When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "I am with child by the man who owns these." She also said, "Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff." +Genesis 38:26 | Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more. +Genesis 38:27 | In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb. +Genesis 38:28 | When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first." +Genesis 38:29 | As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez. +Genesis 38:30 | Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. +Genesis 39:01 | Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. +Genesis 39:02 | The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. +Genesis 39:03 | His master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did prosper in his hand. +Genesis 39:04 | Joseph found favour in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. +Genesis 39:05 | From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. The Lord’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field. +Genesis 39:06 | He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome. +Genesis 39:07 | After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me." +Genesis 39:08 | But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, "Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. +Genesis 39:09 | No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" +Genesis 39:10 | As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. +Genesis 39:11 | About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. +Genesis 39:12 | She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. +Genesis 39:13 | When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside, +Genesis 39:14 | she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. +Genesis 39:15 | When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside." +Genesis 39:16 | She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. +Genesis 39:17 | She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, +Genesis 39:18 | and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside." +Genesis 39:19 | When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," his wrath was kindled. +Genesis 39:20 | Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody. +Genesis 39:21 | But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. +Genesis 39:22 | The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it. +Genesis 39:23 | The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him; and that which he did, the Lord made it prosper. +Genesis 40:01 | After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. +Genesis 40:02 | Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker. +Genesis 40:03 | He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. +Genesis 40:04 | The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days. +Genesis 40:05 | They both dreamt a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. +Genesis 40:06 | Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. +Genesis 40:07 | He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?" +Genesis 40:08 | They said to him, "We have dreamt a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me." +Genesis 40:09 | The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, +Genesis 40:10 | and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. +Genesis 40:11 | Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand." +Genesis 40:12 | Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. +Genesis 40:13 | Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer. +Genesis 40:14 | But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. +Genesis 40:15 | For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." +Genesis 40:16 | When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. +Genesis 40:17 | In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head." +Genesis 40:18 | Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days. +Genesis 40:19 | Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you." +Genesis 40:20 | On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker amongst his servants. +Genesis 40:21 | He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand; +Genesis 40:22 | but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. +Genesis 40:23 | Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him. +Genesis 41:01 | At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamt, and behold, he stood by the river. +Genesis 41:02 | Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. +Genesis 41:03 | Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river. +Genesis 41:04 | The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke. +Genesis 41:05 | He slept and dreamt a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. +Genesis 41:06 | Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. +Genesis 41:07 | The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. +Genesis 41:08 | In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh. +Genesis 41:09 | Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today. +Genesis 41:10 | Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker. +Genesis 41:11 | We dreamt a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamt according to the interpretation of his dream. +Genesis 41:12 | There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. +Genesis 41:13 | As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him." +Genesis 41:14 | Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. +Genesis 41:15 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamt a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." +Genesis 41:16 | Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." +Genesis 41:17 | Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river; +Genesis 41:18 | and behold, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They fed in the marsh grass; +Genesis 41:19 | and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. +Genesis 41:20 | The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle; +Genesis 41:21 | and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke. +Genesis 41:22 | I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good; +Genesis 41:23 | and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. +Genesis 41:24 | The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me." +Genesis 41:25 | Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. +Genesis 41:26 | The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one. +Genesis 41:27 | The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. +Genesis 41:28 | That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. +Genesis 41:29 | Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming. +Genesis 41:30 | Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, +Genesis 41:31 | and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. +Genesis 41:32 | The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. +Genesis 41:33 | "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. +Genesis 41:34 | Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years. +Genesis 41:35 | Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. +Genesis 41:36 | The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine." +Genesis 41:37 | The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. +Genesis 41:38 | Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" +Genesis 41:39 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you. +Genesis 41:40 | You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you." +Genesis 41:41 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." +Genesis 41:42 | Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. +Genesis 41:43 | He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt. +Genesis 41:44 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." +Genesis 41:45 | Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. +Genesis 41:46 | Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. +Genesis 41:47 | In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly. +Genesis 41:48 | He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city. +Genesis 41:49 | Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. +Genesis 41:50 | To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. +Genesis 41:51 | Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For", he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house." +Genesis 41:52 | The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." +Genesis 41:53 | The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end. +Genesis 41:54 | The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. +Genesis 41:55 | When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do." +Genesis 41:56 | The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. +Genesis 41:57 | All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth. +Genesis 42:01 | Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" +Genesis 42:02 | He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die." +Genesis 42:03 | Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. +Genesis 42:04 | But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." +Genesis 42:05 | The sons of Israel came to buy amongst those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. +Genesis 42:06 | Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. +Genesis 42:07 | Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognised them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food." +Genesis 42:08 | Joseph recognised his brothers, but they didn’t recognise him. +Genesis 42:09 | Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamt about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land." +Genesis 42:10 | They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. +Genesis 42:11 | We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies." +Genesis 42:12 | He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!" +Genesis 42:13 | They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more." +Genesis 42:14 | Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ +Genesis 42:15 | By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. +Genesis 42:16 | Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." +Genesis 42:17 | He put them all together into custody for three days. +Genesis 42:18 | Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God. +Genesis 42:19 | If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. +Genesis 42:20 | Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die." They did so. +Genesis 42:21 | They said to one another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us." +Genesis 42:22 | Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." +Genesis 42:23 | They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. +Genesis 42:24 | He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from amongst them, and bound him before their eyes. +Genesis 42:25 | Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them. +Genesis 42:26 | They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. +Genesis 42:27 | As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. +Genesis 42:28 | He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?" +Genesis 42:30 | "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. +Genesis 42:32 | We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ +Genesis 42:33 | The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. +Genesis 42:34 | Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’" +Genesis 42:35 | As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. +Genesis 42:36 | Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me." +Genesis 42:37 | Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again." +Genesis 42:38 | He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol." +Genesis 43:01 | The famine was severe in the land. +Genesis 43:02 | When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food." +Genesis 43:03 | Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ +Genesis 43:04 | If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food; +Genesis 43:05 | but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’" +Genesis 43:06 | Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?" +Genesis 43:07 | They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’" +Genesis 43:08 | Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones. +Genesis 43:09 | I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever; +Genesis 43:10 | for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now." +Genesis 43:11 | Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; +Genesis 43:12 | and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. +Genesis 43:13 | Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man. +Genesis 43:14 | May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." +Genesis 43:15 | The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. +Genesis 43:16 | When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon." +Genesis 43:17 | The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house. +Genesis 43:18 | The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys." +Genesis 43:19 | They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, +Genesis 43:20 | and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food. +Genesis 43:21 | When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand. +Genesis 43:22 | We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks." +Genesis 43:23 | He said, "Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them. +Genesis 43:24 | The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. +Genesis 43:25 | They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there. +Genesis 43:26 | When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him. +Genesis 43:27 | He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?" +Genesis 43:28 | They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed down humbly. +Genesis 43:29 | He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son." +Genesis 43:30 | Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there. +Genesis 43:31 | He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal." +Genesis 43:32 | They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. +Genesis 43:33 | They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marvelled with one another. +Genesis 43:34 | He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him. +Genesis 44:01 | He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. +Genesis 44:02 | Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. +Genesis 44:03 | As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. +Genesis 44:04 | When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? +Genesis 44:05 | Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’" +Genesis 44:06 | He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. +Genesis 44:07 | They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! +Genesis 44:08 | Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house? +Genesis 44:09 | With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves." +Genesis 44:10 | He said, "Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless." +Genesis 44:11 | Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. +Genesis 44:12 | He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. +Genesis 44:13 | Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. +Genesis 44:14 | Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. +Genesis 44:15 | Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?" +Genesis 44:16 | Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found." +Genesis 44:17 | He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father." +Genesis 44:18 | Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. +Genesis 44:19 | My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ +Genesis 44:20 | We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ +Genesis 44:21 | You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ +Genesis 44:22 | We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ +Genesis 44:23 | You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ +Genesis 44:24 | When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. +Genesis 44:25 | Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ +Genesis 44:26 | We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’ +Genesis 44:27 | Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. +Genesis 44:28 | One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces" and I haven’t seen him since. +Genesis 44:29 | If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ +Genesis 44:30 | Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; +Genesis 44:31 | it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the grey hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. +Genesis 44:32 | For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’ +Genesis 44:33 | Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. +Genesis 44:34 | For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father." +Genesis 45:01 | Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. +Genesis 45:02 | He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. +Genesis 45:03 | Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. +Genesis 45:04 | Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. He said, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. +Genesis 45:05 | Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. +Genesis 45:06 | For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no ploughing and no harvest. +Genesis 45:07 | God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. +Genesis 45:08 | So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. +Genesis 45:09 | Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait. +Genesis 45:10 | You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. +Genesis 45:11 | There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."’ +Genesis 45:12 | Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. +Genesis 45:13 | You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here." +Genesis 45:14 | He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. +Genesis 45:15 | He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him. +Genesis 45:16 | The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, "Joseph’s brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. +Genesis 45:17 | Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. +Genesis 45:18 | Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ +Genesis 45:19 | Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. +Genesis 45:20 | Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours." +Genesis 45:21 | The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. +Genesis 45:22 | He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. +Genesis 45:23 | He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. +Genesis 45:24 | So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don’t quarrel on the way." +Genesis 45:25 | They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. +Genesis 45:26 | They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them. +Genesis 45:27 | They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. +Genesis 45:28 | Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die." +Genesis 46:01 | Israel travelled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. +Genesis 46:02 | God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." +Genesis 46:03 | He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. +Genesis 46:04 | I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes." +Genesis 46:29 | Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. +Genesis 46:30 | Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive." +Genesis 46:31 | Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. +Genesis 46:32 | These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’ +Genesis 46:33 | It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’ +Genesis 46:34 | that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." +Genesis 47:01 | Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." +Genesis 47:02 | From amongst his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. +Genesis 47:03 | Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." +Genesis 47:04 | They also said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." +Genesis 47:05 | Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. +Genesis 47:06 | The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men amongst them, then put them in charge of my livestock." +Genesis 47:07 | Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. +Genesis 47:09 | Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." +Genesis 47:10 | Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. +Genesis 47:11 | Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. +Genesis 47:12 | Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families. +Genesis 47:13 | There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. +Genesis 47:14 | Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. +Genesis 47:15 | When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails." +Genesis 47:16 | Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone." +Genesis 47:17 | They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. +Genesis 47:18 | When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. +Genesis 47:19 | Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate." +Genesis 47:20 | So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s. +Genesis 47:21 | As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. +Genesis 47:22 | Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land. +Genesis 47:23 | Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. +Genesis 47:24 | It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." +Genesis 47:25 | They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants." +Genesis 47:26 | Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s. +Genesis 47:27 | Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. +Genesis 47:28 | Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years. +Genesis 47:29 | The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favour in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt, +Genesis 47:30 | but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." Joseph said, "I will do as you have said." +Genesis 47:31 | Israel said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head. +Genesis 48:01 | After these things, someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. +Genesis 48:02 | Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. +Genesis 48:03 | Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, +Genesis 48:04 | and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’ +Genesis 48:05 | Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. +Genesis 48:06 | Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. +Genesis 48:07 | As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)." +Genesis 48:08 | Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, "Who are these?" +Genesis 48:09 | Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." +Genesis 48:10 | Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. +Genesis 48:11 | Israel said to Joseph, "I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also." +Genesis 48:12 | Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. +Genesis 48:13 | Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him. +Genesis 48:14 | Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. +Genesis 48:15 | He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, +Genesis 48:16 | the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth." +Genesis 48:17 | When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. +Genesis 48:18 | Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head." +Genesis 48:19 | His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations." +Genesis 48:20 | He blessed them that day, saying, "Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’" He set Ephraim before Manasseh. +Genesis 48:21 | Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. +Genesis 48:22 | Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." +Genesis 49:01 | Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. +Genesis 49:02 | Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. +Genesis 49:03 | "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. +Genesis 49:04 | Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch. +Genesis 49:05 | "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. +Genesis 49:06 | My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. +Genesis 49:07 | Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. +Genesis 49:08 | "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you. +Genesis 49:09 | Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? +Genesis 49:10 | The sceptre will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him. +Genesis 49:11 | Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. +Genesis 49:12 | His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk. +Genesis 49:13 | "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. +Genesis 49:14 | "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. +Genesis 49:15 | He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labour. +Genesis 49:16 | "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. +Genesis 49:17 | Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward. +Genesis 49:18 | I have waited for your salvation, Lord. +Genesis 49:19 | "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. +Genesis 49:20 | "Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties. +Genesis 49:21 | "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. +Genesis 49:22 | "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. +Genesis 49:23 | The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him: +Genesis 49:24 | But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), +Genesis 49:25 | even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. +Genesis 49:26 | The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. +Genesis 49:27 | "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder." +Genesis 49:28 | All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing. +Genesis 49:29 | He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, +Genesis 49:30 | in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. +Genesis 49:31 | There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: +Genesis 49:32 | the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth." +Genesis 49:33 | When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people. +Genesis 50:01 | Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. +Genesis 50:02 | Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. +Genesis 50:03 | Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days. +Genesis 50:05 | ‘My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’" +Genesis 50:06 | Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear." +Genesis 50:07 | Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, +Genesis 50:08 | all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. +Genesis 50:09 | Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company. +Genesis 50:10 | They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. +Genesis 50:11 | When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. +Genesis 50:12 | His sons did to him just as he commanded them, +Genesis 50:13 | for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. +Genesis 50:14 | Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. +Genesis 50:15 | When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him." +Genesis 50:17 | ‘You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. +Genesis 50:18 | His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." +Genesis 50:19 | Joseph said to them, "Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? +Genesis 50:20 | As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. +Genesis 50:21 | Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. +Genesis 50:22 | Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. +Genesis 50:24 | Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." +Genesis 50:25 | Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." +Genesis 50:26 | So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. +Habakkuk 01:01 | The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw. +Habakkuk 01:02 | Lord, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? +Habakkuk 01:03 | Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. +Habakkuk 01:04 | Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted. +Habakkuk 01:05 | "Look amongst the nations, watch, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you. +Habakkuk 01:06 | For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. +Habakkuk 01:07 | They are feared and dreaded. Their judgement and their dignity proceed from themselves. +Habakkuk 01:08 | Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour. +Habakkuk 01:09 | All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand. +Habakkuk 01:10 | Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it. +Habakkuk 01:11 | Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god." +Habakkuk 01:12 | Aren’t you from everlasting, Lord my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Lord, you have appointed him for judgement. You, Rock, have established him to punish. +Habakkuk 01:13 | You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, +Habakkuk 01:14 | and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? +Habakkuk 01:15 | He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. +Habakkuk 01:16 | Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. +Habakkuk 01:17 | Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy? +Habakkuk 02:01 | I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. +Habakkuk 02:01 | I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. +Habakkuk 02:02 | The Lord answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. +Habakkuk 02:03 | For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries towards the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay. +Habakkuk 02:04 | Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. +Habakkuk 02:05 | Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples. +Habakkuk 02:06 | Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’ +Habakkuk 02:07 | Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim? +Habakkuk 02:08 | Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it. +Habakkuk 02:09 | Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! +Habakkuk 02:10 | You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul. +Habakkuk 02:11 | For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it. +Habakkuk 02:12 | Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! +Habakkuk 02:13 | Behold, isn’t it of the Lord of Armies that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? +Habakkuk 02:14 | For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s glory, as the waters cover the sea. +Habakkuk 02:15 | "Woe to him who gives his neighbour drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies! +Habakkuk 02:16 | You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. +Habakkuk 02:17 | For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them. +Habakkuk 02:18 | "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? +Habakkuk 02:19 | Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it. +Habakkuk 02:20 | But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!" +Habakkuk 03:01 | A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music. +Habakkuk 03:02 | Lord, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy. +Habakkuk 03:03 | God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth. +Habakkuk 03:04 | His splendour is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden. +Habakkuk 03:05 | Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet. +Habakkuk 03:06 | He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal. +Habakkuk 03:07 | I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled. +Habakkuk 03:08 | Was the Lord displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation? +Habakkuk 03:09 | You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers. +Habakkuk 03:10 | The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high. +Habakkuk 03:11 | The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear. +Habakkuk 03:12 | You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger. +Habakkuk 03:13 | You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah. +Habakkuk 03:14 | You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret. +Habakkuk 03:15 | You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters. +Habakkuk 03:16 | I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us. +Habakkuk 03:17 | For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: +Habakkuk 03:17-18 | Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. +Habakkuk 03:18 | yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! +Habakkuk 03:19 | The Lord, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments. +Haggai 01:02 | "This is what the Lord of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the Lord’s house to be built.’" +Haggai 01:04 | "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses, while this house lies waste? +Haggai 01:05 | Now therefore this is what the Lord of Armies says: Consider your ways. +Haggai 01:05-06 | The Lord Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it." +Haggai 01:06 | You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it." +Haggai 01:07 | This is what the Lord of Armies says: "Consider your ways. +Haggai 01:08 | Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says the Lord. +Haggai 01:09 | "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the Lord of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. +Haggai 01:10 | Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. +Haggai 01:11 | I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labour of the hands." +Haggai 01:12 | Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the Lord their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord, their God, had sent him; and the people feared the Lord. +Haggai 01:13 | Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says the Lord. +Haggai 01:14 | The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of Armies, their God, +Haggai 01:15 | in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. +Haggai 02:03 | ‘Who is left amongst you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing? +Haggai 02:04 | Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says the Lord of Armies. +Haggai 02:05 | This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived amongst you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’ +Haggai 02:06 | For this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; +Haggai 02:07 | and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of Armies. +Haggai 02:08 | The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says the Lord of Armies. +Haggai 02:09 | ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of Armies." +Haggai 02:12 | ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’" The priests answered, "No." +Haggai 02:13 | Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean." +Haggai 02:14 | Then Haggai answered, "‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says the Lord; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean. +Haggai 02:15 | Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the Lord’s temple. +Haggai 02:16 | Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. +Haggai 02:17 | I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the Lord. +Haggai 02:18 | ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. +Haggai 02:19 | Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’" +Haggai 02:21 | "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth. +Haggai 02:22 | I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother. +Haggai 02:23 | In that day, says the Lord of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the Lord, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of Armies." +Hebrews 01:01 | God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, +Hebrews 01:02 | has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. +Hebrews 01:03 | His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, +Hebrews 01:04 | having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs. +Hebrews 01:05 | For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?" +Hebrews 01:06 | When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him." +Hebrews 01:07 | Of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire." +Hebrews 01:08 | But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of your Kingdom. +Hebrews 01:09 | You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows." +Hebrews 01:10 | And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands. +Hebrews 01:11 | They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does. +Hebrews 01:12 | You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail." +Hebrews 01:13 | But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?" +Hebrews 01:14 | Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? +Hebrews 02:01 | Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. +Hebrews 02:02 | For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, +Hebrews 02:03 | how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard, +Hebrews 02:04 | God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will? +Hebrews 02:05 | For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels. +Hebrews 02:06 | But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? +Hebrews 02:07 | You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honour. +Hebrews 02:08 | You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet. +Hebrews 02:09 | But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone. +Hebrews 02:10 | For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. +Hebrews 02:11 | For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, +Hebrews 02:12 | "I will declare your name to my brothers. Amongst the congregation I will sing your praise." +Hebrews 02:13 | Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me." +Hebrews 02:14 | Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, +Hebrews 02:15 | and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. +Hebrews 02:16 | For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham. +Hebrews 02:17 | Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. +Hebrews 02:18 | For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. +Hebrews 03:01 | Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus, +Hebrews 03:02 | who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house. +Hebrews 03:03 | For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honour than the house. +Hebrews 03:04 | For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. +Hebrews 03:05 | Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, +Hebrews 03:06 | but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. +Hebrews 03:07 | Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, +Hebrews 03:08 | don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness, +Hebrews 03:09 | where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years. +Hebrews 03:10 | Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’ +Hebrews 03:11 | As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’" +Hebrews 03:12 | Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; +Hebrews 03:13 | but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today", lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. +Hebrews 03:14 | For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end, +Hebrews 03:15 | while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." +Hebrews 03:16 | For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? +Hebrews 03:17 | With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? +Hebrews 03:18 | To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? +Hebrews 03:19 | We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief. +Hebrews 04:01 | Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. +Hebrews 04:02 | For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard. +Hebrews 04:03 | For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. +Hebrews 04:04 | For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works" +Hebrews 04:05 | and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest." +Hebrews 04:06 | Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience, +Hebrews 04:07 | he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts." +Hebrews 04:08 | For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. +Hebrews 04:09 | There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. +Hebrews 04:10 | For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. +Hebrews 04:11 | Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. +Hebrews 04:12 | For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. +Hebrews 04:12 | The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. +Hebrews 04:13 | There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. +Hebrews 04:14 | Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. +Hebrews 04:15 | For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. +Hebrews 04:16 | Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need. +Hebrews 04:16 | We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. +Hebrews 05:01 | For every high priest, being taken from amongst men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. +Hebrews 05:02 | The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. +Hebrews 05:03 | Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself. +Hebrews 05:04 | Nobody takes this honour on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was. +Hebrews 05:05 | So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father." +Hebrews 05:06 | As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." +Hebrews 05:07 | He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, +Hebrews 05:08 | though he was a Son, yet learnt obedience by the things which he suffered. +Hebrews 05:09 | Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation, +Hebrews 05:10 | named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. +Hebrews 05:11 | About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. +Hebrews 05:12 | For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. +Hebrews 05:13 | For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. +Hebrews 05:14 | But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. +Hebrews 06:01 | Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith towards God, +Hebrews 06:02 | of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgement. +Hebrews 06:04 | For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, +Hebrews 06:05 | and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, +Hebrews 06:06 | and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. +Hebrews 06:07 | For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; +Hebrews 06:08 | but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burnt. +Hebrews 06:09 | But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. +Hebrews 06:10 | For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labour of love which you showed towards his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. +Hebrews 06:11 | We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, +Hebrews 06:12 | that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises. +Hebrews 06:13 | For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, saying, +Hebrews 06:14 | "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." +Hebrews 06:15 | Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. +Hebrews 06:16 | For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. +Hebrews 06:17 | In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, +Hebrews 06:18 | that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. +Hebrews 06:19 | This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; +Hebrews 06:20 | where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. +Hebrews 07:01 | For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, +Hebrews 07:02 | to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, "king of righteousness", and then also "king of Salem", which means "king of peace", +Hebrews 07:03 | without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. +Hebrews 07:04 | Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder. +Hebrews 07:05 | They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham, +Hebrews 07:06 | but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. +Hebrews 07:07 | But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. +Hebrews 07:08 | Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. +Hebrews 07:09 | We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, +Hebrews 07:10 | for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him. +Hebrews 07:11 | Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? +Hebrews 07:12 | For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law. +Hebrews 07:13 | For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. +Hebrews 07:14 | For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. +Hebrews 07:15 | This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, +Hebrews 07:16 | who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life; +Hebrews 07:17 | for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek." +Hebrews 07:18 | For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness +Hebrews 07:19 | (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. +Hebrews 07:20 | Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath +Hebrews 07:21 | (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’" +Hebrews 07:22 | By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant. +Hebrews 07:23 | Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. +Hebrews 07:24 | But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. +Hebrews 07:25 | Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them. +Hebrews 07:26 | For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; +Hebrews 07:27 | who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. +Hebrews 07:28 | For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected. +Hebrews 08:01 | Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, +Hebrews 08:02 | a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. +Hebrews 08:03 | For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. +Hebrews 08:04 | For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law, +Hebrews 08:05 | who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain." +Hebrews 08:06 | But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. +Hebrews 08:07 | For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. +Hebrews 08:08 | For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come", says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; +Hebrews 08:09 | not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says the Lord. +Hebrews 08:10 | "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. +Hebrews 08:11 | They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest. +Hebrews 08:12 | For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more." +Hebrews 08:13 | In that he says, "A new covenant", he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away. +Hebrews 09:01 | Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. +Hebrews 09:02 | For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. +Hebrews 09:03 | After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, +Hebrews 09:04 | having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; +Hebrews 09:05 | and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. +Hebrews 09:06 | Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, +Hebrews 09:07 | but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. +Hebrews 09:08 | The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing. +Hebrews 09:09 | This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect, +Hebrews 09:10 | being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. +Hebrews 09:11 | But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, +Hebrews 09:12 | nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. +Hebrews 09:13 | For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, +Hebrews 09:14 | how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? +Hebrews 09:15 | For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. +Hebrews 09:16 | For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. +Hebrews 09:17 | For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. +Hebrews 09:18 | Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. +Hebrews 09:19 | For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, +Hebrews 09:20 | "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you." +Hebrews 09:21 | Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. +Hebrews 09:22 | According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. +Hebrews 09:23 | It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. +Hebrews 09:24 | For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; +Hebrews 09:25 | nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, +Hebrews 09:26 | or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. +Hebrews 09:27 | Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgement, +Hebrews 09:28 | so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation. +Hebrews 10:01 | For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. +Hebrews 10:02 | Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? +Hebrews 10:03 | But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. +Hebrews 10:04 | For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. +Hebrews 10:05 | Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. +Hebrews 10:06 | You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. +Hebrews 10:07 | Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’" +Hebrews 10:08 | Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), +Hebrews 10:09 | then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, +Hebrews 10:10 | by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. +Hebrews 10:11 | Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices which can never take away sins, +Hebrews 10:12 | but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, +Hebrews 10:13 | from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. +Hebrews 10:14 | For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. +Hebrews 10:16 | "This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’" then he says, +Hebrews 10:17 | "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more." +Hebrews 10:18 | Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. +Hebrews 10:19 | Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, +Hebrews 10:19-23 | Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. +Hebrews 10:20 | by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, +Hebrews 10:21 | and having a great priest over God’s house, +Hebrews 10:22 | let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, +Hebrews 10:23 | let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. +Hebrews 10:24 | Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, +Hebrews 10:24-25 | Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. +Hebrews 10:25 | not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. +Hebrews 10:26 | For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, +Hebrews 10:27 | but a certain fearful expectation of judgement, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. +Hebrews 10:28 | A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. +Hebrews 10:29 | How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? +Hebrews 10:30 | For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay," says the Lord. Again, "The Lord will judge his people." +Hebrews 10:31 | It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. +Hebrews 10:32 | But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; +Hebrews 10:33 | partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. +Hebrews 10:34 | For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. +Hebrews 10:35 | Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. +Hebrews 10:36 | For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. +Hebrews 10:37 | "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait. +Hebrews 10:38 | But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." +Hebrews 10:39 | But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul. +Hebrews 11:01 | Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. +Hebrews 11:02 | For by this, the elders obtained testimony. +Hebrews 11:03 | By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible. +Hebrews 11:04 | By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks. +Hebrews 11:05 | By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. +Hebrews 11:06 | Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. +Hebrews 11:07 | By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. +Hebrews 11:08 | By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. +Hebrews 11:09 | By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. +Hebrews 11:10 | For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. +Hebrews 11:11 | By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. +Hebrews 11:12 | Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. +Hebrews 11:13 | These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. +Hebrews 11:14 | For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. +Hebrews 11:15 | If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. +Hebrews 11:16 | But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. +Hebrews 11:17 | By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son, +Hebrews 11:18 | to whom it was said, "Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac," +Hebrews 11:19 | concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. +Hebrews 11:20 | By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. +Hebrews 11:21 | By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff. +Hebrews 11:22 | By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones. +Hebrews 11:23 | By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. +Hebrews 11:24 | By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, +Hebrews 11:25 | choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, +Hebrews 11:26 | considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. +Hebrews 11:27 | By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. +Hebrews 11:28 | By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. +Hebrews 11:29 | By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up. +Hebrews 11:30 | By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. +Hebrews 11:31 | By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. +Hebrews 11:32 | What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, +Hebrews 11:33 | who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, +Hebrews 11:34 | quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee. +Hebrews 11:35 | Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. +Hebrews 11:36 | Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. +Hebrews 11:37 | They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated— +Hebrews 11:38 | of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. +Hebrews 11:39 | These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise, +Hebrews 11:40 | God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect. +Hebrews 12:01 | Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, +Hebrews 12:01-02 | Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. +Hebrews 12:02 | looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. +Hebrews 12:03 | For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. +Hebrews 12:04 | You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. +Hebrews 12:05 | You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; +Hebrews 12:06 | for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives." +Hebrews 12:07 | It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? +Hebrews 12:08 | But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. +Hebrews 12:09 | Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? +Hebrews 12:10 | For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. +Hebrews 12:11 | All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. +Hebrews 12:12 | Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, +Hebrews 12:13 | and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. +Hebrews 12:14 | Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, +Hebrews 12:15 | looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it, +Hebrews 12:16 | lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. +Hebrews 12:17 | For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. +Hebrews 12:18 | For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burnt with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, +Hebrews 12:19 | the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, +Hebrews 12:20 | for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned". +Hebrews 12:21 | So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." +Hebrews 12:22 | But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, +Hebrews 12:23 | to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, +Hebrews 12:24 | to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. +Hebrews 12:25 | See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, +Hebrews 12:26 | whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens." +Hebrews 12:27 | This phrase, "Yet once more" signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. +Hebrews 12:28 | Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, +Hebrews 12:29 | for our God is a consuming fire. +Hebrews 13:01 | Let brotherly love continue. +Hebrews 13:02 | Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it. +Hebrews 13:03 | Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. +Hebrews 13:04 | Let marriage be held in honour amongst all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. +Hebrews 13:05 | Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." +Hebrews 13:06 | So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?" +Hebrews 13:07 | Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. +Hebrews 13:08 | Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. +Hebrews 13:09 | Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefitted. +Hebrews 13:10 | We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. +Hebrews 13:11 | For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burnt outside of the camp. +Hebrews 13:12 | Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. +Hebrews 13:13 | Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. +Hebrews 13:14 | For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come. +Hebrews 13:15 | Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. +Hebrews 13:16 | But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. +Hebrews 13:17 | Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you. +Hebrews 13:18 | Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honourably in all things. +Hebrews 13:19 | I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner. +Hebrews 13:20 | Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, +Hebrews 13:21 | make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. +Hebrews 13:22 | But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words. +Hebrews 13:23 | Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you. +Hebrews 13:24 | Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you. +Hebrews 13:25 | Grace be with you all. Amen. +Hosea 01:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. +Hosea 01:02 | When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, "Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord." +Hosea 01:02 | When the Lord spoke at first by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the Lord." +Hosea 01:03 | So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son. +Hosea 01:04 | The Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. +Hosea 01:05 | It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel." +Hosea 01:06 | She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them. +Hosea 01:07 | But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen." +Hosea 01:08 | Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. +Hosea 01:09 | He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. +Hosea 01:10 | Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ +Hosea 01:11 | The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel. +Hosea 02:01 | "Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ +Hosea 02:02 | Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; +Hosea 02:03 | Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. +Hosea 02:04 | Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness; +Hosea 02:05 | For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ +Hosea 02:06 | Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way. +Hosea 02:07 | She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then it was better with me than now.’ +Hosea 02:08 | For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. +Hosea 02:09 | Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. +Hosea 02:10 | Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand. +Hosea 02:11 | I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. +Hosea 02:12 | I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them. +Hosea 02:13 | "I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot Me." declares the Lord. +Hosea 02:13 | I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burnt incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says the Lord. +Hosea 02:14 | "Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. +Hosea 02:15 | I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. +Hosea 02:16 | It will be in that day," says the Lord, "that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’ +Hosea 02:17 | For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name. +Hosea 02:18 | In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely. +Hosea 02:19 | I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. +Hosea 02:20 | I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord. +Hosea 02:21 | It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the Lord, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth; +Hosea 02:22 | and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel. +Hosea 02:23 | I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’" +Hosea 03:01 | The Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins." +Hosea 03:01 | The Lord said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes." +Hosea 03:02 | So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. +Hosea 03:03 | I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so towards you." +Hosea 03:04 | For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. +Hosea 03:05 | Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days. +Hosea 04:01 | Hear the Lord’s word, you children of Israel; for the Lord has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. +Hosea 04:02 | There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. +Hosea 04:03 | Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die. +Hosea 04:04 | "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. +Hosea 04:05 | You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. +Hosea 04:06 | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children. +Hosea 04:06-07 | Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as My priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. The more priests there were, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. +Hosea 04:07 | As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame. +Hosea 04:08 | They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. +Hosea 04:09 | It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. +Hosea 04:10 | They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to the Lord. +Hosea 04:11 | Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. +Hosea 04:12 | My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. +Hosea 04:13 | They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery. +Hosea 04:14 | I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin. +Hosea 04:15 | "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As the Lord lives.’ +Hosea 04:16 | For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a meadow. +Hosea 04:18 | Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way. +Hosea 04:19 | The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices. +Hosea 05:01 | "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgement is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. +Hosea 05:02 | The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them. +Hosea 05:03 | I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled. +Hosea 05:04 | Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord. +Hosea 05:04 | Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know the Lord. +Hosea 05:05 | The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. +Hosea 05:06 | They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. +Hosea 05:07 | They are unfaithful to the Lord; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. +Hosea 05:08 | "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin! +Hosea 05:09 | Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Amongst the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be. +Hosea 05:10 | The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. +Hosea 05:11 | Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgement, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols. +Hosea 05:12 | Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. +Hosea 05:13 | "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. +Hosea 05:14 | For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. +Hosea 05:15 | I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly." +Hosea 05:15 | I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face in their misery they will earnestly seek me. +Hosea 06:01 | "Come! Let’s return to the Lord; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds. +Hosea 06:01 | Come, let us return to the Lord! He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us. He has injured us, but He will bind up our wounds. +Hosea 06:02 | After two days He will revive us, on the third day He will restore us, that we may live in His presence. +Hosea 06:02 | After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him. +Hosea 06:03 | Let us acknowledge the Lord! Let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear, He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. +Hosea 06:03 | Let’s acknowledge the Lord. Let’s press on to know the Lord. As surely as the sun rises, The Lord will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth." +Hosea 06:04 | "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early. +Hosea 06:05 | Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgements are like a flash of lightning. +Hosea 06:06 | For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. +Hosea 06:06 | I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. +Hosea 06:07 | But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there. +Hosea 06:08 | Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood. +Hosea 06:09 | As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path towards Shechem, committing shameful crimes. +Hosea 06:10 | In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. +Hosea 06:11 | "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people. +Hosea 07:01 | When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. +Hosea 07:02 | They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face. +Hosea 07:03 | They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. +Hosea 07:04 | They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. +Hosea 07:05 | On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers. +Hosea 07:06 | For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. +Hosea 07:07 | They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one amongst them who calls to me. +Hosea 07:08 | Ephraim mixes himself amongst the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. +Hosea 07:09 | Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realise it. Indeed, grey hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realise it. +Hosea 07:10 | The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to the Lord their God, nor sought him, for all this. +Hosea 07:11 | "Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria. +Hosea 07:12 | When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard. +Hosea 07:13 | Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me. +Hosea 07:14 | They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me. +Hosea 07:15 | Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me. +Hosea 07:16 | They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. +Hosea 08:01 | "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the Lord’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law. +Hosea 08:02 | They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’ +Hosea 08:03 | Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him. +Hosea 08:04 | They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off. +Hosea 08:05 | Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity? +Hosea 08:06 | For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. +Hosea 08:07 | For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up. +Hosea 08:08 | Israel is swallowed up. Now they are amongst the nations like a worthless thing. +Hosea 08:09 | For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself. +Hosea 08:10 | But although they sold themselves amongst the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones. +Hosea 08:11 | Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning. +Hosea 08:12 | I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing. +Hosea 08:13 | As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt. +Hosea 08:14 | For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses." +Hosea 09:01 | Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. +Hosea 09:02 | The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her. +Hosea 09:03 | They won’t dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. +Hosea 09:04 | They won’t pour out wine offerings to the Lord, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the Lord’s house. +Hosea 09:05 | What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? +Hosea 09:06 | For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents. +Hosea 09:07 | The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great. +Hosea 09:08 | A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. +Hosea 09:09 | They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins. +Hosea 09:10 | I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. +Hosea 09:11 | As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception. +Hosea 09:12 | Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! +Hosea 09:13 | I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. +Hosea 09:14 | Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. +Hosea 09:15 | "All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels. +Hosea 09:16 | Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb." +Hosea 09:17 | My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers amongst the nations. +Hosea 10:01 | Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones. +Hosea 10:02 | Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones. +Hosea 10:03 | Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don’t fear the Lord; and the king, what can he do for us?" +Hosea 10:04 | They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgement springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. +Hosea 10:05 | The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven, for its people will mourn over it, along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it. +Hosea 10:06 | It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel. +Hosea 10:07 | Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water. +Hosea 10:08 | The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!" +Hosea 10:09 | "Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah. +Hosea 10:10 | When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions. +Hosea 10:11 | Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plough. Jacob will break his clods. +Hosea 10:12 | Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and showers His righteousness on you. +Hosea 10:12 | Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and rains righteousness on you. +Hosea 10:13 | You have ploughed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. +Hosea 10:14 | Therefore a battle roar will arise amongst your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children. +Hosea 10:15 | So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed. +Hosea 11:01 | "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. +Hosea 11:02 | They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burnt incense to engraved images. +Hosea 11:03 | Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them. +Hosea 11:04 | I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him. +Hosea 11:05 | "They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent. +Hosea 11:06 | The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans. +Hosea 11:07 | My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them. +Hosea 11:08 | "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused. +Hosea 11:09 | I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One amongst you; and I will not come in wrath. +Hosea 11:10 | They will walk after the Lord, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west. +Hosea 11:11 | They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses," says the Lord. +Hosea 12:01 | Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. +Hosea 12:02 | The Lord also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him. +Hosea 12:03 | In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God. +Hosea 12:04 | Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us, +Hosea 12:05 | even the Lord, the God of Armies; The Lord is his name of renown! +Hosea 12:06 | Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God. +Hosea 12:07 | A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. +Hosea 12:08 | Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin." +Hosea 12:09 | "But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast. +Hosea 12:10 | I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables. +Hosea 12:11 | If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field. +Hosea 12:12 | Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds. +Hosea 12:13 | By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved. +Hosea 12:14 | Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt. +Hosea 13:01 | When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died. +Hosea 13:02 | Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’ +Hosea 13:03 | Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney. +Hosea 13:04 | "Yet I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour. +Hosea 13:05 | I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. +Hosea 13:06 | According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me. +Hosea 13:07 | Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. +Hosea 13:08 | I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them. +Hosea 13:09 | You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help. +Hosea 13:10 | Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? +Hosea 13:11 | I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath. +Hosea 13:12 | The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up. +Hosea 13:13 | The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb. +Hosea 13:14 | I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes. +Hosea 13:15 | Though he is fruitful amongst his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of the Lord coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure. +Hosea 13:16 | Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open." +Hosea 14:01 | Israel, return to the Lord your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. +Hosea 14:02 | Take words with you, and return to the Lord. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. +Hosea 14:03 | Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy." +Hosea 14:04 | "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him. +Hosea 14:05 | I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon. +Hosea 14:06 | His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon. +Hosea 14:07 | Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon. +Hosea 14:08 | Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found." +Hosea 14:09 | Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. +Isaiah 01:01 | The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. +Isaiah 01:02 | Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the Lord has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me. +Isaiah 01:03 | The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider." +Isaiah 01:04 | Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward. +Isaiah 01:05 | Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. +Isaiah 01:06 | From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil. +Isaiah 01:07 | Your country is desolate. Your cities are burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. +Isaiah 01:08 | The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. +Isaiah 01:09 | Unless the Lord of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah. +Isaiah 01:10 | Hear the Lord’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! +Isaiah 01:11 | "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?", says the Lord. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. +Isaiah 01:12 | When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? +Isaiah 01:13 | Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies. +Isaiah 01:14 | My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. +Isaiah 01:15 | When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. +Isaiah 01:16 | Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. +Isaiah 01:17 | Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow." +Isaiah 01:18 | "Come now, and let’s reason together," says the LORD: "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. +Isaiah 01:19 | If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land; +Isaiah 01:20 | but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the the Lord’s mouth has spoken it." +Isaiah 01:21 | How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers. +Isaiah 01:22 | Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. +Isaiah 01:23 | Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. +Isaiah 01:24 | Therefore the Lord, God of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies. +Isaiah 01:25 | I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin. +Isaiah 01:26 | I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’ +Isaiah 01:27 | Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. +Isaiah 01:28 | But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. +Isaiah 01:29 | For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. +Isaiah 01:30 | For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. +Isaiah 01:31 | The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them." +Isaiah 02:01 | This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. +Isaiah 02:02 | It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. +Isaiah 02:03 | Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For the law shall go out of Zion, and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem. +Isaiah 02:04 | He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. +Isaiah 02:05 | House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the Lord. +Isaiah 02:06 | For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practise divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. +Isaiah 02:07 | Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. +Isaiah 02:08 | Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. +Isaiah 02:09 | Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them. +Isaiah 02:10 | Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. +Isaiah 02:11 | The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. +Isaiah 02:12 | For there will be a day of the Lord of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low: +Isaiah 02:17 | The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. +Isaiah 02:18 | The idols shall utterly pass away. +Isaiah 02:19 | Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. +Isaiah 02:20 | In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, +Isaiah 02:21 | to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. +Isaiah 02:22 | Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he? +Isaiah 03:01 | For, behold, the Lord, God of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; +Isaiah 03:04 | I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them. +Isaiah 03:05 | The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbour. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honourable. +Isaiah 03:06 | Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand." +Isaiah 03:07 | In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people." +Isaiah 03:08 | For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. +Isaiah 03:09 | The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves. +Isaiah 03:10 | Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. +Isaiah 03:11 | Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him. +Isaiah 03:12 | As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. +Isaiah 03:13 | The Lord stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. +Isaiah 03:14 | The Lord will enter into judgement with the elders of his people and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses. +Isaiah 03:15 | What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 03:16 | Moreover the Lord said, "Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; +Isaiah 03:17 | therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and the Lord will make their scalps bald." +Isaiah 03:18 | In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, +Isaiah 03:24 | It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. +Isaiah 03:25 | Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. +Isaiah 03:26 | Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground. +Isaiah 04:01 | Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach." +Isaiah 04:02 | In that day, the Lord’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel. +Isaiah 04:03 | It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written amongst the living in Jerusalem, +Isaiah 04:04 | when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning. +Isaiah 04:05 | The Lord will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy. +Isaiah 04:06 | There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain. +Isaiah 05:01 | Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. +Isaiah 05:02 | He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. +Isaiah 05:03 | "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard. +Isaiah 05:04 | What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes? +Isaiah 05:05 | Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. +Isaiah 05:06 | I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it." +Isaiah 05:07 | For the vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress. +Isaiah 05:08 | Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land! +Isaiah 05:09 | In my ears, the Lord of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. +Isaiah 05:10 | For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah." +Isaiah 05:11 | Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! +Isaiah 05:12 | The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of the Lord, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. +Isaiah 05:13 | Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honourable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst. +Isaiah 05:14 | Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices amongst them, descend into it. +Isaiah 05:15 | So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; +Isaiah 05:16 | but the Lord of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. +Isaiah 05:17 | Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich. +Isaiah 05:18 | Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope, +Isaiah 05:19 | who say, "Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!" +Isaiah 05:20 | Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! +Isaiah 05:21 | Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! +Isaiah 05:22 | Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink; +Isaiah 05:23 | who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! +Isaiah 05:24 | Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the Lord of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 05:25 | Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. +Isaiah 05:26 | He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. +Isaiah 05:27 | No one shall be weary nor stumble amongst them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken, +Isaiah 05:28 | whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. +Isaiah 05:29 | Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. +Isaiah 05:30 | They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds. +Isaiah 06:01 | In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. +Isaiah 06:02 | Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. +Isaiah 06:03 | One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!" +Isaiah 06:04 | The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. +Isaiah 06:05 | Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell amongst a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies!" +Isaiah 06:06 | Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. +Isaiah 06:07 | He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven." +Isaiah 06:08 | I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!" +Isaiah 06:09 | He said, "Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ +Isaiah 06:10 | Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed." +Isaiah 06:11 | Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste, +Isaiah 06:12 | and the Lord has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land. +Isaiah 06:13 | If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock." +Isaiah 07:01 | In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. +Isaiah 07:02 | David’s house was told, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. +Isaiah 07:03 | Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field. +Isaiah 07:04 | Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. +Isaiah 07:06 | "Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it amongst ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel." +Isaiah 07:07 | This is what the Lord God says: "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen." +Isaiah 07:08 | For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people. +Isaiah 07:09 | The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’" +Isaiah 07:11 | "Ask a sign of the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above." +Isaiah 07:12 | But Ahaz said, "I won’t ask. I won’t tempt the Lord." +Isaiah 07:13 | He said, "Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also? +Isaiah 07:14 | Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. +Isaiah 07:15 | He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. +Isaiah 07:16 | For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. +Isaiah 07:17 | The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria. +Isaiah 07:18 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. +Isaiah 07:19 | They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. +Isaiah 07:20 | In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. +Isaiah 07:21 | It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep. +Isaiah 07:22 | It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land. +Isaiah 07:23 | It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. +Isaiah 07:24 | People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. +Isaiah 07:25 | All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on." +Isaiah 08:01 | The Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; +Isaiah 08:02 | and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah." +Isaiah 08:03 | I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, "Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ +Isaiah 08:04 | For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria." +Isaiah 08:06 | "Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; +Isaiah 08:07 | now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. +Isaiah 08:08 | It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel. +Isaiah 08:09 | Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! +Isaiah 08:10 | Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us." +Isaiah 08:12 | "Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorised. +Isaiah 08:13 | The Lord of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. +Isaiah 08:14 | He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. +Isaiah 08:15 | Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured." +Isaiah 08:16 | Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law amongst my disciples. +Isaiah 08:17 | I will wait for the Lord, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. +Isaiah 08:18 | Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion. +Isaiah 08:19 | When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter," shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? +Isaiah 08:20 | Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. +Isaiah 08:20 | Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. +Isaiah 08:21 | They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward, +Isaiah 08:22 | and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. +Isaiah 09:01 | But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. +Isaiah 09:02 | The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. +Isaiah 09:02-03 | The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before You as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder. +Isaiah 09:03 | You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder. +Isaiah 09:04 | For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. +Isaiah 09:05 | For all the armour of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire. +Isaiah 09:06 | For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. +Isaiah 09:06 | To us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. +Isaiah 09:07 | Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will perform this. +Isaiah 09:08 | The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel. +Isaiah 09:09 | All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, +Isaiah 09:10 | "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place." +Isaiah 09:11 | Therefore the Lord will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, +Isaiah 09:12 | The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. +Isaiah 09:13 | Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 09:14 | Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. +Isaiah 09:15 | The elder and the honourable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. +Isaiah 09:16 | For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed. +Isaiah 09:17 | Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. +Isaiah 09:18 | For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. +Isaiah 09:19 | Through the Lord of Armies’ wrath, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother. +Isaiah 09:20 | One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: +Isaiah 09:21 | Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. +Isaiah 10:01 | Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; +Isaiah 10:01-02 | Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people. +Isaiah 10:02 | to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor amongst my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! +Isaiah 10:03 | What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? +Isaiah 10:03 | What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? +Isaiah 10:04 | They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. +Isaiah 10:05 | Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! +Isaiah 10:06 | I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. +Isaiah 10:07 | However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. +Isaiah 10:08 | For he says, "Aren’t all of my princes kings? +Isaiah 10:10 | As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; +Isaiah 10:11 | shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? +Isaiah 10:12 | Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the wilful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks. +Isaiah 10:13 | For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. +Isaiah 10:14 | My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped." +Isaiah 10:15 | Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood. +Isaiah 10:16 | Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will send amongst his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. +Isaiah 10:17 | The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. +Isaiah 10:18 | He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. +Isaiah 10:19 | The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number. +Isaiah 10:20 | It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. +Isaiah 10:21 | A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. +Isaiah 10:22 | For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. +Isaiah 10:23 | For the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth. +Isaiah 10:24 | Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Armies, says "My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did. +Isaiah 10:25 | For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction." +Isaiah 10:26 | The Lord of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt. +Isaiah 10:27 | It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. +Isaiah 10:28 | He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage. +Isaiah 10:29 | They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled. +Isaiah 10:30 | Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth! +Isaiah 10:31 | Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. +Isaiah 10:32 | This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. +Isaiah 10:33 | Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. +Isaiah 10:34 | He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One. +Isaiah 11:01 | A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. +Isaiah 11:02 | The Lord’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. +Isaiah 11:03 | His delight will be in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; +Isaiah 11:04 | but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked. +Isaiah 11:05 | Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist. +Isaiah 11:06 | The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. +Isaiah 11:07 | The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. +Isaiah 11:08 | The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. +Isaiah 11:09 | They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. +Isaiah 11:10 | It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious. +Isaiah 11:11 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. +Isaiah 11:12 | He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. +Isaiah 11:13 | The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim. +Isaiah 11:14 | They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them. +Isaiah 11:15 | The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. +Isaiah 11:16 | There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. +Isaiah 12:01 | In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, the Lord; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. +Isaiah 12:02 | Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord, the Lord, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation." +Isaiah 12:02 | Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. +Isaiah 12:03 | Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation. +Isaiah 12:04 | In that day you will say, "Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Declare his doings amongst the peoples! Proclaim that his name is exalted! +Isaiah 12:05 | Sing to the Lord, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth! +Isaiah 12:06 | Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great amongst you!" +Isaiah 13:01 | The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. +Isaiah 13:02 | Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. +Isaiah 13:03 | I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. +Isaiah 13:04 | The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The Lord of Armies is mustering the army for the battle. +Isaiah 13:05 | They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. +Isaiah 13:06 | Wail, for the Lord’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. +Isaiah 13:07 | Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. +Isaiah 13:08 | They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labour. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. +Isaiah 13:09 | Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. +Isaiah 13:10 | For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. +Isaiah 13:11 | I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible. +Isaiah 13:12 | I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir. +Isaiah 13:13 | Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the Lord of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger. +Isaiah 13:14 | It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land. +Isaiah 13:15 | Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. +Isaiah 13:16 | Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. +Isaiah 13:17 | Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. +Isaiah 13:18 | Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children. +Isaiah 13:19 | Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. +Isaiah 13:20 | It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. +Isaiah 13:21 | But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. +Isaiah 13:22 | Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged. +Isaiah 14:01 | For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. +Isaiah 14:02 | The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. +Isaiah 14:03 | It will happen in the day that the Lord will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, +Isaiah 14:04 | that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!" +Isaiah 14:05 | The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers, +Isaiah 14:06 | who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained. +Isaiah 14:07 | The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. +Isaiah 14:08 | Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us." +Isaiah 14:09 | Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. +Isaiah 14:10 | They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?" +Isaiah 14:11 | Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you. +Isaiah 14:12 | How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! +Isaiah 14:13 | You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! +Isaiah 14:14 | I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!" +Isaiah 14:15 | Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. +Isaiah 14:16 | Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, +Isaiah 14:17 | who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?" +Isaiah 14:18 | All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house. +Isaiah 14:19 | But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. +Isaiah 14:20 | You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever. +Isaiah 14:21 | Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. +Isaiah 14:22 | "I will rise up against them," says the Lord of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son," says the Lord. +Isaiah 14:23 | "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 14:24 | The Lord of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: +Isaiah 14:25 | that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. +Isaiah 14:26 | This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. +Isaiah 14:27 | For the Lord of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?" +Isaiah 14:28 | This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died. +Isaiah 14:29 | Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. +Isaiah 14:30 | The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed. +Isaiah 14:31 | Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. +Isaiah 14:32 | What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge. +Isaiah 15:01 | The burden of Moab. For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. +Isaiah 15:02 | They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. +Isaiah 15:03 | In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. +Isaiah 15:04 | Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them. +Isaiah 15:05 | My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction. +Isaiah 15:06 | For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. +Isaiah 15:07 | Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows. +Isaiah 15:08 | For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim. +Isaiah 15:09 | For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land. +Isaiah 16:01 | Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. +Isaiah 16:02 | For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. +Isaiah 16:03 | Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! +Isaiah 16:04 | Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. +Isaiah 16:05 | A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. +Isaiah 16:06 | We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing. +Isaiah 16:07 | Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. +Isaiah 16:08 | For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. +Isaiah 16:09 | Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen. +Isaiah 16:10 | Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. +Isaiah 16:11 | Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres. +Isaiah 16:12 | It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail. +Isaiah 16:13 | This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in time past. +Isaiah 16:14 | But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble." +Isaiah 17:01 | The burden of Damascus. "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. +Isaiah 17:02 | The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. +Isaiah 17:03 | The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 17:04 | "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. +Isaiah 17:05 | It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. +Isaiah 17:06 | Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says the Lord, the God of Israel. +Isaiah 17:07 | In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 17:08 | They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars. +Isaiah 17:09 | In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. +Isaiah 17:10 | For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. +Isaiah 17:11 | In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. +Isaiah 17:12 | Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! +Isaiah 17:13 | The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. +Isaiah 17:14 | At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us. +Isaiah 18:01 | Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; +Isaiah 18:02 | that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!" +Isaiah 18:03 | All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen! +Isaiah 18:04 | For the Lord said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." +Isaiah 18:05 | For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. +Isaiah 18:06 | They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter. +Isaiah 18:07 | In that time, a present will be brought to the Lord of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the Lord of Armies, Mount Zion. +Isaiah 19:01 | The burden of Egypt. "Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. +Isaiah 19:02 | I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. +Isaiah 19:03 | The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. +Isaiah 19:04 | I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 19:05 | The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. +Isaiah 19:06 | The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. +Isaiah 19:07 | The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. +Isaiah 19:08 | The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. +Isaiah 19:09 | Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. +Isaiah 19:10 | The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul. +Isaiah 19:11 | The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" +Isaiah 19:12 | Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what the Lord of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. +Isaiah 19:13 | The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes. +Isaiah 19:14 | The Lord has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. +Isaiah 19:15 | Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do. +Isaiah 19:16 | In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the Lord of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them. +Isaiah 19:17 | The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of the Lord of Armies, which he determines against it. +Isaiah 19:18 | In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction." +Isaiah 19:19 | In that day, there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. +Isaiah 19:20 | It will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and a defender, and he will deliver them. +Isaiah 19:21 | The Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to the Lord, and will perform it. +Isaiah 19:22 | The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the Lord, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them. +Isaiah 19:23 | In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. +Isaiah 19:24 | In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth; +Isaiah 19:25 | because the Lord of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." +Isaiah 20:01 | In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; +Isaiah 20:02 | at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot. +Isaiah 20:03 | The Lord said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, +Isaiah 20:04 | so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. +Isaiah 20:05 | They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. +Isaiah 20:06 | The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’" +Isaiah 21:01 | The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. +Isaiah 21:02 | A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing. +Isaiah 21:03 | Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labour. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see. +Isaiah 21:04 | My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. +Isaiah 21:05 | They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! +Isaiah 21:06 | For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. +Isaiah 21:07 | When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." +Isaiah 21:08 | He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. +Isaiah 21:09 | Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. +Isaiah 21:10 | You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you. +Isaiah 21:11 | The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" +Isaiah 21:12 | The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will enquire, enquire. Come back again." +Isaiah 21:13 | The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. +Isaiah 21:14 | They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. +Isaiah 21:15 | For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. +Isaiah 21:16 | For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, +Isaiah 21:17 | and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken it." +Isaiah 22:01 | The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? +Isaiah 22:02 | You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. +Isaiah 22:03 | All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. +Isaiah 22:04 | Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labour to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. +Isaiah 22:05 | For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the Lord of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains." +Isaiah 22:06 | Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. +Isaiah 22:07 | Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. +Isaiah 22:08 | He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armour in the house of the forest. +Isaiah 22:09 | You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. +Isaiah 22:10 | You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. +Isaiah 22:11 | You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago. +Isaiah 22:12 | In that day, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth; +Isaiah 22:13 | and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: "Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die." +Isaiah 22:14 | The Lord of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 22:15 | The Lord, the Lord of Armies says, "Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, +Isaiah 22:16 | ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiselling a habitation for himself in the rock!" +Isaiah 22:17 | Behold, the Lord will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly. +Isaiah 22:18 | He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house. +Isaiah 22:19 | I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station. +Isaiah 22:20 | It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, +Isaiah 22:21 | and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. +Isaiah 22:22 | I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open. +Isaiah 22:23 | I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. +Isaiah 22:24 | They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. +Isaiah 22:25 | "In that day," says the Lord of Armies, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken it." +Isaiah 23:01 | The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. +Isaiah 23:02 | Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have replenished. +Isaiah 23:03 | On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations. +Isaiah 23:04 | Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." +Isaiah 23:05 | When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. +Isaiah 23:06 | Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! +Isaiah 23:07 | Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? +Isaiah 23:08 | Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honourable of the earth? +Isaiah 23:09 | The Lord of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. +Isaiah 23:10 | Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more. +Isaiah 23:11 | He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The Lord has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds. +Isaiah 23:12 | He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest." +Isaiah 23:13 | Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin. +Isaiah 23:14 | Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! +Isaiah 23:15 | It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. +Isaiah 23:16 | Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered. +Isaiah 23:17 | It will happen after the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. +Isaiah 23:18 | Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to the Lord. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. +Isaiah 24:01 | Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. +Isaiah 24:02 | It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. +Isaiah 24:03 | The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the Lord has spoken this word. +Isaiah 24:04 | The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. +Isaiah 24:05 | The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. +Isaiah 24:06 | Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burnt, and few men are left. +Isaiah 24:07 | The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. +Isaiah 24:08 | The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. +Isaiah 24:09 | They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. +Isaiah 24:10 | The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. +Isaiah 24:11 | There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. +Isaiah 24:12 | The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. +Isaiah 24:13 | For it will be so within the earth amongst the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. +Isaiah 24:14 | These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of the Lord. They cry aloud from the sea. +Isaiah 24:15 | Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, even the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! +Isaiah 24:16 | From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. +Isaiah 24:17 | Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth. +Isaiah 24:18 | It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. +Isaiah 24:19 | The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. +Isaiah 24:20 | The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again. +Isaiah 24:21 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. +Isaiah 24:22 | They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited. +Isaiah 24:23 | Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders. +Isaiah 25:01 | The Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. +Isaiah 25:02 | For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. +Isaiah 25:03 | Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. +Isaiah 25:04 | For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. +Isaiah 25:05 | As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low. +Isaiah 25:06 | In this mountain, the Lord of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. +Isaiah 25:07 | He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. +Isaiah 25:08 | He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it. +Isaiah 25:09 | It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" +Isaiah 25:10 | For the Lord’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. +Isaiah 25:11 | He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands. +Isaiah 25:12 | He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust. +Isaiah 25:12 | He will bring down your high fortified wall and lay them low, He will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust. +Isaiah 26:01 | In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. +Isaiah 26:02 | Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith. +Isaiah 26:03 | You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. +Isaiah 26:03 | You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. +Isaiah 26:03-04 | Those of steadfast mind You keep in peace, because they trust in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God, you have an everlasting rock. +Isaiah 26:04 | Trust in the Lord forever; for in the Lord, the Lord, is an everlasting Rock. +Isaiah 26:05 | For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust. +Isaiah 26:06 | The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy." +Isaiah 26:07 | The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level. +Isaiah 26:08 | Yes, in the way of your judgements, the Lord, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. +Isaiah 26:09 | With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. +Isaiah 26:10 | Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the Lord’s majesty. +Isaiah 26:11 | The Lord, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries. +Isaiah 26:12 | The Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us. +Isaiah 26:13 | The Lord our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name. +Isaiah 26:14 | The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. +Isaiah 26:15 | You have increased the nation, O Lord. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land. +Isaiah 26:16 | Lord, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. +Isaiah 26:17 | Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Lord. +Isaiah 26:18 | We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. +Isaiah 26:19 | Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits. +Isaiah 26:20 | Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past. +Isaiah 26:21 | For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain. +Isaiah 27:01 | In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea. +Isaiah 27:02 | In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard! +Isaiah 27:03 | I, the Lord, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. +Isaiah 27:04 | Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. +Isaiah 27:05 | Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me." +Isaiah 27:06 | In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. +Isaiah 27:07 | Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? +Isaiah 27:08 | In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. +Isaiah 27:09 | Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more. +Isaiah 27:10 | For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. +Isaiah 27:11 | When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favour. +Isaiah 27:12 | It will happen in that day that the Lord will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel. +Isaiah 27:13 | It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. +Isaiah 28:01 | Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! +Isaiah 28:02 | Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. +Isaiah 28:03 | The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. +Isaiah 28:04 | The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. +Isaiah 28:05 | In that day, the Lord of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people, +Isaiah 28:06 | and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgement, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. +Isaiah 28:07 | They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgement. +Isaiah 28:08 | For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness. +Isaiah 28:09 | Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? +Isaiah 28:10 | For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. +Isaiah 28:11 | But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language, +Isaiah 28:12 | to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary," and "This is the refreshing" yet they would not hear. +Isaiah 28:13 | Therefore the Lord’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken. +Isaiah 28:14 | Therefore hear the Lord’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: +Isaiah 28:15 | "Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’" +Isaiah 28:16 | Therefore the Lord God says, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. +Isaiah 28:17 | I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. +Isaiah 28:18 | Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. +Isaiah 28:19 | As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message." +Isaiah 28:20 | For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. +Isaiah 28:21 | For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act. +Isaiah 28:22 | Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of Armies, on the whole earth. +Isaiah 28:23 | Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! +Isaiah 28:24 | Does he who ploughs to sow plough continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? +Isaiah 28:25 | When he has levelled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? +Isaiah 28:26 | For his God instructs him in right judgement and teaches him. +Isaiah 28:27 | For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. +Isaiah 28:28 | Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it. +Isaiah 28:29 | This also comes out from the Lord of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. +Isaiah 29:01 | Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around; +Isaiah 29:02 | then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth. +Isaiah 29:03 | I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. +Isaiah 29:04 | You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust. +Isaiah 29:05 | But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. +Isaiah 29:06 | She will be visited by the Lord of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire. +Isaiah 29:07 | The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. +Isaiah 29:08 | It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that. +Isaiah 29:09 | Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. +Isaiah 29:10 | For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers. +Isaiah 29:11 | All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please" and he says, "I can’t, for it is sealed" +Isaiah 29:12 | and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please" and he says, "I can’t read." +Isaiah 29:13 | The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; +Isaiah 29:13-14 | The Lord says: "These people come near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish." +Isaiah 29:14 | therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work amongst this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden." +Isaiah 29:15 | Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the Lord, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?" +Isaiah 29:15 | Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" +Isaiah 29:16 | You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn’t make me" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?" +Isaiah 29:17 | Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest? +Isaiah 29:18 | In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. +Isaiah 29:19 | The humble also will increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor amongst men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 29:20 | For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off— +Isaiah 29:21 | who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony. +Isaiah 29:22 | Therefore the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale. +Isaiah 29:23 | But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. +Isaiah 29:24 | They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction." +Isaiah 30:01 | "Woe to the obstinate children," declares the Lord, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by My Spirit, heaping sin upon sin". +Isaiah 30:01 | "Woe to the rebellious children", says the Lord, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, +Isaiah 30:02 | who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! +Isaiah 30:03 | Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. +Isaiah 30:04 | For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. +Isaiah 30:05 | They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." +Isaiah 30:06 | The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. +Isaiah 30:07 | For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still. +Isaiah 30:08 | Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. +Isaiah 30:09 | For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the Lord’s law; +Isaiah 30:10 | who tell the seers, "Don’t see!" and the prophets, "Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. +Isaiah 30:11 | Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." +Isaiah 30:12 | Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it, +Isaiah 30:13 | therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. +Isaiah 30:14 | He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found amongst the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern." +Isaiah 30:15 | For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused, +Isaiah 30:15 | In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength. +Isaiah 30:16 | but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift" therefore those who pursue you will be swift. +Isaiah 30:17 | One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill. +Isaiah 30:18 | Therefore the Lord will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. +Isaiah 30:19 | For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. +Isaiah 30:20 | Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers; +Isaiah 30:21 | and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it." +Isaiah 30:22 | You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!" +Isaiah 30:23 | He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures. +Isaiah 30:24 | The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savoury feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. +Isaiah 30:25 | There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. +Isaiah 30:26 | Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with. +Isaiah 30:27 | Behold, the Lord’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire. +Isaiah 30:28 | His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples. +Isaiah 30:29 | You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to the Lord’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock. +Isaiah 30:30 | The Lord will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. +Isaiah 30:31 | For through the Lord’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. +Isaiah 30:32 | Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the Lord will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. +Isaiah 30:33 | For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. The Lord’s breath, like a stream of sulphur, kindles it. +Isaiah 31:01 | Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek the LORD! +Isaiah 31:02 | Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. +Isaiah 31:03 | Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together. +Isaiah 31:04 | For the Lord says to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so the Lord of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. +Isaiah 31:05 | As birds hovering, so the Lord of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it." +Isaiah 31:06 | Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel. +Isaiah 31:07 | For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you. +Isaiah 31:08 | "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labour. +Isaiah 31:09 | His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. +Isaiah 32:01 | Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. +Isaiah 32:02 | A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land. +Isaiah 32:03 | The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. +Isaiah 32:04 | The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. +Isaiah 32:05 | The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected. +Isaiah 32:06 | For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profanity, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. +Isaiah 32:07 | The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. +Isaiah 32:08 | But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things. +Isaiah 32:09 | Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! +Isaiah 32:10 | For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come. +Isaiah 32:11 | Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist. +Isaiah 32:12 | Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. +Isaiah 32:13 | Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. +Isaiah 32:14 | For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks, +Isaiah 32:15 | until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest. +Isaiah 32:16 | Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. +Isaiah 32:17 | The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. +Isaiah 32:18 | My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places, +Isaiah 32:19 | though hail flattens the forest, and the city is levelled completely. +Isaiah 32:20 | Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. +Isaiah 33:01 | Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed. +Isaiah 33:02 | Lord, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. +Isaiah 33:02 | Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. +Isaiah 33:03 | At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. +Isaiah 33:04 | Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap. +Isaiah 33:05 | The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. +Isaiah 33:06 | There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the Lord is your treasure. +Isaiah 33:07 | Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. +Isaiah 33:08 | The highways are desolate. The travelling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man. +Isaiah 33:09 | The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare. +Isaiah 33:10 | "Now I will arise," says the Lord. "Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. +Isaiah 33:11 | You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you. +Isaiah 33:12 | The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burnt in the fire. +Isaiah 33:13 | Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might." +Isaiah 33:14 | The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who amongst us can live with the devouring fire? Who amongst us can live with everlasting burning? +Isaiah 33:15 | He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— +Isaiah 33:16 | he will dwell on high. His place of defence will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure. +Isaiah 33:17 | Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land. +Isaiah 33:18 | Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers? +Isaiah 33:19 | You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand. +Isaiah 33:20 | Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. +Isaiah 33:21 | But there the Lord will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there. +Isaiah 33:22 | For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us. +Isaiah 33:23 | Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey. +Isaiah 33:24 | The inhabitant won’t say, "I am sick." The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity. +Isaiah 34:01 | Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it. +Isaiah 34:02 | For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter. +Isaiah 34:03 | Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood. +Isaiah 34:04 | All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. +Isaiah 34:05 | For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgement. +Isaiah 34:06 | The Lord’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. +Isaiah 34:07 | The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat. +Isaiah 34:08 | For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. +Isaiah 34:09 | Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulphur, And its land will become burning pitch. +Isaiah 34:10 | It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever. +Isaiah 34:11 | But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. +Isaiah 34:12 | They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. +Isaiah 34:13 | Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. +Isaiah 34:14 | The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. +Isaiah 34:15 | The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate. +Isaiah 34:16 | Search in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. +Isaiah 34:17 | He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it. +Isaiah 35:01 | The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. +Isaiah 35:02 | It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the Lord’s glory, the excellence of our God. +Isaiah 35:03 | Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm. +Isaiah 35:04 | Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you. +Isaiah 35:05 | Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. +Isaiah 35:06 | Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. +Isaiah 35:07 | The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay. +Isaiah 35:08 | A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called "The Holy Way". The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there. +Isaiah 35:09 | No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there. +Isaiah 35:10 | Then the Lord’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." +Isaiah 36:01 | Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. +Isaiah 36:02 | The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. +Isaiah 36:03 | Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him. +Isaiah 36:04 | Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, "What confidence is this in which you trust? +Isaiah 36:05 | I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? +Isaiah 36:06 | Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. +Isaiah 36:07 | But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’" +Isaiah 36:08 | Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. +Isaiah 36:09 | How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? +Isaiah 36:10 | Have I come up now without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it." +Isaiah 36:11 | Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." +Isaiah 36:12 | But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?" +Isaiah 36:13 | Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! +Isaiah 36:14 | The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. +Isaiah 36:15 | Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."’ +Isaiah 36:16 | Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; +Isaiah 36:17 | until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. +Isaiah 36:18 | Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? +Isaiah 36:19 | Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? +Isaiah 36:20 | Who are they amongst all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’" +Isaiah 36:21 | But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, "Don’t answer him." +Isaiah 36:22 | Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. +Isaiah 37:01 | When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the Lord’s house. +Isaiah 37:02 | He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. +Isaiah 37:03 | They said to him, "Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth. +Isaiah 37:04 | It may be the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’" +Isaiah 37:05 | So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +Isaiah 37:06 | Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, ‘The Lord says, "Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. +Isaiah 37:07 | Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." +Isaiah 37:08 | So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish. +Isaiah 37:10 | "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." +Isaiah 37:11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? +Isaiah 37:12 | Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? +Isaiah 37:14 | Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s house, and spread it before the Lord. +Isaiah 37:16 | "LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned amongst the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. +Isaiah 37:17 | Turn your ear, Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, Lord, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. +Isaiah 37:18 | Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, +Isaiah 37:19 | and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. +Isaiah 37:20 | Now therefore, Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the Lord, even you only." +Isaiah 37:21 | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "The Lord, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, +Isaiah 37:22 | this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. +Isaiah 37:23 | Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 37:24 | By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. +Isaiah 37:25 | I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." +Isaiah 37:26 | "‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. +Isaiah 37:27 | Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. +Isaiah 37:28 | But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. +Isaiah 37:29 | Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. +Isaiah 37:30 | "‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. +Isaiah 37:31 | The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +Isaiah 37:32 | For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will perform this.’ +Isaiah 37:33 | "Therefore the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. +Isaiah 37:34 | He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says the Lord. +Isaiah 37:35 | ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’" +Isaiah 37:36 | Then the Lord’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. +Isaiah 37:37 | So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. +Isaiah 37:38 | As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. +Isaiah 38:01 | In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "The Lord says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’" +Isaiah 38:02 | Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, +Isaiah 38:03 | and said, "Remember now, the Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. +Isaiah 38:05 | "Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The Lord, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. +Isaiah 38:06 | I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. +Isaiah 38:07 | This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has spoken. +Isaiah 38:08 | Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps." So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down. +Isaiah 38:09 | The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness. +Isaiah 38:10 | I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years." +Isaiah 38:11 | I said, "I won’t see the Lord, The Lord in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. +Isaiah 38:12 | My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. +Isaiah 38:13 | I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. +Isaiah 38:14 | I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security." +Isaiah 38:15 | What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul. +Isaiah 38:16 | Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live. +Isaiah 38:17 | Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. +Isaiah 38:18 | For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth. +Isaiah 38:19 | The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children. +Isaiah 38:20 | The Lord will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the Lord’s house. +Isaiah 38:21 | Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." +Isaiah 38:22 | Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the Lord’s house?" +Isaiah 39:01 | At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. +Isaiah 39:02 | Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them. +Isaiah 39:03 | Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon." +Isaiah 39:04 | Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them." +Isaiah 39:05 | Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord of Armies: +Isaiah 39:06 | ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. +Isaiah 39:07 | ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’" +Isaiah 39:08 | Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The Lord’s word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth in my days." +Isaiah 40:01 | "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. +Isaiah 40:02 | "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins." +Isaiah 40:03 | The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God. +Isaiah 40:04 | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain. +Isaiah 40:05 | The Lord’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it." +Isaiah 40:06 | The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. +Isaiah 40:07 | The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Lord’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. +Isaiah 40:08 | The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever." +Isaiah 40:09 | You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" +Isaiah 40:10 | Behold, the Lord God will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. +Isaiah 40:11 | He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young. +Isaiah 40:12 | Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? +Isaiah 40:13 | Who has directed the Lord’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counsellor? +Isaiah 40:14 | Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? +Isaiah 40:15 | Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing. +Isaiah 40:16 | Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering. +Isaiah 40:17 | All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity. +Isaiah 40:18 | To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him? +Isaiah 40:19 | A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. +Isaiah 40:20 | He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skilful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved. +Isaiah 40:21 | Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth? +Isaiah 40:22 | It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in, +Isaiah 40:23 | who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. +Isaiah 40:24 | They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. +Isaiah 40:25 | "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One. +Isaiah 40:26 | Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking. +Isaiah 40:27 | Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?" +Isaiah 40:28 | Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. +Isaiah 40:28 | Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. +Isaiah 40:29 | He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. +Isaiah 40:29 | He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. +Isaiah 40:30 | Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; +Isaiah 40:31 | but those who wait for the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. +Isaiah 40:31 | Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. +Isaiah 41:01 | "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgement. +Isaiah 41:02 | Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow. +Isaiah 41:03 | He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. +Isaiah 41:04 | Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he." +Isaiah 41:05 | The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come. +Isaiah 41:06 | Everyone helps his neighbour. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" +Isaiah 41:07 | So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter. +Isaiah 41:08 | "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend, +Isaiah 41:09 | You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’ +Isaiah 41:10 | Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. +Isaiah 41:10 | Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. +Isaiah 41:11 | Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish. +Isaiah 41:12 | You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing. +Isaiah 41:13 | For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’ +Isaiah 41:13 | I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear, I will help you. +Isaiah 41:14 | Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says the Lord. "Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 41:15 | Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. +Isaiah 41:16 | You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the Lord. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 41:17 | The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. +Isaiah 41:18 | I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. +Isaiah 41:19 | I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; +Isaiah 41:20 | that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the Lord’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. +Isaiah 41:21 | Produce your cause," says the Lord. "Bring out your strong reasons!" says the King of Jacob. +Isaiah 41:22 | "Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. +Isaiah 41:23 | Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together. +Isaiah 41:24 | Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination. +Isaiah 41:25 | "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. +Isaiah 41:26 | Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words. +Isaiah 41:27 | I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. +Isaiah 41:28 | When I look, there is no man, even amongst them there is no counsellor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word. +Isaiah 41:29 | Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion. +Isaiah 42:01 | "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. +Isaiah 42:02 | He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. +Isaiah 42:03 | He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. +Isaiah 42:04 | He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law." +Isaiah 42:05 | God the Lord, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says: +Isaiah 42:06 | "I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations, +Isaiah 42:07 | to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. +Isaiah 42:08 | "I am the Lord. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. +Isaiah 42:09 | Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up." +Isaiah 42:10 | Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants. +Isaiah 42:11 | Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains! +Isaiah 42:12 | Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. +Isaiah 42:13 | The Lord will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies. +Isaiah 42:14 | "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant. +Isaiah 42:15 | I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. +Isaiah 42:16 | I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. +Isaiah 42:17 | "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed. +Isaiah 42:18 | "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. +Isaiah 42:19 | Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the Lord’s servant? +Isaiah 42:20 | You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. +Isaiah 42:21 | It pleased the Lord, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honourable. +Isaiah 42:22 | But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ +Isaiah 42:23 | Who is there amongst you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? +Isaiah 42:24 | Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. +Isaiah 42:25 | Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burnt him, but he didn’t take it to heart." +Isaiah 43:01 | But now the Lord who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: "Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. +Isaiah 43:01-03 | Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. +Isaiah 43:02 | When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt, and flame will not scorch you. +Isaiah 43:02 | When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. +Isaiah 43:03 | For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. +Isaiah 43:04 | Since you have been precious and honoured in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. +Isaiah 43:05 | Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. +Isaiah 43:06 | I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth— +Isaiah 43:07 | everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’" +Isaiah 43:08 | Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. +Isaiah 43:09 | Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who amongst them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, "That is true." +Isaiah 43:10 | "You are my witnesses," says the Lord, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me. +Isaiah 43:11 | I myself am the Lord. Besides me, there is no saviour. +Isaiah 43:12 | I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god amongst you. Therefore you are my witnesses", says the Lord, "and I am God. +Isaiah 43:13 | Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?" +Isaiah 43:14 | The Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. +Isaiah 43:15 | I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." +Isaiah 43:16 | The Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, +Isaiah 43:17 | who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: +Isaiah 43:18 | "Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. +Isaiah 43:19 | Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. +Isaiah 43:20 | The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honour me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, +Isaiah 43:21 | the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise. +Isaiah 43:22 | Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel. +Isaiah 43:23 | You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. +Isaiah 43:24 | You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. +Isaiah 43:25 | I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins. +Isaiah 43:25 | I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. +Isaiah 43:26 | Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified. +Isaiah 43:27 | Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me. +Isaiah 43:28 | Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult." +Isaiah 44:01 | Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. +Isaiah 44:02 | This is what the Lord who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: "Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. +Isaiah 44:03 | For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring: +Isaiah 44:04 | and they will spring up amongst the grass, as willows by the watercourses. +Isaiah 44:05 | One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to the Lord,’ and honour the name of Israel." +Isaiah 44:06 | This is what the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. +Isaiah 44:07 | Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen. +Isaiah 44:08 | Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock." +Isaiah 44:09 | Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. +Isaiah 44:10 | Who has fashioned a god, or moulds an image that is profitable for nothing? +Isaiah 44:11 | Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together. +Isaiah 44:12 | The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. +Isaiah 44:13 | The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. +Isaiah 44:14 | He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one amongst the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it. +Isaiah 44:15 | Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. +Isaiah 44:16 | He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire." +Isaiah 44:17 | The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!" +Isaiah 44:18 | They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand. +Isaiah 44:19 | No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burnt part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?" +Isaiah 44:20 | He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?" +Isaiah 44:21 | Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me. +Isaiah 44:22 | I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. +Isaiah 44:23 | Sing, you heavens, for the Lord has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. +Isaiah 44:24 | The Lord, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: "I am the Lord, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; +Isaiah 44:25 | who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; +Isaiah 44:26 | who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’ +Isaiah 44:27 | who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’ +Isaiah 44:28 | Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’" +Isaiah 45:01 | The Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armour; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: +Isaiah 45:02 | "I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron. +Isaiah 45:02-03 | I will go before you and will level the mountains, I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. +Isaiah 45:03 | I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel. +Isaiah 45:04 | For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me. +Isaiah 45:05 | I am the Lord, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me, +Isaiah 45:05 | I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, +Isaiah 45:06 | that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no one else. +Isaiah 45:07 | I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things. +Isaiah 45:07 | I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the Lord, who does all these things. +Isaiah 45:08 | Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the Lord, have created it. +Isaiah 45:09 | Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot amongst the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’ +Isaiah 45:10 | Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’" +Isaiah 45:11 | The Lord, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands! +Isaiah 45:12 | I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army. +Isaiah 45:13 | I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says the Lord of Armies. +Isaiah 45:14 | The Lord says: "The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god. +Isaiah 45:15 | Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Saviour.’" +Isaiah 45:16 | They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. +Isaiah 45:17 | Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting. +Isaiah 45:18 | For the Lord who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: "I am the Lord. There is no other. +Isaiah 45:19 | I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. +Isaiah 45:20 | "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save. +Isaiah 45:21 | Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, the LORD? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Saviour. There is no one besides me. +Isaiah 45:22 | "Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. +Isaiah 45:23 | I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. +Isaiah 45:24 | They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in the Lord.’" Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed. +Isaiah 45:25 | All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the Lord, and will rejoice! +Isaiah 46:01 | Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary. +Isaiah 46:02 | They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity. +Isaiah 46:03 | "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb. +Isaiah 46:04 | Even to old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver. +Isaiah 46:04 | Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. +Isaiah 46:05 | "To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same? +Isaiah 46:05 | With whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared? +Isaiah 46:06 | Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship. +Isaiah 46:07 | They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble. +Isaiah 46:08 | "Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors. +Isaiah 46:09 | Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me. +Isaiah 46:10 | I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please. +Isaiah 46:11 | I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it. +Isaiah 46:12 | Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness! +Isaiah 46:13 | I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel. +Isaiah 47:01 | "Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate. +Isaiah 47:02 | Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers. +Isaiah 47:03 | Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one." +Isaiah 47:04 | Our Redeemer, the Lord of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 47:05 | "Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms. +Isaiah 47:06 | I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged. +Isaiah 47:07 | You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results. +Isaiah 47:08 | "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’ +Isaiah 47:09 | But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. +Isaiah 47:10 | For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’ +Isaiah 47:11 | Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand. +Isaiah 47:12 | "Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have laboured from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail. +Isaiah 47:13 | You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you. +Isaiah 47:14 | Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by. +Isaiah 47:15 | The things that you laboured in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you. +Isaiah 48:01 | "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by the Lord’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness— +Isaiah 48:02 | for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the Lord of Armies is his name. +Isaiah 48:03 | I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened. +Isaiah 48:04 | Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze; +Isaiah 48:05 | therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’ +Isaiah 48:06 | You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known. +Isaiah 48:07 | They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’ +Isaiah 48:08 | Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb. +Isaiah 48:09 | For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off. +Isaiah 48:10 | Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. +Isaiah 48:11 | For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another. +Isaiah 48:12 | "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last. +Isaiah 48:13 | Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together. +Isaiah 48:14 | "Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who amongst them has declared these things? He whom the Lord loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans. +Isaiah 48:15 | I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous. +Isaiah 48:16 | "Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there." Now the Lord God has sent me with his Spirit. +Isaiah 48:17 | The Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. +Isaiah 48:18 | Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. +Isaiah 48:19 | Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me." +Isaiah 48:20 | Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, "The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!" +Isaiah 48:21 | They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out. +Isaiah 48:22 | "There is no peace", says the Lord, "for the wicked." +Isaiah 49:01 | Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the Lord has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name. +Isaiah 49:02 | He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver. +Isaiah 49:03 | He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." +Isaiah 49:04 | But I said, "I have laboured in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord, and my reward with my God." +Isaiah 49:05 | Now the Lord, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honourable in the Lord’s eyes, and my God has become my strength. +Isaiah 49:06 | Indeed, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth." +Isaiah 49:07 | The Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of the Lord who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you." +Isaiah 49:08 | The Lord says, "I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage, +Isaiah 49:09 | saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ "They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights. +Isaiah 49:10 | They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water. +Isaiah 49:11 | I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted. +Isaiah 49:12 | Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim." +Isaiah 49:13 | Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains, for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. +Isaiah 49:14 | But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me." +Isaiah 49:15 | "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! +Isaiah 49:15 | Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! +Isaiah 49:16 | Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. +Isaiah 49:17 | Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you. +Isaiah 49:18 | Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live," says the Lord, "you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride. +Isaiah 49:19 | "For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. +Isaiah 49:20 | The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’ +Isaiah 49:21 | Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’" +Isaiah 49:22 | The Lord God says, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. +Isaiah 49:23 | Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed." +Isaiah 49:24 | Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? +Isaiah 49:25 | But the Lord says, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children. +Isaiah 49:26 | I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your Saviour and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob." +Isaiah 50:01 | The Lord says, "Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions. +Isaiah 50:02 | Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst. +Isaiah 50:03 | I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering." +Isaiah 50:04 | The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. +Isaiah 50:04 | The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed. +Isaiah 50:05 | The Lord God has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back. +Isaiah 50:06 | I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting. +Isaiah 50:07 | For the Lord God will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed. +Isaiah 50:08 | He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. +Isaiah 50:09 | Behold, the Lord God will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up. +Isaiah 50:10 | Who amongst you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the Lord’s name, and rely on his God. +Isaiah 50:11 | Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and amongst the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow. +Isaiah 51:01 | "Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from. +Isaiah 51:02 | Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many. +Isaiah 51:03 | For the Lord has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. +Isaiah 51:04 | "Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples. +Isaiah 51:04 | Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. +Isaiah 51:05 | My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm. +Isaiah 51:06 | Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished. +Isaiah 51:07 | "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults. +Isaiah 51:07 | Hear Me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken My instruction to heart. Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults. +Isaiah 51:08 | For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations." +Isaiah 51:09 | Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? +Isaiah 51:10 | Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? +Isaiah 51:11 | Those ransomed by the Lord will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away. +Isaiah 51:12 | "I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass? +Isaiah 51:13 | Have you forgotten the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor? +Isaiah 51:14 | The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail. +Isaiah 51:15 | For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. the Lord of Armies is his name. +Isaiah 51:16 | I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’" +Isaiah 51:17 | Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the Lord’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. +Isaiah 51:18 | There is no one to guide her amongst all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand amongst all the sons whom she has brought up. +Isaiah 51:19 | These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? +Isaiah 51:20 | Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Lord’s wrath, the rebuke of your God. +Isaiah 51:21 | Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: +Isaiah 51:22 | Your Lord GOD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more. +Isaiah 51:23 | I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over." +Isaiah 52:01 | Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. +Isaiah 52:02 | Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion! +Isaiah 52:03 | For the Lord says, "You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money." +Isaiah 52:04 | For the Lord God says: "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. +Isaiah 52:05 | "Now therefore, what do I do here," says the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock," says the Lord, "and my name is blasphemed continually all day long. +Isaiah 52:06 | Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I." +Isaiah 52:07 | How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!" +Isaiah 52:08 | Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord returns to Zion. +Isaiah 52:09 | Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. +Isaiah 52:10 | The Lord has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. +Isaiah 52:11 | Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from amongst her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry the Lord’s vessels. +Isaiah 52:12 | For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. +Isaiah 52:13 | Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high. +Isaiah 52:14 | Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men— +Isaiah 52:15 | so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard. +Isaiah 53:01 | Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord’s arm been revealed? +Isaiah 53:02 | For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. +Isaiah 53:03 | He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. +Isaiah 53:04 | Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. +Isaiah 53:05 | But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. +Isaiah 53:06 | All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. +Isaiah 53:07 | He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth. +Isaiah 53:08 | He was taken away by oppression and judgement. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people? +Isaiah 53:09 | They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. +Isaiah 53:10 | Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and the Lord’s pleasure will prosper in his hand. +Isaiah 53:11 | After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities. +Isaiah 53:12 | Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors. +Isaiah 54:01 | "Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says the Lord. +Isaiah 54:02 | "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. +Isaiah 54:03 | For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities. +Isaiah 54:04 | "Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more. +Isaiah 54:05 | For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth. +Isaiah 54:05 | Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is His name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole Earth He is called. +Isaiah 54:06 | For the Lord has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God. +Isaiah 54:07 | "For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies. +Isaiah 54:08 | In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you," says the Lord your Redeemer. +Isaiah 54:09 | "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. +Isaiah 54:10 | "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you. +Isaiah 54:10 | For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed," says the Lord who has mercy on you. +Isaiah 54:11 | "You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colours, and lay your foundations with sapphires. +Isaiah 54:12 | I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. +Isaiah 54:13 | All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. +Isaiah 54:13 | All your children will be taught by the Lord; and your children’s peace will be great. +Isaiah 54:14 | In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. +Isaiah 54:14 | You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you. +Isaiah 54:15 | Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you. +Isaiah 54:16 | "Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy. +Isaiah 54:17 | No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgement. This is the heritage of the Lord’s servants, and their righteousness is of me," says the Lord. +Isaiah 55:01 | "Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. +Isaiah 55:02 | Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness. +Isaiah 55:02 | Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. +Isaiah 55:03 | Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. +Isaiah 55:04 | Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. +Isaiah 55:05 | Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you." +Isaiah 55:06 | Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call on Him while He is near! +Isaiah 55:06 | Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. +Isaiah 55:07 | Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon. +Isaiah 55:07 | Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. +Isaiah 55:08 | "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways," says the Lord. +Isaiah 55:08-09 | "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the Lord. "As the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. +Isaiah 55:09 | "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. +Isaiah 55:10 | For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; +Isaiah 55:11 | so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. +Isaiah 55:12 | For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands. +Isaiah 55:12 | You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. +Isaiah 55:13 | Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for the Lord, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off." +Isaiah 56:01 | The Lord says, "Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed. +Isaiah 56:01 | The Lord says: "Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is close at hand and My righteousness will soon be revealed." +Isaiah 56:02 | Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil." +Isaiah 56:03 | Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, "The Lord will surely separate me from his people." Do not let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree." +Isaiah 56:04 | For the Lord says, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant, +Isaiah 56:05 | I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. +Isaiah 56:06 | Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to serve him, and to love the Lord’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant, +Isaiah 56:07 | I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples." +Isaiah 56:08 | The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered." +Isaiah 56:09 | All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest. +Isaiah 56:10 | His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. +Isaiah 56:11 | Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. +Isaiah 56:12 | "Come," they say, "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure." +Isaiah 57:01 | The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. +Isaiah 57:01-02 | The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. +Isaiah 57:02 | He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. +Isaiah 57:03 | "But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. +Isaiah 57:04 | Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood, +Isaiah 57:05 | you who inflame yourselves amongst the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? +Isaiah 57:06 | Amongst the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? +Isaiah 57:07 | On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice. +Isaiah 57:08 | You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed. +Isaiah 57:09 | You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. +Isaiah 57:10 | You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint. +Isaiah 57:11 | "Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me? +Isaiah 57:12 | I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you. +Isaiah 57:13 | When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain." +Isaiah 57:14 | He will say, "Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people." +Isaiah 57:15 | For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. +Isaiah 57:15-16 | This is what the high and exalted One says: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of Me, the very people I have created." +Isaiah 57:16 | For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made. +Isaiah 57:17 | I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. +Isaiah 57:18 | I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. +Isaiah 57:19 | I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near," says the Lord; "and I will heal them." +Isaiah 57:20 | But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud. +Isaiah 57:21 | "There is no peace" says my God, "for the wicked." +Isaiah 57:21 | "There is no peace", says my God, "for the wicked." +Isaiah 58:01 | "Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. +Isaiah 58:02 | Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgements. They delight to draw near to God. +Isaiah 58:03 | ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your labourers. +Isaiah 58:04 | Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high. +Isaiah 58:04 | Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. +Isaiah 58:05 | Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? +Isaiah 58:06 | "Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? +Isaiah 58:07 | Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? +Isaiah 58:08 | Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard. +Isaiah 58:09 | Then you will call, and the Lord will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ "If you take away from amongst you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly; +Isaiah 58:10 | and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; +Isaiah 58:10 | If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. +Isaiah 58:11 | and the Lord will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail. +Isaiah 58:12 | Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings. +Isaiah 58:13 | "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the Lord honourable; and honour it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, +Isaiah 58:14 | then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father" for the Lord’s mouth has spoken it. +Isaiah 59:01 | Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. +Isaiah 59:02 | But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. +Isaiah 59:03 | For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. +Isaiah 59:03 | Your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. +Isaiah 59:04 | No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity. +Isaiah 59:05 | They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. +Isaiah 59:06 | Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. +Isaiah 59:07 | Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths. +Isaiah 59:08 | They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace. +Isaiah 59:09 | Justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. +Isaiah 59:09 | Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. +Isaiah 59:10 | We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Amongst those who are strong, we are like dead men. +Isaiah 59:11 | We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. +Isaiah 59:12 | For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: +Isaiah 59:12 | Our offenses are many in Your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities. +Isaiah 59:13 | transgressing and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. +Isaiah 59:14 | Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter. +Isaiah 59:15 | Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. +Isaiah 59:16 | He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him. +Isaiah 59:17 | He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. +Isaiah 59:18 | According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due. +Isaiah 59:19 | So they will fear the Lord’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the Lord’s breath drives. +Isaiah 59:20 | "A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says the Lord. +Isaiah 59:21 | "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Lord. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring," says the Lord, "from now on and forever." +Isaiah 60:01 | "Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the Lord’s glory has risen on you. +Isaiah 60:02 | For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. +Isaiah 60:03 | Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. +Isaiah 60:04 | "Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms. +Isaiah 60:05 | Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you. +Isaiah 60:06 | A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of the Lord. +Isaiah 60:07 | All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house. +Isaiah 60:08 | "Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? +Isaiah 60:09 | Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. +Isaiah 60:10 | "Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favour I have had mercy on you. +Isaiah 60:11 | Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. +Isaiah 60:12 | For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. +Isaiah 60:13 | "The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. +Isaiah 60:14 | The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you the Lord’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. +Isaiah 60:15 | "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. +Isaiah 60:16 | You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Saviour, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. +Isaiah 60:17 | For bronze I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler. +Isaiah 60:18 | Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. +Isaiah 60:19 | The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. +Isaiah 60:20 | Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end. +Isaiah 60:21 | Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. +Isaiah 60:22 | The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, the Lord, will do this quickly in its time." +Isaiah 61:01 | The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, +Isaiah 61:02 | to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, +Isaiah 61:03 | to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. +Isaiah 61:04 | They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations. +Isaiah 61:05 | Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards. +Isaiah 61:06 | But you will be called the Lord’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory. +Isaiah 61:07 | Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them. +Isaiah 61:08 | "For I, the Lord, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. +Isaiah 61:09 | Their offspring will be known amongst the nations, and their offspring amongst the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which the Lord has blessed." +Isaiah 61:10 | I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. +Isaiah 61:11 | For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. +Isaiah 62:01 | For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp. +Isaiah 62:02 | The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the Lord’s mouth will name. +Isaiah 62:03 | You will also be a crown of beauty in the Lord’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand. +Isaiah 62:04 | You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord delights in you, and your land will be married. +Isaiah 62:05 | For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you. +Isaiah 62:06 | I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the Lord, take no rest, +Isaiah 62:07 | and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. +Isaiah 62:08 | The Lord has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have laboured, +Isaiah 62:09 | but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise the Lord. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary." +Isaiah 62:10 | Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples. +Isaiah 62:11 | Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’" +Isaiah 62:12 | They will call them "The Holy People, The Lord’s Redeemed". You will be called "Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken". +Isaiah 63:01 | Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save." +Isaiah 63:02 | Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? +Isaiah 63:03 | "I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. +Isaiah 63:04 | For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. +Isaiah 63:05 | I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me. +Isaiah 63:06 | I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth." +Isaiah 63:07 | I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has given to us, and the great goodness towards the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +Isaiah 63:08 | For he said, "Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely" so he became their Saviour. +Isaiah 63:09 | In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. +Isaiah 63:10 | But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. +Isaiah 63:11 | Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, "Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit amongst them?" +Isaiah 63:12 | Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? +Isaiah 63:13 | Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble? +Isaiah 63:14 | As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Lord’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name. +Isaiah 63:15 | Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained towards me. +Isaiah 63:16 | For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Lord, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. +Isaiah 63:17 | O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. +Isaiah 63:18 | Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. +Isaiah 63:19 | We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name. +Isaiah 64:01 | Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence. +Isaiah 64:02 | As when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil; Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! +Isaiah 64:03 | When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence. +Isaiah 64:04 | For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. +Isaiah 64:05 | You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved? +Isaiah 64:06 | For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. +Isaiah 64:07 | There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. +Isaiah 64:08 | But now, Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand. +Isaiah 64:09 | Don’t be furious, Lord. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people. +Isaiah 64:10 | Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. +Isaiah 64:11 | Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burnt with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste. +Isaiah 64:12 | Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely? +Isaiah 65:01 | "I am enquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. +Isaiah 65:02 | I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; +Isaiah 65:03 | a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; +Isaiah 65:04 | who sit amongst the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; +Isaiah 65:05 | who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day. +Isaiah 65:06 | "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom, +Isaiah 65:07 | your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together", says the Lord, "who have burnt incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom." +Isaiah 65:08 | The Lord says, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all. +Isaiah 65:09 | I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there. +Isaiah 65:10 | Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. +Isaiah 65:11 | "But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; +Isaiah 65:12 | I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight." +Isaiah 65:13 | Therefore the Lord God says, "Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed; +Isaiah 65:14 | Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit. +Isaiah 65:15 | You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord God will kill you. He will call his servants by another name, +Isaiah 65:16 | so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes. +Isaiah 65:17 | "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind. +Isaiah 65:18 | But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy. +Isaiah 65:19 | I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more. +Isaiah 65:20 | "No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed. +Isaiah 65:21 | They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. +Isaiah 65:22 | They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands. +Isaiah 65:23 | They will not labour in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of the Lord’s blessed and their descendants with them. +Isaiah 65:24 | It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. +Isaiah 65:25 | The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says the Lord. +Isaiah 66:01 | The Lord says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest? +Isaiah 66:02 | For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word. +Isaiah 66:03 | He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations: +Isaiah 66:04 | I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight." +Isaiah 66:05 | Hear the Lord’s word, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed. +Isaiah 66:06 | A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that repays his enemies what they deserve. +Isaiah 66:07 | "Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son. +Isaiah 66:08 | Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children. +Isaiah 66:09 | Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?" says the Lord. "Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?" says your God. +Isaiah 66:10 | "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; +Isaiah 66:11 | that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory." +Isaiah 66:12 | For the Lord says, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees. +Isaiah 66:13 | As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem." +Isaiah 66:14 | You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. The Lord’s hand will be known amongst his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies. +Isaiah 66:15 | For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. +Isaiah 66:16 | For the Lord will execute judgement by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord will be many. +Isaiah 66:17 | "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together," says the Lord. +Isaiah 66:18 | "For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory. +Isaiah 66:19 | "I will set a sign amongst them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory amongst the nations. +Isaiah 66:20 | They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the Lord’s house. +Isaiah 66:21 | Of them I will also select priests and Levites," says the Lord. +Isaiah 66:22 | "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me," says the Lord, "so your offspring and your name shall remain. +Isaiah 66:23 | It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me," says the Lord. +Isaiah 66:24 | "They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." +James 01:01 | James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. +James 01:02 | Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, +James 01:02-04 | Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. +James 01:03 | knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. +James 01:04 | Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. +James 01:05 | But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. +James 01:06 | But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. +James 01:07 | For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord. +James 01:08 | He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. +James 01:09 | But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; +James 01:10 | and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. +James 01:11 | For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits. +James 01:12 | Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. +James 01:12 | Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him. +James 01:13 | Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. +James 01:14 | But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. +James 01:15 | Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death. +James 01:16 | Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. +James 01:17 | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. +James 01:18 | Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. +James 01:19 | So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; +James 01:20 | for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. +James 01:21 | Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. +James 01:21-22 | Get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. +James 01:22 | But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. +James 01:22-24 | Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word, but does not do what it says, is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror nd, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. +James 01:23 | For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; +James 01:23-24 | Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. +James 01:24 | for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. +James 01:25 | But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. +James 01:26 | If anyone amongst you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless. +James 01:26 | Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. +James 01:27 | Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. +James 02:01 | My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. +James 02:02 | For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, +James 02:03 | and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, "Sit here in a good place" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool" +James 02:04 | haven’t you shown partiality amongst yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? +James 02:05 | Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? +James 02:06 | But you have dishonoured the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? +James 02:07 | Don’t they blaspheme the honourable name by which you are called? +James 02:08 | However, if you fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself," you do well. +James 02:09 | But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. +James 02:10 | For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. +James 02:11 | For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. +James 02:12 | So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. +James 02:13 | For judgement is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement. +James 02:14 | What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? +James 02:14 | What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? +James 02:16 | and one of you tells them, "Go in peace. Be warmed and filled" yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? +James 02:17 | Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. +James 02:17 | In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. +James 02:18 | Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. +James 02:19 | You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. +James 02:19-20 | You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that — and shudder. You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless ? +James 02:20 | But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? +James 02:21 | Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? +James 02:22 | You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. +James 02:23 | So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness," and he was called the friend of God. +James 02:24 | You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. +James 02:25 | In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way? +James 02:26 | As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. +James 02:26 | For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. +James 03:01 | Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgement. +James 03:01 | Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. +James 03:02 | For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also. +James 03:03 | Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. +James 03:04 | Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. +James 03:05 | So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! +James 03:06 | And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity amongst our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. +James 03:07 | For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; +James 03:08 | but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. +James 03:09 | With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God. +James 03:10 | Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. +James 03:11 | Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? +James 03:12 | Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. +James 03:13 | Who is wise and understanding amongst you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. +James 03:14 | But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. +James 03:15 | This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. +James 03:16 | For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. +James 03:17 | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. +James 03:18 | Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. +James 04:01 | Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? +James 04:02 | You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. +James 04:03 | You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. +James 04:04 | You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. +James 04:05 | Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? +James 04:06 | But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." +James 04:07 | Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. +James 04:08 | Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. +James 04:09 | Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. +James 04:10 | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. +James 04:11 | Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. +James 04:12 | Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? +James 04:13 | Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." +James 04:14 | Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. +James 04:15 | For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." +James 04:16 | But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. +James 04:17 | To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin. +James 05:01 | Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. +James 05:02 | Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. +James 05:03 | Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. +James 05:04 | Behold, the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. +James 05:05 | You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. +James 05:06 | You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you. +James 05:07 | Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. +James 05:08 | You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. +James 05:09 | Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. +James 05:10 | Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. +James 05:11 | Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. +James 05:12 | But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes", and your "no", "no", so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy. +James 05:13 | Is any amongst you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. +James 05:14 | Is any amongst you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, +James 05:15 | and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. +James 05:16 | Confess your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. +James 05:17 | Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. +James 05:18 | He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. +James 05:19 | Brothers, if any amongst you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, +James 05:20 | let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. +Jeremiah 01:01 | The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. +Jeremiah 01:02 | The Lord’s word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. +Jeremiah 01:03 | It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. +Jeremiah 01:05 | "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." +Jeremiah 01:06 | Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child." +Jeremiah 01:07 | But the Lord said to me, "Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you. +Jeremiah 01:08 | Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 01:09 | Then the Lord stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. +Jeremiah 01:10 | Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant." +Jeremiah 01:11 | Moreover the Lord’s word came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I said, "I see a branch of an almond tree." +Jeremiah 01:12 | Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it." +Jeremiah 01:13 | The Lord’s word came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" I said, "I see a boiling cauldron; and it is tipping away from the north." +Jeremiah 01:14 | Then the Lord said to me, "Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land. +Jeremiah 01:15 | For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north," says the Lord. "They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah. +Jeremiah 01:16 | I will utter my judgements against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. +Jeremiah 01:17 | "You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them. +Jeremiah 01:18 | For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. +Jeremiah 01:19 | They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you", says the Lord, "to rescue you." +Jeremiah 02:02 | "Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The Lord says, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. +Jeremiah 02:03 | Israel was holiness to the Lord, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,"’ says the Lord." +Jeremiah 02:04 | Hear the Lord’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel! +Jeremiah 02:05 | The Lord says, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless? +Jeremiah 02:06 | They didn’t say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’ +Jeremiah 02:07 | I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. +Jeremiah 02:08 | The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit. +Jeremiah 02:09 | "Therefore I will yet contend with you," says the Lord, "and I will contend with your children’s children. +Jeremiah 02:10 | For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing. +Jeremiah 02:11 | Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit. +Jeremiah 02:12 | "Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 02:13 | "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water. +Jeremiah 02:14 | Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive? +Jeremiah 02:15 | The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burnt up, without inhabitant. +Jeremiah 02:16 | The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. +Jeremiah 02:17 | "Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way? +Jeremiah 02:18 | Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? +Jeremiah 02:19 | "Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the Lord your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies. +Jeremiah 02:20 | "For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute. +Jeremiah 02:21 | Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? +Jeremiah 02:22 | For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord GOD. +Jeremiah 02:23 | "How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways, +Jeremiah 02:24 | a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her. +Jeremiah 02:25 | "Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’ +Jeremiah 02:26 | As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, +Jeremiah 02:27 | who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’ +Jeremiah 02:28 | "But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah. +Jeremiah 02:29 | "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 02:30 | "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. +Jeremiah 02:31 | Generation, consider the Lord’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’? +Jeremiah 02:32 | "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number. +Jeremiah 02:33 | How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways. +Jeremiah 02:34 | Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things. +Jeremiah 02:35 | "Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’ +Jeremiah 02:36 | Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. +Jeremiah 02:37 | You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them. +Jeremiah 03:01 | "They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 03:02 | "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. +Jeremiah 03:03 | Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed. +Jeremiah 03:04 | Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’? +Jeremiah 03:05 | "‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way." +Jeremiah 03:06 | Moreover, the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there. +Jeremiah 03:07 | I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. +Jeremiah 03:08 | I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute. +Jeremiah 03:09 | Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. +Jeremiah 03:10 | Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretence," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 03:11 | The Lord said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. +Jeremiah 03:12 | Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says the Lord. ‘I will not keep anger forever. +Jeremiah 03:13 | Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says the Lord." +Jeremiah 03:14 | "Return, backsliding children," says the Lord; "for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. +Jeremiah 03:15 | I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. +Jeremiah 03:16 | It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days," says the Lord, "they will no longer say, ‘the ark of the Lord’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made. +Jeremiah 03:17 | At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Lord’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the Lord’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart. +Jeremiah 03:18 | In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers. +Jeremiah 03:19 | "But I said, ‘How I desire to put you amongst the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me "My Father", and shall not turn away from following me.’ +Jeremiah 03:20 | "Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 03:21 | A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God. +Jeremiah 03:22 | Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the Lord our God. +Jeremiah 03:23 | Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God. +Jeremiah 03:24 | But the shameful thing has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. +Jeremiah 03:25 | Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the Lord our God’s voice." +Jeremiah 04:01 | "If you will return, Israel," says the Lord, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed; +Jeremiah 04:02 | and you will swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him." +Jeremiah 04:03 | For the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow amongst thorns. +Jeremiah 04:04 | Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. +Jeremiah 04:05 | Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’ +Jeremiah 04:06 | Set up a standard towards Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction." +Jeremiah 04:07 | A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. +Jeremiah 04:08 | For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord hasn’t turned back from us. +Jeremiah 04:09 | "It will happen at that day," says the Lord, "that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder." +Jeremiah 04:10 | Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart." +Jeremiah 04:11 | At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness towards the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; +Jeremiah 04:12 | a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgements against them." +Jeremiah 04:13 | Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined. +Jeremiah 04:14 | Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you? +Jeremiah 04:15 | For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: +Jeremiah 04:16 | "Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah. +Jeremiah 04:17 | As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 04:18 | "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart." +Jeremiah 04:19 | My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. +Jeremiah 04:20 | Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment. +Jeremiah 04:21 | How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? +Jeremiah 04:22 | "For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skilful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good." +Jeremiah 04:23 | I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light. +Jeremiah 04:24 | I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. +Jeremiah 04:25 | I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled. +Jeremiah 04:26 | I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the Lord, before his fierce anger. +Jeremiah 04:27 | For the Lord says, "The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. +Jeremiah 04:28 | For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it." +Jeremiah 04:29 | Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. +Jeremiah 04:30 | You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life. +Jeremiah 04:31 | For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers." +Jeremiah 05:01 | "Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her. +Jeremiah 05:02 | Though they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ surely they swear falsely." +Jeremiah 05:03 | O Lord, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return. +Jeremiah 05:04 | Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Lord’s way, nor the law of their God. +Jeremiah 05:05 | I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. +Jeremiah 05:06 | Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased. +Jeremiah 05:07 | "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. +Jeremiah 05:08 | They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife. +Jeremiah 05:09 | Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?" says the Lord. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +Jeremiah 05:10 | "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s. +Jeremiah 05:11 | For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 05:12 | They have denied the Lord, and said, "It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine. +Jeremiah 05:13 | The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them." +Jeremiah 05:14 | Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies says, "Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. +Jeremiah 05:15 | Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel," says the Lord. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say. +Jeremiah 05:16 | Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men. +Jeremiah 05:17 | They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword. +Jeremiah 05:18 | "But even in those days," says the Lord, "I will not make a full end of you. +Jeremiah 05:19 | It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’ +Jeremiah 05:21 | ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear: +Jeremiah 05:22 | Don’t you fear me?’ says the Lord ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’ +Jeremiah 05:23 | "But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. +Jeremiah 05:24 | They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’ +Jeremiah 05:25 | "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. +Jeremiah 05:26 | For wicked men are found amongst my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. +Jeremiah 05:27 | As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich. +Jeremiah 05:28 | They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy. +Jeremiah 05:29 | "Shouldn’t I punish for these things?" says the Lord. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +Jeremiah 05:30 | "An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. +Jeremiah 05:31 | The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it? +Jeremiah 06:01 | "Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction. +Jeremiah 06:02 | I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion. +Jeremiah 06:03 | Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place." +Jeremiah 06:04 | "Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. +Jeremiah 06:05 | Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces." +Jeremiah 06:06 | For the Lord of Armies said, "Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is wholly oppression within herself. +Jeremiah 06:07 | As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me. +Jeremiah 06:08 | Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land." +Jeremiah 06:09 | The Lord of Armies says, "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets." +Jeremiah 06:10 | To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the Lord’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it. +Jeremiah 06:11 | Therefore I am full of the Lord’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days. +Jeremiah 06:12 | Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord." +Jeremiah 06:13 | "For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. +Jeremiah 06:14 | They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace. +Jeremiah 06:15 | Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall amongst those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 06:16 | The Lord says, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ +Jeremiah 06:17 | I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ +Jeremiah 06:18 | Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is amongst them. +Jeremiah 06:19 | Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. +Jeremiah 06:20 | To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me." +Jeremiah 06:21 | Therefore The Lord says, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbour and his friend will perish." +Jeremiah 06:22 | The Lord says, "Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. +Jeremiah 06:23 | They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion." +Jeremiah 06:24 | We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labour. +Jeremiah 06:25 | Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side. +Jeremiah 06:26 | Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us. +Jeremiah 06:27 | "I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress amongst my people, that you may know and try their way. +Jeremiah 06:28 | They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. +Jeremiah 06:29 | The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. +Jeremiah 06:30 | Men will call them rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them." +Jeremiah 07:02 | "Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.’" +Jeremiah 07:03 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. +Jeremiah 07:04 | Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The Lord’s temple, the Lord’s temple, the Lord’s temple, are these.’ +Jeremiah 07:05 | For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour; +Jeremiah 07:06 | if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt; +Jeremiah 07:07 | then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more. +Jeremiah 07:08 | Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. +Jeremiah 07:09 | Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, +Jeremiah 07:10 | then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations? +Jeremiah 07:11 | Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 07:12 | "But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. +Jeremiah 07:13 | Now, because you have done all these works," says the Lord, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer; +Jeremiah 07:14 | therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. +Jeremiah 07:15 | I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim. +Jeremiah 07:16 | "Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you. +Jeremiah 07:17 | Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? +Jeremiah 07:18 | The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. +Jeremiah 07:19 | Do they provoke me to anger?" says the Lord. "Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?" +Jeremiah 07:20 | Therefore the Lord God says: "Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched." +Jeremiah 07:21 | the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. +Jeremiah 07:22 | For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; +Jeremiah 07:23 | but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ +Jeremiah 07:24 | But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. +Jeremiah 07:25 | Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. +Jeremiah 07:26 | Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers. +Jeremiah 07:27 | "You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you. +Jeremiah 07:28 | You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the Lord their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’ +Jeremiah 07:29 | Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. +Jeremiah 07:30 | "For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says the Lord. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. +Jeremiah 07:31 | They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind. +Jeremiah 07:32 | Therefore behold, the days come", says the Lord, "that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury. +Jeremiah 07:33 | The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away. +Jeremiah 07:34 | Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste." +Jeremiah 08:01 | "At that time," says the Lord, "they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. +Jeremiah 08:02 | They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth. +Jeremiah 08:03 | Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the Lord of Armies. +Jeremiah 08:04 | "Moreover you shall tell them, ‘The Lord says: "‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return? +Jeremiah 08:05 | Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return. +Jeremiah 08:06 | I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. +Jeremiah 08:07 | Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know the Lord’s law. +Jeremiah 08:08 | "‘How do you say, "We are wise, and the Lord’s law is with us?" But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie. +Jeremiah 08:09 | The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the Lord’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them? +Jeremiah 08:10 | Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. +Jeremiah 08:11 | They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace. +Jeremiah 08:12 | Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall amongst those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says the Lord. +Jeremiah 08:13 | "‘I will utterly consume them, says the Lord. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’" +Jeremiah 08:14 | "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the Lord our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord. +Jeremiah 08:15 | We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! +Jeremiah 08:16 | The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein." +Jeremiah 08:17 | "For, behold, I will send serpents, adders amongst you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 08:18 | Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. +Jeremiah 08:19 | Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: "Isn’t the Lord in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?" +Jeremiah 08:20 | "The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved." +Jeremiah 08:21 | For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me. +Jeremiah 08:22 | Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered? +Jeremiah 09:01 | Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! +Jeremiah 09:02 | Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. +Jeremiah 09:03 | "They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 09:04 | "Everyone beware of his neighbour, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will go around like a slanderer. +Jeremiah 09:05 | Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. +Jeremiah 09:06 | Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 09:07 | Therefore the Lord of Armies says, "Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? +Jeremiah 09:08 | Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him. +Jeremiah 09:09 | Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?" says the Lord. "Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this? +Jeremiah 09:10 | I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone. +Jeremiah 09:11 | "I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant." +Jeremiah 09:12 | Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burnt up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? +Jeremiah 09:13 | The Lord says, "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, +Jeremiah 09:14 | but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them." +Jeremiah 09:15 | Therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. +Jeremiah 09:16 | I will scatter them also amongst the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them." +Jeremiah 09:17 | The Lord of Armies says, "Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skilful women, that they may come. +Jeremiah 09:18 | Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. +Jeremiah 09:19 | For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’" +Jeremiah 09:20 | Yet hear the Lord’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbour a lamentation. +Jeremiah 09:21 | For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets. +Jeremiah 09:22 | Speak, "The Lord says, "‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’" +Jeremiah 09:23 | The Lord says, "Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches. +Jeremiah 09:24 | But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the Lord who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 09:25 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: +Jeremiah 09:26 | Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart." +Jeremiah 10:01 | Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, house of Israel! +Jeremiah 10:02 | The Lord says, "Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. +Jeremiah 10:03 | For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. +Jeremiah 10:04 | They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move. +Jeremiah 10:05 | They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good." +Jeremiah 10:06 | There is no one like you, Lord. You are great, and your name is great in might. +Jeremiah 10:07 | Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because amongst all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you. +Jeremiah 10:08 | But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood. +Jeremiah 10:09 | There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skilful men. +Jeremiah 10:10 | But the Lord is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation. +Jeremiah 10:11 | "You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’" +Jeremiah 10:12 | God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens. +Jeremiah 10:13 | When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries. +Jeremiah 10:14 | Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. +Jeremiah 10:15 | They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish. +Jeremiah 10:16 | The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: the Lord of Armies is his name. +Jeremiah 10:17 | Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege. +Jeremiah 10:18 | For the Lord says, "Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it." +Jeremiah 10:19 | Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, "Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it." +Jeremiah 10:20 | My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains. +Jeremiah 10:21 | For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not enquired of the Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered. +Jeremiah 10:22 | The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals. +Jeremiah 10:23 | Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps. +Jeremiah 10:24 | Lord, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing. +Jeremiah 10:25 | Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. +Jeremiah 11:02 | "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; +Jeremiah 11:03 | and say to them, the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant, +Jeremiah 11:04 | which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God; +Jeremiah 11:05 | that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today." Then I answered, and said, "Amen, Lord." +Jeremiah 11:06 | The Lord said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them. +Jeremiah 11:07 | For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, "Obey my voice." +Jeremiah 11:08 | Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’" +Jeremiah 11:09 | The Lord said to me, "A conspiracy is found amongst the men of Judah, and amongst the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 11:10 | They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. +Jeremiah 11:11 | Therefore the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them. +Jeremiah 11:12 | Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. +Jeremiah 11:13 | For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’ +Jeremiah 11:14 | "Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble. +Jeremiah 11:15 | What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice." +Jeremiah 11:16 | The Lord called your name, "A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit." With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken. +Jeremiah 11:17 | For the Lord of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. +Jeremiah 11:18 | The Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings. +Jeremiah 11:19 | But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, "Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered." +Jeremiah 11:20 | But, the Lord of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause. +Jeremiah 11:21 | "Therefore the Lord says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in the Lord’s name, that you not die by our hand;’ +Jeremiah 11:22 | therefore the Lord of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine. +Jeremiah 11:23 | There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’" +Jeremiah 12:01 | You are righteous, Lord, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously? +Jeremiah 12:02 | You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. +Jeremiah 12:03 | But you, Lord, know me. You see me, and test my heart towards you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. +Jeremiah 12:04 | How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, "He won’t see our latter end." +Jeremiah 12:05 | "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan? +Jeremiah 12:06 | For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. +Jeremiah 12:07 | "I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. +Jeremiah 12:08 | My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her. +Jeremiah 12:09 | Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour. +Jeremiah 12:10 | Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. +Jeremiah 12:11 | They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares. +Jeremiah 12:12 | Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the Lord devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace. +Jeremiah 12:13 | They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of the Lord’s fierce anger." +Jeremiah 12:14 | The Lord says, "Concerning all my evil neighbours, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from amongst them. +Jeremiah 12:15 | It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. +Jeremiah 12:16 | It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people. +Jeremiah 12:17 | But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 13:01 | The Lord said to me, "Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water." +Jeremiah 13:02 | So I bought a belt according to the Lord’s word, and put it on my waist. +Jeremiah 13:04 | "Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock." +Jeremiah 13:06 | After many days, the Lord said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there." +Jeremiah 13:07 | Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing. +Jeremiah 13:09 | "The Lord says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 13:10 | This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing. +Jeremiah 13:11 | For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says the Lord; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’ +Jeremiah 13:12 | "Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says, "Every container should be filled with wine."’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’ +Jeremiah 13:13 | Then tell them, ‘The Lord says, "Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. +Jeremiah 13:14 | I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together," says the LORD: "I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them." +Jeremiah 13:15 | Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for the Lord has spoken. +Jeremiah 13:16 | Give glory to the Lord your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness. +Jeremiah 13:17 | But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive. +Jeremiah 13:18 | Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory. +Jeremiah 13:19 | The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive. +Jeremiah 13:20 | Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock? +Jeremiah 13:21 | What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? +Jeremiah 13:22 | If you say in your heart, "Why have these things come on me?" Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence. +Jeremiah 13:23 | Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. +Jeremiah 13:24 | "Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness. +Jeremiah 13:25 | This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me," says the Lord, "because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood." +Jeremiah 13:26 | Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear. +Jeremiah 13:27 | I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?" +Jeremiah 14:01 | This is the Lord’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. +Jeremiah 14:02 | "Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. +Jeremiah 14:03 | Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. +Jeremiah 14:04 | Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the ploughmen are disappointed. They cover their heads. +Jeremiah 14:05 | Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass. +Jeremiah 14:06 | The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation. +Jeremiah 14:07 | Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Lord; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you. +Jeremiah 14:08 | You hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? +Jeremiah 14:09 | Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Lord, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us. +Jeremiah 14:10 | The Lord says to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins." +Jeremiah 14:11 | The Lord said to me, "Don’t pray for this people for their good. +Jeremiah 14:12 | When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence." +Jeremiah 14:13 | Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’" +Jeremiah 14:14 | Then the Lord said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. +Jeremiah 14:15 | Therefore the Lord says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. +Jeremiah 14:16 | The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them. +Jeremiah 14:17 | "You shall say this word to them: "‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. +Jeremiah 14:18 | If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’" +Jeremiah 14:19 | Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! +Jeremiah 14:20 | We acknowledge, Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. +Jeremiah 14:21 | Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us. +Jeremiah 14:22 | Are there any amongst the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the Lord our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things. +Jeremiah 15:01 | Then the Lord said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn towards this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out! +Jeremiah 15:02 | It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘The Lord says: "Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity."’ +Jeremiah 15:03 | "I will appoint over them four kinds," says the LORD: "the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. +Jeremiah 15:04 | I will cause them to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 15:05 | For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare? +Jeremiah 15:06 | You have rejected me," says the Lord. "You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion. +Jeremiah 15:07 | I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways. +Jeremiah 15:08 | Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. +Jeremiah 15:09 | She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 15:10 | Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me. +Jeremiah 15:11 | The Lord said, "Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. +Jeremiah 15:12 | Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze? +Jeremiah 15:13 | I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. +Jeremiah 15:14 | I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you." +Jeremiah 15:15 | Lord, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. +Jeremiah 15:16 | Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, the Lord, God of Armies. +Jeremiah 15:17 | I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation. +Jeremiah 15:18 | Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? +Jeremiah 15:19 | Therefore the Lord says, "If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them. +Jeremiah 15:20 | I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 15:21 | "I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible." +Jeremiah 16:02 | "You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place." +Jeremiah 16:03 | For the Lord says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land: +Jeremiah 16:04 | "They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth." +Jeremiah 16:05 | For the Lord says, "Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," says the Lord, "even loving kindness and tender mercies. +Jeremiah 16:06 | Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them. +Jeremiah 16:07 | Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. +Jeremiah 16:08 | "You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink." +Jeremiah 16:09 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. +Jeremiah 16:10 | It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ +Jeremiah 16:11 | then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says the Lord, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshipped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. +Jeremiah 16:12 | You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me. +Jeremiah 16:13 | Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favour.’ +Jeremiah 16:14 | "Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that it will no more be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ +Jeremiah 16:15 | but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers. +Jeremiah 16:16 | "Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says the Lord, "and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. +Jeremiah 16:17 | For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. +Jeremiah 16:18 | First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations." +Jeremiah 16:19 | Lord, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit. +Jeremiah 16:20 | Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?" +Jeremiah 16:21 | "Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is the Lord." +Jeremiah 17:01 | "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars. +Jeremiah 17:02 | Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills. +Jeremiah 17:03 | My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders. +Jeremiah 17:04 | You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever." +Jeremiah 17:05 | The Lord says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the Lord. +Jeremiah 17:06 | For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land. +Jeremiah 17:07 | "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose confidence is in the Lord. +Jeremiah 17:08 | For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit. +Jeremiah 17:09 | The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? +Jeremiah 17:10 | "I, the Lord, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings." +Jeremiah 17:11 | As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool. +Jeremiah 17:12 | A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. +Jeremiah 17:13 | Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living waters. +Jeremiah 17:14 | Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise. +Jeremiah 17:15 | Behold, they ask me, "Where is the Lord’s word? Let it be fulfilled now." +Jeremiah 17:16 | As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face. +Jeremiah 17:17 | Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil. +Jeremiah 17:18 | Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. +Jeremiah 17:19 | The Lord said this to me: "Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 17:20 | Tell them, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: +Jeremiah 17:21 | The Lord says, "Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 17:22 | Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. +Jeremiah 17:23 | But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. +Jeremiah 17:24 | It will happen, if you diligently listen to me," says the Lord, "to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein; +Jeremiah 17:25 | then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever. +Jeremiah 17:26 | They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 17:27 | But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched." +Jeremiah 18:02 | "Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words." +Jeremiah 18:03 | Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels. +Jeremiah 18:04 | When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. +Jeremiah 18:06 | "House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?" says the Lord. "Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. +Jeremiah 18:07 | At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; +Jeremiah 18:08 | if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. +Jeremiah 18:09 | At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; +Jeremiah 18:10 | if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them. +Jeremiah 18:11 | "Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The Lord says: "Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings."’ +Jeremiah 18:12 | But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’" +Jeremiah 18:13 | Therefore the Lord says: "Ask now amongst the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. +Jeremiah 18:14 | Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? +Jeremiah 18:15 | For my people have forgotten me. They have burnt incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up, +Jeremiah 18:16 | to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head. +Jeremiah 18:17 | I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. +Jeremiah 18:18 | Then they said, "Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words." +Jeremiah 18:19 | Give heed to me, Lord, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. +Jeremiah 18:20 | Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. +Jeremiah 18:21 | Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle. +Jeremiah 18:22 | Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet. +Jeremiah 18:23 | Yet, Lord, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger. +Jeremiah 19:01 | Thus said the Lord, "Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; +Jeremiah 19:02 | and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. +Jeremiah 19:03 | Say, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. +Jeremiah 19:04 | Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burnt incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, +Jeremiah 19:05 | and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind. +Jeremiah 19:06 | Therefore, behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’. +Jeremiah 19:07 | "I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. +Jeremiah 19:08 | I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. +Jeremiah 19:09 | I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them."’ +Jeremiah 19:10 | "Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you, +Jeremiah 19:11 | and shall tell them, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury. +Jeremiah 19:12 | This is what I will do to this place," says the Lord, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. +Jeremiah 19:13 | The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burnt incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods." +Jeremiah 19:14 | Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house, and said to all the people: +Jeremiah 19:15 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’" +Jeremiah 20:01 | Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the Lord’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. +Jeremiah 20:02 | Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 20:03 | On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. +Jeremiah 20:04 | For the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword. +Jeremiah 20:05 | Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon. +Jeremiah 20:06 | You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’" +Jeremiah 20:07 | Lord, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me. +Jeremiah 20:07 | You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. +Jeremiah 20:08 | For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, "Violence and destruction!" because the Lord’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day. +Jeremiah 20:09 | If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t. +Jeremiah 20:10 | For I have heard the defaming of many, "Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!" say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. "Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him." +Jeremiah 20:11 | But the Lord is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonour which will never be forgotten. +Jeremiah 20:12 | But the Lord of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you. +Jeremiah 20:13 | Sing to the Lord! Give praise to the Lord! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked. +Jeremiah 20:13 | Sing to the LORD! Praise the Lord, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers. +Jeremiah 20:14 | Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. +Jeremiah 20:15 | Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, "A boy is born to you," making him very glad. +Jeremiah 20:16 | Let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; +Jeremiah 20:17 | because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. +Jeremiah 20:18 | Why did I come out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? +Jeremiah 20:18 | Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame? +Jeremiah 21:02 | "Please enquire of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us." +Jeremiah 21:04 | ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city. +Jeremiah 21:05 | I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation. +Jeremiah 21:06 | I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence. +Jeremiah 21:07 | Afterward," says the Lord, "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy."’ +Jeremiah 21:08 | "You shall say to this people, ‘The Lord says: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. +Jeremiah 21:09 | He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life. +Jeremiah 21:10 | For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good," says the Lord. "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire."’ +Jeremiah 21:11 | "Concerning the house of the king of Judah, hear the Lord’s word: +Jeremiah 21:12 | House of David, the Lord says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. +Jeremiah 21:13 | Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says the Lord. ‘You that say, "Who would come down against us?" or "Who would enter into our homes?" +Jeremiah 21:14 | I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’" +Jeremiah 22:01 | The Lord said, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word, there: +Jeremiah 22:02 | ‘Hear the Lord’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates. +Jeremiah 22:03 | The Lord says: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place. +Jeremiah 22:04 | For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, his servants, and his people. +Jeremiah 22:05 | But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself," says the Lord, "that this house will become a desolation." +Jeremiah 22:06 | For the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. +Jeremiah 22:07 | I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. +Jeremiah 22:08 | "Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbour, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this great city?’ +Jeremiah 22:09 | Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, worshipped other gods, and served them.’" +Jeremiah 22:10 | Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country. +Jeremiah 22:11 | For the Lord says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: "He won’t return there any more. +Jeremiah 22:12 | But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more." +Jeremiah 22:13 | "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbour’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire; +Jeremiah 22:14 | who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red. +Jeremiah 22:15 | "Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. +Jeremiah 22:16 | He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 22:17 | But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence." +Jeremiah 22:18 | Therefore the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’ +Jeremiah 22:19 | He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem." +Jeremiah 22:20 | "Go up to Lebanon, and cry. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed. +Jeremiah 22:21 | I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice. +Jeremiah 22:22 | The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. +Jeremiah 22:23 | Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! +Jeremiah 22:24 | "As I live," says the Lord, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there. +Jeremiah 22:25 | I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. +Jeremiah 22:26 | I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die. +Jeremiah 22:27 | But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return." +Jeremiah 22:28 | Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know? +Jeremiah 22:29 | O earth, earth, earth, hear the Lord’s word! +Jeremiah 22:30 | The Lord says, "Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah." +Jeremiah 23:01 | "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:02 | Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: "You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:03 | "I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply. +Jeremiah 23:04 | I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:05 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. +Jeremiah 23:06 | In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: The Lord our righteousness. +Jeremiah 23:07 | "Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that they will no more say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ +Jeremiah 23:08 | but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land." +Jeremiah 23:09 | Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the Lord, and because of his holy words. +Jeremiah 23:10 | For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right; +Jeremiah 23:11 | "Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness," declares the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:11 | for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:12 | Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:13 | "I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. +Jeremiah 23:14 | In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah." +Jeremiah 23:15 | Therefore the Lord of Armies says concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land." +Jeremiah 23:16 | The Lord of Armies says, "Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:17 | They say continually to those who despise me, ‘The Lord has said, "You will have peace"’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’ +Jeremiah 23:18 | For who has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it? +Jeremiah 23:19 | Behold, the Lord’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked. +Jeremiah 23:20 | The Lord’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly. +Jeremiah 23:21 | I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied. +Jeremiah 23:22 | But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. +Jeremiah 23:23 | "Am I a God at hand," says the Lord, "and not a God afar off? +Jeremiah 23:24 | Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?" says the Lord. "Don’t I fill heaven and earth?" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:25 | "I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ +Jeremiah 23:26 | How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? +Jeremiah 23:27 | They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal. +Jeremiah 23:28 | The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:29 | "Isn’t my word like fire?" says the Lord; "and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? +Jeremiah 23:30 | "Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the Lord, "who each steal my words from his neighbour. +Jeremiah 23:31 | Behold, I am against the prophets," says the Lord, "who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’ +Jeremiah 23:32 | Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams," says the Lord, "who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 23:33 | "When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘"What message? I will cast you off," says the Lord.’ +Jeremiah 23:34 | As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the Lord,’ I will even punish that man and his household. +Jeremiah 23:35 | You will say everyone to his neighbour, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ and, ‘What has the Lord said?’ +Jeremiah 23:36 | You will mention the message from the Lord no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of Armies, our God. +Jeremiah 23:37 | You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’ +Jeremiah 23:38 | Although you say, ‘The message from the LORD;’ therefore the Lord says: ‘Because you say this word, "The message from the Lord," and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, "The message from the LORD" +Jeremiah 23:39 | therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence. +Jeremiah 23:40 | I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’" +Jeremiah 24:01 | The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Lord’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. +Jeremiah 24:02 | One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. +Jeremiah 24:03 | Then the Lord asked me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten." +Jeremiah 24:05 | "The Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. +Jeremiah 24:06 | For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up. +Jeremiah 24:07 | I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart. +Jeremiah 24:08 | "‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the Lord says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. +Jeremiah 24:09 | I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them. +Jeremiah 24:10 | I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, amongst them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’" +Jeremiah 25:01 | The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), +Jeremiah 25:03 | From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the Lord’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. +Jeremiah 25:04 | The Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear), saying, +Jeremiah 25:05 | "Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more. +Jeremiah 25:06 | Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm." +Jeremiah 25:07 | "Yet you have not listened to me," says the Lord; "that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt." +Jeremiah 25:08 | Therefore the Lord of Armies says: "Because you have not heard my words, +Jeremiah 25:09 | behold, I will send and take all the families of the north," says the Lord, "and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. +Jeremiah 25:10 | Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. +Jeremiah 25:11 | This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. +Jeremiah 25:12 | "It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation," says the Lord, "for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. +Jeremiah 25:13 | I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. +Jeremiah 25:14 | For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands." +Jeremiah 25:15 | For the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. +Jeremiah 25:16 | They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send amongst them." +Jeremiah 25:17 | Then I took the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: +Jeremiah 25:27 | "You shall tell them, ‘The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send amongst you."’ +Jeremiah 25:28 | It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "You shall surely drink. +Jeremiah 25:29 | For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of Armies."’ +Jeremiah 25:30 | "Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, "‘The Lord will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. +Jeremiah 25:31 | A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgement with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,"’ says the Lord." +Jeremiah 25:32 | The Lord of Armies says, "Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth." +Jeremiah 25:33 | The slain of the Lord will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground. +Jeremiah 25:34 | Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery. +Jeremiah 25:35 | The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape. +Jeremiah 25:36 | A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for the Lord destroys their pasture. +Jeremiah 25:37 | The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the Lord. +Jeremiah 25:38 | He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger. +Jeremiah 26:02 | "The Lord says: ‘Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word. +Jeremiah 26:03 | It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’ +Jeremiah 26:04 | You shall tell them, "The Lord says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, +Jeremiah 26:05 | to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened; +Jeremiah 26:06 | then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth." +Jeremiah 26:07 | The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 26:08 | When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, "You shall surely die! +Jeremiah 26:09 | Why have you prophesied in the Lord’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’" All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 26:10 | When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the Lord’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 26:11 | Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, "This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears." +Jeremiah 26:12 | Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, "The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. +Jeremiah 26:13 | Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the Lord your God’s voice; then the Lord will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you. +Jeremiah 26:14 | But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes. +Jeremiah 26:15 | Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears." +Jeremiah 26:16 | Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: "This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God." +Jeremiah 26:18 | "Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "‘Zion will be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’ +Jeremiah 26:19 | Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear the Lord, and entreat the favour of the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!" +Jeremiah 26:20 | There was also a man who prophesied in the Lord’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. +Jeremiah 26:23 | and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. +Jeremiah 27:02 | the Lord says to me: "Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck. +Jeremiah 27:04 | Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "You shall tell your masters: +Jeremiah 27:05 | ‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me. +Jeremiah 27:06 | Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him. +Jeremiah 27:07 | All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant. +Jeremiah 27:08 | "‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says the Lord, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. +Jeremiah 27:09 | But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon" +Jeremiah 27:10 | for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish. +Jeremiah 27:11 | But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says the Lord; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’" +Jeremiah 27:12 | I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. +Jeremiah 27:13 | Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? +Jeremiah 27:14 | Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. +Jeremiah 27:15 | For I have not sent them," says the Lord, "but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you." +Jeremiah 27:16 | Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, the Lord says, "Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. +Jeremiah 27:17 | Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation? +Jeremiah 27:18 | But if they are prophets, and if the Lord’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the Lord’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon. +Jeremiah 27:19 | For the Lord of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, +Jeremiah 27:21 | yes, the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in the Lord’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: +Jeremiah 27:22 | ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says the Lord; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’" +Jeremiah 28:02 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. +Jeremiah 28:05 | Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the Lord’s house, +Jeremiah 28:06 | even the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the Lord do so. May the Lord perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place. +Jeremiah 28:07 | Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people: +Jeremiah 28:08 | The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence. +Jeremiah 28:09 | The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that the Lord has truly sent him." +Jeremiah 28:10 | Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it. +Jeremiah 28:11 | Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "The Lord says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the neck of all the nations within two full years.’" Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way. +Jeremiah 28:13 | "Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘The Lord says, "You have broken the bars of wood, but you have made in their place bars of iron." +Jeremiah 28:14 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says, "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. I have also given him the animals of the field." +Jeremiah 28:15 | Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. +Jeremiah 28:16 | Therefore the Lord says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.’" +Jeremiah 28:17 | So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. +Jeremiah 29:01 | Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, +Jeremiah 29:02 | (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem), +Jeremiah 29:04 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: +Jeremiah 29:05 | "Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit. +Jeremiah 29:06 | Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished. +Jeremiah 29:07 | Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace." +Jeremiah 29:08 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Don’t let your prophets who are amongst you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamt. +Jeremiah 29:09 | For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 29:10 | For the Lord says, "After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place. +Jeremiah 29:11 | For I know the thoughts that I think towards you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. +Jeremiah 29:12 | You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. +Jeremiah 29:13 | You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. +Jeremiah 29:14 | I will be found by you," says the Lord, "and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive." +Jeremiah 29:15 | Because you have said, "The Lord has raised us up prophets in Babylon" +Jeremiah 29:16 | the Lord says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity; +Jeremiah 29:17 | the Lord of Armies says: "Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad. +Jeremiah 29:18 | I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach amongst all the nations where I have driven them, +Jeremiah 29:19 | because they have not listened to my words," says the Lord, "with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 29:20 | Hear therefore the Lord’s word, all you captives, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. +Jeremiah 29:21 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: "Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes. +Jeremiah 29:22 | A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘The Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’ +Jeremiah 29:23 | because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 29:26 | "The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the Lord’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. +Jeremiah 29:27 | Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you, +Jeremiah 29:28 | because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?" +Jeremiah 29:29 | Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. +Jeremiah 29:31 | "Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘The Lord says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie" +Jeremiah 29:32 | therefore the Lord says, "Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell amongst this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people," says the Lord, "because he has spoken rebellion against the Lord." +Jeremiah 30:02 | "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. +Jeremiah 30:03 | For, behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’" +Jeremiah 30:04 | These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. +Jeremiah 30:05 | For the Lord says: "We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace. +Jeremiah 30:06 | Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale? +Jeremiah 30:07 | Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it! It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it. +Jeremiah 30:08 | It will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants; +Jeremiah 30:09 | but they will serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. +Jeremiah 30:10 | Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid. +Jeremiah 30:11 | For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished." +Jeremiah 30:12 | For the Lord says, "Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous. +Jeremiah 30:13 | There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines. +Jeremiah 30:14 | All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. +Jeremiah 30:15 | Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you. +Jeremiah 30:16 | Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey. +Jeremiah 30:17 | For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds," says the Lord; "because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’" +Jeremiah 30:18 | The Lord says: "Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place. +Jeremiah 30:19 | Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small. +Jeremiah 30:20 | Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them. +Jeremiah 30:21 | Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from amongst them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 30:22 | "You shall be my people, and I will be your God. +Jeremiah 30:23 | Behold, the Lord’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm: it will burst on the head of the wicked. +Jeremiah 30:24 | The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it." +Jeremiah 31:01 | "At that time," says the Lord, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people." +Jeremiah 31:02 | The Lord says, "The people who survive the sword found favour in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest." +Jeremiah 31:03 | The Lord appeared of old to me, saying, "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness. +Jeremiah 31:04 | I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry. +Jeremiah 31:05 | Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit. +Jeremiah 31:06 | For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to the Lord our God.’" +Jeremiah 31:07 | For the Lord says, "Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘The Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’ +Jeremiah 31:08 | Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company. +Jeremiah 31:09 | They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn. +Jeremiah 31:10 | "Hear the Lord’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’ +Jeremiah 31:11 | For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. +Jeremiah 31:12 | They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of the Lord, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all. +Jeremiah 31:13 | Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. +Jeremiah 31:14 | I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 31:15 | The Lord says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more." +Jeremiah 31:16 | The Lord says: "Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded," says the Lord. "They will come again from the land of the enemy. +Jeremiah 31:17 | There is hope for your latter end," says the Lord. "Your children will come again to their own territory. +Jeremiah 31:18 | "I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are the Lord my God. +Jeremiah 31:19 | Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’ +Jeremiah 31:20 | Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 31:21 | "Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart towards the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities. +Jeremiah 31:22 | How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man." +Jeremiah 31:23 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘The Lord bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’ +Jeremiah 31:24 | Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. +Jeremiah 31:25 | For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul." +Jeremiah 31:26 | On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. +Jeremiah 31:27 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. +Jeremiah 31:28 | It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 31:29 | "In those days they will say no more, "‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ +Jeremiah 31:30 | But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge. +Jeremiah 31:31 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: +Jeremiah 31:32 | not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 31:33 | "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the LORD: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. +Jeremiah 31:34 | They will no longer each teach his neighbour, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest," says the LORD: "for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." +Jeremiah 31:35 | The Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; the Lord of Armies is his name, says: +Jeremiah 31:36 | "If these ordinances depart from before me," says the Lord, "then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever." +Jeremiah 31:37 | The Lord says: "If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 31:38 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that the city will be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. +Jeremiah 31:39 | The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn towards Goah. +Jeremiah 31:40 | The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, will be holy to the Lord. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever." +Jeremiah 32:01 | This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. +Jeremiah 32:05 | and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him," says the LORD: "though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?" +Jeremiah 32:07 | ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, "Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it." +Jeremiah 32:08 | "So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the Lord’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ "Then I knew that this was the Lord’s word. +Jeremiah 32:09 | I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. +Jeremiah 32:10 | I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him. +Jeremiah 32:11 | So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; +Jeremiah 32:12 | and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard. +Jeremiah 32:14 | the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.’ +Jeremiah 32:15 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.’ +Jeremiah 32:17 | "Ah Lord GOD! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you. +Jeremiah 32:18 | You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of Armies is your name: +Jeremiah 32:19 | great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings; +Jeremiah 32:20 | who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and amongst other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today; +Jeremiah 32:21 | and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; +Jeremiah 32:22 | and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. +Jeremiah 32:23 | They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them. +Jeremiah 32:24 | "Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it. +Jeremiah 32:25 | You have said to me, Lord GOD, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans." +Jeremiah 32:27 | "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? +Jeremiah 32:28 | Therefore the Lord says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it. +Jeremiah 32:29 | The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. +Jeremiah 32:30 | "For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the Lord. +Jeremiah 32:31 | For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face, +Jeremiah 32:32 | because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 32:33 | They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. +Jeremiah 32:34 | But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. +Jeremiah 32:35 | They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin." +Jeremiah 32:36 | Now therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning this city, about which you say, "It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:" +Jeremiah 32:37 | "Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely. +Jeremiah 32:38 | Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. +Jeremiah 32:39 | I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them. +Jeremiah 32:40 | I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me. +Jeremiah 32:41 | Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul." +Jeremiah 32:42 | For the Lord says: "Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. +Jeremiah 32:43 | Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ +Jeremiah 32:44 | Men will buy fields for money, sign the deeds, seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 33:02 | "The Lord who does it, the Lord who forms it to establish it—the Lord is his name, says: +Jeremiah 33:03 | ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’ +Jeremiah 33:04 | For the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defence against the mounds and against the sword; +Jeremiah 33:05 | while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city: +Jeremiah 33:06 | ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. +Jeremiah 33:07 | I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. +Jeremiah 33:08 | I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me. +Jeremiah 33:09 | This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’" +Jeremiah 33:10 | The Lord says: "Yet again there will be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’ +Jeremiah 33:11 | the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to the Lord of Armies, for the Lord is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into the Lord’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 33:12 | The Lord of Armies says: "Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. +Jeremiah 33:13 | In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts them," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 33:14 | "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah. +Jeremiah 33:15 | "In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land. +Jeremiah 33:16 | In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: The Lord our righteousness." +Jeremiah 33:17 | For the Lord says: "David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. +Jeremiah 33:18 | The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually." +Jeremiah 33:20 | "The Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time, +Jeremiah 33:21 | then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. +Jeremiah 33:22 | As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’" +Jeremiah 33:24 | "Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has the Lord cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them." +Jeremiah 33:25 | The Lord says: "If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; +Jeremiah 33:26 | then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them." +Jeremiah 34:02 | "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, the Lord says, "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire. +Jeremiah 34:03 | You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon."’ +Jeremiah 34:04 | "Yet hear the Lord’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah: The Lord says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword. +Jeremiah 34:05 | You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, "Ah Lord!" for I have spoken the word,’ says the Lord." +Jeremiah 34:06 | Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, +Jeremiah 34:07 | when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. +Jeremiah 34:08 | The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; +Jeremiah 34:09 | that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother. +Jeremiah 34:10 | All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go; +Jeremiah 34:11 | but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. +Jeremiah 34:14 | At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear. +Jeremiah 34:15 | You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbour. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name; +Jeremiah 34:16 | but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’" +Jeremiah 34:17 | Therefore the Lord says: "You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbour. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty," says the Lord, "to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth. +Jeremiah 34:18 | I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts: +Jeremiah 34:19 | the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; +Jeremiah 34:20 | I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. +Jeremiah 34:21 | "I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you. +Jeremiah 34:22 | Behold, I will command," says the Lord, "and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant." +Jeremiah 35:02 | "Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the Lord’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink." +Jeremiah 35:03 | Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, with his brothers, all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; +Jeremiah 35:04 | and I brought them into the Lord’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. +Jeremiah 35:05 | I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine!" +Jeremiah 35:06 | But they said, "We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever. +Jeremiah 35:07 | You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’ +Jeremiah 35:08 | We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; +Jeremiah 35:09 | and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed; +Jeremiah 35:10 | but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. +Jeremiah 35:11 | But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come! Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’" +Jeremiah 35:13 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?" says the Lord. +Jeremiah 35:14 | "The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me. +Jeremiah 35:15 | I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me. +Jeremiah 35:16 | The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me."’ +Jeremiah 35:17 | "Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’" +Jeremiah 35:18 | Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’ +Jeremiah 35:19 | therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’" +Jeremiah 36:02 | "Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. +Jeremiah 36:03 | It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." +Jeremiah 36:04 | Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the Lord’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. +Jeremiah 36:05 | Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am restricted. I can’t go into the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 36:06 | Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the Lord’s words, in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. +Jeremiah 36:07 | It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will each return from his evil way; for the Lord has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people." +Jeremiah 36:08 | Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the Lord’s words in the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 36:09 | Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the Lord. +Jeremiah 36:10 | Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the Lord’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the Lord’s house, in the ears of all the people. +Jeremiah 36:12 | he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. +Jeremiah 36:13 | Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. +Jeremiah 36:14 | Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them. +Jeremiah 36:15 | They said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing. +Jeremiah 36:16 | Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one towards another, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king of all these words." +Jeremiah 36:17 | They asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?" +Jeremiah 36:18 | Then Baruch answered them, "He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book." +Jeremiah 36:19 | Then the princes said to Baruch, "You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are." +Jeremiah 36:20 | They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king. +Jeremiah 36:21 | So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king. +Jeremiah 36:22 | Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him. +Jeremiah 36:23 | When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. +Jeremiah 36:24 | The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments. +Jeremiah 36:25 | Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them. +Jeremiah 36:26 | The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the Lord hid them. +Jeremiah 36:28 | "Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burnt. +Jeremiah 36:29 | Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘The Lord says: "You have burnt this scroll, saying, "Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’"’ +Jeremiah 36:30 | Therefore the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. +Jeremiah 36:31 | I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen." +Jeremiah 36:32 | Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burnt in the fire; and many similar words were added to them. +Jeremiah 37:01 | Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. +Jeremiah 37:02 | But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the Lord’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. +Jeremiah 37:03 | Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "Pray now to the Lord our God for us." +Jeremiah 37:04 | Now Jeremiah came in and went out amongst the people; for they had not put him into prison. +Jeremiah 37:05 | Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 37:07 | "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to enquire of me: "Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land. +Jeremiah 37:08 | The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire."’ +Jeremiah 37:09 | "The Lord says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely depart from us" for they will not depart. +Jeremiah 37:10 | For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained amongst them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’" +Jeremiah 37:11 | When the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, +Jeremiah 37:12 | then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people. +Jeremiah 37:13 | When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are defecting to the Chaldeans!" +Jeremiah 37:14 | Then Jeremiah said, "That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans." But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. +Jeremiah 37:15 | The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. +Jeremiah 37:16 | When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, +Jeremiah 37:17 | then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah said, "There is." He also said, "You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon." +Jeremiah 37:18 | Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, "How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? +Jeremiah 37:19 | Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’ +Jeremiah 37:20 | Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there." +Jeremiah 37:21 | Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. +Jeremiah 38:02 | "The Lord says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’ +Jeremiah 38:03 | The Lord says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’" +Jeremiah 38:04 | Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm." +Jeremiah 38:05 | Zedekiah the king said, "Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you." +Jeremiah 38:06 | Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. +Jeremiah 38:07 | Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate), +Jeremiah 38:09 | "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city." +Jeremiah 38:10 | Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies." +Jeremiah 38:11 | So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. +Jeremiah 38:12 | Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords." Jeremiah did so. +Jeremiah 38:13 | So they lifted Jeremiah up with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. +Jeremiah 38:14 | Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in the Lord’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me." +Jeremiah 38:15 | Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me." +Jeremiah 38:16 | So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, "As the Lord lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life." +Jeremiah 38:17 | Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "The Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burnt with fire. You will live, along with your house. +Jeremiah 38:18 | But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’" +Jeremiah 38:19 | Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me." +Jeremiah 38:20 | But Jeremiah said, "They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the Lord’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live. +Jeremiah 38:21 | But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that the Lord has shown me: +Jeremiah 38:22 | ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, "Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you." +Jeremiah 38:23 | They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burnt with fire.’" +Jeremiah 38:24 | Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die. +Jeremiah 38:25 | But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’ +Jeremiah 38:26 | then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’" +Jeremiah 38:27 | Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. +Jeremiah 38:28 | So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. +Jeremiah 39:01 | In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. +Jeremiah 39:02 | In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. +Jeremiah 39:03 | All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. +Jeremiah 39:04 | When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out towards the Arabah. +Jeremiah 39:05 | But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgement on him. +Jeremiah 39:06 | Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah. +Jeremiah 39:07 | Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. +Jeremiah 39:08 | The Chaldeans burnt the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 39:09 | Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained. +Jeremiah 39:10 | But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. +Jeremiah 39:12 | "Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you." +Jeremiah 39:13 | So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, with Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon; +Jeremiah 39:14 | they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived amongst the people. +Jeremiah 39:16 | "Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day. +Jeremiah 39:17 | But I will deliver you in that day," says the Lord; "and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. +Jeremiah 39:18 | For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me," says the Lord.’" +Jeremiah 40:01 | The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains amongst all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. +Jeremiah 40:02 | The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, "The Lord your God pronounced this evil on this place; +Jeremiah 40:03 | and the Lord has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you. +Jeremiah 40:04 | Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go." +Jeremiah 40:05 | Now while he had not yet gone back, "Go back then," he said, "to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him amongst the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go." So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go. +Jeremiah 40:06 | Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him amongst the people who were left in the land. +Jeremiah 40:07 | Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon; +Jeremiah 40:10 | As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken." +Jeremiah 40:11 | Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and amongst the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; +Jeremiah 40:12 | then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits. +Jeremiah 40:15 | Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, "Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?" +Jeremiah 40:16 | But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael." +Jeremiah 41:01 | Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah. +Jeremiah 41:02 | Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. +Jeremiah 41:03 | Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. +Jeremiah 41:05 | men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the Lord’s house. +Jeremiah 41:06 | Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and as he met them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam." +Jeremiah 41:07 | It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. +Jeremiah 41:08 | But ten men were found amongst those who said to Ishmael, "Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey." So he stopped, and didn’t kill them amongst their brothers. +Jeremiah 41:09 | Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed. +Jeremiah 41:10 | Then Ishmael carried away captive all of the people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. +Jeremiah 41:11 | But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, +Jeremiah 41:12 | then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. +Jeremiah 41:13 | Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad. +Jeremiah 41:14 | So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. +Jeremiah 41:15 | But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. +Jeremiah 41:16 | Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, with the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon. +Jeremiah 41:17 | They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt +Jeremiah 41:18 | because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land. +Jeremiah 42:02 | and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us; +Jeremiah 42:03 | that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do." +Jeremiah 42:04 | Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing the Lord answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you." +Jeremiah 42:05 | Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the Lord be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to tell us. +Jeremiah 42:06 | Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God." +Jeremiah 42:07 | After ten days, the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah. +Jeremiah 42:08 | Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, +Jeremiah 42:09 | and said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says: +Jeremiah 42:10 | ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. +Jeremiah 42:11 | Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says the LORD: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. +Jeremiah 42:12 | I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. +Jeremiah 42:13 | "‘But if you say, "We will not dwell in this land" so that you don’t obey the Lord your God’s voice, saying, +Jeremiah 42:14 | "No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell:"’ +Jeremiah 42:15 | now therefore hear the Lord’s word, O remnant of Judah: The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there; +Jeremiah 42:16 | then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there. +Jeremiah 42:17 | So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’ +Jeremiah 42:18 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’ +Jeremiah 42:19 | "The Lord has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today. +Jeremiah 42:20 | For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God; and according to all that the Lord our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’ +Jeremiah 42:21 | I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the Lord your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you. +Jeremiah 42:22 | Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live there." +Jeremiah 43:01 | When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words, +Jeremiah 43:02 | then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely. The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’ +Jeremiah 43:06 | the men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; +Jeremiah 43:07 | and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey the Lord’s voice: and they came to Tahpanhes. +Jeremiah 43:09 | "Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; +Jeremiah 43:10 | and tell them, the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them. +Jeremiah 43:11 | He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword. +Jeremiah 43:12 | I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace. +Jeremiah 43:13 | He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’" +Jeremiah 44:02 | "The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them, +Jeremiah 44:03 | because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. +Jeremiah 44:04 | However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, "Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate." +Jeremiah 44:05 | But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods. +Jeremiah 44:06 | Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’ +Jeremiah 44:07 | "Therefore now the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining; +Jeremiah 44:08 | in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach amongst all the nations of the earth? +Jeremiah 44:09 | Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? +Jeremiah 44:10 | They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’ +Jeremiah 44:11 | "Therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. +Jeremiah 44:12 | I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. +Jeremiah 44:13 | For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; +Jeremiah 44:14 | so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’" +Jeremiah 44:16 | "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the Lord’s name, we will not listen to you. +Jeremiah 44:17 | But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. +Jeremiah 44:18 | But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine." +Jeremiah 44:19 | The women said, "When we burnt incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?" +Jeremiah 44:21 | "The incense that you burnt in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t the Lord remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind? +Jeremiah 44:22 | Thus the Lord could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today. +Jeremiah 44:23 | Because you have burnt incense, and because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed the Lord’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today." +Jeremiah 44:24 | Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, "Hear the Lord’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt! +Jeremiah 44:25 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, "We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her." "‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’ +Jeremiah 44:26 | "Therefore hear the Lord’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "As the Lord God lives." +Jeremiah 44:27 | Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone. +Jeremiah 44:28 | Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. +Jeremiah 44:29 | "‘This will be the sign to you,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’ +Jeremiah 44:30 | The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.’" +Jeremiah 45:03 | ‘You said, "Woe is me now! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest."’ +Jeremiah 45:04 | "You shall tell him, the Lord says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. +Jeremiah 45:05 | Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says the Lord; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’" +Jeremiah 46:01 | The Lord’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. +Jeremiah 46:02 | Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. +Jeremiah 46:04 | Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail. +Jeremiah 46:05 | Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 46:06 | "Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen. +Jeremiah 46:07 | "Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? +Jeremiah 46:08 | Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’ +Jeremiah 46:09 | Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. +Jeremiah 46:10 | For that day is of the Lord, the Lord of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, the Lord of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. +Jeremiah 46:11 | Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you. +Jeremiah 46:12 | The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they both fall together." +Jeremiah 46:13 | The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt: +Jeremiah 46:14 | "Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, ‘Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.’ +Jeremiah 46:15 | Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because the Lord pushed them. +Jeremiah 46:16 | He made many to stumble. Yes, they fell on one another. They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’ +Jeremiah 46:17 | They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’ +Jeremiah 46:18 | "As I live," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Armies, "surely like Tabor amongst the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come. +Jeremiah 46:19 | You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burnt up, without inhabitant. +Jeremiah 46:20 | "Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come. +Jeremiah 46:21 | Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation. +Jeremiah 46:22 | Its sound will go like the serpent; for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. +Jeremiah 46:23 | They will cut down her forest," says the Lord, "though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. +Jeremiah 46:24 | The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north." +Jeremiah 46:25 | The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him. +Jeremiah 46:26 | I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 46:27 | "But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid. +Jeremiah 46:28 | Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant," says the Lord; "for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished." +Jeremiah 47:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. +Jeremiah 47:02 | The Lord says: "Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail. +Jeremiah 47:03 | At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back to their children for feebleness of hands; +Jeremiah 47:04 | because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for the Lord will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. +Jeremiah 47:05 | Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? +Jeremiah 47:06 | "‘You sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’ +Jeremiah 47:07 | "How can you be quiet, since the Lord has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it." +Jeremiah 48:01 | Of Moab. The Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is disappointed. It is taken. Misgab is put to shame and broken down. +Jeremiah 48:02 | The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you. +Jeremiah 48:03 | The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! +Jeremiah 48:04 | Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. +Jeremiah 48:05 | For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. +Jeremiah 48:06 | Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness. +Jeremiah 48:07 | For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together. +Jeremiah 48:08 | The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed; as the Lord has spoken. +Jeremiah 48:09 | Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them. +Jeremiah 48:10 | "Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood. +Jeremiah 48:11 | "Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. +Jeremiah 48:12 | Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vessels, and break their containers in pieces. +Jeremiah 48:13 | Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. +Jeremiah 48:14 | "How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’? +Jeremiah 48:15 | Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Armies. +Jeremiah 48:16 | "The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast. +Jeremiah 48:17 | All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, ‘How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!’ +Jeremiah 48:18 | "You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds. +Jeremiah 48:19 | Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’ +Jeremiah 48:26 | "Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision. +Jeremiah 48:27 | For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found amongst thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head. +Jeremiah 48:28 | You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. +Jeremiah 48:29 | "We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart. +Jeremiah 48:30 | I know his wrath," says the Lord, "that it is nothing; his boastings have done nothing. +Jeremiah 48:31 | Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres. +Jeremiah 48:32 | With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage. +Jeremiah 48:33 | Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting. +Jeremiah 48:34 | From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate. +Jeremiah 48:35 | Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab," says the Lord, "him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods. +Jeremiah 48:36 | Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished. +Jeremiah 48:37 | For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist. +Jeremiah 48:38 | On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 48:39 | "How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him." +Jeremiah 48:40 | For the Lord says: "Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab. +Jeremiah 48:41 | Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized. The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. +Jeremiah 48:42 | Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the Lord. +Jeremiah 48:43 | Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 48:44 | "He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 48:45 | "Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. +Jeremiah 48:46 | Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. +Jeremiah 48:47 | "Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days," says the Lord. Thus far is the judgement of Moab. +Jeremiah 49:01 | Of the children of Ammon. The Lord says: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities? +Jeremiah 49:02 | Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burnt with fire: then Israel will possess those who possessed him," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 49:03 | "Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth amongst the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. +Jeremiah 49:04 | Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’ +Jeremiah 49:05 | Behold, I will bring a terror on you," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies, "from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives. +Jeremiah 49:06 | "But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 49:07 | Of Edom, the Lord of Armies says: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? +Jeremiah 49:08 | Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him. +Jeremiah 49:09 | If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, wouldn’t they steal until they had enough? +Jeremiah 49:10 | But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbours; and he is no more. +Jeremiah 49:11 | Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me." +Jeremiah 49:12 | For the Lord says: "Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink. +Jeremiah 49:13 | For I have sworn by myself," says the Lord, "that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes." +Jeremiah 49:14 | I have heard news from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent amongst the nations, saying, "Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!" +Jeremiah 49:15 | "For, behold, I have made you small amongst the nations, and despised amongst men. +Jeremiah 49:16 | As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 49:17 | "Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues. +Jeremiah 49:18 | As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbour cities," says the Lord, "no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein. +Jeremiah 49:19 | "Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?" +Jeremiah 49:20 | Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. +Jeremiah 49:21 | The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea. +Jeremiah 49:22 | Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. +Jeremiah 49:23 | Of Damascus: "Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet. +Jeremiah 49:24 | Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. +Jeremiah 49:25 | How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? +Jeremiah 49:26 | Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says the Lord of Armies. +Jeremiah 49:27 | "I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad." +Jeremiah 49:28 | Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, The Lord says: "Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. +Jeremiah 49:29 | They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’ +Jeremiah 49:30 | Flee! Wander far off! Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor," says the Lord; "for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. +Jeremiah 49:31 | Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care," says the Lord; "that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone. +Jeremiah 49:32 | Their camels will be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a plunder. I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 49:33 | Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein." +Jeremiah 49:36 | I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them towards all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come. +Jeremiah 49:37 | I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life. I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them. +Jeremiah 49:38 | I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says the Lord. +Jeremiah 49:39 | ‘But it will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says the Lord." +Jeremiah 50:01 | The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. +Jeremiah 50:02 | "Declare amongst the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’ +Jeremiah 50:03 | For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal. +Jeremiah 50:04 | "In those days, and in that time," says the Lord, "the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek the Lord their God. +Jeremiah 50:05 | They will enquire concerning Zion with their faces turned towards it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’ +Jeremiah 50:06 | My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place. +Jeremiah 50:07 | All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of righteousness, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’ +Jeremiah 50:08 | "Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. +Jeremiah 50:09 | For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain. +Jeremiah 50:10 | Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey on her will be satisfied," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 50:11 | "Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses; +Jeremiah 50:12 | your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. +Jeremiah 50:13 | Because of the Lord’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. +Jeremiah 50:14 | Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows; for she has sinned against the Lord. +Jeremiah 50:15 | Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her. +Jeremiah 50:16 | Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land. +Jeremiah 50:17 | "Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones." +Jeremiah 50:18 | Therefore the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. +Jeremiah 50:19 | I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan. His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. +Jeremiah 50:20 | In those days, and in that time," says the Lord, "the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none, also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. +Jeremiah 50:21 | "Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them," says the Lord, "and do according to all that I have commanded you. +Jeremiah 50:22 | A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. +Jeremiah 50:23 | How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation amongst the nations! +Jeremiah 50:24 | I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the Lord. +Jeremiah 50:25 | The Lord has opened his armoury, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, the Lord of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. +Jeremiah 50:26 | Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left. +Jeremiah 50:27 | Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation. +Jeremiah 50:28 | Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple. +Jeremiah 50:29 | "Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. +Jeremiah 50:30 | Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 50:31 | "Behold, I am against you, you proud one," says the Lord, the Lord of Armies; "for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. +Jeremiah 50:32 | The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him." +Jeremiah 50:33 | The Lord of Armies says: "The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go. +Jeremiah 50:34 | Their Redeemer is strong: The Lord of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. +Jeremiah 50:35 | "A sword is on the Chaldeans," says the Lord, "and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men. +Jeremiah 50:36 | A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed. +Jeremiah 50:37 | A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed. +Jeremiah 50:38 | A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. +Jeremiah 50:39 | Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein; and it will be inhabited no more forever; neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. +Jeremiah 50:40 | As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbour cities," says the Lord, "so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein. +Jeremiah 50:41 | "Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. +Jeremiah 50:42 | They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. +Jeremiah 50:43 | The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labour. +Jeremiah 50:44 | Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?" +Jeremiah 50:45 | Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. +Jeremiah 50:46 | At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles; and the cry is heard amongst the nations. +Jeremiah 51:01 | The Lord says: "Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. +Jeremiah 51:02 | I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around. +Jeremiah 51:03 | Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army! +Jeremiah 51:04 | They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets. +Jeremiah 51:05 | For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by the Lord of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. +Jeremiah 51:06 | "Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of the Lord’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense. +Jeremiah 51:07 | Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad. +Jeremiah 51:08 | Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed. +Jeremiah 51:09 | "We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgement reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. +Jeremiah 51:10 | ‘The Lord has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.’ +Jeremiah 51:11 | "Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. +Jeremiah 51:12 | Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for the Lord has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. +Jeremiah 51:13 | You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness. +Jeremiah 51:14 | The Lord of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’ +Jeremiah 51:15 | "He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. +Jeremiah 51:16 | When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries. +Jeremiah 51:17 | "Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. +Jeremiah 51:18 | They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish. +Jeremiah 51:19 | The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of Armies is his name. +Jeremiah 51:20 | "You are my battle axe and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms. +Jeremiah 51:21 | With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider. +Jeremiah 51:22 | With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin. +Jeremiah 51:23 | With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies. +Jeremiah 51:24 | "I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 51:25 | "Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain," says the Lord, "which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. +Jeremiah 51:26 | They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 51:27 | "Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet amongst the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm! +Jeremiah 51:28 | Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion! +Jeremiah 51:29 | The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. +Jeremiah 51:30 | The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken. +Jeremiah 51:31 | One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter. +Jeremiah 51:32 | So the passages are seized. They have burnt the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened." +Jeremiah 51:33 | For the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel says: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her." +Jeremiah 51:34 | "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out. +Jeremiah 51:35 | May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!" the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, "May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!" will Jerusalem say. +Jeremiah 51:36 | Therefore the Lord says: "Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. +Jeremiah 51:37 | Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. +Jeremiah 51:38 | They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs. +Jeremiah 51:39 | When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 51:40 | "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. +Jeremiah 51:41 | "How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation amongst the nations! +Jeremiah 51:42 | The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves. +Jeremiah 51:43 | Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it. +Jeremiah 51:44 | I will execute judgement on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall. +Jeremiah 51:45 | "My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from the Lord’s fierce anger. +Jeremiah 51:46 | Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. +Jeremiah 51:47 | Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgement on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her. +Jeremiah 51:48 | Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 51:49 | "As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon. +Jeremiah 51:50 | You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember the Lord from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind." +Jeremiah 51:51 | "We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house." +Jeremiah 51:52 | "Therefore behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will execute judgement on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan. +Jeremiah 51:53 | Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me," says the Lord. +Jeremiah 51:54 | "The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! +Jeremiah 51:55 | For the Lord lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered. +Jeremiah 51:56 | For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for the Lord is a God of retribution. He will surely repay. +Jeremiah 51:57 | I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Armies. +Jeremiah 51:58 | The Lord of Armies says: "The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burnt with fire. The peoples will labour for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary." +Jeremiah 51:59 | The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. +Jeremiah 51:60 | Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. +Jeremiah 51:61 | Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, +Jeremiah 51:62 | and say, ‘LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’ +Jeremiah 51:63 | It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates. +Jeremiah 51:64 | Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. +Jeremiah 52:01 | Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +Jeremiah 52:02 | He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. +Jeremiah 52:03 | For through the Lord’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +Jeremiah 52:04 | In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. +Jeremiah 52:05 | So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +Jeremiah 52:06 | In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. +Jeremiah 52:07 | Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went towards the Arabah, +Jeremiah 52:08 | but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. +Jeremiah 52:09 | Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgement on him. +Jeremiah 52:10 | The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. +Jeremiah 52:11 | He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death. +Jeremiah 52:12 | Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. +Jeremiah 52:13 | He burnt the Lord’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burnt with fire. +Jeremiah 52:14 | All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. +Jeremiah 52:15 | Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. +Jeremiah 52:16 | But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers. +Jeremiah 52:17 | The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the Lord’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the Lord’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon. +Jeremiah 52:18 | They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered. +Jeremiah 52:19 | The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver. +Jeremiah 52:20 | They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the Lord’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight. +Jeremiah 52:21 | As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow. +Jeremiah 52:22 | A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates. +Jeremiah 52:23 | There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around. +Jeremiah 52:24 | The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: +Jeremiah 52:25 | and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city. +Jeremiah 52:26 | Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. +Jeremiah 52:27 | The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. +Jeremiah 52:28 | This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews; +Jeremiah 52:29 | in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; +Jeremiah 52:30 | in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five people: all the people were four thousand and six hundred. +Jeremiah 52:31 | In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison. +Jeremiah 52:32 | He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, +Jeremiah 52:33 | and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. +Jeremiah 52:34 | For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. +Job 01:01 | There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. +Job 01:02 | There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. +Job 01:03 | His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. +Job 01:04 | His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. +Job 01:05 | It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually. +Job 01:06 | Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came amongst them. +Job 01:07 | The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." +Job 01:08 | The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil." +Job 01:09 | Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? +Job 01:10 | Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. +Job 01:11 | But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face." +Job 01:12 | The Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. +Job 01:13 | It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, +Job 01:14 | that a messenger came to Job, and said, "The oxen were ploughing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, +Job 01:15 | and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." +Job 01:16 | While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burnt up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." +Job 01:17 | While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." +Job 01:18 | While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, +Job 01:19 | and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you." +Job 01:20 | Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped. +Job 01:21 | And he said, "Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." +Job 01:21 | He said, "Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the Lord’s name." +Job 01:22 | In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing. +Job 02:01 | Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan came also amongst them to present himself before the Lord. +Job 02:02 | The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the Lord, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." +Job 02:03 | The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause." +Job 02:04 | Satan answered the Lord, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. +Job 02:05 | But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face." +Job 02:06 | The Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life." +Job 02:07 | So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. +Job 02:08 | He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat amongst the ashes. +Job 02:09 | Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die." +Job 02:10 | But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. +Job 02:11 | Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathise with him and to comfort him. +Job 02:12 | When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognise him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads towards the sky. +Job 02:13 | So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. +Job 03:01 | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. +Job 03:03 | "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ +Job 03:04 | Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. +Job 03:05 | Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it. +Job 03:06 | As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice amongst the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. +Job 03:07 | Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. +Job 03:08 | Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. +Job 03:09 | Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, +Job 03:10 | because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. +Job 03:11 | "Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? +Job 03:12 | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? +Job 03:13 | For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, +Job 03:14 | with kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; +Job 03:15 | or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: +Job 03:16 | or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. +Job 03:17 | There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. +Job 03:18 | There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. +Job 03:19 | The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. +Job 03:20 | "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, +Job 03:21 | Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, +Job 03:22 | who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? +Job 03:23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? +Job 03:24 | For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. +Job 03:25 | For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. +Job 03:26 | I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes." +Job 04:02 | "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? +Job 04:03 | Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. +Job 04:04 | Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made the feeble knees firm. +Job 04:05 | But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled. +Job 04:06 | Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope? +Job 04:07 | "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? +Job 04:08 | According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. +Job 04:09 | By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed. +Job 04:10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. +Job 04:11 | The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. +Job 04:12 | "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it. +Job 04:13 | In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, +Job 04:14 | fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. +Job 04:15 | Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. +Job 04:17 | ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? +Job 04:18 | Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. +Job 04:19 | How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! +Job 04:20 | Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. +Job 04:21 | Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’ +Job 05:01 | "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? +Job 05:02 | For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. +Job 05:03 | I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. +Job 05:04 | His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, +Job 05:05 | whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance. +Job 05:06 | For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; +Job 05:07 | but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. +Job 05:08 | "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, +Job 05:09 | who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvellous things without number; +Job 05:10 | who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; +Job 05:11 | so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety. +Job 05:12 | He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. +Job 05:13 | He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. +Job 05:14 | They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. +Job 05:15 | But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. +Job 05:16 | So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. +Job 05:17 | "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. +Job 05:18 | For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole. +Job 05:19 | He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you. +Job 05:20 | In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword. +Job 05:21 | You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes. +Job 05:22 | You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth. +Job 05:23 | For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you. +Job 05:24 | You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing. +Job 05:25 | You will know also that your offspring will be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth. +Job 05:26 | You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. +Job 05:27 | Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good." +Job 06:02 | "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! +Job 06:03 | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash. +Job 06:04 | For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. +Job 06:05 | Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder? +Job 06:06 | Can that which has no flavour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? +Job 06:07 | My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me. +Job 06:08 | "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for, +Job 06:09 | even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! +Job 06:10 | Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. +Job 06:11 | What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient? +Job 06:12 | Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze? +Job 06:13 | Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me? +Job 06:14 | "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. +Job 06:15 | My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away; +Job 06:16 | Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. +Job 06:17 | In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. +Job 06:18 | The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish. +Job 06:19 | The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them. +Job 06:20 | They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded. +Job 06:21 | For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. +Job 06:22 | Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’ +Job 06:23 | or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’ +Job 06:24 | "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error. +Job 06:25 | How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? +Job 06:26 | Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? +Job 06:27 | Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend. +Job 06:28 | Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face. +Job 06:29 | Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous. +Job 06:30 | Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things? +Job 07:01 | "Isn’t a man forced to labour on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? +Job 07:02 | As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, +Job 07:03 | so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. +Job 07:04 | When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. +Job 07:05 | My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. +Job 07:06 | My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. +Job 07:07 | Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good. +Job 07:08 | The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be. +Job 07:09 | As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. +Job 07:10 | He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more. +Job 07:11 | "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. +Job 07:12 | Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me? +Job 07:13 | When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’ +Job 07:14 | then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: +Job 07:15 | so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. +Job 07:16 | I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. +Job 07:17 | What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him, +Job 07:18 | that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? +Job 07:19 | How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? +Job 07:20 | If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? +Job 07:21 | Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be." +Job 08:02 | "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? +Job 08:03 | Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? +Job 08:04 | If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. +Job 08:05 | If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. +Job 08:06 | If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. +Job 08:07 | Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. +Job 08:08 | "Please enquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. +Job 08:09 | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) +Job 08:10 | Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? +Job 08:11 | "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? +Job 08:12 | While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. +Job 08:13 | So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish, +Job 08:13 | Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless. +Job 08:14 | Whose confidence will break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web. +Job 08:15 | He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure. +Job 08:16 | He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden. +Job 08:17 | His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. +Job 08:18 | If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ +Job 08:19 | Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring. +Job 08:20 | "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. +Job 08:21 | He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. +Job 08:22 | Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more." +Job 09:02 | "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? +Job 09:03 | If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand. +Job 09:04 | God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered? +Job 09:05 | He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger. +Job 09:06 | He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. +Job 09:07 | He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars. +Job 09:08 | He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea. +Job 09:09 | He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south. +Job 09:10 | He does great things past finding out; yes, marvellous things without number. +Job 09:11 | Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him. +Job 09:12 | Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ +Job 09:13 | "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. +Job 09:14 | How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him? +Job 09:15 | Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge. +Job 09:16 | If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice. +Job 09:17 | For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause. +Job 09:18 | He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. +Job 09:19 | If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’ +Job 09:20 | Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse. +Job 09:21 | I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life. +Job 09:22 | "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. +Job 09:23 | If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. +Job 09:24 | The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it? +Job 09:25 | "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good. +Job 09:26 | They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey. +Job 09:27 | If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’ +Job 09:28 | I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. +Job 09:29 | I will be condemned. Why then do I labour in vain? +Job 09:30 | If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, +Job 09:31 | yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me. +Job 09:32 | For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgement. +Job 09:33 | There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both. +Job 09:34 | Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid; +Job 09:35 | then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. +Job 10:01 | "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. +Job 10:02 | I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. +Job 10:03 | Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? +Job 10:04 | Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? +Job 10:05 | Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, +Job 10:06 | that you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? +Job 10:07 | Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. +Job 10:08 | "‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. +Job 10:09 | Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? +Job 10:10 | Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? +Job 10:11 | You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. +Job 10:12 | You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. +Job 10:13 | Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: +Job 10:14 | if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. +Job 10:15 | If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. +Job 10:16 | If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. +Job 10:17 | You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. +Job 10:18 | "‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. +Job 10:19 | I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. +Job 10:20 | Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, +Job 10:21 | before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; +Job 10:22 | the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’" +Job 11:02 | "Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? +Job 11:03 | Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed? +Job 11:04 | For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’ +Job 11:05 | But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you, +Job 11:06 | that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. +Job 11:07 | "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? +Job 11:08 | They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know? +Job 11:09 | Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. +Job 11:10 | If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him? +Job 11:11 | For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it. +Job 11:12 | An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt. +Job 11:13 | "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands towards him. +Job 11:14 | If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. +Job 11:15 | Surely then you will lift up your face without spot; Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear: +Job 11:16 | for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away. +Job 11:17 | Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning. +Job 11:18 | You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety. +Job 11:19 | Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favour. +Job 11:20 | But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit." +Job 12:02 | "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. +Job 12:03 | But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these? +Job 12:04 | I am like one who is a joke to his neighbour, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. +Job 12:05 | In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. +Job 12:06 | The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands. +Job 12:07 | "But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. +Job 12:08 | Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you. +Job 12:09 | Who doesn’t know that in all these, The Lord’s hand has done this, +Job 12:10 | in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? +Job 12:11 | Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? +Job 12:12 | With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. +Job 12:13 | "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. +Job 12:14 | Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. +Job 12:15 | Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. +Job 12:16 | With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. +Job 12:17 | He leads counsellors away stripped. He makes judges fools. +Job 12:18 | He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt. +Job 12:19 | He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. +Job 12:20 | He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. +Job 12:21 | He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. +Job 12:22 | He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death. +Job 12:23 | He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. +Job 12:24 | He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. +Job 12:25 | They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man. +Job 13:01 | "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. +Job 13:02 | What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. +Job 13:03 | "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. +Job 13:04 | But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. +Job 13:05 | Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. +Job 13:06 | Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. +Job 13:07 | Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? +Job 13:08 | Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? +Job 13:09 | Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? +Job 13:10 | He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. +Job 13:11 | Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you? +Job 13:12 | Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defences are defences of clay. +Job 13:13 | "Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. +Job 13:14 | Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? +Job 13:15 | Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. +Job 13:16 | This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him. +Job 13:17 | Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. +Job 13:18 | See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. +Job 13:19 | Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. +Job 13:20 | "Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: +Job 13:21 | withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. +Job 13:22 | Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. +Job 13:23 | How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. +Job 13:24 | Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? +Job 13:25 | Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? +Job 13:26 | For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: +Job 13:27 | You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, +Job 13:28 | though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. +Job 14:01 | "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. +Job 14:02 | He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue. +Job 14:03 | Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgement with you? +Job 14:04 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. +Job 14:05 | Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass; +Job 14:06 | Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day. +Job 14:07 | "For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. +Job 14:08 | Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground, +Job 14:09 | yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant. +Job 14:10 | But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? +Job 14:11 | As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, +Job 14:12 | so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. +Job 14:13 | "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me! +Job 14:14 | If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come. +Job 14:15 | You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands. +Job 14:16 | But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin? +Job 14:17 | My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity. +Job 14:18 | "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place; +Job 14:19 | The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. +Job 14:20 | You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away. +Job 14:21 | His sons come to honour, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them. +Job 14:22 | But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns." +Job 15:02 | "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? +Job 15:03 | Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? +Job 15:04 | Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. +Job 15:05 | For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. +Job 15:06 | Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you. +Job 15:07 | "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? +Job 15:08 | Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? +Job 15:09 | What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us? +Job 15:10 | With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father. +Job 15:11 | Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle towards you? +Job 15:12 | Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, +Job 15:13 | that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? +Job 15:14 | What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? +Job 15:15 | Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; +Job 15:16 | how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! +Job 15:17 | "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare +Job 15:18 | (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; +Job 15:19 | to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed amongst them): +Job 15:20 | the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. +Job 15:21 | A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him. +Job 15:22 | He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. +Job 15:23 | He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. +Job 15:24 | Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. +Job 15:25 | Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, +Job 15:26 | he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers, +Job 15:27 | because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. +Job 15:28 | He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. +Job 15:29 | He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. +Job 15:30 | He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth. +Job 15:31 | Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward. +Job 15:32 | It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. +Job 15:33 | He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. +Job 15:34 | For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. +Job 15:35 | They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit." +Job 16:02 | "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! +Job 16:03 | Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? +Job 16:04 | I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you, +Job 16:05 | but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you. +Job 16:06 | "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? +Job 16:07 | But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate. +Job 16:08 | You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. +Job 16:09 | He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. +Job 16:10 | They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. +Job 16:11 | God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. +Job 16:12 | I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. +Job 16:13 | His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground. +Job 16:14 | He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant. +Job 16:15 | I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust. +Job 16:16 | My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids, +Job 16:17 | although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. +Job 16:18 | "Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. +Job 16:19 | Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. +Job 16:20 | My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, +Job 16:21 | that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbour! +Job 16:22 | For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return. +Job 17:01 | "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me. +Job 17:02 | Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. +Job 17:03 | "Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? +Job 17:04 | For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them. +Job 17:05 | He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail. +Job 17:06 | "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. +Job 17:07 | My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. +Job 17:08 | Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless. +Job 17:09 | Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. +Job 17:10 | But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you. +Job 17:11 | My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. +Job 17:12 | They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness. +Job 17:13 | If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, +Job 17:14 | if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ +Job 17:15 | where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it? +Job 17:16 | Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?" +Job 18:02 | "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. +Job 18:03 | Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight? +Job 18:04 | You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place? +Job 18:05 | "Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine. +Job 18:06 | The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out. +Job 18:07 | The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down. +Job 18:08 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh. +Job 18:09 | A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. +Job 18:10 | A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path. +Job 18:11 | Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels. +Job 18:12 | His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side. +Job 18:13 | The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members. +Job 18:14 | He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors. +Job 18:15 | There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulphur will be scattered on his habitation. +Job 18:16 | His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above. +Job 18:17 | His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street. +Job 18:18 | He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. +Job 18:19 | He will have neither son nor grandson amongst his people, nor any remaining where he lived. +Job 18:20 | Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. +Job 18:21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God." +Job 19:02 | "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? +Job 19:03 | You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. +Job 19:04 | If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. +Job 19:05 | If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach, +Job 19:06 | know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. +Job 19:07 | "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. +Job 19:08 | He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. +Job 19:09 | He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. +Job 19:10 | He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree. +Job 19:11 | He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me amongst his adversaries. +Job 19:12 | His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. +Job 19:13 | "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. +Job 19:14 | My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. +Job 19:15 | Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. +Job 19:16 | I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. +Job 19:17 | My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. +Job 19:18 | Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. +Job 19:19 | All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. +Job 19:20 | My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. +Job 19:21 | "Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. +Job 19:22 | Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? +Job 19:23 | "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! +Job 19:24 | That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! +Job 19:25 | But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. +Job 19:26 | After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh, +Job 19:27 | whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. +Job 19:28 | If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me, +Job 19:29 | be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgement." +Job 20:02 | "Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me. +Job 20:03 | I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me. +Job 20:04 | Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth, +Job 20:05 | that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? +Job 20:06 | Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, +Job 20:07 | yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ +Job 20:08 | He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. +Job 20:09 | The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more. +Job 20:10 | His children will seek the favour of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth. +Job 20:11 | His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust. +Job 20:12 | "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, +Job 20:13 | though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; +Job 20:14 | yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. +Job 20:15 | He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. +Job 20:16 | He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him. +Job 20:17 | He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. +Job 20:18 | He will restore that for which he laboured, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten. +Job 20:19 | For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up. +Job 20:20 | "Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights. +Job 20:21 | There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure. +Job 20:22 | In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him. +Job 20:23 | When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. +Job 20:24 | He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through. +Job 20:25 | He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him. +Job 20:26 | All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent. +Job 20:27 | The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him. +Job 20:28 | The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath. +Job 20:29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God." +Job 21:02 | "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. +Job 21:03 | Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. +Job 21:04 | As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient? +Job 21:05 | Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. +Job 21:06 | When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. +Job 21:07 | "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? +Job 21:08 | Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. +Job 21:09 | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. +Job 21:10 | Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry. +Job 21:11 | They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. +Job 21:12 | They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. +Job 21:13 | They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. +Job 21:14 | They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways. +Job 21:15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’ +Job 21:16 | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me. +Job 21:17 | "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger? +Job 21:18 | How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away? +Job 21:19 | You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. +Job 21:20 | Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. +Job 21:21 | For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? +Job 21:22 | "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high? +Job 21:23 | One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. +Job 21:24 | His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. +Job 21:25 | Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. +Job 21:26 | They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them. +Job 21:27 | "Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me. +Job 21:28 | For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’ +Job 21:29 | Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences, +Job 21:30 | that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath? +Job 21:31 | Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done? +Job 21:32 | Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb. +Job 21:33 | The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. +Job 21:34 | So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?" +Job 22:02 | "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. +Job 22:03 | Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect? +Job 22:04 | Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgement? +Job 22:05 | Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities. +Job 22:06 | For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. +Job 22:07 | You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. +Job 22:08 | But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honourable man, he lived in it. +Job 22:09 | You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. +Job 22:10 | Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you, +Job 22:11 | or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you. +Job 22:12 | "Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are! +Job 22:13 | You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? +Job 22:14 | Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’ +Job 22:15 | Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, +Job 22:16 | who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, +Job 22:17 | who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’ +Job 22:18 | Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. +Job 22:19 | The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, saying, +Job 22:20 | ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’ +Job 22:21 | "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you. +Job 22:22 | Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. +Job 22:23 | If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. +Job 22:24 | Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir amongst the stones of the brooks. +Job 22:26 | For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God. +Job 22:27 | You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows. +Job 22:28 | You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways. +Job 22:29 | When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person. +Job 22:30 | He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." +Job 23:02 | "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. +Job 23:03 | Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! +Job 23:04 | I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. +Job 23:05 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. +Job 23:06 | Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. +Job 23:07 | There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge. +Job 23:08 | "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him; +Job 23:09 | He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him. +Job 23:10 | But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. +Job 23:11 | My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. +Job 23:12 | I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. +Job 23:13 | But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does. +Job 23:14 | For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him. +Job 23:15 | Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him. +Job 23:16 | For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me. +Job 23:17 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face. +Job 24:01 | "Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days? +Job 24:02 | There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. +Job 24:03 | They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. +Job 24:04 | They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. +Job 24:05 | Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. +Job 24:06 | They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked. +Job 24:07 | They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. +Job 24:08 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter. +Job 24:09 | There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, +Job 24:10 | So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves. +Job 24:11 | They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst. +Job 24:12 | From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly. +Job 24:13 | "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths. +Job 24:14 | The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. +Job 24:15 | The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face. +Job 24:16 | In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light. +Job 24:17 | For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness. +Job 24:18 | "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards. +Job 24:19 | Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. +Job 24:20 | The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree. +Job 24:21 | He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow. +Job 24:22 | Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life. +Job 24:23 | God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways. +Job 24:24 | They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. +Job 24:25 | If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?" +Job 25:02 | "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. +Job 25:03 | Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? +Job 25:04 | How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? +Job 25:05 | Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight; +Job 25:06 | How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!" +Job 26:02 | "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! +Job 26:03 | How have you counselled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! +Job 26:04 | To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you? +Job 26:05 | "The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. +Job 26:06 | Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. +Job 26:07 | He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing. +Job 26:08 | He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. +Job 26:09 | He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it. +Job 26:10 | He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness. +Job 26:11 | The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. +Job 26:12 | He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab. +Job 26:13 | By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent. +Job 26:14 | Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?" +Job 27:02 | "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter +Job 27:03 | (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils); +Job 27:04 | surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit. +Job 27:05 | Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me. +Job 27:06 | I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live. +Job 27:07 | "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. +Job 27:08 | For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? +Job 27:09 | Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him? +Job 27:10 | Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times? +Job 27:11 | I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty. +Job 27:12 | Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? +Job 27:13 | "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. +Job 27:14 | If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread. +Job 27:15 | Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation. +Job 27:16 | Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; +Job 27:17 | he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver. +Job 27:18 | He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes. +Job 27:19 | He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not. +Job 27:20 | Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night. +Job 27:21 | The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place. +Job 27:22 | For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand. +Job 27:23 | Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place. +Job 28:01 | "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. +Job 28:02 | Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore. +Job 28:03 | Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. +Job 28:04 | He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth. +Job 28:05 | As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. +Job 28:06 | Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. +Job 28:07 | That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it. +Job 28:08 | The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there. +Job 28:09 | He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots. +Job 28:10 | He cuts out channels amongst the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing. +Job 28:11 | He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light. +Job 28:12 | "But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding? +Job 28:13 | Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living. +Job 28:14 | The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’ +Job 28:15 | It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price. +Job 28:16 | It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. +Job 28:17 | Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. +Job 28:18 | No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies. +Job 28:19 | The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold. +Job 28:20 | Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding? +Job 28:21 | Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky. +Job 28:22 | Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumour of it with our ears.’ +Job 28:23 | "God understands its way, and he knows its place. +Job 28:24 | For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky. +Job 28:25 | He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure. +Job 28:26 | When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, +Job 28:27 | then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out. +Job 28:28 | To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’" +Job 29:02 | "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; +Job 29:03 | when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, +Job 29:04 | as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent, +Job 29:05 | when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, +Job 29:06 | when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, +Job 29:07 | when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. +Job 29:08 | The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. +Job 29:09 | The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. +Job 29:10 | The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. +Job 29:11 | For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: +Job 29:12 | Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, +Job 29:13 | the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. +Job 29:14 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. +Job 29:15 | I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. +Job 29:16 | I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know. +Job 29:17 | I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth. +Job 29:18 | Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand. +Job 29:19 | My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch. +Job 29:20 | My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’ +Job 29:21 | "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. +Job 29:22 | After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them. +Job 29:23 | They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. +Job 29:24 | I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face. +Job 29:25 | I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners. +Job 30:01 | "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs. +Job 30:02 | Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished? +Job 30:03 | They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. +Job 30:04 | They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food. +Job 30:05 | They are driven out from amongst men. They cry after them as after a thief; +Job 30:06 | So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks. +Job 30:07 | They bray amongst the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles. +Job 30:08 | They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land. +Job 30:09 | "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. +Job 30:10 | They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face. +Job 30:11 | For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me. +Job 30:12 | On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction. +Job 30:13 | They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help. +Job 30:14 | As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin. +Job 30:15 | Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honour as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud. +Job 30:16 | "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me. +Job 30:17 | In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. +Job 30:18 | My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic. +Job 30:19 | He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. +Job 30:20 | I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me. +Job 30:21 | You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me. +Job 30:22 | You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm. +Job 30:23 | For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living. +Job 30:24 | "However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? +Job 30:25 | Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy? +Job 30:26 | When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came. +Job 30:27 | My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me. +Job 30:28 | I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. +Job 30:29 | I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. +Job 30:30 | My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burnt with heat. +Job 30:31 | Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep. +Job 31:01 | "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? +Job 31:02 | For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? +Job 31:03 | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? +Job 31:04 | Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps? +Job 31:05 | "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit +Job 31:06 | (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); +Job 31:07 | if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, +Job 31:08 | then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out. +Job 31:09 | "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door, +Job 31:10 | then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. +Job 31:11 | For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; +Job 31:12 | for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. +Job 31:13 | "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, +Job 31:14 | what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? +Job 31:15 | Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb? +Job 31:16 | "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, +Job 31:17 | or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it +Job 31:18 | (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb); +Job 31:19 | if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; +Job 31:20 | if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece; +Job 31:21 | if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, +Job 31:22 | then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. +Job 31:23 | For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing. +Job 31:24 | "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’ +Job 31:25 | If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; +Job 31:26 | if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendour, +Job 31:27 | and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, +Job 31:28 | this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above. +Job 31:29 | "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him +Job 31:30 | (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse); +Job 31:31 | if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’ +Job 31:32 | (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveller); +Job 31:33 | if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart, +Job 31:34 | because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door— +Job 31:35 | oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment! +Job 31:36 | Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown. +Job 31:37 | I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince. +Job 31:38 | If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; +Job 31:39 | if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, +Job 31:40 | let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. +Job 32:01 | So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. +Job 32:02 | Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God. +Job 32:03 | Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. +Job 32:04 | Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he. +Job 32:05 | When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled. +Job 32:06 | Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion. +Job 32:07 | I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’ +Job 32:08 | But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding. +Job 32:09 | It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice. +Job 32:10 | Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’ +Job 32:11 | "Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say. +Job 32:12 | Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, amongst you. +Job 32:13 | Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’ +Job 32:14 | for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches. +Job 32:15 | "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say. +Job 32:16 | Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more? +Job 32:17 | I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion. +Job 32:18 | For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. +Job 32:19 | Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst. +Job 32:20 | I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer. +Job 32:21 | Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. +Job 32:22 | For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away. +Job 33:01 | "However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. +Job 33:02 | See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth. +Job 33:03 | My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely. +Job 33:04 | The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. +Job 33:05 | If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up. +Job 33:06 | Behold, I am towards God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay. +Job 33:07 | Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you. +Job 33:09 | ‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. +Job 33:10 | Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. +Job 33:12 | "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. +Job 33:13 | Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters? +Job 33:14 | For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention. +Job 33:15 | In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed; +Job 33:16 | Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, +Job 33:17 | that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. +Job 33:18 | He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. +Job 33:19 | "He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones, +Job 33:20 | so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. +Job 33:21 | His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. +Job 33:22 | Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. +Job 33:23 | "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one amongst a thousand, to show to man what is right for him; +Job 33:24 | then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’ +Job 33:25 | His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth. +Job 33:26 | He prays to God, and he is favourable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. +Job 33:27 | He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me. +Job 33:28 | He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’ +Job 33:29 | "Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man, +Job 33:30 | to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living. +Job 33:31 | Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak. +Job 33:32 | If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. +Job 33:33 | If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom." +Job 34:02 | "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. +Job 34:03 | For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. +Job 34:04 | Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know amongst ourselves what is good. +Job 34:05 | For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right: +Job 34:06 | Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’ +Job 34:07 | What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, +Job 34:08 | Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men? +Job 34:09 | For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’ +Job 34:10 | "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. +Job 34:11 | For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. +Job 34:12 | Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice. +Job 34:13 | Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world? +Job 34:14 | If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, +Job 34:15 | all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. +Job 34:16 | "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words. +Job 34:17 | Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?— +Job 34:18 | Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’? +Job 34:19 | He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. +Job 34:20 | In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. +Job 34:21 | "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings. +Job 34:22 | There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. +Job 34:23 | For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgement. +Job 34:24 | He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place. +Job 34:25 | Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. +Job 34:26 | He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; +Job 34:27 | because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways, +Job 34:28 | so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted. +Job 34:29 | When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike, +Job 34:30 | that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people. +Job 34:31 | "For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. +Job 34:32 | Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’? +Job 34:33 | Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. +Job 34:34 | Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me: +Job 34:35 | ‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’ +Job 34:36 | I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men. +Job 34:37 | For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands amongst us, and multiplies his words against God." +Job 35:02 | "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’ +Job 35:03 | that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ +Job 35:04 | I will answer you, and your companions with you. +Job 35:05 | Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. +Job 35:06 | If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? +Job 35:07 | If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand? +Job 35:08 | Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man. +Job 35:09 | "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. +Job 35:10 | But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, +Job 35:11 | who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’ +Job 35:12 | There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men. +Job 35:13 | Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it. +Job 35:14 | How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him! +Job 35:15 | But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance, +Job 36:02 | "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf. +Job 36:03 | I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. +Job 36:04 | For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you. +Job 36:05 | "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding. +Job 36:06 | He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted. +Job 36:07 | He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted. +Job 36:08 | If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, +Job 36:09 | then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. +Job 36:10 | He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity. +Job 36:11 | If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. +Job 36:12 | But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge. +Job 36:13 | "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them. +Job 36:14 | They die in youth. Their life perishes amongst the unclean. +Job 36:15 | He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression. +Job 36:16 | Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. +Job 36:17 | "But you are full of the judgement of the wicked. Judgement and justice take hold of you. +Job 36:18 | Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. +Job 36:19 | Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength? +Job 36:20 | Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. +Job 36:21 | Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. +Job 36:22 | Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? +Job 36:23 | Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’ +Job 36:24 | "Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung. +Job 36:25 | All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off. +Job 36:26 | Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. +Job 36:27 | For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapour, +Job 36:28 | which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. +Job 36:29 | Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion? +Job 36:30 | Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. +Job 36:31 | For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. +Job 36:32 | He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. +Job 36:33 | Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up. +Job 37:01 | "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place. +Job 37:02 | Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth. +Job 37:03 | He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. +Job 37:04 | After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard. +Job 37:05 | God thunders marvellously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend. +Job 37:06 | For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain. +Job 37:07 | He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it. +Job 37:08 | Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens. +Job 37:09 | Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north. +Job 37:10 | By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen. +Job 37:11 | Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. +Job 37:12 | It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, +Job 37:13 | Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come. +Job 37:14 | "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. +Job 37:15 | Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? +Job 37:16 | Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? +Job 37:17 | You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind? +Job 37:18 | Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror? +Job 37:19 | Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness. +Job 37:20 | Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up? +Job 37:21 | Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them. +Job 37:22 | Out of the north comes golden splendour. With God is awesome majesty. +Job 37:23 | We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. +Job 37:24 | Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart." +Job 38:02 | "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? +Job 38:03 | Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me! +Job 38:04 | "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. +Job 38:05 | Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? +Job 38:06 | What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone, +Job 38:07 | when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? +Job 38:08 | "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb, +Job 38:09 | when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, +Job 38:10 | marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, +Job 38:11 | and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’? +Job 38:12 | "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place, +Job 38:13 | that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it? +Job 38:14 | It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment. +Job 38:15 | From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken. +Job 38:16 | "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? +Job 38:17 | Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? +Job 38:18 | Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all. +Job 38:19 | "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place, +Job 38:20 | that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house? +Job 38:21 | Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great! +Job 38:22 | Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, +Job 38:23 | which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? +Job 38:24 | By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth? +Job 38:25 | Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunder storm, +Job 38:26 | to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man, +Job 38:27 | to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow? +Job 38:28 | Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? +Job 38:29 | Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the grey frost of the sky? +Job 38:30 | The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen. +Job 38:31 | "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? +Job 38:32 | Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs? +Job 38:33 | Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth? +Job 38:34 | "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you? +Job 38:35 | Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? +Job 38:36 | Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? +Job 38:37 | Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky, +Job 38:38 | when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together? +Job 38:39 | "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, +Job 38:40 | when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket? +Job 38:41 | Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food? +Job 39:01 | "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? +Job 39:02 | Can you count the months that they fulfil? Or do you know the time when they give birth? +Job 39:03 | They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labour pains. +Job 39:04 | Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again. +Job 39:05 | "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey, +Job 39:06 | whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place? +Job 39:07 | He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver. +Job 39:08 | The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing. +Job 39:09 | "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough? +Job 39:10 | Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you? +Job 39:11 | Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labour? +Job 39:12 | Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor? +Job 39:13 | "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love? +Job 39:14 | For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust, +Job 39:15 | and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them. +Job 39:16 | She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labour is in vain, she is without fear, +Job 39:17 | because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding. +Job 39:18 | When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider. +Job 39:19 | "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane? +Job 39:20 | Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome. +Job 39:21 | He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men. +Job 39:22 | He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword. +Job 39:23 | The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. +Job 39:24 | He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet. +Job 39:25 | As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. +Job 39:26 | "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings towards the south? +Job 39:27 | Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high? +Job 39:28 | On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold. +Job 39:29 | From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. +Job 39:30 | His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is." +Job 40:02 | "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." +Job 40:04 | "Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. +Job 40:05 | I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further." +Job 40:07 | "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. +Job 40:08 | Will you even annul my judgement? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? +Job 40:09 | Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? +Job 40:10 | "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honour and majesty. +Job 40:11 | Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. +Job 40:12 | Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. +Job 40:13 | Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. +Job 40:14 | Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you. +Job 40:15 | "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. +Job 40:16 | Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. +Job 40:17 | He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. +Job 40:18 | His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron. +Job 40:19 | He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. +Job 40:20 | Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. +Job 40:21 | He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. +Job 40:22 | The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him. +Job 40:23 | Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. +Job 40:24 | Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare? +Job 41:01 | "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? +Job 41:02 | Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? +Job 41:03 | Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you? +Job 41:04 | Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever? +Job 41:05 | Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls? +Job 41:06 | Will traders barter for him? Will they part him amongst the merchants? +Job 41:07 | Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears? +Job 41:08 | Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. +Job 41:09 | Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him? +Job 41:10 | None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? +Job 41:11 | Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine. +Job 41:12 | "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. +Job 41:13 | Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws? +Job 41:14 | Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. +Job 41:15 | Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. +Job 41:16 | One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. +Job 41:17 | They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart. +Job 41:18 | His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. +Job 41:19 | Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out. +Job 41:20 | Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. +Job 41:21 | His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth. +Job 41:22 | There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. +Job 41:23 | The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved. +Job 41:24 | His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. +Job 41:25 | When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. +Job 41:26 | If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. +Job 41:27 | He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood. +Job 41:28 | The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. +Job 41:29 | Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. +Job 41:30 | His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. +Job 41:31 | He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. +Job 41:32 | He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. +Job 41:33 | On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. +Job 41:34 | He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride." +Job 42:02 | "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. +Job 42:03 | You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know. +Job 42:04 | You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ +Job 42:05 | I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. +Job 42:06 | Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." +Job 42:07 | It was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. +Job 42:08 | Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has." +Job 42:09 | So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job. +Job 42:10 | The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. +Job 42:11 | Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the Lord had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold. +Job 42:12 | So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. +Job 42:14 | He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. +Job 42:15 | In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brothers. +Job 42:16 | After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. +Job 42:17 | So Job died, being old and full of days. +Joel 01:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. +Joel 01:02 | Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? +Joel 01:03 | Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. +Joel 01:04 | What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. +Joel 01:05 | Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. +Joel 01:06 | For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness. +Joel 01:07 | He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. +Joel 01:08 | Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! +Joel 01:09 | The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the Lord’s house. The priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn. +Joel 01:10 | The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. +Joel 01:11 | Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. +Joel 01:12 | The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men. +Joel 01:13 | Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house. +Joel 01:14 | Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to the Lord. +Joel 01:15 | Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. +Joel 01:16 | Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? +Joel 01:17 | The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. +Joel 01:18 | How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. +Joel 01:19 | The Lord, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burnt all the trees of the field. +Joel 01:20 | Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. +Joel 02:01 | Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord comes, for it is close at hand: +Joel 02:02 | A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. +Joel 02:03 | A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them. +Joel 02:04 | Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen. +Joel 02:05 | Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array. +Joel 02:06 | At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale. +Joel 02:07 | They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course. +Joel 02:08 | One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defences and don’t break ranks. +Joel 02:09 | They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves. +Joel 02:10 | The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. +Joel 02:11 | The Lord thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of the Lord is great and very awesome, and who can endure it? +Joel 02:12 | "Yet even now," says the Lord, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning." +Joel 02:13 | Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity. +Joel 02:14 | Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the Lord, your God. +Joel 02:15 | Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. +Joel 02:16 | Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room. +Joel 02:17 | Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Lord, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say amongst the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’" +Joel 02:18 | Then the Lord was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people. +Joel 02:19 | The Lord answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach amongst the nations. +Joel 02:20 | But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things. +Joel 02:21 | Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. +Joel 02:22 | Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength. +Joel 02:23 | "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before. +Joel 02:24 | The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. +Joel 02:25 | I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent amongst you. +Joel 02:26 | You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed. +Joel 02:27 | You will know that I am amongst Israel, and that I am the Lord, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed. +Joel 02:28 | "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. +Joel 02:29 | And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. +Joel 02:30 | I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. +Joel 02:31 | The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. +Joel 02:32 | It will happen that whoever will call on the Lord’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and amongst the remnant, those whom the Lord calls. +Joel 03:01 | "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, +Joel 03:02 | I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgement on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered amongst the nations. They have divided my land, +Joel 03:03 | and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. +Joel 03:04 | "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head. +Joel 03:05 | Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, +Joel 03:06 | and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border. +Joel 03:07 | Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head; +Joel 03:08 | and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for the Lord has spoken it." +Joel 03:09 | Proclaim this amongst the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. +Joel 03:10 | Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ +Joel 03:11 | Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Lord. +Joel 03:12 | "Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. +Joel 03:13 | Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great." +Joel 03:14 | Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near, in the valley of decision. +Joel 03:15 | The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. +Joel 03:16 | The Lord will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but the Lord will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. +Joel 03:17 | "So you will know that I am the Lord, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more. +Joel 03:18 | It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from the Lord’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim. +Joel 03:19 | Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. +Joel 03:20 | But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. +Joel 03:21 | I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwells in Zion." +John 01:01 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. +John 01:02 | The same was in the beginning with God. +John 01:03 | All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. +John 01:04 | In him was life, and the life was the light of men. +John 01:05 | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. +John 01:06 | There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. +John 01:07 | The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. +John 01:08 | He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. +John 01:09 | The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. +John 01:10 | He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognise him. +John 01:11 | He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. +John 01:12 | But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: +John 01:13 | who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. +John 01:14 | The Word became flesh, and lived amongst us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. +John 01:15 | John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’" +John 01:16 | From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. +John 01:17 | For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realised through Jesus Christ. +John 01:18 | No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him. +John 01:19 | This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" +John 01:20 | He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ." +John 01:21 | They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No." +John 01:22 | They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" +John 01:23 | He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said." +John 01:24 | The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. +John 01:25 | They asked him, "Why then do you baptise, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?" +John 01:26 | John answered them, "I baptise in water, but amongst you stands one whom you don’t know. +John 01:27 | He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen." +John 01:28 | These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptising. +John 01:29 | The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! +John 01:30 | This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’ +John 01:31 | I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptising in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." +John 01:32 | John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. +John 01:33 | I didn’t recognise him, but he who sent me to baptise in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptises in the Holy Spirit.’ +John 01:34 | I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." +John 01:35 | Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, +John 01:36 | and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" +John 01:37 | The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. +John 01:38 | Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?" +John 01:39 | He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. +John 01:40 | One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. +John 01:41 | He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ). +John 01:42 | He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). +John 01:43 | On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." +John 01:44 | Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. +John 01:45 | Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." +John 01:46 | Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." +John 01:47 | Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" +John 01:48 | Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." +John 01:49 | Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!" +John 01:50 | Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" +John 01:51 | He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." +John 02:01 | The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. +John 02:01-05 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. +John 02:02 | Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. +John 02:03 | When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, "They have no wine." +John 02:04 | Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." +John 02:05 | His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." +John 02:06 | Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. +John 02:06-09 | There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. +John 02:07 | Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." So they filled them up to the brim. +John 02:08 | He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it. +John 02:09 | When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom +John 02:10 | and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" +John 02:11 | This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. +John 02:12 | After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. +John 02:13 | The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. +John 02:14 | He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. +John 02:15 | He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. +John 02:16 | To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!" +John 02:17 | His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up." +John 02:18 | The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?" +John 02:19 | Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." +John 02:20 | The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?" +John 02:21 | But he spoke of the temple of his body. +John 02:22 | When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. +John 02:23 | Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. +John 02:24 | But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, +John 02:25 | and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man. +John 03:01 | Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. +John 03:02 | The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him." +John 03:03 | Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom." +John 03:04 | Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?" +John 03:05 | Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. +John 03:06 | That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. +John 03:07 | Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ +John 03:08 | The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." +John 03:09 | Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?" +John 03:10 | Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? +John 03:11 | Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. +John 03:12 | If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? +John 03:13 | No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. +John 03:14 | As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, +John 03:15 | that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. +John 03:16 | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. +John 03:16 | God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. +John 03:17 | For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. +John 03:18 | He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. +John 03:19 | This is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. +John 03:20 | For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. +John 03:21 | But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God." +John 03:22 | After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptised. +John 03:23 | John also was baptising in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptised; +John 03:25 | Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification. +John 03:26 | They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptises, and everyone is coming to him." +John 03:27 | John answered, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. +John 03:28 | You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ +John 03:29 | He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. +John 03:30 | He must increase, but I must decrease. +John 03:31 | He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. +John 03:32 | What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. +John 03:33 | He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. +John 03:34 | For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. +John 03:35 | The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. +John 03:36 | One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." +John 04:01 | Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptising more disciples than John +John 04:02 | (although Jesus himself didn’t baptise, but his disciples), +John 04:05 | So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. +John 04:06 | Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. +John 04:07 | A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." +John 04:08 | For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. +John 04:09 | The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) +John 04:10 | Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." +John 04:11 | The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? +John 04:12 | Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?" +John 04:13 | Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, +John 04:14 | but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." +John 04:15 | The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." +John 04:16 | Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." +John 04:17 | The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ +John 04:18 | for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly." +John 04:19 | The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. +John 04:20 | Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." +John 04:21 | Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. +John 04:22 | You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. +John 04:23 | But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. +John 04:24 | God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." +John 04:25 | The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things." +John 04:26 | Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." +John 04:27 | At this, his disciples came. They marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" +John 04:28 | So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, +John 04:29 | "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?" +John 04:31 | In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." +John 04:32 | But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don’t know about." +John 04:33 | The disciples therefore said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" +John 04:34 | Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. +John 04:35 | Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. +John 04:36 | He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. +John 04:37 | For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ +John 04:38 | I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour." +John 04:39 | From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did." +John 04:40 | So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. +John 04:41 | Many more believed because of his word. +John 04:42 | They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." +John 04:43 | After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. +John 04:44 | For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country. +John 04:45 | So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. +John 04:46 | Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. +John 04:47 | When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. +John 04:48 | Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe." +John 04:49 | The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." +John 04:50 | Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. +John 04:51 | As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" +John 04:52 | So he enquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." +John 04:53 | So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. +John 04:54 | This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee. +John 05:01 | After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. +John 05:02 | Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda", having five porches. +John 05:03 | In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralysed, waiting for the moving of the water; +John 05:04 | for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. +John 05:05 | A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. +John 05:06 | When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?" +John 05:07 | The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me." +John 05:08 | Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk." +John 05:09 | Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. +John 05:10 | So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat." +John 05:11 | He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’" +John 05:12 | Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?" +John 05:13 | But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place. +John 05:14 | Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you." +John 05:15 | The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. +John 05:16 | For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. +John 05:17 | But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too." +John 05:18 | For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. +John 05:19 | Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. +John 05:20 | For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. +John 05:21 | For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. +John 05:22 | For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgement to the Son, +John 05:23 | that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who doesn’t honour the Son doesn’t honour the Father who sent him. +John 05:24 | "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgement, but has passed out of death into life. +John 05:25 | Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. +John 05:26 | For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. +John 05:27 | He also gave him authority to execute judgement, because he is a son of man. +John 05:28 | Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, +John 05:29 | and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgement. +John 05:30 | I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgement is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me. +John 05:31 | "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. +John 05:32 | It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. +John 05:33 | You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. +John 05:34 | But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. +John 05:35 | He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. +John 05:36 | But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. +John 05:37 | The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. +John 05:38 | You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent. +John 05:39 | "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. +John 05:40 | Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. +John 05:41 | I don’t receive glory from men. +John 05:42 | But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. +John 05:43 | I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. +John 05:44 | How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God? +John 05:45 | "Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. +John 05:46 | For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. +John 05:47 | But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" +John 06:01 | After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. +John 06:02 | A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. +John 06:03 | Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. +John 06:04 | Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. +John 06:05 | Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" +John 06:06 | He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. +John 06:07 | Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little." +John 06:09 | "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these amongst so many?" +John 06:10 | Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. +John 06:11 | Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. +John 06:12 | When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." +John 06:13 | So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. +John 06:14 | When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." +John 06:15 | Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself. +John 06:16 | When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea. +John 06:17 | They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. +John 06:18 | The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. +John 06:19 | When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. +John 06:20 | But he said to them, "It is I. Don’t be afraid." +John 06:21 | They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. +John 06:22 | On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. +John 06:23 | However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. +John 06:24 | When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. +John 06:25 | When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" +John 06:26 | Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. +John 06:27 | Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." +John 06:28 | They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?" +John 06:29 | Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." +John 06:30 | They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do? +John 06:31 | Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’" +John 06:32 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. +John 06:33 | For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." +John 06:34 | They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread." +John 06:35 | Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. +John 06:36 | But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. +John 06:37 | All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. +John 06:38 | For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. +John 06:39 | This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. +John 06:40 | This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." +John 06:41 | The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." +John 06:42 | They said, "Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’" +John 06:43 | Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don’t murmur amongst yourselves. +John 06:44 | No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. +John 06:45 | It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learnt, comes to me. +John 06:46 | Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. +John 06:47 | Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. +John 06:48 | I am the bread of life. +John 06:49 | Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. +John 06:50 | This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. +John 06:51 | I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." +John 06:52 | The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" +John 06:53 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. +John 06:54 | He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. +John 06:55 | For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. +John 06:56 | He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. +John 06:57 | As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. +John 06:58 | This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." +John 06:59 | He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. +John 06:60 | Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?" +John 06:61 | But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? +John 06:62 | Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? +John 06:63 | It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. +John 06:64 | But there are some of you who don’t believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. +John 06:65 | He said, "For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father." +John 06:66 | At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. +John 06:67 | Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don’t also want to go away, do you?" +John 06:68 | Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. +John 06:69 | We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." +John 06:70 | Jesus answered them, "Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" +John 06:71 | Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. +John 07:01 | After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. +John 07:02 | Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. +John 07:03 | His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. +John 07:04 | For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." +John 07:05 | For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. +John 07:06 | Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. +John 07:07 | The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. +John 07:08 | You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." +John 07:09 | Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. +John 07:10 | But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. +John 07:11 | The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" +John 07:12 | There was much murmuring amongst the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." +John 07:13 | Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. +John 07:14 | But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. +John 07:15 | The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" +John 07:16 | Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. +John 07:17 | If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. +John 07:18 | He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. +John 07:19 | Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" +John 07:20 | The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" +John 07:21 | Jesus answered them, "I did one work and you all marvel because of it. +John 07:22 | Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. +John 07:23 | If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? +John 07:24 | Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgement." +John 07:25 | Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? +John 07:26 | Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? +John 07:27 | However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." +John 07:28 | Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. +John 07:29 | I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." +John 07:30 | They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. +John 07:31 | But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" +John 07:32 | The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. +John 07:33 | Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. +John 07:34 | You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am." +John 07:35 | The Jews therefore said amongst themselves, "Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion amongst the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? +John 07:36 | What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?" +John 07:37 | Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! +John 07:38 | He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." +John 07:39 | But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified. +John 07:40 | Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." +John 07:41 | Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? +John 07:42 | Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" +John 07:43 | So a division arose in the multitude because of him. +John 07:44 | Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. +John 07:45 | The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn’t you bring him?" +John 07:46 | The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" +John 07:47 | The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren’t also led astray, are you? +John 07:48 | Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? +John 07:49 | But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed." +John 07:50 | Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, +John 07:51 | "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" +John 07:52 | They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." +John 08:01 | but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. +John 08:02 | Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them. +John 08:03 | The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, +John 08:04 | they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. +John 08:05 | Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?" +John 08:06 | They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. +John 08:07 | But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin amongst you, let him throw the first stone at her." +John 08:08 | Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. +John 08:09 | They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. +John 08:10 | Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" +John 08:11 | She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more." +John 08:12 | Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life." +John 08:12 | I am the light of the world! He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. +John 08:13 | The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid." +John 08:14 | Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. +John 08:15 | You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. +John 08:16 | Even if I do judge, my judgement is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. +John 08:17 | It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. +John 08:18 | I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me." +John 08:19 | They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." +John 08:20 | Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. +John 08:21 | Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come." +John 08:22 | The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?" +John 08:23 | He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. +John 08:24 | I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." +John 08:25 | They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. +John 08:26 | I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world." +John 08:27 | They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father. +John 08:28 | Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. +John 08:29 | He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." +John 08:30 | As he spoke these things, many believed in him. +John 08:31 | Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. +John 08:32 | You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." +John 08:33 | They answered him, "We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?" +John 08:34 | Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. +John 08:35 | A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. +John 08:36 | If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. +John 08:37 | I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. +John 08:38 | I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." +John 08:39 | They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. +John 08:40 | But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. +John 08:41 | You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God." +John 08:42 | Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. +John 08:43 | Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. +John 08:44 | You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. +John 08:45 | But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. +John 08:46 | Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? +John 08:47 | He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God." +John 08:48 | Then the Jews answered him, "Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?" +John 08:49 | Jesus answered, "I don’t have a demon, but I honour my Father and you dishonour me. +John 08:50 | But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. +John 08:51 | Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." +John 08:52 | Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’ +John 08:53 | Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" +John 08:54 | Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. +John 08:55 | You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word. +John 08:56 | Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." +John 08:57 | The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?" +John 08:58 | Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." +John 08:59 | Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by. +John 09:01 | As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. +John 09:02 | His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" +John 09:03 | Jesus answered, "This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. +John 09:04 | I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. +John 09:05 | While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." +John 09:06 | When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, +John 09:07 | and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. +John 09:08 | The neighbours therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn’t this he who sat and begged?" +John 09:09 | Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he." +John 09:10 | They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?" +John 09:11 | He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight." +John 09:12 | Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don’t know." +John 09:13 | They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. +John 09:14 | It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. +John 09:15 | Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see." +John 09:16 | Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" So there was division amongst them. +John 09:17 | Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet." +John 09:18 | The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, +John 09:19 | and asked them, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" +John 09:20 | His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; +John 09:21 | but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." +John 09:22 | His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. +John 09:23 | Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him." +John 09:24 | So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." +John 09:25 | He therefore answered, "I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see." +John 09:26 | They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" +John 09:27 | He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?" +John 09:28 | They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. +John 09:29 | We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from." +John 09:30 | The man answered them, "How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. +John 09:31 | We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. +John 09:32 | Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. +John 09:33 | If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." +John 09:34 | They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they threw him out. +John 09:35 | Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" +John 09:36 | He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?" +John 09:37 | Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you." +John 09:38 | He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshipped him. +John 09:39 | Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgement, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind." +John 09:40 | Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" +John 09:41 | Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains. +John 10:01 | "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. +John 10:02 | But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. +John 10:03 | The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. +John 10:04 | Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. +John 10:05 | They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers." +John 10:06 | Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. +John 10:07 | Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. +John 10:08 | All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. +John 10:09 | I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. +John 10:10 | The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. +John 10:11 | I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. +John 10:12 | He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. +John 10:13 | The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. +John 10:14 | I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; +John 10:15 | even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. +John 10:16 | I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. +John 10:17 | Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. +John 10:18 | No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father." +John 10:19 | Therefore a division arose again amongst the Jews because of these words. +John 10:20 | Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" +John 10:21 | Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?" +John 10:22 | It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. +John 10:23 | It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. +John 10:24 | The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." +John 10:25 | Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. +John 10:26 | But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. +John 10:27 | My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. +John 10:27-29 | My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. +John 10:28 | I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. +John 10:29 | My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. +John 10:31 | Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. +John 10:32 | Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" +John 10:33 | The Jews answered him, "We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." +John 10:34 | Jesus answered them, "Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ +John 10:35 | If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), +John 10:36 | do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ +John 10:37 | If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. +John 10:38 | But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." +John 10:39 | They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. +John 10:40 | He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptising at first, and he stayed there. +John 10:41 | Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." +John 11:01 | Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. +John 11:02 | It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. +John 11:03 | The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick." +John 11:04 | But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it." +John 11:05 | Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. +John 11:06 | When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. +John 11:07 | Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let’s go into Judea again." +John 11:08 | The disciples asked him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?" +John 11:09 | Jesus answered, "Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. +John 11:10 | But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him." +John 11:11 | He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep." +John 11:12 | The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." +John 11:13 | Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. +John 11:14 | So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. +John 11:15 | I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him." +John 11:16 | Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let’s go also, that we may die with him." +John 11:17 | So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. +John 11:18 | Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. +John 11:19 | Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. +John 11:20 | Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. +John 11:21 | Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. +John 11:22 | Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you." +John 11:23 | Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." +John 11:24 | Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." +John 11:25 | Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. +John 11:25-26 | Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" +John 11:26 | Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" +John 11:27 | She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world." +John 11:28 | When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling you." +John 11:29 | When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. +John 11:30 | Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. +John 11:31 | Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." +John 11:32 | Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died." +John 11:33 | When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, +John 11:34 | and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see." +John 11:36 | The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" +John 11:37 | Some of them said, "Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?" +John 11:38 | Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. +John 11:39 | Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days." +John 11:40 | Jesus said to her, "Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?" +John 11:41 | So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. +John 11:42 | I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." +John 11:43 | When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" +John 11:44 | He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go." +John 11:45 | Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him. +John 11:46 | But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. +John 11:47 | The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. +John 11:48 | If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." +John 11:49 | But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, +John 11:50 | nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." +John 11:51 | Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, +John 11:52 | and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. +John 11:53 | So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. +John 11:54 | Jesus therefore walked no more openly amongst the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples. +John 11:55 | Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. +John 11:56 | Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?" +John 11:57 | Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him. +John 12:01 | Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. +John 12:02 | So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. +John 12:03 | Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. +John 12:05 | "Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?" +John 12:06 | Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. +John 12:07 | But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. +John 12:08 | For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me." +John 12:09 | A large crowd therefore of the Jews learnt that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. +John 12:10 | But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, +John 12:11 | because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. +John 12:12 | On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, +John 12:13 | they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!" +John 12:14 | Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written, +John 12:15 | "Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt." +John 12:16 | His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him. +John 12:17 | The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it. +John 12:18 | For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. +John 12:19 | The Pharisees therefore said amongst themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him." +John 12:20 | Now there were certain Greeks amongst those who went up to worship at the feast. +John 12:21 | These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." +John 12:22 | Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. +John 12:23 | Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. +John 12:24 | Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. +John 12:25 | He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. +John 12:26 | If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him. +John 12:27 | "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause. +John 12:28 | Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." +John 12:29 | Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." +John 12:30 | Jesus answered, "This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. +John 12:31 | Now is the judgement of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. +John 12:32 | And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." +John 12:33 | But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die. +John 12:34 | The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?" +John 12:35 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. +John 12:36 | While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them. +John 12:37 | But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, +John 12:38 | that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" +John 12:39 | For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again, +John 12:40 | "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them." +John 12:41 | Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. +John 12:42 | Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue, +John 12:43 | for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise. +John 12:44 | Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. +John 12:45 | He who sees me sees him who sent me. +John 12:46 | I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. +John 12:47 | If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. +John 12:48 | He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day. +John 12:49 | For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. +John 12:50 | I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak." +John 13:01 | Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. +John 13:02 | During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, +John 13:03 | Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God, +John 13:04 | arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist. +John 13:05 | Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. +John 13:06 | Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" +John 13:07 | Jesus answered him, "You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later." +John 13:08 | Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me." +John 13:09 | Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" +John 13:10 | Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you." +John 13:11 | For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean." +John 13:12 | So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? +John 13:13 | You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. +John 13:14 | If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. +John 13:15 | For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. +John 13:16 | Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. +John 13:17 | If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. +John 13:18 | I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ +John 13:19 | From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. +John 13:20 | Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me." +John 13:21 | When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." +John 13:22 | The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke. +John 13:23 | One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast. +John 13:24 | Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks." +John 13:25 | He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, "Lord, who is it?" +John 13:26 | Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. +John 13:27 | After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly." +John 13:28 | Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him. +John 13:29 | For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor. +John 13:30 | Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night. +John 13:31 | When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. +John 13:32 | If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. +John 13:33 | Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. +John 13:34 | A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. +John 13:35 | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." +John 13:36 | Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards." +John 13:37 | Peter said to him, "Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." +John 13:38 | Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times. +John 14:01 | "Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. +John 14:01-03 | Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. +John 14:02 | In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. +John 14:03 | If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. +John 14:04 | You know where I go, and you know the way." +John 14:05 | Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?" +John 14:06 | Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. +John 14:07 | If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him." +John 14:08 | Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." +John 14:09 | Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ +John 14:10 | Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. +John 14:11 | Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. +John 14:12 | Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. +John 14:13 | Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. +John 14:14 | If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. +John 14:15 | If you love me, keep my commandments. +John 14:16 | I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, that he may be with you forever: +John 14:17 | the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. +John 14:18 | I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. +John 14:19 | Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. +John 14:20 | In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. +John 14:21 | One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." +John 14:22 | Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" +John 14:23 | Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. +John 14:24 | He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. +John 14:25 | I have said these things to you while still living with you. +John 14:26 | But the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. +John 14:27 | Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. +John 14:27 | Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. +John 14:28 | You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. +John 14:29 | Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. +John 14:30 | I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. +John 14:31 | But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here. +John 15:01 | "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. +John 15:02 | Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. +John 15:03 | You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. +John 15:04 | Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. +John 15:05 | I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. +John 15:06 | If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burnt. +John 15:07 | If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. +John 15:08 | "In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. +John 15:09 | Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. +John 15:10 | If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. +John 15:11 | I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. +John 15:12 | "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. +John 15:12 | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. +John 15:13 | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. +John 15:13 | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. +John 15:14 | You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. +John 15:15 | No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. +John 15:16 | You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. +John 15:17 | "I command these things to you, that you may love one another. +John 15:18 | If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. +John 15:19 | If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. +John 15:20 | Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. +John 15:21 | But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. +John 15:22 | If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. +John 15:23 | He who hates me, hates my Father also. +John 15:24 | If I hadn’t done amongst them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. +John 15:25 | But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ +John 15:26 | "When the Counsellor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. +John 15:27 | You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. +John 16:01 | "I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. +John 16:02 | They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. +John 16:03 | They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. +John 16:04 | But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. +John 16:05 | But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ +John 16:06 | But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. +John 16:07 | Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counsellor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. +John 16:08 | When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgement; +John 16:10 | about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; +John 16:11 | about judgement, because the prince of this world has been judged. +John 16:12 | "I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. +John 16:13 | However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. +John 16:14 | He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. +John 16:15 | All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you. +John 16:16 | A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me." +John 16:17 | Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?" +John 16:18 | They said therefore, "What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying." +John 16:19 | Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you enquire amongst yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ +John 16:20 | Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. +John 16:21 | A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. +John 16:22 | Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. +John 16:23 | "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. +John 16:24 | Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. +John 16:25 | I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. +John 16:26 | In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, +John 16:27 | for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. +John 16:28 | I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." +John 16:29 | His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. +John 16:30 | Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God." +John 16:31 | Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? +John 16:32 | Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. +John 16:33 | I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. +John 16:33 | I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world." +John 17:01 | Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; +John 17:02 | even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. +John 17:03 | This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. +John 17:04 | I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. +John 17:05 | Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. +John 17:06 | I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. +John 17:07 | Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, +John 17:08 | for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. +John 17:09 | I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. +John 17:10 | All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. +John 17:11 | I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. +John 17:12 | While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. +John 17:13 | But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. +John 17:14 | I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. +John 17:15 | I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. +John 17:16 | They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. +John 17:17 | Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. +John 17:18 | As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. +John 17:19 | For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. +John 17:20 | Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, +John 17:21 | that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. +John 17:22 | The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; +John 17:23 | I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. +John 17:24 | Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. +John 17:25 | Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. +John 17:26 | I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them." +John 18:01 | When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. +John 18:02 | Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. +John 18:03 | Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. +John 18:04 | Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?" +John 18:05 | They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. +John 18:06 | When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground. +John 18:07 | Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth." +John 18:08 | Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way," +John 18:09 | that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none." +John 18:10 | Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. +John 18:11 | Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?" +John 18:12 | So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him, +John 18:13 | and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. +John 18:14 | Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people. +John 18:15 | Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest; +John 18:16 | but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter. +John 18:17 | Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man’s disciples?" He said, "I am not." +John 18:18 | Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself. +John 18:19 | The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. +John 18:20 | Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. +John 18:21 | Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said." +John 18:22 | When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?" +John 18:23 | Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?" +John 18:24 | Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. +John 18:25 | Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." +John 18:26 | One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?" +John 18:27 | Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed. +John 18:28 | They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. +John 18:29 | Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" +John 18:30 | They answered him, "If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you." +John 18:31 | Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is illegal for us to put anyone to death," +John 18:32 | that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die. +John 18:33 | Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" +John 18:34 | Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?" +John 18:35 | Pilate answered, "I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?" +John 18:36 | Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here." +John 18:37 | Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." +John 18:38 | Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him. +John 18:39 | But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" +John 18:40 | Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber. +John 19:01 | So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. +John 19:02 | The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. +John 19:03 | They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him. +John 19:04 | Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him." +John 19:05 | Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" +John 19:06 | When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him." +John 19:07 | The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." +John 19:08 | When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. +John 19:09 | He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. +John 19:10 | Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?" +John 19:11 | Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin." +John 19:12 | At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" +John 19:13 | When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgement seat at a place called "The Pavement", but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." +John 19:14 | Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" +John 19:15 | They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" +John 19:16 | So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. +John 19:17 | He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull", which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha", +John 19:18 | where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. +John 19:19 | Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." +John 19:20 | Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. +John 19:21 | The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, "I am King of the Jews." +John 19:22 | Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." +John 19:23 | Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. +John 19:24 | Then they said to one another, "Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments amongst them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things. +John 19:25 | But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. +John 19:26 | Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" +John 19:27 | Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. +John 19:28 | After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." +John 19:29 | Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. +John 19:30 | When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. +John 19:31 | Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. +John 19:32 | Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; +John 19:33 | but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. +John 19:34 | However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. +John 19:35 | He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. +John 19:36 | For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken." +John 19:37 | Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced." +John 19:38 | After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. +John 19:39 | Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. +John 19:40 | So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. +John 19:41 | Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. +John 19:42 | Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there. +John 20:01 | Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. +John 20:02 | Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!" +John 20:03 | Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went towards the tomb. +John 20:04 | They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. +John 20:05 | Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. +John 20:06 | Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, +John 20:07 | and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. +John 20:08 | So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. +John 20:09 | For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. +John 20:10 | So the disciples went away again to their own homes. +John 20:11 | But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, +John 20:12 | and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. +John 20:13 | They asked her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him." +John 20:14 | When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus. +John 20:15 | Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." +John 20:16 | Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!" +John 20:17 | Jesus said to her, "Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’" +John 20:18 | Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. +John 20:19 | When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, "Peace be to you." +John 20:20 | When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. +John 20:21 | Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." +John 20:22 | When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit! +John 20:23 | If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained." +John 20:24 | But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. +John 20:25 | The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." +John 20:26 | After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, "Peace be to you." +John 20:27 | Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing." +John 20:28 | Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" +John 20:29 | Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed." +John 20:30 | Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; +John 20:31 | but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. +John 21:01 | After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. +John 21:03 | Simon Peter said to them, "I’m going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing. +John 21:04 | But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus. +John 21:05 | Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No." +John 21:06 | He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. +John 21:07 | That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It’s the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. +John 21:08 | But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish. +John 21:09 | So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it. +John 21:10 | Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught." +John 21:11 | Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred and fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn. +John 21:12 | Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast!" None of the disciples dared enquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord. +John 21:13 | Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise. +John 21:14 | This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead. +John 21:15 | So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." +John 21:16 | He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." +John 21:17 | He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. +John 21:18 | Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go." +John 21:19 | Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me." +John 21:20 | Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray you?" +John 21:21 | Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" +John 21:22 | Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me." +John 21:23 | This saying therefore went out amongst the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?" +John 21:24 | This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true. +John 21:25 | There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written. +Jonah 01:02 | "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me." +Jonah 01:03 | But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. +Jonah 01:04 | But the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up. +Jonah 01:05 | Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. +Jonah 01:06 | So the ship master came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish." +Jonah 01:07 | They all said to each other, "Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. +Jonah 01:08 | Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?" +Jonah 01:09 | He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land." +Jonah 01:10 | Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What have you done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. +Jonah 01:11 | Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy. +Jonah 01:12 | He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you." +Jonah 01:13 | Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them. +Jonah 01:14 | Therefore they cried to the Lord, and said, "We beg you, Lord, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Lord, have done as it pleased you." +Jonah 01:15 | So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging. +Jonah 01:16 | Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord, and made vows. +Jonah 02:01 | Then Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the fish’s belly. +Jonah 02:02 | He said, "I called because of my affliction to the Lord. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. +Jonah 02:03 | For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. +Jonah 02:04 | I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.’ +Jonah 02:05 | The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. +Jonah 02:06 | I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Lord my God. +Jonah 02:07 | "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. +Jonah 02:08 | Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. +Jonah 02:09 | But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord." +Jonah 02:10 | Then The Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. +Jonah 03:02 | "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you." +Jonah 03:03 | So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across. +Jonah 03:04 | Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!" +Jonah 03:05 | The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. +Jonah 03:06 | The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. +Jonah 03:07 | He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; +Jonah 03:08 | but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. +Jonah 03:09 | Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?" +Jonah 03:10 | God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it. +Jonah 04:01 | But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. +Jonah 04:02 | He prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please, Lord, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm. +Jonah 04:03 | Therefore now, Lord, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." +Jonah 04:04 | The Lord said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" +Jonah 04:05 | Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. +Jonah 04:06 | The Lord God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine. +Jonah 04:07 | But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. +Jonah 04:08 | When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live." +Jonah 04:09 | God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death." +Jonah 04:10 | The Lord said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. +Jonah 04:11 | Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?" +Joshua 01:02 | "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel. +Joshua 01:03 | I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses. +Joshua 01:04 | From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea towards the going down of the sun, shall be your border. +Joshua 01:05 | No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you. +Joshua 01:06 | "Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. +Joshua 01:07 | Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. +Joshua 01:07 | Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. +Joshua 01:08 | This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. +Joshua 01:09 | Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. +Joshua 01:09 | Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." +Joshua 01:11 | "Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.’" +Joshua 01:13 | "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God gives you rest, and will give you this land. +Joshua 01:14 | Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them +Joshua 01:15 | until the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which the Lord your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan towards the sunrise.’" +Joshua 01:16 | They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. +Joshua 01:17 | Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses. +Joshua 01:18 | Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous." +Joshua 02:01 | Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there. +Joshua 02:02 | The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land." +Joshua 02:03 | Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land." +Joshua 02:04 | The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from. +Joshua 02:05 | About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them." +Joshua 02:06 | But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof. +Joshua 02:07 | The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate. +Joshua 02:08 | Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof. +Joshua 02:09 | She said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. +Joshua 02:10 | For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. +Joshua 02:11 | As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. +Joshua 02:12 | Now therefore, please swear to me by the Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign; +Joshua 02:13 | and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death." +Joshua 02:14 | The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when the Lord gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you." +Joshua 02:15 | Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. +Joshua 02:16 | She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way." +Joshua 02:17 | The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear. +Joshua 02:18 | Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household. +Joshua 02:19 | It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him. +Joshua 02:20 | But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear." +Joshua 02:21 | She said, "Let it be as you have said." She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window. +Joshua 02:22 | They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them. +Joshua 02:23 | Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them. +Joshua 02:24 | They said to Joshua, "Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us." +Joshua 03:01 | Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over. +Joshua 03:02 | After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp; +Joshua 03:03 | and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the Lord your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it. +Joshua 03:04 | Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before." +Joshua 03:05 | Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders amongst you." +Joshua 03:06 | Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. +Joshua 03:07 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. +Joshua 03:08 | You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’" +Joshua 03:09 | Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God." +Joshua 03:10 | Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is amongst you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you. +Joshua 03:11 | Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. +Joshua 03:12 | Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. +Joshua 03:13 | It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap." +Joshua 03:14 | When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, +Joshua 03:15 | and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), +Joshua 03:16 | the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down towards the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho. +Joshua 03:17 | The priests who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan. +Joshua 04:03 | and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’" +Joshua 04:04 | Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe. +Joshua 04:05 | Joshua said to them, "Cross before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; +Joshua 04:06 | that this may be a sign amongst you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’ +Joshua 04:07 | then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’" +Joshua 04:08 | The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as the Lord spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there. +Joshua 04:09 | Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day. +Joshua 04:10 | For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over. +Joshua 04:11 | When all the people had completely crossed over, the Lord’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people. +Joshua 04:12 | The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them. +Joshua 04:13 | About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before the Lord to battle, to the plains of Jericho. +Joshua 04:14 | On that day, the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. +Joshua 04:16 | "Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan." +Joshua 04:18 | When the priests who bore the ark of the Lord’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before. +Joshua 04:19 | The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho. +Joshua 04:20 | Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal. +Joshua 04:21 | He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’ +Joshua 04:22 | Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. +Joshua 04:23 | For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over, +Joshua 04:24 | that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear the Lord your God forever.’" +Joshua 05:01 | When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel. +Joshua 05:02 | At that time, the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time." +Joshua 05:03 | Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. +Joshua 05:04 | This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt. +Joshua 05:05 | For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. +Joshua 05:06 | For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the Lord’s voice. The Lord swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. +Joshua 05:07 | Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way. +Joshua 05:08 | When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed. +Joshua 05:09 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day. +Joshua 05:10 | The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. +Joshua 05:11 | They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. +Joshua 05:12 | The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. +Joshua 05:13 | When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our enemies?" +Joshua 05:14 | He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of the Lord’s army." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and asked him, "What does my lord say to his servant?" +Joshua 05:15 | The prince of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so. +Joshua 06:01 | Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in. +Joshua 06:02 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valour. +Joshua 06:03 | All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. +Joshua 06:04 | Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. +Joshua 06:05 | It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him." +Joshua 06:06 | Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord’s ark." +Joshua 06:07 | They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the Lord’s ark." +Joshua 06:08 | It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. +Joshua 06:09 | The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went. +Joshua 06:10 | Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout." +Joshua 06:11 | So he caused the Lord’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp. +Joshua 06:17 | The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. +Joshua 06:18 | But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it. +Joshua 06:19 | But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord. They shall come into the Lord’s treasury." +Joshua 06:20 | So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city. +Joshua 06:21 | They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword. +Joshua 06:22 | Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her." +Joshua 06:23 | The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel. +Joshua 06:24 | They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. +Joshua 06:25 | But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. +Joshua 06:26 | Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates." +Joshua 06:27 | So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land. +Joshua 07:01 | But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against the children of Israel. +Joshua 07:02 | Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai. +Joshua 07:03 | They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them." +Joshua 07:04 | So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai. +Joshua 07:05 | The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water. +Joshua 07:06 | Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the Lord’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. +Joshua 07:07 | Joshua said, "Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! +Joshua 07:08 | Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies? +Joshua 07:09 | For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?" +Joshua 07:10 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that? +Joshua 07:11 | Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it amongst their own stuff. +Joshua 07:12 | Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from amongst you. +Joshua 07:13 | Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing amongst you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from amongst you." +Joshua 07:14 | In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which the Lord selects shall come near by families. The family which the Lord selects shall come near by households. The household which the Lord selects shall come near man by man. +Joshua 07:15 | It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the Lord’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’" +Joshua 07:16 | So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected. +Joshua 07:17 | He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected. +Joshua 07:18 | He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected. +Joshua 07:19 | Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!" +Joshua 07:20 | Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. +Joshua 07:21 | When I saw amongst the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it." +Joshua 07:22 | So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. +Joshua 07:23 | They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the Lord. +Joshua 07:24 | Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. +Joshua 07:25 | Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you today." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burnt them with fire and stoned them with stones. +Joshua 07:26 | They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day. +Joshua 08:01 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land. +Joshua 08:02 | You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it." +Joshua 08:03 | So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them out by night. +Joshua 08:04 | He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. +Joshua 08:05 | I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them. +Joshua 08:06 | They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them, +Joshua 08:07 | and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. +Joshua 08:08 | It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the Lord’s word. Behold, I have commanded you." +Joshua 08:09 | Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed amongst the people that night. +Joshua 08:10 | Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. +Joshua 08:11 | All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai. +Joshua 08:12 | He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. +Joshua 08:13 | So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley. +Joshua 08:14 | When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. +Joshua 08:15 | Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. +Joshua 08:16 | All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. +Joshua 08:17 | There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel. +Joshua 08:18 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand towards Ai, for I will give it into your hand." Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand towards the city. +Joshua 08:19 | The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire. +Joshua 08:20 | When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. +Joshua 08:21 | When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai. +Joshua 08:22 | The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. +Joshua 08:23 | They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua. +Joshua 08:24 | When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. +Joshua 08:25 | All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai. +Joshua 08:26 | For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. +Joshua 08:27 | Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the Lord’s word which he commanded Joshua. +Joshua 08:28 | So Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day. +Joshua 08:29 | He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day. +Joshua 08:30 | Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, +Joshua 08:31 | as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. +Joshua 08:32 | He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. +Joshua 08:33 | All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. +Joshua 08:34 | Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. +Joshua 08:35 | There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were amongst them. +Joshua 09:01 | When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it +Joshua 09:02 | they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. +Joshua 09:03 | But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, +Joshua 09:04 | they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins, +Joshua 09:05 | and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and mouldy. +Joshua 09:06 | They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us." +Joshua 09:07 | The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live amongst us? How could we make a covenant with you?" +Joshua 09:08 | They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?" +Joshua 09:09 | They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt, +Joshua 09:10 | and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. +Joshua 09:11 | Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."’ +Joshua 09:12 | This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become mouldy. +Joshua 09:13 | These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey." +Joshua 09:14 | The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the Lord’s mouth. +Joshua 09:15 | Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them. +Joshua 09:16 | At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they lived amongst them. +Joshua 09:17 | The children of Israel travelled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. +Joshua 09:18 | The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes. +Joshua 09:19 | But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them. +Joshua 09:20 | We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them." +Joshua 09:21 | The princes said to them, "Let them live." So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them. +Joshua 09:22 | Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live amongst us? +Joshua 09:23 | Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God." +Joshua 09:24 | They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how the Lord your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. +Joshua 09:25 | Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do." +Joshua 09:26 | He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them. +Joshua 09:27 | That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the Lord’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose. +Joshua 10:01 | Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were amongst them, +Joshua 10:02 | they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. +Joshua 10:04 | "Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel." +Joshua 10:05 | Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it. +Joshua 10:06 | The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us." +Joshua 10:07 | So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valour. +Joshua 10:08 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you." +Joshua 10:09 | Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night. +Joshua 10:10 | The Lord confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah. +Joshua 10:11 | As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, the Lord hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword. +Joshua 10:12 | Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!" +Joshua 10:13 | The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day. +Joshua 10:14 | There was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel. +Joshua 10:15 | Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal. +Joshua 10:16 | These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. +Joshua 10:17 | Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah." +Joshua 10:18 | Joshua said, "Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them; +Joshua 10:19 | but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand." +Joshua 10:20 | When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, +Joshua 10:21 | all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. +Joshua 10:22 | Then Joshua said, "Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me." +Joshua 10:23 | They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. +Joshua 10:24 | When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, "Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings." They came near, and put their feet on their necks. +Joshua 10:25 | Joshua said to them, "Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for the Lord will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight." +Joshua 10:26 | Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening. +Joshua 10:27 | At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. +Joshua 10:28 | Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. +Joshua 10:29 | Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah. +Joshua 10:30 | The Lord delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho. +Joshua 10:31 | Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. +Joshua 10:32 | The Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah. +Joshua 10:33 | Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining. +Joshua 10:34 | Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it. +Joshua 10:35 | They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. +Joshua 10:36 | Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it. +Joshua 10:37 | They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it. +Joshua 10:38 | Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it. +Joshua 10:39 | He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king. +Joshua 10:40 | So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded. +Joshua 10:41 | Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. +Joshua 10:42 | Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. +Joshua 10:43 | Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal. +Joshua 11:04 | They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. +Joshua 11:05 | All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel. +Joshua 11:06 | The Lord said to Joshua, "Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire." +Joshua 11:07 | So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them. +Joshua 11:08 | The Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining. +Joshua 11:09 | Joshua did to them as the Lord told him. He hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire. +Joshua 11:10 | Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms. +Joshua 11:11 | They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burnt Hazor with fire. +Joshua 11:12 | Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. +Joshua 11:13 | But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burnt none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burnt that. +Joshua 11:14 | The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed. +Joshua 11:15 | As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses. +Joshua 11:16 | So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; +Joshua 11:17 | from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death. +Joshua 11:18 | Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. +Joshua 11:19 | There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle. +Joshua 11:20 | For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Joshua 11:23 | So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war. +Joshua 18:03 | Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? +Joshua 18:04 | Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me. +Joshua 18:05 | They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north. +Joshua 18:06 | You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. +Joshua 18:07 | However, the Levites have no portion amongst you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them." +Joshua 18:08 | The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh." +Joshua 18:09 | The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. +Joshua 18:10 | Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions. +Joshua 18:11 | The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. +Joshua 18:12 | Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven. +Joshua 20:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, +Joshua 20:03 | that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. +Joshua 20:04 | He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live amongst them. +Joshua 20:05 | If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before. +Joshua 20:06 | He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgement, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’" +Joshua 20:07 | They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. +Joshua 20:08 | Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. +Joshua 20:09 | These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives amongst them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation. +Joshua 21:01 | Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. +Joshua 21:02 | They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The Lord commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock." +Joshua 21:03 | The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of the Lord, these cities with their pasture lands. +Joshua 21:04 | The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin. +Joshua 21:05 | The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. +Joshua 21:06 | The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. +Joshua 21:07 | The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. +Joshua 21:08 | The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as the Lord commanded by Moses. +Joshua 21:09 | They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name: +Joshua 21:10 | and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. +Joshua 21:11 | They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it. +Joshua 21:12 | But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. +Joshua 23:12 | "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain amongst you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; +Joshua 23:13 | know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you. +Joshua 23:14 | "Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it. +Joshua 23:15 | It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which the Lord your God spoke to you, so the Lord will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you, +Joshua 23:16 | when you disobey the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the Lord’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you." +Joshua 24:01 | Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. +Joshua 24:02 | Joshua said to all the people, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods. +Joshua 24:03 | I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac. +Joshua 24:04 | I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. +Joshua 24:05 | "‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did amongst them: and afterward I brought you out. +Joshua 24:06 | I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. +Joshua 24:07 | When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days. +Joshua 24:08 | "‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you. +Joshua 24:09 | Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, +Joshua 24:10 | but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. +Joshua 24:11 | "‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. +Joshua 24:12 | I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. +Joshua 24:13 | I gave you a land on which you had not laboured, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’ +Joshua 24:14 | "Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the Lord. +Joshua 24:15 | If it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." +Joshua 24:16 | The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; +Joshua 24:17 | for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and amongst all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed. +Joshua 24:18 | The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord; for he is our God." +Joshua 24:19 | Joshua said to the people, "You can’t serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. +Joshua 24:20 | If you forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good." +Joshua 24:21 | The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the Lord." +Joshua 24:22 | Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses." +Joshua 24:23 | "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are amongst you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel." +Joshua 24:24 | The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God, and we will listen to his voice." +Joshua 24:25 | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. +Joshua 24:26 | Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. +Joshua 24:27 | Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the Lord’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God." +Joshua 24:28 | So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance. +Joshua 24:29 | After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. +Joshua 24:30 | They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. +Joshua 24:31 | Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the Lord, that he had worked for Israel. +Joshua 24:32 | They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. +Joshua 24:33 | Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim. +Jousha 06:17 | The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. +Jousha 06:21 | They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. +Jude 01:01 | Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: +Jude 01:02 | May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. +Jude 01:03 | Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. +Jude 01:04 | For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. +Jude 01:05 | Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe. +Jude 01:06 | Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgement of the great day. +Jude 01:07 | Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. +Jude 01:08 | Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. +Jude 01:09 | But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" +Jude 01:10 | But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason. +Jude 01:11 | Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion. +Jude 01:12 | These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; +Jude 01:13 | wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. +Jude 01:14 | About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, +Jude 01:15 | to execute judgement on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." +Jude 01:16 | These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage. +Jude 01:17 | But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. +Jude 01:18 | They said to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." +Jude 01:19 | These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit. +Jude 01:20 | But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. +Jude 01:21 | Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. +Jude 01:22 | On some have compassion, making a distinction, +Jude 01:23 | and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. +Jude 01:24 | Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, +Jude 01:25 | to God our Saviour, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. +Judges 01:01 | After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of the Lord, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?" +Judges 01:02 | The Lord said, "Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand." +Judges 01:03 | Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him. +Judges 01:04 | Judah went up, and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek. +Judges 01:05 | They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. +Judges 01:06 | But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. +Judges 01:07 | Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. +Judges 01:08 | The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. +Judges 01:09 | After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland. +Judges 01:10 | Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. +Judges 01:11 | From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.) +Judges 01:12 | Caleb said, "I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it." +Judges 01:13 | Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife. +Judges 01:14 | When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, "What would you like?" +Judges 01:15 | She said to him, "Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. +Judges 01:16 | The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people. +Judges 01:17 | Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah. +Judges 01:18 | Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border. +Judges 01:19 | The Lord was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. +Judges 01:20 | They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there. +Judges 01:21 | The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. +Judges 01:22 | The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them. +Judges 01:23 | The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.) +Judges 01:24 | The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you." +Judges 01:25 | He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go. +Judges 01:26 | The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day. +Judges 01:27 | Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. +Judges 01:28 | When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, and didn’t utterly drive them out. +Judges 01:29 | Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer amongst them. +Judges 01:30 | Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived amongst them, and became subject to forced labour. +Judges 01:31 | Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob; +Judges 01:32 | but the Asherites lived amongst the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out. +Judges 01:33 | Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived amongst the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labour. +Judges 01:34 | The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; +Judges 01:35 | but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labour. +Judges 01:36 | The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. +Judges 02:01 | The Lord’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you. +Judges 02:02 | You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this? +Judges 02:03 | Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’" +Judges 02:04 | When the Lord’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept. +Judges 02:05 | They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to the Lord. +Judges 02:06 | Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land. +Judges 02:07 | The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord that he had worked for Israel. +Judges 02:08 | Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. +Judges 02:09 | They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. +Judges 02:10 | After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know the Lord, nor the work which he had done for Israel. +Judges 02:11 | The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and served the Baals. +Judges 02:12 | They abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. +Judges 02:13 | They abandoned the Lord, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. +Judges 02:14 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. +Judges 02:15 | Wherever they went out, the Lord’s hand was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were very distressed. +Judges 02:16 | The Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. +Judges 02:17 | Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the Lord’s commandments. They didn’t do so. +Judges 02:18 | When the Lord raised up judges for them, then the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the Lord because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them. +Judges 02:19 | But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways. +Judges 02:20 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice, +Judges 02:21 | I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them; +Judges 02:22 | that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the Lord’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not." +Judges 02:23 | So the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand. +Judges 03:01 | Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; +Judges 03:02 | only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before: +Judges 03:03 | the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. +Judges 03:04 | They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the Lord’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses. +Judges 03:05 | The children of Israel lived amongst the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. +Judges 03:06 | They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. +Judges 03:07 | The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth. +Judges 03:08 | Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. +Judges 03:09 | When the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. +Judges 03:10 | The Lord’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim. +Judges 03:11 | The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died. +Judges 03:12 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the Lord’s sight. +Judges 03:13 | He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees. +Judges 03:14 | The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. +Judges 03:15 | But when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. +Judges 03:16 | Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh. +Judges 03:17 | He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. +Judges 03:18 | When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute. +Judges 03:19 | But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." The king said, "Keep silence!" All who stood by him left him. +Judges 03:20 | Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat. +Judges 03:21 | Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body. +Judges 03:22 | The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind. +Judges 03:23 | Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them. +Judges 03:24 | After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, "Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room." +Judges 03:25 | They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor. +Judges 03:26 | Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah. +Judges 03:27 | When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them. +Judges 03:28 | He said to them, "Follow me; for the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over. +Judges 03:29 | They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valour. No man escaped. +Judges 03:30 | So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years. +Judges 03:31 | After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel. +Judges 04:01 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, when Ehud was dead. +Judges 04:02 | The Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. +Judges 04:03 | The children of Israel cried to the Lord, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years. +Judges 04:04 | Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time. +Judges 04:05 | She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgement. +Judges 04:06 | She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn’t the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? +Judges 04:07 | I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’" +Judges 04:08 | Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go." +Judges 04:09 | She said, "I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honour; for the Lord will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand." Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. +Judges 04:10 | Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him. +Judges 04:11 | Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh. +Judges 04:12 | They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor. +Judges 04:13 | Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon. +Judges 04:14 | Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t the Lord gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. +Judges 04:15 | The Lord confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet. +Judges 04:16 | But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left. +Judges 04:17 | However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. +Judges 04:18 | Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. +Judges 04:19 | He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him. +Judges 04:20 | He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and enquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’" +Judges 04:21 | Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died. +Judges 04:22 | Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples. +Judges 04:23 | So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day. +Judges 04:24 | The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. +Judges 05:02 | "Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, the LORD! +Judges 05:03 | "Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to the Lord. I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel. +Judges 05:04 | "LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water. +Judges 05:05 | The mountains quaked at the Lord’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel. +Judges 05:06 | "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travellers walked through byways. +Judges 05:07 | The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel. +Judges 05:08 | They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen amongst forty thousand in Israel? +Judges 05:09 | My heart is towards the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly amongst the people. Bless the LORD! +Judges 05:10 | "Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way. +Judges 05:11 | Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the Lord’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the Lord’s people went down to the gates. +Judges 05:12 | ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’ +Judges 05:13 | "Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. The Lord came down for me against the mighty. +Judges 05:14 | Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, amongst your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun. +Judges 05:15 | The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart. +Judges 05:16 | Why did you sit amongst the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart. +Judges 05:17 | Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks. +Judges 05:18 | Zebulun was a people that jeopardised their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. +Judges 05:19 | "The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver. +Judges 05:20 | From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera. +Judges 05:21 | The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength. +Judges 05:22 | Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones. +Judges 05:23 | ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the Lord’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help the Lord, to help the Lord against the mighty.’ +Judges 05:24 | "Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. +Judges 05:25 | He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish. +Judges 05:26 | She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples. +Judges 05:27 | At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. +Judges 05:28 | "Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’ +Judges 05:29 | Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself, +Judges 05:30 | ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’ +Judges 05:31 | "So let all your enemies perish, Lord, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years. +Judges 06:01 | The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. +Judges 06:02 | The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds. +Judges 06:03 | So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them. +Judges 06:04 | They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey. +Judges 06:05 | For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it. +Judges 06:06 | Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to the Lord. +Judges 06:08 | The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, "The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage. +Judges 06:09 | I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land. +Judges 06:10 | I said to you, "I am the Lord your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell." But you have not listened to my voice.’" +Judges 06:11 | The Lord’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites. +Judges 06:12 | The Lord’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, "The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valour!" +Judges 06:13 | Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian." +Judges 06:14 | The Lord looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?" +Judges 06:15 | He said to him, "O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house." +Judges 06:16 | The Lord said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man." +Judges 06:17 | He said to him, "If now I have found favour in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. +Judges 06:18 | Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back." +Judges 06:19 | Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. +Judges 06:20 | The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." He did so. +Judges 06:21 | Then the Lord’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the Lord’s angel departed out of his sight. +Judges 06:22 | Gideon saw that he was the Lord’s angel; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the Lord’s angel face to face!" +Judges 06:23 | The Lord said to him, "Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die." +Judges 06:24 | Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it "The Lord is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. +Judges 06:25 | That same night, the Lord said to him, "Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it. +Judges 06:26 | Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down." +Judges 06:27 | Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night. +Judges 06:28 | When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built. +Judges 06:29 | They said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" When they enquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing." +Judges 06:30 | Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it." +Judges 06:31 | Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!" +Judges 06:32 | Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar." +Judges 06:33 | Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. +Judges 06:34 | But the Lord’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him. +Judges 06:35 | He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. +Judges 06:37 | behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken." +Judges 06:38 | It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. +Judges 06:39 | Gideon said to God, "Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew." +Judges 06:40 | God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. +Judges 07:01 | Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. +Judges 07:02 | The Lord said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ +Judges 07:03 | Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’" So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained. +Judges 07:04 | The Lord said to Gideon, "There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go." +Judges 07:05 | So he brought down the people to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink." +Judges 07:06 | The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. +Judges 07:07 | The Lord said to Gideon, "I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place." +Judges 07:09 | That same night, the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. +Judges 07:10 | But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp. +Judges 07:11 | You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp." Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp. +Judges 07:12 | The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude. +Judges 07:13 | When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, "Behold, I dreamt a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat." +Judges 07:14 | His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army." +Judges 07:15 | It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshipped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the Lord has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!" +Judges 07:16 | He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. +Judges 07:17 | He said to them, "Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. +Judges 07:18 | When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’" +Judges 07:19 | So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. +Judges 07:20 | The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!" +Judges 07:21 | They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. +Judges 07:22 | They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah towards Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. +Judges 07:23 | The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian. +Judges 07:24 | Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!" So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. +Judges 07:25 | They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan. +Judges 08:01 | The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply. +Judges 08:02 | He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? +Judges 08:03 | God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger was abated towards him when he had said that. +Judges 08:04 | Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. +Judges 08:05 | He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." +Judges 08:06 | The princes of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?" +Judges 08:07 | Gideon said, "Therefore when the Lord has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." +Judges 08:08 | He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. +Judges 08:09 | He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower." +Judges 08:10 | Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew sword. +Judges 08:12 | Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army. +Judges 08:14 | He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men. +Judges 08:15 | He came to the men of Succoth, and said, "See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’" +Judges 08:16 | He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. +Judges 08:17 | He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. +Judges 08:18 | Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king." +Judges 08:19 | He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you." +Judges 08:20 | He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up and kill them!" But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth. +Judges 08:21 | Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks. +Judges 08:22 | Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian." +Judges 08:23 | Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The Lord shall rule over you." +Judges 08:24 | Gideon said to them, "I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) +Judges 08:25 | They answered, "We will willingly give them." They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it. +Judges 08:26 | The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks. +Judges 08:27 | Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house. +Judges 08:28 | So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. +Judges 08:29 | Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. +Judges 08:30 | Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives. +Judges 08:31 | His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. +Judges 08:32 | Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. +Judges 08:33 | As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god. +Judges 08:34 | The children of Israel didn’t remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; +Judges 08:35 | neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel. +Judges 09:02 | "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh." +Judges 09:03 | His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, "He is our brother." +Judges 09:04 | They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him. +Judges 09:05 | He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. +Judges 09:06 | All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem. +Judges 09:07 | When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you. +Judges 09:08 | The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’ +Judges 09:09 | "But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honour God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’ +Judges 09:10 | "The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’ +Judges 09:11 | "But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’ +Judges 09:12 | "The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’ +Judges 09:13 | "The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’ +Judges 09:14 | "Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’ +Judges 09:15 | "The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’ +Judges 09:16 | "Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands +Judges 09:17 | (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; +Judges 09:18 | and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); +Judges 09:19 | if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you; +Judges 09:20 | but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech." +Judges 09:21 | Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. +Judges 09:23 | Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, +Judges 09:24 | that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. +Judges 09:25 | The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it. +Judges 09:26 | Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. +Judges 09:27 | They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech. +Judges 09:28 | Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him? +Judges 09:29 | I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech." He said to Abimelech, "Increase your army and come out!" +Judges 09:30 | When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burnt. +Judges 09:32 | Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field. +Judges 09:33 | It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion." +Judges 09:34 | Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. +Judges 09:35 | Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush. +Judges 09:36 | When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains." Zebul said to him, "You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men." +Judges 09:37 | Gaal spoke again and said, "Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim." +Judges 09:38 | Then Zebul said to him, "Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them." +Judges 09:39 | Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. +Judges 09:40 | Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate. +Judges 09:41 | Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem. +Judges 09:43 | He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them. +Judges 09:44 | Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them. +Judges 09:45 | Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt. +Judges 09:46 | When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith. +Judges 09:47 | Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. +Judges 09:48 | Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!" +Judges 09:49 | All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. +Judges 09:50 | Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it. +Judges 09:51 | But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower. +Judges 09:52 | Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. +Judges 09:53 | A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull. +Judges 09:54 | Then he called hastily to the young man, his armour bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died." +Judges 09:56 | Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers; +Judges 09:57 | and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them. +Judges 10:01 | After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. +Judges 10:02 | He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. +Judges 10:03 | After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years. +Judges 10:04 | He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. +Judges 10:06 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord, and didn’t serve him. +Judges 10:07 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon. +Judges 10:08 | They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. +Judges 10:09 | The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed. +Judges 10:10 | The children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals." +Judges 10:11 | The Lord said to the children of Israel, "Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? +Judges 10:12 | The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand. +Judges 10:13 | Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more. +Judges 10:14 | Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!" +Judges 10:15 | The children of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today." +Judges 10:16 | They put away the foreign gods from amongst them and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. +Judges 10:17 | Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah. +Judges 10:18 | The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." +Judges 11:03 | Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him. +Judges 11:04 | After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel. +Judges 11:05 | When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob. +Judges 11:06 | They said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon." +Judges 11:07 | Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?" +Judges 11:08 | The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." +Judges 11:09 | Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivers them before me, will I be your head?" +Judges 11:10 | The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say." +Judges 11:11 | Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpah. +Judges 11:12 | Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?" +Judges 11:13 | The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably." +Judges 11:14 | Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; +Judges 11:15 | and he said to him, "Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon; +Judges 11:16 | but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh, +Judges 11:17 | then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh. +Judges 11:18 | Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. +Judges 11:19 | Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’ +Judges 11:20 | But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. +Judges 11:21 | The Lord, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. +Judges 11:22 | They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. +Judges 11:23 | So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them? +Judges 11:24 | Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the Lord our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess. +Judges 11:25 | Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? +Judges 11:26 | Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time? +Judges 11:27 | Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May The Lord the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon." +Judges 11:28 | However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. +Judges 11:29 | Then the Lord’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. +Judges 11:30 | Jephthah vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, +Judges 11:31 | then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering." +Judges 11:32 | So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand. +Judges 11:33 | He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. +Judges 11:34 | Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter. +Judges 11:35 | When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can’t go back." +Judges 11:36 | She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because the Lord has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon." +Judges 11:37 | Then she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions." +Judges 11:38 | He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains. +Judges 11:39 | At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel +Judges 11:40 | that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. +Judges 12:01 | The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!" +Judges 12:02 | Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand. +Judges 12:03 | When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?" +Judges 12:04 | Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh." +Judges 12:05 | The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No" +Judges 12:06 | then they said to him, "Now say ‘Shibboleth;’" and he said "Sibboleth"; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell. +Judges 12:07 | Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead. +Judges 12:08 | After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. +Judges 12:09 | He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years. +Judges 12:11 | After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. +Judges 12:12 | Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. +Judges 12:13 | After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. +Judges 12:14 | He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years. +Judges 12:15 | Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. +Judges 13:01 | The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. +Judges 13:02 | There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless. +Judges 13:03 | The Lord’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son. +Judges 13:04 | Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing; +Judges 13:05 | for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." +Judges 13:06 | Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name; +Judges 13:07 | but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’" +Judges 13:08 | Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born." +Judges 13:09 | God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her. +Judges 13:10 | The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, "Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me," +Judges 13:11 | Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "I am." +Judges 13:12 | Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?" +Judges 13:13 | The Lord’s angel said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. +Judges 13:14 | She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her." +Judges 13:15 | Manoah said to the Lord’s angel, "Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you." +Judges 13:16 | The Lord’s angel said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord." For Manoah didn’t know that he was the Lord’s angel. +Judges 13:17 | Manoah said to the Lord’s angel, "What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honour you?" +Judges 13:18 | The Lord’s angel said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?" +Judges 13:19 | So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. +Judges 13:20 | For when the flame went up towards the sky from off the altar, the Lord’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground. +Judges 13:21 | But the Lord’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s angel. +Judges 13:22 | Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God." +Judges 13:23 | But his wife said to him, "If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time." +Judges 13:24 | The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and the Lord blessed him. +Judges 13:25 | The Lord’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. +Judges 14:01 | Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. +Judges 14:02 | He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife." +Judges 14:03 | Then his father and his mother said to him, "Isn’t there a woman amongst your brothers’ daughters, or amongst all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she pleases me well." +Judges 14:04 | But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the Lord; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. +Judges 14:05 | Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him. +Judges 14:06 | The Lord’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done. +Judges 14:07 | He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. +Judges 14:08 | After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. +Judges 14:09 | He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body. +Judges 14:10 | His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so. +Judges 14:11 | When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. +Judges 14:12 | Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; +Judges 14:13 | but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing." They said to him, "Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it." +Judges 14:14 | He said to them, "Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness." They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle. +Judges 14:15 | On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, "Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?" +Judges 14:16 | Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, "You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me." He said to her, "Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?" +Judges 14:17 | She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. +Judges 14:18 | The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn’t ploughed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle." +Judges 14:19 | The Lord’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burnt, and he went up to his father’s house. +Judges 14:20 | But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend. +Judges 15:01 | But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, "I will go in to my wife’s room." But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in. +Judges 15:02 | Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead." +Judges 15:03 | Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them." +Judges 15:04 | Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails. +Judges 15:05 | When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves. +Judges 15:06 | Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. +Judges 15:07 | Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease." +Judges 15:08 | He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock. +Judges 15:09 | Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. +Judges 15:10 | The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us." +Judges 15:11 | Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so I have done to them." +Judges 15:12 | They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves." +Judges 15:13 | They spoke to him, saying, "No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. +Judges 15:14 | When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the Lord’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands. +Judges 15:15 | He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it. +Judges 15:16 | Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men." +Judges 15:17 | When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi. +Judges 15:18 | He was very thirsty, and called on the Lord and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" +Judges 15:19 | But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day. +Judges 15:20 | He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. +Judges 16:01 | Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. +Judges 16:02 | The Gazites were told, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, "Wait until morning light; then we will kill him." +Judges 16:03 | Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. +Judges 16:04 | It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. +Judges 16:05 | The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver." +Judges 16:06 | Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you." +Judges 16:07 | Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man." +Judges 16:08 | Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. +Judges 16:09 | Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. +Judges 16:10 | Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound." +Judges 16:11 | He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man." +Judges 16:12 | So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread. +Judges 16:13 | Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom." +Judges 16:14 | She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric. +Judges 16:15 | She said to him, "How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies." +Judges 16:16 | When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. +Judges 16:17 | He told her all his heart and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man." +Judges 16:18 | When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. +Judges 16:19 | She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. +Judges 16:20 | She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn’t know that the Lord had departed from him. +Judges 16:21 | The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison. +Judges 16:22 | However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved. +Judges 16:23 | The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." +Judges 16:24 | When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand." +Judges 16:25 | When their hearts were merry, they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; +Judges 16:26 | and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them." +Judges 16:27 | Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed. +Judges 16:28 | Samson called to the Lord, and said, "Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." +Judges 16:29 | Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. +Judges 16:30 | Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. +Judges 16:31 | Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years. +Judges 17:01 | There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. +Judges 17:02 | He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it." His mother said, "May the Lord bless my son!" +Judges 17:03 | He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, "I most certainly dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you." +Judges 17:04 | When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah. +Judges 17:05 | The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. +Judges 17:06 | In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes. +Judges 17:07 | There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there. +Judges 17:08 | The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he travelled. +Judges 17:09 | Micah said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live." +Judges 17:10 | Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in. +Judges 17:11 | The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. +Judges 17:12 | Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. +Judges 17:13 | Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest." +Judges 18:01 | In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them amongst the tribes of Israel. +Judges 18:02 | The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valour, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. +Judges 18:03 | When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?" +Judges 18:04 | He said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest." +Judges 18:05 | They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous." +Judges 18:06 | The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before the Lord." +Judges 18:07 | Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else. +Judges 18:08 | They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, "What do you say?" +Judges 18:09 | They said, "Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. +Judges 18:10 | When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth." +Judges 18:11 | The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war. +Judges 18:12 | They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim. +Judges 18:13 | They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. +Judges 18:14 | Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do." +Judges 18:15 | They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing. +Judges 18:16 | The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. +Judges 18:17 | The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war. +Judges 18:18 | When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?" +Judges 18:19 | They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?" +Judges 18:20 | The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people. +Judges 18:21 | So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them. +Judges 18:22 | When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan. +Judges 18:23 | As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?" +Judges 18:24 | He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’" +Judges 18:25 | The children of Dan said to him, "Don’t let your voice be heard amongst us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household." +Judges 18:26 | The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house. +Judges 18:27 | They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burnt the city with fire. +Judges 18:28 | There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it. +Judges 18:29 | They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish. +Judges 18:30 | The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. +Judges 18:31 | So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh. +Judges 19:01 | In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. +Judges 19:02 | His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months. +Judges 19:03 | Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. +Judges 19:04 | His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there. +Judges 19:05 | On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way." +Judges 19:06 | So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, "Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry." +Judges 19:07 | The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again. +Judges 19:08 | He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, "Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines" and they both ate. +Judges 19:09 | When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws towards evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home." +Judges 19:10 | But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him. +Judges 19:11 | When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, "Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it." +Judges 19:12 | His master said to him, "We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah." +Judges 19:13 | He said to his servant, "Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah." +Judges 19:14 | So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. +Judges 19:15 | They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay. +Judges 19:16 | Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites. +Judges 19:17 | He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?" +Judges 19:18 | He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the Lord’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house. +Judges 19:19 | Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything." +Judges 19:20 | The old man said, "Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street." +Judges 19:21 | So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank. +Judges 19:22 | As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!" +Judges 19:23 | The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly. +Judges 19:24 | Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly." +Judges 19:25 | But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go. +Judges 19:26 | Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light. +Judges 19:27 | Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. +Judges 19:28 | He said to her, "Get up, and let’s get going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place. +Judges 19:29 | When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel. +Judges 19:30 | It was so, that all who saw it said, "Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak." +Judges 20:01 | Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the Lord at Mizpah. +Judges 20:02 | The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword. +Judges 20:03 | (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?" +Judges 20:04 | The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. +Judges 20:05 | The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead. +Judges 20:06 | I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. +Judges 20:07 | Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel." +Judges 20:08 | All the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house. +Judges 20:09 | But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; +Judges 20:10 | and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel." +Judges 20:11 | So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. +Judges 20:12 | The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that has happened amongst you? +Judges 20:13 | Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel. +Judges 20:14 | The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. +Judges 20:15 | The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men. +Judges 20:16 | Amongst all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss. +Judges 20:17 | The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war. +Judges 20:18 | The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" The Lord said, "Judah first." +Judges 20:19 | The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah. +Judges 20:20 | The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah. +Judges 20:21 | The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground. +Judges 20:22 | The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day. +Judges 20:23 | The children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until evening; and they asked of the Lord, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?" The Lord said, "Go up against him." +Judges 20:24 | The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. +Judges 20:25 | Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword. +Judges 20:26 | Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. +Judges 20:27 | The children of Israel asked the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, +Judges 20:28 | and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, "Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?" The Lord said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand." +Judges 20:30 | The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. +Judges 20:31 | The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. +Judges 20:32 | The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways." +Judges 20:33 | All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba. +Judges 20:34 | Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them. +Judges 20:35 | The Lord struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand and one hundred men. All these drew the sword. +Judges 20:36 | So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. +Judges 20:37 | The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. +Judges 20:38 | Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city. +Judges 20:39 | The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle." +Judges 20:40 | But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky. +Judges 20:41 | The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them. +Judges 20:42 | Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it. +Judges 20:43 | They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah towards the sunrise. +Judges 20:44 | Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valour. +Judges 20:45 | They turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them. +Judges 20:46 | So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valour. +Judges 20:47 | But six hundred men turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months. +Judges 20:48 | The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire. +Judges 21:01 | Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife." +Judges 21:02 | The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely. +Judges 21:03 | They said, "The Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?" +Judges 21:04 | On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. +Judges 21:05 | The children of Israel said, "Who is there amongst all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death." +Judges 21:06 | The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel today. +Judges 21:07 | How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?" +Judges 21:08 | They said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly. +Judges 21:09 | For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. +Judges 21:10 | The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. +Judges 21:11 | This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man." +Judges 21:12 | They found amongst the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. +Judges 21:13 | The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. +Judges 21:14 | Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them. +Judges 21:15 | The people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. +Judges 21:16 | Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?" +Judges 21:17 | They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. +Judges 21:18 | However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’" +Judges 21:19 | They said, "Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah." +Judges 21:20 | They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards, +Judges 21:21 | and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. +Judges 21:22 | It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’" +Judges 21:23 | The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them. +Judges 21:24 | The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance. +Judges 21:25 | In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes. +Judith 01:08 | and to those amongst the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon, +Judith 01:11 | All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace. +Judith 01:12 | And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas. +Judith 01:13 | And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots. +Judith 01:14 | He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame. +Judith 01:15 | He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day. +Judith 01:16 | He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred and twenty days. +Judith 02:01 | In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke. +Judith 02:02 | He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth. +Judith 02:03 | They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth. +Judith 02:04 | It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him, +Judith 02:05 | "The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: ‘Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred and twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders. +Judith 02:06 | And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth. +Judith 02:07 | You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them. +Judith 02:08 | Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows. +Judith 02:09 | I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth. +Judith 02:10 | But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you, then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof. +Judith 02:11 | As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land. +Judith 02:12 | For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand. +Judith 02:13 | Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.’" +Judith 02:14 | So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur. +Judith 02:15 | He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred and twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback. +Judith 02:17 | He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision, +Judith 02:18 | and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house. +Judith 02:19 | He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen. +Judith 02:20 | A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude. +Judith 02:22 | And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country, +Judith 02:23 | and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians. +Judith 02:24 | And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea. +Judith 02:25 | And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all who resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were towards the south, opposite Arabia. +Judith 02:26 | He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds. +Judith 02:27 | He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword. +Judith 02:28 | And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly. +Judith 03:01 | And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying, +Judith 03:02 | "Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight. +Judith 03:03 | Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you. +Judith 03:04 | Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes." +Judith 03:05 | So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words. +Judith 03:06 | He came down towards the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies. +Judith 03:07 | They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels. +Judith 03:08 | He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god. +Judith 03:09 | Then he came towards Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea. +Judith 03:10 | He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army. +Judith 04:01 | The children of Israel who lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly. +Judith 04:02 | They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God; +Judith 04:03 | because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned. +Judith 04:04 | And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem; +Judith 04:05 | and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped. +Judith 04:06 | Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon towards the plain that is near to Dothaim, +Judith 04:07 | charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most. +Judith 04:08 | And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem. +Judith 04:09 | And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls. +Judith 04:11 | Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar. +Judith 04:12 | They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at. +Judith 04:13 | The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty. +Judith 04:14 | And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests who stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people. +Judith 04:15 | They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good. +Judith 05:01 | Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains. +Judith 05:02 | Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast, +Judith 05:03 | and he said to them, "Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army? +Judith 05:04 | Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all who dwell in the west?" +Judith 05:05 | Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, "Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant. +Judith 05:07 | They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans. +Judith 05:08 | They departed from the way of their parents, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days. +Judith 05:09 | Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle. +Judith 05:10 | Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation. +Judith 05:11 | Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labour in brick, and made them slaves. +Judith 05:12 | They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight. +Judith 05:13 | God dried up the Red sea before them, +Judith 05:14 | and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness. +Judith 05:15 | They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country. +Judith 05:17 | And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them. +Judith 05:18 | But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries. +Judith 05:19 | And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate. +Judith 05:20 | And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them. +Judith 05:21 | But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth." +Judith 05:22 | It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all who lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him. +Judith 05:23 | For, they said, "We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong. +Judith 05:24 | Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes." +Judith 06:01 | And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab before all the people of the foreigners, +Judith 06:02 | "And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied amongst us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar? +Judith 06:03 | He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses. +Judith 06:04 | For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken will not be in vain.’ +Judith 06:05 | But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt. +Judith 06:06 | And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall amongst their slain when I return. +Judith 06:07 | Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents. +Judith 06:08 | You will not perish until you are destroyed with them. +Judith 06:09 | And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground." +Judith 06:10 | Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel. +Judith 06:11 | So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia. +Judith 06:12 | When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them. +Judith 06:13 | They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord. +Judith 06:14 | But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city, +Judith 06:15 | which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel. +Judith 06:16 | Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened. +Judith 06:17 | He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel. +Judith 06:18 | Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried, saying, +Judith 06:19 | "O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day." +Judith 07:08 | All the rulers of the children of Esau, all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast came to him and said, +Judith 07:09 | "Let our lord now hear a word, that there not be losses in your army. +Judith 07:10 | For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, for it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains. +Judith 07:11 | And now, my lord, don’t fight against them as men fight who join battle, and there will not so much as one man of your people perish. +Judith 07:12 | Remain in your camp, and keep every man of your army safe. Let your servants get possession of the water spring, which flows from the foot of the mountain, +Judith 07:13 | because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city. +Judith 07:14 | They will be consumed with famine, they and their wives and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell. +Judith 07:15 | And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace." +Judith 07:16 | Their words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and in the sight of all his servants; and he ordered them to do as they had spoken. +Judith 07:17 | And the army of the children of Ammon moved, and with them five thousand of the children of Asshur, and they encamped in the valley. They seized the waters and the springs of the waters of the children of Israel. +Judith 07:21 | The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure. +Judith 07:22 | Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them. +Judith 07:23 | All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders, +Judith 07:24 | "God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur. +Judith 07:25 | Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction. +Judith 07:26 | And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army. +Judith 07:27 | For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death. +Judith 07:28 | We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!" +Judith 07:29 | And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice. +Judith 07:30 | And Ozias said to them, "Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy towards us; for he will not forsake us utterly. +Judith 07:31 | But if these days pass, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say." +Judith 07:32 | Then he dispersed the people, every man to his own camp; and they went away to the walls and towers of their city. He sent the women and children into their houses. They were brought very low in the city. +Judith 08:01 | In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel. +Judith 08:02 | Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest. +Judith 08:03 | For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon. +Judith 08:04 | Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months. +Judith 08:05 | She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her. +Judith 08:06 | And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel. +Judith 08:07 | She was of a goodly countenance, and exceedingly beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands. +Judith 08:08 | No one said anything evil about her; for she feared God exceedingly. +Judith 08:09 | She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days. +Judith 08:10 | So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city. +Judith 08:11 | They came to her, and she said to them, "Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you. +Judith 08:12 | Now who are you that you have tempted God this day, and stand in the place of God amongst the children of men? +Judith 08:13 | Now try the Lord Almighty, and you will never know anything. +Judith 08:14 | For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger! +Judith 08:15 | For if he has not decided to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies. +Judith 08:16 | But don’t you pledge the counsels of the Lord our God! For God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty. +Judith 08:17 | Therefore let’s wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us. He will hear our voice, if it pleases him. +Judith 08:18 | For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days; +Judith 08:19 | for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great fall before our enemies. +Judith 08:20 | But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race. +Judith 08:21 | For if we are taken so, all Judea will sit upon the ground, and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it. +Judith 08:22 | And the slaughter of our kindred, and the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will turn upon our heads amongst the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offence and a reproach before those who take us for a possession. +Judith 08:23 | For our bondage will not be ordered to favour; but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonour. +Judith 08:24 | And now, kindred, let’s show an example to our kindred, because their soul hangs upon us, and the sanctuary, the house, and the altar rest upon us. +Judith 08:25 | Besides all this let’s give thanks to the Lord our God, who tries us, even as he did our fathers also. +Judith 08:26 | Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother. +Judith 08:27 | For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord scourges those who come near to him, to admonish them." +Judith 08:28 | And Ozias said to her, "All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words. +Judith 08:29 | For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good. +Judith 08:30 | But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break. +Judith 08:31 | And now pray for us, because you are a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we will faint no more." +Judith 08:32 | Then Judith said to them, "Hear me, and I will do a thing, which will go down to all generations amongst the children of our race. +Judith 08:33 | You shall all stand at the gate tonight. I will go out with my maid. Within the days after which you said that you would deliver the city to our enemies, the Lord will visit Israel by my hand. +Judith 08:34 | But you shall not enquire of my act; for I will not declare it to you until the things are finished that I will do." +Judith 08:35 | Then Ozias and the rulers said to her, "Go in peace. May the Lord God be before you, to take vengeance on our enemies." +Judith 09:01 | But Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. The incense of that evening was now being offered at Jerusalem in the house of God, and Judith cried to the Lord with a loud voice, and said, +Judith 09:02 | "O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so. +Judith 09:03 | Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived, to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones; +Judith 09:04 | and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided amongst your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow. +Judith 09:05 | For you did the things that were before those things, and those things, and such as come after; and you planned the things which are now, and the things which are to come. The things which you planned came to pass. +Judith 09:06 | Yes, the things which you determined stood before you, and said, ‘Behold, we are here; for all your ways are prepared, and your judgement is with foreknowledge.’ +Judith 09:07 | For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power. They are exalted with horse and rider. They were proud of the strength of their footmen. They have trusted in shield, spear, bow, and sling. They don’t know that you are the Lord who breaks the battles. ‘The Lord’ is your name. +Judith 09:08 | Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword. +Judith 09:09 | Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived. +Judith 09:10 | Strike by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant. Break down their arrogance by the hand of a woman. +Judith 09:11 | For your power stands not in multitude, nor your might in strong men: but you are a God of the afflicted. You are a helper of the minorities, a helper of the weak, a protector of the forsaken, a saviour of those who are without hope. +Judith 09:12 | Yes, yes, God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, Creator of the waters, King of all your creation, hear my prayer. +Judith 09:13 | Make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who intend hard things against your covenant, your holy house, the top of Sion, and the house of the possession of your children. +Judith 09:14 | Make every nation and tribe of yours to know that you are God, the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protects the race of Israel but you." Judith 10:01 | It came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and had finished saying all these words, Judith 10:02 | that she rose up where she had fallen down, called her maid, and went down into the house that she used to live in on the Sabbath days and on her feast days. Judith 10:03 | She pulled off the sackcloth which she had put on, took off the garments of her widowhood, washed her body all over with water, anointed herself with rich ointment, braided the hair of her head, and put a tiara upon it. She put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear in the days of the life of Manasses her husband. @@ -30133,196 +20305,9905 @@ Judith 16:22 | Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, f Judith 16:23 | She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred and five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses. Judith 16:24 | The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred. Judith 16:25 | There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death. -Judith 1:08 | and to those amongst the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon, -Judith 1:11 | All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace. -Judith 1:12 | And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas. -Judith 1:13 | And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots. -Judith 1:14 | He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame. -Judith 1:15 | He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day. -Judith 1:16 | He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred and twenty days. -Judith 2:01 | In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke. -Judith 2:02 | He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth. -Judith 2:03 | They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth. -Judith 2:04 | It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him, -Judith 2:05 | "The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: ‘Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred and twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders. -Judith 2:06 | And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth. -Judith 2:07 | You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them. -Judith 2:08 | Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows. -Judith 2:09 | I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth. -Judith 2:10 | But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you, then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof. -Judith 2:11 | As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land. -Judith 2:12 | For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand. -Judith 2:13 | Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.’" -Judith 2:14 | So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur. -Judith 2:15 | He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred and twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback. -Judith 2:17 | He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision, -Judith 2:18 | and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house. -Judith 2:19 | He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen. -Judith 2:20 | A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude. -Judith 2:22 | And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country, -Judith 2:23 | and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians. -Judith 2:24 | And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea. -Judith 2:25 | And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all who resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were towards the south, opposite Arabia. -Judith 2:26 | He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds. -Judith 2:27 | He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword. -Judith 2:28 | And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly. -Judith 3:01 | And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying, -Judith 3:02 | "Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight. -Judith 3:03 | Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you. -Judith 3:04 | Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes." -Judith 3:05 | So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words. -Judith 3:06 | He came down towards the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies. -Judith 3:07 | They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels. -Judith 3:08 | He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god. -Judith 3:09 | Then he came towards Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea. -Judith 3:10 | He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army. -Judith 4:01 | The children of Israel who lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly. -Judith 4:02 | They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God; -Judith 4:03 | because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned. -Judith 4:04 | And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem; -Judith 4:05 | and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped. -Judith 4:06 | Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon towards the plain that is near to Dothaim, -Judith 4:07 | charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most. -Judith 4:08 | And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem. -Judith 4:09 | And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls. -Judith 4:11 | Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar. -Judith 4:12 | They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at. -Judith 4:13 | The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty. -Judith 4:14 | And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests who stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people. -Judith 4:15 | They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good. -Judith 5:01 | Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains. -Judith 5:02 | Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast, -Judith 5:03 | and he said to them, "Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army? -Judith 5:04 | Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all who dwell in the west?" -Judith 5:05 | Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, "Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant. -Judith 5:07 | They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans. -Judith 5:08 | They departed from the way of their parents, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days. -Judith 5:09 | Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle. -Judith 5:10 | Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation. -Judith 5:11 | Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labour in brick, and made them slaves. -Judith 5:12 | They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight. -Judith 5:13 | God dried up the Red sea before them, -Judith 5:14 | and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness. -Judith 5:15 | They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country. -Judith 5:17 | And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them. -Judith 5:18 | But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries. -Judith 5:19 | And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate. -Judith 5:20 | And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them. -Judith 5:21 | But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth." -Judith 5:22 | It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all who lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him. -Judith 5:23 | For, they said, "We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong. -Judith 5:24 | Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes." -Judith 6:01 | And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab before all the people of the foreigners, -Judith 6:02 | "And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied amongst us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar? -Judith 6:03 | He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses. -Judith 6:04 | For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken will not be in vain.’ -Judith 6:05 | But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt. -Judith 6:06 | And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall amongst their slain when I return. -Judith 6:07 | Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents. -Judith 6:08 | You will not perish until you are destroyed with them. -Judith 6:09 | And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground." -Judith 6:10 | Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel. -Judith 6:11 | So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia. -Judith 6:12 | When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them. -Judith 6:13 | They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord. -Judith 6:14 | But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city, -Judith 6:15 | which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel. -Judith 6:16 | Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened. -Judith 6:17 | He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel. -Judith 6:18 | Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried, saying, -Judith 6:19 | "O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day." -Judith 7:08 | All the rulers of the children of Esau, all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast came to him and said, -Judith 7:09 | "Let our lord now hear a word, that there not be losses in your army. -Judith 7:10 | For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, for it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains. -Judith 7:11 | And now, my lord, don’t fight against them as men fight who join battle, and there will not so much as one man of your people perish. -Judith 7:12 | Remain in your camp, and keep every man of your army safe. Let your servants get possession of the water spring, which flows from the foot of the mountain, -Judith 7:13 | because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city. -Judith 7:14 | They will be consumed with famine, they and their wives and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell. -Judith 7:15 | And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace." -Judith 7:16 | Their words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and in the sight of all his servants; and he ordered them to do as they had spoken. -Judith 7:17 | And the army of the children of Ammon moved, and with them five thousand of the children of Asshur, and they encamped in the valley. They seized the waters and the springs of the waters of the children of Israel. -Judith 7:21 | The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure. -Judith 7:22 | Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them. -Judith 7:23 | All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders, -Judith 7:24 | "God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur. -Judith 7:25 | Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction. -Judith 7:26 | And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army. -Judith 7:27 | For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death. -Judith 7:28 | We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!" -Judith 7:29 | And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice. -Judith 7:30 | And Ozias said to them, "Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy towards us; for he will not forsake us utterly. -Judith 7:31 | But if these days pass, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say." -Judith 7:32 | Then he dispersed the people, every man to his own camp; and they went away to the walls and towers of their city. He sent the women and children into their houses. They were brought very low in the city. -Judith 8:01 | In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel. -Judith 8:02 | Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest. -Judith 8:03 | For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon. -Judith 8:04 | Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months. -Judith 8:05 | She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her. -Judith 8:06 | And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel. -Judith 8:07 | She was of a goodly countenance, and exceedingly beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands. -Judith 8:08 | No one said anything evil about her; for she feared God exceedingly. -Judith 8:09 | She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days. -Judith 8:10 | So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city. -Judith 8:11 | They came to her, and she said to them, "Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you. -Judith 8:12 | Now who are you that you have tempted God this day, and stand in the place of God amongst the children of men? -Judith 8:13 | Now try the Lord Almighty, and you will never know anything. -Judith 8:14 | For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger! -Judith 8:15 | For if he has not decided to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies. -Judith 8:16 | But don’t you pledge the counsels of the Lord our God! For God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty. -Judith 8:17 | Therefore let’s wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us. He will hear our voice, if it pleases him. -Judith 8:18 | For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days; -Judith 8:19 | for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great fall before our enemies. -Judith 8:20 | But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race. -Judith 8:21 | For if we are taken so, all Judea will sit upon the ground, and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it. -Judith 8:22 | And the slaughter of our kindred, and the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will turn upon our heads amongst the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offence and a reproach before those who take us for a possession. -Judith 8:23 | For our bondage will not be ordered to favour; but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonour. -Judith 8:24 | And now, kindred, let’s show an example to our kindred, because their soul hangs upon us, and the sanctuary, the house, and the altar rest upon us. -Judith 8:25 | Besides all this let’s give thanks to the Lord our God, who tries us, even as he did our fathers also. -Judith 8:26 | Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother. -Judith 8:27 | For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord scourges those who come near to him, to admonish them." -Judith 8:28 | And Ozias said to her, "All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words. -Judith 8:29 | For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good. -Judith 8:30 | But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break. -Judith 8:31 | And now pray for us, because you are a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we will faint no more." -Judith 8:32 | Then Judith said to them, "Hear me, and I will do a thing, which will go down to all generations amongst the children of our race. -Judith 8:33 | You shall all stand at the gate tonight. I will go out with my maid. Within the days after which you said that you would deliver the city to our enemies, the Lord will visit Israel by my hand. -Judith 8:34 | But you shall not enquire of my act; for I will not declare it to you until the things are finished that I will do." -Judith 8:35 | Then Ozias and the rulers said to her, "Go in peace. May the Lord God be before you, to take vengeance on our enemies." -Judith 9:01 | But Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. The incense of that evening was now being offered at Jerusalem in the house of God, and Judith cried to the Lord with a loud voice, and said, -Judith 9:02 | "O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so. -Judith 9:03 | Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived, to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones; -Judith 9:04 | and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided amongst your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow. -Judith 9:05 | For you did the things that were before those things, and those things, and such as come after; and you planned the things which are now, and the things which are to come. The things which you planned came to pass. -Judith 9:06 | Yes, the things which you determined stood before you, and said, ‘Behold, we are here; for all your ways are prepared, and your judgement is with foreknowledge.’ -Judith 9:07 | For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power. They are exalted with horse and rider. They were proud of the strength of their footmen. They have trusted in shield, spear, bow, and sling. They don’t know that you are the Lord who breaks the battles. ‘The Lord’ is your name. -Judith 9:08 | Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword. -Judith 9:09 | Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived. -Judith 9:10 | Strike by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant. Break down their arrogance by the hand of a woman. -Judith 9:11 | For your power stands not in multitude, nor your might in strong men: but you are a God of the afflicted. You are a helper of the minorities, a helper of the weak, a protector of the forsaken, a saviour of those who are without hope. -Judith 9:12 | Yes, yes, God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, Creator of the waters, King of all your creation, hear my prayer. -Judith 9:13 | Make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who intend hard things against your covenant, your holy house, the top of Sion, and the house of the possession of your children. -Judith 9:14 | Make every nation and tribe of yours to know that you are God, the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protects the race of Israel but you." -Prayer of Manasses 1:01 | O Lord Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed; -Prayer of Manasses 1:02 | who have made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof; -Prayer of Manasses 1:03 | who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment; who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name; -Prayer of Manasses 1:04 | whom all things fear, yes, tremble before your power; -Prayer of Manasses 1:05 | for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening towards sinners is importable: -Prayer of Manasses 1:06 | your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable; -Prayer of Manasses 1:07 | for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and repent of bringing evils upon men. -Prayer of Manasses 1:08 | You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner: -Prayer of Manasses 1:09 | for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities. -Prayer of Manasses 1:10 | I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my headby reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied detestable things. -Prayer of Manasses 1:11 | Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace. -Prayer of Manasses 1:12 | I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities: -Prayer of Manasses 1:13 | but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent; -Prayer of Manasses 1:14 | and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy. -Prayer of Manasses 1:15 | And I will praise you forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen. +Lamentations 01:01 | How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great amongst the nations! She who was a princess amongst the provinces has become a slave! +Lamentations 01:02 | She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Amongst all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies. +Lamentations 01:03 | Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells amongst the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits. +Lamentations 01:04 | The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. +Lamentations 01:05 | Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary. +Lamentations 01:06 | All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer. +Lamentations 01:07 | Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations. +Lamentations 01:08 | Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward. +Lamentations 01:09 | Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. "See, Lord, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself." +Lamentations 01:10 | The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly. +Lamentations 01:11 | All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. "Look, Lord, and see; for I have become despised." +Lamentations 01:12 | "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which the Lord has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. +Lamentations 01:13 | "From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long. +Lamentations 01:14 | "The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. +Lamentations 01:15 | "The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press. +Lamentations 01:16 | "For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed." +Lamentations 01:17 | Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is amongst them as an unclean thing. +Lamentations 01:18 | "The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. +Lamentations 01:19 | "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls. +Lamentations 01:20 | "Look, Lord; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death. +Lamentations 01:21 | "They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me. +Lamentations 01:22 | "Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. +Lamentations 02:01 | How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. +Lamentations 02:02 | The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes. +Lamentations 02:03 | He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burnt up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around. +Lamentations 02:04 | He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire. +Lamentations 02:05 | The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. +Lamentations 02:06 | He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The Lord has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest. +Lamentations 02:07 | The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the Lord’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly. +Lamentations 02:08 | The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together. +Lamentations 02:09 | Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are amongst the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from the Lord. +Lamentations 02:10 | The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. +Lamentations 02:11 | My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city. +Lamentations 02:12 | They ask their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom. +Lamentations 02:13 | What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you? +Lamentations 02:14 | Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment. +Lamentations 02:15 | All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?" +Lamentations 02:16 | All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it." +Lamentations 02:17 | The Lord has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries. +Lamentations 02:18 | Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest. +Lamentations 02:19 | Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands towards him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. +Lamentations 02:20 | "Look, Lord, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? +Lamentations 02:21 | "The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied. +Lamentations 02:22 | "You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the Lord’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up. +Lamentations 03:01 | I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. +Lamentations 03:02 | He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. +Lamentations 03:03 | Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long. +Lamentations 03:04 | He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. +Lamentations 03:05 | He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. +Lamentations 03:06 | He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead. +Lamentations 03:07 | He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy. +Lamentations 03:08 | Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. +Lamentations 03:09 | He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked. +Lamentations 03:10 | He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. +Lamentations 03:11 | He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. +Lamentations 03:12 | He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. +Lamentations 03:13 | He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. +Lamentations 03:14 | I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long. +Lamentations 03:15 | He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood. +Lamentations 03:16 | He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes. +Lamentations 03:17 | You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity. +Lamentations 03:18 | I said, "My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the Lord." +Lamentations 03:19 | Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness. +Lamentations 03:20 | My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. +Lamentations 03:21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope. +Lamentations 03:22 | It is because of The Lord’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. +Lamentations 03:22-23 | The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. +Lamentations 03:23 | They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. +Lamentations 03:24 | "The Lord is my portion," says my soul. "Therefore I will hope in him." +Lamentations 03:25 | The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. +Lamentations 03:26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. +Lamentations 03:27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. +Lamentations 03:28 | Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. +Lamentations 03:29 | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope. +Lamentations 03:30 | Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach. +Lamentations 03:32 | For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +Lamentations 03:33 | For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. +Lamentations 03:34 | To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, +Lamentations 03:35 | to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High, +Lamentations 03:36 | to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve. +Lamentations 03:37 | Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it? +Lamentations 03:38 | Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? +Lamentations 03:39 | Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? +Lamentations 03:40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. +Lamentations 03:41 | Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. +Lamentations 03:42 | "We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned. +Lamentations 03:43 | "You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied. +Lamentations 03:44 | You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. +Lamentations 03:45 | You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples. +Lamentations 03:46 | "All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. +Lamentations 03:47 | Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction." +Lamentations 03:48 | My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. +Lamentations 03:49 | My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission, +Lamentations 03:50 | until the Lord looks down, and sees from heaven. +Lamentations 03:51 | My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. +Lamentations 03:52 | They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. +Lamentations 03:53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. +Lamentations 03:54 | Waters flowed over my head. I said, "I am cut off." +Lamentations 03:55 | I called on your name, Lord, out of the lowest dungeon. +Lamentations 03:56 | You heard my voice: "Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry." +Lamentations 03:57 | You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, "Don’t be afraid." +Lamentations 03:58 | Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life. +Lamentations 03:59 | Lord, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. +Lamentations 03:60 | You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me. +Lamentations 03:61 | You have heard their reproach, Lord, and all their plans against me, +Lamentations 03:62 | the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long. +Lamentations 03:63 | You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song. +Lamentations 03:64 | You will pay them back, Lord, according to the work of their hands. +Lamentations 03:65 | You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. +Lamentations 03:66 | You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the Lord. +Lamentations 04:01 | How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. +Lamentations 04:02 | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! +Lamentations 04:03 | Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. +Lamentations 04:04 | The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them. +Lamentations 04:05 | Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills. +Lamentations 04:06 | For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her. +Lamentations 04:07 | Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire. +Lamentations 04:08 | Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick. +Lamentations 04:09 | Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field. +Lamentations 04:10 | The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. +Lamentations 04:11 | The Lord has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations. +Lamentations 04:12 | The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. +Lamentations 04:13 | It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her. +Lamentations 04:14 | They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments. +Lamentations 04:15 | "Go away!" they cried to them. "Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said amongst the nations, "They can’t live here any more." +Lamentations 04:16 | The Lord’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favour the elders. +Lamentations 04:17 | Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. +Lamentations 04:18 | They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come. +Lamentations 04:19 | Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness. +Lamentations 04:20 | The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live amongst the nations. +Lamentations 04:21 | Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked. +Lamentations 04:22 | The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins. +Lamentations 05:01 | Remember, Lord, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. +Lamentations 05:02 | Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. +Lamentations 05:03 | We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. +Lamentations 05:04 | We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us. +Lamentations 05:05 | Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. +Lamentations 05:06 | We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. +Lamentations 05:07 | Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities. +Lamentations 05:08 | Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. +Lamentations 05:09 | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. +Lamentations 05:10 | Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. +Lamentations 05:11 | They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. +Lamentations 05:12 | Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honoured. +Lamentations 05:13 | The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood. +Lamentations 05:14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. +Lamentations 05:15 | The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. +Lamentations 05:16 | The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! +Lamentations 05:17 | For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim: +Lamentations 05:18 | for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it. +Lamentations 05:19 | You, Lord, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. +Lamentations 05:20 | Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? +Lamentations 05:21 | Turn us to yourself, Lord, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old. +Lamentations 05:22 | But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us. +Leviticus 01:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to the Lord, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. +Leviticus 01:03 | "‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord. +Leviticus 01:04 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. +Leviticus 01:05 | He shall kill the bull before the Lord. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 01:06 | He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. +Leviticus 01:08 | and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; +Leviticus 01:09 | but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 01:10 | "‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect. +Leviticus 01:11 | He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. +Leviticus 01:12 | He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, +Leviticus 01:13 | but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 01:14 | "‘If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons. +Leviticus 01:15 | The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; +Leviticus 01:16 | and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. +Leviticus 01:17 | He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 02:01 | "‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. +Leviticus 02:02 | He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 02:03 | That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. +Leviticus 02:04 | "‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. +Leviticus 02:05 | If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. +Leviticus 02:06 | You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. +Leviticus 02:07 | If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. +Leviticus 02:08 | You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to the Lord. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. +Leviticus 02:09 | The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 02:10 | That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. +Leviticus 02:11 | "‘No meal offering which you shall offer to the Lord shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 02:12 | As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to the Lord, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar. +Leviticus 02:13 | Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. +Leviticus 02:14 | "‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed. +Leviticus 02:15 | You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. +Leviticus 02:16 | The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 03:01 | "‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before the Lord. +Leviticus 03:02 | He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar. +Leviticus 03:03 | He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the Lord. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, +Leviticus 03:04 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. +Leviticus 03:05 | Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 03:06 | "‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect. +Leviticus 03:07 | If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD; +Leviticus 03:08 | and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. +Leviticus 03:09 | He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the Lord; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, +Leviticus 03:10 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. +Leviticus 03:11 | The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 03:12 | "‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord. +Leviticus 03:13 | He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. +Leviticus 03:14 | He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, +Leviticus 03:15 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. +Leviticus 03:16 | The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is the Lord’s. +Leviticus 03:17 | "‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’" +Leviticus 04:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them, +Leviticus 04:03 | if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to the Lord for a sin offering. +Leviticus 04:04 | He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before the Lord; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the Lord. +Leviticus 04:05 | The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 04:06 | The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary. +Leviticus 04:07 | The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 04:08 | He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, +Leviticus 04:09 | and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove, +Leviticus 04:10 | as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. +Leviticus 04:11 | He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung +Leviticus 04:12 | —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burnt where the ashes are poured out. +Leviticus 04:13 | "‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and are guilty; +Leviticus 04:14 | when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 04:15 | The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord; and the bull shall be killed before the Lord. +Leviticus 04:16 | The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 04:17 | The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, before the veil. +Leviticus 04:18 | He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 04:19 | All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar. +Leviticus 04:20 | He shall do this with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so he shall do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. +Leviticus 04:21 | He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burnt the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly. +Leviticus 04:22 | "‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the Lord his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, +Leviticus 04:23 | if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect. +Leviticus 04:24 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord. It is a sin offering. +Leviticus 04:25 | The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. +Leviticus 04:26 | All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven. +Leviticus 04:27 | "‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, +Leviticus 04:28 | if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned. +Leviticus 04:29 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. +Leviticus 04:30 | The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. +Leviticus 04:31 | All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. +Leviticus 04:32 | "‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. +Leviticus 04:33 | He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. +Leviticus 04:34 | The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. +Leviticus 04:35 | He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of the Lord made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven. +Leviticus 05:01 | "‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. +Leviticus 05:02 | "‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. +Leviticus 05:03 | "‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. +Leviticus 05:04 | "‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these. +Leviticus 05:05 | It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned; +Leviticus 05:06 | and he shall bring his trespass offering to the Lord for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin. +Leviticus 05:07 | "‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. +Leviticus 05:08 | He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. +Leviticus 05:09 | He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. +Leviticus 05:10 | He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven. +Leviticus 05:11 | "‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. +Leviticus 05:12 | He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of the Lord made by fire. It is a sin offering. +Leviticus 05:13 | The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’" +Leviticus 05:15 | "If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding the Lord’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. +Leviticus 05:16 | He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven. +Leviticus 05:17 | "If anyone sins, doing any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. +Leviticus 05:18 | He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven. +Leviticus 05:19 | It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before the Lord." +Leviticus 06:02 | "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the Lord, and deals falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbour, +Leviticus 06:03 | or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions— +Leviticus 06:04 | then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, +Leviticus 06:05 | or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. +Leviticus 06:06 | He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. +Leviticus 06:07 | The priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty." +Leviticus 06:09 | "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. +Leviticus 06:10 | The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. +Leviticus 06:11 | He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. +Leviticus 06:12 | The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. +Leviticus 06:13 | Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. +Leviticus 06:14 | "‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar. +Leviticus 06:15 | He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to the Lord. +Leviticus 06:16 | That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 06:17 | It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering. +Leviticus 06:18 | Every male amongst the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’" +Leviticus 06:20 | "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. +Leviticus 06:21 | It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 06:22 | The anointed priest that will be in his place from amongst his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to the Lord. +Leviticus 06:23 | Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burnt. It shall not be eaten." +Leviticus 06:25 | "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the Lord. It is most holy. +Leviticus 06:26 | The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 06:27 | Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. +Leviticus 06:28 | But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. +Leviticus 06:29 | Every male amongst the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy. +Leviticus 06:30 | No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire. +Leviticus 07:01 | "‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy. +Leviticus 07:02 | In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. +Leviticus 07:03 | He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, +Leviticus 07:04 | and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys; +Leviticus 07:05 | and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering. +Leviticus 07:06 | Every male amongst the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. +Leviticus 07:07 | "‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. +Leviticus 07:08 | The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. +Leviticus 07:09 | Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it. +Leviticus 07:10 | Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another. +Leviticus 07:11 | "‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD: +Leviticus 07:12 | If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. +Leviticus 07:13 | He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread. +Leviticus 07:14 | Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to the Lord. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. +Leviticus 07:15 | The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. +Leviticus 07:16 | "‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten, +Leviticus 07:17 | but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. +Leviticus 07:18 | If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. +Leviticus 07:19 | "‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; +Leviticus 07:20 | but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to the Lord, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. +Leviticus 07:21 | When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’" +Leviticus 07:23 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. +Leviticus 07:24 | The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. +Leviticus 07:25 | For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to the Lord, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. +Leviticus 07:26 | You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. +Leviticus 07:27 | Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’" +Leviticus 07:29 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. +Leviticus 07:30 | With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. +Leviticus 07:31 | The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. +Leviticus 07:32 | The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. +Leviticus 07:33 | He amongst the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. +Leviticus 07:34 | For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’" +Leviticus 07:35 | This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to the Lord in the priest’s office; +Leviticus 07:36 | which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. +Leviticus 07:37 | This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings +Leviticus 07:38 | which the Lord commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai. +Leviticus 08:02 | "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; +Leviticus 08:03 | and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting." +Leviticus 08:04 | Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 08:05 | Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded to be done." +Leviticus 08:06 | Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. +Leviticus 08:07 | He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skilfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it. +Leviticus 08:08 | He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate. +Leviticus 08:09 | He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 08:10 | Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. +Leviticus 08:11 | He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. +Leviticus 08:12 | He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. +Leviticus 08:13 | Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 08:14 | He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. +Leviticus 08:15 | He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. +Leviticus 08:16 | He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burnt it on the altar. +Leviticus 08:17 | But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burnt with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 08:18 | He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. +Leviticus 08:19 | He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. +Leviticus 08:20 | He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. +Leviticus 08:21 | He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burnt the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 08:22 | He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. +Leviticus 08:23 | He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. +Leviticus 08:24 | He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. +Leviticus 08:25 | He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; +Leviticus 08:26 | and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. +Leviticus 08:27 | He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord. +Leviticus 08:28 | Moses took them from their hands, and burnt them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 08:29 | Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 08:30 | Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. +Leviticus 08:31 | Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ +Leviticus 08:32 | What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. +Leviticus 08:33 | You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. +Leviticus 08:34 | What has been done today, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. +Leviticus 08:35 | You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep the Lord’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded." +Leviticus 08:36 | Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord commanded by Moses. +Leviticus 09:01 | On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; +Leviticus 09:02 | and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before the Lord. +Leviticus 09:03 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering; +Leviticus 09:04 | and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today the Lord appears to you.’" +Leviticus 09:05 | They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before the Lord. +Leviticus 09:06 | Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord commanded that you should do; and the Lord’s glory shall appear to you." +Leviticus 09:07 | Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded." +Leviticus 09:08 | So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. +Leviticus 09:09 | The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar; +Leviticus 09:10 | but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 09:11 | The meat and the skin he burnt with fire outside the camp. +Leviticus 09:12 | He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. +Leviticus 09:13 | They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burnt them upon the altar. +Leviticus 09:14 | He washed the innards and the legs, and burnt them on the burnt offering on the altar. +Leviticus 09:15 | He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. +Leviticus 09:16 | He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. +Leviticus 09:17 | He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burnt it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning. +Leviticus 09:18 | He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar; +Leviticus 09:19 | and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver; +Leviticus 09:20 | and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat on the altar. +Leviticus 09:21 | Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded. +Leviticus 09:22 | Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. +Leviticus 09:23 | Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the Lord’s glory appeared to all the people. +Leviticus 09:24 | Fire came out from before the Lord, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces. +Leviticus 10:01 | Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. +Leviticus 10:02 | Fire came out from before the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. +Leviticus 10:03 | Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the Lord spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’" Aaron held his peace. +Leviticus 10:04 | Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp." +Leviticus 10:05 | So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said. +Leviticus 10:06 | Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled. +Leviticus 10:07 | You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the Lord is on you." They did according to the word of Moses. +Leviticus 10:09 | "You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. +Leviticus 10:10 | You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean. +Leviticus 10:11 | You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by Moses." +Leviticus 10:12 | Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; +Leviticus 10:13 | and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of the Lord made by fire; for so I am commanded. +Leviticus 10:14 | The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. +Leviticus 10:15 | They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as the Lord has commanded." +Leviticus 10:17 | "Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? +Leviticus 10:18 | Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded." +Leviticus 10:19 | Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the Lord’s sight?" +Leviticus 11:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat amongst all the animals that are on the earth. +Leviticus 11:03 | Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud amongst the animals, that you may eat. +Leviticus 11:04 | "‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:06 | The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:07 | The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:08 | You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:09 | "‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. +Leviticus 11:10 | All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, +Leviticus 11:24 | "‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 11:25 | Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 11:26 | "‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. +Leviticus 11:27 | Whatever goes on its paws, amongst all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 11:28 | He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:29 | "‘These are they which are unclean to you amongst the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, +Leviticus 11:31 | These are they which are unclean to you amongst all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 11:32 | Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean. +Leviticus 11:33 | Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it. +Leviticus 11:34 | All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. +Leviticus 11:35 | Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:36 | Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. +Leviticus 11:37 | If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. +Leviticus 11:38 | But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. +Leviticus 11:39 | "‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 11:40 | He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 11:41 | "‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. +Leviticus 11:42 | Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination. +Leviticus 11:43 | You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them. +Leviticus 11:44 | For I am the Lord your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. +Leviticus 11:45 | For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. +Leviticus 11:46 | "‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, +Leviticus 11:47 | to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’" +Leviticus 12:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. +Leviticus 12:03 | In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. +Leviticus 12:04 | She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. +Leviticus 12:05 | But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. +Leviticus 12:06 | "‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering. +Leviticus 12:07 | He shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. +Leviticus 12:08 | If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’" +Leviticus 13:02 | "When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests. +Leviticus 13:03 | The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean. +Leviticus 13:04 | If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. +Leviticus 13:05 | The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. +Leviticus 13:06 | The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. +Leviticus 13:07 | But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. +Leviticus 13:08 | The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy. +Leviticus 13:09 | "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; +Leviticus 13:10 | and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, +Leviticus 13:11 | it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean. +Leviticus 13:12 | "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest, +Leviticus 13:13 | then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. +Leviticus 13:14 | But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. +Leviticus 13:15 | The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy. +Leviticus 13:16 | Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest. +Leviticus 13:17 | The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean. +Leviticus 13:18 | "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, +Leviticus 13:19 | and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest. +Leviticus 13:20 | The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. +Leviticus 13:21 | But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. +Leviticus 13:22 | If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. +Leviticus 13:23 | But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. +Leviticus 13:24 | "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, +Leviticus 13:25 | then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. +Leviticus 13:26 | But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. +Leviticus 13:27 | The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. +Leviticus 13:28 | If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn. +Leviticus 13:29 | "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, +Leviticus 13:30 | then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard. +Leviticus 13:31 | If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days. +Leviticus 13:32 | On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin, +Leviticus 13:33 | then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days. +Leviticus 13:34 | On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean. +Leviticus 13:35 | But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, +Leviticus 13:36 | then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. +Leviticus 13:37 | But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean. +Leviticus 13:38 | "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots, +Leviticus 13:39 | then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean. +Leviticus 13:40 | "If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. +Leviticus 13:41 | If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean. +Leviticus 13:42 | But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead. +Leviticus 13:43 | Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, +Leviticus 13:44 | he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. +Leviticus 13:45 | "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ +Leviticus 13:46 | All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp. +Leviticus 13:47 | "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woollen garment, or a linen garment; +Leviticus 13:48 | whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather; +Leviticus 13:49 | if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. +Leviticus 13:50 | The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days. +Leviticus 13:51 | He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean. +Leviticus 13:52 | He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burnt in the fire. +Leviticus 13:53 | "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; +Leviticus 13:54 | then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days. +Leviticus 13:55 | Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its colour, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. +Leviticus 13:56 | If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof; +Leviticus 13:57 | and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn what the plague is in with fire. +Leviticus 13:58 | The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean." +Leviticus 13:59 | This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. +Leviticus 14:02 | "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, +Leviticus 14:03 | and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper, +Leviticus 14:04 | then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. +Leviticus 14:05 | The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. +Leviticus 14:06 | As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. +Leviticus 14:07 | He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field. +Leviticus 14:08 | "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. +Leviticus 14:09 | It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean. +Leviticus 14:10 | "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. +Leviticus 14:11 | The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 14:12 | "The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:13 | He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy. +Leviticus 14:14 | The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. +Leviticus 14:15 | The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. +Leviticus 14:16 | The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:17 | The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering. +Leviticus 14:18 | The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:19 | "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; +Leviticus 14:20 | then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. +Leviticus 14:21 | "If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; +Leviticus 14:22 | and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. +Leviticus 14:23 | "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:24 | The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:25 | He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. +Leviticus 14:26 | The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; +Leviticus 14:27 | and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:28 | Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. +Leviticus 14:29 | The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. +Leviticus 14:30 | He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford, +Leviticus 14:31 | of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the Lord." +Leviticus 14:32 | This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing. +Leviticus 14:34 | "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, +Leviticus 14:35 | then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’ +Leviticus 14:36 | The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. +Leviticus 14:37 | He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall, +Leviticus 14:38 | then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. +Leviticus 14:39 | The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, +Leviticus 14:40 | then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city. +Leviticus 14:41 | He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place. +Leviticus 14:42 | They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. +Leviticus 14:43 | "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered, +Leviticus 14:44 | then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean. +Leviticus 14:45 | He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place. +Leviticus 14:46 | "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 14:47 | He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. +Leviticus 14:48 | "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. +Leviticus 14:49 | To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. +Leviticus 14:50 | He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. +Leviticus 14:51 | He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. +Leviticus 14:52 | He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; +Leviticus 14:53 | but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean." +Leviticus 15:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean. +Leviticus 15:03 | This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. +Leviticus 15:04 | "‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean. +Leviticus 15:05 | Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:06 | He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:07 | "‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:07 | Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. +Leviticus 15:08 | "‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:09 | "‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean. +Leviticus 15:10 | Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:11 | "‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:12 | "‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. +Leviticus 15:13 | "‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. +Leviticus 15:14 | "‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest. +Leviticus 15:15 | The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge. +Leviticus 15:16 | "‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:17 | Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:18 | If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:19 | "‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:19 | When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. +Leviticus 15:20 | "‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. +Leviticus 15:21 | Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:22 | Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:23 | If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:24 | "‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean. +Leviticus 15:25 | "‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean. +Leviticus 15:26 | Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period. +Leviticus 15:27 | Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +Leviticus 15:28 | "‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. +Leviticus 15:29 | On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 15:30 | The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for the uncleanness of her discharge. +Leviticus 15:31 | "‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is amongst them.’" +Leviticus 15:32 | This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it; +Leviticus 15:33 | and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean. +Leviticus 16:01 | The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the Lord, and died; +Leviticus 16:02 | and the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat. +Leviticus 16:03 | "Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. +Leviticus 16:04 | He shall put on the holy linen tunic. He shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. +Leviticus 16:05 | He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. +Leviticus 16:06 | "Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. +Leviticus 16:07 | He shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Leviticus 16:08 | Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat. +Leviticus 16:09 | Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer him for a sin offering. +Leviticus 16:10 | But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness. +Leviticus 16:11 | "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself. +Leviticus 16:12 | He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. +Leviticus 16:13 | He shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die. +Leviticus 16:14 | He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. +Leviticus 16:15 | "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. +Leviticus 16:16 | He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness. +Leviticus 16:17 | No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. +Leviticus 16:18 | "He shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar. +Leviticus 16:19 | He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. +Leviticus 16:20 | "When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. +Leviticus 16:21 | Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready. +Leviticus 16:22 | The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. +Leviticus 16:23 | "Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. +Leviticus 16:24 | Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. +Leviticus 16:25 | The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar. +Leviticus 16:26 | "He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. +Leviticus 16:27 | The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire. +Leviticus 16:28 | He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. +Leviticus 16:29 | "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you; +Leviticus 16:30 | for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord. +Leviticus 16:31 | It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. +Leviticus 16:32 | The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. +Leviticus 16:33 | Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. +Leviticus 16:34 | "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 17:03 | Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, +Leviticus 17:04 | and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to the Lord before the Lord’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from amongst his people. +Leviticus 17:05 | This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord. +Leviticus 17:06 | The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the Lord’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 17:07 | They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’ +Leviticus 17:08 | "You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, +Leviticus 17:09 | and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people. +Leviticus 17:10 | "‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from amongst his people. +Leviticus 17:11 | For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. +Leviticus 17:12 | Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person amongst you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you eat blood." +Leviticus 17:13 | "‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. +Leviticus 17:14 | For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off." +Leviticus 17:15 | "‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean. +Leviticus 17:16 | But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’" +Leviticus 18:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 18:03 | You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes. +Leviticus 18:04 | You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 18:05 | You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 18:06 | "‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. +Leviticus 18:07 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. +Leviticus 18:08 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness. +Leviticus 18:09 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad. +Leviticus 18:10 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness. +Leviticus 18:11 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. +Leviticus 18:12 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman. +Leviticus 18:13 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman. +Leviticus 18:14 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt. +Leviticus 18:15 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. +Leviticus 18:16 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness. +Leviticus 18:17 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness. +Leviticus 18:18 | "‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive. +Leviticus 18:19 | "‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. +Leviticus 18:20 | "‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbour’s wife, and defile yourself with her. +Leviticus 18:21 | "‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 18:22 | "‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable. +Leviticus 18:23 | "‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion. +Leviticus 18:24 | "‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. +Leviticus 18:25 | The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. +Leviticus 18:26 | You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you +Leviticus 18:27 | (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), +Leviticus 18:28 | that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. +Leviticus 18:29 | "‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from amongst their people. +Leviticus 18:30 | Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practise any of these abominable customs which were practised before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’" +Leviticus 19:02 | "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, the Lord your God, am holy. +Leviticus 19:03 | "‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:04 | "‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:05 | "‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. +Leviticus 19:06 | It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire. +Leviticus 19:07 | If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted; +Leviticus 19:08 | but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from his people. +Leviticus 19:09 | "‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. +Leviticus 19:10 | You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:11 | "‘You shall not steal. "‘You shall not lie. "‘You shall not deceive one another. +Leviticus 19:11 | Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another. +Leviticus 19:12 | "‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:13 | "‘You shall not oppress your neighbour, nor rob him. "‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. +Leviticus 19:14 | "‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:14 | Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. +Leviticus 19:15 | "‘You shall do no injustice in judgement. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in righteousness. +Leviticus 19:15 | Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. +Leviticus 19:16 | "‘You shall not go around as a slanderer amongst your people. "‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbour. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:17 | "‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbour, and not bear sin because of him. +Leviticus 19:18 | "‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:18 | Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. +Leviticus 19:19 | "‘You shall keep my statutes. "‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. "‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material. +Leviticus 19:19 | Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. +Leviticus 19:20 | "‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. +Leviticus 19:21 | He shall bring his trespass offering to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering. +Leviticus 19:22 | The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him. +Leviticus 19:23 | "‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. +Leviticus 19:24 | But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to the Lord. +Leviticus 19:25 | In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:26 | "‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practise sorcery. +Leviticus 19:27 | "‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard. +Leviticus 19:28 | "‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:29 | "‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness. +Leviticus 19:29 | Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness. +Leviticus 19:30 | "‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:31 | "‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:31 | Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:32 | "‘You shall rise up before the grey head and honour the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 19:33 | "‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. +Leviticus 19:34 | The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born amongst you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 19:35 | "‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. +Leviticus 19:35 | Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. +Leviticus 19:36 | You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. +Leviticus 19:37 | "‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am the Lord.’" +Leviticus 20:02 | "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones. +Leviticus 20:03 | I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. +Leviticus 20:04 | If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death, +Leviticus 20:05 | then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from amongst their people. +Leviticus 20:06 | "‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people. +Leviticus 20:07 | "‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 20:08 | You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. +Leviticus 20:09 | "‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself. +Leviticus 20:10 | "‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. +Leviticus 20:11 | "‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. +Leviticus 20:12 | "‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves. +Leviticus 20:13 | "‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. +Leviticus 20:13 | If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. +Leviticus 20:14 | "‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness amongst you. +Leviticus 20:15 | "‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. +Leviticus 20:15 | If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed. +Leviticus 20:16 | "‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. +Leviticus 20:17 | "‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity. +Leviticus 20:18 | "‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from amongst their people. +Leviticus 20:19 | "‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity. +Leviticus 20:20 | If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless. +Leviticus 20:21 | "‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless. +Leviticus 20:22 | "‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. +Leviticus 20:23 | You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. +Leviticus 20:24 | But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. +Leviticus 20:25 | "‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you. +Leviticus 20:26 | You shall be holy to me, for I, the Lord, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. +Leviticus 20:27 | "‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’" +Leviticus 21:01 | The Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead amongst his people, +Leviticus 21:02 | except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, +Leviticus 21:03 | and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. +Leviticus 21:04 | He shall not defile himself, being a chief man amongst his people, to profane himself. +Leviticus 21:05 | "‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh. +Leviticus 21:06 | They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy. +Leviticus 21:07 | "‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God. +Leviticus 21:08 | Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy. +Leviticus 21:09 | "‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burnt with fire. +Leviticus 21:10 | "‘He who is the high priest amongst his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes. +Leviticus 21:11 | He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother. +Leviticus 21:12 | He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 21:13 | "‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. +Leviticus 21:14 | He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife. +Leviticus 21:15 | He shall not profane his offspring amongst his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’" +Leviticus 21:16-21 | The Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a crippled foot or hand, or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. +Leviticus 21:17 | "Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. +Leviticus 21:18 | For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, +Leviticus 21:21 | No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. +Leviticus 21:22 | He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. +Leviticus 21:22-23 | He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food, yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the Lord, who makes them holy. +Leviticus 21:23 | He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’" +Leviticus 21:24 | So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel. +Leviticus 22:02 | "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 22:03 | "Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 22:04 | "‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission, +Leviticus 22:05 | or whoever touches any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has— +Leviticus 22:06 | the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water. +Leviticus 22:07 | When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. +Leviticus 22:08 | He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 22:09 | "‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them. +Leviticus 22:10 | "‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. +Leviticus 22:11 | But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread. +Leviticus 22:12 | If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. +Leviticus 22:13 | But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it. +Leviticus 22:14 | "‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest. +Leviticus 22:15 | The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord, +Leviticus 22:16 | and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’" +Leviticus 22:18 | "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to the Lord for a burnt offering: +Leviticus 22:19 | that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. +Leviticus 22:20 | But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you. +Leviticus 22:21 | Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect. +Leviticus 22:22 | You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the Lord. +Leviticus 22:23 | Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. +Leviticus 22:24 | You must not offer to the Lord that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land. +Leviticus 22:25 | You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’" +Leviticus 22:27 | "When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 22:28 | Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day. +Leviticus 22:29 | "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. +Leviticus 22:30 | It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 22:31 | "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 22:32 | You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy amongst the children of Israel. I am the Lord who makes you holy, +Leviticus 22:33 | who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the Lord." +Leviticus 23:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts. +Leviticus 23:03 | "‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings. +Leviticus 23:04 | "‘These are the set feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season. +Leviticus 23:05 | In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the Lord’s Passover. +Leviticus 23:06 | On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. +Leviticus 23:07 | In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. +Leviticus 23:08 | But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’" +Leviticus 23:10 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. +Leviticus 23:11 | He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. +Leviticus 23:12 | On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:13 | The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. +Leviticus 23:14 | You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +Leviticus 23:15 | "‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. +Leviticus 23:16 | The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:17 | You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:18 | You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:19 | You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. +Leviticus 23:20 | The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. +Leviticus 23:21 | You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. +Leviticus 23:22 | "‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’" +Leviticus 23:24 | "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. +Leviticus 23:25 | You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.’" +Leviticus 23:27 | "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:28 | You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. +Leviticus 23:29 | For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people. +Leviticus 23:30 | Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from amongst his people. +Leviticus 23:31 | You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +Leviticus 23:32 | It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath." +Leviticus 23:34 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:35 | On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. +Leviticus 23:36 | Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work. +Leviticus 23:37 | "‘These are the appointed feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day— +Leviticus 23:38 | in addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to the Lord. +Leviticus 23:39 | "‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. +Leviticus 23:40 | You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. +Leviticus 23:41 | You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month. +Leviticus 23:42 | You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters, +Leviticus 23:43 | that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’" +Leviticus 23:44 | So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord. +Leviticus 24:02 | "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. +Leviticus 24:03 | Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. +Leviticus 24:04 | He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the Lord continually. +Leviticus 24:05 | "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. +Leviticus 24:06 | You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord. +Leviticus 24:07 | You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the Lord. +Leviticus 24:08 | Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel. +Leviticus 24:09 | It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute." +Leviticus 24:10 | The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out amongst the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. +Leviticus 24:11 | The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. +Leviticus 24:12 | They put him in custody until the Lord’s will should be declared to them. +Leviticus 24:14 | "Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. +Leviticus 24:15 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. +Leviticus 24:16 | He who blasphemes the Lord’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name. +Leviticus 24:17 | "‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. +Leviticus 24:18 | He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. +Leviticus 24:19 | If anyone injures his neighbour, it shall be done to him as he has done: +Leviticus 24:20 | fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. +Leviticus 24:21 | He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. +Leviticus 24:22 | You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the Lord your God.’" +Leviticus 24:23 | Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. +Leviticus 25:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. +Leviticus 25:03 | You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits; +Leviticus 25:04 | but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. +Leviticus 25:05 | What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. +Leviticus 25:06 | The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. +Leviticus 25:07 | For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food. +Leviticus 25:08 | "‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. +Leviticus 25:09 | Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. +Leviticus 25:10 | You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. +Leviticus 25:11 | That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. +Leviticus 25:12 | For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field. +Leviticus 25:13 | "‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property. +Leviticus 25:14 | "‘If you sell anything to your neighbour, or buy from your neighbour, you shall not wrong one another. +Leviticus 25:15 | According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. +Leviticus 25:16 | According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. +Leviticus 25:17 | You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 25:18 | "‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. +Leviticus 25:19 | The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. +Leviticus 25:20 | If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase" +Leviticus 25:21 | then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years. +Leviticus 25:22 | You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store. +Leviticus 25:23 | "‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. +Leviticus 25:24 | In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. +Leviticus 25:25 | "‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. +Leviticus 25:26 | If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, +Leviticus 25:27 | then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. +Leviticus 25:28 | But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. +Leviticus 25:29 | "‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. +Leviticus 25:30 | If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. +Leviticus 25:31 | But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. +Leviticus 25:32 | "‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time. +Leviticus 25:33 | The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession amongst the children of Israel. +Leviticus 25:34 | But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. +Leviticus 25:35 | "‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself amongst you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. +Leviticus 25:36 | Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live amongst you. +Leviticus 25:37 | You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. +Leviticus 25:38 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. +Leviticus 25:39 | "‘If your brother has grown poor amongst you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave. +Leviticus 25:40 | As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. +Leviticus 25:41 | Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. +Leviticus 25:42 | For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. +Leviticus 25:43 | You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God. +Leviticus 25:44 | "‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. +Leviticus 25:45 | Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live amongst you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. +Leviticus 25:46 | You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. +Leviticus 25:47 | "‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living amongst you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, +Leviticus 25:48 | after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; +Leviticus 25:49 | or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. +Leviticus 25:50 | He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant. +Leviticus 25:51 | If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. +Leviticus 25:52 | If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption. +Leviticus 25:53 | As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. +Leviticus 25:54 | If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him. +Leviticus 25:55 | For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 26:01 | "‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God. +Leviticus 26:02 | "‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord. +Leviticus 26:03 | "‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, +Leviticus 26:04 | then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. +Leviticus 26:05 | Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. +Leviticus 26:06 | "‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. +Leviticus 26:07 | You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. +Leviticus 26:08 | Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. +Leviticus 26:09 | "‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. +Leviticus 26:10 | You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. +Leviticus 26:11 | I will set my tent amongst you, and my soul won’t abhor you. +Leviticus 26:12 | I will walk amongst you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. +Leviticus 26:13 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright. +Leviticus 26:14 | "‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments, +Leviticus 26:15 | and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, +Leviticus 26:16 | I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. +Leviticus 26:17 | I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. +Leviticus 26:18 | "‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. +Leviticus 26:19 | I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze. +Leviticus 26:20 | Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit. +Leviticus 26:21 | "‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. +Leviticus 26:22 | I will send the wild animals amongst you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate. +Leviticus 26:23 | "‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me, +Leviticus 26:24 | then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. +Leviticus 26:25 | I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence amongst you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. +Leviticus 26:26 | When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied. +Leviticus 26:27 | "‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me, +Leviticus 26:28 | then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins. +Leviticus 26:29 | You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. +Leviticus 26:30 | I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. +Leviticus 26:31 | I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. +Leviticus 26:32 | I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it. +Leviticus 26:33 | I will scatter you amongst the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. +Leviticus 26:34 | Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. +Leviticus 26:35 | As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it. +Leviticus 26:36 | "‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues. +Leviticus 26:37 | They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies. +Leviticus 26:38 | You will perish amongst the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. +Leviticus 26:39 | Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them. +Leviticus 26:40 | "‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, +Leviticus 26:41 | I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, +Leviticus 26:42 | then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land. +Leviticus 26:43 | The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. +Leviticus 26:44 | Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. +Leviticus 26:45 | But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.’" +Leviticus 26:46 | These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. +Leviticus 27:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to the Lord in a vow, according to your valuation, +Leviticus 27:03 | your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. +Leviticus 27:04 | If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. +Leviticus 27:05 | If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. +Leviticus 27:06 | If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. +Leviticus 27:07 | If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. +Leviticus 27:08 | But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay. +Leviticus 27:09 | "‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to the Lord, all that any man gives of such to the Lord becomes holy. +Leviticus 27:10 | He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. +Leviticus 27:11 | If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to the Lord, then he shall set the animal before the priest; +Leviticus 27:12 | and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be. +Leviticus 27:13 | But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation. +Leviticus 27:14 | "‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand. +Leviticus 27:15 | If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his. +Leviticus 27:16 | "‘If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. +Leviticus 27:17 | If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. +Leviticus 27:18 | But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation. +Leviticus 27:19 | If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his. +Leviticus 27:20 | If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; +Leviticus 27:21 | but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests. +Leviticus 27:22 | "‘If he dedicates a field to the Lord which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, +Leviticus 27:23 | then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to the Lord. +Leviticus 27:24 | In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs. +Leviticus 27:25 | All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel. +Leviticus 27:26 | "‘However the firstborn amongst animals, which belongs to the Lord as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is the Lord’s. +Leviticus 27:27 | If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation. +Leviticus 27:28 | "‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to the Lord. +Leviticus 27:29 | "‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from amongst men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death. +Leviticus 27:30 | "‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s. It is holy to the Lord. +Leviticus 27:31 | If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. +Leviticus 27:32 | All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord. +Leviticus 27:33 | He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’" +Leviticus 27:34 | These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai. +Luke 01:01 | Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled amongst us, +Luke 01:02 | even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, +Luke 01:03 | it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus; +Luke 01:04 | that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed. +Luke 01:05 | There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. +Luke 01:06 | They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. +Luke 01:07 | But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years. +Luke 01:08 | Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division +Luke 01:09 | according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. +Luke 01:10 | The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. +Luke 01:11 | An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. +Luke 01:12 | Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. +Luke 01:13 | But the angel said to him, "Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. +Luke 01:14 | You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. +Luke 01:15 | For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. +Luke 01:16 | He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. +Luke 01:17 | He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord." +Luke 01:18 | Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years." +Luke 01:19 | The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. +Luke 01:20 | Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time." +Luke 01:21 | The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marvelled that he delayed in the temple. +Luke 01:22 | When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute. +Luke 01:23 | When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. +Luke 01:25 | "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach amongst men." +Luke 01:26 | Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, +Luke 01:27 | to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary. +Luke 01:28 | Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly favoured one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you amongst women!" +Luke 01:29 | But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be. +Luke 01:30 | The angel said to her, "Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. +Luke 01:31 | Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’ +Luke 01:32 | He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, +Luke 01:33 | and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom." +Luke 01:34 | Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?" +Luke 01:35 | The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. +Luke 01:36 | Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. +Luke 01:37 | For nothing spoken by God is impossible." +Luke 01:38 | Mary said, "Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her. +Luke 01:39 | Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, +Luke 01:40 | and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. +Luke 01:41 | When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. +Luke 01:42 | She called out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! +Luke 01:43 | Why am I so favoured, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? +Luke 01:44 | For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leapt in my womb for joy! +Luke 01:45 | Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfilment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!" +Luke 01:46 | Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord. +Luke 01:47 | My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour, +Luke 01:48 | for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. +Luke 01:49 | For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name. +Luke 01:50 | His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him. +Luke 01:51 | He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. +Luke 01:52 | He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. +Luke 01:53 | He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty. +Luke 01:54 | He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, +Luke 01:55 | as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever." +Luke 01:56 | Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house. +Luke 01:57 | Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. +Luke 01:58 | Her neighbours and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her. +Luke 01:59 | On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. +Luke 01:60 | His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John." +Luke 01:61 | They said to her, "There is no one amongst your relatives who is called by this name." +Luke 01:62 | They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. +Luke 01:63 | He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marvelled. +Luke 01:64 | His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God. +Luke 01:65 | Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. +Luke 01:66 | All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him. +Luke 01:68 | "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people; +Luke 01:69 | and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David +Luke 01:70 | (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old), +Luke 01:71 | salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; +Luke 01:72 | to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, +Luke 01:74 | to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, +Luke 01:75 | in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. +Luke 01:76 | And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, +Luke 01:77 | to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, +Luke 01:78 | because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us, +Luke 01:79 | to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace." +Luke 01:80 | The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel. +Luke 02:01 | Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. +Luke 02:02 | This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. +Luke 02:03 | All went to enrol themselves, everyone to his own city. +Luke 02:04 | Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, +Luke 02:05 | to enrol himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant. +Luke 02:06 | While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth. +Luke 02:07 | She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn. +Luke 02:08 | There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. +Luke 02:09 | Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. +Luke 02:10 | The angel said to them, "Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people. +Luke 02:11 | For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. +Luke 02:12 | This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough." +Luke 02:14 | "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will towards men." +Luke 02:15 | When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, "Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." +Luke 02:16 | They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough. +Luke 02:17 | When they saw it, they publicised widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child. +Luke 02:18 | All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds. +Luke 02:19 | But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. +Luke 02:20 | The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them. +Luke 02:21 | When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. +Luke 02:22 | When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord +Luke 02:23 | (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"), +Luke 02:24 | and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." +Luke 02:25 | Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. +Luke 02:26 | It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. +Luke 02:27 | He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law, +Luke 02:29 | "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace; +Luke 02:30 | for my eyes have seen your salvation, +Luke 02:31 | which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; +Luke 02:32 | a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel." +Luke 02:33 | Joseph and his mother were marvelling at the things which were spoken concerning him, +Luke 02:34 | and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against. +Luke 02:35 | Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." +Luke 02:36 | There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, +Luke 02:37 | and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day. +Luke 02:38 | Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem. +Luke 02:39 | When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. +Luke 02:40 | The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. +Luke 02:41 | His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. +Luke 02:42 | When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast, +Luke 02:43 | and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it, +Luke 02:44 | but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him amongst their relatives and acquaintances. +Luke 02:45 | When they didn’t find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him. +Luke 02:46 | After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. +Luke 02:47 | All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. +Luke 02:48 | When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you." +Luke 02:49 | He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?" +Luke 02:50 | They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them. +Luke 02:51 | And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. +Luke 02:52 | And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men. +Luke 03:03 | He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. +Luke 03:04 | As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. +Luke 03:05 | Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth. +Luke 03:06 | All flesh will see God’s salvation.’" +Luke 03:07 | He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptised by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? +Luke 03:08 | Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say amongst yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! +Luke 03:09 | Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire." +Luke 03:10 | The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?" +Luke 03:11 | He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise." +Luke 03:12 | Tax collectors also came to be baptised, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?" +Luke 03:13 | He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you." +Luke 03:14 | Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages." +Luke 03:15 | As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, +Luke 03:16 | John answered them all, "I indeed baptise you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptise you in the Holy Spirit and fire, +Luke 03:17 | whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." +Luke 03:18 | Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people, +Luke 03:19 | but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, +Luke 03:20 | added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. +Luke 03:21 | Now when all the people were baptised, Jesus also had been baptised, and was praying. The sky was opened, +Luke 03:22 | and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased." +Luke 04:01 | Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness +Luke 04:02 | for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry. +Luke 04:03 | The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." +Luke 04:04 | Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’" +Luke 04:05 | The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. +Luke 04:06 | The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. +Luke 04:07 | If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours." +Luke 04:08 | Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’" +Luke 04:09 | He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, +Luke 04:10 | for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’ +Luke 04:11 | and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’" +Luke 04:12 | Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’" +Luke 04:13 | When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time. +Luke 04:14 | Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. +Luke 04:15 | He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. +Luke 04:16 | He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. +Luke 04:17 | The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, +Luke 04:18 | "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, +Luke 04:19 | and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." +Luke 04:20 | He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. +Luke 04:21 | He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." +Luke 04:22 | All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn’t this Joseph’s son?" +Luke 04:23 | He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’" +Luke 04:24 | He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. +Luke 04:25 | But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. +Luke 04:26 | Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. +Luke 04:27 | There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian." +Luke 04:28 | They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. +Luke 04:29 | They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. +Luke 04:30 | But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way. +Luke 04:31 | He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, +Luke 04:32 | and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. +Luke 04:33 | In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying, +Luke 04:34 | "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!" +Luke 04:35 | Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm. +Luke 04:36 | Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" +Luke 04:37 | News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region. +Luke 04:38 | He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her. +Luke 04:39 | He stood over her and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them. +Luke 04:40 | When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. +Luke 04:41 | Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. +Luke 04:42 | When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them. +Luke 04:43 | But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent." +Luke 04:44 | He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. +Luke 05:01 | Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. +Luke 05:02 | He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. +Luke 05:03 | He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. +Luke 05:04 | When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch." +Luke 05:05 | Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net." +Luke 05:06 | When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. +Luke 05:07 | They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. +Luke 05:08 | But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord." +Luke 05:09 | For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught; +Luke 05:10 | and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive." +Luke 05:11 | When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him. +Luke 05:12 | While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean." +Luke 05:13 | He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him. +Luke 05:14 | He commanded him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." +Luke 05:15 | But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. +Luke 05:16 | But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed. +Luke 05:17 | On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them. +Luke 05:18 | Behold, men brought a paralysed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus. +Luke 05:19 | Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus. +Luke 05:20 | Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." +Luke 05:21 | The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" +Luke 05:22 | But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? +Luke 05:23 | Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’ +Luke 05:24 | But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralysed man), "I tell you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house." +Luke 05:25 | Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God. +Luke 05:26 | Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today." +Luke 05:27 | After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!" +Luke 05:28 | He left everything, and rose up and followed him. +Luke 05:29 | Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. +Luke 05:30 | Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" +Luke 05:31 | Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. +Luke 05:32 | I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." +Luke 05:33 | They said to him, "Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?" +Luke 05:34 | He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? +Luke 05:35 | But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days." +Luke 05:36 | He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. +Luke 05:37 | No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. +Luke 05:38 | But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. +Luke 05:39 | No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’" +Luke 06:01 | Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands. +Luke 06:02 | But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?" +Luke 06:03 | Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; +Luke 06:04 | how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?" +Luke 06:05 | He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath." +Luke 06:06 | It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered. +Luke 06:07 | The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him. +Luke 06:08 | But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood. +Luke 06:09 | Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" +Luke 06:10 | He looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other. +Luke 06:11 | But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus. +Luke 06:12 | In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. +Luke 06:13 | When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: +Luke 06:14 | Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; +Luke 06:15 | Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot; +Luke 06:16 | Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor. +Luke 06:17 | He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; +Luke 06:18 | as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. +Luke 06:19 | All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all. +Luke 06:20 | He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours. +Luke 06:21 | Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. +Luke 06:22 | Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. +Luke 06:23 | Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets. +Luke 06:24 | "But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. +Luke 06:25 | Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. +Luke 06:26 | Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. +Luke 06:27 | "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, +Luke 06:28 | bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. +Luke 06:29 | To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. +Luke 06:30 | Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. +Luke 06:31 | "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. +Luke 06:32 | If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. +Luke 06:33 | If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. +Luke 06:34 | If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. +Luke 06:35 | But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind towards the unthankful and evil. +Luke 06:36 | "Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. +Luke 06:37 | Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. +Luke 06:37 | Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. +Luke 06:38 | "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you." +Luke 06:38 | Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. +Luke 06:39 | He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit? +Luke 06:40 | A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. +Luke 06:41 | Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? +Luke 06:41 | Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? +Luke 06:42 | How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye" when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. +Luke 06:42 | Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye. +Luke 06:43 | For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. +Luke 06:44 | For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. +Luke 06:45 | The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. +Luke 06:46 | "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? +Luke 06:46 | Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord" and do not do what I say? +Luke 06:47 | Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. +Luke 06:48 | He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. +Luke 06:49 | But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." +Luke 07:01 | After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. +Luke 07:02 | A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. +Luke 07:03 | When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant. +Luke 07:04 | When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him, +Luke 07:05 | for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us." +Luke 07:06 | Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. +Luke 07:07 | Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed. +Luke 07:08 | For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it." +Luke 07:09 | When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel." +Luke 07:10 | Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well. +Luke 07:11 | Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. +Luke 07:12 | Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. +Luke 07:13 | When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don’t cry." +Luke 07:14 | He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!" +Luke 07:15 | He who was dead sat up and began to speak. Then he gave him to his mother. +Luke 07:16 | Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen amongst us!" and, "God has visited his people!" +Luke 07:17 | This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region. +Luke 07:18 | The disciples of John told him about all these things. +Luke 07:19 | John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?" +Luke 07:20 | When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptiser has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?’" +Luke 07:21 | In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. +Luke 07:22 | Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. +Luke 07:23 | Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me." +Luke 07:24 | When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? +Luke 07:25 | But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts. +Luke 07:26 | But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. +Luke 07:27 | This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’ +Luke 07:28 | "For I tell you, amongst those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptiser, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he." +Luke 07:29 | When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptised with John’s baptism. +Luke 07:30 | But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptised by him themselves. +Luke 07:31 | "To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? +Luke 07:32 | They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’ +Luke 07:33 | For John the Baptiser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ +Luke 07:34 | The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ +Luke 07:35 | Wisdom is justified by all her children." +Luke 07:36 | One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. +Luke 07:37 | Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. +Luke 07:38 | Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. +Luke 07:39 | Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner." +Luke 07:40 | Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on." +Luke 07:41 | "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. +Luke 07:42 | When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" +Luke 07:43 | Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly." +Luke 07:44 | Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. +Luke 07:45 | You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. +Luke 07:46 | You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. +Luke 07:47 | Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little." +Luke 07:48 | He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." +Luke 07:49 | Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" +Luke 07:50 | He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace." +Luke 08:01 | Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve, +Luke 08:02 | and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; +Luke 08:03 | and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions. +Luke 08:04 | When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. +Luke 08:05 | "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. +Luke 08:06 | Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. +Luke 08:07 | Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. +Luke 08:08 | Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" +Luke 08:09 | Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?" +Luke 08:10 | He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ +Luke 08:11 | Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. +Luke 08:12 | Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. +Luke 08:13 | Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. +Luke 08:14 | That which fell amongst the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. +Luke 08:15 | Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance. +Luke 08:16 | "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light. +Luke 08:17 | For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. +Luke 08:18 | Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has." +Luke 08:19 | His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. +Luke 08:20 | Some people told him, "Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you." +Luke 08:21 | But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it." +Luke 08:22 | Now on one of those days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let’s go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out. +Luke 08:23 | But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. +Luke 08:24 | They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, then they ceased, and it was calm. +Luke 08:25 | He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marvelled, saying to one another, "Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?" +Luke 08:26 | Then they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. +Luke 08:27 | When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs. +Luke 08:28 | When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!" +Luke 08:29 | For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert. +Luke 08:30 | Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. +Luke 08:31 | They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss. +Luke 08:32 | Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them. +Luke 08:33 | The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned. +Luke 08:34 | When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. +Luke 08:35 | People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. +Luke 08:36 | Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed. +Luke 08:37 | All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned. +Luke 08:39 | "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him. +Luke 08:40 | When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. +Luke 08:41 | Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house, +Luke 08:42 | for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. +Luke 08:43 | A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any +Luke 08:44 | came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped. +Luke 08:45 | Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’" +Luke 08:46 | But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me." +Luke 08:47 | When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. +Luke 08:48 | He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace." +Luke 08:49 | While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher." +Luke 08:50 | But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed." +Luke 08:51 | When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother. +Luke 08:52 | All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping." +Luke 08:53 | They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead. +Luke 08:54 | But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!" +Luke 08:55 | Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat. +Luke 08:56 | Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done. +Luke 09:01 | He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. +Luke 09:02 | He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick. +Luke 09:03 | He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each. +Luke 09:04 | Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. +Luke 09:05 | As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them." +Luke 09:06 | They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News and healing everywhere. +Luke 09:07 | Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, +Luke 09:08 | and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. +Luke 09:09 | Herod said, "I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him. +Luke 09:10 | The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of a city called Bethsaida. +Luke 09:11 | But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing. +Luke 09:12 | The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place." +Luke 09:13 | But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people." +Luke 09:14 | For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each." +Luke 09:16 | He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. +Luke 09:17 | They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over. +Luke 09:18 | As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say that I am?" +Luke 09:19 | They answered, "‘John the Baptiser,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again." +Luke 09:20 | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God." +Luke 09:21 | But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one, saying, +Luke 09:22 | "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up." +Luke 09:23 | He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. +Luke 09:24 | For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it. +Luke 09:25 | For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? +Luke 09:26 | For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. +Luke 09:27 | But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom." +Luke 09:28 | About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray. +Luke 09:29 | As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling. +Luke 09:30 | Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah, +Luke 09:31 | who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. +Luke 09:32 | Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him. +Luke 09:33 | As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said. +Luke 09:34 | While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. +Luke 09:35 | A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!" +Luke 09:36 | When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen. +Luke 09:37 | On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him. +Luke 09:38 | Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only born child. +Luke 09:39 | Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely. +Luke 09:40 | I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t." +Luke 09:41 | Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here." +Luke 09:42 | While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. +Luke 09:43 | They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marvelling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples, +Luke 09:44 | "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men." +Luke 09:45 | But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. +Luke 09:46 | An argument arose amongst them about which of them was the greatest. +Luke 09:47 | Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side, +Luke 09:48 | and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least amongst you all, this one will be great." +Luke 09:49 | John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us." +Luke 09:50 | Jesus said to him, "Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us." +Luke 09:51 | It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem +Luke 09:52 | and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. +Luke 09:53 | They didn’t receive him, because he was travelling with his face set towards Jerusalem. +Luke 09:54 | When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them, just as Elijah did?" +Luke 09:55 | But he turned and rebuked them, "You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are. +Luke 09:56 | For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them." They went to another village. +Luke 09:57 | As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord." +Luke 09:58 | Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." +Luke 09:59 | He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." +Luke 09:60 | But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom." +Luke 09:61 | Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house." +Luke 09:62 | But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom." +Luke 10:01 | Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come. +Luke 10:02 | Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the labourers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out labourers into his harvest. +Luke 10:03 | Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs amongst wolves. +Luke 10:04 | Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. +Luke 10:05 | Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ +Luke 10:06 | If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. +Luke 10:07 | Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house. +Luke 10:08 | Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. +Luke 10:09 | Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ +Luke 10:10 | But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, +Luke 10:11 | ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ +Luke 10:12 | I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. +Luke 10:13 | "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. +Luke 10:14 | But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgement than for you. +Luke 10:15 | You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. +Luke 10:16 | Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me." +Luke 10:17 | The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" +Luke 10:18 | He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. +Luke 10:19 | Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. +Luke 10:20 | Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." +Luke 10:21 | In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight." +Luke 10:22 | Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him." +Luke 10:23 | Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see, +Luke 10:24 | for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them." +Luke 10:25 | Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" +Luke 10:26 | He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" +Luke 10:27 | He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself." +Luke 10:28 | He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live." +Luke 10:29 | But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbour?" +Luke 10:30 | Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell amongst robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. +Luke 10:31 | By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. +Luke 10:32 | In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. +Luke 10:33 | But a certain Samaritan, as he travelled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, +Luke 10:34 | came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. +Luke 10:35 | On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ +Luke 10:36 | Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell amongst the robbers?" +Luke 10:37 | He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise." +Luke 10:38 | As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. +Luke 10:39 | She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. +Luke 10:40 | But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me." +Luke 10:41 | Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, +Luke 10:42 | but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her." +Luke 11:01 | When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." +Luke 11:02 | He said to them, "When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. +Luke 11:03 | Give us day by day our daily bread. +Luke 11:04 | Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’" +Luke 11:05 | He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, +Luke 11:06 | for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ +Luke 11:07 | and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? +Luke 11:08 | I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. +Luke 11:09 | "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. +Luke 11:10 | For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. +Luke 11:11 | "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? +Luke 11:12 | Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? +Luke 11:13 | If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" +Luke 11:14 | He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marvelled. +Luke 11:15 | But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons." +Luke 11:16 | Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven. +Luke 11:17 | But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. +Luke 11:18 | If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. +Luke 11:19 | But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. +Luke 11:20 | But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you. +Luke 11:21 | "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. +Luke 11:22 | But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armour in which he trusted, and divides his plunder. +Luke 11:23 | "He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters. +Luke 11:24 | The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’ +Luke 11:25 | When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. +Luke 11:26 | Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first." +Luke 11:27 | It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!" +Luke 11:28 | But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it." +Luke 11:29 | When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. +Luke 11:30 | For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation. +Luke 11:31 | The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgement with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. +Luke 11:32 | The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgement with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here. +Luke 11:33 | "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light. +Luke 11:34 | The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. +Luke 11:35 | Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness. +Luke 11:36 | If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light." +Luke 11:37 | Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table. +Luke 11:38 | When the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed himself before dinner. +Luke 11:39 | The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. +Luke 11:40 | You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also? +Luke 11:41 | But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. +Luke 11:42 | But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. +Luke 11:43 | Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces. +Luke 11:44 | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it." +Luke 11:45 | One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also." +Luke 11:46 | He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. +Luke 11:47 | Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. +Luke 11:48 | So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. +Luke 11:49 | Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, +Luke 11:50 | that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; +Luke 11:51 | from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. +Luke 11:52 | Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered." +Luke 11:53 | As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; +Luke 11:54 | lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him. +Luke 12:01 | Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. +Luke 12:02 | But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. +Luke 12:02 | There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. +Luke 12:03 | Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. +Luke 12:04 | "I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. +Luke 12:05 | But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him. +Luke 12:06 | "Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. +Luke 12:07 | But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. +Luke 12:08 | "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; +Luke 12:09 | but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels. +Luke 12:10 | Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. +Luke 12:11 | When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; +Luke 12:12 | for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say." +Luke 12:13 | One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." +Luke 12:14 | But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" +Luke 12:15 | He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses." +Luke 12:16 | He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. +Luke 12:17 | He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ +Luke 12:18 | He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. +Luke 12:19 | I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry."’ +Luke 12:20 | "But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’ +Luke 12:21 | So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God." +Luke 12:22 | He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. +Luke 12:23 | Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. +Luke 12:24 | Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! +Luke 12:25 | Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? +Luke 12:25-26 | Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life. Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? +Luke 12:26 | If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? +Luke 12:27 | Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. +Luke 12:28 | But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? +Luke 12:29 | Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. +Luke 12:30 | For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. +Luke 12:31 | But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. +Luke 12:32 | Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. +Luke 12:33 | Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. +Luke 12:34 | For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. +Luke 12:35 | "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. +Luke 12:36 | Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. +Luke 12:37 | Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them. +Luke 12:38 | They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. +Luke 12:39 | But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. +Luke 12:40 | Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him." +Luke 12:41 | Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?" +Luke 12:42 | The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? +Luke 12:43 | Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. +Luke 12:44 | Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. +Luke 12:45 | But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, +Luke 12:46 | then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. +Luke 12:47 | That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, +Luke 12:48 | but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked. +Luke 12:49 | "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. +Luke 12:50 | But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! +Luke 12:51 | Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. +Luke 12:52 | For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. +Luke 12:53 | They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." +Luke 12:54 | He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. +Luke 12:55 | When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens. +Luke 12:56 | You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time? +Luke 12:57 | Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? +Luke 12:58 | For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. +Luke 12:59 | I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny." +Luke 13:01 | Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. +Luke 13:02 | Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? +Luke 13:03 | I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. +Luke 13:04 | Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? +Luke 13:05 | I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way." +Luke 13:06 | He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. +Luke 13:07 | He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’ +Luke 13:08 | He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilise it. +Luke 13:09 | If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’" +Luke 13:10 | He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. +Luke 13:11 | Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up. +Luke 13:12 | When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." +Luke 13:13 | He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God. +Luke 13:14 | The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!" +Luke 13:15 | Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water? +Luke 13:16 | Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?" +Luke 13:17 | As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. +Luke 13:18 | He said, "What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it? +Luke 13:19 | It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches." +Luke 13:20 | Again he said, "To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom? +Luke 13:21 | It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened." +Luke 13:22 | He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and travelling on to Jerusalem. +Luke 13:24 | "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able. +Luke 13:25 | When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ +Luke 13:26 | Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ +Luke 13:27 | He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’ +Luke 13:28 | There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside. +Luke 13:29 | They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom. +Luke 13:30 | Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last." +Luke 13:31 | On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you." +Luke 13:32 | He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission. +Luke 13:33 | Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’ +Luke 13:34 | "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! +Luke 13:35 | Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’" +Luke 14:01 | When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. +Luke 14:02 | Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. +Luke 14:03 | Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" +Luke 14:04 | But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go. +Luke 14:05 | He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?" +Luke 14:06 | They couldn’t answer him regarding these things. +Luke 14:07 | He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, +Luke 14:08 | "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honourable than you might be invited by him, +Luke 14:09 | and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. +Luke 14:10 | But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. +Luke 14:11 | For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." +Luke 14:12 | He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbours, or perhaps they might also return the favour, and pay you back. +Luke 14:13 | But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; +Luke 14:14 | and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous." +Luke 14:15 | When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!" +Luke 14:16 | But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. +Luke 14:17 | He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ +Luke 14:18 | They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’ +Luke 14:19 | "Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’ +Luke 14:20 | "Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ +Luke 14:21 | "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’ +Luke 14:22 | "The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’ +Luke 14:23 | "The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. +Luke 14:24 | For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’" +Luke 14:26 | "If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. +Luke 14:27 | Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple. +Luke 14:28 | For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? +Luke 14:29 | Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, +Luke 14:31 | Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? +Luke 14:32 | Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. +Luke 14:33 | So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. +Luke 14:34 | Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? +Luke 14:35 | It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." +Luke 15:01 | Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. +Luke 15:02 | The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them." +Luke 15:04 | "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? +Luke 15:05 | When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. +Luke 15:06 | When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ +Luke 15:07 | I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. +Luke 15:08 | Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? +Luke 15:09 | When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’ +Luke 15:10 | Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting." +Luke 15:12 | The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them. +Luke 15:13 | Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and travelled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. +Luke 15:14 | When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. +Luke 15:15 | He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. +Luke 15:16 | He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. +Luke 15:17 | But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! +Luke 15:18 | I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. +Luke 15:19 | I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."’ +Luke 15:20 | "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. +Luke 15:21 | The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ +Luke 15:22 | "But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet. +Luke 15:23 | Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat, and celebrate; +Luke 15:24 | for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate. +Luke 15:25 | "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. +Luke 15:26 | He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. +Luke 15:27 | He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’ +Luke 15:28 | But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him. +Luke 15:29 | But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. +Luke 15:30 | But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ +Luke 15:31 | "He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. +Luke 15:32 | But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’" +Luke 16:01 | He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. +Luke 16:02 | He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ +Luke 16:03 | "The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. +Luke 16:04 | I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’ +Luke 16:05 | Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ +Luke 16:06 | He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ +Luke 16:07 | Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ +Luke 16:08 | "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. +Luke 16:09 | I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. +Luke 16:10 | He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. +Luke 16:10 | Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. +Luke 16:11 | If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? +Luke 16:12 | If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? +Luke 16:13 | No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. +Luke 16:13 | No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon." +Luke 16:14 | The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. +Luke 16:15 | He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted amongst men is an abomination in the sight of God. +Luke 16:15 | He said to them: you are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight. +Luke 16:16 | The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. +Luke 16:17 | But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. +Luke 16:18 | Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. +Luke 16:19 | "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. +Luke 16:20 | A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, +Luke 16:21 | and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. +Luke 16:22 | The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. +Luke 16:23 | In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. +Luke 16:24 | He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’ +Luke 16:25 | "But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. +Luke 16:26 | Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’ +Luke 16:27 | "He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house; +Luke 16:28 | for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’ +Luke 16:29 | "But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ +Luke 16:30 | "He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ +Luke 16:31 | "He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’" +Luke 17:01 | He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! +Luke 17:02 | It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. +Luke 17:03 | Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. +Luke 17:04 | If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him." +Luke 17:05 | The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." +Luke 17:06 | The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. +Luke 17:07 | But who is there amongst you, having a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’ +Luke 17:08 | and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’? +Luke 17:09 | Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. +Luke 17:10 | Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’" +Luke 17:11 | As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. +Luke 17:12 | As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. +Luke 17:13 | They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" +Luke 17:14 | When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." As they went, they were cleansed. +Luke 17:15 | One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. +Luke 17:16 | He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. +Luke 17:17 | Jesus answered, "Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? +Luke 17:18 | Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?" +Luke 17:19 | Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you." +Luke 17:20 | Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, "God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation; +Luke 17:21 | neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you." +Luke 17:22 | He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. +Luke 17:23 | They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them, +Luke 17:24 | for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. +Luke 17:25 | But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. +Luke 17:26 | As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. +Luke 17:27 | They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all. +Luke 17:28 | Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; +Luke 17:29 | but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the sky and destroyed them all. +Luke 17:30 | It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. +Luke 17:31 | In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. +Luke 17:33 | Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. +Luke 17:34 | I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. +Luke 17:35 | There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left." +Luke 17:37 | They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together." +Luke 18:01 | He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, +Luke 18:02 | "There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. +Luke 18:03 | A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’ +Luke 18:04 | He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, +Luke 18:05 | yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’" +Luke 18:06 | The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. +Luke 18:07 | Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? +Luke 18:08 | I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" +Luke 18:09 | He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. +Luke 18:10 | "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. +Luke 18:11 | The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. +Luke 18:12 | I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ +Luke 18:13 | But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ +Luke 18:14 | I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." +Luke 18:15 | They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. +Luke 18:16 | Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. +Luke 18:17 | Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." +Luke 18:18 | A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" +Luke 18:19 | Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God. +Luke 18:20 | You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honour your father and your mother.’" +Luke 18:21 | He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up." +Luke 18:22 | When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." +Luke 18:23 | But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich. +Luke 18:24 | Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! +Luke 18:25 | For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." +Luke 18:26 | Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" +Luke 18:27 | But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." +Luke 18:28 | Peter said, "Look, we have left everything and followed you." +Luke 18:29 | He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake, +Luke 18:30 | who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life." +Luke 18:31 | He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. +Luke 18:32 | For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. +Luke 18:33 | They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again." +Luke 18:34 | They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said. +Luke 18:35 | As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. +Luke 18:36 | Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. +Luke 18:37 | They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. +Luke 18:38 | He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" +Luke 18:39 | Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" +Luke 18:40 | Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, +Luke 18:41 | "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again." +Luke 18:42 | Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you." +Luke 18:43 | Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God. +Luke 19:01 | He entered and was passing through Jericho. +Luke 19:02 | There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. +Luke 19:03 | He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short. +Luke 19:04 | He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. +Luke 19:05 | When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." +Luke 19:06 | He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. +Luke 19:07 | When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." +Luke 19:08 | Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much." +Luke 19:09 | Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. +Luke 19:10 | For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." +Luke 19:11 | As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately. +Luke 19:12 | He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. +Luke 19:13 | He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’ +Luke 19:14 | But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’ +Luke 19:15 | "When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. +Luke 19:16 | The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’ +Luke 19:17 | "He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ +Luke 19:18 | "The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’ +Luke 19:19 | "So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ +Luke 19:20 | Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, +Luke 19:21 | for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’ +Luke 19:22 | "He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow. +Luke 19:23 | Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’ +Luke 19:24 | He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’ +Luke 19:25 | "They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ +Luke 19:26 | ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. +Luke 19:27 | But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’" +Luke 19:28 | Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. +Luke 19:30 | "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man had ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it. +Luke 19:31 | If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’" +Luke 19:32 | Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them. +Luke 19:33 | As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" +Luke 19:35 | Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and sat Jesus on them. +Luke 19:36 | As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road. +Luke 19:37 | As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, saying, +Luke 19:38 | "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!" +Luke 19:39 | Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" +Luke 19:40 | He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out." +Luke 19:41 | When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, +Luke 19:42 | "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. +Luke 19:43 | For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, +Luke 19:44 | and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation." +Luke 19:46 | "It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!" +Luke 19:47 | He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men amongst the people sought to destroy him. +Luke 19:48 | They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said. +Luke 20:01 | On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, thepriests and scribes came to him with the elders. +Luke 20:02 | They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?" +Luke 20:03 | He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me: +Luke 20:04 | the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?" +Luke 20:05 | They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ +Luke 20:06 | But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." +Luke 20:07 | They answered that they didn’t know where it was from. +Luke 20:08 | Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." +Luke 20:09 | He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. +Luke 20:10 | At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. +Luke 20:11 | He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. +Luke 20:12 | He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. +Luke 20:13 | The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’ +Luke 20:14 | "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned amongst themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ +Luke 20:15 | Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? +Luke 20:16 | He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "May that never be!" +Luke 20:17 | But he looked at them and said, "Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?’ +Luke 20:18 | Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust." +Luke 20:19 | The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. +Luke 20:20 | They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. +Luke 20:21 | They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. +Luke 20:22 | Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" +Luke 20:23 | But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? +Luke 20:24 | Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar’s." +Luke 20:25 | He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." +Luke 20:26 | They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marvelled at his answer and were silent. +Luke 20:27 | Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. +Luke 20:28 | They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother. +Luke 20:29 | There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. +Luke 20:30 | The second took her as wife, and he died childless. +Luke 20:31 | The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. +Luke 20:33 | Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife." +Luke 20:34 | Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. +Luke 20:35 | But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. +Luke 20:36 | For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. +Luke 20:37 | But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ +Luke 20:38 | Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him." +Luke 20:39 | Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." +Luke 20:40 | They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions. +Luke 20:41 | He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? +Luke 20:42 | David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, +Luke 20:43 | until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."’ +Luke 20:44 | "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?" +Luke 20:46 | "Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; +Luke 20:46 | Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. +Luke 20:47 | who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation." +Luke 21:01 | He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. +Luke 21:02 | He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. +Luke 21:03 | He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, +Luke 21:04 | for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on." +Luke 21:06 | "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down." +Luke 21:07 | They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?" +Luke 21:08 | He said, "Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. +Luke 21:09 | When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately." +Luke 21:10 | Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. +Luke 21:11 | There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. +Luke 21:12 | But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. +Luke 21:13 | It will turn out as a testimony for you. +Luke 21:14 | Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, +Luke 21:15 | for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. +Luke 21:16 | You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. +Luke 21:17 | You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. +Luke 21:18 | And not a hair of your head will perish. +Luke 21:19 | "By your endurance you will win your lives. +Luke 21:20 | "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. +Luke 21:21 | Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. +Luke 21:22 | For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. +Luke 21:23 | Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. +Luke 21:24 | They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. +Luke 21:25 | There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; +Luke 21:26 | men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. +Luke 21:27 | Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. +Luke 21:28 | But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near." +Luke 21:29 | He told them a parable. "See the fig tree and all the trees. +Luke 21:30 | When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. +Luke 21:31 | Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near. +Luke 21:32 | Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished. +Luke 21:33 | Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. +Luke 21:34 | "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. +Luke 21:35 | For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. +Luke 21:36 | Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man." +Luke 21:37 | Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. +Luke 21:38 | All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him. +Luke 22:01 | Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. +Luke 22:02 | The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people. +Luke 22:03 | Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve. +Luke 22:04 | He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. +Luke 22:05 | They were glad, and agreed to give him money. +Luke 22:06 | He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude. +Luke 22:07 | The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. +Luke 22:08 | Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." +Luke 22:09 | They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?" +Luke 22:10 | He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. +Luke 22:11 | Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"’ +Luke 22:12 | He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there." +Luke 22:13 | They went, found things as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover. +Luke 22:14 | When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. +Luke 22:15 | He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, +Luke 22:16 | for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom." +Luke 22:17 | He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it amongst yourselves, +Luke 22:18 | for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes." +Luke 22:19 | He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." +Luke 22:20 | Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. +Luke 22:21 | But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. +Luke 22:22 | The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!" +Luke 22:23 | They began to question amongst themselves which of them it was who would do this thing. +Luke 22:24 | A dispute also arose amongst them, which of them was considered to be greatest. +Luke 22:25 | He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ +Luke 22:26 | But not so with you. But one who is the greater amongst you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. +Luke 22:27 | For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am amongst you as one who serves. +Luke 22:28 | But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. +Luke 22:29 | I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, +Luke 22:30 | that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." +Luke 22:31 | The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat, +Luke 22:32 | but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers." +Luke 22:33 | He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!" +Luke 22:34 | He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times." +Luke 22:35 | He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing." +Luke 22:36 | Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. +Luke 22:37 | For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end." +Luke 22:38 | They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough." +Luke 22:39 | He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. +Luke 22:40 | When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you don’t enter into temptation." +Luke 22:41 | He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, +Luke 22:42 | "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." +Luke 22:43 | An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. +Luke 22:44 | Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. +Luke 22:45 | When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, +Luke 22:46 | and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation." +Luke 22:47 | While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared. He who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him. +Luke 22:48 | But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" +Luke 22:49 | When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" +Luke 22:50 | A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. +Luke 22:51 | But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"—and he touched his ear, and healed him. +Luke 22:52 | Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? +Luke 22:53 | When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness." +Luke 22:54 | They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance. +Luke 22:55 | When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat amongst them. +Luke 22:56 | A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him." +Luke 22:57 | He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don’t know him." +Luke 22:58 | After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!" +Luke 22:59 | After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!" +Luke 22:60 | But Peter said, "Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. +Luke 22:61 | The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times." +Luke 22:62 | He went out, and wept bitterly. +Luke 22:63 | The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. +Luke 22:64 | Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?" +Luke 22:65 | They spoke many other things against him, insulting him. +Luke 22:67 | "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won’t believe, +Luke 22:69 | From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God." +Luke 22:70 | They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am." +Luke 22:71 | They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!" +Luke 23:02 | They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." +Luke 23:03 | Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say." +Luke 23:04 | Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man." +Luke 23:05 | But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place." +Luke 23:06 | But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. +Luke 23:07 | When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. +Luke 23:08 | Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. +Luke 23:09 | He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. +Luke 23:10 | The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. +Luke 23:11 | Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. +Luke 23:12 | Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other. +Luke 23:13 | Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, +Luke 23:14 | and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. +Luke 23:15 | Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. +Luke 23:16 | I will therefore chastise him and release him." +Luke 23:17 | Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. +Luke 23:18 | But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"— +Luke 23:19 | one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder. +Luke 23:20 | Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, +Luke 23:21 | but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" +Luke 23:22 | He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." +Luke 23:23 | But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. +Luke 23:24 | Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. +Luke 23:25 | He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will. +Luke 23:26 | When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it after Jesus. +Luke 23:27 | A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him. +Luke 23:28 | But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. +Luke 23:29 | For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ +Luke 23:30 | Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’ +Luke 23:31 | For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?" +Luke 23:32 | There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death. +Luke 23:33 | When they came to the place that is called "The Skull", they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. +Luke 23:34 | Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing." Dividing his garments amongst them, they cast lots. +Luke 23:35 | The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!" +Luke 23:36 | The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, +Luke 23:37 | and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" +Luke 23:38 | An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS." +Luke 23:39 | One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!" +Luke 23:40 | But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? +Luke 23:41 | And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." +Luke 23:42 | He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." +Luke 23:43 | Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." +Luke 23:44 | It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. +Luke 23:45 | The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. +Luke 23:46 | Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last. +Luke 23:47 | When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man." +Luke 23:48 | All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. +Luke 23:49 | All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things. +Luke 23:50 | Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man +Luke 23:51 | (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom: +Luke 23:52 | this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. +Luke 23:53 | He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. +Luke 23:54 | It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. +Luke 23:55 | The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. +Luke 23:56 | They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. +Luke 24:01 | But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. +Luke 24:02 | They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. +Luke 24:03 | They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. +Luke 24:04 | While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. +Luke 24:05 | Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living amongst the dead? +Luke 24:06 | He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, +Luke 24:07 | saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?" +Luke 24:09 | returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. +Luke 24:10 | Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles. +Luke 24:11 | These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them. +Luke 24:12 | But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened. +Luke 24:13 | Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. +Luke 24:14 | They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. +Luke 24:15 | While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them. +Luke 24:17 | He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?" +Luke 24:18 | One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?" +Luke 24:19 | He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; +Luke 24:20 | and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. +Luke 24:21 | But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. +Luke 24:22 | Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; +Luke 24:23 | and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. +Luke 24:24 | Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him." +Luke 24:25 | He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! +Luke 24:26 | Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?" +Luke 24:27 | Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. +Luke 24:28 | They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further. +Luke 24:29 | They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them. +Luke 24:30 | When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them. +Luke 24:31 | Their eyes were opened and they recognised him, then he vanished out of their sight. +Luke 24:32 | They said to one another, "Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?" +Luke 24:33 | They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, saying, +Luke 24:34 | "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" +Luke 24:35 | They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognised by them in the breaking of the bread. +Luke 24:36 | As they said these things, Jesus himself stood amongst them, and said to them, "Peace be to you." +Luke 24:37 | But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. +Luke 24:38 | He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? +Luke 24:39 | See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." +Luke 24:40 | When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. +Luke 24:41 | While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" +Luke 24:42 | They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. +Luke 24:44 | He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled." +Luke 24:45 | Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. +Luke 24:46 | He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, +Luke 24:47 | and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. +Luke 24:48 | You are witnesses of these things. +Luke 24:49 | Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high." +Luke 24:50 | He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. +Luke 24:51 | While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven. +Luke 24:52 | They worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, +Luke 24:53 | and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. +Malachi 01:01 | A revelation, the Lord’s word to Israel by Malachi. +Malachi 01:02 | "I have loved you," says the Lord. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?" says the Lord, "Yet I loved Jacob; +Malachi 01:03 | but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness." +Malachi 01:04 | Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places" the Lord of Armies says, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the Lord shows wrath forever." +Malachi 01:04-05 | Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But the Lord Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord. You will see it with your own eyes and say, «Great is the Lord even beyond the borders of Israel!»" +Malachi 01:05 | Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The Lord is great—even beyond the border of Israel!" +Malachi 01:06 | "A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the Lord Almighty. "It is you priests who show contempt for my name." But you ask: "How have we shown contempt for your name?" +Malachi 01:06 | "A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the Lord of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ +Malachi 01:07 | You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The Lord’s table is contemptible.’ +Malachi 01:08 | When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the Lord Almighty. +Malachi 01:08 | When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 01:09 | "Now, please entreat the favour of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 01:10 | "Oh that there were one amongst you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says the Lord of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. +Malachi 01:11 | For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great amongst the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great amongst the nations," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 01:12 | "But you profane it, in that you say, ‘The Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’ +Malachi 01:13 | You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it", says the Lord of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says the Lord. +Malachi 01:14 | "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King," says the Lord of Armies, "and my name is awesome amongst the nations." +Malachi 02:01 | "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. +Malachi 02:01-03 | "And now, you priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name," says the Lord Almighty, "I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. [...] Because of you, I will rebuke your descendants. I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it." +Malachi 02:02 | If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name," says the Lord of Armies, "then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. +Malachi 02:03 | Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. +Malachi 02:04 | You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 02:05 | "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent towards me; and he was reverent towards me, and stood in awe of my name. +Malachi 02:06 | The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. +Malachi 02:07 | For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 02:07-08 | "For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the Lord. +Malachi 02:08 | But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 02:09 | "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law. +Malachi 02:10 | Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? +Malachi 02:11 | Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. +Malachi 02:12 | The Lord will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 02:13 | This again you do: you cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. +Malachi 02:14 | Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. +Malachi 02:14 | You ask, "Why?". It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. +Malachi 02:15 | Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. +Malachi 02:15-16 | Has not the one God made you? You belong to Him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. "The man who hates and divorces his wife, does violence to the one he should protect," says the Lord Almighty. +Malachi 02:16 | One who hates and divorces", says the Lord, the God of Israel, "covers his garment with violence!" says the Lord of Armies. "Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful. +Malachi 02:17 | You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’ +Malachi 03:01 | "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 03:02 | "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; +Malachi 03:03 | and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness. +Malachi 03:04 | Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. +Malachi 03:05 | I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 03:06 | "For I, the Lord, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. +Malachi 03:07 | "Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you" says the Lord Almighty. "But you ask, «How are we to return?»" +Malachi 03:07 | From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the Lord of Armies. "But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ +Malachi 03:08 | Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. +Malachi 03:09 | You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. +Malachi 03:10 | "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this" says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it." +Malachi 03:10 | Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the Lord of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for. +Malachi 03:11 | I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 03:12 | "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 03:13 | "Your words have been stout against me," says the Lord. "Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’ +Malachi 03:14 | You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Armies? +Malachi 03:15 | Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’ +Malachi 03:16 | Then those who feared the Lord spoke one with another; and the Lord listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared the Lord, and who honoured his name. +Malachi 03:16b-18 | A scroll of remembrance was written in His presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His name. "On the day when I act," says the Lord Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not." +Malachi 03:17 | They shall be mine," says the Lord of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. +Malachi 03:18 | Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him. +Malachi 04:01 | "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says the Lord of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. +Malachi 04:02 | But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall. +Malachi 04:02-03 | "For you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act" says the Lord Almighty. +Malachi 04:03 | You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says the Lord of Armies. +Malachi 04:04 | "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. +Malachi 04:05 | Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. +Malachi 04:06 | He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse." +Mark 01:01 | The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. +Mark 01:02 | As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you: +Mark 01:03 | the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’" +Mark 01:04 | John came baptising in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. +Mark 01:05 | All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptised by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. +Mark 01:06 | John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. +Mark 01:07 | He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. +Mark 01:08 | I baptised you in water, but he will baptise you in the Holy Spirit." +Mark 01:09 | In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John in the Jordan. +Mark 01:10 | Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. +Mark 01:11 | A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." +Mark 01:12 | Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. +Mark 01:13 | He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him. +Mark 01:14 | Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom, +Mark 01:15 | and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News." +Mark 01:16 | Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. +Mark 01:17 | Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men." +Mark 01:18 | Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. +Mark 01:19 | Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. +Mark 01:20 | Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. +Mark 01:21 | They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. +Mark 01:22 | They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. +Mark 01:23 | Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, saying, +Mark 01:24 | "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!" +Mark 01:25 | Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!" +Mark 01:26 | The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. +Mark 01:27 | They were all amazed, so that they questioned amongst themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!" +Mark 01:28 | The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area. +Mark 01:29 | Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. +Mark 01:30 | Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. +Mark 01:31 | He came and took her by the hand and raised her up. The fever left her immediately, and she served them. +Mark 01:32 | At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by demons. +Mark 01:33 | All the city was gathered together at the door. +Mark 01:34 | He healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him. +Mark 01:35 | Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there. +Mark 01:36 | Simon and those who were with him searched for him. +Mark 01:37 | They found him and told him, "Everyone is looking for you." +Mark 01:38 | He said to them, "Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason." +Mark 01:39 | He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. +Mark 01:40 | A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." +Mark 01:41 | Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." +Mark 01:42 | When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was made clean. +Mark 01:43 | He strictly warned him and immediately sent him out, +Mark 01:44 | and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." +Mark 01:45 | But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere. +Mark 02:01 | When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home. +Mark 02:02 | Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. +Mark 02:03 | Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. +Mark 02:04 | When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. +Mark 02:05 | Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." +Mark 02:06 | But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, +Mark 02:07 | "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" +Mark 02:08 | Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? +Mark 02:09 | Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’ +Mark 02:10 | But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— +Mark 02:11 | "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house." +Mark 02:12 | He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!" +Mark 02:13 | He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. +Mark 02:14 | As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. He said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him. +Mark 02:15 | He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. +Mark 02:16 | The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?" +Mark 02:17 | When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." +Mark 02:18 | John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?" +Mark 02:19 | Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. +Mark 02:20 | But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. +Mark 02:21 | No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. +Mark 02:22 | No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins." +Mark 02:23 | He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. +Mark 02:24 | The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?" +Mark 02:25 | He said to them, "Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? +Mark 02:26 | How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" +Mark 02:27 | He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. +Mark 02:28 | Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." +Mark 03:01 | He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there whose hand was withered. +Mark 03:02 | They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. +Mark 03:03 | He said to the man whose hand was withered, "Stand up." +Mark 03:04 | He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?" But they were silent. +Mark 03:05 | When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. +Mark 03:06 | The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. +Mark 03:07 | Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, +Mark 03:08 | from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. +Mark 03:09 | He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him. +Mark 03:10 | For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. +Mark 03:11 | The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him and cried, "You are the Son of God!" +Mark 03:12 | He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. +Mark 03:13 | He went up into the mountain and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. +Mark 03:14 | He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach +Mark 03:15 | and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: +Mark 03:17 | James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder); +Mark 03:18 | Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; +Mark 03:19 | and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house. +Mark 03:20 | The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. +Mark 03:21 | When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, "He is insane." +Mark 03:22 | The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." +Mark 03:23 | He summoned them and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? +Mark 03:24 | If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. +Mark 03:25 | If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. +Mark 03:26 | If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end. +Mark 03:27 | But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house. +Mark 03:28 | "Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; +Mark 03:29 | but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation." +Mark 03:30 | —because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." +Mark 03:31 | His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. +Mark 03:32 | A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you." +Mark 03:33 | He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" +Mark 03:34 | Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! +Mark 03:35 | For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother." +Mark 04:01 | Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. +Mark 04:02 | He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, +Mark 04:03 | "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, +Mark 04:04 | and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. +Mark 04:05 | Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. +Mark 04:06 | When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. +Mark 04:07 | Others fell amongst the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. +Mark 04:08 | Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." +Mark 04:09 | He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." +Mark 04:10 | When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. +Mark 04:11 | He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, +Mark 04:12 | that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’" +Mark 04:13 | He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? +Mark 04:14 | The farmer sows the word. +Mark 04:15 | The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. +Mark 04:16 | These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. +Mark 04:17 | They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. +Mark 04:18 | Others are those who are sown amongst the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, +Mark 04:19 | and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. +Mark 04:20 | Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times." +Mark 04:21 | He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? +Mark 04:22 | For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. +Mark 04:24 | He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. +Mark 04:25 | For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him." +Mark 04:26 | He said, "God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, +Mark 04:27 | and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. +Mark 04:28 | For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. +Mark 04:29 | But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." +Mark 04:30 | He said, "How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? +Mark 04:31 | It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, +Mark 04:32 | yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow." +Mark 04:33 | With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. +Mark 04:34 | Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. +Mark 04:35 | On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let’s go over to the other side." +Mark 04:36 | Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. +Mark 04:37 | A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. +Mark 04:38 | He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?" +Mark 04:39 | He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. +Mark 04:40 | He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?" +Mark 04:41 | They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" +Mark 05:01 | They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. +Mark 05:02 | When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. +Mark 05:03 | He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, +Mark 05:04 | because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. +Mark 05:05 | Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. +Mark 05:06 | When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, +Mark 05:07 | and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me." +Mark 05:08 | For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" +Mark 05:09 | He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." +Mark 05:10 | He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. +Mark 05:11 | Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding. +Mark 05:12 | All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them." +Mark 05:13 | At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. +Mark 05:14 | Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened. +Mark 05:15 | They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. +Mark 05:16 | Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. +Mark 05:17 | They began to beg him to depart from their region. +Mark 05:18 | As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. +Mark 05:19 | He didn’t allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you." +Mark 05:20 | He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marvelled. +Mark 05:21 | When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. +Mark 05:22 | Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, +Mark 05:23 | and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live." +Mark 05:24 | He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. +Mark 05:25 | A certain woman, who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, +Mark 05:26 | and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, +Mark 05:27 | having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. +Mark 05:28 | For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." +Mark 05:29 | Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. +Mark 05:30 | Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" +Mark 05:31 | His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’" +Mark 05:32 | He looked around to see her who had done this thing. +Mark 05:33 | But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. +Mark 05:34 | He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease." +Mark 05:35 | While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?" +Mark 05:36 | But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don’t be afraid, only believe." +Mark 05:37 | He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. +Mark 05:38 | He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. +Mark 05:39 | When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep." +Mark 05:40 | They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. +Mark 05:41 | Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!" +Mark 05:42 | Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. +Mark 05:43 | He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. +Mark 06:01 | He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. +Mark 06:02 | When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands? +Mark 06:03 | Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?" So they were offended at him. +Mark 06:04 | Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and amongst his own relatives, and in his own house." +Mark 06:05 | He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. +Mark 06:06 | He marvelled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching. +Mark 06:07 | He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. +Mark 06:08 | He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, +Mark 06:09 | but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. +Mark 06:10 | He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. +Mark 06:11 | Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement than for that city!" +Mark 06:12 | They went out and preached that people should repent. +Mark 06:13 | They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. +Mark 06:14 | King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptiser has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." +Mark 06:15 | But others said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets." +Mark 06:16 | But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." +Mark 06:17 | For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her. +Mark 06:18 | For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife." +Mark 06:19 | Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t, +Mark 06:20 | for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly. +Mark 06:21 | Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. +Mark 06:22 | When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." +Mark 06:23 | He swore to her, "Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom." +Mark 06:24 | She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptiser." +Mark 06:25 | She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptiser on a platter." +Mark 06:26 | The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her. +Mark 06:27 | Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, +Mark 06:28 | and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother. +Mark 06:29 | When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. +Mark 06:30 | The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. +Mark 06:31 | He said to them, "Come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. +Mark 06:32 | They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. +Mark 06:33 | They saw them going, and many recognised him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him. +Mark 06:34 | Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. +Mark 06:35 | When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. +Mark 06:36 | Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat." +Mark 06:37 | But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?" +Mark 06:38 | He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish." +Mark 06:39 | He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. +Mark 06:40 | They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. +Mark 06:41 | He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish amongst them all. +Mark 06:42 | They all ate, and were filled. +Mark 06:43 | They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish. +Mark 06:44 | Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. +Mark 06:45 | Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away. +Mark 06:46 | After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray. +Mark 06:47 | When evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land. +Mark 06:48 | Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them, +Mark 06:49 | but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; +Mark 06:50 | for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid." +Mark 06:51 | He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed amongst themselves, and marvelled; +Mark 06:52 | for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. +Mark 06:53 | When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. +Mark 06:54 | When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognised him, +Mark 06:55 | and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick on their mats to where they heard he was. +Mark 06:56 | Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well. +Mark 07:01 | Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. +Mark 07:02 | Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. +Mark 07:03 | (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. +Mark 07:04 | They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) +Mark 07:05 | The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?" +Mark 07:06 | He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. +Mark 07:06 | He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites". These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. +Mark 07:07 | But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ +Mark 07:08 | "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." +Mark 07:09 | He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. +Mark 07:10 | For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ +Mark 07:11 | But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban," that is to say, given to God, +Mark 07:12 | "then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, +Mark 07:13 | making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this." +Mark 07:14 | He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. +Mark 07:15 | There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. +Mark 07:16 | If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" +Mark 07:17 | When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. +Mark 07:18 | He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, +Mark 07:19 | because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?" +Mark 07:20 | He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. +Mark 07:21 | For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, +Mark 07:22 | covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. +Mark 07:23 | All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." +Mark 07:24 | From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice. +Mark 07:25 | For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. +Mark 07:26 | Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. +Mark 07:27 | But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs." +Mark 07:28 | But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs." +Mark 07:29 | He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter." +Mark 07:30 | She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out. +Mark 07:31 | Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis. +Mark 07:32 | They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. +Mark 07:33 | He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. +Mark 07:34 | Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!" +Mark 07:35 | Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly. +Mark 07:36 | He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. +Mark 07:37 | They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!" +Mark 08:02 | "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. +Mark 08:03 | If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way." +Mark 08:04 | His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?" +Mark 08:05 | He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven." +Mark 08:06 | He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude. +Mark 08:07 | They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. +Mark 08:08 | They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over. +Mark 08:09 | Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away. +Mark 08:10 | Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha. +Mark 08:11 | The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him. +Mark 08:12 | He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation." +Mark 08:13 | He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side. +Mark 08:14 | They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them. +Mark 08:15 | He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod." +Mark 08:16 | They reasoned with one another, saying, "It’s because we have no bread." +Mark 08:17 | Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? +Mark 08:18 | Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember? +Mark 08:19 | When I broke the five loaves amongst the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve." +Mark 08:20 | "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven." +Mark 08:21 | He asked them, "Don’t you understand yet?" +Mark 08:22 | He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him. +Mark 08:23 | He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything. +Mark 08:24 | He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees walking." +Mark 08:25 | Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. +Mark 08:26 | He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village." +Mark 08:27 | Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" +Mark 08:28 | They told him, "John the Baptiser, and others say Elijah, but others, one of the prophets." +Mark 08:29 | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ." +Mark 08:30 | He commanded them that they should tell no one about him. +Mark 08:31 | He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. +Mark 08:32 | He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. +Mark 08:33 | But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men." +Mark 08:34 | He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. +Mark 08:35 | For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. +Mark 08:36 | For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? +Mark 08:37 | For what will a man give in exchange for his life? +Mark 08:38 | For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels." +Mark 09:01 | He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power." +Mark 09:02 | After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. +Mark 09:03 | His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. +Mark 09:04 | Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus. +Mark 09:05 | Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." +Mark 09:06 | For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid. +Mark 09:07 | A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." +Mark 09:08 | Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only. +Mark 09:09 | As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. +Mark 09:10 | They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant. +Mark 09:11 | They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" +Mark 09:12 | He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? +Mark 09:13 | But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him." +Mark 09:14 | Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. +Mark 09:15 | Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him. +Mark 09:16 | He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?" +Mark 09:17 | One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; +Mark 09:18 | and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able." +Mark 09:19 | He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me." +Mark 09:20 | They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth. +Mark 09:21 | He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood. +Mark 09:22 | Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us." +Mark 09:23 | Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." +Mark 09:24 | Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!" +Mark 09:25 | When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!" +Mark 09:26 | After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, "He is dead." +Mark 09:27 | But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose. +Mark 09:28 | When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn’t we cast it out?" +Mark 09:29 | He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting." +Mark 09:30 | They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it. +Mark 09:31 | For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again." +Mark 09:32 | But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him. +Mark 09:33 | He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing amongst yourselves on the way?" +Mark 09:34 | But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest. +Mark 09:35 | He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." +Mark 09:37 | "Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me." +Mark 09:38 | John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us." +Mark 09:39 | But Jesus said, "Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. +Mark 09:40 | For whoever is not against us is on our side. +Mark 09:41 | For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. +Mark 09:42 | Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. +Mark 09:43 | If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, +Mark 09:44 | ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ +Mark 09:45 | If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched— +Mark 09:46 | ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ +Mark 09:47 | If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, +Mark 09:48 | ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ +Mark 09:49 | For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. +Mark 09:50 | Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." +Mark 10:01 | He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. +Mark 10:02 | Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" +Mark 10:03 | He answered, "What did Moses command you?" +Mark 10:04 | They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her." +Mark 10:05 | But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. +Mark 10:06 | But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. +Mark 10:07 | For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, +Mark 10:08 | and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. +Mark 10:09 | Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. +Mark 10:09 | What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." +Mark 10:10 | In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. +Mark 10:11 | He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. +Mark 10:12 | If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." +Mark 10:13 | They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. +Mark 10:14 | But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. +Mark 10:15 | Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." +Mark 10:16 | He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them. +Mark 10:17 | As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" +Mark 10:18 | Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. +Mark 10:19 | You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honour your father and mother.’" +Mark 10:20 | He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth." +Mark 10:21 | Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross." +Mark 10:22 | But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. +Mark 10:23 | Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!" +Mark 10:24 | The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! +Mark 10:25 | It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." +Mark 10:26 | They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?" +Mark 10:27 | Jesus looked at them and said, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God." +Mark 10:27 | Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God." +Mark 10:28 | Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you." +Mark 10:29 | Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, +Mark 10:30 | but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. +Mark 10:31 | But many who are first will be last; and the last first." +Mark 10:32 | They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. +Mark 10:33 | "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. +Mark 10:34 | They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again." +Mark 10:35 | James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask." +Mark 10:36 | He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" +Mark 10:37 | They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory." +Mark 10:38 | But Jesus said to them, "You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?" +Mark 10:39 | They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with; +Mark 10:40 | but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared." +Mark 10:41 | When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John. +Mark 10:42 | Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognised as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. +Mark 10:43 | But it shall not be so amongst you, but whoever wants to become great amongst you shall be your servant. +Mark 10:44 | Whoever of you wants to become first amongst you, shall be bondservant of all. +Mark 10:45 | For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." +Mark 10:46 | They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. +Mark 10:47 | When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" +Mark 10:48 | Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" +Mark 10:49 | Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!" +Mark 10:50 | He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. +Mark 10:51 | Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I may see again." +Mark 10:52 | Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way. +Mark 11:01 | When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, +Mark 11:02 | and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him. +Mark 11:03 | If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here." +Mark 11:04 | They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. +Mark 11:05 | Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?" +Mark 11:06 | They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go. +Mark 11:07 | They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it. +Mark 11:08 | Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. +Mark 11:09 | Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! +Mark 11:10 | Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" +Mark 11:11 | Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. +Mark 11:12 | The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. +Mark 11:13 | Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. +Mark 11:14 | Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it. +Mark 11:15 | They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves. +Mark 11:16 | He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. +Mark 11:17 | He taught, saying to them, "Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!" +Mark 11:18 | The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. +Mark 11:20 | As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. +Mark 11:21 | Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away." +Mark 11:22 | Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. +Mark 11:23 | For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. +Mark 11:24 | Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. +Mark 11:25 | Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. +Mark 11:26 | But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions." +Mark 11:27 | They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him, +Mark 11:28 | and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?" +Mark 11:29 | Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. +Mark 11:30 | The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me." +Mark 11:31 | They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ +Mark 11:32 | If we should say, ‘From men’"—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. +Mark 11:33 | They answered Jesus, "We don’t know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things." +Mark 12:01 | He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. +Mark 12:02 | When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. +Mark 12:03 | They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. +Mark 12:04 | Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. +Mark 12:05 | Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. +Mark 12:06 | Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ +Mark 12:07 | But those farmers said amongst themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ +Mark 12:08 | They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. +Mark 12:09 | What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. +Mark 12:10 | Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. +Mark 12:11 | This was from the Lord. It is marvellous in our eyes’?" +Mark 12:12 | They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away. +Mark 12:13 | They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. +Mark 12:14 | When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? +Mark 12:15 | Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it." +Mark 12:16 | They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar’s." +Mark 12:17 | Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." They marvelled greatly at him. +Mark 12:19 | "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’ +Mark 12:20 | There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. +Mark 12:21 | The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; +Mark 12:22 | and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. +Mark 12:23 | In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife." +Mark 12:24 | Jesus answered them, "Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? +Mark 12:25 | For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. +Mark 12:26 | But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? +Mark 12:27 | He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken." +Mark 12:28 | One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?" +Mark 12:29 | Jesus answered, "The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: +Mark 12:30 | you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. +Mark 12:31 | The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these." +Mark 12:32 | The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, +Mark 12:33 | and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." +Mark 12:34 | When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from God’s Kingdom." No one dared ask him any question after that. +Mark 12:35 | Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? +Mark 12:36 | For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."’ +Mark 12:37 | Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly. +Mark 12:38 | In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, +Mark 12:39 | and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: +Mark 12:40 | those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation." +Mark 12:41 | Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. +Mark 12:42 | A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin. +Mark 12:43 | He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, +Mark 12:44 | for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on." +Mark 13:01 | As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!" +Mark 13:02 | Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down." +Mark 13:03 | As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, +Mark 13:04 | "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?" +Mark 13:05 | Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. +Mark 13:06 | For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and will lead many astray. +Mark 13:07 | "When you hear of wars and rumours of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet. +Mark 13:08 | For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains. +Mark 13:09 | But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. +Mark 13:10 | The Good News must first be preached to all the nations. +Mark 13:11 | When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. +Mark 13:12 | "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. +Mark 13:13 | You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. +Mark 13:14 | But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not" (let the reader understand), "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, +Mark 13:15 | and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house. +Mark 13:16 | Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. +Mark 13:17 | But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! +Mark 13:18 | Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter. +Mark 13:19 | For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be. +Mark 13:20 | Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days. +Mark 13:21 | Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it. +Mark 13:22 | For false christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. +Mark 13:23 | But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. +Mark 13:24 | But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, +Mark 13:25 | the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. +Mark 13:26 | Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. +Mark 13:27 | Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky. +Mark 13:28 | "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near; +Mark 13:29 | even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. +Mark 13:30 | Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen. +Mark 13:31 | Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. +Mark 13:32 | But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. +Mark 13:33 | Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is. +Mark 13:34 | "It is like a man, travelling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. +Mark 13:35 | Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; +Mark 13:36 | lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. +Mark 13:37 | What I tell you, I tell all: Watch." +Mark 14:01 | It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him. +Mark 14:02 | For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot amongst the people." +Mark 14:03 | While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. +Mark 14:04 | But there were some who were indignant amongst themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? +Mark 14:05 | For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." So they grumbled against her. +Mark 14:06 | But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. +Mark 14:07 | For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. +Mark 14:08 | She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. +Mark 14:09 | Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her." +Mark 14:10 | Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. +Mark 14:11 | They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him. +Mark 14:12 | On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?" +Mark 14:13 | He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him, +Mark 14:14 | and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"’ +Mark 14:15 | He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there." +Mark 14:16 | His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. +Mark 14:17 | When it was evening he came with the twelve. +Mark 14:18 | As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me." +Mark 14:19 | They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?" +Mark 14:20 | He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. +Mark 14:21 | For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born." +Mark 14:22 | As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body." +Mark 14:23 | He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. +Mark 14:24 | He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. +Mark 14:25 | Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom." +Mark 14:26 | When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. +Mark 14:27 | Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ +Mark 14:28 | However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." +Mark 14:29 | But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not." +Mark 14:30 | Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." +Mark 14:31 | But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing. +Mark 14:32 | They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." +Mark 14:33 | He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. +Mark 14:34 | He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch." +Mark 14:35 | He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. +Mark 14:36 | He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire." +Mark 14:37 | He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour? +Mark 14:38 | Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." +Mark 14:39 | Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. +Mark 14:40 | Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him. +Mark 14:41 | He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. +Mark 14:42 | Arise! Let’s get going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." +Mark 14:43 | Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came—and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. +Mark 14:44 | Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely." +Mark 14:45 | When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him. +Mark 14:47 | But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. +Mark 14:48 | Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? +Mark 14:49 | I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled." +Mark 14:51 | A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, +Mark 14:52 | but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. +Mark 14:53 | They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him. +Mark 14:54 | Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire. +Mark 14:55 | Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. +Mark 14:56 | For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other. +Mark 14:58 | "We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’" +Mark 14:59 | Even so, their testimony didn’t agree. +Mark 14:60 | The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?" +Mark 14:61 | But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" +Mark 14:62 | Jesus said, "I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky." +Mark 14:63 | The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses? +Mark 14:64 | You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death. +Mark 14:65 | Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands. +Mark 14:66 | As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came, +Mark 14:67 | and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!" +Mark 14:68 | But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed. +Mark 14:69 | The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them." +Mark 14:70 | But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." +Mark 14:71 | But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don’t know this man of whom you speak!" +Mark 14:72 | The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept. +Mark 15:01 | Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. +Mark 15:02 | Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say." +Mark 15:03 | The chief priests accused him of many things. +Mark 15:04 | Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!" +Mark 15:05 | But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marvelled. +Mark 15:06 | Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him. +Mark 15:07 | There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. +Mark 15:08 | The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. +Mark 15:09 | Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" +Mark 15:10 | For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. +Mark 15:11 | But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead. +Mark 15:12 | Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?" +Mark 15:13 | They cried out again, "Crucify him!" +Mark 15:14 | Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!" +Mark 15:15 | Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified. +Mark 15:16 | The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. +Mark 15:17 | They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. +Mark 15:18 | They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" +Mark 15:19 | They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. +Mark 15:20 | When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. +Mark 15:21 | They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross. +Mark 15:22 | They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull." +Mark 15:23 | They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it. +Mark 15:24 | Crucifying him, they parted his garments amongst them, casting lots on them, what each should take. +Mark 15:25 | It was the third hour, and they crucified him. +Mark 15:26 | The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS." +Mark 15:27 | With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left. +Mark 15:28 | The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was counted with transgressors." +Mark 15:29 | Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, +Mark 15:30 | save yourself, and come down from the cross!" +Mark 15:31 | Likewise, also the chief priests mocking amongst themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can’t save himself. +Mark 15:32 | Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him also insulted him. +Mark 15:33 | When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. +Mark 15:34 | At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" +Mark 15:35 | Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah." +Mark 15:36 | One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down." +Mark 15:37 | Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. +Mark 15:38 | The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. +Mark 15:39 | When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!" +Mark 15:40 | There were also women watching from afar, amongst whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; +Mark 15:41 | who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. +Mark 15:42 | When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, +Mark 15:43 | Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. +Mark 15:44 | Pilate marvelled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. +Mark 15:45 | When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. +Mark 15:46 | He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. +Mark 15:47 | Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid. +Mark 16:01 | When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. +Mark 16:02 | Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. +Mark 16:03 | They were saying amongst themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" +Mark 16:04 | for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back. +Mark 16:05 | Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed. +Mark 16:06 | He said to them, "Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him! +Mark 16:07 | But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’" +Mark 16:08 | They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid. +Mark 16:09 | Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. +Mark 16:10 | She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. +Mark 16:11 | When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved. +Mark 16:12 | After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country. +Mark 16:13 | They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either. +Mark 16:14 | Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen. +Mark 16:15 | He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. +Mark 16:16 | He who believes and is baptised will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. +Mark 16:17 | These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; +Mark 16:18 | they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." +Mark 16:19 | So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. +Mark 16:20 | They went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen. +Matthew 01:18 | Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. +Matthew 01:19 | Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly. +Matthew 01:20 | But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. +Matthew 01:20-21 | After he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said: "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." +Matthew 01:21 | She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins." +Matthew 01:21 | You shall call his name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. +Matthew 01:23 | "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel," which is, being interpreted, "God with us." +Matthew 01:23 | "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us"). +Matthew 01:24 | Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself; +Matthew 01:25 | and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus. +Matthew 02:01 | Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, +Matthew 02:02 | "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him." +Matthew 02:03 | When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. +Matthew 02:04 | Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born. +Matthew 02:05 | They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet, +Matthew 02:06 | ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least amongst the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’" +Matthew 02:07 | Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learnt from them exactly what time the star appeared. +Matthew 02:08 | He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him." +Matthew 02:09 | They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them until it came and stood over where the young child was. +Matthew 02:10 | When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. +Matthew 02:11 | They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshipped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. +Matthew 02:12 | Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way. +Matthew 02:13 | Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." +Matthew 02:14 | He arose and took the young child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt, +Matthew 02:15 | and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son." +Matthew 02:16 | Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learnt from the wise men. +Matthew 02:18 | "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more." +Matthew 02:19 | But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, +Matthew 02:20 | "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead." +Matthew 02:21 | He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. +Matthew 02:22 | But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, +Matthew 02:23 | and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene. +Matthew 03:01 | In those days, John the Baptiser came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, +Matthew 03:02 | "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" +Matthew 03:03 | For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!" +Matthew 03:04 | Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. +Matthew 03:05 | Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him. +Matthew 03:06 | They were baptised by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. +Matthew 03:07 | But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? +Matthew 03:08 | Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! +Matthew 03:09 | Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. +Matthew 03:10 | Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. +Matthew 03:11 | "I indeed baptise you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptise you in the Holy Spirit. +Matthew 03:12 | His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." +Matthew 03:13 | Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised by him. +Matthew 03:14 | But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptised by you, and you come to me?" +Matthew 03:15 | But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfil all righteousness." Then he allowed him. +Matthew 03:16 | Jesus, when he was baptised, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. +Matthew 03:17 | Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." +Matthew 04:01 | Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. +Matthew 04:02 | When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. +Matthew 04:03 | The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." +Matthew 04:03-04 | The tempter came to Him and said: "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." +Matthew 04:04 | But he answered, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’" +Matthew 04:05 | Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, +Matthew 04:06 | and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’" +Matthew 04:07 | Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’" +Matthew 04:08 | Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. +Matthew 04:09 | He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me." +Matthew 04:10 | Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’" +Matthew 04:11 | Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him. +Matthew 04:12 | Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee. +Matthew 04:13 | Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, +Matthew 04:15 | "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, towards the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, +Matthew 04:16 | the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned." +Matthew 04:17 | From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." +Matthew 04:18 | Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. +Matthew 04:19 | He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men." +Matthew 04:20 | They immediately left their nets and followed him. +Matthew 04:21 | Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them. +Matthew 04:22 | They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him. +Matthew 04:23 | Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness amongst the people. +Matthew 04:24 | The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them. +Matthew 04:25 | Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him. +Matthew 05:01 | Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. +Matthew 05:03 | "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. +Matthew 05:04 | Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. +Matthew 05:04 | Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. +Matthew 05:05 | Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. +Matthew 05:05 | Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. +Matthew 05:06 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. +Matthew 05:06 | Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. +Matthew 05:07 | Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. +Matthew 05:07 | Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. +Matthew 05:08 | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. +Matthew 05:08 | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. +Matthew 05:09 | Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. +Matthew 05:09 | Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. +Matthew 05:10 | Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. +Matthew 05:10 | Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. +Matthew 05:11 | "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. +Matthew 05:11 | Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. +Matthew 05:12 | Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you. +Matthew 05:13 | "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavour, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. +Matthew 05:14 | You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. +Matthew 05:15 | Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. +Matthew 05:16 | Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 05:17 | "Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfil. +Matthew 05:18 | For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. +Matthew 05:19 | Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. +Matthew 05:20 | For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. +Matthew 05:21 | "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgement.’ +Matthew 05:22 | But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgement. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. +Matthew 05:23 | "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, +Matthew 05:24 | leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. +Matthew 05:25 | Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. +Matthew 05:25 | Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. +Matthew 05:26 | Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there until you have paid the last penny. +Matthew 05:27 | "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ +Matthew 05:28 | but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. +Matthew 05:28 | I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. +Matthew 05:29 | If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. +Matthew 05:30 | If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. +Matthew 05:30 | If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. +Matthew 05:31 | "It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ +Matthew 05:32 | but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. +Matthew 05:33 | "Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ +Matthew 05:34 | but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; +Matthew 05:35 | nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. +Matthew 05:36 | Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. +Matthew 05:37 | But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. +Matthew 05:38 | "You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ +Matthew 05:39 | But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. +Matthew 05:39-41 | Do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. +Matthew 05:40 | If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. +Matthew 05:41 | Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. +Matthew 05:42 | Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you. +Matthew 05:42 | Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. +Matthew 05:43 | "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ +Matthew 05:44 | But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, +Matthew 05:44 | I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. +Matthew 05:45 | that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. +Matthew 05:46 | For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? +Matthew 05:47 | If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? +Matthew 05:48 | Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. +Matthew 06:01 | "Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 06:01 | Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in Heaven. +Matthew 06:02 | Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. +Matthew 06:02 | When you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. +Matthew 06:03 | But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, +Matthew 06:03 | When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. +Matthew 06:04 | so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. +Matthew 06:05 | "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. +Matthew 06:05 | When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. +Matthew 06:06 | But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. +Matthew 06:06 | When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. +Matthew 06:07 | In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. +Matthew 06:07-08 | When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. +Matthew 06:08 | Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him. +Matthew 06:09 | Pray like this: "‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. +Matthew 06:10 | Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. +Matthew 06:11 | Give us today our daily bread. +Matthew 06:12 | Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. +Matthew 06:13 | Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’ +Matthew 06:14 | "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. +Matthew 06:14 | If you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. +Matthew 06:15 | But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. +Matthew 06:15 | If you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. +Matthew 06:16 | "Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. +Matthew 06:16 | When you fast, do not look sombre as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. +Matthew 06:17 | But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, +Matthew 06:17-18 | When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. +Matthew 06:18 | so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. +Matthew 06:19 | "Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; +Matthew 06:19-21 | Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. +Matthew 06:20 | but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; +Matthew 06:21 | for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. +Matthew 06:22 | "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. +Matthew 06:22-23 | The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! +Matthew 06:23 | But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! +Matthew 06:24 | "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. +Matthew 06:25 | Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? +Matthew 06:25 | Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? +Matthew 06:26 | See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? +Matthew 06:27 | "Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? +Matthew 06:27 | Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? +Matthew 06:28 | Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, +Matthew 06:29 | yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. +Matthew 06:30 | But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith? +Matthew 06:31 | "Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ +Matthew 06:31,33-34 | Do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. +Matthew 06:32 | For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. +Matthew 06:33 | But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. +Matthew 06:34 | Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. +Matthew 06:34 | Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient. +Matthew 07:01 | "Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. +Matthew 07:01 | Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. +Matthew 07:02 | For with whatever judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. +Matthew 07:02 | In the same way as you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. +Matthew 07:03 | Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? +Matthew 07:03 | Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? +Matthew 07:04 | Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? +Matthew 07:05 | You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. +Matthew 07:05 | You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. +Matthew 07:06 | "Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. +Matthew 07:06 | Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. +Matthew 07:07 | "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. +Matthew 07:07-08 | Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. +Matthew 07:08 | For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. +Matthew 07:09 | Or who is there amongst you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? +Matthew 07:10 | Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? +Matthew 07:11 | If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! +Matthew 07:12 | In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. +Matthew 07:12 | Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. +Matthew 07:13 | "Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it. +Matthew 07:13-14 | Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. +Matthew 07:14 | How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it. +Matthew 07:15 | "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. +Matthew 07:16 | By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? +Matthew 07:17 | Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. +Matthew 07:18 | A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. +Matthew 07:19 | Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. +Matthew 07:20 | Therefore by their fruits you will know them. +Matthew 07:21 | "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 07:21-22 | Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord" will enter The Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven. +Matthew 07:22 | Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ +Matthew 07:23 | Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’ +Matthew 07:24 | "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. +Matthew 07:24 | Everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. +Matthew 07:25 | The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. +Matthew 07:26 | Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. +Matthew 07:27 | The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great." +Matthew 07:28 | When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, +Matthew 07:29 | for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes. +Matthew 08:01 | When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. +Matthew 08:02 | Behold, a leper came to him and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean." +Matthew 08:03 | Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. +Matthew 08:04 | Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." +Matthew 08:05 | When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help, saying, +Matthew 08:06 | "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralysed, grievously tormented." +Matthew 08:07 | Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him." +Matthew 08:08 | The centurion answered, "Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. +Matthew 08:09 | For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it." +Matthew 08:10 | When Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. +Matthew 08:11 | I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, +Matthew 08:12 | but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." +Matthew 08:13 | Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour. +Matthew 08:14 | When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. +Matthew 08:15 | He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him. +Matthew 08:16 | When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, +Matthew 08:17 | that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases." +Matthew 08:18 | Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side. +Matthew 08:19 | A scribe came and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." +Matthew 08:20 | Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." +Matthew 08:21 | Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." +Matthew 08:22 | But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead." +Matthew 08:23 | When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. +Matthew 08:24 | Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves; but he was asleep. +Matthew 08:25 | The disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!" +Matthew 08:26 | He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm. +Matthew 08:27 | The men marvelled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" +Matthew 08:28 | When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. +Matthew 08:29 | Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" +Matthew 08:30 | Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. +Matthew 08:31 | The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs." +Matthew 08:32 | He said to them, "Go!" They came out and went into the herd of pigs; and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water. +Matthew 08:33 | Those who fed them fled and went away into the city and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons. +Matthew 08:34 | Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders. +Matthew 09:01 | He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. +Matthew 09:02 | Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralysed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you." +Matthew 09:03 | Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes." +Matthew 09:04 | Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? +Matthew 09:05 | For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’ +Matthew 09:06 | But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—" (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house." +Matthew 09:08 | But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men. +Matthew 09:09 | As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him. +Matthew 09:10 | As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. +Matthew 09:11 | When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" +Matthew 09:12 | When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. +Matthew 09:13 | But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." +Matthew 09:14 | Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?" +Matthew 09:15 | Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. +Matthew 09:16 | No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. +Matthew 09:17 | Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved." +Matthew 09:18 | While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshipped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live." +Matthew 09:19 | Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. +Matthew 09:20 | Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; +Matthew 09:21 | for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be made well." +Matthew 09:22 | But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour. +Matthew 09:23 | When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, +Matthew 09:24 | he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him. +Matthew 09:25 | But when the crowd was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose. +Matthew 09:26 | The report of this went out into all that land. +Matthew 09:27 | As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" +Matthew 09:28 | When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord." +Matthew 09:29 | Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." +Matthew 09:30 | Then their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this." +Matthew 09:31 | But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land. +Matthew 09:32 | As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him. +Matthew 09:33 | When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marvelled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!" +Matthew 09:34 | But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons." +Matthew 09:35 | Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness amongst the people. +Matthew 09:36 | But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. +Matthew 09:37 | Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. +Matthew 09:38 | Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out labourers into his harvest." +Matthew 10:01 | He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. +Matthew 10:02 | Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother; +Matthew 10:03 | Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus; +Matthew 10:04 | Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. +Matthew 10:05 | Jesus sent these twelve out and commanded them, saying, "Don’t go amongst the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. +Matthew 10:06 | Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. +Matthew 10:07 | As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ +Matthew 10:08 | Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. +Matthew 10:09 | Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts. +Matthew 10:10 | Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the labourer is worthy of his food. +Matthew 10:11 | Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go on. +Matthew 10:12 | As you enter into the household, greet it. +Matthew 10:13 | If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you. +Matthew 10:14 | Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. +Matthew 10:15 | Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement than for that city. +Matthew 10:16 | "Behold, I send you out as sheep amongst wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. +Matthew 10:16 | I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. +Matthew 10:17 | But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. +Matthew 10:18 | Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. +Matthew 10:19 | But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. +Matthew 10:20 | For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. +Matthew 10:21 | "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. +Matthew 10:22 | You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. +Matthew 10:22 | You will be hated by everyone because of Me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. +Matthew 10:23 | But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come. +Matthew 10:24 | "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. +Matthew 10:24-25a | The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. +Matthew 10:25 | It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! +Matthew 10:26 | Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. +Matthew 10:27 | What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. +Matthew 10:28 | Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. +Matthew 10:28 | Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. +Matthew 10:29 | "Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. +Matthew 10:30 | But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. +Matthew 10:31 | Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. +Matthew 10:32 | Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 10:32-33 | Whoever acknowledges Me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in Heaven. But whoever disowns Me before others, I will disown before my Father in Heaven. +Matthew 10:33 | But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 10:34 | "Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. +Matthew 10:34 | Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. +Matthew 10:35 | For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. +Matthew 10:36 | A man’s foes will be those of his own household. +Matthew 10:37 | He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. +Matthew 10:37,39 | Anyone who loves their father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. +Matthew 10:38 | He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me. +Matthew 10:39 | He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. +Matthew 10:40 | "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. +Matthew 10:41 | He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. +Matthew 10:42 | Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward." +Matthew 11:01 | When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. +Matthew 11:02 | Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples +Matthew 11:03 | and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?" +Matthew 11:04 | Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: +Matthew 11:05 | the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. +Matthew 11:06 | Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of Me. +Matthew 11:06 | Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me." +Matthew 11:07 | As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? +Matthew 11:08 | But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. +Matthew 11:09 | But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. +Matthew 11:10 | For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’ +Matthew 11:11 | Most certainly I tell you, amongst those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptiser; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. +Matthew 11:12 | From the days of John the Baptiser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. +Matthew 11:13 | For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. +Matthew 11:14 | If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. +Matthew 11:15 | He who has ears to hear, let him hear. +Matthew 11:16 | "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions +Matthew 11:17 | and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’ +Matthew 11:18 | For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ +Matthew 11:19 | The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children." +Matthew 11:20 | Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. +Matthew 11:21 | "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. +Matthew 11:22 | But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgement than for you. +Matthew 11:23 | You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today. +Matthew 11:24 | But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgement, than for you." +Matthew 11:25 | At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. +Matthew 11:25 | Jesus said: "I praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children." +Matthew 11:26 | Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. +Matthew 11:27 | All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. +Matthew 11:28 | "Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. +Matthew 11:28 | Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. +Matthew 11:28-30 | Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. +Matthew 11:29 | Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. +Matthew 11:30 | For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." +Matthew 12:01 | At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. +Matthew 12:02 | But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." +Matthew 12:03 | But he said to them, "Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: +Matthew 12:04 | how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? +Matthew 12:05 | Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? +Matthew 12:06 | But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. +Matthew 12:07 | But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless. +Matthew 12:08 | For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." +Matthew 12:09 | He departed from there and went into their synagogue. +Matthew 12:10 | And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" so that they might accuse him. +Matthew 12:11 | He said to them, "What man is there amongst you who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it and lift it out? +Matthew 12:12 | Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day." +Matthew 12:13 | Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other. +Matthew 12:14 | But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him. +Matthew 12:15 | Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all, +Matthew 12:16 | and commanded them that they should not make him known, +Matthew 12:18 | "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations. +Matthew 12:19 | He will not strive, nor shout, neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets. +Matthew 12:20 | He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory. +Matthew 12:21 | In his name, the nations will hope." +Matthew 12:22 | Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. +Matthew 12:23 | All the multitudes were amazed, and said, "Can this be the son of David?" +Matthew 12:24 | But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons." +Matthew 12:25 | Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. +Matthew 12:26 | If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? +Matthew 12:27 | If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. +Matthew 12:28 | But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you. +Matthew 12:29 | Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house. +Matthew 12:30 | "He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. +Matthew 12:30-31 | Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. +Matthew 12:31 | Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. +Matthew 12:32 | Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. +Matthew 12:32 | Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in that which is to come. +Matthew 12:33 | "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. +Matthew 12:34 | You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. +Matthew 12:35 | A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. +Matthew 12:35 | The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things. +Matthew 12:36 | I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgement. +Matthew 12:36-37 | I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. +Matthew 12:37 | For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." +Matthew 12:38 | Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you." +Matthew 12:39 | But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. +Matthew 12:40 | For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. +Matthew 12:41 | The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgement with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. +Matthew 12:42 | The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgement with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. +Matthew 12:43 | "When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. +Matthew 12:44 | Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. +Matthew 12:45 | Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation." +Matthew 12:46 | While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. +Matthew 12:47 | One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you." +Matthew 12:48 | But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" +Matthew 12:49 | He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! +Matthew 12:50 | For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother." +Matthew 12:50 | Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is My brother, and sister, and mother. +Matthew 13:01 | On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. +Matthew 13:02 | Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. +Matthew 13:03 | He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. +Matthew 13:04 | As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. +Matthew 13:05 | Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. +Matthew 13:06 | When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. +Matthew 13:07 | Others fell amongst thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. +Matthew 13:08 | Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. +Matthew 13:10 | The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" +Matthew 13:11 | He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. +Matthew 13:12 | For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. +Matthew 13:12 | Whoever has, will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. +Matthew 13:13 | Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. +Matthew 13:14 | In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive; +Matthew 13:14 | You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. +Matthew 13:15 | for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’ +Matthew 13:16 | "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. +Matthew 13:16 | Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. +Matthew 13:17 | For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them. +Matthew 13:18 | "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. +Matthew 13:19 | When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. +Matthew 13:20 | What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; +Matthew 13:21 | yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. +Matthew 13:22 | What was sown amongst the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. +Matthew 13:23 | What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty." +Matthew 13:24 | He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, +Matthew 13:25 | but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also amongst the wheat, and went away. +Matthew 13:26 | But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. +Matthew 13:27 | The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’ +Matthew 13:28 | "He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ "The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’ +Matthew 13:29 | "But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. +Matthew 13:30 | Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn." +Matthew 13:31 | He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, +Matthew 13:32 | which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." +Matthew 13:33 | He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened." +Matthew 13:34 | Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, +Matthew 13:35 | that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world." +Matthew 13:36 | Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field." +Matthew 13:37 | He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, +Matthew 13:38 | the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. +Matthew 13:39 | The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. +Matthew 13:40 | As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burnt with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. +Matthew 13:41 | The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and those who do iniquity, +Matthew 13:42 | and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. +Matthew 13:43 | Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. +Matthew 13:44 | "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. +Matthew 13:45 | "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, +Matthew 13:46 | who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. +Matthew 13:47 | "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, +Matthew 13:48 | which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. +Matthew 13:49 | So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from amongst the righteous, +Matthew 13:50 | and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." +Matthew 13:51 | Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord." +Matthew 13:52 | He said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things." +Matthew 13:53 | When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there. +Matthew 13:54 | Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? +Matthew 13:55 | Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? +Matthew 13:56 | Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?" +Matthew 13:57 | They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country and in his own house." +Matthew 13:58 | He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. +Matthew 14:01 | At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, +Matthew 14:02 | and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptiser. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him." +Matthew 14:03 | For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. +Matthew 14:04 | For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." +Matthew 14:05 | When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. +Matthew 14:06 | But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced amongst them and pleased Herod. +Matthew 14:07 | Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. +Matthew 14:08 | She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptiser." +Matthew 14:09 | The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given, +Matthew 14:10 | and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. +Matthew 14:11 | His head was brought on a platter and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother. +Matthew 14:12 | His disciples came, took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus. +Matthew 14:13 | Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities. +Matthew 14:14 | Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them and healed their sick. +Matthew 14:15 | When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food." +Matthew 14:16 | But Jesus said to them, "They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat." +Matthew 14:17 | They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish." +Matthew 14:19 | He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. +Matthew 14:20 | They all ate and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces. +Matthew 14:21 | Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children. +Matthew 14:22 | Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. +Matthew 14:23 | After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone. +Matthew 14:24 | But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. +Matthew 14:25 | In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. +Matthew 14:26 | When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It’s a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. +Matthew 14:27 | But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid." +Matthew 14:28 | Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters." +Matthew 14:29 | He said, "Come!" Peter stepped down from the boat and walked on the waters to come to Jesus. +Matthew 14:30 | But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" +Matthew 14:31 | Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?" +Matthew 14:32 | When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased. +Matthew 14:33 | Those who were in the boat came and worshipped him, saying, "You are truly the Son of God!" +Matthew 14:34 | When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret. +Matthew 14:35 | When the people of that place recognised him, they sent into all that surrounding region and brought to him all who were sick; +Matthew 14:36 | and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole. +Matthew 15:02 | "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread." +Matthew 15:03 | He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? +Matthew 15:04 | For God commanded, ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ +Matthew 15:05 | But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," +Matthew 15:06 | he shall not honour his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. +Matthew 15:08 | ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. +Matthew 15:09 | And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’" +Matthew 15:10 | He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand. +Matthew 15:11 | That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." +Matthew 15:12 | Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" +Matthew 15:13 | But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. +Matthew 15:14 | Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit." +Matthew 15:15 | Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us." +Matthew 15:16 | So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand? +Matthew 15:17 | Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body? +Matthew 15:18 | But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. +Matthew 15:19 | For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. +Matthew 15:20 | These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man." +Matthew 15:21 | Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. +Matthew 15:22 | Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!" +Matthew 15:23 | But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us." +Matthew 15:24 | But he answered, "I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel." +Matthew 15:25 | But she came and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, help me." +Matthew 15:26 | But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs." +Matthew 15:27 | But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table." +Matthew 15:28 | Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour. +Matthew 15:29 | Jesus departed from there and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up on the mountain and sat there. +Matthew 15:30 | Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them, +Matthew 15:31 | so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel. +Matthew 15:32 | Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way." +Matthew 15:33 | The disciples said to him, "Where could we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?" +Matthew 15:34 | Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish." +Matthew 15:35 | He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; +Matthew 15:36 | and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. +Matthew 15:37 | They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over. +Matthew 15:38 | Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children. +Matthew 15:39 | Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala. +Matthew 16:01 | The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. +Matthew 16:02 | But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ +Matthew 16:03 | In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times! +Matthew 16:04 | An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them and departed. +Matthew 16:05 | The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. +Matthew 16:06 | Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." +Matthew 16:07 | They reasoned amongst themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." +Matthew 16:08 | Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason amongst yourselves, you of little faith, because you have brought no bread? +Matthew 16:09 | Don’t you yet perceive or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up, +Matthew 16:10 | or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? +Matthew 16:11 | How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." +Matthew 16:12 | Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. +Matthew 16:13 | Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" +Matthew 16:14 | They said, "Some say John the Baptiser, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." +Matthew 16:15 | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" +Matthew 16:16 | Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." +Matthew 16:17 | Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 16:18 | I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. +Matthew 16:19 | I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven." +Matthew 16:20 | Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ. +Matthew 16:21 | From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. +Matthew 16:22 | Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you." +Matthew 16:23 | But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men." +Matthew 16:24 | Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. +Matthew 16:25 | For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. +Matthew 16:26 | For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? +Matthew 16:27 | For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds. +Matthew 16:28 | Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom." +Matthew 17:01 | After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. +Matthew 17:02 | He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light. +Matthew 17:03 | Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him. +Matthew 17:04 | Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." +Matthew 17:05 | While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him." +Matthew 17:06 | When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. +Matthew 17:07 | Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don’t be afraid." +Matthew 17:08 | Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone. +Matthew 17:09 | As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead." +Matthew 17:10 | His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" +Matthew 17:11 | Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things; +Matthew 17:12 | but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognise him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them." +Matthew 17:13 | Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptiser. +Matthew 17:15 | "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water. +Matthew 17:16 | So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him." +Matthew 17:17 | Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me." +Matthew 17:18 | Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour. +Matthew 17:19 | Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren’t we able to cast it out?" +Matthew 17:20 | He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. +Matthew 17:21 | But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting." +Matthew 17:22 | While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, +Matthew 17:23 | and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up." They were exceedingly sorry. +Matthew 17:24 | When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?" +Matthew 17:25 | He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?" +Matthew 17:26 | Peter said to him, "From strangers." Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt. +Matthew 17:27 | But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you." +Matthew 18:01 | In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" +Matthew 18:02 | Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them +Matthew 18:03 | and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. +Matthew 18:04 | Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. +Matthew 18:05 | Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, +Matthew 18:06 | but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea. +Matthew 18:07 | "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! +Matthew 18:08 | If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. +Matthew 18:09 | If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. +Matthew 18:10 | See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 18:11 | For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. +Matthew 18:12 | "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? +Matthew 18:13 | If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. +Matthew 18:14 | Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. +Matthew 18:15 | "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. +Matthew 18:16 | But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. +Matthew 18:17 | If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector. +Matthew 18:18 | Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. +Matthew 18:19 | Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. +Matthew 18:20 | For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them." +Matthew 18:21 | Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?" +Matthew 18:22 | Jesus said to him, "I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. +Matthew 18:23 | Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. +Matthew 18:24 | When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. +Matthew 18:25 | But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. +Matthew 18:26 | The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’ +Matthew 18:27 | The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt. +Matthew 18:28 | "But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ +Matthew 18:29 | "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ +Matthew 18:30 | He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due. +Matthew 18:31 | So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done. +Matthew 18:32 | Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. +Matthew 18:33 | Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’ +Matthew 18:34 | His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him. +Matthew 18:35 | So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds." +Matthew 19:01 | When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. +Matthew 19:02 | Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. +Matthew 19:03 | Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?" +Matthew 19:04 | He answered, "Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, +Matthew 19:05 | and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ +Matthew 19:06 | So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart." +Matthew 19:07 | They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?" +Matthew 19:08 | He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. +Matthew 19:09 | I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery." +Matthew 19:10 | His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry." +Matthew 19:11 | But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. +Matthew 19:12 | For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it." +Matthew 19:13 | Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. +Matthew 19:14 | But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these." +Matthew 19:15 | He laid his hands on them, and departed from there. +Matthew 19:16 | Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" +Matthew 19:17 | He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." +Matthew 19:18 | He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ +Matthew 19:19 | ‘Honour your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’" +Matthew 19:20 | The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?" +Matthew 19:21 | Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." +Matthew 19:22 | But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions. +Matthew 19:23 | Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. +Matthew 19:24 | Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." +Matthew 19:25 | When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" +Matthew 19:26 | Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." +Matthew 19:27 | Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?" +Matthew 19:28 | Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. +Matthew 19:29 | Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. +Matthew 19:30 | But many will be last who are first, and first who are last. +Matthew 20:01 | "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. +Matthew 20:02 | When he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. +Matthew 20:03 | He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. +Matthew 20:04 | He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way. +Matthew 20:05 | Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. +Matthew 20:06 | About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’ +Matthew 20:07 | "They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ "He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’ +Matthew 20:08 | "When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ +Matthew 20:09 | "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. +Matthew 20:10 | When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. +Matthew 20:11 | When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, saying, +Matthew 20:12 | ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’ +Matthew 20:13 | "But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius? +Matthew 20:14 | Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. +Matthew 20:15 | Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ +Matthew 20:16 | So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen." +Matthew 20:18 | "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, +Matthew 20:19 | and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up." +Matthew 20:20 | Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. +Matthew 20:21 | He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom." +Matthew 20:22 | But Jesus answered, "You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?" They said to him, "We are able." +Matthew 20:23 | He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father." +Matthew 20:24 | When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers. +Matthew 20:25 | But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. +Matthew 20:26 | It shall not be so amongst you; but whoever desires to become great amongst you shall be your servant. +Matthew 20:27 | Whoever desires to be first amongst you shall be your bondservant, +Matthew 20:28 | even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." +Matthew 20:29 | As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. +Matthew 20:30 | Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" +Matthew 20:31 | The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" +Matthew 20:32 | Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" +Matthew 20:33 | They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." +Matthew 20:34 | Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him. +Matthew 21:01 | When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, +Matthew 21:02 | saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. +Matthew 21:03 | If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them." +Matthew 21:05 | "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." +Matthew 21:07 | and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them. +Matthew 21:08 | A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. +Matthew 21:09 | The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" +Matthew 21:10 | When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" +Matthew 21:11 | The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." +Matthew 21:12 | Jesus entered into the temple of God and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. +Matthew 21:13 | He said to them, "It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!" +Matthew 21:14 | The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them. +Matthew 21:15 | But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant, +Matthew 21:16 | and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise?’" +Matthew 21:17 | He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there. +Matthew 21:18 | Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. +Matthew 21:19 | Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away. +Matthew 21:20 | When the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?" +Matthew 21:21 | Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. +Matthew 21:22 | All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." +Matthew 21:23 | When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?" +Matthew 21:24 | Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. +Matthew 21:25 | The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ +Matthew 21:26 | But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet." +Matthew 21:27 | They answered Jesus, and said, "We don’t know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. +Matthew 21:28 | But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ +Matthew 21:29 | He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. +Matthew 21:30 | He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go. +Matthew 21:31 | Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you. +Matthew 21:32 | For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him. +Matthew 21:33 | "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. +Matthew 21:34 | When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit. +Matthew 21:35 | The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. +Matthew 21:36 | Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way. +Matthew 21:37 | But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ +Matthew 21:38 | But the farmers, when they saw the son, said amongst themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’ +Matthew 21:39 | So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him. +Matthew 21:40 | When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?" +Matthew 21:41 | They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season." +Matthew 21:42 | Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvellous in our eyes’? +Matthew 21:43 | "Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. +Matthew 21:44 | He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust." +Matthew 21:45 | When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. +Matthew 21:46 | When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet. +Matthew 22:02 | "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son, +Matthew 22:03 | and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. +Matthew 22:04 | Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!"’ +Matthew 22:05 | But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise; +Matthew 22:06 | and the rest grabbed his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. +Matthew 22:07 | When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city. +Matthew 22:08 | "Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. +Matthew 22:09 | Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’ +Matthew 22:10 | Those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. +Matthew 22:11 | "But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, +Matthew 22:12 | and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. +Matthew 22:13 | Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’ +Matthew 22:14 | For many are called, but few chosen." +Matthew 22:15 | Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. +Matthew 22:16 | They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone. +Matthew 22:17 | Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" +Matthew 22:18 | But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites? +Matthew 22:19 | Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius. +Matthew 22:20 | He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" +Matthew 22:21 | They said to him, "Caesar’s." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." +Matthew 22:22 | When they heard it, they marvelled, and left him and went away. +Matthew 22:24 | "Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ +Matthew 22:25 | Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. +Matthew 22:26 | In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. +Matthew 22:28 | In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her." +Matthew 22:29 | But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. +Matthew 22:30 | For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. +Matthew 22:32 | ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." +Matthew 22:33 | When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. +Matthew 22:34 | But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. +Matthew 22:36 | "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" +Matthew 22:37 | Jesus said to him, "‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ +Matthew 22:39 | A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ +Matthew 22:40 | The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." saying, +Matthew 22:42 | "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "Of David." +Matthew 22:44 | ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’? +Matthew 22:45 | "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?" +Matthew 22:46 | No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward. +Matthew 23:03 | All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. +Matthew 23:04 | For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. +Matthew 23:05 | But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments, +Matthew 23:06 | and love the place of honour at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, +Matthew 23:07 | the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi by men. +Matthew 23:08 | But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. +Matthew 23:09 | Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. +Matthew 23:10 | Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. +Matthew 23:11 | But he who is greatest amongst you will be your servant. +Matthew 23:12 | Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. +Matthew 23:13 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretence you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. +Matthew 23:13 | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. +Matthew 23:14 | "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter. +Matthew 23:15 | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. +Matthew 23:16 | "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ +Matthew 23:17 | You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? +Matthew 23:18 | And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ +Matthew 23:19 | You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? +Matthew 23:20 | He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it. +Matthew 23:21 | He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it. +Matthew 23:22 | He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. +Matthew 23:23 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. +Matthew 23:24 | You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! +Matthew 23:25 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. +Matthew 23:26 | You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also. +Matthew 23:27 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness. +Matthew 23:27 | Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. +Matthew 23:28 | Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. +Matthew 23:28 | On the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. +Matthew 23:29 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous, +Matthew 23:30 | and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ +Matthew 23:31 | Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. +Matthew 23:32 | Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. +Matthew 23:33 | You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgement of Gehenna? +Matthew 23:34 | Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, +Matthew 23:35 | that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. +Matthew 23:36 | Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. +Matthew 23:37 | "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! +Matthew 23:38 | Behold, your house is left to you desolate. +Matthew 23:39 | For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’" +Matthew 24:01 | Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. +Matthew 24:02 | But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down." +Matthew 24:03 | As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" +Matthew 24:04 | Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. +Matthew 24:05 | For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. +Matthew 24:06 | You will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. +Matthew 24:07 | For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. +Matthew 24:07 | Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. +Matthew 24:08 | But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. +Matthew 24:09 | "Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. +Matthew 24:10 | Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. +Matthew 24:11 | Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray. +Matthew 24:12 | Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. +Matthew 24:13 | But he who endures to the end will be saved. +Matthew 24:14 | This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. +Matthew 24:15 | "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), +Matthew 24:16 | then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. +Matthew 24:17 | Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house. +Matthew 24:18 | Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. +Matthew 24:19 | But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! +Matthew 24:20 | Pray that your flight will not be in the winter nor on a Sabbath, +Matthew 24:21 | for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. +Matthew 24:22 | Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. +Matthew 24:23 | "Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There!’ don’t believe it. +Matthew 24:24 | For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. +Matthew 24:26 | "If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. +Matthew 24:27 | For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. +Matthew 24:28 | For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together. +Matthew 24:29 | "But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; +Matthew 24:30 | and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. +Matthew 24:31 | He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. +Matthew 24:32 | "Now from the fig tree learn this parable: When its branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. +Matthew 24:33 | Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, even at the doors. +Matthew 24:34 | Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things are accomplished. +Matthew 24:35 | Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. +Matthew 24:36 | "But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. +Matthew 24:37 | As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. +Matthew 24:38 | For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, +Matthew 24:39 | and they didn’t know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. +Matthew 24:40 | Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left. +Matthew 24:41 | Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left. +Matthew 24:42 | Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes. +Matthew 24:43 | But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. +Matthew 24:44 | Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come. +Matthew 24:45 | "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? +Matthew 24:46 | Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. +Matthew 24:47 | Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has. +Matthew 24:48 | But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ +Matthew 24:49 | and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, +Matthew 24:50 | the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it and in an hour when he doesn’t know it, +Matthew 24:51 | and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. +Matthew 25:01 | "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. +Matthew 25:02 | Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. +Matthew 25:03 | Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, +Matthew 25:04 | but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. +Matthew 25:05 | Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. +Matthew 25:06 | But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ +Matthew 25:07 | Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. +Matthew 25:08 | The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ +Matthew 25:09 | But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ +Matthew 25:10 | While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. +Matthew 25:11 | Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ +Matthew 25:12 | But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ +Matthew 25:13 | Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. +Matthew 25:14 | "For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. +Matthew 25:15 | To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. +Matthew 25:16 | Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. +Matthew 25:17 | In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two. +Matthew 25:18 | But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money. +Matthew 25:19 | "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them. +Matthew 25:20 | He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’ +Matthew 25:21 | "His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ +Matthew 25:22 | "He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’ +Matthew 25:23 | "His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ +Matthew 25:24 | "He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter. +Matthew 25:25 | I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’ +Matthew 25:26 | "But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. +Matthew 25:27 | You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. +Matthew 25:28 | Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. +Matthew 25:29 | For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. +Matthew 25:30 | Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ +Matthew 25:31 | "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. +Matthew 25:32 | Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. +Matthew 25:33 | He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. +Matthew 25:34 | Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; +Matthew 25:35 | for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. +Matthew 25:36 | I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’ +Matthew 25:37 | "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? +Matthew 25:38 | When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? +Matthew 25:39 | When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ +Matthew 25:40 | "The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ +Matthew 25:41 | Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; +Matthew 25:42 | for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; +Matthew 25:43 | I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’ +Matthew 25:44 | "Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’ +Matthew 25:45 | "Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ +Matthew 25:46 | These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." +Matthew 26:01 | When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, +Matthew 26:02 | "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." +Matthew 26:03 | Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. +Matthew 26:04 | They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him. +Matthew 26:05 | But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur amongst the people." +Matthew 26:06 | Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, +Matthew 26:07 | a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. +Matthew 26:08 | But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? +Matthew 26:09 | For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor." +Matthew 26:10 | However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me. +Matthew 26:11 | For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me. +Matthew 26:12 | For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. +Matthew 26:13 | Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her." +Matthew 26:14 | Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests +Matthew 26:15 | and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?" So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. +Matthew 26:16 | From that time he sought opportunity to betray him. +Matthew 26:17 | Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?" +Matthew 26:18 | He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples." +Matthew 26:19 | The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover. +Matthew 26:20 | Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. +Matthew 26:21 | As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." +Matthew 26:22 | They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn’t me, is it, Lord?" +Matthew 26:23 | He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me. +Matthew 26:24 | The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born." +Matthew 26:25 | Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it." +Matthew 26:26 | As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." +Matthew 26:27 | He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it, +Matthew 26:28 | for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. +Matthew 26:29 | But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom." +Matthew 26:30 | When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. +Matthew 26:31 | Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ +Matthew 26:32 | But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." +Matthew 26:33 | But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble." +Matthew 26:34 | Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." +Matthew 26:35 | Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise. +Matthew 26:36 | Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray." +Matthew 26:37 | He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. +Matthew 26:38 | Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me." +Matthew 26:39 | He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire." +Matthew 26:40 | He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? +Matthew 26:41 | Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." +Matthew 26:42 | Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done." +Matthew 26:43 | He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. +Matthew 26:44 | He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words. +Matthew 26:45 | Then he came to his disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. +Matthew 26:46 | Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." +Matthew 26:47 | While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people. +Matthew 26:48 | Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him." +Matthew 26:49 | Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him. +Matthew 26:50 | Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. +Matthew 26:51 | Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. +Matthew 26:52 | Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. +Matthew 26:53 | Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? +Matthew 26:54 | How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?" +Matthew 26:55 | In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. +Matthew 26:56 | But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled. +Matthew 26:57 | Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. +Matthew 26:58 | But Peter followed him from a distance to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end. +Matthew 26:59 | Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death, +Matthew 26:60 | and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward +Matthew 26:61 | and said, "This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’" +Matthew 26:62 | The high priest stood up and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?" +Matthew 26:63 | But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." +Matthew 26:64 | Jesus said to him, "You have said so. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky." +Matthew 26:65 | Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. +Matthew 26:66 | What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!" +Matthew 26:67 | Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him, saying, +Matthew 26:68 | "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?" +Matthew 26:69 | Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!" +Matthew 26:70 | But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don’t know what you are talking about." +Matthew 26:71 | When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth." +Matthew 26:72 | Again he denied it with an oath, "I don’t know the man." +Matthew 26:73 | After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known." +Matthew 26:74 | Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don’t know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed. +Matthew 26:75 | Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." Then he went out and wept bitterly. +Matthew 27:01 | Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. +Matthew 27:02 | They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor. +Matthew 27:03 | Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, +Matthew 27:04 | "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." +Matthew 27:05 | He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself. +Matthew 27:06 | The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, "It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." +Matthew 27:07 | They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in. +Matthew 27:08 | Therefore that field has been called "The Field of Blood" to this day. +Matthew 27:09 | Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced, +Matthew 27:10 | and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me." +Matthew 27:11 | Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say." +Matthew 27:12 | When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. +Matthew 27:13 | Then Pilate said to him, "Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?" +Matthew 27:14 | He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marvelled greatly. +Matthew 27:15 | Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they desired. +Matthew 27:16 | They had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas. +Matthew 27:17 | When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" +Matthew 27:18 | For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up. +Matthew 27:19 | While he was sitting on the judgement seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him." +Matthew 27:20 | Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. +Matthew 27:21 | But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" +Matthew 27:22 | Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!" +Matthew 27:23 | But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" +Matthew 27:24 | So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." +Matthew 27:25 | All the people answered, "May his blood be on us and on our children!" +Matthew 27:26 | Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified. +Matthew 27:27 | Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. +Matthew 27:28 | They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. +Matthew 27:29 | They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt down before him and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" +Matthew 27:30 | They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. +Matthew 27:31 | When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. +Matthew 27:32 | As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. +Matthew 27:33 | When they came to a place called "Golgotha", that is to say, "The place of a skull," +Matthew 27:34 | they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink. +Matthew 27:35 | When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing amongst them, casting lots, +Matthew 27:37 | They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS." +Matthew 27:38 | Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left. +Matthew 27:40 | and saying, "You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" +Matthew 27:42 | "He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. +Matthew 27:43 | He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’" +Matthew 27:44 | The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach. +Matthew 27:45 | Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. +Matthew 27:46 | About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" +Matthew 27:47 | Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Elijah." +Matthew 27:48 | Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him a drink. +Matthew 27:49 | The rest said, "Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him." +Matthew 27:50 | Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. +Matthew 27:51 | Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. +Matthew 27:52 | The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; +Matthew 27:53 | and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. +Matthew 27:54 | Now the centurion and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were done, were terrified, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!" +Matthew 27:55 | Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him. +Matthew 27:56 | Amongst them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. +Matthew 27:57 | When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple, came. +Matthew 27:58 | This man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up. +Matthew 27:59 | Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth +Matthew 27:60 | and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock. Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed. +Matthew 27:61 | Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. +Matthew 27:62 | Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, saying, +Matthew 27:63 | "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’ +Matthew 27:64 | Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first." +Matthew 27:65 | Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can." +Matthew 27:66 | So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone. +Matthew 28:01 | Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. +Matthew 28:02 | Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky and came and rolled away the stone from the door and sat on it. +Matthew 28:03 | His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. +Matthew 28:04 | For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men. +Matthew 28:05 | The angel answered the women, "Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified. +Matthew 28:06 | He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying. +Matthew 28:07 | Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you." +Matthew 28:08 | They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word. +Matthew 28:09 | As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. +Matthew 28:10 | Then Jesus said to them, "Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me." +Matthew 28:11 | Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city and told the chief priests all the things that had happened. +Matthew 28:12 | When they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, saying, +Matthew 28:13 | "Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept. +Matthew 28:14 | If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry." +Matthew 28:15 | So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad amongst the Jews, and continues until today. +Matthew 28:16 | But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. +Matthew 28:17 | When they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some doubted. +Matthew 28:18 | Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. +Matthew 28:19 | Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, +Matthew 28:20 | teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. +Micah 01:01 | The Lord’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. +Micah 01:02 | Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. +Micah 01:03 | For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. +Micah 01:04 | The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place. +Micah 01:05 | "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem? +Micah 01:06 | Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations. +Micah 01:07 | All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burnt with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return." +Micah 01:08 | For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls. +Micah 01:09 | For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. +Micah 01:10 | Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust. +Micah 01:11 | Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection. +Micah 01:12 | For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem. +Micah 01:13 | Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you. +Micah 01:14 | Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel. +Micah 01:15 | I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah, him who will possess you. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. +Micah 01:16 | Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you! +Micah 02:01 | Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. +Micah 02:02 | They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. +Micah 02:03 | Therefore the Lord says: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time. +Micah 02:04 | In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’" +Micah 02:05 | Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the Lord’s assembly. +Micah 02:06 | "Don’t prophesy!"—they prophesy— "Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us." +Micah 02:07 | Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Lord’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?" +Micah 02:08 | But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle. +Micah 02:09 | You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever. +Micah 02:10 | Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction. +Micah 02:11 | If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink" he would be the prophet of this people. +Micah 02:12 | I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people. +Micah 02:13 | He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. Their king passes on before them, with the Lord at their head. +Micah 03:01 | I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? +Micah 03:02 | You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; +Micah 03:03 | who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron. +Micah 03:04 | Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil." +Micah 03:05 | The Lord says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: +Micah 03:06 | "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them. +Micah 03:07 | The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God." +Micah 03:08 | But as for me, I am full of power by the Lord’s Spirit, and of judgement, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. +Micah 03:09 | Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. +Micah 03:10 | They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. +Micah 03:11 | Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the Lord, and say, "Isn’t the Lord amongst us? No disaster will come on us." +Micah 03:12 | Therefore Zion for your sake will be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest. +Micah 04:01 | But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it. +Micah 04:02 | Many nations will go and say, "Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For the law will go out of Zion, and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem; +Micah 04:03 | and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. +Micah 04:04 | But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Armies has spoken. +Micah 04:05 | All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. +Micah 04:05 | Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. +Micah 04:06 | "In that day," says the Lord, "I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; +Micah 04:07 | and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever." +Micah 04:08 | You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. +Micah 04:09 | Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counsellor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? +Micah 04:10 | Be in pain, and labour to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. +Micah 04:11 | Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion." +Micah 04:12 | But they don’t know the thoughts of the Lord, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor. +Micah 04:13 | Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to the Lord, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. +Micah 05:01 | Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek. +Micah 05:02 | But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small amongst the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times. +Micah 05:03 | Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labour gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. +Micah 05:04 | He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth. +Micah 05:05 | He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men. +Micah 05:06 | They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border. +Micah 05:07 | The remnant of Jacob will be amongst many peoples, like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men. +Micah 05:08 | The remnant of Jacob will be amongst the nations, amongst many peoples, like a lion amongst the animals of the forest, like a young lion amongst the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver. +Micah 05:09 | Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off. +Micah 05:10 | "It will happen in that day", says the Lord, "that I will cut off your horses out from amongst you, and will destroy your chariots. +Micah 05:11 | I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds. +Micah 05:12 | I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers. +Micah 05:13 | I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from amongst you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands. +Micah 05:14 | I will uproot your Asherah poles out from amongst you; and I will destroy your cities. +Micah 05:15 | I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen." +Micah 06:01 | Listen now to what the Lord says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. +Micah 06:02 | Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel. +Micah 06:03 | My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! +Micah 06:04 | For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. +Micah 06:05 | My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord." +Micah 06:06 | How shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? +Micah 06:07 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? +Micah 06:08 | He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the Lord require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? +Micah 06:08 | He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. +Micah 06:09 | The Lord’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. +Micah 06:10 | Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? +Micah 06:11 | Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? +Micah 06:12 | Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. +Micah 06:13 | Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. +Micah 06:14 | You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword. +Micah 06:15 | You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine. +Micah 06:16 | For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; and you will bear the reproach of my people." +Micah 07:01 | Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. +Micah 07:02 | The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright amongst men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net. +Micah 07:03 | Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together. +Micah 07:04 | The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion. +Micah 07:05 | Don’t trust in a neighbour. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth! +Micah 07:06 | For the son dishonours the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. +Micah 07:07 | But as for me, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. +Micah 07:08 | Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. +Micah 07:09 | I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgement for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness. +Micah 07:10 | Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is the Lord your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets. +Micah 07:11 | A day to build your walls! In that day, he will extend your boundary. +Micah 07:12 | In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain. +Micah 07:13 | Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. +Micah 07:14 | Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. +Micah 07:15 | "As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvellous things." +Micah 07:16 | The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf. +Micah 07:17 | They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the Lord our God, and will be afraid because of you. +Micah 07:18 | Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. +Micah 07:19 | He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. +Micah 07:20 | You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. +Nahum 01:02 | The Lord is a jealous God and avenges. The Lord avenges and is full of wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies. +Nahum 01:03 | The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. +Nahum 01:04 | He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes. +Nahum 01:05 | The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. +Nahum 01:06 | Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him. +Nahum 01:07 | The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him. +Nahum 01:07 | The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. +Nahum 01:08 | But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. +Nahum 01:09 | What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time. +Nahum 01:10 | For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. +Nahum 01:11 | One has gone out of you who devises evil against the Lord, who counsels wickedness. +Nahum 01:12 | The Lord says: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. +Nahum 01:13 | Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart." +Nahum 01:14 | The Lord has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile." +Nahum 01:15 | Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off. +Nahum 02:01 | He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! +Nahum 02:02 | For the Lord restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches. +Nahum 02:03 | The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. +Nahum 02:04 | The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. +Nahum 02:05 | He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. +Nahum 02:06 | The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. +Nahum 02:07 | It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. +Nahum 02:08 | But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back. +Nahum 02:09 | Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture. +Nahum 02:10 | She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. +Nahum 02:11 | Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid? +Nahum 02:12 | The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey. +Nahum 02:13 | "Behold, I am against you," says the Lord of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard." +Nahum 03:01 | Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart. +Nahum 03:02 | The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, +Nahum 03:03 | the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, +Nahum 03:04 | because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. +Nahum 03:05 | "Behold, I am against you," says the Lord of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. +Nahum 03:06 | I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle. +Nahum 03:07 | It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?" +Nahum 03:08 | Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated amongst the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? +Nahum 03:09 | Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. +Nahum 03:10 | Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. +Nahum 03:11 | You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy. +Nahum 03:12 | All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. +Nahum 03:13 | Behold, your troops amongst you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars. +Nahum 03:14 | Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. +Nahum 03:15 | There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. +Nahum 03:16 | You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away. +Nahum 03:17 | Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. +Nahum 03:18 | Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. +Nahum 03:19 | There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty? +Nehemiah 01:01 | The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace, +Nehemiah 01:02 | Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. +Nehemiah 01:03 | They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burnt with fire." +Nehemiah 01:04 | When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, +Nehemiah 01:05 | and said, "I beg you, Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments: +Nehemiah 01:06 | Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned. +Nehemiah 01:07 | We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses. +Nehemiah 01:08 | "Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you amongst the peoples; +Nehemiah 01:09 | but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’ +Nehemiah 01:10 | "Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand. +Nehemiah 01:11 | Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cup bearer to the king. +Nehemiah 02:01 | In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence. +Nehemiah 02:02 | The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very much afraid. +Nehemiah 02:03 | I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?" +Nehemiah 02:04 | Then the king said to me, "What is your request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven. +Nehemiah 02:05 | I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favour in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it." +Nehemiah 02:06 | The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), "How long will your journey be? When will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him. +Nehemiah 02:07 | Moreover I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah; +Nehemiah 02:08 | and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy." The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me. +Nehemiah 02:09 | Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. +Nehemiah 02:11 | So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. +Nehemiah 02:12 | I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on. +Nehemiah 02:13 | I went out by night by the valley gate, even towards the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire. +Nehemiah 02:14 | Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass. +Nehemiah 02:15 | Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned. +Nehemiah 02:16 | The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work. +Nehemiah 02:17 | Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burnt with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced." +Nehemiah 02:18 | I told them about the hand of my God which was good on me, and also about the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, "Let’s rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work. +Nehemiah 02:19 | But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?" +Nehemiah 02:20 | Then I answered them, and said to them, "The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem." +Nehemiah 03:01 | Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel. +Nehemiah 03:32 | Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs. +Nehemiah 04:02 | He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burnt?" +Nehemiah 04:03 | Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall." +Nehemiah 04:04 | "Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity. +Nehemiah 04:05 | Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders." +Nehemiah 04:06 | So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work. +Nehemiah 04:07 | But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry; +Nehemiah 04:08 | and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion amongst us. +Nehemiah 04:09 | But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them. +Nehemiah 04:10 | Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall." +Nehemiah 04:11 | Our adversaries said, "They will not know or see, until we come in amongst them and kill them, and cause the work to cease." +Nehemiah 04:12 | When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us." +Nehemiah 04:13 | Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows. +Nehemiah 04:14 | I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." +Nehemiah 04:15 | When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work. +Nehemiah 04:16 | From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. +Nehemiah 04:17 | Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon. +Nehemiah 04:18 | Amongst the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me. +Nehemiah 04:19 | I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. +Nehemiah 04:20 | Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us." +Nehemiah 04:21 | So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. +Nehemiah 04:22 | Likewise at the same time I said to the people, "Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day." +Nehemiah 04:23 | So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water. +Nehemiah 05:01 | Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. +Nehemiah 05:02 | For there were some who said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live." +Nehemiah 05:03 | There were also some who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine." +Nehemiah 05:04 | There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. +Nehemiah 05:05 | Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards." +Nehemiah 05:06 | I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. +Nehemiah 05:07 | Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them. +Nehemiah 05:08 | I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say. +Nehemiah 05:09 | Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? +Nehemiah 05:10 | I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury. +Nehemiah 05:11 | Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them." +Nehemiah 05:12 | Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. +Nehemiah 05:13 | Also I shook out my lap, and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this." All the assembly said, "Amen," and praised the Lord. The people did according to this promise. +Nehemiah 05:14 | Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor. +Nehemiah 05:15 | But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God. +Nehemiah 05:16 | Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work. +Nehemiah 05:17 | Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred and fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from amongst the nations that were around us. +Nehemiah 05:18 | Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people. +Nehemiah 05:19 | Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people. +Nehemiah 06:01 | Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates) +Nehemiah 06:02 | Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono." But they intended to harm me. +Nehemiah 06:03 | I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?" +Nehemiah 06:04 | They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way. +Nehemiah 06:05 | Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand, +Nehemiah 06:06 | in which was written, "It is reported amongst the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words. +Nehemiah 06:07 | You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together." +Nehemiah 06:08 | Then I sent to him, saying, "There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart." +Nehemiah 06:09 | For they all would have made us afraid, saying, "Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done." But now, strengthen my hands. +Nehemiah 06:10 | I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, "Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you." +Nehemiah 06:11 | I said, "Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in." +Nehemiah 06:12 | I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. +Nehemiah 06:13 | He was hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me. +Nehemiah 06:14 | "Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear." +Nehemiah 06:16 | When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God. +Nehemiah 07:64 | These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood. +Nehemiah 08:01 | All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. +Nehemiah 08:02 | Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. +Nehemiah 08:03 | He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. +Nehemiah 08:05 | Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up. +Nehemiah 08:06 | Then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. All the people answered, "Amen, Amen," with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. +Nehemiah 08:08 | They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. +Nehemiah 08:09 | Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, "Today is holy to the Lord your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep." For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. +Nehemiah 08:10 | Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. +Nehemiah 08:10 | Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." +Nehemiah 08:11 | So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved." +Nehemiah 08:12 | All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. +Nehemiah 08:13 | On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law. +Nehemiah 08:14 | They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; +Nehemiah 08:15 | and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written." +Nehemiah 08:16 | So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. +Nehemiah 08:17 | All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness. +Nehemiah 08:18 | Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance. +Nehemiah 09:01 | Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them. +Nehemiah 09:02 | The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. +Nehemiah 09:03 | They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God. +Nehemiah 09:04 | Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God. +Nehemiah 09:06 | You are the Lord, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you. +Nehemiah 09:07 | You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham, +Nehemiah 09:08 | found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous. +Nehemiah 09:09 | "You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea, +Nehemiah 09:10 | and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today. +Nehemiah 09:11 | You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. +Nehemiah 09:12 | Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go. +Nehemiah 09:13 | "You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, +Nehemiah 09:14 | and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, +Nehemiah 09:15 | and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them. +Nehemiah 09:16 | "But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments, +Nehemiah 09:17 | and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did amongst them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them. +Nehemiah 09:18 | Yes, when they had made themselves a moulded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies; +Nehemiah 09:19 | yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go. +Nehemiah 09:20 | You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. +Nehemiah 09:21 | "Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell. +Nehemiah 09:22 | Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. +Nehemiah 09:23 | You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. +Nehemiah 09:24 | "So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased. +Nehemiah 09:25 | They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. +Nehemiah 09:26 | "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies. +Nehemiah 09:27 | Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviours who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries. +Nehemiah 09:28 | But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies, +Nehemiah 09:29 | and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear. +Nehemiah 09:30 | Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. +Nehemiah 09:31 | "Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God. +Nehemiah 09:32 | Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. +Nehemiah 09:33 | However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly. +Nehemiah 09:34 | Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. +Nehemiah 09:35 | For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works. +Nehemiah 09:36 | "Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it. +Nehemiah 09:37 | It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. +Nehemiah 09:38 | Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it." +Nehemiah 10:29 | joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; +Nehemiah 10:30 | and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; +Nehemiah 10:31 | and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. +Nehemiah 10:32 | Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; +Nehemiah 10:33 | for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. +Nehemiah 10:34 | We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the Lord our God’s altar, as it is written in the law; +Nehemiah 10:35 | and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to the Lord’s house; +Nehemiah 10:36 | also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God; +Nehemiah 10:37 | and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. +Nehemiah 10:38 | The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house. +Nehemiah 10:39 | For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God. +Nehemiah 11:01 | The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities. +Nehemiah 11:02 | The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem. +Nehemiah 12:27 | At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps. +Nehemiah 12:28 | The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; +Nehemiah 12:29 | also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem. +Nehemiah 12:30 | The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. +Nehemiah 12:31 | Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall towards the dung gate; +Nehemiah 12:32 | and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah, +Nehemiah 12:37 | By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward. +Nehemiah 12:38 | The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall, +Nehemiah 12:39 | and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard. +Nehemiah 12:40 | So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me; +Nehemiah 12:43 | They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away. +Nehemiah 12:44 | On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who served. +Nehemiah 12:45 | They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. +Nehemiah 12:46 | For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. +Nehemiah 13:01 | On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever, +Nehemiah 13:02 | because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing. +Nehemiah 13:03 | It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel. +Nehemiah 13:05 | had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests. +Nehemiah 13:06 | But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king, +Nehemiah 13:07 | and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house. +Nehemiah 13:08 | It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room. +Nehemiah 13:09 | Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again. +Nehemiah 13:10 | I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field. +Nehemiah 13:11 | Then I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is God’s house forsaken?" I gathered them together, and set them in their place. +Nehemiah 13:12 | Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries. +Nehemiah 13:13 | I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers. +Nehemiah 13:14 | Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances. +Nehemiah 13:15 | In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food. +Nehemiah 13:16 | Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. +Nehemiah 13:17 | Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day? +Nehemiah 13:18 | Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath." +Nehemiah 13:19 | It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day. +Nehemiah 13:20 | So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice. +Nehemiah 13:21 | Then I testified against them, and said to them, "Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath. +Nehemiah 13:22 | I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for this also, my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness. +Nehemiah 13:23 | In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; +Nehemiah 13:24 | and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people. +Nehemiah 13:25 | I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. +Nehemiah 13:26 | Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet amongst many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. +Nehemiah 13:27 | Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?" +Nehemiah 13:28 | One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me. +Nehemiah 13:29 | Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites. +Nehemiah 13:30 | Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work; +Nehemiah 13:31 | and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. +Numbers 01:02 | "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one, +Numbers 01:03 | from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions. +Numbers 01:04 | With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house. +Numbers 02:02 | "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it." +Numbers 03:03 | These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. +Numbers 03:04 | Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father. +Numbers 03:06 | "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. +Numbers 03:07 | They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. +Numbers 03:08 | They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. +Numbers 03:09 | You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. +Numbers 03:10 | You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death." +Numbers 03:12 | "Behold, I have taken the Levites from amongst the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb amongst the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine, +Numbers 03:13 | for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the Lord." +Numbers 03:15 | "Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward." +Numbers 03:16 | Moses counted them according to the Lord’s word, as he was commanded. +Numbers 03:36 | The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, +Numbers 03:37 | the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. +Numbers 03:38 | Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting towards the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death. +Numbers 03:39 | All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the Lord, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. +Numbers 03:40 | The Lord said to Moses, "Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. +Numbers 03:41 | You shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the livestock of the children of Israel." +Numbers 03:42 | Moses counted, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel. +Numbers 03:43 | All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three. +Numbers 03:45 | "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord. +Numbers 03:46 | For the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites, +Numbers 03:47 | you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs); +Numbers 03:48 | and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons." +Numbers 03:49 | Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; +Numbers 03:50 | from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand and three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; +Numbers 03:51 | and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the Lord’s word, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 04:02 | "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from amongst the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, +Numbers 04:03 | from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 04:04 | "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things. +Numbers 04:05 | When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it, +Numbers 04:06 | put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles. +Numbers 04:07 | "On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. +Numbers 04:08 | They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. +Numbers 04:09 | "They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. +Numbers 04:10 | They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. +Numbers 04:11 | "On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. +Numbers 04:12 | "They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. +Numbers 04:13 | "They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. +Numbers 04:14 | They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. +Numbers 04:15 | "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 04:49 | According to the commandment of the Lord they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 05:02 | "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse. +Numbers 05:03 | You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell." +Numbers 05:04 | The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did. +Numbers 05:06 | "Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the Lord, and that soul is guilty, +Numbers 05:07 | then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty. +Numbers 05:08 | But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the Lord shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. +Numbers 05:09 | Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his. +Numbers 05:10 | Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’" +Numbers 05:12 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, +Numbers 05:13 | and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act; +Numbers 05:14 | and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled; +Numbers 05:15 | then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. +Numbers 05:16 | The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord. +Numbers 05:17 | The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. +Numbers 05:18 | The priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse. +Numbers 05:19 | The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. +Numbers 05:20 | But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—" +Numbers 05:21 | then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "May The Lord make you a curse and an oath amongst your people, when the Lord allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; +Numbers 05:22 | and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen." +Numbers 05:23 | "‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness. +Numbers 05:24 | He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. +Numbers 05:25 | The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. +Numbers 05:26 | The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. +Numbers 05:27 | When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse amongst her people. +Numbers 05:28 | If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring. +Numbers 05:29 | "‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled, +Numbers 05:30 | or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. +Numbers 05:31 | The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’" +Numbers 06:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, +Numbers 06:03 | he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. +Numbers 06:04 | All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins. +Numbers 06:05 | "‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to the Lord. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. +Numbers 06:06 | "‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. +Numbers 06:07 | He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head. +Numbers 06:09 | "‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. +Numbers 06:10 | On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 06:11 | The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day. +Numbers 06:12 | He shall separate to the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. +Numbers 06:13 | "‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, +Numbers 06:14 | and he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings, +Numbers 06:15 | a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings. +Numbers 06:16 | The priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering. +Numbers 06:17 | He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering. +Numbers 06:18 | The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. +Numbers 06:19 | The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation; +Numbers 06:20 | and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine. +Numbers 06:21 | "‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to the Lord for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’" +Numbers 06:23 | "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them, +Numbers 06:25 | The Lord make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. +Numbers 06:26 | The Lord lift up his face towards you, and give you peace.’ +Numbers 06:27 | "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them." +Numbers 07:01 | On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; +Numbers 07:02 | the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted; +Numbers 07:03 | and they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle. +Numbers 07:05 | "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service." +Numbers 07:06 | Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. +Numbers 07:07 | He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service. +Numbers 07:08 | He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. +Numbers 07:09 | But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders. +Numbers 07:10 | The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar. +Numbers 07:11 | The Lord said to Moses, "They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar." +Numbers 07:84 | This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; +Numbers 07:89 | When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him. +Numbers 08:02 | "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’" +Numbers 08:03 | Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 08:04 | This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses. +Numbers 08:06 | "Take the Levites from amongst the children of Israel, and cleanse them. +Numbers 08:07 | You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. +Numbers 08:08 | Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering. +Numbers 08:09 | You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel. +Numbers 08:10 | You shall present the Levites before the Lord. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites, +Numbers 08:11 | and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the Lord. +Numbers 08:12 | "The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites. +Numbers 08:13 | You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. +Numbers 08:14 | Thus you shall separate the Levites from amongst the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. +Numbers 08:15 | "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering. +Numbers 08:16 | For they are wholly given to me from amongst the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me. +Numbers 08:17 | For all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. +Numbers 08:18 | I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel. +Numbers 08:19 | I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from amongst the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague amongst the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary." +Numbers 08:20 | Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them. +Numbers 08:21 | The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the Lord and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. +Numbers 08:22 | After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them. +Numbers 08:24 | "This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; +Numbers 08:25 | and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more, +Numbers 08:26 | but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties." +Numbers 09:02 | "Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. +Numbers 09:03 | On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances." +Numbers 09:04 | Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. +Numbers 09:05 | They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. +Numbers 09:06 | There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. +Numbers 09:07 | Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the Lord in its appointed season amongst the children of Israel?" +Numbers 09:08 | Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you." +Numbers 09:10 | "Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord. +Numbers 09:11 | In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. +Numbers 09:12 | They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. +Numbers 09:13 | But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of the Lord in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. +Numbers 09:14 | "‘If a foreigner lives amongst you, and desires to keep the Passover to the Lord, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’" +Numbers 09:15 | On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. +Numbers 09:16 | So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. +Numbers 09:17 | Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel travelled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. +Numbers 09:18 | At the commandment of the Lord, the children of Israel travelled, and at the commandment of the Lord they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. +Numbers 09:19 | When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the Lord’s command, and didn’t travel. +Numbers 09:20 | Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the Lord they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the Lord they travelled. +Numbers 09:21 | Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they travelled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they travelled. +Numbers 09:22 | Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they travelled. +Numbers 09:23 | At the commandment of the Lord they encamped, and at the commandment of the Lord they travelled. They kept the Lord’s command, at the commandment of the Lord by Moses. +Numbers 10:03 | When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 10:04 | If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. +Numbers 10:05 | When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. +Numbers 10:06 | When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. +Numbers 10:07 | But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. +Numbers 10:08 | "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. +Numbers 10:09 | When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. +Numbers 10:10 | "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the Lord your God." +Numbers 10:11 | In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant. +Numbers 10:12 | The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. +Numbers 10:13 | They first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses. +Numbers 10:14 | First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army. +Numbers 10:28 | Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward. +Numbers 10:30 | He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives." +Numbers 10:31 | Moses said, "Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. +Numbers 10:32 | It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good the Lord does to us, we will do the same to you." +Numbers 10:33 | They set forward from the Mount of the Lord three days’ journey. The ark of the Lord’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them. +Numbers 10:34 | The cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. +Numbers 10:35 | When the ark went forward, Moses said, "Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!" +Numbers 10:36 | When it rested, he said, "Return, Lord, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel." +Numbers 11:01 | The people were complaining in the ears of the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burnt; and the Lord’s fire burnt amongst them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. +Numbers 11:02 | The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated. +Numbers 11:03 | The name of that place was called Taberah, because the Lord’s fire burnt amongst them. +Numbers 11:04 | The mixed multitude that was amongst them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us meat to eat? +Numbers 11:05 | We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; +Numbers 11:06 | but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at." +Numbers 11:07 | The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium. +Numbers 11:08 | The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. +Numbers 11:09 | When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. +Numbers 11:10 | Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the Lord’s anger burnt greatly; and Moses was displeased. +Numbers 11:11 | Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? +Numbers 11:12 | Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’ +Numbers 11:13 | Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ +Numbers 11:14 | I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. +Numbers 11:15 | If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness." +Numbers 11:16 | The Lord said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. +Numbers 11:17 | I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone. +Numbers 11:18 | "Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat. +Numbers 11:19 | You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, +Numbers 11:20 | but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the Lord who is amongst you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?" +Numbers 11:21 | Moses said, "The people, amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’ +Numbers 11:22 | Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?" +Numbers 11:23 | The Lord said to Moses, "Has the Lord’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not." +Numbers 11:24 | Moses went out, and told the people the Lord’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. +Numbers 11:25 | The Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. +Numbers 11:26 | But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. +Numbers 11:28 | Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!" +Numbers 11:29 | Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!" +Numbers 11:30 | Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. +Numbers 11:31 | A wind from the Lord went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth. +Numbers 11:32 | The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp. +Numbers 11:33 | While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burnt against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague. +Numbers 11:34 | The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted. +Numbers 11:35 | From Kibroth Hattaavah the people travelled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth. +Numbers 12:01 | Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. +Numbers 12:02 | They said, "Has the Lord indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?" And the Lord heard it. +Numbers 12:03 | Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth. +Numbers 12:05 | The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward. +Numbers 12:06 | He said, "Now hear my words. If there is a prophet amongst you, I, the Lord, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. +Numbers 12:07 | My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house. +Numbers 12:08 | With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the Lord’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?" +Numbers 12:09 | The Lord’s anger burnt against them; and he departed. +Numbers 12:11 | Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. +Numbers 12:12 | Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb." +Numbers 12:13 | Moses cried to the Lord, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!" +Numbers 12:14 | The Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again." +Numbers 12:15 | Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again. +Numbers 13:02 | "Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince amongst them." +Numbers 13:03 | Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the Lord. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel. +Numbers 13:17 | Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country. +Numbers 13:18 | See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; +Numbers 13:19 | and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; +Numbers 13:20 | and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. +Numbers 13:21 | So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. +Numbers 13:23 | They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. +Numbers 13:24 | That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. +Numbers 13:25 | They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. +Numbers 13:26 | They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land. +Numbers 13:27 | They told him, and said, "We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. +Numbers 13:28 | However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there. +Numbers 13:30 | Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, "Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!" +Numbers 13:31 | But the men who went up with him said, "We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we." +Numbers 13:32 | They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. +Numbers 13:33 | There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." +Numbers 14:01 | All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. +Numbers 14:02 | All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness! +Numbers 14:03 | Why does the Lord bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?" +Numbers 14:04 | They said to one another, "Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt." +Numbers 14:05 | Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. +Numbers 14:06 | Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes. +Numbers 14:07 | They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. +Numbers 14:08 | If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey. +Numbers 14:09 | Only don’t rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defence is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t fear them." +Numbers 14:10 | But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The Lord’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel. +Numbers 14:11 | The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked amongst them? +Numbers 14:12 | I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they." +Numbers 14:13 | Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from amongst them. +Numbers 14:14 | They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Lord are amongst this people; for you Lord are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. +Numbers 14:16 | ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’ +Numbers 14:18 | ‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’ +Numbers 14:19 | Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." +Numbers 14:20 | The Lord said, "I have pardoned according to your word; +Numbers 14:21 | but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the Lord’s glory— +Numbers 14:22 | because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; +Numbers 14:23 | surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it. +Numbers 14:24 | But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it. +Numbers 14:27 | "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me. +Numbers 14:28 | Tell them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you. +Numbers 14:29 | Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me, +Numbers 14:30 | surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. +Numbers 14:31 | But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. +Numbers 14:32 | But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. +Numbers 14:33 | Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness. +Numbers 14:34 | After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’ +Numbers 14:35 | I, the Lord, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die." +Numbers 14:36 | The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land, +Numbers 14:37 | even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord. +Numbers 14:39 | Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. +Numbers 14:40 | They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the Lord has promised; for we have sinned." +Numbers 14:41 | Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of the Lord, since it shall not prosper? +Numbers 14:42 | Don’t go up, for the Lord isn’t amongst you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies. +Numbers 14:43 | For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following the Lord; therefore the Lord will not be with you." +Numbers 14:44 | But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp. +Numbers 14:45 | Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah. +Numbers 15:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, +Numbers 15:03 | and will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock— +Numbers 15:04 | then he who offers his offering shall offer to the Lord a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil. +Numbers 15:05 | You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. +Numbers 15:06 | "‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil; +Numbers 15:07 | and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Numbers 15:08 | When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord, +Numbers 15:09 | then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; +Numbers 15:10 | and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Numbers 15:11 | Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. +Numbers 15:12 | According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number. +Numbers 15:13 | "‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Numbers 15:14 | If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be amongst you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the Lord, as you do, so he shall do. +Numbers 15:15 | For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before the Lord. +Numbers 15:16 | One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’" +Numbers 15:18 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you, +Numbers 15:19 | then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to the Lord. +Numbers 15:20 | Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. +Numbers 15:21 | Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the Lord a wave offering throughout your generations. +Numbers 15:22 | "‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses— +Numbers 15:23 | even all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations— +Numbers 15:24 | then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. +Numbers 15:25 | The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error. +Numbers 15:26 | All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly. +Numbers 15:27 | "‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. +Numbers 15:28 | The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before the Lord. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. +Numbers 15:29 | You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born amongst the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them. +Numbers 15:30 | "‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the Lord. That soul shall be cut off from amongst his people. +Numbers 15:31 | Because he has despised the Lord’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’" +Numbers 15:32 | While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. +Numbers 15:33 | Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. +Numbers 15:34 | They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. +Numbers 15:35 | The Lord said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp." +Numbers 15:36 | All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 15:38 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue. +Numbers 15:39 | It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all the Lord’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute; +Numbers 15:40 | so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. +Numbers 15:41 | I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God." +Numbers 16:01 | Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men. +Numbers 16:02 | They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown. +Numbers 16:03 | They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the Lord is amongst them! Why do you lift yourselves up above the Lord’s assembly?" +Numbers 16:04 | When Moses heard it, he fell on his face. +Numbers 16:05 | He said to Korah and to all his company, "In the morning, the Lord will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him. +Numbers 16:06 | Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers, +Numbers 16:07 | put fire in them, and put incense on them before the Lord tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom the Lord chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!" +Numbers 16:08 | Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi! +Numbers 16:09 | Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the Lord’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; +Numbers 16:10 | and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also? +Numbers 16:11 | Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against the LORD! What is Aaron that you complain against him?" +Numbers 16:12 | Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won’t come up! +Numbers 16:13 | Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us? +Numbers 16:14 | Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up." +Numbers 16:15 | Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, "Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them." +Numbers 16:16 | Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before the Lord, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. +Numbers 16:17 | Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before the Lord his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer." +Numbers 16:18 | They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron. +Numbers 16:19 | Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. The Lord’s glory appeared to all the congregation. +Numbers 16:21 | "Separate yourselves from amongst this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" +Numbers 16:22 | They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?" +Numbers 16:24 | "Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’" +Numbers 16:25 | Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. +Numbers 16:26 | He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!" +Numbers 16:27 | So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. +Numbers 16:28 | Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind. +Numbers 16:29 | If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the Lord hasn’t sent me. +Numbers 16:30 | But if the Lord makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised the Lord." +Numbers 16:31 | As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart. +Numbers 16:32 | The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods. +Numbers 16:33 | So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from amongst the assembly. +Numbers 16:34 | All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!" +Numbers 16:35 | Fire came out from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense. +Numbers 16:37 | "Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy, +Numbers 16:38 | even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the Lord. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel." +Numbers 16:39 | Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, +Numbers 16:40 | to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before the Lord, that he not be as Korah and as his company; as the Lord spoke to him by Moses. +Numbers 16:41 | But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the Lord’s people!" +Numbers 16:42 | When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they looked towards the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and the Lord’s glory appeared. +Numbers 16:43 | Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 16:45 | "Get away from amongst this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces. +Numbers 16:46 | Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD! The plague has begun." +Numbers 16:47 | Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun amongst the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. +Numbers 16:48 | He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. +Numbers 16:49 | Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah. +Numbers 16:50 | Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped. +Numbers 17:02 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod. +Numbers 17:03 | You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses. +Numbers 17:04 | You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you. +Numbers 17:05 | It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me." +Numbers 17:06 | Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was amongst their rods. +Numbers 17:07 | Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the Tent of the Testimony. +Numbers 17:08 | On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. +Numbers 17:09 | Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod. +Numbers 17:10 | The Lord said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die." +Numbers 17:11 | Moses did so. As the Lord commanded him, so he did. +Numbers 17:12 | The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone! +Numbers 17:13 | Everyone who keeps approaching the Lord’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?" +Numbers 18:01 | The Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. +Numbers 18:02 | Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony. +Numbers 18:03 | They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you. +Numbers 18:04 | They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you. +Numbers 18:05 | "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel. +Numbers 18:06 | Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from amongst the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 18:07 | You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death." +Numbers 18:08 | The Lord spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. +Numbers 18:09 | This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. +Numbers 18:10 | You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. +Numbers 18:11 | "This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. +Numbers 18:12 | "I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the Lord. +Numbers 18:13 | The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. +Numbers 18:14 | "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. +Numbers 18:15 | Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the Lord, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals. +Numbers 18:16 | You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs. +Numbers 18:17 | "But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the Lord. +Numbers 18:18 | Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. +Numbers 18:19 | All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord to you and to your offspring with you." +Numbers 18:20 | The Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion amongst them. I am your portion and your inheritance amongst the children of Israel. +Numbers 18:21 | "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 18:22 | Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. +Numbers 18:23 | But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Amongst the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance. +Numbers 18:24 | For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Amongst the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’" +Numbers 18:26 | "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for the Lord, a tithe of the tithe. +Numbers 18:27 | Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press. +Numbers 18:28 | Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to the Lord of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the Lord’s wave offering to Aaron the priest. +Numbers 18:29 | Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to the Lord, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’ +Numbers 18:30 | "Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press. +Numbers 18:31 | You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 18:32 | You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’" +Numbers 19:02 | "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked. +Numbers 19:03 | You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face. +Numbers 19:04 | Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood towards the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. +Numbers 19:05 | One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn. +Numbers 19:06 | The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer. +Numbers 19:07 | Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. +Numbers 19:08 | He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening. +Numbers 19:09 | "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering. +Numbers 19:10 | He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them, for a statute forever. +Numbers 19:11 | "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. +Numbers 19:12 | He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. +Numbers 19:13 | Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the Lord’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him. +Numbers 19:14 | "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. +Numbers 19:15 | Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. +Numbers 19:16 | "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. +Numbers 19:17 | "For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel. +Numbers 19:18 | A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. +Numbers 19:19 | The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. +Numbers 19:20 | But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from amongst the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean. +Numbers 19:21 | It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. +Numbers 19:22 | "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening." +Numbers 20:01 | The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there. +Numbers 20:02 | There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. +Numbers 20:03 | The people quarrelled with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! +Numbers 20:04 | Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? +Numbers 20:05 | Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink." +Numbers 20:06 | Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The Lord’s glory appeared to them. +Numbers 20:08 | "Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink." +Numbers 20:09 | Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him. +Numbers 20:10 | Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?" +Numbers 20:11 | Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank. +Numbers 20:12 | The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." +Numbers 20:13 | These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them. +Numbers 20:14 | Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us; +Numbers 20:15 | how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers. +Numbers 20:16 | When we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border. +Numbers 20:17 | "Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border." +Numbers 20:18 | Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you." +Numbers 20:19 | The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet." +Numbers 20:20 | He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. +Numbers 20:21 | Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him. +Numbers 20:26 | and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there." +Numbers 20:27 | Moses did as the Lord commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. +Numbers 20:28 | Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. +Numbers 20:29 | When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. +Numbers 21:01 | The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. +Numbers 21:02 | Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." +Numbers 21:02-03 | Israel made this vow to the Lord: If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities. The Lord listened to Israel’s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns. +Numbers 21:03 | The Lord listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah. +Numbers 21:04 | They travelled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey. +Numbers 21:05 | The people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!" +Numbers 21:06 | The Lord sent venomous snakes amongst the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died. +Numbers 21:07 | The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people. +Numbers 21:08 | The Lord said to Moses, "Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." +Numbers 21:09 | Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived. +Numbers 21:14 | Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the Lord, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, +Numbers 21:15 | the slope of the valleys that incline towards the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab." +Numbers 21:16 | From there they travelled to Beer; that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water." +Numbers 21:17 | Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, well! Sing to it, +Numbers 21:18 | the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the sceptre, and with their poles." From the wilderness they travelled to Mattanah; +Numbers 21:20 | and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. +Numbers 21:22 | "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border." +Numbers 21:23 | Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel. +Numbers 21:24 | Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified. +Numbers 21:25 | Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. +Numbers 21:26 | For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon. +Numbers 21:27 | Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established; +Numbers 21:28 | for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon. +Numbers 21:29 | Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. +Numbers 21:30 | We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba." +Numbers 21:32 | Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there. +Numbers 21:33 | They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. +Numbers 21:34 | The Lord said to Moses, "Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon." +Numbers 21:35 | So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land. +Numbers 22:01 | The children of Israel travelled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. +Numbers 22:02 | Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. +Numbers 22:03 | Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. +Numbers 22:04 | Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. +Numbers 22:05 | He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me. +Numbers 22:06 | Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed." +Numbers 22:07 | The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. +Numbers 22:08 | He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. +Numbers 22:09 | God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?" +Numbers 22:11 | ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’" +Numbers 22:12 | God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed." +Numbers 22:13 | Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for the Lord refuses to permit me to go with you." +Numbers 22:14 | The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us." +Numbers 22:15 | Balak again sent princes, more, and more honourable than they. +Numbers 22:16 | They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me, +Numbers 22:17 | for I will promote you to very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’" +Numbers 22:18 | Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more. +Numbers 22:19 | Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else the Lord will speak to me." +Numbers 22:20 | God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do." +Numbers 22:21 | Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. +Numbers 22:22 | God’s anger burnt because he went; and the Lord’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. +Numbers 22:23 | The donkey saw the Lord’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path. +Numbers 22:24 | Then the Lord’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. +Numbers 22:25 | The donkey saw the Lord’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again. +Numbers 22:26 | The Lord’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. +Numbers 22:27 | The donkey saw the Lord’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burnt, and he struck the donkey with his staff. +Numbers 22:28 | The Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?" +Numbers 22:29 | Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you." +Numbers 22:30 | The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No." +Numbers 22:31 | Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Lord’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. +Numbers 22:32 | The Lord’s angel said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me. +Numbers 22:33 | The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive." +Numbers 22:34 | Balaam said to the Lord’s angel, "I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again." +Numbers 22:35 | The Lord’s angel said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but you shall only speak the word that I shall speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. +Numbers 22:36 | When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. +Numbers 22:37 | Balak said to Balaam, "Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?" +Numbers 22:38 | Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth." +Numbers 22:40 | Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him. +Numbers 22:41 | In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people. +Numbers 23:03 | Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height. +Numbers 23:04 | God met Balaam, and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar." +Numbers 23:05 | The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." +Numbers 23:06 | He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. +Numbers 23:07 | He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel. +Numbers 23:08 | How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the Lord has not defied? +Numbers 23:09 | For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed amongst the nations. +Numbers 23:10 | Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!" +Numbers 23:11 | Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether." +Numbers 23:12 | He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord puts in my mouth?" +Numbers 23:13 | Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me." +Numbers 23:14 | He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. +Numbers 23:15 | He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there." +Numbers 23:16 | The Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this." +Numbers 23:17 | He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?" +Numbers 23:18 | He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor. +Numbers 23:19 | God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good? +Numbers 23:20 | Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it. +Numbers 23:21 | He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him. The shout of a king is amongst them. +Numbers 23:22 | God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. +Numbers 23:23 | Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’ +Numbers 23:24 | Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain." +Numbers 23:25 | Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." +Numbers 23:26 | But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’" +Numbers 23:27 | Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there." +Numbers 23:28 | Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. +Numbers 23:29 | Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here." +Numbers 23:30 | Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. +Numbers 24:01 | When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face towards the wilderness. +Numbers 24:02 | Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. +Numbers 24:03 | He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says; +Numbers 24:04 | he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open: +Numbers 24:05 | How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel! +Numbers 24:06 | As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the Lord has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters. +Numbers 24:07 | Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted. +Numbers 24:08 | God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows. +Numbers 24:09 | He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed." +Numbers 24:10 | Balak’s anger burnt against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. +Numbers 24:11 | Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honour; but, behold, the Lord has kept you back from honour." +Numbers 24:13 | ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the Lord’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what the Lord says’? +Numbers 24:14 | Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days." +Numbers 24:15 | He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says; +Numbers 24:16 | he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open: +Numbers 24:17 | I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A sceptre will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth. +Numbers 24:18 | Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly. +Numbers 24:19 | Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city." +Numbers 24:20 | He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction." +Numbers 24:21 | He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock. +Numbers 24:22 | Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive." +Numbers 24:23 | He took up his parable, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this? +Numbers 24:24 | But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction." +Numbers 24:25 | Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way. +Numbers 25:01 | Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; +Numbers 25:02 | for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. +Numbers 25:03 | Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel. +Numbers 25:04 | The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the Lord before the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel." +Numbers 25:05 | Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor." +Numbers 25:06 | Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +Numbers 25:07 | When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand. +Numbers 25:08 | He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped amongst the children of Israel. +Numbers 25:09 | Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. +Numbers 25:11 | "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy amongst them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. +Numbers 25:13 | It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’" +Numbers 25:14 | Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house amongst the Simeonites. +Numbers 25:18 | for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor." +Numbers 26:02 | "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel." +Numbers 26:04 | "Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel." These are those who came out of the land of Egypt. +Numbers 26:10 | and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. +Numbers 26:54 | To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given. +Numbers 26:55 | Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. +Numbers 26:56 | According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer." +Numbers 26:64 | But amongst these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. +Numbers 27:03 | "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not amongst the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons. +Numbers 27:04 | Why should the name of our father be taken away from amongst his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession amongst the brothers of our father." +Numbers 27:07 | "The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance amongst their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. +Numbers 27:08 | You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. +Numbers 27:10 | If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers. +Numbers 27:11 | If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.’" +Numbers 27:12 | The Lord said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. +Numbers 27:13 | When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered; +Numbers 27:14 | because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honour me as holy at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) +Numbers 27:16 | "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, +Numbers 27:17 | who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep which have no shepherd." +Numbers 27:18 | The Lord said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. +Numbers 27:20 | You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. +Numbers 27:22 | Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation. +Numbers 27:23 | He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the Lord spoke by Moses. +Numbers 28:02 | "Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’ +Numbers 30:01 | Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded. +Numbers 30:02 | When a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. +Numbers 30:03 | "Also, when a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth, +Numbers 30:04 | and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand. +Numbers 30:05 | But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The Lord will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her. +Numbers 30:06 | "If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul, +Numbers 30:07 | and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand. +Numbers 30:08 | But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The Lord will forgive her. +Numbers 30:09 | "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her. +Numbers 30:10 | "If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, +Numbers 30:11 | and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand. +Numbers 30:12 | But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. The Lord will forgive her. +Numbers 30:13 | Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. +Numbers 30:14 | But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them. +Numbers 30:15 | But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity." +Numbers 30:16 | These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house. +Numbers 31:02 | "Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people." +Numbers 31:03 | Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from amongst you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian. +Numbers 31:04 | You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war." +Numbers 31:05 | So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. +Numbers 31:06 | Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. +Numbers 31:07 | They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses. They killed every male. +Numbers 31:09 | The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder. +Numbers 31:10 | All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. +Numbers 31:11 | They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal. +Numbers 31:12 | They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. +Numbers 31:13 | Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp. +Numbers 31:14 | Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. +Numbers 31:15 | Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive? +Numbers 31:16 | Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was amongst the congregation of the Lord. +Numbers 31:17 | Now therefore kill every male amongst the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. +Numbers 31:18 | But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. +Numbers 31:19 | "Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. +Numbers 31:20 | You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood." +Numbers 31:21 | Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses. +Numbers 31:23 | everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. +Numbers 31:24 | You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp." +Numbers 31:26 | "Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation; +Numbers 31:27 | and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. +Numbers 31:28 | Levy a tribute to the Lord of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks. +Numbers 31:29 | Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the Lord’s wave offering. +Numbers 31:30 | Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the Lord’s tabernacle." +Numbers 31:31 | Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 31:32 | Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, +Numbers 31:35 | and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. +Numbers 31:36 | The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep; +Numbers 31:37 | and the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. +Numbers 31:38 | The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord’s tribute was seventy-two. +Numbers 31:39 | The donkeys were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the Lord’s tribute was sixty-one. +Numbers 31:40 | The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the Lord’s tribute was thirty-two persons. +Numbers 31:41 | Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 31:42 | Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought +Numbers 31:43 | (now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep, +Numbers 31:47 | even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the Lord’s tabernacle, as the Lord commanded Moses. +Numbers 31:48 | The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. +Numbers 31:49 | They said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us. +Numbers 31:50 | We have brought the Lord’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the Lord." +Numbers 31:51 | Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels. +Numbers 31:52 | All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the Lord, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels. +Numbers 31:53 | The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. +Numbers 31:54 | Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord. +Numbers 32:04 | the land which The Lord struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock." +Numbers 32:05 | They said, "If we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan." +Numbers 32:06 | Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here? +Numbers 32:07 | Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them? +Numbers 32:08 | Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. +Numbers 32:09 | For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them. +Numbers 32:11 | ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me, +Numbers 32:13 | The Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the Lord’s sight was consumed. +Numbers 32:14 | "Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the Lord towards Israel. +Numbers 32:15 | For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people." +Numbers 32:16 | They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones; +Numbers 32:17 | but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. +Numbers 32:18 | We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance. +Numbers 32:19 | For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward." +Numbers 32:20 | Moses said to them: "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the Lord to the war, +Numbers 32:21 | and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven out his enemies from before him, +Numbers 32:22 | and the land is subdued before the Lord; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the Lord and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the Lord. +Numbers 32:23 | "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out. +Numbers 32:24 | Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth." +Numbers 32:25 | The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. +Numbers 32:26 | Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead; +Numbers 32:27 | but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says." +Numbers 32:28 | So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel. +Numbers 32:29 | Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; +Numbers 32:30 | but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions amongst you in the land of Canaan." +Numbers 32:31 | The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do. +Numbers 32:32 | We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan." +Numbers 33:02 | Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the Lord. These are their journeys according to their starting points. +Numbers 33:03 | They travelled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, +Numbers 33:04 | while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck amongst them. The Lord also executed judgements on their gods. +Numbers 33:51 | Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, +Numbers 34:13 | Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; +Numbers 34:15 | The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, towards the sunrise." +Numbers 34:29 | These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. +Numbers 35:02 | "Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites. +Numbers 35:03 | They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals. +Numbers 35:04 | "The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it. +Numbers 35:05 | You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities. +Numbers 35:06 | "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities. +Numbers 35:07 | All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands. +Numbers 35:08 | Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites." +Numbers 35:10 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, +Numbers 35:11 | then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. +Numbers 35:12 | The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgement. +Numbers 35:13 | The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. +Numbers 35:14 | You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge. +Numbers 35:15 | These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living amongst them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. +Numbers 35:16 | "‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. +Numbers 35:17 | If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. +Numbers 35:18 | Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. +Numbers 35:19 | The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. +Numbers 35:20 | If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died, +Numbers 35:21 | or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him. +Numbers 35:22 | "‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, +Numbers 35:23 | or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm, +Numbers 35:24 | then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. +Numbers 35:25 | The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. +Numbers 35:26 | "‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees, +Numbers 35:27 | and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood, +Numbers 35:28 | because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession. +Numbers 35:29 | "‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +Numbers 35:30 | "‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies. +Numbers 35:31 | "‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death. +Numbers 35:32 | "‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest. +Numbers 35:33 | "‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. +Numbers 35:34 | You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, the Lord, dwell amongst the children of Israel.’" +Numbers 36:01 | The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel. +Numbers 36:02 | They said, "The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. +Numbers 36:03 | If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. +Numbers 36:04 | When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." +Numbers 36:05 | Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the Lord’s word, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right. +Numbers 36:06 | This is the thing which the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father. +Numbers 36:07 | So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. +Numbers 36:08 | Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers. +Numbers 36:09 | So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’" +Numbers 36:10 | The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses: +Numbers 36:11 | for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons. +Numbers 36:12 | They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. +Numbers 36:13 | These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. +Obadiah 01:01 | The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God says about Edom. We have heard news from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent amongst the nations, saying, "Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. +Obadiah 01:02 | Behold, I have made you small amongst the nations. You are greatly despised. +Obadiah 01:03 | The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ +Obadiah 01:04 | Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set amongst the stars, I will bring you down from there," says the Lord. +Obadiah 01:06 | How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! +Obadiah 01:07 | All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him." +Obadiah 01:08 | "Won’t I in that day", says the Lord, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? +Obadiah 01:09 | Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. +Obadiah 01:10 | For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. +Obadiah 01:11 | In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. +Obadiah 01:12 | But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress. +Obadiah 01:13 | Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. +Obadiah 01:14 | Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. +Obadiah 01:15 | For the day of the Lord is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. +Obadiah 01:16 | For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. +Obadiah 01:17 | But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. +Obadiah 01:18 | The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn amongst them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, the Lord has spoken. +Obadiah 01:19 | Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. +Obadiah 01:20 | The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are amongst the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. +Obadiah 01:21 | Saviours will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord’s. +Philemon 01:03 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +Philemon 01:04 | I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, +Philemon 01:05 | hearing of your love and of the faith which you have towards the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints, +Philemon 01:06 | that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. +Philemon 01:07 | For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. +Philemon 01:08 | Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, +Philemon 01:09 | yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. +Philemon 01:10 | I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, +Philemon 01:11 | who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me. +Philemon 01:12 | I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, +Philemon 01:13 | whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News. +Philemon 01:14 | But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will. +Philemon 01:15 | For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever, +Philemon 01:16 | no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. +Philemon 01:17 | If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me. +Philemon 01:18 | But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account. +Philemon 01:19 | I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides). +Philemon 01:20 | Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord. +Philemon 01:21 | Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say. +Philemon 01:22 | Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you. +Philemon 01:23 | Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, +Philemon 01:24 | as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. +Philemon 01:25 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. +Philippians 01:01 | Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: +Philippians 01:02 | Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +Philippians 01:03 | I thank my God whenever I remember you, +Philippians 01:04 | always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, +Philippians 01:05 | for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; +Philippians 01:06 | being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. +Philippians 01:07 | It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. +Philippians 01:08 | For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. +Philippians 01:09 | This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, +Philippians 01:10 | so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offence to the day of Christ, +Philippians 01:11 | being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. +Philippians 01:12 | Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News, +Philippians 01:13 | so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ, +Philippians 01:14 | and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. +Philippians 01:15 | Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will. +Philippians 01:16 | The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains; +Philippians 01:17 | but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defence of the Good News. +Philippians 01:18 | What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. +Philippians 01:19 | For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, +Philippians 01:20 | according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. +Philippians 01:21 | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. +Philippians 01:21-23 | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. +Philippians 01:22 | But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose. +Philippians 01:23 | But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. +Philippians 01:24 | Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake. +Philippians 01:25 | Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith, +Philippians 01:26 | that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again. +Philippians 01:27 | Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; +Philippians 01:28 | and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God. +Philippians 01:29 | Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, +Philippians 01:30 | having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me. +Philippians 02:01 | If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, +Philippians 02:02 | make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; +Philippians 02:03 | doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; +Philippians 02:04 | each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. +Philippians 02:05 | Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, +Philippians 02:06 | who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, +Philippians 02:07 | but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. +Philippians 02:08 | And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross. +Philippians 02:09 | Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, +Philippians 02:10 | that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, +Philippians 02:11 | and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. +Philippians 02:12 | So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. +Philippians 02:13 | For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. +Philippians 02:14 | Do all things without complaining and arguing, +Philippians 02:14 | Do everything without grumbling or arguing. +Philippians 02:15 | that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom you are seen as lights in the world, +Philippians 02:16 | holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labour in vain. +Philippians 02:17 | Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. +Philippians 02:18 | In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me. +Philippians 02:19 | But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. +Philippians 02:20 | For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. +Philippians 02:21 | For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. +Philippians 02:22 | But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. +Philippians 02:23 | Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me. +Philippians 02:24 | But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. +Philippians 02:25 | But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need, +Philippians 02:26 | since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick. +Philippians 02:27 | For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. +Philippians 02:28 | I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. +Philippians 02:29 | Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honour, +Philippians 02:30 | because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service towards me. +Philippians 03:01 | Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. +Philippians 03:02 | Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision. +Philippians 03:03 | For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; +Philippians 03:04 | though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: +Philippians 03:05 | circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; +Philippians 03:06 | concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. +Philippians 03:07 | However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. +Philippians 03:07-09 | Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. +Philippians 03:08 | Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ +Philippians 03:09 | and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith, +Philippians 03:10 | that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, +Philippians 03:11 | if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. +Philippians 03:12 | Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. +Philippians 03:13 | Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, +Philippians 03:14 | I press on towards the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. +Philippians 03:15 | Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. +Philippians 03:16 | Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind. +Philippians 03:17 | Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. +Philippians 03:18 | For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, +Philippians 03:19 | whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. +Philippians 03:20 | For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, +Philippians 03:20-21 | Our commonwealth is in Heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. +Philippians 03:21 | who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself. +Philippians 04:01 | Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. +Philippians 04:02 | I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. +Philippians 04:03 | Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they laboured with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. +Philippians 04:04 | Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, "Rejoice!" +Philippians 04:05 | Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. +Philippians 04:06 | In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. +Philippians 04:06-07 | Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. +Philippians 04:07 | And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. +Philippians 04:08 | Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. +Philippians 04:08 | Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honourable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things. +Philippians 04:09 | The things which you learnt, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you. +Philippians 04:10 | But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity. +Philippians 04:11 | Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learnt in whatever state I am, to be content in it. +Philippians 04:12 | I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learnt the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. +Philippians 04:12-13 | I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation... I can do everything through him who gives me strength. +Philippians 04:13 | I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. +Philippians 04:13 | I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. +Philippians 04:14 | However you did well that you shared in my affliction. +Philippians 04:15 | You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. +Philippians 04:16 | For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. +Philippians 04:17 | Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account. +Philippians 04:18 | But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. +Philippians 04:19 | My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. +Philippians 04:19 | My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. +Philippians 04:20 | Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen. +Philippians 04:21 | Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. +Philippians 04:22 | All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household. +Philippians 04:23 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. +Prayer of Manasses 01:01 | O Lord Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed; +Prayer of Manasses 01:02 | who have made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof; +Prayer of Manasses 01:03 | who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment; who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name; +Prayer of Manasses 01:04 | whom all things fear, yes, tremble before your power; +Prayer of Manasses 01:05 | for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening towards sinners is importable: +Prayer of Manasses 01:06 | your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable; +Prayer of Manasses 01:07 | for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and repent of bringing evils upon men. +Prayer of Manasses 01:08 | You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner: +Prayer of Manasses 01:09 | for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities. +Prayer of Manasses 01:10 | I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my headby reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied detestable things. +Prayer of Manasses 01:11 | Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace. +Prayer of Manasses 01:12 | I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities: +Prayer of Manasses 01:13 | but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent; +Prayer of Manasses 01:14 | and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy. +Prayer of Manasses 01:15 | And I will praise you forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen. +Proverbs 01:01 | The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: +Proverbs 01:02 | to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; +Proverbs 01:03 | to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; +Proverbs 01:04 | to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man: +Proverbs 01:05 | that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: +Proverbs 01:06 | to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise. +Proverbs 01:07 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. +Proverbs 01:08 | My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: +Proverbs 01:09 | for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck. +Proverbs 01:10 | My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. +Proverbs 01:11 | If they say, "Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. +Proverbs 01:12 | Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. +Proverbs 01:13 | We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder. +Proverbs 01:14 | You shall cast your lot amongst us. We’ll all have one purse." +Proverbs 01:15 | My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path, +Proverbs 01:16 | for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. +Proverbs 01:17 | For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird; +Proverbs 01:18 | but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. +Proverbs 01:19 | So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. +Proverbs 01:20 | Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. +Proverbs 01:22 | "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge? +Proverbs 01:23 | Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. +Proverbs 01:24 | Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; +Proverbs 01:25 | but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; +Proverbs 01:26 | I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you, +Proverbs 01:27 | when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you. +Proverbs 01:28 | Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, +Proverbs 01:29 | because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the Lord. +Proverbs 01:30 | They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. +Proverbs 01:31 | Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. +Proverbs 01:32 | For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them. +Proverbs 01:33 | But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm." +Proverbs 02:01 | My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you, +Proverbs 02:02 | so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; +Proverbs 02:03 | yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; +Proverbs 02:04 | if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: +Proverbs 02:05 | then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. +Proverbs 02:06 | For the Lord gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. +Proverbs 02:07 | He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, +Proverbs 02:08 | that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. +Proverbs 02:09 | Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. +Proverbs 02:10 | For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. +Proverbs 02:11 | Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, +Proverbs 02:12 | to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, +Proverbs 02:13 | who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness, +Proverbs 02:14 | who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, +Proverbs 02:15 | who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, +Proverbs 02:16 | to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, +Proverbs 02:17 | who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; +Proverbs 02:18 | for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. +Proverbs 02:19 | None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life. +Proverbs 02:20 | So you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. +Proverbs 02:21 | For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. +Proverbs 02:22 | But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. +Proverbs 03:01 | My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: +Proverbs 03:02 | for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. +Proverbs 03:03 | Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. +Proverbs 03:03-04 | Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. +Proverbs 03:04 | So you will find favour, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. +Proverbs 03:05 | Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. +Proverbs 03:05-06 | Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths. +Proverbs 03:06 | In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. +Proverbs 03:07 | Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, and depart from evil. +Proverbs 03:08 | It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. +Proverbs 03:09 | Honour the Lord with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: +Proverbs 03:10 | so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. +Proverbs 03:11 | My son, don’t despise the Lord’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; +Proverbs 03:12 | for whom the Lord loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. +Proverbs 03:13 | Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. +Proverbs 03:14 | For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. +Proverbs 03:15 | She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. +Proverbs 03:16 | Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honour. +Proverbs 03:17 | Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. +Proverbs 03:18 | She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her. +Proverbs 03:19 | By wisdom the Lord founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens. +Proverbs 03:20 | By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew. +Proverbs 03:21 | My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion: +Proverbs 03:22 | so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck. +Proverbs 03:23 | Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble. +Proverbs 03:24 | When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet. +Proverbs 03:25 | Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes; +Proverbs 03:26 | for the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. +Proverbs 03:27 | Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. +Proverbs 03:28 | Don’t say to your neighbour, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you. +Proverbs 03:29 | Don’t devise evil against your neighbour, since he dwells securely by you. +Proverbs 03:30 | Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. +Proverbs 03:31 | Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. +Proverbs 03:32 | For the perverse is an abomination to the Lord, but his friendship is with the upright. +Proverbs 03:33 | The Lord’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. +Proverbs 03:34 | Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble. +Proverbs 03:35 | The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools. +Proverbs 04:01 | Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; +Proverbs 04:02 | for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. +Proverbs 04:03 | For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. +Proverbs 04:04 | He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. +Proverbs 04:05 | Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth. +Proverbs 04:06 | Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. +Proverbs 04:07 | Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. +Proverbs 04:08 | Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honour when you embrace her. +Proverbs 04:09 | She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendour to you." +Proverbs 04:10 | Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. +Proverbs 04:11 | I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. +Proverbs 04:12 | When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble. +Proverbs 04:13 | Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life. +Proverbs 04:14 | Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. +Proverbs 04:14-17 | Do not take the path of the wicked; do not follow those who do evil. Stay away from that path; do not even go near it. Turn around and go another way. The wicked cannot sleep until they have done something evil. They will not rest until they bring someone down. Evil and violence are their food and drink. +Proverbs 04:15 | Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. +Proverbs 04:16 | For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. +Proverbs 04:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. +Proverbs 04:18 | But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day. +Proverbs 04:19 | The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over. +Proverbs 04:20 | My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. +Proverbs 04:21 | Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the centre of your heart. +Proverbs 04:22 | For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body. +Proverbs 04:23 | Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. +Proverbs 04:23 | Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. +Proverbs 04:24 | Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. +Proverbs 04:25 | Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. +Proverbs 04:26 | Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. +Proverbs 04:27 | Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil. +Proverbs 05:01 | My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding, +Proverbs 05:02 | that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. +Proverbs 05:03 | For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, +Proverbs 05:04 | but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. +Proverbs 05:05 | Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. +Proverbs 05:06 | She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it. +Proverbs 05:07 | Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth. +Proverbs 05:08 | Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house, +Proverbs 05:09 | lest you give your honour to others, and your years to the cruel one; +Proverbs 05:10 | lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labours enrich another man’s house. +Proverbs 05:11 | You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, +Proverbs 05:12 | and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. +Proverbs 05:13 | I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! +Proverbs 05:14 | I have come to the brink of utter ruin, amongst the gathered assembly." +Proverbs 05:15 | Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. +Proverbs 05:16 | Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? +Proverbs 05:17 | Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. +Proverbs 05:18 | Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. +Proverbs 05:19 | A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. +Proverbs 05:20 | For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? +Proverbs 05:21 | For the ways of man are before the Lord’s eyes. He examines all his paths. +Proverbs 05:22 | The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. +Proverbs 05:23 | He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray. +Proverbs 06:01 | My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbour, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger, +Proverbs 06:02 | you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth. +Proverbs 06:03 | Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbour. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbour. +Proverbs 06:04 | Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. +Proverbs 06:05 | Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. +Proverbs 06:06 | Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; +Proverbs 06:07-08 | Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. +Proverbs 06:08 | provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. +Proverbs 06:09 | How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? +Proverbs 06:10 | A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: +Proverbs 06:11 | so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man. +Proverbs 06:12 | A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, +Proverbs 06:13 | who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers, +Proverbs 06:14 | in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. +Proverbs 06:15 | Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. +Proverbs 06:16 | There are six things which the Lord hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: +Proverbs 06:17 | arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, +Proverbs 06:18 | a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, +Proverbs 06:19 | a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord amongst brothers. +Proverbs 06:20 | My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. +Proverbs 06:21 | Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. +Proverbs 06:22 | When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. +Proverbs 06:23 | For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, +Proverbs 06:24 | to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. +Proverbs 06:25 | Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. +Proverbs 06:26 | For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. +Proverbs 06:27 | Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burnt? +Proverbs 06:28 | Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? +Proverbs 06:29 | So is he who goes in to his neighbour’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. +Proverbs 06:30 | Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry; +Proverbs 06:31 | but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. +Proverbs 06:32 | He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. +Proverbs 06:33 | He will get wounds and dishonour. His reproach will not be wiped away. +Proverbs 06:34 | For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance. +Proverbs 06:35 | He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. +Proverbs 07:01 | My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. +Proverbs 07:02 | Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. +Proverbs 07:03 | Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. +Proverbs 07:04 | Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative, +Proverbs 07:05 | that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. +Proverbs 07:06 | For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. +Proverbs 07:08 | passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, +Proverbs 07:09 | in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. +Proverbs 07:10 | Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. +Proverbs 07:11 | She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house. +Proverbs 07:12 | Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. +Proverbs 07:13 | So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: +Proverbs 07:14 | "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. +Proverbs 07:15 | Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. +Proverbs 07:16 | I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. +Proverbs 07:17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. +Proverbs 07:18 | Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving. +Proverbs 07:19 | For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey. +Proverbs 07:20 | He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon." +Proverbs 07:21 | With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. +Proverbs 07:22 | He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. +Proverbs 07:23 | Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life. +Proverbs 07:24 | Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. +Proverbs 07:25 | Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths, +Proverbs 07:26 | for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. +Proverbs 07:27 | Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death. +Proverbs 08:01 | Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? +Proverbs 08:02 | On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. +Proverbs 08:03 | Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud: +Proverbs 08:04 | "I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. +Proverbs 08:05 | You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart! +Proverbs 08:06 | Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. +Proverbs 08:07 | For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. +Proverbs 08:08 | All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. +Proverbs 08:09 | They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge. +Proverbs 08:10 | Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold. +Proverbs 08:11 | For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it. +Proverbs 08:12 | "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion. +Proverbs 08:13 | The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth. +Proverbs 08:14 | Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power. +Proverbs 08:15 | By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. +Proverbs 08:16 | By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. +Proverbs 08:17 | I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me. +Proverbs 08:18 | With me are riches, honour, enduring wealth, and prosperity. +Proverbs 08:19 | My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver. +Proverbs 08:20 | I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice, +Proverbs 08:21 | that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries. +Proverbs 08:22 | "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. +Proverbs 08:23 | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. +Proverbs 08:24 | When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. +Proverbs 08:25 | Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born; +Proverbs 08:26 | while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. +Proverbs 08:27 | When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep, +Proverbs 08:28 | when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, +Proverbs 08:29 | when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, +Proverbs 08:30 | then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, +Proverbs 08:31 | rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. +Proverbs 08:32 | "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. +Proverbs 08:33 | Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. +Proverbs 08:34 | Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. +Proverbs 08:35 | For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favour from the Lord. +Proverbs 08:36 | But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death." +Proverbs 09:01 | Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. +Proverbs 09:02 | She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table. +Proverbs 09:03 | She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city: +Proverbs 09:04 | "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, +Proverbs 09:05 | "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed! +Proverbs 09:06 | Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding." +Proverbs 09:07 | One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. +Proverbs 09:08 | Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you. +Proverbs 09:09 | Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning. +Proverbs 09:10 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. +Proverbs 09:11 | For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased. +Proverbs 09:12 | If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it. +Proverbs 09:13 | The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing. +Proverbs 09:14 | She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, +Proverbs 09:15 | to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways, +Proverbs 09:16 | "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, +Proverbs 09:17 | "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant." +Proverbs 09:18 | But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. +Proverbs 10:01 | The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. +Proverbs 10:02 | Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death. +Proverbs 10:03 | The Lord will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked. +Proverbs 10:04 | He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. +Proverbs 10:04-05 | Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. +Proverbs 10:05 | He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame. +Proverbs 10:06 | Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. +Proverbs 10:07 | The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. +Proverbs 10:08 | The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. +Proverbs 10:09 | He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. +Proverbs 10:10 | One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall. +Proverbs 10:11 | The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. +Proverbs 10:12 | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. +Proverbs 10:13 | Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding. +Proverbs 10:14 | Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin. +Proverbs 10:15 | The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty. +Proverbs 10:16 | The labour of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin. +Proverbs 10:17 | He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray. +Proverbs 10:18 | He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. +Proverbs 10:19 | In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely. +Proverbs 10:20 | The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. +Proverbs 10:21 | The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding. +Proverbs 10:22 | The Lord’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. +Proverbs 10:23 | It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure. +Proverbs 10:24 | What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. +Proverbs 10:25 | When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever. +Proverbs 10:26 | As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. +Proverbs 10:27 | The fear of the Lord prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. +Proverbs 10:28 | The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish. +Proverbs 10:29 | The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. +Proverbs 10:30 | The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land. +Proverbs 10:31 | The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. +Proverbs 10:32 | The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse. +Proverbs 11:01 | A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but accurate weights are his delight. +Proverbs 11:02 | When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom. +Proverbs 11:03 | The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them. +Proverbs 11:04 | Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. +Proverbs 11:05 | The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. +Proverbs 11:06 | The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires. +Proverbs 11:07 | When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing. +Proverbs 11:08 | A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place. +Proverbs 11:09 | With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbour, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. +Proverbs 11:10 | When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting. +Proverbs 11:11 | By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. +Proverbs 11:12 | One who despises his neighbour is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace. +Proverbs 11:13 | One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret. +Proverbs 11:14 | Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counsellors there is victory. +Proverbs 11:15 | He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure. +Proverbs 11:16 | A gracious woman obtains honour, but violent men obtain riches. +Proverbs 11:17 | The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh. +Proverbs 11:18 | Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward. +Proverbs 11:19 | He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death. +Proverbs 11:20 | Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight. +Proverbs 11:21 | Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered. +Proverbs 11:22 | Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. +Proverbs 11:23 | The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath. +Proverbs 11:24 | There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. +Proverbs 11:25 | The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself. +Proverbs 11:26 | People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it. +Proverbs 11:27 | He who diligently seeks good seeks favour, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him. +Proverbs 11:28 | He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf. +Proverbs 11:29 | He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart. +Proverbs 11:30 | The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls. +Proverbs 11:31 | Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner! +Proverbs 12:01 | Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. +Proverbs 12:02 | A good man shall obtain favour from the Lord, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans. +Proverbs 12:03 | A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. +Proverbs 12:04 | A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones. +Proverbs 12:05 | The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. +Proverbs 12:06 | The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them. +Proverbs 12:07 | The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand. +Proverbs 12:08 | A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised. +Proverbs 12:09 | Better is he who is little known, and has a servant, than he who honours himself, and lacks bread. +Proverbs 12:10 | A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. +Proverbs 12:11 | He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding. +Proverbs 12:12 | The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes. +Proverbs 12:13 | An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble. +Proverbs 12:14 | A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him. +Proverbs 12:15 | The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel. +Proverbs 12:16 | A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent. +Proverbs 12:17 | He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies. +Proverbs 12:18 | There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals. +Proverbs 12:19 | Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary. +Proverbs 12:20 | Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace. +Proverbs 12:21 | No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil. +Proverbs 12:22 | Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who do the truth are his delight. +Proverbs 12:22 | The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy. +Proverbs 12:23 | A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness. +Proverbs 12:24 | Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor. +Proverbs 12:24 | The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labour. +Proverbs 12:25 | Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. +Proverbs 12:26 | A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. +Proverbs 12:27 | The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized. +Proverbs 12:28 | In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death. +Proverbs 12:28 | In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death. +Proverbs 13:01 | A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. +Proverbs 13:02 | By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence. +Proverbs 13:03 | He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. +Proverbs 13:04 | Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. +Proverbs 13:04 | The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied. +Proverbs 13:05 | A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace. +Proverbs 13:05 | The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves. +Proverbs 13:06 | Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner. +Proverbs 13:07 | There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. +Proverbs 13:08 | The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. +Proverbs 13:09 | The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. +Proverbs 13:10 | Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice. +Proverbs 13:11 | Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow. +Proverbs 13:11 | Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow. +Proverbs 13:12 | Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. +Proverbs 13:13 | Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded. +Proverbs 13:14 | The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death. +Proverbs 13:15 | Good understanding wins favour, but the way of the unfaithful is hard. +Proverbs 13:16 | Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly. +Proverbs 13:17 | A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing. +Proverbs 13:18 | Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honoured. +Proverbs 13:19 | Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil. +Proverbs 13:20 | One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. +Proverbs 13:21 | Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous. +Proverbs 13:22 | A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous. +Proverbs 13:23 | An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away. +Proverbs 13:24 | One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him. +Proverbs 13:25 | The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry. +Proverbs 14:01 | Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. +Proverbs 14:02 | He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him. +Proverbs 14:03 | The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them. +Proverbs 14:04 | Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox. +Proverbs 14:05 | A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies. +Proverbs 14:05 | An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies. +Proverbs 14:06 | A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. +Proverbs 14:07 | Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips. +Proverbs 14:08 | The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit. +Proverbs 14:09 | Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but amongst the upright there is good will. +Proverbs 14:10 | The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger. +Proverbs 14:11 | The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish. +Proverbs 14:12 | There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. +Proverbs 14:13 | Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness. +Proverbs 14:14 | The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways. +Proverbs 14:15 | A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways. +Proverbs 14:16 | A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless. +Proverbs 14:17 | He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated. +Proverbs 14:18 | The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. +Proverbs 14:19 | The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. +Proverbs 14:20 | The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbour, but the rich person has many friends. +Proverbs 14:21 | He who despises his neighbour sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed. +Proverbs 14:22 | Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good. +Proverbs 14:23 | In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. +Proverbs 14:23-24 | All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly. +Proverbs 14:24 | The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly. +Proverbs 14:25 | A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful. +Proverbs 14:26 | In the fear of the Lord is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children. +Proverbs 14:27 | The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death. +Proverbs 14:28 | In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince. +Proverbs 14:29 | He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly. +Proverbs 14:30 | The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. +Proverbs 14:31 | He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honours him. +Proverbs 14:32 | The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge. +Proverbs 14:33 | Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools. +Proverbs 14:34 | Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. +Proverbs 14:35 | The king’s favour is towards a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is towards one who causes shame. +Proverbs 15:01 | A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. +Proverbs 15:02 | The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly. +Proverbs 15:03 | The Lord’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good. +Proverbs 15:04 | A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit. +Proverbs 15:05 | A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence. +Proverbs 15:06 | In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble. +Proverbs 15:07 | The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools. +Proverbs 15:08 | The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. +Proverbs 15:09 | The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who follows after righteousness. +Proverbs 15:10 | There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die. +Proverbs 15:11 | Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD— how much more then the hearts of the children of men! +Proverbs 15:12 | A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. +Proverbs 15:13 | A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit. +Proverbs 15:14 | The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. +Proverbs 15:15 | All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast. +Proverbs 15:16 | Better is little, with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure with trouble. +Proverbs 15:17 | Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred. +Proverbs 15:18 | A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife. +Proverbs 15:19 | The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway. +Proverbs 15:20 | A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother. +Proverbs 15:21 | Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight. +Proverbs 15:22 | Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counsellors they are established. +Proverbs 15:23 | Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time! +Proverbs 15:24 | The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol. +Proverbs 15:25 | The Lord will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact. +Proverbs 15:26 | The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing. +Proverbs 15:27 | He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live. +Proverbs 15:28 | The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil. +Proverbs 15:29 | The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. +Proverbs 15:30 | The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones. +Proverbs 15:31 | The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home amongst the wise. +Proverbs 15:32 | He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding. +Proverbs 15:33 | The fear of the Lord teaches wisdom. Before honour is humility. +Proverbs 16:01 | The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. +Proverbs 16:02 | All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weighs the motives. +Proverbs 16:03 | Commit your deeds to the Lord, and your plans shall succeed. +Proverbs 16:04 | The Lord has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil. +Proverbs 16:05 | Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: they shall certainly not be unpunished. +Proverbs 16:06 | By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. +Proverbs 16:07 | When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. +Proverbs 16:08 | Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice. +Proverbs 16:09 | A man’s heart plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. +Proverbs 16:10 | Inspired judgements are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth. +Proverbs 16:11 | Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work. +Proverbs 16:12 | It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness. +Proverbs 16:13 | Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth. +Proverbs 16:14 | The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it. +Proverbs 16:15 | In the light of the king’s face is life. His favour is like a cloud of the spring rain. +Proverbs 16:16 | How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. +Proverbs 16:17 | The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul. +Proverbs 16:18 | Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall. +Proverbs 16:19 | It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud. +Proverbs 16:20 | He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in the Lord is blessed. +Proverbs 16:21 | The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction. +Proverbs 16:22 | Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly. +Proverbs 16:23 | The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. +Proverbs 16:24 | Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. +Proverbs 16:25 | There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. +Proverbs 16:26 | The appetite of the labouring man labours for him; for his mouth urges him on. +Proverbs 16:27 | A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire. +Proverbs 16:28 | A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. +Proverbs 16:29 | A man of violence entices his neighbour, and leads him in a way that is not good. +Proverbs 16:30 | One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil. +Proverbs 16:31 | Grey hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness. +Proverbs 16:32 | One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. +Proverbs 16:33 | The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. +Proverbs 17:01 | Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. +Proverbs 17:02 | A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance amongst the brothers. +Proverbs 17:03 | The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the hearts. +Proverbs 17:04 | A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue. +Proverbs 17:04 | An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. +Proverbs 17:05 | Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished. +Proverbs 17:05 | Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished. +Proverbs 17:06 | Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents. +Proverbs 17:07 | Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool, how much worse lying lips to a ruler! +Proverbs 17:07 | Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. +Proverbs 17:08 | A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers. +Proverbs 17:09 | He who covers an offence promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. +Proverbs 17:10 | A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool. +Proverbs 17:11 | An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. +Proverbs 17:12 | Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly. +Proverbs 17:12 | Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. +Proverbs 17:13 | Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. +Proverbs 17:14 | The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarrelling breaks out. +Proverbs 17:15 | He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. +Proverbs 17:16 | One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor. +Proverbs 17:16 | Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding? +Proverbs 17:17 | A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. +Proverbs 17:17 | A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. +Proverbs 17:18 | A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbour. +Proverbs 17:19 | He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction. +Proverbs 17:20 | One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble. +Proverbs 17:21 | He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy. +Proverbs 17:22 | A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. +Proverbs 17:22 | A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. +Proverbs 17:23 | A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice. +Proverbs 17:23 | The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice. +Proverbs 17:24 | Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth. +Proverbs 17:25 | A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth. +Proverbs 17:25 | A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him. +Proverbs 17:26 | Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity. +Proverbs 17:27 | He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding. +Proverbs 17:28 | Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. +Proverbs 18:01 | A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgement. +Proverbs 18:02 | A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. +Proverbs 18:03 | When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace. +Proverbs 18:04 | The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. +Proverbs 18:05 | To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice. +Proverbs 18:06 | A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. +Proverbs 18:07 | A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul. +Proverbs 18:08 | The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts. +Proverbs 18:09 | A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things. +Proverbs 18:09 | One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction. +Proverbs 18:10 | The Lord’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe. +Proverbs 18:10 | The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. +Proverbs 18:11 | The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination. +Proverbs 18:12 | Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honour is humility. +Proverbs 18:13 | He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him. +Proverbs 18:14 | A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear? +Proverbs 18:15 | The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge. +Proverbs 18:16 | A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men. +Proverbs 18:17 | He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him. +Proverbs 18:18 | The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart. +Proverbs 18:19 | A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress. +Proverbs 18:20 | A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. +Proverbs 18:21 | Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. +Proverbs 18:22 | Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the Lord. +Proverbs 18:23 | The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly. +Proverbs 18:24 | A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. +Proverbs 19:01 | Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. +Proverbs 19:02 | It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way. +Proverbs 19:03 | The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against the Lord. +Proverbs 19:04 | Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend. +Proverbs 19:05 | A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free. +Proverbs 19:06 | Many will entreat the favour of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. +Proverbs 19:07 | All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone. +Proverbs 19:08 | He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good. +Proverbs 19:09 | A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish. +Proverbs 19:10 | Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes. +Proverbs 19:11 | The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offence. +Proverbs 19:12 | The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favour is like dew on the grass. +Proverbs 19:13 | A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping. +Proverbs 19:14 | House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord. +Proverbs 19:15 | Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger. +Proverbs 19:16 | He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die. +Proverbs 19:17 | He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; he will reward him. +Proverbs 19:18 | Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death. +Proverbs 19:19 | A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again. +Proverbs 19:20 | Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end. +Proverbs 19:21 | There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the Lord’s counsel will prevail. +Proverbs 19:22 | That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar. +Proverbs 19:23 | The fear of the Lord leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble. +Proverbs 19:24 | The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again. +Proverbs 19:25 | Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge. +Proverbs 19:26 | He who robs his father and drives away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach. +Proverbs 19:27 | If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge. +Proverbs 19:28 | A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity. +Proverbs 19:29 | Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools. +Proverbs 20:01 | Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise. +Proverbs 20:02 | The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life. +Proverbs 20:03 | It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling. +Proverbs 20:04 | The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. +Proverbs 20:05 | Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. +Proverbs 20:06 | Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? +Proverbs 20:07 | A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. +Proverbs 20:08 | A king who sits on the throne of judgement scatters away all evil with his eyes. +Proverbs 20:09 | Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?" +Proverbs 20:10 | Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. +Proverbs 20:11 | Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right. +Proverbs 20:12 | The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The Lord has made even both of them. +Proverbs 20:13 | Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. +Proverbs 20:13 | If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat! +Proverbs 20:14 | "It’s no good, it’s no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. +Proverbs 20:15 | There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. +Proverbs 20:16 | Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. +Proverbs 20:17 | Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel. +Proverbs 20:18 | Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war! +Proverbs 20:19 | He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips. +Proverbs 20:20 | Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. +Proverbs 20:21 | An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end. +Proverbs 20:22 | Don’t say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for the Lord, and he will save you. +Proverbs 20:23 | The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing. +Proverbs 20:24 | A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way? +Proverbs 20:25 | It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows. +Proverbs 20:26 | A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them. +Proverbs 20:27 | The spirit of man is the Lord’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts. +Proverbs 20:28 | Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love. +Proverbs 20:29 | The glory of young men is their strength. The splendour of old men is their grey hair. +Proverbs 20:30 | Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts. +Proverbs 21:01 | The king’s heart is in the Lord’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. +Proverbs 21:02 | Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts. +Proverbs 21:03 | To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. +Proverbs 21:04 | A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin. +Proverbs 21:05 | The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty. +Proverbs 21:06 | Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapour for those who seek death. +Proverbs 21:07 | The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right. +Proverbs 21:08 | The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. +Proverbs 21:09 | It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman. +Proverbs 21:10 | The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbour finds no mercy in his eyes. +Proverbs 21:11 | When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. +Proverbs 21:12 | The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin. +Proverbs 21:13 | Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard. +Proverbs 21:14 | A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath. +Proverbs 21:15 | It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. +Proverbs 21:16 | The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits. +Proverbs 21:17 | He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich. +Proverbs 21:18 | The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright. +Proverbs 21:19 | It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman. +Proverbs 21:20 | There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up. +Proverbs 21:21 | He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honour. +Proverbs 21:22 | A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence. +Proverbs 21:23 | Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles. +Proverbs 21:24 | The proud and arrogant man—"Scoffer" is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride. +Proverbs 21:25 | The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labour. +Proverbs 21:26 | There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold. +Proverbs 21:27 | The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind! +Proverbs 21:28 | A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity. +Proverbs 21:29 | A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways. +Proverbs 21:30 | There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. +Proverbs 21:31 | The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with the Lord. +Proverbs 22:01 | A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favour is better than silver and gold. +Proverbs 22:02 | The rich and the poor have this in common: The Lord is the maker of them all. +Proverbs 22:03 | A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. +Proverbs 22:04 | The result of humility and the fear of the Lord is wealth, honour, and life. +Proverbs 22:05 | Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them. +Proverbs 22:06 | Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. +Proverbs 22:07 | The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender. +Proverbs 22:08 | He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. +Proverbs 22:09 | He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor. +Proverbs 22:10 | Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop. +Proverbs 22:11 | He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend. +Proverbs 22:12 | The Lord’s eyes watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful. +Proverbs 22:13 | The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!" +Proverbs 22:14 | The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the Lord’s wrath will fall into it. +Proverbs 22:15 | Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him. +Proverbs 22:16 | Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty. +Proverbs 22:17 | Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching. +Proverbs 22:18 | For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. +Proverbs 22:19 | I teach you today, even you, So that your trust may be in the Lord. +Proverbs 22:20 | Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, +Proverbs 22:21 | To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you? +Proverbs 22:22 | Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; +Proverbs 22:23 | for the Lord will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them. +Proverbs 22:24 | Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbours anger: +Proverbs 22:25 | lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul. +Proverbs 22:26 | Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. +Proverbs 22:27 | If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? +Proverbs 22:28 | Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up. +Proverbs 22:29 | Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men. +Proverbs 23:01 | When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; +Proverbs 23:02 | put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. +Proverbs 23:03 | Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. +Proverbs 23:04 | Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. +Proverbs 23:05 | Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. +Proverbs 23:06 | Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies: +Proverbs 23:07 | for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. +Proverbs 23:08 | The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words. +Proverbs 23:09 | Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. +Proverbs 23:10 | Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, +Proverbs 23:11 | for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you. +Proverbs 23:12 | Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. +Proverbs 23:13 | Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. +Proverbs 23:14 | Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol. +Proverbs 23:15 | My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine. +Proverbs 23:16 | Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. +Proverbs 23:17 | Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the Lord all day long. +Proverbs 23:18 | Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off. +Proverbs 23:19 | Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! +Proverbs 23:20 | Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: +Proverbs 23:21 | for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags. +Proverbs 23:22 | Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. +Proverbs 23:23 | Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. +Proverbs 23:24 | The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. +Proverbs 23:25 | Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! +Proverbs 23:26 | My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. +Proverbs 23:27 | For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. +Proverbs 23:28 | Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful amongst men. +Proverbs 23:29 | Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? +Proverbs 23:30 | Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine. +Proverbs 23:31 | Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. +Proverbs 23:32 | In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. +Proverbs 23:33 | Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things. +Proverbs 23:34 | Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: +Proverbs 23:35 | "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another." +Proverbs 24:01 | Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them; +Proverbs 24:02 | for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief. +Proverbs 24:03 | Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; +Proverbs 24:04 | by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure. +Proverbs 24:05 | A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength; +Proverbs 24:06 | for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors. +Proverbs 24:07 | Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate. +Proverbs 24:08 | One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer. +Proverbs 24:09 | The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men. +Proverbs 24:10 | If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. +Proverbs 24:11 | Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! +Proverbs 24:12 | If you say, "Behold, we didn’t know this," doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work? +Proverbs 24:13 | My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste; +Proverbs 24:14 | so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off. +Proverbs 24:15 | Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place; +Proverbs 24:16 | for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. +Proverbs 24:17 | Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown, +Proverbs 24:18 | lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. +Proverbs 24:19 | Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked; +Proverbs 24:20 | for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out. +Proverbs 24:21 | My son, fear the Lord and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious; +Proverbs 24:22 | for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both? +Proverbs 24:23 | These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgement is not good. +Proverbs 24:24 | He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous," peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him— +Proverbs 24:25 | but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them. +Proverbs 24:26 | An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. +Proverbs 24:27 | Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house. +Proverbs 24:28 | Don’t be a witness against your neighbour without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips. +Proverbs 24:29 | Don’t say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work." +Proverbs 24:30 | I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: +Proverbs 24:31 | Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. +Proverbs 24:32 | Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: +Proverbs 24:33 | a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, +Proverbs 24:34 | so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man. +Proverbs 25:01 | These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. +Proverbs 25:02 | It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. +Proverbs 25:03 | As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable. +Proverbs 25:04 | Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner; +Proverbs 25:05 | Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness. +Proverbs 25:06 | Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place amongst great men; +Proverbs 25:07 | for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen. +Proverbs 25:08 | Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbour shames you? +Proverbs 25:09 | Debate your case with your neighbour, and don’t betray the confidence of another, +Proverbs 25:10 | lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart. +Proverbs 25:11 | A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. +Proverbs 25:12 | As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear. +Proverbs 25:13 | As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters. +Proverbs 25:14 | As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively. +Proverbs 25:15 | By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone. +Proverbs 25:16 | Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it. +Proverbs 25:17 | Let your foot be seldom in your neighbour’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you. +Proverbs 25:18 | A man who gives false testimony against his neighbour is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow. +Proverbs 25:19 | Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot. +Proverbs 25:20 | As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. +Proverbs 25:21 | If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink; +Proverbs 25:22 | for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you. +Proverbs 25:23 | The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face. +Proverbs 25:24 | It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman. +Proverbs 25:25 | Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. +Proverbs 25:26 | Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. +Proverbs 25:27 | It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honourable to seek one’s own honour. +Proverbs 25:28 | Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint. +Proverbs 26:01 | Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool. +Proverbs 26:02 | Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest. +Proverbs 26:03 | A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools! +Proverbs 26:04 | Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. +Proverbs 26:05 | Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. +Proverbs 26:06 | One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence. +Proverbs 26:07 | Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. +Proverbs 26:08 | As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honour to a fool. +Proverbs 26:09 | Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. +Proverbs 26:10 | As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by. +Proverbs 26:11 | As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly. +Proverbs 26:12 | Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. +Proverbs 26:13 | The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" +Proverbs 26:14 | As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. +Proverbs 26:15 | The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. +Proverbs 26:16 | The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion. +Proverbs 26:17 | Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own. +Proverbs 26:19 | is the man who deceives his neighbour and says, "Am I not joking?" +Proverbs 26:20 | For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. +Proverbs 26:21 | As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. +Proverbs 26:22 | The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts. +Proverbs 26:23 | Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. +Proverbs 26:24 | A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbours evil in his heart. +Proverbs 26:25 | When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. +Proverbs 26:26 | His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. +Proverbs 26:27 | Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him. +Proverbs 26:28 | A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin. +Proverbs 27:01 | Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. +Proverbs 27:02 | Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. +Proverbs 27:03 | A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. +Proverbs 27:04 | Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? +Proverbs 27:05 | Better is open rebuke than hidden love. +Proverbs 27:06 | The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. +Proverbs 27:07 | A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. +Proverbs 27:08 | As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home. +Proverbs 27:09 | Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. +Proverbs 27:10 | Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbour who is near is better than a distant brother. +Proverbs 27:11 | Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor. +Proverbs 27:12 | A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. +Proverbs 27:13 | Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman! +Proverbs 27:14 | He who blesses his neighbour with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him. +Proverbs 27:15 | A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike: +Proverbs 27:16 | restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand. +Proverbs 27:17 | Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. +Proverbs 27:18 | Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honoured. +Proverbs 27:19 | Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. +Proverbs 27:20 | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. +Proverbs 27:21 | The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise. +Proverbs 27:22 | Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him. +Proverbs 27:23 | Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: +Proverbs 27:24 | for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations. +Proverbs 27:25 | The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. +Proverbs 27:26 | The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. +Proverbs 27:27 | There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls. +Proverbs 28:01 | The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion. +Proverbs 28:02 | In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge. +Proverbs 28:03 | A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops. +Proverbs 28:04 | Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them. +Proverbs 28:05 | Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek the Lord understand it fully. +Proverbs 28:06 | Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich. +Proverbs 28:07 | Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father. +Proverbs 28:08 | He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. +Proverbs 28:09 | He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. +Proverbs 28:10 | Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good. +Proverbs 28:11 | The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him. +Proverbs 28:12 | When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves. +Proverbs 28:13 | He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. +Proverbs 28:14 | Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble. +Proverbs 28:15 | As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people. +Proverbs 28:16 | A tyrannical ruler lacks judgement. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days. +Proverbs 28:17 | A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him. +Proverbs 28:18 | Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly. +Proverbs 28:19 | One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. +Proverbs 28:19-20 | A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty. The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble. +Proverbs 28:20 | A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished. +Proverbs 28:21 | To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread. +Proverbs 28:22 | A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him. +Proverbs 28:23 | One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favour than one who flatters with the tongue. +Proverbs 28:24 | Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "It’s not wrong," is a partner with a destroyer. +Proverbs 28:25 | One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in the Lord will prosper. +Proverbs 28:26 | One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe. +Proverbs 28:27 | One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses. +Proverbs 28:28 | When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive. +Proverbs 29:01 | He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. +Proverbs 29:02 | When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan. +Proverbs 29:03 | Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. +Proverbs 29:04 | The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down. +Proverbs 29:05 | A man who flatters his neighbour spreads a net for his feet. +Proverbs 29:06 | An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad. +Proverbs 29:07 | The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge. +Proverbs 29:08 | Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger. +Proverbs 29:09 | If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace. +Proverbs 29:10 | The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright. +Proverbs 29:11 | A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control. +Proverbs 29:12 | If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked. +Proverbs 29:13 | The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both. +Proverbs 29:14 | The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever. +Proverbs 29:15 | The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. +Proverbs 29:16 | When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall. +Proverbs 29:17 | Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul. +Proverbs 29:18 | Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed. +Proverbs 29:19 | A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond. +Proverbs 29:20 | Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. +Proverbs 29:21 | He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end. +Proverbs 29:22 | An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin. +Proverbs 29:23 | A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honour. +Proverbs 29:24 | Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify. +Proverbs 29:25 | The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in the Lord is kept safe. +Proverbs 29:26 | Many seek the ruler’s favour, but a man’s justice comes from the Lord. +Proverbs 29:27 | A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked. +Proverbs 30:01 | The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the revelation: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: +Proverbs 30:02 | "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding. +Proverbs 30:03 | I have not learnt wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. +Proverbs 30:04 | Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know? +Proverbs 30:05 | "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. +Proverbs 30:06 | Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. +Proverbs 30:07 | "Two things I have asked of you. Don’t deny me before I die. +Proverbs 30:08 | Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me, +Proverbs 30:09 | lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God. +Proverbs 30:10 | "Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. +Proverbs 30:11 | There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother. +Proverbs 30:12 | There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness. +Proverbs 30:13 | There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up. +Proverbs 30:14 | There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from amongst men. +Proverbs 30:15 | "The leech has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’ +Proverbs 30:16 | Sheol, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’ +Proverbs 30:17 | "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it. +Proverbs 30:18 | "There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: +Proverbs 30:18-19 | There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don't understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman. +Proverbs 30:19 | The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. +Proverbs 30:20 | "So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’ +Proverbs 30:21 | "For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up: +Proverbs 30:22 | For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food, +Proverbs 30:23 | for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress. +Proverbs 30:24 | "There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: +Proverbs 30:25 | The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer. +Proverbs 30:26 | The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. +Proverbs 30:27 | The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. +Proverbs 30:28 | You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces. +Proverbs 30:29 | "There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going: +Proverbs 30:30 | The lion, which is mightiest amongst animals, and doesn’t turn away for any; +Proverbs 30:31 | the greyhound; the male goat; and the king against whom there is no rising up. +Proverbs 30:32 | "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth. +Proverbs 30:33 | For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife." +Proverbs 31:01 | The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him. +Proverbs 31:02 | "Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows! +Proverbs 31:03 | Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings. +Proverbs 31:04 | It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’ +Proverbs 31:05 | lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted. +Proverbs 31:06 | Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul. +Proverbs 31:07 | Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. +Proverbs 31:08 | Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. +Proverbs 31:09 | Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy." +Proverbs 31:10 | Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. +Proverbs 31:10: Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. +Proverbs 31:11 | The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. +Proverbs 31:12 | She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. +Proverbs 31:13 | She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. +Proverbs 31:14 | She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar. +Proverbs 31:15 | She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls. +Proverbs 31:16 | She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard. +Proverbs 31:17 | She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong. +Proverbs 31:18 | She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night. +Proverbs 31:19 | She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. +Proverbs 31:20 | She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy. +Proverbs 31:21 | She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet. +Proverbs 31:22 | She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple. +Proverbs 31:23 | Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits amongst the elders of the land. +Proverbs 31:24 | She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant. +Proverbs 31:25 | Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. +Proverbs 31:26 | She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue. +Proverbs 31:27 | She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness. +Proverbs 31:28 | Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: +Proverbs 31:29 | "Many women do noble things, but you excel them all." +Proverbs 31:30 | Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. +Proverbs 31:31 | Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates! +Psalm 01:01 | Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; +Psalm 01:02 | but his delight is in the Lord’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. +Psalm 01:03 | He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. +Psalm 01:04 | The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. +Psalm 01:05 | Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. +Psalm 01:06 | For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish. +Psalm 02:01 | Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? +Psalm 02:03 | "Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us." +Psalm 02:04 | He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. +Psalm 02:05 | Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath: +Psalm 02:06 | "Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion." +Psalm 02:07 | I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father. +Psalm 02:08 | Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. +Psalm 02:09 | You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel." +Psalm 02:10 | Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. +Psalm 02:11 | Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. +Psalm 02:12 | Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. +Psalm 03:01 | A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Lord, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. +Psalm 03:02 | Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah. +Psalm 03:03 | But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. +Psalm 03:04 | I cry to the Lord with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah. +Psalm 03:05 | I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for the Lord sustains me. +Psalm 03:06 | I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side. +Psalm 03:07 | Arise, LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked. +Psalm 03:08 | Salvation belongs to the Lord. May your blessing be on your people. Selah. +Psalm 04:01 | For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. +Psalm 04:02 | You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah. +Psalm 04:03 | But know that the Lord has set apart for himself him who is godly: The Lord will hear when I call to him. +Psalm 04:04 | Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah. +Psalm 04:05 | Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the Lord. +Psalm 04:06 | Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Lord, let the light of your face shine on us. +Psalm 04:07 | You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased. +Psalm 04:08 | In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, the Lord alone, make me live in safety. +Psalm 05:01 | For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David. Give ear to my words, Lord. Consider my meditation. +Psalm 05:02 | Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you. +Psalm 05:03 | Lord, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly. +Psalm 05:04 | For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you. +Psalm 05:05 | The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity. +Psalm 05:06 | You will destroy those who speak lies. The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. +Psalm 05:07 | But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow towards your holy temple in reverence of you. +Psalm 05:08 | Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face. +Psalm 05:09 | For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue. +Psalm 05:10 | Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you. +Psalm 05:11 | But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you. +Psalm 05:12 | For you will bless the righteous. Lord, you will surround him with favour as with a shield. +Psalm 06:01 | For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath. +Psalm 06:02 | Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint. Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. +Psalm 06:03 | My soul is also in great anguish. But you, LORD—how long? +Psalm 06:04 | Return, Lord. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake. +Psalm 06:05 | For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks? +Psalm 06:06 | I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears. +Psalm 06:07 | My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries. +Psalm 06:08 | Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. +Psalm 06:09 | The Lord has heard my supplication. The Lord accepts my prayer. +Psalm 06:10 | May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly. +Psalm 07:01 | A meditation by David, which he sang to the Lord, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Lord, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me, +Psalm 07:02 | lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver. +Psalm 07:03 | Lord, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands, +Psalm 07:04 | if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary), +Psalm 07:05 | let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. +Psalm 07:06 | Arise, Lord, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgement. +Psalm 07:07 | Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high. +Psalm 07:08 | The Lord administers judgement to the peoples. Judge me, Lord, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. +Psalm 07:09 | Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God. +Psalm 07:10 | My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. +Psalm 07:11 | God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day. +Psalm 07:12 | If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. +Psalm 07:13 | He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows. +Psalm 07:14 | Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood. +Psalm 07:15 | He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. +Psalm 07:16 | The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head. +Psalm 07:17 | I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. +Psalm 08:01 | For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens! +Psalm 08:02 | From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. +Psalm 08:03 | When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; +Psalm 08:04 | what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? +Psalm 08:05 | For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honour. +Psalm 08:06 | You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: +Psalm 08:07 | All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field, +Psalm 08:08 | the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas. +Psalm 08:09 | Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! +Psalm 09:01 | For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son." A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvellous works. +Psalm 09:02 | I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. +Psalm 09:03 | When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence. +Psalm 09:04 | For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously. +Psalm 09:05 | You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever. +Psalm 09:06 | The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. +Psalm 09:07 | But the Lord reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgement. +Psalm 09:08 | He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgement to the peoples in uprightness. +Psalm 09:09 | The Lord will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. +Psalm 09:09-10 | The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. +Psalm 09:10 | Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. +Psalm 09:11 | Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion, and declare amongst the people what he has done. +Psalm 09:12 | For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted. +Psalm 09:13 | Have mercy on me, Lord. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death, +Psalm 09:14 | that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion. +Psalm 09:15 | The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. +Psalm 09:16 | The Lord has made himself known. He has executed judgement. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah. +Psalm 09:17 | The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God. +Psalm 09:18 | For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. +Psalm 09:19 | Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. +Psalm 09:20 | Put them in fear, Lord. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah. +Psalm 100:01 | A Psalm of thanksgiving. Shout for joy to the Lord, all you lands! +Psalm 100:02 | Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. +Psalm 100:03 | Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. +Psalm 100:04 | Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. +Psalm 100:05 | For the Lord is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations. +Psalm 101:01 | A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Lord, I will sing praises. +Psalm 101:02 | I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. +Psalm 101:03 | I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. +Psalm 101:04 | A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. +Psalm 101:05 | I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited. +Psalm 101:06 | My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. +Psalm 101:07 | He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes. +Psalm 101:08 | Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the Lord’s city. +Psalm 102:01 | A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the Lord. Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you. +Psalm 102:02 | Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call. +Psalm 102:03 | For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burnt as a torch. +Psalm 102:04 | My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. +Psalm 102:05 | By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. +Psalm 102:06 | I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. +Psalm 102:07 | I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop. +Psalm 102:08 | My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse. +Psalm 102:09 | For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, +Psalm 102:10 | because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away. +Psalm 102:11 | My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass. +Psalm 102:12 | But you, Lord, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations. +Psalm 102:13 | You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. +Psalm 102:14 | For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust. +Psalm 102:15 | So the nations will fear the Lord’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory. +Psalm 102:16 | For the Lord has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. +Psalm 102:17 | He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. +Psalm 102:18 | This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the Lord, +Psalm 102:19 | for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth, +Psalm 102:20 | to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death, +Psalm 102:21 | that men may declare the Lord’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem, +Psalm 102:22 | when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. +Psalm 102:23 | He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days. +Psalm 102:24 | I said, "My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations. +Psalm 102:25 | Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands. +Psalm 102:26 | They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed. +Psalm 102:27 | But you are the same. Your years will have no end. +Psalm 102:28 | The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you." +Psalm 103:01 | By David. Praise the Lord, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! +Psalm 103:02 | Praise the Lord, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits, +Psalm 103:03 | who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, +Psalm 103:04 | who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, +Psalm 103:05 | who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. +Psalm 103:06 | The Lord executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed. +Psalm 103:07 | He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel. +Psalm 103:08 | The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. +Psalm 103:09 | He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. +Psalm 103:10 | He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. +Psalm 103:11 | For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness towards those who fear him. +Psalm 103:12 | As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. +Psalm 103:13 | Like a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. +Psalm 103:14 | For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. +Psalm 103:15 | As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. +Psalm 103:16 | For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. +Psalm 103:17 | But the Lord’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children, +Psalm 103:18 | to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts. +Psalm 103:19 | The Lord has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all. +Psalm 103:20 | Praise the Lord, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfil his word, obeying the voice of his word. +Psalm 103:21 | Praise the Lord, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure. +Psalm 103:22 | Praise the Lord, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise the Lord, my soul! +Psalm 104:01 | Bless the Lord, my soul. The Lord, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honour and majesty. +Psalm 104:02 | He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. +Psalm 104:03 | He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. +Psalm 104:04 | He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire. +Psalm 104:05 | He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. +Psalm 104:06 | You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. +Psalm 104:07 | At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. +Psalm 104:08 | The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. +Psalm 104:09 | You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth. +Psalm 104:10 | He sends springs into the valleys. They run amongst the mountains. +Psalm 104:11 | They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. +Psalm 104:12 | The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing amongst the branches. +Psalm 104:13 | He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works. +Psalm 104:14 | He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: +Psalm 104:15 | wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart. +Psalm 104:16 | The Lord’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted, +Psalm 104:17 | where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees. +Psalm 104:18 | The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers. +Psalm 104:19 | He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. +Psalm 104:20 | You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl. +Psalm 104:21 | The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. +Psalm 104:22 | The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens. +Psalm 104:23 | Man goes out to his work, to his labour until the evening. +Psalm 104:24 | The Lord, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches. +Psalm 104:25 | There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. +Psalm 104:26 | There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there. +Psalm 104:27 | These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. +Psalm 104:28 | You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good. +Psalm 104:29 | You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust. +Psalm 104:30 | You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground. +Psalm 104:31 | Let the Lord’s glory endure forever. Let the Lord rejoice in his works. +Psalm 104:32 | He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. +Psalm 104:33 | I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. +Psalm 104:34 | Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the Lord. +Psalm 104:35 | Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, my soul. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 105:01 | Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make his doings known amongst the peoples. +Psalm 105:02 | Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvellous works. +Psalm 105:03 | Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice. +Psalm 105:04 | Seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his face forever more. +Psalm 105:05 | Remember his marvellous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth, +Psalm 105:06 | you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. +Psalm 105:07 | He is the Lord, our God. His judgements are in all the earth. +Psalm 105:08 | He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, +Psalm 105:09 | the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, +Psalm 105:10 | and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying, +Psalm 105:11 | "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance," +Psalm 105:12 | when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. +Psalm 105:13 | They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. +Psalm 105:14 | He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, +Psalm 105:15 | "Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!" +Psalm 105:16 | He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. +Psalm 105:17 | He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave. +Psalm 105:18 | They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, +Psalm 105:19 | until the time that his word happened, and the Lord’s word proved him true. +Psalm 105:20 | The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. +Psalm 105:21 | He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions, +Psalm 105:22 | to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. +Psalm 105:23 | Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham. +Psalm 105:24 | He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries. +Psalm 105:25 | He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. +Psalm 105:26 | He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. +Psalm 105:27 | They performed miracles amongst them, and wonders in the land of Ham. +Psalm 105:28 | He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words. +Psalm 105:29 | He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. +Psalm 105:30 | Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings. +Psalm 105:31 | He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders. +Psalm 105:32 | He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land. +Psalm 105:33 | He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country. +Psalm 105:34 | He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number, +Psalm 105:35 | ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground. +Psalm 105:36 | He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood. +Psalm 105:37 | He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person amongst his tribes. +Psalm 105:38 | Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them. +Psalm 105:39 | He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night. +Psalm 105:40 | They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky. +Psalm 105:41 | He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places. +Psalm 105:42 | For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant. +Psalm 105:43 | He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing. +Psalm 105:44 | He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labour of the peoples in possession, +Psalm 105:45 | that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 106:01 | Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 106:02 | Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord, or fully declare all his praise? +Psalm 106:03 | Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times. +Psalm 106:04 | Remember me, Lord, with the favour that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation, +Psalm 106:05 | that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. +Psalm 106:06 | We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly. +Psalm 106:07 | Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea. +Psalm 106:08 | Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known. +Psalm 106:09 | He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert. +Psalm 106:10 | He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. +Psalm 106:11 | The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left. +Psalm 106:12 | Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. +Psalm 106:13 | They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel, +Psalm 106:14 | but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland. +Psalm 106:15 | He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. +Psalm 106:16 | They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, the Lord’s saint. +Psalm 106:17 | The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. +Psalm 106:18 | A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burnt up the wicked. +Psalm 106:19 | They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image. +Psalm 106:20 | Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass. +Psalm 106:21 | They forgot God, their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt, +Psalm 106:22 | wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea. +Psalm 106:23 | Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them. +Psalm 106:24 | Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word, +Psalm 106:25 | but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the Lord’s voice. +Psalm 106:26 | Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, +Psalm 106:27 | that he would overthrow their offspring amongst the nations, and scatter them in the lands. +Psalm 106:28 | They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. +Psalm 106:29 | Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them. +Psalm 106:30 | Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgement, so the plague was stopped. +Psalm 106:31 | That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come. +Psalm 106:32 | They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes; +Psalm 106:33 | because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips. +Psalm 106:34 | They didn’t destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them, +Psalm 106:35 | but mixed themselves with the nations, and learnt their works. +Psalm 106:36 | They served their idols, which became a snare to them. +Psalm 106:37 | Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. +Psalm 106:38 | They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood. +Psalm 106:39 | Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds. +Psalm 106:40 | Therefore the Lord burnt with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance. +Psalm 106:41 | He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them. +Psalm 106:42 | Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand. +Psalm 106:43 | He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. +Psalm 106:44 | Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. +Psalm 106:45 | He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +Psalm 106:46 | He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive. +Psalm 106:47 | Save us, Lord, our God, gather us from amongst the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise! +Psalm 106:48 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise the LORD! +Psalm 107:01 | Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 107:02 | Let the redeemed by the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, +Psalm 107:03 | and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. +Psalm 107:04 | They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. +Psalm 107:05 | Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. +Psalm 107:06 | Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses, +Psalm 107:07 | he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. +Psalm 107:08 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! +Psalm 107:09 | For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. +Psalm 107:10 | Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, +Psalm 107:11 | because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. +Psalm 107:12 | Therefore he brought down their heart with labour. They fell down, and there was no one to help. +Psalm 107:13 | Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. +Psalm 107:14 | He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains. +Psalm 107:15 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! +Psalm 107:16 | For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron. +Psalm 107:17 | Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. +Psalm 107:18 | Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. +Psalm 107:19 | Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses. +Psalm 107:20 | He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves. +Psalm 107:21 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! +Psalm 107:22 | Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing. +Psalm 107:23 | Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; +Psalm 107:24 | These see the Lord’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. +Psalm 107:25 | For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. +Psalm 107:26 | They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. +Psalm 107:27 | They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. +Psalm 107:28 | Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. +Psalm 107:29 | He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. +Psalm 107:30 | Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven. +Psalm 107:31 | Let them praise the Lord for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men! +Psalm 107:32 | Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. +Psalm 107:33 | He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, +Psalm 107:34 | and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it. +Psalm 107:35 | He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs. +Psalm 107:36 | There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, +Psalm 107:37 | sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. +Psalm 107:38 | He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease. +Psalm 107:39 | Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. +Psalm 107:40 | He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. +Psalm 107:41 | Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. +Psalm 107:42 | The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths. +Psalm 107:43 | Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the Lord. +Psalm 108:01 | A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul. +Psalm 108:02 | Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn. +Psalm 108:03 | I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the nations. I will sing praises to you amongst the peoples. +Psalm 108:04 | For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. +Psalm 108:05 | Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth. +Psalm 108:06 | That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. +Psalm 108:07 | God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. +Psalm 108:08 | Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my sceptre. +Psalm 108:09 | Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia." +Psalm 108:10 | Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom? +Psalm 108:11 | Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies. +Psalm 108:12 | Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. +Psalm 108:13 | Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies. +Psalm 109:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent, +Psalm 109:02 | for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. +Psalm 109:03 | They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. +Psalm 109:04 | In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. +Psalm 109:05 | They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. +Psalm 109:06 | Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand. +Psalm 109:07 | When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin. +Psalm 109:08 | Let his days be few. Let another take his office. +Psalm 109:09 | Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. +Psalm 109:10 | Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. +Psalm 109:11 | Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labour. +Psalm 109:12 | Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children. +Psalm 109:13 | Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. +Psalm 109:14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out. +Psalm 109:15 | Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth; +Psalm 109:16 | because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them. +Psalm 109:17 | Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him. +Psalm 109:18 | He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. +Psalm 109:19 | Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him. +Psalm 109:20 | This is the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my soul. +Psalm 109:21 | But deal with me, God the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me; +Psalm 109:22 | for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. +Psalm 109:23 | I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. +Psalm 109:24 | My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. +Psalm 109:25 | I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head. +Psalm 109:26 | Help me, Lord, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness; +Psalm 109:27 | that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Lord, have done it. +Psalm 109:28 | They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice. +Psalm 109:29 | Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonour. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. +Psalm 109:30 | I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him amongst the multitude. +Psalm 109:31 | For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. +Psalm 10:01 | Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? +Psalm 10:02 | In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. +Psalm 10:03 | For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the Lord. +Psalm 10:04 | The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. +Psalm 10:05 | His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. +Psalm 10:06 | He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble." +Psalm 10:07 | His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. +Psalm 10:08 | He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. +Psalm 10:09 | He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. +Psalm 10:10 | The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength. +Psalm 10:11 | He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it." +Psalm 10:12 | Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless. +Psalm 10:13 | Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won’t call me into account?" +Psalm 10:14 | But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. +Psalm 10:15 | Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. +Psalm 10:16 | The Lord is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. +Psalm 10:17 | Lord, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, +Psalm 10:18 | to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. +Psalm 110:01 | A Psalm by David. The Lord says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet." +Psalm 110:02 | The Lord will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule amongst your enemies. +Psalm 110:03 | Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth. +Psalm 110:04 | The Lord has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." +Psalm 110:05 | The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath. +Psalm 110:06 | He will judge amongst the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth. +Psalm 110:07 | He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head. +Psalm 111:01 | Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. +Psalm 111:02 | The Lord’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them. +Psalm 111:03 | His work is honour and majesty. His righteousness endures forever. +Psalm 111:04 | He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and merciful. +Psalm 111:05 | He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant. +Psalm 111:06 | He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations. +Psalm 111:07 | The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure. +Psalm 111:08 | They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness. +Psalm 111:09 | He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome! +Psalm 111:10 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! +Psalm 112:01 | Praise the Lord! +Psalm 112:01 | Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in his commandments. +Psalm 112:02 | His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed. +Psalm 112:03 | Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever. +Psalm 112:04 | Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous. +Psalm 112:05 | Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice. +Psalm 112:05 | It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgement. +Psalm 112:06 | For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever. +Psalm 112:07 | He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. +Psalm 112:08 | His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries. +Psalm 112:09 | He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honour. +Psalm 112:1,7-8 | Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord. They are not afraid of evil tidings; their hearts are firm, secure in the Lord. Their hearts are steady, they will not be afraid. +Psalm 112:10 | The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish. +Psalm 113:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the Lord, praise the Lord’s name. +Psalm 113:02 | Blessed be the Lord’s name, from this time forward and forever more. +Psalm 113:03 | From the rising of the sun to its going down, The Lord’s name is to be praised. +Psalm 113:04 | The Lord is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. +Psalm 113:05 | Who is like the Lord, our God, who has his seat on high, +Psalm 113:06 | Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth? +Psalm 113:07 | He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap, +Psalm 113:08 | that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. +Psalm 113:09 | He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 114:01 | When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language, +Psalm 114:02 | Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. +Psalm 114:03 | The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. +Psalm 114:04 | The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. +Psalm 114:05 | What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back? +Psalm 114:06 | You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs? +Psalm 114:07 | Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, +Psalm 114:08 | who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters. +Psalm 115:01 | Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake. +Psalm 115:02 | Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?" +Psalm 115:03 | But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. +Psalm 115:04 | Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. +Psalm 115:05 | They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see. +Psalm 115:06 | They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell. +Psalm 115:07 | They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat. +Psalm 115:08 | Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them. +Psalm 115:09 | Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. +Psalm 115:10 | House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. +Psalm 115:11 | You who fear the Lord, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. +Psalm 115:12 | The Lord remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. +Psalm 115:13 | He will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great. +Psalm 115:14 | May the Lord increase you more and more, you and your children. +Psalm 115:15 | Blessed are you by the Lord, who made heaven and earth. +Psalm 115:16 | The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men. +Psalm 115:17 | The dead don’t praise the Lord, neither any who go down into silence; +Psalm 115:18 | but we will bless the Lord, from this time forward and forever more. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 116:01 | I love the Lord, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. +Psalm 116:02 | Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. +Psalm 116:03 | The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow. +Psalm 116:04 | Then I called on the Lord’s name: "LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul." +Psalm 116:05 | The Lord is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful. +Psalm 116:06 | The Lord preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me. +Psalm 116:07 | Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. +Psalm 116:08 | For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. +Psalm 116:09 | I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. +Psalm 116:10 | I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted." +Psalm 116:11 | I said in my haste, "All people are liars." +Psalm 116:12 | What will I give to the Lord for all his benefits towards me? +Psalm 116:13 | I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the Lord’s name. +Psalm 116:14 | I will pay my vows to the Lord, yes, in the presence of all his people. +Psalm 116:15 | Precious in the Lord’s sight is the death of his saints. +Psalm 116:15 | Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. +Psalm 116:16 | Lord, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains. +Psalm 116:17 | I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the Lord’s name. +Psalm 116:18 | I will pay my vows to the Lord, yes, in the presence of all his people, +Psalm 116:19 | in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 117:01 | Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! +Psalm 117:02 | For his loving kindness is great towards us. The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 118:01 | Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 118:02 | Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 118:03 | Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 118:04 | Now let those who fear the Lord say that his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 118:05 | Out of my distress, I called on the Lord. The Lord answered me with freedom. +Psalm 118:05-06 | When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? +Psalm 118:06 | The Lord is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? +Psalm 118:07 | The Lord is on my side amongst those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me. +Psalm 118:08 | It is better to take refuge in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. +Psalm 118:09 | It is better to take refuge in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. +Psalm 118:10 | All the nations surrounded me, but in the Lord’s name, I cut them off. +Psalm 118:11 | They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the Lord’s name I indeed cut them off. +Psalm 118:12 | They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the Lord’s name I cut them off. +Psalm 118:13 | You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the Lord helped me. +Psalm 118:14 | The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. +Psalm 118:14-16 | The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!" +Psalm 118:15 | The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. +Psalm 118:16 | The right hand of the Lord is exalted! The right hand of the Lord does valiantly!" +Psalm 118:17 | I will not die, but live, and declare the Lord’s works. +Psalm 118:18 | The Lord has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death. +Psalm 118:19 | Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to the Lord. +Psalm 118:20 | This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous will enter into it. +Psalm 118:21 | I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation. +Psalm 118:22 | The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. +Psalm 118:23 | This is the Lord’s doing. It is marvellous in our eyes. +Psalm 118:24 | This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it! +Psalm 118:25 | Save us now, we beg you, LORD! Lord, we beg you, send prosperity now. +Psalm 118:26 | Blessed is he who comes in the Lord’s name! We have blessed you out of the Lord’s house. +Psalm 118:27 | The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. +Psalm 118:28 | You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you. +Psalm 118:29 | Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 119:01 | ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the Lord’s law. +Psalm 119:02 | Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart. +Psalm 119:03 | Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. +Psalm 119:04 | You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them. +Psalm 119:05 | Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes! +Psalm 119:06 | Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments. +Psalm 119:07 | I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgements. +Psalm 119:08 | I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. +Psalm 119:09 | BET How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. +Psalm 119:10 | With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments. +Psalm 119:100 | I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts. +Psalm 119:101 | I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word. +Psalm 119:102 | I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me. +Psalm 119:103 | How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth! +Psalm 119:104 | Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. +Psalm 119:105 | NUN Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path. +Psalm 119:106 | I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances. +Psalm 119:107 | I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Lord, according to your word. +Psalm 119:108 | Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Lord, teach me your ordinances. +Psalm 119:109 | My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law. +Psalm 119:11 | I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. +Psalm 119:110 | The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts. +Psalm 119:111 | I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. +Psalm 119:112 | I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. +Psalm 119:113 | SAMEKH I hate double-minded men, but I love your law. +Psalm 119:114 | You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word. +Psalm 119:114-115 | You are my hiding place and my shield;I hope in your word. Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. +Psalm 119:115 | Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. +Psalm 119:116 | Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope. +Psalm 119:117 | Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually. +Psalm 119:118 | You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain. +Psalm 119:119 | You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies. +Psalm 119:12 | Blessed are you, Lord. Teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:120 | My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgements. +Psalm 119:121 | AYIN I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors. +Psalm 119:122 | Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me. +Psalm 119:123 | My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word. +Psalm 119:124 | Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:125 | I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies. +Psalm 119:126 | It is time to act, Lord, for they break your law. +Psalm 119:127 | Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold. +Psalm 119:128 | Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. +Psalm 119:129 | PEY Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them. +Psalm 119:13 | With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth. +Psalm 119:130 | The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. +Psalm 119:131 | I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments. +Psalm 119:132 | Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name. +Psalm 119:133 | Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me. +Psalm 119:134 | Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts. +Psalm 119:135 | Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:136 | Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. +Psalm 119:137 | TZADI You are righteous, Lord. Your judgements are upright. +Psalm 119:138 | You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy. +Psalm 119:139 | My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words. +Psalm 119:14 | I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. +Psalm 119:140 | Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them. +Psalm 119:141 | I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts. +Psalm 119:142 | Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth. +Psalm 119:143 | Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight. +Psalm 119:143 | Trouble and distress have come upon me, but Your commands give me delight. +Psalm 119:144 | Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. +Psalm 119:145 | KUF I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, LORD! I will keep your statutes. +Psalm 119:146 | I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes. +Psalm 119:147 | I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. +Psalm 119:148 | My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word. +Psalm 119:149 | Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Lord, according to your ordinances. +Psalm 119:15 | I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways. +Psalm 119:150 | They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law. +Psalm 119:151 | You are near, Lord. All your commandments are truth. +Psalm 119:152 | Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. +Psalm 119:153 | RESH Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law. +Psalm 119:154 | Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise. +Psalm 119:155 | Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes. +Psalm 119:156 | Great are your tender mercies, Lord. Revive me according to your ordinances. +Psalm 119:157 | Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies. +Psalm 119:158 | I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word. +Psalm 119:159 | Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Lord, according to your loving kindness. +Psalm 119:16 | I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. +Psalm 119:160 | All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. +Psalm 119:161 | SIN AND SHIN Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. +Psalm 119:162 | I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder. +Psalm 119:163 | I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law. +Psalm 119:163 | I hate and detest falsehood but I love Your law. +Psalm 119:164 | Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances. +Psalm 119:165 | Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble. +Psalm 119:166 | I have hoped for your salvation, Lord. I have done your commandments. +Psalm 119:167 | My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly. +Psalm 119:168 | I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. +Psalm 119:169 | TAV Let my cry come before you, Lord. Give me understanding according to your word. +Psalm 119:17 | GIMEL Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word. +Psalm 119:170 | Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word. +Psalm 119:171 | Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:172 | Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness. +Psalm 119:173 | Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. +Psalm 119:174 | I have longed for your salvation, Lord. Your law is my delight. +Psalm 119:175 | Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me. +Psalm 119:176 | I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments. +Psalm 119:18 | Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. +Psalm 119:19 | I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me. +Psalm 119:20 | My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times. +Psalm 119:21 | You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments. +Psalm 119:22 | Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes. +Psalm 119:23 | Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes. +Psalm 119:24 | Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counsellors. +Psalm 119:25 | DALED My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word! +Psalm 119:26 | I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:27 | Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works. +Psalm 119:28 | My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word. +Psalm 119:29 | Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously! +Psalm 119:30 | I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me. +Psalm 119:31 | I cling to your statutes, Lord. Don’t let me be disappointed. +Psalm 119:32 | I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. +Psalm 119:33 | HEY Teach me, Lord, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end. +Psalm 119:34 | Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart. +Psalm 119:35 | Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them. +Psalm 119:36 | Turn my heart towards your statutes, not towards selfish gain. +Psalm 119:37 | Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways. +Psalm 119:38 | Fulfil your promise to your servant, that you may be feared. +Psalm 119:39 | Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good. +Psalm 119:40 | Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. +Psalm 119:41 | WAW Let your loving kindness also come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your word. +Psalm 119:42 | So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word. +Psalm 119:43 | Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances. +Psalm 119:44 | So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever. +Psalm 119:45 | I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts. +Psalm 119:46 | I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed. +Psalm 119:47 | I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them. +Psalm 119:48 | I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. +Psalm 119:49 | ZAYIN Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope. +Psalm 119:50 | This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me. +Psalm 119:50 | This is my comfort in my affliction, that Your promise gives me life. +Psalm 119:51 | The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law. +Psalm 119:52 | I remember your ordinances of old, Lord, and have comforted myself. +Psalm 119:53 | Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law. +Psalm 119:54 | Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live. +Psalm 119:55 | I have remembered your name, Lord, in the night, and I obey your law. +Psalm 119:56 | This is my way, that I keep your precepts. +Psalm 119:57 | CHET The Lord is my portion. I promised to obey your words. +Psalm 119:58 | I sought your favour with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word. +Psalm 119:59 | I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes. +Psalm 119:60 | I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments. +Psalm 119:61 | The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law. +Psalm 119:62 | At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances. +Psalm 119:63 | I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts. +Psalm 119:64 | The earth is full of your loving kindness, Lord. Teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:65 | TET You have treated your servant well, according to your word, Lord. +Psalm 119:66 | Teach me good judgement and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. +Psalm 119:67 | Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word. +Psalm 119:68 | You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes. +Psalm 119:69 | The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts. +Psalm 119:70 | Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law. +Psalm 119:71 | It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes. +Psalm 119:72 | The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. +Psalm 119:73 | YUD Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments. +Psalm 119:74 | Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word. +Psalm 119:75 | Lord, I know that your judgements are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. +Psalm 119:76 | Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant. +Psalm 119:77 | Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. +Psalm 119:78 | Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts. +Psalm 119:79 | Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes. +Psalm 119:80 | Let my heart be blameless towards your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. +Psalm 119:81 | KAF My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. +Psalm 119:82 | My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?" +Psalm 119:83 | For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes. +Psalm 119:84 | How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgement on those who persecute me? +Psalm 119:85 | The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law. +Psalm 119:86 | All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me! +Psalm 119:87 | They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts. +Psalm 119:88 | Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. +Psalm 119:89 | LAMED Lord, your word is settled in heaven forever. +Psalm 119:90 | Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains. +Psalm 119:91 | Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you. +Psalm 119:92 | Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. +Psalm 119:93 | I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me. +Psalm 119:94 | I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts. +Psalm 119:95 | The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes. +Psalm 119:96 | I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. +Psalm 119:97 | MEM How I love your law! It is my meditation all day. +Psalm 119:98 | Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. +Psalm 119:99 | I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. +Psalm 11:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David. In the Lord, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain"? +Psalm 11:02 | For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. +Psalm 11:03 | If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? +Psalm 11:04 | The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men. +Psalm 11:05 | The Lord examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence. +Psalm 11:06 | On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulphur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. +Psalm 11:07 | For the Lord is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. +Psalm 120:01 | A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the Lord. He answered me. +Psalm 120:01 | In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. +Psalm 120:02 | Deliver my soul, Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. +Psalm 120:03 | What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue? +Psalm 120:05 | Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell amongst the tents of Kedar! +Psalm 120:06 | My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. +Psalm 120:07 | I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. +Psalm 121:01 | A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? +Psalm 121:02 | My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. +Psalm 121:03 | He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. +Psalm 121:04 | Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. +Psalm 121:05 | The Lord is your keeper. The Lord is your shade on your right hand. +Psalm 121:06 | The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. +Psalm 121:07 | The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. +Psalm 121:08 | The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more. +Psalm 122:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, "Let’s go to the Lord’s house!" +Psalm 122:02 | Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem, +Psalm 122:03 | Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together, +Psalm 122:04 | where the tribes go up, even the Lord’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the Lord’s name. +Psalm 122:05 | For there are set thrones for judgement, the thrones of David’s house. +Psalm 122:06 | Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. +Psalm 122:07 | Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. +Psalm 122:08 | For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you." +Psalm 122:09 | For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. +Psalm 123:01 | A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens. +Psalm 123:02 | Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us. +Psalm 123:03 | Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. +Psalm 123:04 | Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. +Psalm 124:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, let Israel now say, +Psalm 124:02 | if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; +Psalm 124:03 | then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; +Psalm 124:04 | then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; +Psalm 124:05 | then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. +Psalm 124:06 | Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. +Psalm 124:07 | Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. +Psalm 124:08 | Our help is in the Lord’s name, who made heaven and earth. +Psalm 125:01 | A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever. +Psalm 125:02 | As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more. +Psalm 125:03 | For the sceptre of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil. +Psalm 125:04 | Do good, Lord, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts. +Psalm 125:05 | But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, The Lord will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. +Psalm 126:01 | A Song of Ascents. When the Lord brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream. +Psalm 126:02 | Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said amongst the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them." +Psalm 126:03 | The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad. +Psalm 126:04 | Restore our fortunes again, Lord, like the streams in the Negev. +Psalm 126:05 | Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. +Psalm 126:06 | He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. +Psalm 127:01 | A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, they who build it labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. +Psalm 127:01-02 | Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. +Psalm 127:02 | It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones. +Psalm 127:03 | Behold, children are a heritage of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is his reward. +Psalm 127:04 | As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. +Psalm 127:05 | Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. +Psalm 128:01 | A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. +Psalm 128:02 | For you will eat the labour of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. +Psalm 128:03 | Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table. +Psalm 128:04 | Behold, this is how the man who fears the Lord is blessed. +Psalm 128:05 | May the Lord bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. +Psalm 128:06 | Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel. +Psalm 129:01 | A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, +Psalm 129:02 | many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. +Psalm 129:03 | The ploughers ploughed on my back. They made their furrows long. +Psalm 129:04 | The Lord is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. +Psalm 129:05 | Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. +Psalm 129:06 | Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, +Psalm 129:07 | with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. +Psalm 129:08 | Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the Lord be on you. We bless you in the Lord’s name." +Psalm 12:01 | For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David. Help, Lord; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from amongst the children of men. +Psalm 12:02 | Everyone lies to his neighbour. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. +Psalm 12:03 | May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, +Psalm 12:04 | who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?" +Psalm 12:05 | "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the Lord; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him." +Psalm 12:06 | The Lord’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times. +Psalm 12:07 | You will keep them, Lord. You will preserve them from this generation forever. +Psalm 12:08 | The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted amongst the sons of men. +Psalm 130:01 | A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Lord. +Psalm 130:02 | Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions. +Psalm 130:03 | If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? +Psalm 130:04 | But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared. +Psalm 130:05 | I wait for the Lord. My soul waits. I hope in his word. +Psalm 130:06 | My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. +Psalm 130:07 | Israel, hope in the Lord, for there is loving kindness with the Lord. Abundant redemption is with him. +Psalm 130:08 | He will redeem Israel from all their sins. +Psalm 131:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. Lord, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me. +Psalm 131:02 | Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. +Psalm 131:03 | Israel, hope in the Lord, from this time forward and forever more. +Psalm 132:01 | A Song of Ascents. Lord, remember David and all his affliction, +Psalm 132:02 | how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: +Psalm 132:03 | "Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed; +Psalm 132:04 | I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids; +Psalm 132:05 | until I find out a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." +Psalm 132:06 | Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar: +Psalm 132:07 | "We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool. +Psalm 132:08 | Arise, Lord, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. +Psalm 132:09 | Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!" +Psalm 132:10 | For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one. +Psalm 132:11 | The Lord has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne. +Psalm 132:12 | If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more." +Psalm 132:13 | For the Lord has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. +Psalm 132:14 | "This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it. +Psalm 132:15 | I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. +Psalm 132:16 | I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy. +Psalm 132:17 | I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. +Psalm 132:18 | I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine." +Psalm 133:01 | A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! +Psalm 133:02 | It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard, that came down on the edge of his robes, +Psalm 133:03 | like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there the Lord gives the blessing, even life forever more. +Psalm 134:01 | A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the Lord’s house! +Psalm 134:02 | Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 134:03 | May the Lord bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth. +Psalm 135:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise the Lord’s name! Praise him, you servants of the Lord, +Psalm 135:02 | you who stand in the Lord’s house, in the courts of our God’s house. +Psalm 135:03 | Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant. +Psalm 135:04 | For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession. +Psalm 135:05 | For I know that the Lord is great, that our Lord is above all gods. +Psalm 135:06 | Whatever the Lord pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps. +Psalm 135:07 | He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries. +Psalm 135:08 | He struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal. +Psalm 135:09 | He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants. +Psalm 135:10 | He struck many nations, and killed mighty kings, +Psalm 135:11 | Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan, +Psalm 135:12 | and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people. +Psalm 135:13 | Your name, Lord, endures forever; your renown, Lord, throughout all generations. +Psalm 135:14 | For the Lord will judge his people and have compassion on his servants. +Psalm 135:15 | The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. +Psalm 135:16 | They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see. +Psalm 135:17 | They have ears, but they can’t hear, neither is there any breath in their mouths. +Psalm 135:18 | Those who make them will be like them, yes, everyone who trusts in them. +Psalm 135:19 | House of Israel, praise the LORD! House of Aaron, praise the LORD! +Psalm 135:20 | House of Levi, praise the LORD! You who fear the Lord, praise the LORD! +Psalm 135:21 | Blessed be the Lord from Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 136:01 | Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 136:02 | Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 136:03 | Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:04 | to him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:05 | to him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:06 | to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:07 | to him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:08 | the sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:09 | the moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:10 | to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:11 | and brought out Israel from amongst them; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:12 | with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:13 | to him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:14 | and made Israel to pass through the middle of it; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:15 | but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:16 | to him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:17 | to him who struck great kings; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:18 | and killed mighty kings; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:19 | Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:20 | Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:21 | and gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:22 | even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:23 | who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever; +Psalm 136:24 | and has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever: +Psalm 136:25 | who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 136:26 | Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; for his loving kindness endures forever. +Psalm 137:01 | By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. +Psalm 137:03 | For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" +Psalm 137:04 | How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? +Psalm 137:05 | If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. +Psalm 137:06 | Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. +Psalm 137:07 | Remember, Lord, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!" +Psalm 137:08 | Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us. +Psalm 137:09 | Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. +Psalm 138:01 | By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you. +Psalm 138:02 | I will bow down towards your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all. +Psalm 138:03 | In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul. +Psalm 138:03 | When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted. +Psalm 138:04 | All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Lord, for they have heard the words of your mouth. +Psalm 138:05 | Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord, for the Lord’s glory is great! +Psalm 138:06 | For though the Lord is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar. +Psalm 138:07 | Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me. +Psalm 138:08 | The Lord will fulfil that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Lord, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands. +Psalm 139:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Lord, you have searched me, and you know me. +Psalm 139:01-02 | You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. +Psalm 139:02 | You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. +Psalm 139:03 | You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. +Psalm 139:04 | For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Lord, you know it altogether. +Psalm 139:05 | You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. +Psalm 139:06 | This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it. +Psalm 139:07 | Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? +Psalm 139:08 | If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! +Psalm 139:09 | If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, +Psalm 139:10 | even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. +Psalm 139:11 | If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night," +Psalm 139:12 | even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. +Psalm 139:13 | For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. +Psalm 139:14 | I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful. +Psalm 139:14 | I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. +Psalm 139:15 | My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. +Psalm 139:16 | Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. +Psalm 139:17 | How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! +Psalm 139:17 | How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum! +Psalm 139:18 | If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. +Psalm 139:19 | If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! +Psalm 139:20 | For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. +Psalm 139:21 | Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? +Psalm 139:21-22 | Do I not hate those who hate You, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against You? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. +Psalm 139:22 | I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies. +Psalm 139:23 | Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. +Psalm 139:24 | See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. +Psalm 13:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? +Psalm 13:02 | How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? +Psalm 13:03 | Behold, and answer me, Lord, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; +Psalm 13:04 | lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him" lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. +Psalm 13:05 | But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. +Psalm 13:06 | I will sing to the Lord, because he has been good to me. +Psalm 140:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Lord, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man: +Psalm 140:02 | those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. +Psalm 140:03 | They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah. +Psalm 140:04 | Lord, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet. +Psalm 140:05 | The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah. +Psalm 140:06 | I said to the Lord, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Lord. +Psalm 140:07 | Lord, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. +Psalm 140:08 | Lord, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah. +Psalm 140:09 | As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. +Psalm 140:10 | Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise. +Psalm 140:11 | An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him. +Psalm 140:12 | I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy. +Psalm 140:13 | Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence. +Psalm 141:01 | A Psalm by David. Lord, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you. +Psalm 141:02 | Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice. +Psalm 141:03 | Set a watch, Lord, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips. +Psalm 141:04 | Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies. +Psalm 141:05 | Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds. +Psalm 141:06 | Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken. +Psalm 141:07 | "As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol." +Psalm 141:08 | For my eyes are on you, Lord, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute. +Psalm 141:09 | Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity. +Psalm 141:10 | Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by. +Psalm 142:01 | A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to the Lord. With my voice, I ask the Lord for mercy. +Psalm 142:02 | I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles. +Psalm 142:03 | When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me. +Psalm 142:04 | Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul. +Psalm 142:05 | I cried to you, Lord. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." +Psalm 142:06 | Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me. +Psalm 142:07 | Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me. +Psalm 143:01 | A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Lord. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. +Psalm 143:02 | Don’t enter into judgement with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous. +Psalm 143:03 | For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. +Psalm 143:04 | Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate. +Psalm 143:05 | I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands. +Psalm 143:06 | I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah. +Psalm 143:07 | Hurry to answer me, Lord. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit. +Psalm 143:08 | Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. +Psalm 143:08 | Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I entrust my life. +Psalm 143:09 | Deliver me, Lord, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. +Psalm 143:10 | Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness. +Psalm 143:11 | Revive me, Lord, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble. +Psalm 143:12 | In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant. +Psalm 144:01 | By David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: +Psalm 144:02 | my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me. +Psalm 144:03 | Lord, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him? +Psalm 144:04 | Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. +Psalm 144:05 | Part your heavens, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. +Psalm 144:06 | Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. +Psalm 144:07 | Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners, +Psalm 144:08 | whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. +Psalm 144:09 | I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you. +Psalm 144:10 | You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword. +Psalm 144:11 | Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. +Psalm 144:12 | Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace. +Psalm 144:13 | Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields. +Psalm 144:14 | Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets. +Psalm 144:15 | Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. +Psalm 145:01 | A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. +Psalm 145:02 | Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever. +Psalm 145:03 | Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable. +Psalm 145:04 | One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. +Psalm 145:05 | I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honour, on your wondrous works. +Psalm 145:06 | Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness. +Psalm 145:07 | They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness. +Psalm 145:08 | The Lord is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. +Psalm 145:09 | The Lord is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. +Psalm 145:10 | All your works will give thanks to you, Lord. Your saints will extol you. +Psalm 145:11 | They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power, +Psalm 145:12 | to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. +Psalm 145:13 | Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds. +Psalm 145:14 | The Lord upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down. +Psalm 145:15 | The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. +Psalm 145:16 | You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. +Psalm 145:17 | The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. +Psalm 145:18 | The Lord is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. +Psalm 145:18-19 | The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him and He hears their cry and saves them. +Psalm 145:19 | He will fulfil the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them. +Psalm 145:20 | The Lord preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked. +Psalm 145:21 | My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. +Psalm 146:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise the Lord, my soul. +Psalm 146:02 | While I live, I will praise the Lord. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. +Psalm 146:03 | Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help. +Psalm 146:04 | His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. +Psalm 146:05 | Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord, his God: +Psalm 146:06 | who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; +Psalm 146:07 | who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners. +Psalm 146:08 | The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord raises up those who are bowed down. The Lord loves the righteous. +Psalm 146:09 | The Lord preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down. +Psalm 146:10 | The Lord will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 147:01 | Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. +Psalm 147:02 | The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. +Psalm 147:03 | He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. +Psalm 147:04 | He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. +Psalm 147:05 | Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite. +Psalm 147:06 | The Lord upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground. +Psalm 147:07 | Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God, +Psalm 147:08 | who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. +Psalm 147:09 | He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call. +Psalm 147:10 | He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. +Psalm 147:11 | The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness. +Psalm 147:12 | Praise the Lord, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! +Psalm 147:13 | For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you. +Psalm 147:14 | He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat. +Psalm 147:15 | He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly. +Psalm 147:16 | He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. +Psalm 147:17 | He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold? +Psalm 147:18 | He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. +Psalm 147:19 | He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. +Psalm 147:20 | He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 148:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise the Lord from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! +Psalm 148:02 | Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! +Psalm 148:03 | Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! +Psalm 148:04 | Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens. +Psalm 148:05 | Let them praise the Lord’s name, for he commanded, and they were created. +Psalm 148:06 | He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away. +Psalm 148:07 | Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths; +Psalm 148:08 | lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word; +Psalm 148:09 | mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars; +Psalm 148:10 | wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds; +Psalm 148:11 | kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth; +Psalm 148:12 | both young men and maidens; old men and children: +Psalm 148:13 | let them praise the Lord’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens. +Psalm 148:14 | He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 149:01 | Praise the LORD! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints. +Psalm 149:02 | Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. +Psalm 149:03 | Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp! +Psalm 149:04 | For the Lord takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation. +Psalm 149:05 | Let the saints rejoice in honour. Let them sing for joy on their beds. +Psalm 149:06 | May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand, +Psalm 149:06 | The Lord takes pleasure in His people and He adorns the humble with salvation. +Psalm 149:07 | to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; +Psalm 149:08 | to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; +Psalm 149:09 | to execute on them the written judgement. All his saints have this honour. Praise the LORD! +Psalm 14:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. +Psalm 14:02 | The Lord looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. +Psalm 14:03 | They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one. +Psalm 14:04 | Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD? +Psalm 14:05 | There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous. +Psalm 14:06 | You frustrate the plan of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge. +Psalm 14:07 | Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. +Psalm 150:01 | Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! +Psalm 150:02 | Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! +Psalm 150:03 | Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! +Psalm 150:04 | Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute! +Psalm 150:05 | Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals! +Psalm 150:06 | Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! Psalm 151:02 | My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a lute. Psalm 151:03 | Who shall tell my Lord? The Lord himself, he himself hears. Psalm 151:04 | He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with his anointing oil. Psalm 151:05 | My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord didn’t take pleasure in them. Psalm 151:06 | I went out to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols. Psalm 151:07 | But I drew his own sword and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel. +Psalm 15:01 | A Psalm by David. Lord, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? +Psalm 15:02 | He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; +Psalm 15:03 | he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man; +Psalm 15:04 | in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honours those who fear the Lord; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change; +Psalm 15:05 | he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. +Psalm 16:01 | A Poem by David. Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you. +Psalm 16:02 | My soul, you have said to the Lord, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing." +Psalm 16:03 | As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. +Psalm 16:04 | Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips. +Psalm 16:05 | The Lord assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. +Psalm 16:06 | The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance. +Psalm 16:07 | I will bless the Lord, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. +Psalm 16:08 | I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. +Psalm 16:08 | I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. +Psalm 16:08-11 | I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your Holy One see corruption.. You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. +Psalm 16:09 | Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety. +Psalm 16:10 | For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption. +Psalm 16:11 | You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more. +Psalm 17:01 | A Prayer by David. Hear, Lord, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips. +Psalm 17:02 | Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity. +Psalm 17:03 | You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey. +Psalm 17:04 | As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent. +Psalm 17:05 | My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped. +Psalm 17:06 | I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech. +Psalm 17:07 | Show your marvellous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies. +Psalm 17:08 | Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, +Psalm 17:09 | from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me. +Psalm 17:10 | They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly. +Psalm 17:11 | They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth. +Psalm 17:12 | He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. +Psalm 17:13 | Arise, Lord, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, +Psalm 17:14 | from men by your hand, Lord, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children. +Psalm 17:15 | As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. +Psalm 18:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Lord, my strength. +Psalm 18:02 | The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. +Psalm 18:03 | I call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies. +Psalm 18:04 | The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. +Psalm 18:05 | The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. +Psalm 18:06 | In my distress I called on the Lord, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears. +Psalm 18:07 | Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. +Psalm 18:08 | Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. +Psalm 18:09 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. +Psalm 18:10 | He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. +Psalm 18:11 | He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. +Psalm 18:12 | At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. +Psalm 18:13 | The Lord also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire. +Psalm 18:14 | He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts. +Psalm 18:15 | Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. +Psalm 18:16 | He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. +Psalm 18:17 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. +Psalm 18:18 | They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. +Psalm 18:19 | He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. +Psalm 18:20 | The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me. +Psalm 18:21 | For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. +Psalm 18:22 | For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me. +Psalm 18:23 | I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. +Psalm 18:24 | Therefore the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. +Psalm 18:25 | With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. +Psalm 18:26 | With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. +Psalm 18:27 | For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down. +Psalm 18:28 | For you will light my lamp, Lord. My God will light up my darkness. +Psalm 18:29 | For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. +Psalm 18:30 | As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. +Psalm 18:31 | For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God, +Psalm 18:32 | the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? +Psalm 18:33 | He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places. +Psalm 18:34 | He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. +Psalm 18:35 | You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. +Psalm 18:36 | You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. +Psalm 18:37 | I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed. +Psalm 18:38 | I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. +Psalm 18:39 | For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. +Psalm 18:40 | You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. +Psalm 18:41 | They cried, but there was no one to save; even to the Lord, but he didn’t answer them. +Psalm 18:42 | Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. +Psalm 18:43 | You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. +Psalm 18:44 | As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. +Psalm 18:45 | The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds. +Psalm 18:46 | The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, +Psalm 18:47 | even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. +Psalm 18:48 | He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. +Psalm 18:49 | Therefore I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the nations, and will sing praises to your name. +Psalm 18:50 | He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more. +Psalm 19:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. +Psalm 19:02 | Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge. +Psalm 19:03 | There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. +Psalm 19:04 | Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, +Psalm 19:05 | which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. +Psalm 19:06 | His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat. +Psalm 19:07 | The Lord’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. The Lord’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple. +Psalm 19:08 | The Lord’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The Lord’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. +Psalm 19:09 | The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The Lord’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. +Psalm 19:10 | They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. +Psalm 19:11 | Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward. +Psalm 19:12 | Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. +Psalm 19:13 | Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. +Psalm 19:14 | Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Lord, my rock, and my redeemer. +Psalm 20:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, +Psalm 20:02 | send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion, +Psalm 20:03 | remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah. +Psalm 20:04 | May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfil all your counsel. +Psalm 20:05 | We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May the Lord grant all your requests. +Psalm 20:06 | Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. +Psalm 20:07 | Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. +Psalm 20:08 | They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright. +Psalm 20:09 | Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call! +Psalm 21:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation! +Psalm 21:02 | You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. +Psalm 21:03 | For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head. +Psalm 21:04 | He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever. +Psalm 21:05 | His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honour and majesty on him. +Psalm 21:06 | For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence. +Psalm 21:07 | For the king trusts in the Lord. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved. +Psalm 21:08 | Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. +Psalm 21:09 | You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them. +Psalm 21:10 | You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from amongst the children of men. +Psalm 21:11 | For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed. +Psalm 21:12 | For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face. +Psalm 21:13 | Be exalted, Lord, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power. +Psalm 22:01 | For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? +Psalm 22:02 | My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent. +Psalm 22:03 | But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel. +Psalm 22:04 | Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them. +Psalm 22:05 | They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed. +Psalm 22:06 | But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. +Psalm 22:08 | "He trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him." +Psalm 22:09 | But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts. +Psalm 22:10 | I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me. +Psalm 22:11 | Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help. +Psalm 22:12 | Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. +Psalm 22:13 | They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. +Psalm 22:14 | I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me. +Psalm 22:15 | My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. +Psalm 22:16 | For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. +Psalm 22:17 | I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. +Psalm 22:18 | They divide my garments amongst them. They cast lots for my clothing. +Psalm 22:19 | But don’t be far off, Lord. You are my help. Hurry to help me! +Psalm 22:20 | Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. +Psalm 22:21 | Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. +Psalm 22:22 | I will declare your name to my brothers. Amongst the assembly, I will praise you. +Psalm 22:23 | You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! +Psalm 22:24 | For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. +Psalm 22:25 | My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him. +Psalm 22:26 | The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever. +Psalm 22:27 | All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. +Psalm 22:28 | For the kingdom is the Lord’s. He is the ruler over the nations. +Psalm 22:29 | All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive. +Psalm 22:30 | Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord. +Psalm 22:31 | They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it. +Psalm 23:01 | A Psalm by David. The Lord is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. +Psalm 23:02 | He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. +Psalm 23:03 | He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. +Psalm 23:04 | Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. +Psalm 23:04 | Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. +Psalm 23:05 | You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. +Psalm 23:06 | Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the Lord’s house forever. +Psalm 24:01 | A Psalm by David. The earth is the Lord’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it. +Psalm 24:02 | For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. +Psalm 24:03 | Who may ascend to the Lord’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? +Psalm 24:04 | He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. +Psalm 24:05 | He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, righteousness from the God of his salvation. +Psalm 24:06 | This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah. +Psalm 24:07 | Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. +Psalm 24:08 | Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. +Psalm 24:09 | Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. +Psalm 24:10 | Who is this King of glory? The Lord of Armies is the King of glory! Selah. +Psalm 25:01 | By David. To you, Lord, I lift up my soul. +Psalm 25:02 | My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me. +Psalm 25:03 | Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause. +Psalm 25:04 | Show me your ways, Lord. Teach me your paths. +Psalm 25:05 | Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long. +Psalm 25:06 | Lord, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times. +Psalm 25:07 | Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Lord. +Psalm 25:08 | Good and upright is the Lord, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. +Psalm 25:09 | He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way. +Psalm 25:10 | All the paths of the Lord are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. +Psalm 25:11 | For your name’s sake, Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. +Psalm 25:12 | What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose. +Psalm 25:13 | His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land. +Psalm 25:14 | The friendship of the Lord is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant. +Psalm 25:15 | My eyes are ever on the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. +Psalm 25:16 | Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. +Psalm 25:17 | The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. +Psalm 25:18 | Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. +Psalm 25:19 | Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. +Psalm 25:20 | Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you. +Psalm 25:21 | Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. +Psalm 25:22 | God, redeem Israel out of all his troubles. +Psalm 26:01 | By David. Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Lord without wavering. +Psalm 26:02 | Examine me, Lord, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. +Psalm 26:03 | For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth. +Psalm 26:04 | I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. +Psalm 26:05 | I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. +Psalm 26:06 | I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Lord, +Psalm 26:07 | that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds. +Psalm 26:08 | Lord, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. +Psalm 26:09 | Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; +Psalm 26:10 | in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. +Psalm 26:11 | But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. +Psalm 26:12 | My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless the Lord. +Psalm 27:01 | By David. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? +Psalm 27:01-03 | The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident. +Psalm 27:02 | When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. +Psalm 27:03 | Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. +Psalm 27:04 | One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. +Psalm 27:04 | One thing I have asked of the Lord, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, to see the Lord’s beauty, and to enquire in his temple. +Psalm 27:05 | For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. +Psalm 27:06 | Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. +Psalm 27:07 | Hear, Lord, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me. +Psalm 27:08 | When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Lord." +Psalm 27:09 | Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation. +Psalm 27:10 | When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. +Psalm 27:11 | Teach me your way, Lord. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies. +Psalm 27:12 | Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. +Psalm 27:13 | I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. +Psalm 27:14 | Wait for the Lord. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord. +Psalm 28:01 | By David. To you, Lord, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. +Psalm 28:02 | Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands towards your Most Holy Place. +Psalm 28:03 | Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. +Psalm 28:04 | Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve. +Psalm 28:05 | Because they don’t respect the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up. +Psalm 28:06 | Blessed be the Lord, because he has heard the voice of my petitions. +Psalm 28:07 | The Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. +Psalm 28:08 | The Lord is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. +Psalm 28:09 | Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. +Psalm 29:01 | A Psalm by David. Ascribe to the Lord, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. +Psalm 29:02 | Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name. Worship the Lord in holy array. +Psalm 29:03 | The Lord’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the Lord on many waters. +Psalm 29:04 | The Lord’s voice is powerful. The Lord’s voice is full of majesty. +Psalm 29:05 | The Lord’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. +Psalm 29:06 | He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. +Psalm 29:07 | The Lord’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning. +Psalm 29:08 | The Lord’s voice shakes the wilderness. The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. +Psalm 29:09 | The Lord’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!" +Psalm 29:10 | The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the Lord sits as King forever. +Psalm 29:11 | The Lord will give strength to his people. The Lord will bless his people with peace. +Psalm 30:01 | A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David. I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. +Psalm 30:02 | Lord my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. +Psalm 30:03 | Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. +Psalm 30:04 | Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. +Psalm 30:05 | For his anger is but for a moment. His favour is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. +Psalm 30:06 | As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." +Psalm 30:07 | You, Lord, when you favoured me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled. +Psalm 30:08 | I cried to you, Lord. I made supplication to the Lord: +Psalm 30:09 | "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? +Psalm 30:10 | Hear, Lord, and have mercy on me. Lord, be my helper." +Psalm 30:11 | You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, +Psalm 30:12 | to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever! +Psalm 31:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Lord, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. +Psalm 31:02 | Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defence to save me. +Psalm 31:03 | For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. +Psalm 31:04 | Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold. +Psalm 31:05 | Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Lord, God of truth. +Psalm 31:06 | I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the Lord. +Psalm 31:07 | I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. +Psalm 31:08 | You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. +Psalm 31:09 | Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. +Psalm 31:10 | For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. +Psalm 31:11 | Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbours, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. +Psalm 31:12 | I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. +Psalm 31:13 | For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. +Psalm 31:14 | But I trust in you, Lord. I said, "You are my God." +Psalm 31:15 | My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. +Psalm 31:16 | Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. +Psalm 31:17 | Let me not be disappointed, Lord, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. +Psalm 31:18 | Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. +Psalm 31:19 | Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men! +Psalm 31:20 | In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues. +Psalm 31:21 | Praise be to the Lord, for he has shown me his marvellous loving kindness in a strong city. +Psalm 31:22 | As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you. +Psalm 31:23 | Oh love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. +Psalm 31:24 | Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord. +Psalm 31:24 | Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! +Psalm 32:01 | By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. +Psalm 32:02 | Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. +Psalm 32:03 | When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. +Psalm 32:04 | For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. +Psalm 32:05 | I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. +Psalm 32:06 | For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. +Psalm 32:07 | You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. +Psalm 32:07-08 | You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. +Psalm 32:08 | I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. +Psalm 32:09 | Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you. +Psalm 32:10 | Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the Lord. +Psalm 32:11 | Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart! +Psalm 33:01 | Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. +Psalm 33:02 | Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings. +Psalm 33:03 | Sing to him a new song. Play skilfully with a shout of joy! +Psalm 33:04 | For the Lord’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness. +Psalm 33:05 | He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord. +Psalm 33:06 | By the Lord’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth. +Psalm 33:07 | He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses. +Psalm 33:08 | Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. +Psalm 33:09 | For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm. +Psalm 33:10 | The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. +Psalm 33:11 | The counsel of the Lord stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. +Psalm 33:12 | Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. +Psalm 33:13 | The Lord looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. +Psalm 33:14 | From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, +Psalm 33:15 | he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works. +Psalm 33:16 | There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. +Psalm 33:17 | A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power. +Psalm 33:18 | Behold, the Lord’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness, +Psalm 33:19 | to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine. +Psalm 33:20 | Our soul has waited for the Lord. He is our help and our shield. +Psalm 33:21 | For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. +Psalm 33:22 | Let your loving kindness be on us, Lord, since we have hoped in you. +Psalm 34:01 | By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. +Psalm 34:02 | My soul shall boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. +Psalm 34:03 | Oh magnify the Lord with me. Let’s exalt his name together. +Psalm 34:04 | I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. +Psalm 34:04 | I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. +Psalm 34:04-05 | I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. +Psalm 34:05 | They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. +Psalm 34:06 | This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. +Psalm 34:07 | The Lord’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. +Psalm 34:08 | Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. +Psalm 34:08 | Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! +Psalm 34:09 | Oh fear the Lord, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him. +Psalm 34:10 | The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. +Psalm 34:10 | Those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. +Psalm 34:11 | Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. +Psalm 34:12 | Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? +Psalm 34:13 | Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. +Psalm 34:14 | Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. +Psalm 34:15 | The Lord’s eyes are towards the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. +Psalm 34:16 | The Lord’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth. +Psalm 34:17 | The righteous cry, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. +Psalm 34:17 | When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. +Psalm 34:18 | The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. +Psalm 34:18 | The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. +Psalm 34:19 | Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. +Psalm 34:20 | He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. +Psalm 34:21 | Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. +Psalm 34:22 | The Lord redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned. +Psalm 35:01 | By David. Contend, Lord, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. +Psalm 35:02 | Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. +Psalm 35:03 | Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation." +Psalm 35:04 | Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonour. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded. +Psalm 35:05 | Let them be as chaff before the wind, The Lord’s angel driving them on. +Psalm 35:06 | Let their way be dark and slippery, The Lord’s angel pursuing them. +Psalm 35:07 | For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. +Psalm 35:08 | Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. +Psalm 35:09 | My soul shall be joyful in the Lord. It shall rejoice in his salvation. +Psalm 35:10 | All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?" +Psalm 35:11 | Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about. +Psalm 35:12 | They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul. +Psalm 35:13 | But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. +Psalm 35:14 | I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother. +Psalm 35:15 | But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease. +Psalm 35:16 | Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. +Psalm 35:17 | Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions. +Psalm 35:18 | I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you amongst many people. +Psalm 35:19 | Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. +Psalm 35:20 | For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. +Psalm 35:21 | Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!" +Psalm 35:22 | You have seen it, Lord. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me. +Psalm 35:23 | Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me! +Psalm 35:24 | Vindicate me, Lord my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me. +Psalm 35:25 | Don’t let them say in their heart, "Aha! That’s the way we want it!" Don’t let them say, "We have swallowed him up!" +Psalm 35:26 | Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me. +Psalm 35:27 | Let those who favour my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, "May The Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!" +Psalm 35:28 | My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long. +Psalm 36:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of the Lord. A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes." +Psalm 36:02 | For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin. +Psalm 36:03 | The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. +Psalm 36:04 | He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil. +Psalm 36:05 | Your loving kindness, Lord, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. +Psalm 36:06 | Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgements are like a great deep. Lord, you preserve man and animal. +Psalm 36:07 | How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings. +Psalm 36:08 | They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. +Psalm 36:09 | For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light. +Psalm 36:10 | Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart. +Psalm 36:11 | Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away. +Psalm 36:12 | There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. +Psalm 37:01 | By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. +Psalm 37:02 | For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb. +Psalm 37:03 | Trust in the Lord, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. +Psalm 37:04 | Also delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. +Psalm 37:05 | Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in him, and he will do this: +Psalm 37:06 | he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun. +Psalm 37:07 | Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen. +Psalm 37:08 | Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing. +Psalm 37:09 | For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. +Psalm 37:10 | For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there. +Psalm 37:11 | But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. +Psalm 37:12 | The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. +Psalm 37:13 | The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming. +Psalm 37:14 | The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path. +Psalm 37:15 | Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken. +Psalm 37:16 | Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked. +Psalm 37:17 | For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous. +Psalm 37:18 | The Lord knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever. +Psalm 37:19 | They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied. +Psalm 37:20 | But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of the Lord shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke. +Psalm 37:21 | The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously. +Psalm 37:22 | For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off. +Psalm 37:23 | A man’s steps are established by the Lord. He delights in his way. +Psalm 37:24 | Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the Lord holds him up with his hand. +Psalm 37:25 | I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. +Psalm 37:26 | All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed. +Psalm 37:27 | Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever. +Psalm 37:28 | For the Lord loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. +Psalm 37:29 | The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever. +Psalm 37:30 | The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. +Psalm 37:31 | The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. +Psalm 37:32 | The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him. +Psalm 37:33 | The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. +Psalm 37:34 | Wait for the Lord, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. +Psalm 37:35 | I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. +Psalm 37:36 | But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. +Psalm 37:37 | Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. +Psalm 37:38 | As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. +Psalm 37:39 | But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. +Psalm 37:40 | The Lord helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him. +Psalm 38:01 | A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Lord, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. +Psalm 38:02 | For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. +Psalm 38:03 | There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. +Psalm 38:04 | For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. +Psalm 38:05 | My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness. +Psalm 38:06 | I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. +Psalm 38:07 | For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. +Psalm 38:08 | I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. +Psalm 38:09 | Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. +Psalm 38:10 | My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. +Psalm 38:11 | My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. +Psalm 38:12 | They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. +Psalm 38:13 | But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth. +Psalm 38:14 | Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. +Psalm 38:15 | For I hope in you, Lord. You will answer, Lord my God. +Psalm 38:16 | For I said, "Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." +Psalm 38:17 | For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. +Psalm 38:18 | For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. +Psalm 38:19 | But my enemies are vigourous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. +Psalm 38:20 | They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. +Psalm 38:21 | Don’t forsake me, Lord. My God, don’t be far from me. +Psalm 38:22 | Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. +Psalm 39:01 | For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me." +Psalm 39:02 | I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. +Psalm 39:03 | My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burnt. I spoke with my tongue: +Psalm 39:04 | "LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. +Psalm 39:05 | Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. +Psalm 39:06 | "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather. +Psalm 39:07 | Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. +Psalm 39:08 | Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish. +Psalm 39:09 | I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it. +Psalm 39:10 | Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. +Psalm 39:11 | When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. +Psalm 39:12 | "Hear my prayer, Lord, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were. +Psalm 39:13 | Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more." +Psalm 40:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me, and heard my cry. +Psalm 40:02 | He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. +Psalm 40:03 | He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. +Psalm 40:04 | Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. +Psalm 40:05 | Many, Lord, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are towards us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted. +Psalm 40:06 | Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. +Psalm 40:07 | Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. +Psalm 40:08 | I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart." +Psalm 40:08 | I desire to do Your will, my God. Your law is within my heart. +Psalm 40:09 | I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Lord, you know. +Psalm 40:10 | I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly. +Psalm 40:11 | Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Lord. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. +Psalm 40:12 | For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me. +Psalm 40:13 | Be pleased, Lord, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Lord. +Psalm 40:14 | Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt. +Psalm 40:15 | Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!" +Psalm 40:16 | Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the Lord be exalted!" +Psalm 40:17 | But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God. +Psalm 41:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the day of evil. +Psalm 41:02 | The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. +Psalm 41:03 | The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. +Psalm 41:04 | I said, "LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you." +Psalm 41:05 | My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?" +Psalm 41:06 | If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. +Psalm 41:07 | All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. +Psalm 41:08 | "An evil disease", they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." +Psalm 41:09 | Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. +Psalm 41:10 | But you, Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. +Psalm 41:11 | By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. +Psalm 41:12 | As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. +Psalm 41:13 | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. +Psalm 42:01 | For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. +Psalm 42:02 | My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? +Psalm 42:03 | My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" +Psalm 42:04 | These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. +Psalm 42:05 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. +Psalm 42:06 | My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. +Psalm 42:07 | Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. +Psalm 42:08 | The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. +Psalm 42:09 | I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" +Psalm 42:10 | As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" +Psalm 42:11 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God. +Psalm 43:01 | Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. +Psalm 43:02 | For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? +Psalm 43:03 | Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents. +Psalm 43:04 | Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God. +Psalm 43:05 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Saviour, my helper, and my God. +Psalm 44:01 | For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old. +Psalm 44:02 | You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. +Psalm 44:03 | For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favourable to them. +Psalm 44:04 | God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob! +Psalm 44:05 | Through you, we will push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us. +Psalm 44:06 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither will my sword save me. +Psalm 44:07 | But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. +Psalm 44:08 | In God we have made our boast all day long. We will give thanks to your name forever. Selah. +Psalm 44:09 | But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonour, and don’t go out with our armies. +Psalm 44:10 | You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves. +Psalm 44:11 | You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us amongst the nations. +Psalm 44:12 | You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale. +Psalm 44:13 | You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. +Psalm 44:14 | You make us a byword amongst the nations, a shaking of the head amongst the peoples. +Psalm 44:15 | All day long my dishonour is before me, and shame covers my face, +Psalm 44:16 | at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger. +Psalm 44:17 | All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant. +Psalm 44:18 | Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path, +Psalm 44:19 | though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. +Psalm 44:20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god, +Psalm 44:21 | won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. +Psalm 44:22 | Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter. +Psalm 44:23 | Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever. +Psalm 44:24 | Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? +Psalm 44:25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth. +Psalm 44:26 | Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake. +Psalm 45:01 | For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song. My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skilful writer. +Psalm 45:02 | You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever. +Psalm 45:03 | Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendour and your majesty. +Psalm 45:04 | In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds. +Psalm 45:05 | Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies. +Psalm 45:06 | Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of your kingdom. +Psalm 45:07 | You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. +Psalm 45:08 | All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad. +Psalm 45:09 | Kings’ daughters are amongst your honourable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir. +Psalm 45:10 | Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house. +Psalm 45:11 | So the king will desire your beauty, honour him, for he is your lord. +Psalm 45:12 | The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich amongst the people entreat your favour. +Psalm 45:13 | The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. +Psalm 45:14 | She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you. +Psalm 45:15 | With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace. +Psalm 45:16 | Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth. +Psalm 45:17 | I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. +Psalm 46:01 | For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. +Psalm 46:01-02 | God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea. +Psalm 46:01-03 | God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. +Psalm 46:02 | Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; +Psalm 46:03 | though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah. +Psalm 46:04 | There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. +Psalm 46:05 | God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn. +Psalm 46:06 | The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted. +Psalm 46:07 | The Lord of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. +Psalm 46:07 | The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. +Psalm 46:08 | Come, see the Lord’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth. +Psalm 46:09 | He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire. +Psalm 46:10 | "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted amongst the nations. I will be exalted in the earth." +Psalm 46:11 | The Lord of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. +Psalm 47:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! +Psalm 47:02 | For the Lord Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth. +Psalm 47:03 | He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet. +Psalm 47:04 | He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. +Psalm 47:05 | God has gone up with a shout, The Lord with the sound of a trumpet. +Psalm 47:06 | Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises! +Psalm 47:07 | For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. +Psalm 47:08 | God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne. +Psalm 47:09 | The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted! +Psalm 48:01 | A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. +Psalm 48:02 | Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King. +Psalm 48:04 | For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. +Psalm 48:05 | They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away. +Psalm 48:06 | Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail. +Psalm 48:07 | With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish. +Psalm 48:08 | As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the Lord of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah. +Psalm 48:09 | We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple. +Psalm 48:10 | As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. +Psalm 48:11 | Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgements. +Psalm 48:12 | Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers. +Psalm 48:13 | Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation. +Psalm 48:14 | For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death. +Psalm 49:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, +Psalm 49:03 | My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding. +Psalm 49:04 | I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp. +Psalm 49:05 | Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me? +Psalm 49:06 | Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches— +Psalm 49:07 | none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. +Psalm 49:08 | For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough, +Psalm 49:09 | that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption. +Psalm 49:10 | For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. +Psalm 49:11 | Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. +Psalm 49:12 | But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish. +Psalm 49:13 | This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah. +Psalm 49:14 | They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion. +Psalm 49:15 | But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah. +Psalm 49:16 | Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; +Psalm 49:17 | for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him. +Psalm 49:18 | Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself— +Psalm 49:19 | he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light. +Psalm 49:20 | A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. +Psalm 50:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, The Lord, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. +Psalm 50:02 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out. +Psalm 50:03 | Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. +Psalm 50:04 | He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: +Psalm 50:05 | "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." +Psalm 50:06 | The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. +Psalm 50:07 | "Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. +Psalm 50:08 | I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. +Psalm 50:09 | I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. +Psalm 50:10 | For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. +Psalm 50:11 | I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. +Psalm 50:12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. +Psalm 50:13 | Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? +Psalm 50:14 | Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. +Psalm 50:15 | Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honour me." +Psalm 50:16 | But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, +Psalm 50:17 | since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? +Psalm 50:18 | When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. +Psalm 50:19 | "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. +Psalm 50:20 | You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. +Psalm 50:21 | You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. +Psalm 50:22 | "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver. +Psalm 50:23 | Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him." +Psalm 51:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. +Psalm 51:02 | Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. +Psalm 51:03 | For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. +Psalm 51:04 | Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge. +Psalm 51:05 | Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin. +Psalm 51:06 | Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. +Psalm 51:07 | Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. +Psalm 51:08 | Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice. +Psalm 51:09 | Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. +Psalm 51:10 | Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. +Psalm 51:11 | Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. +Psalm 51:12 | Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. +Psalm 51:13 | Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you. +Psalm 51:14 | Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. +Psalm 51:15 | Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise. +Psalm 51:16 | For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. +Psalm 51:17 | The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart. +Psalm 51:18 | Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. +Psalm 51:19 | Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. +Psalm 52:01 | For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Ahimelech’s house." Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually. +Psalm 52:02 | Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. +Psalm 52:03 | You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. +Psalm 52:04 | You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. +Psalm 52:05 | God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. +Psalm 52:06 | The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, +Psalm 52:07 | "Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." +Psalm 52:08 | But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever. +Psalm 52:09 | I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. +Psalm 53:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation by David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. +Psalm 53:02 | God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. +Psalm 53:03 | Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one. +Psalm 53:04 | Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God? +Psalm 53:05 | There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. +Psalm 53:06 | Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. +Psalm 54:01 | For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn’t David hiding himself amongst us?" Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. +Psalm 54:02 | Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth. +Psalm 54:03 | For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah. +Psalm 54:04 | Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. +Psalm 54:05 | He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth. +Psalm 54:06 | With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Lord, for it is good. +Psalm 54:07 | For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies. +Psalm 55:01 | For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David. Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication. +Psalm 55:02 | Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan +Psalm 55:03 | because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me. +Psalm 55:04 | My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. +Psalm 55:05 | Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me. +Psalm 55:06 | I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. +Psalm 55:07 | Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah. +Psalm 55:08 | "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm." +Psalm 55:09 | Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. +Psalm 55:10 | Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her. +Psalm 55:11 | Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets. +Psalm 55:12 | For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. +Psalm 55:13 | But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. +Psalm 55:14 | We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company. +Psalm 55:15 | Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is amongst them, in their dwelling. +Psalm 55:16 | As for me, I will call on God. The Lord will save me. +Psalm 55:17 | Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice. +Psalm 55:18 | He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me. +Psalm 55:19 | God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. Selah. They never change and don’t fear God. +Psalm 55:20 | He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant. +Psalm 55:21 | His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. +Psalm 55:22 | Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved. +Psalm 55:22 | Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you, He will never permit the righteous to be moved. +Psalm 55:23 | But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. +Psalm 56:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. +Psalm 56:02 | My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. +Psalm 56:03 | When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. +Psalm 56:04 | In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? +Psalm 56:05 | All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. +Psalm 56:06 | They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life. +Psalm 56:07 | Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God. +Psalm 56:08 | You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book? +Psalm 56:09 | Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me. +Psalm 56:10 | In God, I will praise his word. In the Lord, I will praise his word. +Psalm 56:11 | I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? +Psalm 56:12 | Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you. +Psalm 56:13 | For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. +Psalm 57:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed. +Psalm 57:02 | I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me. +Psalm 57:03 | He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth. +Psalm 57:04 | My soul is amongst lions. I lie amongst those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. +Psalm 57:05 | Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth! +Psalm 57:06 | They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah. +Psalm 57:07 | My heart is steadfast, God. My heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. +Psalm 57:08 | Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn. +Psalm 57:09 | I will give thanks to you, Lord, amongst the peoples. I will sing praises to you amongst the nations. +Psalm 57:10 | For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies. +Psalm 57:11 | Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. +Psalm 58:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? +Psalm 58:02 | No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. +Psalm 58:03 | The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies. +Psalm 58:04 | Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, +Psalm 58:05 | which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skilful the charmer may be. +Psalm 58:06 | Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Lord. +Psalm 58:07 | Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt. +Psalm 58:08 | Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun. +Psalm 58:09 | Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike. +Psalm 58:10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, +Psalm 58:11 | so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." +Psalm 59:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me. +Psalm 59:02 | Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men. +Psalm 59:03 | For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Lord. +Psalm 59:04 | I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me! +Psalm 59:05 | You, Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah. +Psalm 59:06 | They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city. +Psalm 59:07 | Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For", they say, "who hears us?" +Psalm 59:08 | But you, Lord, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations. +Psalm 59:09 | Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower. +Psalm 59:10 | My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph. +Psalm 59:11 | Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield. +Psalm 59:12 | For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. +Psalm 59:13 | Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah. +Psalm 59:14 | At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city. +Psalm 59:15 | They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied. +Psalm 59:16 | But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress. +Psalm 59:17 | To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. +Psalm 60:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again. +Psalm 60:02 | You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes. +Psalm 60:03 | You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger. +Psalm 60:04 | You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. +Psalm 60:05 | So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. +Psalm 60:06 | God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. +Psalm 60:07 | Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defence of my head. Judah is my sceptre. +Psalm 60:08 | Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia." +Psalm 60:09 | Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom? +Psalm 60:10 | Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God. +Psalm 60:11 | Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain. +Psalm 60:12 | Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. +Psalm 61:01 | For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer. +Psalm 61:02 | From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. +Psalm 61:03 | For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy. +Psalm 61:04 | I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah. +Psalm 61:05 | For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. +Psalm 61:06 | You will prolong the king’s life. His years will be for generations. +Psalm 61:07 | He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. +Psalm 61:08 | So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfil my vows daily. +Psalm 62:01 | For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. +Psalm 62:01-02 | My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken. +Psalm 62:02 | He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken. +Psalm 62:03 | How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? +Psalm 62:04 | They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. +Psalm 62:05 | My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him. +Psalm 62:06 | He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken. +Psalm 62:06 | He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. +Psalm 62:07 | My salvation and my honour is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. +Psalm 62:08 | Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah. +Psalm 62:09 | Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath. +Psalm 62:10 | Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them. +Psalm 62:11 | God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God. +Psalm 62:12 | Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. +Psalm 63:01 | A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. +Psalm 63:02 | So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. +Psalm 63:03 | Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. +Psalm 63:04 | So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. +Psalm 63:05 | My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, +Psalm 63:06 | when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. +Psalm 63:07 | For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings. +Psalm 63:08 | My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up. +Psalm 63:09 | But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. +Psalm 63:10 | They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food. +Psalm 63:11 | But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced. +Psalm 64:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. +Psalm 64:02 | Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil; +Psalm 64:03 | who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, +Psalm 64:04 | to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. +Psalm 64:05 | They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" +Psalm 64:06 | They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning. +Psalm 64:07 | But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow. +Psalm 64:08 | Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads. +Psalm 64:09 | All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done. +Psalm 64:10 | The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him! +Psalm 65:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you. +Psalm 65:02 | You who hear prayer, all men will come to you. +Psalm 65:03 | Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions. +Psalm 65:04 | Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. +Psalm 65:05 | By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea. +Psalm 65:06 | By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength. +Psalm 65:07 | You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations. +Psalm 65:08 | They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy. +Psalm 65:09 | You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. +Psalm 65:10 | You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. +Psalm 65:11 | You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. +Psalm 65:12 | The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. +Psalm 65:13 | The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. +Psalm 66:01 | For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm. Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! +Psalm 66:02 | Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise! +Psalm 66:03 | Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you. +Psalm 66:04 | All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name." Selah. +Psalm 66:05 | Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men. +Psalm 66:06 | He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him. +Psalm 66:07 | He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah. +Psalm 66:08 | Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard, +Psalm 66:09 | who preserves our life amongst the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved. +Psalm 66:10 | For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. +Psalm 66:11 | You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. +Psalm 66:12 | You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance. +Psalm 66:13 | I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you, +Psalm 66:14 | which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. +Psalm 66:15 | I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. +Psalm 66:16 | Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul. +Psalm 66:17 | I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue. +Psalm 66:18 | If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened. +Psalm 66:19 | But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. +Psalm 66:20 | Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. +Psalm 67:01 | For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. +Psalm 67:02 | That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation amongst all nations, +Psalm 67:03 | let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. +Psalm 67:04 | Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah. +Psalm 67:05 | Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. +Psalm 67:06 | The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us. +Psalm 67:07 | God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him. +Psalm 68:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. +Psalm 68:02 | As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. +Psalm 68:03 | But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. +Psalm 68:04 | Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to the Lord, his name! Rejoice before him! +Psalm 68:05 | A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. +Psalm 68:06 | God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. +Psalm 68:07 | God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah. +Psalm 68:08 | The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel. +Psalm 68:09 | You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary. +Psalm 68:10 | Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor. +Psalm 68:11 | The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company. +Psalm 68:12 | "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home divides the plunder, +Psalm 68:13 | while you sleep amongst the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold. +Psalm 68:14 | When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon. +Psalm 68:15 | The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged. +Psalm 68:16 | Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the Lord will dwell there forever. +Psalm 68:17 | The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is amongst them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary. +Psalm 68:18 | You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts amongst people, yes, amongst the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there. +Psalm 68:19 | Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah. +Psalm 68:20 | God is to us a God of deliverance. To the Lord, the Lord, belongs escape from death. +Psalm 68:21 | But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness. +Psalm 68:22 | The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea, +Psalm 68:23 | that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies." +Psalm 68:24 | They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. +Psalm 68:25 | The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, amongst the ladies playing with tambourines, +Psalm 68:26 | "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!" +Psalm 68:27 | There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. +Psalm 68:28 | Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us. +Psalm 68:29 | Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you. +Psalm 68:30 | Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war. +Psalm 68:31 | Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God. +Psalm 68:32 | Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord— Selah— +Psalm 68:33 | to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice. +Psalm 68:34 | Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies. +Psalm 68:35 | You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God! +Psalm 69:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! +Psalm 69:02 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. +Psalm 69:03 | I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God. +Psalm 69:04 | Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away. +Psalm 69:05 | God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you. +Psalm 69:06 | Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord God of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonour through me, God of Israel. +Psalm 69:07 | Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. +Psalm 69:08 | I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children. +Psalm 69:09 | For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. +Psalm 69:10 | When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. +Psalm 69:11 | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. +Psalm 69:12 | Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. +Psalm 69:13 | But as for me, my prayer is to you, Lord, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. +Psalm 69:14 | Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. +Psalm 69:15 | Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me. +Psalm 69:16 | Answer me, Lord, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. +Psalm 69:17 | Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! +Psalm 69:18 | Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. +Psalm 69:19 | You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonour. My adversaries are all before you. +Psalm 69:20 | Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none. +Psalm 69:21 | They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. +Psalm 69:22 | Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. +Psalm 69:23 | Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent. +Psalm 69:24 | Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. +Psalm 69:25 | Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. +Psalm 69:26 | For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. +Psalm 69:27 | Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness. +Psalm 69:28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. +Psalm 69:29 | But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. +Psalm 69:30 | I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. +Psalm 69:31 | It will please the Lord better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. +Psalm 69:32 | The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. +Psalm 69:33 | For the Lord hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people. +Psalm 69:34 | Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein! +Psalm 69:35 | For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. +Psalm 69:36 | The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. +Psalm 70:01 | For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Lord. +Psalm 70:02 | Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. +Psalm 70:03 | Let them be turned because of their shame who say, "Aha! Aha!" +Psalm 70:04 | Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, "Let God be exalted!" +Psalm 70:05 | But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Lord, don’t delay. +Psalm 71:01 | In you, Lord, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. +Psalm 71:02 | Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me. +Psalm 71:03 | Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. +Psalm 71:04 | Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. +Psalm 71:05 | For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth. +Psalm 71:06 | I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you. +Psalm 71:07 | I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge. +Psalm 71:08 | My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honour all day long. +Psalm 71:09 | Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails. +Psalm 71:10 | For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together, saying, +Psalm 71:11 | "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him." +Psalm 71:12 | God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. +Psalm 71:13 | Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me. +Psalm 71:14 | But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. +Psalm 71:15 | My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure. +Psalm 71:16 | I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone. +Psalm 71:17 | God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. +Psalm 71:18 | Yes, even when I am old and grey-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. +Psalm 71:19 | God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you? +Psalm 71:20 | You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth. +Psalm 71:21 | Increase my honour and comfort me again. +Psalm 71:22 | I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. +Psalm 71:23 | My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you! +Psalm 71:24 | My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. +Psalm 72:01 | By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. +Psalm 72:02 | He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. +Psalm 72:03 | The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. +Psalm 72:04 | He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. +Psalm 72:05 | They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations. +Psalm 72:06 | He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. +Psalm 72:07 | In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. +Psalm 72:08 | He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth. +Psalm 72:09 | Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust. +Psalm 72:10 | The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. +Psalm 72:11 | Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him. +Psalm 72:12 | For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. +Psalm 72:13 | He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. +Psalm 72:14 | He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight. +Psalm 72:15 | They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long. +Psalm 72:16 | Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field. +Psalm 72:17 | His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed. +Psalm 72:18 | Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvellous deeds. +Psalm 72:19 | Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen. +Psalm 72:20 | This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. +Psalm 73:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. +Psalm 73:02 | But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped. +Psalm 73:03 | For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. +Psalm 73:04 | For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm. +Psalm 73:05 | They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men. +Psalm 73:06 | Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. +Psalm 73:07 | Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. +Psalm 73:08 | They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. +Psalm 73:09 | They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth. +Psalm 73:10 | Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance. +Psalm 73:11 | They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?" +Psalm 73:12 | Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches. +Psalm 73:13 | Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence, +Psalm 73:14 | For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning. +Psalm 73:15 | If I had said, "I will speak thus"; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children. +Psalm 73:16 | When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me, +Psalm 73:17 | until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end. +Psalm 73:18 | Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. +Psalm 73:19 | How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. +Psalm 73:20 | As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies. +Psalm 73:21 | For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart. +Psalm 73:22 | I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. +Psalm 73:23 | Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. +Psalm 73:24 | You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. +Psalm 73:25 | Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. +Psalm 73:25-26 | Whom have I in Heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. +Psalm 73:26 | My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. +Psalm 73:27 | For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you. +Psalm 73:28 | But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord the Lord my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. +Psalm 74:01 | A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoulder against the sheep of your pasture? +Psalm 74:02 | Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived. +Psalm 74:03 | Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. +Psalm 74:04 | Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. +Psalm 74:05 | They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. +Psalm 74:06 | Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. +Psalm 74:07 | They have burnt your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. +Psalm 74:08 | They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burnt up all the places in the land where God was worshipped. +Psalm 74:09 | We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there amongst us anyone who knows how long. +Psalm 74:10 | How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? +Psalm 74:11 | Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them! +Psalm 74:12 | Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth. +Psalm 74:13 | You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. +Psalm 74:14 | You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. +Psalm 74:15 | You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. +Psalm 74:16 | The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. +Psalm 74:17 | You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. +Psalm 74:18 | Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Lord. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. +Psalm 74:19 | Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever. +Psalm 74:20 | Honour your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. +Psalm 74:21 | Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. +Psalm 74:22 | Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. +Psalm 74:23 | Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. +Psalm 75:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works. +Psalm 75:02 | When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly. +Psalm 75:03 | The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah. +Psalm 75:04 | I said to the arrogant, "Don’t boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don’t lift up the horn. +Psalm 75:05 | Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck." +Psalm 75:06 | For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation. +Psalm 75:07 | But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another. +Psalm 75:08 | For in the Lord’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs. +Psalm 75:09 | But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. +Psalm 75:10 | I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. +Psalm 76:01 | For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel. +Psalm 76:02 | His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion. +Psalm 76:03 | There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah. +Psalm 76:04 | Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game. +Psalm 76:05 | Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands. +Psalm 76:06 | At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. +Psalm 76:07 | You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry? +Psalm 76:08 | You pronounced judgement from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent, +Psalm 76:09 | when God arose to judgement, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah. +Psalm 76:10 | Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained. +Psalm 76:11 | Make vows to the Lord your God, and fulfil them! Let all of his neighbours bring presents to him who is to be feared. +Psalm 76:12 | He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. +Psalm 77:01 | For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. +Psalm 77:02 | In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. +Psalm 77:03 | I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. +Psalm 77:04 | You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak. +Psalm 77:05 | I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. +Psalm 77:06 | I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently enquires: +Psalm 77:07 | "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favourable no more? +Psalm 77:08 | Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? +Psalm 77:09 | Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah. +Psalm 77:10 | Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High." +Psalm 77:11 | I will remember the Lord’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old. +Psalm 77:12 | I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings. +Psalm 77:13 | Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God? +Psalm 77:14 | You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known amongst the peoples. +Psalm 77:15 | You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. +Psalm 77:16 | The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed. +Psalm 77:17 | The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around. +Psalm 77:18 | The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook. +Psalm 77:19 | Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known. +Psalm 77:20 | You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. +Psalm 78:01 | A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. +Psalm 78:02 | I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, +Psalm 78:03 | Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. +Psalm 78:04 | We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. +Psalm 78:05 | For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; +Psalm 78:06 | that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, +Psalm 78:07 | that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments, +Psalm 78:08 | and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God. +Psalm 78:09 | The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. +Psalm 78:10 | They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law. +Psalm 78:11 | They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. +Psalm 78:12 | He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. +Psalm 78:13 | He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. +Psalm 78:14 | In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. +Psalm 78:15 | He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. +Psalm 78:16 | He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. +Psalm 78:17 | Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. +Psalm 78:18 | They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. +Psalm 78:19 | Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? +Psalm 78:20 | Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?" +Psalm 78:21 | Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, +Psalm 78:22 | because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. +Psalm 78:23 | Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. +Psalm 78:24 | He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. +Psalm 78:25 | Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. +Psalm 78:26 | He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. +Psalm 78:27 | He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas. +Psalm 78:28 | He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations. +Psalm 78:29 | So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. +Psalm 78:30 | They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, +Psalm 78:31 | when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel. +Psalm 78:32 | For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works. +Psalm 78:33 | Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. +Psalm 78:34 | When he killed them, then they enquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. +Psalm 78:35 | They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. +Psalm 78:36 | But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. +Psalm 78:37 | For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. +Psalm 78:38 | But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath. +Psalm 78:39 | He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again. +Psalm 78:40 | How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! +Psalm 78:41 | They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. +Psalm 78:42 | They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; +Psalm 78:43 | how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, +Psalm 78:44 | he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. +Psalm 78:45 | He sent amongst them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. +Psalm 78:46 | He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labour to the locust. +Psalm 78:47 | He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. +Psalm 78:48 | He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. +Psalm 78:49 | He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. +Psalm 78:50 | He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, +Psalm 78:51 | and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. +Psalm 78:52 | But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. +Psalm 78:53 | He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. +Psalm 78:54 | He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. +Psalm 78:55 | He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. +Psalm 78:56 | Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies, +Psalm 78:57 | but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow. +Psalm 78:58 | For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. +Psalm 78:59 | When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel, +Psalm 78:60 | so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed amongst men, +Psalm 78:61 | and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand. +Psalm 78:62 | He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. +Psalm 78:63 | Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. +Psalm 78:64 | Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep. +Psalm 78:65 | Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. +Psalm 78:66 | He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. +Psalm 78:67 | Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim, +Psalm 78:68 | But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. +Psalm 78:69 | He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. +Psalm 78:70 | He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; +Psalm 78:71 | from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. +Psalm 78:72 | So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. +Psalm 79:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. +Psalm 79:02 | They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. +Psalm 79:03 | They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. +Psalm 79:04 | We have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. +Psalm 79:05 | How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? +Psalm 79:06 | Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name; +Psalm 79:07 | for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. +Psalm 79:08 | Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. +Psalm 79:09 | Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake. +Psalm 79:10 | Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known amongst the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out. +Psalm 79:11 | Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. +Psalm 79:12 | Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. +Psalm 79:13 | So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. +Psalm 80:01 | For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out. +Psalm 80:02 | Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! +Psalm 80:03 | Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. +Psalm 80:04 | Lord God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? +Psalm 80:05 | You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. +Psalm 80:06 | You make us a source of contention to our neighbours. Our enemies laugh amongst themselves. +Psalm 80:07 | Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. +Psalm 80:08 | You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it. +Psalm 80:09 | You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land. +Psalm 80:10 | The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars. +Psalm 80:11 | It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River. +Psalm 80:12 | Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? +Psalm 80:13 | The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it. +Psalm 80:14 | Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, +Psalm 80:15 | the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself. +Psalm 80:16 | It’s burnt with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke. +Psalm 80:17 | Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. +Psalm 80:18 | So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name. +Psalm 80:19 | Turn us again, Lord God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. +Psalm 81:01 | For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! +Psalm 81:02 | Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. +Psalm 81:03 | Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. +Psalm 81:04 | For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. +Psalm 81:05 | He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know. +Psalm 81:06 | "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. +Psalm 81:07 | You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah. +Psalm 81:08 | "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! +Psalm 81:09 | There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. +Psalm 81:10 | I am the Lord, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. +Psalm 81:11 | But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. +Psalm 81:12 | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. +Psalm 81:13 | Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! +Psalm 81:14 | I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. +Psalm 81:15 | The haters of the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. +Psalm 81:16 | But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." +Psalm 82:01 | A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges amongst the gods. +Psalm 82:02 | "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah. +Psalm 82:03 | "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. +Psalm 82:04 | Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked." +Psalm 82:05 | They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. +Psalm 82:06 | I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High. +Psalm 82:07 | Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers." +Psalm 82:08 | Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations. +Psalm 83:01 | A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. +Psalm 83:02 | For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. +Psalm 83:03 | They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. +Psalm 83:04 | "Come," they say, "let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more." +Psalm 83:05 | For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. +Psalm 83:06 | The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; +Psalm 83:07 | Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; +Psalm 83:08 | Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. +Psalm 83:09 | Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; +Psalm 83:10 | who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. +Psalm 83:11 | Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, +Psalm 83:12 | who said, "Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands." +Psalm 83:13 | My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. +Psalm 83:14 | As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, +Psalm 83:15 | so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. +Psalm 83:16 | Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Lord. +Psalm 83:17 | Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; +Psalm 83:18 | that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth. +Psalm 84:01 | For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Armies! +Psalm 84:02 | My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. +Psalm 84:03 | Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Lord of Armies, my King, and my God. +Psalm 84:04 | Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah. +Psalm 84:05 | Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage. +Psalm 84:06 | Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. +Psalm 84:07 | They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion. +Psalm 84:08 | Lord, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah. +Psalm 84:09 | Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed. +Psalm 84:10 | For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. +Psalm 84:11 | For the Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. +Psalm 84:12 | Lord of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you. +Psalm 85:01 | For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Lord, you have been favourable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob. +Psalm 85:02 | You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah. +Psalm 85:03 | You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger. +Psalm 85:04 | Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation towards us to cease. +Psalm 85:05 | Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? +Psalm 85:06 | Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? +Psalm 85:07 | Show us your loving kindness, Lord. Grant us your salvation. +Psalm 85:08 | I will hear what God, the Lord, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly. +Psalm 85:09 | Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. +Psalm 85:10 | Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. +Psalm 85:11 | Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven. +Psalm 85:12 | Yes, the Lord will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase. +Psalm 85:13 | Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. +Psalm 86:01 | A Prayer by David. Hear, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. +Psalm 86:02 | Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you. +Psalm 86:03 | Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. +Psalm 86:04 | Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul. +Psalm 86:05 | For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you. +Psalm 86:06 | Hear, Lord, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions. +Psalm 86:07 | In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me. +Psalm 86:08 | There is no one like you amongst the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds. +Psalm 86:09 | All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name. +Psalm 86:10 | For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone. +Psalm 86:11 | Teach me your way, Lord. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name. +Psalm 86:12 | I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more. +Psalm 86:13 | For your loving kindness is great towards me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. +Psalm 86:14 | God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them. +Psalm 86:15 | But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth. +Psalm 86:16 | Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant. +Psalm 86:17 | Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Lord, have helped me, and comforted me. +Psalm 87:01 | A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains. +Psalm 87:02 | The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. +Psalm 87:03 | Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah. +Psalm 87:04 | I will record Rahab and Babylon amongst those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there." +Psalm 87:05 | Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her" the Most High himself will establish her. +Psalm 87:06 | The Lord will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah. +Psalm 87:07 | Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." +Psalm 88:01 | A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. +Psalm 88:02 | Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. +Psalm 88:03 | For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. +Psalm 88:04 | I am counted amongst those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, +Psalm 88:05 | set apart amongst the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. +Psalm 88:06 | You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. +Psalm 88:07 | Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. +Psalm 88:08 | You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape. +Psalm 88:09 | My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Lord. I have spread out my hands to you. +Psalm 88:10 | Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah. +Psalm 88:11 | Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? +Psalm 88:12 | Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? +Psalm 88:13 | But to you, Lord, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. +Psalm 88:14 | Lord, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? +Psalm 88:15 | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. +Psalm 88:16 | Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. +Psalm 88:17 | They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. +Psalm 88:18 | You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. +Psalm 89:01 | A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. +Psalm 89:02 | I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them." +Psalm 89:03 | "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, +Psalm 89:04 | ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’" Selah. +Psalm 89:05 | The heavens will praise your wonders, Lord, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. +Psalm 89:06 | For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who amongst the sons of the heavenly beings is like the Lord, +Psalm 89:07 | a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him? +Psalm 89:08 | Lord, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? The Lord, your faithfulness is around you. +Psalm 89:09 | You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them. +Psalm 89:10 | You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. +Psalm 89:11 | The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them. +Psalm 89:12 | You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. +Psalm 89:13 | You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. +Psalm 89:14 | Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face. +Psalm 89:15 | Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Lord. +Psalm 89:16 | In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted. +Psalm 89:17 | For you are the glory of their strength. In your favour, our horn will be exalted. +Psalm 89:18 | For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel. +Psalm 89:19 | Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people. +Psalm 89:20 | I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, +Psalm 89:21 | with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him. +Psalm 89:22 | No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. +Psalm 89:23 | I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. +Psalm 89:24 | But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted. +Psalm 89:25 | I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. +Psalm 89:26 | He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ +Psalm 89:27 | I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. +Psalm 89:28 | I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. +Psalm 89:29 | I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. +Psalm 89:30 | If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; +Psalm 89:31 | if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; +Psalm 89:32 | then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. +Psalm 89:33 | But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. +Psalm 89:34 | I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. +Psalm 89:35 | Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. +Psalm 89:36 | His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. +Psalm 89:37 | It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah. +Psalm 89:38 | But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. +Psalm 89:39 | You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. +Psalm 89:40 | You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. +Psalm 89:41 | All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbours. +Psalm 89:42 | You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. +Psalm 89:43 | Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle. +Psalm 89:44 | You have ended his splendour, and thrown his throne down to the ground. +Psalm 89:45 | You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. +Psalm 89:46 | How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? +Psalm 89:47 | Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men! +Psalm 89:48 | What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. +Psalm 89:49 | Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? +Psalm 89:50 | Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, +Psalm 89:51 | With which your enemies have mocked, Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. +Psalm 89:52 | Blessed be the Lord forever more. Amen, and Amen. +Psalm 90:01 | A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. +Psalm 90:02 | Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. +Psalm 90:03 | You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men." +Psalm 90:04 | For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. +Psalm 90:05 | You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. +Psalm 90:06 | In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. +Psalm 90:07 | For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. +Psalm 90:08 | You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. +Psalm 90:09 | For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. +Psalm 90:10 | The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labour and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. +Psalm 90:11 | Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? +Psalm 90:12 | So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. +Psalm 90:13 | Relent, LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants! +Psalm 90:14 | Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. +Psalm 90:15 | Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil. +Psalm 90:16 | Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children. +Psalm 90:17 | Let the favour of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands. +Psalm 91:01 | He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. +Psalm 91:01-02 | You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress; my God in whom I trust." +Psalm 91:02 | I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust." +Psalm 91:03 | For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. +Psalm 91:04 | He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. +Psalm 91:05 | You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, +Psalm 91:06 | nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday. +Psalm 91:07 | A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. +Psalm 91:08 | You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked. +Psalm 91:09 | Because you have made Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, +Psalm 91:10 | no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. +Psalm 91:11 | For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. +Psalm 91:12 | They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone. +Psalm 91:13 | You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot. +Psalm 91:14 | "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. +Psalm 91:15 | He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honour him. +Psalm 91:16 | I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation." +Psalm 92:01 | A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, Most High, +Psalm 92:02 | to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, +Psalm 92:03 | with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre. +Psalm 92:04 | For you, Lord, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands. +Psalm 92:05 | How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep. +Psalm 92:06 | A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this: +Psalm 92:07 | though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. +Psalm 92:08 | But you, Lord, are on high forever more. +Psalm 92:09 | For, behold, your enemies, Lord, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered. +Psalm 92:10 | But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil. +Psalm 92:11 | My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me. +Psalm 92:12 | The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. +Psalm 92:13 | They are planted in the Lord’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. +Psalm 92:14 | They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, +Psalm 92:15 | to show that the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. +Psalm 93:01 | The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty! The Lord is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved. +Psalm 93:02 | Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting. +Psalm 93:03 | The floods have lifted up, Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. +Psalm 93:04 | Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, The Lord on high is mighty. +Psalm 93:05 | Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Lord, forever more. +Psalm 94:01 | Lord, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. +Psalm 94:02 | Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. +Psalm 94:03 | Lord, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? +Psalm 94:04 | They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast. +Psalm 94:05 | They break your people in pieces, Lord, and afflict your heritage. +Psalm 94:06 | They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. +Psalm 94:07 | They say, "The Lord will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider." +Psalm 94:08 | Consider, you senseless amongst the people; you fools, when will you be wise? +Psalm 94:09 | He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see? +Psalm 94:10 | He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. +Psalm 94:11 | The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. +Psalm 94:12 | Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Lord, and teach out of your law, +Psalm 94:13 | that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. +Psalm 94:14 | For the Lord won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. +Psalm 94:15 | For judgement will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. +Psalm 94:16 | Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? +Psalm 94:17 | Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence. +Psalm 94:18 | When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Lord, held me up. +Psalm 94:19 | In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul. +Psalm 94:20 | Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? +Psalm 94:21 | They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. +Psalm 94:22 | But the Lord has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge. +Psalm 94:23 | He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The Lord, our God, will cut them off. +Psalm 95:01 | Oh come, let’s sing to the Lord. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! +Psalm 95:02 | Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs! +Psalm 95:03 | For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods. +Psalm 95:04 | In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. +Psalm 95:05 | The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land. +Psalm 95:06 | Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the Lord, our Maker, +Psalm 95:07 | for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! +Psalm 95:08 | Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, +Psalm 95:09 | when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. +Psalm 95:10 | Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways." +Psalm 95:11 | Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won’t enter into my rest." +Psalm 96:01 | Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. +Psalm 96:02 | Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! +Psalm 96:03 | Declare his glory amongst the nations, his marvellous works amongst all the peoples. +Psalm 96:04 | For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods. +Psalm 96:05 | For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. +Psalm 96:06 | Honour and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. +Psalm 96:07 | Ascribe to the Lord, you families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. +Psalm 96:08 | Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. +Psalm 96:09 | Worship the Lord in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. +Psalm 96:10 | Say amongst the nations, "The Lord reigns." The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. +Psalm 96:11 | Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness! +Psalm 96:12 | Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy +Psalm 96:13 | before the Lord; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth. +Psalm 97:01 | The Lord reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad! +Psalm 97:02 | Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. +Psalm 97:03 | A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. +Psalm 97:04 | His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. +Psalm 97:05 | The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. +Psalm 97:06 | The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory. +Psalm 97:07 | Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods! +Psalm 97:08 | Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgements, Lord. +Psalm 97:09 | For you, Lord, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods. +Psalm 97:10 | You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. +Psalm 97:11 | Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. +Psalm 97:12 | Be glad in the Lord, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name. +Psalm 98:01 | A Psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. +Psalm 98:02 | The Lord has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. +Psalm 98:03 | He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness towards the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. +Psalm 98:04 | Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! +Psalm 98:05 | Sing praises to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. +Psalm 98:06 | With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord. +Psalm 98:07 | Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. +Psalm 98:08 | Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together. +Psalm 98:09 | Let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. +Psalm 99:01 | The Lord reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned amongst the cherubim. Let the earth be moved. +Psalm 99:02 | The Lord is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples. +Psalm 99:03 | Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy! +Psalm 99:04 | The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob. +Psalm 99:05 | Exalt the Lord our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy! +Psalm 99:06 | Moses and Aaron were amongst his priests, Samuel was amongst those who call on his name. They called on the Lord, and he answered them. +Psalm 99:07 | He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them. +Psalm 99:08 | You answered them, Lord our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings. +Psalm 99:09 | Exalt the Lord, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for the Lord, our God, is holy! +Revelation 01:01 | This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, +Revelation 01:02 | who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw. +Revelation 01:03 | Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand. +Revelation 01:04 | John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; +Revelation 01:05 | and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood— +Revelation 01:06 | and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. +Revelation 01:07 | Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. +Revelation 01:08 | "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." +Revelation 01:09 | I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ. +Revelation 01:10 | I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet, saying, +Revelation 01:11 | "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." +Revelation 01:12 | I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands. +Revelation 01:13 | And amongst the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest. +Revelation 01:14 | His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. +Revelation 01:15 | His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. +Revelation 01:16 | He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. +Revelation 01:17 | When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, +Revelation 01:17-18 | When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades." +Revelation 01:18 | and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades. +Revelation 01:19 | Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter. +Revelation 01:20 | The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies. +Revelation 02:01 | "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks amongst the seven golden lamp stands says these things: +Revelation 02:02 | "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. +Revelation 02:02-03 | I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. +Revelation 02:03 | You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary. +Revelation 02:04 | But I have this against you, that you left your first love. +Revelation 02:05 | Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent. +Revelation 02:06 | But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. +Revelation 02:07 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God. +Revelation 02:08 | "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things: +Revelation 02:09 | "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. +Revelation 02:10 | Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. +Revelation 02:11 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death. +Revelation 02:12 | "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things: +Revelation 02:13 | "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed amongst you, where Satan dwells. +Revelation 02:14 | But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. +Revelation 02:15 | So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise. +Revelation 02:16 | Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. +Revelation 02:17 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it. +Revelation 02:18 | "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things: +Revelation 02:19 | "I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first. +Revelation 02:20 | But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. +Revelation 02:21 | I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. +Revelation 02:22 | Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression, unless they repent of her works. +Revelation 02:23 | I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. +Revelation 02:24 | But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you. +Revelation 02:25 | Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come. +Revelation 02:26 | He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. +Revelation 02:27 | He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: +Revelation 02:28 | and I will give him the morning star. +Revelation 02:29 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. +Revelation 03:01 | "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. +Revelation 03:02 | Wake up and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. +Revelation 03:03 | Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you. +Revelation 03:04 | Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. +Revelation 03:05 | He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. +Revelation 03:06 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. +Revelation 03:07 | "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: +Revelation 03:08 | "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name. +Revelation 03:09 | Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. +Revelation 03:10 | Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. +Revelation 03:11 | I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. +Revelation 03:12 | He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. +Revelation 03:13 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. +Revelation 03:14 | "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things: +Revelation 03:15 | "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. +Revelation 03:16 | So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. +Revelation 03:17 | Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; +Revelation 03:18 | I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. +Revelation 03:19 | As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. +Revelation 03:20 | Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me. +Revelation 03:21 | He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne. +Revelation 03:22 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies." +Revelation 04:01 | After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this." +Revelation 04:02 | Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne +Revelation 04:03 | that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at. +Revelation 04:04 | Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads. +Revelation 04:05 | Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. +Revelation 04:06 | Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. +Revelation 04:07 | The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. +Revelation 04:08 | The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!" +Revelation 04:09 | When the living creatures give glory, honour, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, +Revelation 04:11 | "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honour, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!" +Revelation 05:01 | I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. +Revelation 05:02 | I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?" +Revelation 05:03 | No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it. +Revelation 05:04 | Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it. +Revelation 05:05 | One of the elders said to me, "Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals." +Revelation 05:06 | I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. +Revelation 05:07 | Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. +Revelation 05:08 | Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. +Revelation 05:09 | They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, +Revelation 05:10 | and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth." +Revelation 05:12 | saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honour, glory, and blessing!" +Revelation 05:13 | I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honour, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!" +Revelation 05:14 | The four living creatures said, "Amen!" Then the elders fell down and worshipped. +Revelation 06:01 | I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!" +Revelation 06:02 | Then a white horse appeared, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. +Revelation 06:03 | When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!" +Revelation 06:04 | Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword. +Revelation 06:05 | When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. +Revelation 06:06 | I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!" +Revelation 06:07 | When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!" +Revelation 06:08 | And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him. +Revelation 06:09 | When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. +Revelation 06:10 | They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" +Revelation 06:11 | A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course. +Revelation 06:12 | I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. +Revelation 06:13 | The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. +Revelation 06:14 | The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place. +Revelation 06:15 | The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. +Revelation 06:16 | They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, +Revelation 06:17 | for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?" +Revelation 07:01 | After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. +Revelation 07:02 | I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, +Revelation 07:03 | "Don’t harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" +Revelation 07:09 | After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. +Revelation 07:10 | They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" +Revelation 07:11 | All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshipped God, saying, +Revelation 07:12 | "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honour, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen." +Revelation 07:13 | One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?" +Revelation 07:14 | I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood. +Revelation 07:15 | Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them. +Revelation 07:16 | They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat; +Revelation 07:17 | for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." +Revelation 08:01 | When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. +Revelation 08:02 | I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. +Revelation 08:03 | Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. +Revelation 08:04 | The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand. +Revelation 08:05 | The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, then threw it on the earth. Thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake followed. +Revelation 08:06 | The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. +Revelation 08:07 | The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. +Revelation 08:08 | The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood, +Revelation 08:09 | and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed. +Revelation 08:10 | The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters. +Revelation 08:11 | The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter. +Revelation 08:12 | The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way. +Revelation 08:13 | I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!" +Revelation 09:01 | The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. +Revelation 09:02 | He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. +Revelation 09:03 | Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. +Revelation 09:04 | They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads. +Revelation 09:05 | They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person. +Revelation 09:06 | In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them. +Revelation 09:07 | The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces. +Revelation 09:08 | They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions. +Revelation 09:09 | They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war. +Revelation 09:10 | They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. +Revelation 09:11 | They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon", but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon". +Revelation 09:12 | The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this. +Revelation 09:13 | The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, +Revelation 09:14 | saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" +Revelation 09:15 | The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind. +Revelation 09:16 | The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them. +Revelation 09:17 | Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulphur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulphur. +Revelation 09:18 | By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur, which proceeded out of their mouths. +Revelation 09:19 | For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm. +Revelation 09:20 | The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk. +Revelation 09:21 | They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts. +Revelation 10:01 | I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. +Revelation 10:02 | He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land. +Revelation 10:03 | He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. +Revelation 10:04 | When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them." +Revelation 10:05 | The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky, +Revelation 10:06 | and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay, +Revelation 10:07 | but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets. +Revelation 10:08 | The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land." +Revelation 10:09 | I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." +Revelation 10:10 | I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. +Revelation 10:11 | They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings." +Revelation 11:01 | A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. +Revelation 11:02 | Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. +Revelation 11:03 | I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand and two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." +Revelation 11:04 | These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth. +Revelation 11:05 | If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. +Revelation 11:06 | These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. +Revelation 11:07 | When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. +Revelation 11:08 | Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. +Revelation 11:09 | From amongst the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. +Revelation 11:10 | Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. +Revelation 11:11 | After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. +Revelation 11:12 | I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them. +Revelation 11:13 | In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven. +Revelation 11:14 | The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly. +Revelation 11:15 | The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!" +Revelation 11:17 | "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned. +Revelation 11:18 | The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." +Revelation 11:19 | God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed. +Revelation 12:01 | A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. +Revelation 12:02 | She was with child. She cried out in pain, labouring to give birth. +Revelation 12:03 | Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. +Revelation 12:04 | His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child. +Revelation 12:05 | She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. +Revelation 12:06 | The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand and two hundred and sixty days. +Revelation 12:07 | There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. +Revelation 12:08 | They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven. +Revelation 12:09 | The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. +Revelation 12:10 | I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. +Revelation 12:11 | They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death. +Revelation 12:12 | Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." +Revelation 12:13 | When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. +Revelation 12:14 | Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. +Revelation 12:15 | The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. +Revelation 12:16 | The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth. +Revelation 12:17 | The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony. +Revelation 13:01 | Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. +Revelation 13:02 | The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. +Revelation 13:03 | One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marvelled at the beast. +Revelation 13:04 | They worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" +Revelation 13:05 | A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. +Revelation 13:06 | He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven. +Revelation 13:07 | It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. +Revelation 13:08 | All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed. +Revelation 13:10 | If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints. +Revelation 13:11 | I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. +Revelation 13:12 | He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. +Revelation 13:13 | He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. +Revelation 13:14 | He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. +Revelation 13:15 | It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed. +Revelation 13:16 | He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads; +Revelation 13:17 | and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. +Revelation 13:18 | Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred and sixty-six. +Revelation 14:01 | I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. +Revelation 14:02 | I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps. +Revelation 14:03 | They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. +Revelation 14:04 | These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from amongst men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. +Revelation 14:05 | In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless. +Revelation 14:06 | I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people. +Revelation 14:07 | He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgement has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!" +Revelation 14:08 | Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality." +Revelation 14:09 | Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand, +Revelation 14:10 | he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. +Revelation 14:11 | The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. +Revelation 14:12 | Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." +Revelation 14:13 | I heard a voice from Heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."; "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!" +Revelation 14:13 | I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow with them." +Revelation 14:14 | I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. +Revelation 14:15 | Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!" +Revelation 14:16 | He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. +Revelation 14:17 | Another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. +Revelation 14:18 | Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!" +Revelation 14:19 | The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. +Revelation 14:20 | The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand and six hundred stadia. +Revelation 15:01 | I saw another great and marvellous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished. +Revelation 15:02 | I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. +Revelation 15:03 | They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvellous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations. +Revelation 15:04 | Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed." +Revelation 15:05 | After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. +Revelation 15:06 | The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts. +Revelation 15:07 | One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. +Revelation 15:08 | The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished. +Revelation 16:01 | I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!" +Revelation 16:02 | The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshipped his image. +Revelation 16:03 | The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died. +Revelation 16:04 | The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. +Revelation 16:05 | I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things. +Revelation 16:06 | For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this." +Revelation 16:07 | I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgements." +Revelation 16:08 | The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. +Revelation 16:09 | People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory. +Revelation 16:10 | The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, +Revelation 16:11 | and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They still didn’t repent of their works. +Revelation 16:12 | The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise. +Revelation 16:13 | I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; +Revelation 16:14 | for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty. +Revelation 16:15 | "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame." +Revelation 16:16 | He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, "Megiddo". +Revelation 16:17 | The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" +Revelation 16:18 | There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not happened since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty. +Revelation 16:19 | The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. +Revelation 16:20 | Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. +Revelation 16:21 | Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe. +Revelation 17:01 | One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgement of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, +Revelation 17:02 | with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality." +Revelation 17:03 | He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. +Revelation 17:04 | The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. +Revelation 17:05 | And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." +Revelation 17:06 | I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement. +Revelation 17:07 | The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. +Revelation 17:08 | The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present. +Revelation 17:09 | Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. +Revelation 17:10 | They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while. +Revelation 17:11 | The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction. +Revelation 17:12 | The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. +Revelation 17:13 | These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast. +Revelation 17:14 | These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful. +Revelation 17:14 | These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful." +Revelation 17:15 | He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. +Revelation 17:16 | The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire. +Revelation 17:17 | For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished. +Revelation 17:18 | The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth." +Revelation 18:01 | After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. +Revelation 18:02 | He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird! +Revelation 18:03 | For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury." +Revelation 18:04 | I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues, +Revelation 18:05 | for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities. +Revelation 18:06 | Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. +Revelation 18:07 | However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’ +Revelation 18:08 | Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burnt with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong. +Revelation 18:09 | The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning, +Revelation 18:10 | standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgement has come in one hour.’ +Revelation 18:11 | The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more: +Revelation 18:12 | merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; +Revelation 18:13 | and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls. +Revelation 18:14 | The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all. +Revelation 18:15 | The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, saying, +Revelation 18:16 | ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls! +Revelation 18:17 | For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away, +Revelation 18:18 | and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’ +Revelation 18:19 | They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour. +Revelation 18:20 | "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgement on her." +Revelation 18:21 | A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all. +Revelation 18:22 | The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you. +Revelation 18:23 | The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived. +Revelation 18:24 | In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth." +Revelation 19:01 | After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God; +Revelation 19:02 | for his judgements are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." +Revelation 19:03 | A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever." +Revelation 19:04 | The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" +Revelation 19:05 | A voice came from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!" +Revelation 19:06 | I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! +Revelation 19:07 | Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." +Revelation 19:08 | It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. +Revelation 19:09 | He said to me, "Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’" He said to me, "These are true words of God." +Revelation 19:10 | I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." +Revelation 19:11 | I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. +Revelation 19:12 | His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. +Revelation 19:13 | He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God." +Revelation 19:14 | The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. +Revelation 19:15 | Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. +Revelation 19:16 | He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND Lord OF LORDS." +Revelation 19:17 | I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, +Revelation 19:18 | that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great." +Revelation 19:19 | I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. +Revelation 19:20 | The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur. +Revelation 19:21 | The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. So all the birds were filled with their flesh. +Revelation 20:01 | I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. +Revelation 20:02 | He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, +Revelation 20:03 | and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time. +Revelation 20:04 | I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. +Revelation 20:05 | The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. +Revelation 20:06 | Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years. +Revelation 20:07 | And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, +Revelation 20:08 | and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. +Revelation 20:09 | They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them. +Revelation 20:10 | The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever. +Revelation 20:11 | I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. +Revelation 20:12 | I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. +Revelation 20:13 | The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. +Revelation 20:14 | Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. +Revelation 20:15 | If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. +Revelation 21:01 | I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. +Revelation 21:01 | Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. +Revelation 21:02 | I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. +Revelation 21:03 | I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. +Revelation 21:04 | He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. +Revelation 21:04 | He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away." +Revelation 21:05 | He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true." +Revelation 21:06 | He said to me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. +Revelation 21:07 | He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. +Revelation 21:08 | But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death." +Revelation 21:09 | One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride." +Revelation 21:10 | He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, +Revelation 21:11 | having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal; +Revelation 21:12 | having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. +Revelation 21:13 | On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. +Revelation 21:14 | The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. +Revelation 21:15 | He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. +Revelation 21:16 | The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand and twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal. +Revelation 21:17 | Its wall is one hundred and forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. +Revelation 21:18 | The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass. +Revelation 21:19 | The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; +Revelation 21:20 | the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst. +Revelation 21:21 | The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. +Revelation 21:22 | I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. +Revelation 21:23 | The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. +Revelation 21:24 | The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. +Revelation 21:25 | Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there), +Revelation 21:26 | and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it so that they may enter. +Revelation 21:27 | There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. +Revelation 22:01 | He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, +Revelation 22:02 | in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. +Revelation 22:03 | There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him. +Revelation 22:04 | They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. +Revelation 22:05 | There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever. +Revelation 22:06 | He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon." +Revelation 22:07 | "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." +Revelation 22:08 | Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things. +Revelation 22:09 | He said to me, "See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God." +Revelation 22:10 | He said to me, "Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. +Revelation 22:11 | He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still." +Revelation 22:12 | "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. +Revelation 22:13 | I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. +Revelation 22:14 | Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. +Revelation 22:15 | Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. +Revelation 22:15 | Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. +Revelation 22:16 | I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star." +Revelation 22:17 | The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely. +Revelation 22:18 | I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. +Revelation 22:19 | If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. +Revelation 22:20 | He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus. +Revelation 22:21 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen. +Romans 01:01 | Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, +Romans 01:02 | which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, +Romans 01:03 | concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, +Romans 01:04 | who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, +Romans 01:05 | through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith amongst all the nations for his name’s sake; +Romans 01:06 | amongst whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ; +Romans 01:07 | to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +Romans 01:08 | First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. +Romans 01:09 | For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, +Romans 01:10 | requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. +Romans 01:11 | For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; +Romans 01:12 | that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. +Romans 01:13 | Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit amongst you also, even as amongst the rest of the Gentiles. +Romans 01:14 | I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. +Romans 01:15 | So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. +Romans 01:16 | For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. +Romans 01:16 | I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. +Romans 01:17 | For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith." +Romans 01:18 | For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, +Romans 01:19 | because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. +Romans 01:20 | For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. +Romans 01:21 | Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. +Romans 01:22 | Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, +Romans 01:23 | and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. +Romans 01:24 | Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured amongst themselves; +Romans 01:25 | who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. +Romans 01:26 | For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. +Romans 01:27 | Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burnt in their lust towards one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. +Romans 01:28 | Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; +Romans 01:32 | who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practise them. +Romans 02:01 | Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practise the same things. +Romans 02:01 | You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. +Romans 02:02 | We know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those who practise such things. +Romans 02:03 | Do you think this, O man who judges those who practise such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgement of God? +Romans 02:04 | Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? +Romans 02:05 | But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgement of God; +Romans 02:06 | who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" +Romans 02:07 | to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honour, and incorruptibility, eternal life; +Romans 02:08 | but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, +Romans 02:09 | oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +Romans 02:10 | But glory, honour, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +Romans 02:11 | For there is no partiality with God. +Romans 02:12 | For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. +Romans 02:13 | For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified +Romans 02:14 | (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, +Romans 02:15 | in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts amongst themselves accusing or else excusing them) +Romans 02:16 | in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ. +Romans 02:17 | Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God, +Romans 02:18 | know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, +Romans 02:19 | and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, +Romans 02:20 | a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. +Romans 02:21 | You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? +Romans 02:22 | You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? +Romans 02:23 | You who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by disobeying the law? +Romans 02:24 | For "the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written. +Romans 02:25 | For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. +Romans 02:26 | If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? +Romans 02:27 | Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? +Romans 02:28 | For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; +Romans 02:29 | but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. +Romans 03:01 | Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? +Romans 03:02 | Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God. +Romans 03:03 | For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? +Romans 03:04 | May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgement." +Romans 03:05 | But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. +Romans 03:06 | May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? +Romans 03:07 | For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? +Romans 03:08 | Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let’s do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned. +Romans 03:09 | What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. +Romans 03:10 | As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. +Romans 03:11 | There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. +Romans 03:12 | They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one." +Romans 03:13 | "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips." +Romans 03:14 | "Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." +Romans 03:15 | "Their feet are swift to shed blood. +Romans 03:16 | Destruction and misery are in their ways. +Romans 03:17 | The way of peace, they haven’t known." +Romans 03:18 | "There is no fear of God before their eyes." +Romans 03:19 | Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgement of God. +Romans 03:20 | Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. +Romans 03:20 | No one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. +Romans 03:21 | But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; +Romans 03:22 | even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, +Romans 03:23 | for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; +Romans 03:24 | being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; +Romans 03:25 | God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood — to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness. +Romans 03:25 | whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; +Romans 03:26 | to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. +Romans 03:27 | Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. +Romans 03:28 | We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. +Romans 03:29 | Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, +Romans 03:30 | since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. +Romans 03:31 | Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law. +Romans 04:01 | What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? +Romans 04:02 | For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not towards God. +Romans 04:03 | For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." +Romans 04:04 | Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. +Romans 04:05 | But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. +Romans 04:06 | Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, +Romans 04:07 | "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. +Romans 04:08 | Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin." +Romans 04:09 | Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. +Romans 04:10 | How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. +Romans 04:11 | He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. +Romans 04:12 | He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. +Romans 04:13 | For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. +Romans 04:14 | For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. +Romans 04:15 | For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. +Romans 04:16 | For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. +Romans 04:17 | As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. +Romans 04:18 | Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your offspring be." +Romans 04:19 | Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. +Romans 04:20 | Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, +Romans 04:21 | and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. +Romans 04:22 | Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness." +Romans 04:23 | Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, +Romans 04:24 | but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, +Romans 04:25 | who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification. +Romans 05:01 | Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; +Romans 05:02 | through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. +Romans 05:03 | Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; +Romans 05:03-04 | [...] we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. +Romans 05:04 | and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: +Romans 05:05 | and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. +Romans 05:06 | For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. +Romans 05:07 | For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die. +Romans 05:08 | But God commends his own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. +Romans 05:09 | Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. +Romans 05:10 | For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life. +Romans 05:11 | Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. +Romans 05:12 | Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned. +Romans 05:13 | For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. +Romans 05:14 | Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. +Romans 05:15 | But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. +Romans 05:16 | The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgement came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. +Romans 05:17 | For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. +Romans 05:18 | So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. +Romans 05:19 | For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. +Romans 05:20 | The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; +Romans 05:21 | that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. +Romans 06:01 | What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? +Romans 06:02 | May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? +Romans 06:03 | Or don’t you know that all we who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? +Romans 06:04 | We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. +Romans 06:04 | We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. +Romans 06:05 | For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; +Romans 06:06 | knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. +Romans 06:07 | For he who has died has been freed from sin. +Romans 06:08 | But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; +Romans 06:09 | knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! +Romans 06:09 | We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. +Romans 06:10 | For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. +Romans 06:11 | Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. +Romans 06:12 | Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. +Romans 06:12-13 | Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of righteousness. +Romans 06:13 | Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. +Romans 06:14 | For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. +Romans 06:15 | What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be! +Romans 06:16 | Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? +Romans 06:17 | But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. +Romans 06:18 | Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. +Romans 06:19 | I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. +Romans 06:20 | For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. +Romans 06:20-21 | When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? +Romans 06:21 | What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. +Romans 06:22 | But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. +Romans 06:23 | For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. +Romans 06:23 | The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. +Romans 07:01 | Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? +Romans 07:02 | For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. +Romans 07:03 | So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. +Romans 07:04 | Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. +Romans 07:05 | For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. +Romans 07:06 | But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. +Romans 07:07 | What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." +Romans 07:08 | But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. +Romans 07:09 | I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. +Romans 07:10 | The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death; +Romans 07:11 | for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. +Romans 07:12 | Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. +Romans 07:13 | Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful. +Romans 07:14 | For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. +Romans 07:15 | For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practise what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. +Romans 07:16 | But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. +Romans 07:17 | So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. +Romans 07:18 | For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. +Romans 07:19 | For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practise. +Romans 07:20 | But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. +Romans 07:21 | I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. +Romans 07:22 | For I delight in God’s law after the inward person, +Romans 07:23 | but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. +Romans 07:24 | What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? +Romans 07:25 | I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law. +Romans 08:01 | There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. +Romans 08:02 | For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. +Romans 08:03 | For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; +Romans 08:04 | that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. +Romans 08:05 | For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. +Romans 08:05 | Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. +Romans 08:06 | For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; +Romans 08:06 | The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. +Romans 08:07 | because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. +Romans 08:08 | Those who are in the flesh can’t please God. +Romans 08:08 | Those who live in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. +Romans 08:09 | But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. +Romans 08:10 | If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. +Romans 08:10 | If Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. +Romans 08:11 | But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. +Romans 08:12 | So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. +Romans 08:13 | For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. +Romans 08:14 | For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. +Romans 08:14-15 | Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. +Romans 08:15 | For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" +Romans 08:16 | The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; +Romans 08:17 | and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. +Romans 08:18 | For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed towards us. +Romans 08:19 | For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. +Romans 08:20 | For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope +Romans 08:21 | that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. +Romans 08:22 | For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. +Romans 08:23 | Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. +Romans 08:24 | For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? +Romans 08:25 | But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. +Romans 08:26 | In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. +Romans 08:26-27 | [...] the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. +Romans 08:27 | He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. +Romans 08:28 | We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. +Romans 08:28 | We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. +Romans 08:29 | For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn amongst many brothers. +Romans 08:30 | Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. +Romans 08:31 | What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? +Romans 08:31 | What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? +Romans 08:32 | He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? +Romans 08:33 | Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. +Romans 08:34 | Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. +Romans 08:35 | Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? +Romans 08:36 | Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." +Romans 08:37 | No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. +Romans 08:38 | For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, +Romans 08:38-39 | I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. +Romans 08:39 | nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. +Romans 09:01 | I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit +Romans 09:02 | that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. +Romans 09:03 | For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh +Romans 09:04 | who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; +Romans 09:05 | of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. +Romans 09:06 | But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel. +Romans 09:07 | Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, "your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac." +Romans 09:08 | That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs. +Romans 09:09 | For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son." +Romans 09:10 | Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. +Romans 09:11 | For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, +Romans 09:12 | it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." +Romans 09:13 | Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." +Romans 09:14 | What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! +Romans 09:15 | For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." +Romans 09:15 | I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. +Romans 09:15-16 | I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. +Romans 09:16 | So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. +Romans 09:17 | For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." +Romans 09:17 | I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth. +Romans 09:18 | So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. +Romans 09:19 | You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" +Romans 09:19-20 | One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist His will?" But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" +Romans 09:20 | But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" +Romans 09:21 | Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honour, and another for dishonour? +Romans 09:22 | What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, +Romans 09:23 | and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, +Romans 09:24 | us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? +Romans 09:25 | As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved." +Romans 09:26 | "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’" +Romans 09:27 | Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved; +Romans 09:28 | for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth." +Romans 09:29 | As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah." +Romans 09:30 | What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; +Romans 09:31 | but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness. +Romans 09:32 | Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; +Romans 09:33 | even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offence; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed." +Romans 10:01 | Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. +Romans 10:02 | For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. +Romans 10:03 | For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. +Romans 10:03 | Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. +Romans 10:04 | Christ is the culmination of The Law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. +Romans 10:04 | For Christ is the fulfilment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. +Romans 10:05 | For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them." +Romans 10:06 | But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down); +Romans 10:07 | or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" +Romans 10:08 | But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart" that is, the word of faith which we preach: +Romans 10:09 | that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. +Romans 10:09-10 | If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. +Romans 10:10 | For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. +Romans 10:11 | For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed." +Romans 10:12 | For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. +Romans 10:13 | For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." +Romans 10:14 | How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? +Romans 10:15 | And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" +Romans 10:16 | But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" +Romans 10:17 | So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. +Romans 10:18 | But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." +Romans 10:19 | But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding." +Romans 10:20 | Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me." +Romans 10:21 | But about Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people." +Romans 11:01 | I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. +Romans 11:03 | "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life." +Romans 11:04 | But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." +Romans 11:05 | Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. +Romans 11:06 | And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. +Romans 11:07 | What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. +Romans 11:08 | According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day." +Romans 11:09 | David says, "Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. +Romans 11:10 | Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent." +Romans 11:11 | I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. +Romans 11:12 | Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? +Romans 11:13 | For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; +Romans 11:14 | if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. +Romans 11:15 | For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? +Romans 11:16 | If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. +Romans 11:17 | But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in amongst them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, +Romans 11:18 | don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. +Romans 11:19 | You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." +Romans 11:20 | True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; +Romans 11:21 | for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. +Romans 11:22 | See then the goodness and severity of God. Towards those who fell, severity; but towards you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. +Romans 11:23 | They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. +Romans 11:24 | For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? +Romans 11:25 | For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, +Romans 11:26 | and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. +Romans 11:27 | This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins." +Romans 11:28 | Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. +Romans 11:29 | For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. +Romans 11:30 | For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, +Romans 11:31 | even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. +Romans 11:32 | For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. +Romans 11:33 | Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past tracing out! +Romans 11:33-34 | Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and His paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counsellor? +Romans 11:34 | "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?" +Romans 11:35 | "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?" +Romans 11:36 | For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen. +Romans 11:36 | From Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory for ever! +Romans 12:01 | I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true and proper worship. +Romans 12:01 | Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. +Romans 12:02 | Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will. +Romans 12:02 | Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. +Romans 12:03 | By the grace given me, I say to every one of you: do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. +Romans 12:03 | For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is amongst you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. +Romans 12:04 | For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, +Romans 12:05 | so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another, +Romans 12:06 | having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; +Romans 12:07 | or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; +Romans 12:08 | or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. +Romans 12:09 | Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. +Romans 12:09-10 | Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves. +Romans 12:10 | Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. +Romans 12:10 | In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honour preferring one another; +Romans 12:11 | not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; +Romans 12:11-12 | Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. +Romans 12:12 | rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer; +Romans 12:12-13 | Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practise hospitality. +Romans 12:13 | contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality. +Romans 12:14 | Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse. +Romans 12:14-15 | Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. +Romans 12:15 | Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. +Romans 12:16 | Be of the same mind one towards another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits. +Romans 12:16 | Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. +Romans 12:17 | Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. +Romans 12:17 | Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honourable in the sight of all men. +Romans 12:18 | If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. +Romans 12:19 | Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay" says the Lord. +Romans 12:19 | Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." +Romans 12:20 | If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. +Romans 12:20 | Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." +Romans 12:21 | Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. +Romans 12:21 | Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. +Romans 13:01 | Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. +Romans 13:02 | Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgement. +Romans 13:02 | Whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. +Romans 13:03 | For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority, +Romans 13:04 | for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil. +Romans 13:05 | It is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. +Romans 13:05 | Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. +Romans 13:06 | For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing. +Romans 13:07 | Give to everyone what you owe them: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour. +Romans 13:07 | Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour. +Romans 13:08 | Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. +Romans 13:08 | Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law. +Romans 13:09 | For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." +Romans 13:10 | Love doesn’t harm a neighbour. Love therefore is the fulfilment of the law. +Romans 13:11 | Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. +Romans 13:12 | The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armour of light. +Romans 13:13 | Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. +Romans 13:13-14 | Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh. +Romans 13:14 | But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. +Romans 14:01 | Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. +Romans 14:01-02 | Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarrelling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. +Romans 14:02 | One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. +Romans 14:03 | Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. +Romans 14:04 | Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand. +Romans 14:05 | One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. +Romans 14:05 | One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. +Romans 14:06 | He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks. +Romans 14:07 | For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. +Romans 14:08 | For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. +Romans 14:08-09 | If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. +Romans 14:09 | For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. +Romans 14:10 | But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgement seat of Christ. +Romans 14:11 | For it is written, "‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’" +Romans 14:12 | So then each one of us will give account of himself to God. +Romans 14:13 | Let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling-block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. +Romans 14:13 | Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. +Romans 14:14 | I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. +Romans 14:14 | I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. +Romans 14:15 | Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. +Romans 14:16 | Do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. +Romans 14:16 | Then don’t let your good be slandered, +Romans 14:17 | for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. +Romans 14:18 | For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. +Romans 14:19 | Let us make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. +Romans 14:19 | So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. +Romans 14:20 | Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. +Romans 14:21 | It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak. +Romans 14:22 | Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves. +Romans 14:23 | But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. +Romans 15:01 | Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. +Romans 15:01 | We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. +Romans 15:02 | Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, to be building him up. +Romans 15:03 | For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me." +Romans 15:04 | For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. +Romans 15:05 | Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, +Romans 15:06 | that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. +Romans 15:07 | Accept one another, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. +Romans 15:07 | Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. +Romans 15:08 | Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, +Romans 15:09 | and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you amongst the Gentiles and sing to your name." +Romans 15:10 | Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people." +Romans 15:11 | Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him." +Romans 15:12 | Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope." +Romans 15:13 | May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. +Romans 15:13 | Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. +Romans 15:14 | I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. +Romans 15:15 | But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, +Romans 15:16 | that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. +Romans 15:17 | I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. +Romans 15:18 | For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, +Romans 15:19 | in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ; +Romans 15:20 | yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation. +Romans 15:21 | But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven’t heard will understand." +Romans 15:22 | Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, +Romans 15:23 | but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you, +Romans 15:24 | whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. +Romans 15:25 | But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. +Romans 15:26 | For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor amongst the saints who are at Jerusalem. +Romans 15:27 | Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things. +Romans 15:28 | When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. +Romans 15:29 | I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ. +Romans 15:30 | Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, +Romans 15:31 | that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, +Romans 15:32 | that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest. +Romans 15:33 | Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. +Romans 16:01 | I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, +Romans 16:02 | that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self. +Romans 16:16 | Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you. +Romans 16:17 | Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learnt, and turn away from them. +Romans 16:18 | For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. +Romans 16:19 | For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil. +Romans 16:20 | And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. +Romans 16:24 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen. +Romans 16:26 | But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: +Romans 16:27 | To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. +Ruth 01:01 | In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. +Ruth 01:04 | They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years. +Ruth 01:06 | Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. +Ruth 01:07 | She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah. +Ruth 01:08 | Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. +Ruth 01:09 | May The Lord grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept. +Ruth 01:10 | They said to her, "No, but we will return with you to your people." +Ruth 01:11 | Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? +Ruth 01:12 | Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons, +Ruth 01:13 | would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for the Lord’s hand has gone out against me." +Ruth 01:14 | They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her. +Ruth 01:15 | She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law." +Ruth 01:16 | Ruth said, "Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. +Ruth 01:16-17 | Ruth replied, "Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me." +Ruth 01:17 | Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me." +Ruth 01:18 | When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. +Ruth 01:19 | So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, "Is this Naomi?" +Ruth 01:20 | She said to them, "Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. +Ruth 01:21 | I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?" +Ruth 01:22 | So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. +Ruth 02:01 | Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. +Ruth 02:02 | Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean amongst the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favour." She said to her, "Go, my daughter." +Ruth 02:03 | She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. +Ruth 02:04 | Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, "May The Lord be with you." They answered him, "May The Lord bless you." +Ruth 02:05 | Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, "Whose young lady is this?" +Ruth 02:06 | The servant who was set over the reapers answered, "It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. +Ruth 02:07 | She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house." +Ruth 02:08 | Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens. +Ruth 02:09 | Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn." +Ruth 02:10 | Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favour in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?" +Ruth 02:11 | Boaz answered her, "I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before. +Ruth 02:12 | May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge. +Ruth 02:12 | May the Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge." +Ruth 02:13 | Then she said, "Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants." +Ruth 02:14 | At meal time Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it. +Ruth 02:15 | When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even amongst the sheaves, and don’t reproach her. +Ruth 02:16 | Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her." +Ruth 02:17 | So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. +Ruth 02:18 | She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough. +Ruth 02:19 | Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, "The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz." +Ruth 02:20 | Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the Lord, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen." +Ruth 02:21 | Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’" +Ruth 02:22 | Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field." +Ruth 02:23 | So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law. +Ruth 03:01 | Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? +Ruth 03:02 | Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor. +Ruth 03:03 | Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. +Ruth 03:04 | It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do." +Ruth 03:05 | She said to her, "All that you say, I will do." +Ruth 03:06 | She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her. +Ruth 03:07 | When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down. +Ruth 03:08 | At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. +Ruth 03:09 | He said, "Who are you?" She answered, "I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman." +Ruth 03:10 | He said, "You are blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich. +Ruth 03:11 | Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman. +Ruth 03:12 | Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I. +Ruth 03:13 | Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as the Lord lives. Lie down until the morning." +Ruth 03:14 | She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." +Ruth 03:15 | He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city. +Ruth 03:16 | When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done for her. +Ruth 03:17 | She said, "He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’" +Ruth 03:18 | Then she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today." +Ruth 04:01 | Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He came over, and sat down. +Ruth 04:02 | Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here," and they sat down. +Ruth 04:03 | He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. +Ruth 04:04 | I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it." +Ruth 04:05 | Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance." +Ruth 04:06 | The near kinsman said, "I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it." +Ruth 04:07 | Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel. +Ruth 04:08 | So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," then he took off his sandal. +Ruth 04:09 | Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, "You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. +Ruth 04:10 | Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from amongst his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today." +Ruth 04:11 | All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. +Ruth 04:12 | Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give you by this young woman." +Ruth 04:13 | So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. +Ruth 04:14 | The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel. +Ruth 04:15 | He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him." +Ruth 04:16 | Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him. +Ruth 04:17 | The women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, "A son is born to Naomi". They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. +Song of Solomon 01:01 | Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love is more delightful than wine. +Song of Solomon 01:02 | Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine. +Song of Solomon 01:03 | Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you. +Song of Solomon 01:04 | Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you. +Song of Solomon 01:05 | I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains. +Song of Solomon 01:06 | Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard. +Song of Solomon 01:07 | Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? +Song of Solomon 01:08 | If you don’t know, most beautiful amongst women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents. +Song of Solomon 01:09 | I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots. +Song of Solomon 01:10 | Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. +Song of Solomon 01:10 | Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. +Song of Solomon 01:11 | We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. +Song of Solomon 01:12 | While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. +Song of Solomon 01:13 | My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts. +Song of Solomon 01:14 | My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. +Song of Solomon 01:15 | Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves. +Song of Solomon 01:16 | Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. +Song of Solomon 01:16 | How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. +Song of Solomon 01:17 | The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. +Song of Solomon 02:01 | I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. +Song of Solomon 02:02 | As a lily amongst thorns, so is my love amongst the daughters. +Song of Solomon 02:03 | As the apple tree amongst the trees of the wood, so is my beloved amongst the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste. +Song of Solomon 02:03 | Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. +Song of Solomon 02:04 | He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love. +Song of Solomon 02:05 | Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love. +Song of Solomon 02:06 | His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me. +Song of Solomon 02:07 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. +Song of Solomon 02:08 | The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. +Song of Solomon 02:09 | My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice. +Song of Solomon 02:10 | My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. +Song of Solomon 02:11 | For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. +Song of Solomon 02:12 | The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. +Song of Solomon 02:13 | The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." +Song of Solomon 02:14 | My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. +Song of Solomon 02:15 | Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. +Song of Solomon 02:16 | My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses amongst the lilies. +Song of Solomon 02:17 | Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether. +Song of Solomon 03:01 | By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. +Song of Solomon 03:01-02 | All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves [...] +Song of Solomon 03:02 | I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. +Song of Solomon 03:03 | The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" +Song of Solomon 03:04 | I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me. +Song of Solomon 03:05 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires. +Song of Solomon 03:06 | Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant? +Song of Solomon 03:07 | Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel. +Song of Solomon 03:08 | They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night. +Song of Solomon 03:09 | King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon. +Song of Solomon 03:10 | He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem. +Song of Solomon 03:11 | Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. +Song of Solomon 04:01 | Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. +Song of Solomon 04:02 | Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved amongst them. +Song of Solomon 04:03 | Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. +Song of Solomon 04:04 | Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armoury, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men. +Song of Solomon 04:05 | Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed amongst the lilies. +Song of Solomon 04:06 | Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense. +Song of Solomon 04:07 | You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you. +Song of Solomon 04:08 | Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. +Song of Solomon 04:09 | You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. +Song of Solomon 04:09 | You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. +Song of Solomon 04:10 | How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices! +Song of Solomon 04:11 | Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. +Song of Solomon 04:12 | My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain. +Song of Solomon 04:13 | Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, +Song of Solomon 04:14 | spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, +Song of Solomon 04:15 | a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. +Song of Solomon 04:16 | Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. +Song of Solomon 05:01 | I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. +Song of Solomon 05:02 | I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night." +Song of Solomon 05:03 | I have taken off my robe, must I put it on again? I have washed my feet, must I soil them again? +Song of Solomon 05:03 | I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? +Song of Solomon 05:04 | My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him. +Song of Solomon 05:05 | I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. +Song of Solomon 05:06 | I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer. +Song of Solomon 05:07 | The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me. +Song of Solomon 05:08 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. +Song of Solomon 05:09 | How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest amongst women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? +Song of Solomon 05:10 | My beloved is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. +Song of Solomon 05:10 | My beloved is white and ruddy. The best amongst ten thousand. +Song of Solomon 05:11 | His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven. +Song of Solomon 05:12 | His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels. +Song of Solomon 05:13 | His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. +Song of Solomon 05:14 | His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. +Song of Solomon 05:15 | His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. +Song of Solomon 05:16 | His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. +Song of Solomon 06:01 | Where has your beloved gone, you fairest amongst women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? +Song of Solomon 06:02 | My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. +Song of Solomon 06:03 | I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses amongst the lilies. +Song of Solomon 06:04 | You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. +Song of Solomon 06:05 | Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead. +Song of Solomon 06:05-06 | Turn your eyes from me, darling; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing [...] +Song of Solomon 06:06 | Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved amongst them. +Song of Solomon 06:07 | Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. +Song of Solomon 06:08 | There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number. +Song of Solomon 06:09 | My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favourite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her. +Song of Solomon 06:10 | Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners? +Song of Solomon 06:11 | I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower. +Song of Solomon 06:12 | Without realising it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. +Song of Solomon 06:13 | Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim? +Song of Solomon 07:01 | How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skilful workman. +Song of Solomon 07:02 | Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. +Song of Solomon 07:02-04 | Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes [...] +Song of Solomon 07:03 | Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe. +Song of Solomon 07:04 | Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks towards Damascus. +Song of Solomon 07:05 | Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses. +Song of Solomon 07:06 | How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! +Song of Solomon 07:07 | This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit. +Song of Solomon 07:07 | Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. +Song of Solomon 07:08 | I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples. +Song of Solomon 07:09 | Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. +Song of Solomon 07:10 | I am my beloved’s. His desire is towards me. +Song of Solomon 07:11 | Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages. +Song of Solomon 07:12 | Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love. +Song of Solomon 07:13 | The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved. +Song of Solomon 08:01 | Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me. +Song of Solomon 08:02 | I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. +Song of Solomon 08:03 | His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me. +Song of Solomon 08:04 | I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. +Song of Solomon 08:05 | Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labour and bore you. +Song of Solomon 08:06 | Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord. +Song of Solomon 08:06-07 | Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. +Song of Solomon 08:07 | Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. +Song of Solomon 08:07 | Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. +Song of Solomon 08:08 | We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for? +Song of Solomon 08:09 | If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. +Song of Solomon 08:10 | I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment. +Song of Solomon 08:10 | I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace. +Song of Solomon 08:11 | Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. +Song of Solomon 08:12 | My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit. +Song of Solomon 08:13 | You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! +Song of Solomon 08:14 | Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices! +Thessalonians 04:13-14 | Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. +Titus 01:01 | Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, +Titus 01:02 | in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began; +Titus 01:03 | but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour; +Titus 01:04 | to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. +Titus 01:05 | I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you, +Titus 01:06 | if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behaviour. +Titus 01:07 | For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; +Titus 01:08 | but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled, +Titus 01:09 | holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. +Titus 01:10 | For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, +Titus 01:11 | whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake. +Titus 01:12 | One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons." +Titus 01:13 | This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, +Titus 01:14 | not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. +Titus 01:15 | To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. +Titus 01:16 | They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. +Titus 01:16 | They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. +Titus 02:01 | But say the things which fit sound doctrine, +Titus 02:02 | that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance: +Titus 02:03 | and that older women likewise be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, +Titus 02:04 | that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, +Titus 02:05 | to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed. +Titus 02:06 | Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded. +Titus 02:07 | In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, +Titus 02:08 | and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. +Titus 02:09 | Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting, +Titus 02:10 | not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Saviour, in all things. +Titus 02:11 | For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, +Titus 02:12 | instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age; +Titus 02:13 | looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, +Titus 02:14 | who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works. +Titus 02:15 | Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you. +Titus 03:01 | Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, +Titus 03:02 | to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility towards all men. +Titus 03:03 | For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. +Titus 03:04 | But when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love towards mankind appeared, +Titus 03:05 | not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, +Titus 03:06 | whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; +Titus 03:07 | that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. +Titus 03:08 | This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men; +Titus 03:09 | but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. +Titus 03:10 | Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning, +Titus 03:11 | knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned. +Titus 03:12 | When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there. +Titus 03:13 | Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them. +Titus 03:14 | Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful. +Titus 03:15 | All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. +Tobit 01:01 | The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali; +Tobit 01:02 | who in the days of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher. +Tobit 01:03 | I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh. +Tobit 01:04 | When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages. +Tobit 01:05 | All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father. +Tobit 01:06 | I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron. +Tobit 01:07 | I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem. +Tobit 01:08 | A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father. +Tobit 01:09 | When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias. +Tobit 01:10 | When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles; +Tobit 01:12 | because I remembered God with all my soul. +Tobit 01:13 | So the Most High gave me grace and favour in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent. +Tobit 01:16 | In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry, +Tobit 01:17 | and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on the wall of Ninevah, I buried him. +Tobit 01:18 | If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found. +Tobit 01:19 | But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear. +Tobit 01:20 | And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias. +Tobit 01:21 | No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs. +Tobit 01:22 | Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son. +Tobit 02:01 | Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat. +Tobit 02:02 | I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, "Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you." +Tobit 02:03 | Then he came, and said, "Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace." +Tobit 02:04 | Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set. +Tobit 02:05 | Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness, +Tobit 02:06 | and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said, "Your feasts will be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation. +Tobit 02:07 | So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him. +Tobit 02:08 | My neighbours mocked me, and said, "He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again." +Tobit 02:09 | The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered. +Tobit 02:10 | I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went into Elymais. +Tobit 02:12 | and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid. +Tobit 02:13 | But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen. +Tobit 02:14 | But she said, "It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages." I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her. But she answered and said to me, "Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known." +Tobit 03:01 | I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying, +Tobit 03:02 | "O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever. +Tobit 03:03 | Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you. +Tobit 03:04 | For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations amongst whom we are dispersed. +Tobit 03:05 | Now your judgements are many and true, that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers, because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you. +Tobit 03:06 | Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me." +Tobit 03:07 | The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants; +Tobit 03:08 | because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, "Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them. +Tobit 03:09 | Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you." +Tobit 03:10 | When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, "I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave." +Tobit 03:11 | Then she prayed by the window, and said, "Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honourable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever! +Tobit 03:12 | And now, Lord, I have set my eyes and my face towards you. +Tobit 03:13 | Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach. +Tobit 03:14 | You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man, +Tobit 03:15 | and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach." +Tobit 03:16 | The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God. +Tobit 03:17 | Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber. +Tobit 04:01 | In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media, +Tobit 04:02 | and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die? +Tobit 04:03 | And he called him, and said, "My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honour her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her. +Tobit 04:04 | Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave. +Tobit 04:05 | My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness. +Tobit 04:06 | For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness. +Tobit 04:07 | Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you. +Tobit 04:08 | As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little; +Tobit 04:09 | for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity; +Tobit 04:10 | because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness. +Tobit 04:11 | Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it. +Tobit 04:12 | Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land. +Tobit 04:13 | And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine. +Tobit 04:14 | Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behaviour. +Tobit 04:15 | And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way. +Tobit 04:16 | Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms. +Tobit 04:17 | Pour out your bread on the burial of the just, and give nothing to sinners. +Tobit 04:18 | Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable. +Tobit 04:19 | Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind. +Tobit 04:20 | And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media. +Tobit 04:21 | And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight." +Tobit 05:01 | Then Tobias answered and said to him, "Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me. +Tobit 05:03 | He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, "Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money." +Tobit 05:04 | He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel; +Tobit 05:05 | and he didn’t know it. He said to him, "Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?" +Tobit 05:06 | The angel said to him, "I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael." +Tobit 05:07 | Tobias said to him, "Wait for me, and I will tell my father." +Tobit 05:08 | He said to him, "Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, "Behold, I have found someone who will go with me." But he said, "Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you." +Tobit 05:09 | So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another. +Tobit 05:10 | And Tobit said to him, "Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me." +Tobit 05:11 | He said to him, "Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?" And Tobit said to him, "I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name." +Tobit 05:12 | And he said, "I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred." +Tobit 05:13 | And he said to him, "Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock. +Tobit 05:14 | But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son? +Tobit 05:15 | And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages." +Tobit 05:16 | And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, "Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you." So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, "Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you." Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them. +Tobit 05:17 | But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, "Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us? +Tobit 05:18 | Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child. +Tobit 05:19 | For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us." +Tobit 05:20 | Tobit said to her, "Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him. +Tobit 05:21 | For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound." +Tobit 06:01 | Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there. +Tobit 06:02 | But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leapt out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man. +Tobit 06:03 | But the angel said to him, "Grab the fish!" So the young man grabbed the fish, and hauled it up onto the land. +Tobit 06:04 | And the angel said to him, "Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you." +Tobit 06:05 | And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana. +Tobit 06:06 | The young man said to the angel, "Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?" +Tobit 06:07 | He said to him, "About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee. +Tobit 06:08 | But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed." +Tobit 06:10 | the angel said to the young man, "Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife. +Tobit 06:11 | For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred. +Tobit 06:12 | The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other." +Tobit 06:13 | Then the young man said to the angel, "Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber. +Tobit 06:14 | Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them." +Tobit 06:15 | But the angel said to him, "Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife. +Tobit 06:16 | And when you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them. +Tobit 06:17 | The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her." When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her. +Tobit 07:01 | They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house. +Tobit 07:02 | Raguel said to Edna his wife, "This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!" +Tobit 07:03 | And Raguel asked them, "Where are you two from, kindred?" They said to him, "We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh." +Tobit 07:04 | He said to them, "Do you know Tobit our brother?" They said, "We know him." Then he said to them, "Is he in good health?" +Tobit 07:05 | They said, "He is both alive, and in good health." Tobias said, "He is my father." +Tobit 07:07 | blessed him, and said to him, "You are the son of an honest and good man." When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept; +Tobit 07:08 | and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat. But Tobias said to Raphael, "Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished." +Tobit 07:09 | So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, "Eat, drink, and make merry: +Tobit 07:10 | for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth. +Tobit 07:11 | I have given my child to seven men of our relatives, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry." And Tobias said, "I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me." +Tobit 07:12 | Raguel said, "Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you." +Tobit 07:13 | And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, "Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father." And he blessed them. +Tobit 07:14 | He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it. +Tobit 07:16 | And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, "Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there." +Tobit 07:17 | She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her, +Tobit 07:18 | "Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favour for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter." +Tobit 08:01 | When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her. +Tobit 08:02 | But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them. +Tobit 08:03 | When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him. +Tobit 08:04 | But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, "Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us." +Tobit 08:05 | And Tobias began to say, "Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures. +Tobit 08:06 | You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him. +Tobit 08:07 | And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her." +Tobit 08:08 | She said with him, "Amen." And they both slept that night. +Tobit 08:12 | and said to Edna his wife, "Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it." +Tobit 08:13 | So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping, +Tobit 08:15 | Then Raguel blessed God, saying, "Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever! +Tobit 08:16 | Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy. +Tobit 08:17 | Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfil their life in health with gladness and mercy. +Tobit 08:18 | He commanded his servants to fill the grave. +Tobit 08:20 | Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled; +Tobit 08:21 | and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die. +Tobit 09:02 | "Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast, +Tobit 09:04 | My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved. +Tobit 09:05 | So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him. +Tobit 09:06 | Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife. Tobit 10:01 | Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come, Tobit 10:02 | he said, "Is he perchance detained? Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?" Tobit 10:04 | But his wife said to him, "The child has perished, seeing he waits long." She began to bewail him, and said, @@ -30400,148 +30281,236 @@ Tobit 14:11 | And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousne Tobit 14:12 | When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law, Tobit 14:13 | and he grew old in honour, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s. Tobit 14:14 | He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred and twenty seven years old. -Tobit 1:01 | The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali; -Tobit 1:02 | who in the days of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher. -Tobit 1:03 | I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh. -Tobit 1:04 | When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages. -Tobit 1:05 | All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father. -Tobit 1:06 | I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron. -Tobit 1:07 | I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem. -Tobit 1:08 | A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father. -Tobit 1:09 | When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias. -Tobit 1:10 | When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles; -Tobit 1:12 | because I remembered God with all my soul. -Tobit 1:13 | So the Most High gave me grace and favour in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent. -Tobit 1:16 | In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry, -Tobit 1:17 | and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on the wall of Ninevah, I buried him. -Tobit 1:18 | If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found. -Tobit 1:19 | But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear. -Tobit 1:20 | And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias. -Tobit 1:21 | No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs. -Tobit 1:22 | Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son. -Tobit 2:01 | Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat. -Tobit 2:02 | I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, "Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you." -Tobit 2:03 | Then he came, and said, "Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace." -Tobit 2:04 | Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set. -Tobit 2:05 | Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness, -Tobit 2:06 | and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said, "Your feasts will be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation. -Tobit 2:07 | So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him. -Tobit 2:08 | My neighbours mocked me, and said, "He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again." -Tobit 2:09 | The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered. -Tobit 2:10 | I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went into Elymais. -Tobit 2:12 | and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid. -Tobit 2:13 | But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen. -Tobit 2:14 | But she said, "It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages." I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her. But she answered and said to me, "Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known." -Tobit 3:01 | I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying, -Tobit 3:02 | "O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever. -Tobit 3:03 | Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you. -Tobit 3:04 | For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations amongst whom we are dispersed. -Tobit 3:05 | Now your judgements are many and true, that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers, because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you. -Tobit 3:06 | Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me." -Tobit 3:07 | The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants; -Tobit 3:08 | because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, "Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them. -Tobit 3:09 | Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you." -Tobit 3:10 | When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, "I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave." -Tobit 3:11 | Then she prayed by the window, and said, "Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honourable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever! -Tobit 3:12 | And now, Lord, I have set my eyes and my face towards you. -Tobit 3:13 | Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach. -Tobit 3:14 | You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man, -Tobit 3:15 | and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach." -Tobit 3:16 | The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God. -Tobit 3:17 | Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber. -Tobit 4:01 | In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media, -Tobit 4:02 | and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die? -Tobit 4:03 | And he called him, and said, "My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honour her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her. -Tobit 4:04 | Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave. -Tobit 4:05 | My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness. -Tobit 4:06 | For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness. -Tobit 4:07 | Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you. -Tobit 4:08 | As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little; -Tobit 4:09 | for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity; -Tobit 4:10 | because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness. -Tobit 4:11 | Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it. -Tobit 4:12 | Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land. -Tobit 4:13 | And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine. -Tobit 4:14 | Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behaviour. -Tobit 4:15 | And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way. -Tobit 4:16 | Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms. -Tobit 4:17 | Pour out your bread on the burial of the just, and give nothing to sinners. -Tobit 4:18 | Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable. -Tobit 4:19 | Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind. -Tobit 4:20 | And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media. -Tobit 4:21 | And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight." -Tobit 5:01 | Then Tobias answered and said to him, "Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me. -Tobit 5:03 | He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, "Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money." -Tobit 5:04 | He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel; -Tobit 5:05 | and he didn’t know it. He said to him, "Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?" -Tobit 5:06 | The angel said to him, "I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael." -Tobit 5:07 | Tobias said to him, "Wait for me, and I will tell my father." -Tobit 5:08 | He said to him, "Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, "Behold, I have found someone who will go with me." But he said, "Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you." -Tobit 5:09 | So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another. -Tobit 5:10 | And Tobit said to him, "Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me." -Tobit 5:11 | He said to him, "Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?" And Tobit said to him, "I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name." -Tobit 5:12 | And he said, "I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred." -Tobit 5:13 | And he said to him, "Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock. -Tobit 5:14 | But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son? -Tobit 5:15 | And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages." -Tobit 5:16 | And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, "Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you." So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, "Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you." Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them. -Tobit 5:17 | But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, "Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us? -Tobit 5:18 | Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child. -Tobit 5:19 | For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us." -Tobit 5:20 | Tobit said to her, "Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him. -Tobit 5:21 | For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound." -Tobit 6:01 | Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there. -Tobit 6:02 | But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leapt out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man. -Tobit 6:03 | But the angel said to him, "Grab the fish!" So the young man grabbed the fish, and hauled it up onto the land. -Tobit 6:04 | And the angel said to him, "Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you." -Tobit 6:05 | And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana. -Tobit 6:06 | The young man said to the angel, "Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?" -Tobit 6:07 | He said to him, "About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee. -Tobit 6:08 | But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed." -Tobit 6:10 | the angel said to the young man, "Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife. -Tobit 6:11 | For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred. -Tobit 6:12 | The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other." -Tobit 6:13 | Then the young man said to the angel, "Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber. -Tobit 6:14 | Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them." -Tobit 6:15 | But the angel said to him, "Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife. -Tobit 6:16 | And when you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them. -Tobit 6:17 | The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her." When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her. -Tobit 7:01 | They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house. -Tobit 7:02 | Raguel said to Edna his wife, "This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!" -Tobit 7:03 | And Raguel asked them, "Where are you two from, kindred?" They said to him, "We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh." -Tobit 7:04 | He said to them, "Do you know Tobit our brother?" They said, "We know him." Then he said to them, "Is he in good health?" -Tobit 7:05 | They said, "He is both alive, and in good health." Tobias said, "He is my father." -Tobit 7:07 | blessed him, and said to him, "You are the son of an honest and good man." When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept; -Tobit 7:08 | and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat. But Tobias said to Raphael, "Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished." -Tobit 7:09 | So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, "Eat, drink, and make merry: -Tobit 7:10 | for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth. -Tobit 7:11 | I have given my child to seven men of our relatives, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry." And Tobias said, "I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me." -Tobit 7:12 | Raguel said, "Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you." -Tobit 7:13 | And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, "Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father." And he blessed them. -Tobit 7:14 | He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it. -Tobit 7:16 | And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, "Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there." -Tobit 7:17 | She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her, -Tobit 7:18 | "Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favour for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter." -Tobit 8:01 | When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her. -Tobit 8:02 | But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them. -Tobit 8:03 | When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him. -Tobit 8:04 | But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, "Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us." -Tobit 8:05 | And Tobias began to say, "Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures. -Tobit 8:06 | You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him. -Tobit 8:07 | And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her." -Tobit 8:08 | She said with him, "Amen." And they both slept that night. -Tobit 8:12 | and said to Edna his wife, "Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it." -Tobit 8:13 | So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping, -Tobit 8:15 | Then Raguel blessed God, saying, "Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever! -Tobit 8:16 | Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy. -Tobit 8:17 | Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfil their life in health with gladness and mercy. -Tobit 8:18 | He commanded his servants to fill the grave. -Tobit 8:20 | Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled; -Tobit 8:21 | and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die. -Tobit 9:02 | "Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast, -Tobit 9:04 | My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved. -Tobit 9:05 | So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him. -Tobit 9:06 | Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:01 | All wisdom comes from the Lord, and is with him forever. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:02 | Who can count the sand of the seas, the drops of rain, and the days of eternity? +Wisdom of Sirach 01:03 | Who will search out the height of the sky, the breadth of the earth, the deep, and wisdom? +Wisdom of Sirach 01:04 | Wisdom has been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:06 | To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed? Who has known her shrewd counsels? +Wisdom of Sirach 01:08 | There is one wise, greatly to be feared, sitting upon his throne: the Lord. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:09 | He created her. He saw and measured her. He poured her out upon all his works. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:10 | She is with all flesh according to his gift. He gave her freely to those who love him. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:11 | The fear of the Lord is glory, exultation, and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:12 | The fear of the Lord will delight the heart, and will give gladness, joy, and length of days. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:13 | Whoever fears the Lord, it will go well with him at the last. He will be blessed in the day of his death. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:14 | To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It was created together with the faithful in the womb. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:15 | She laid an eternal foundation with men. She will be trusted amongst their offspring. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:16 | To fear the Lord is the fullness of wisdom. She inebriates men with her fruits. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:17 | She will fill all her house with desirable things, and her storehouses with her produce. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:18 | The fear of the Lord is the crown of wisdom, making peace and perfect health to flourish. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:19 | He both saw and measured her. He rained down skill and knowledge of understanding, and exalted the honour of those who hold her fast. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:20 | To fear the Lord is the root of wisdom. Her branches are length of days. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:22 | Unjust wrath can never be justified, for the sway of his wrath is his downfall. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:23 | A man that is patient will resist for a season, and afterward gladness will spring up to him. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:24 | He will hide his words for a season, and the lips of many will tell of his understanding. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:25 | A parable of knowledge is in the treasures of wisdom; but godliness is an abomination to a sinner. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:26 | If you desire wisdom, keep the commandments and the Lord will give her to you freely; +Wisdom of Sirach 01:27 | for the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction. Faith and humility are his good pleasure. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:28 | Don’t disobey the fear of the Lord. Don’t come to him with a double heart. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:29 | Don’t be a hypocrite in the mouths of men. Keep watch over your lips. +Wisdom of Sirach 01:30 | Don’t exalt yourself, lest you fall and bring dishonour upon your soul. The Lord will reveal your secrets and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation, because you didn’t come to the fear of the Lord and your heart was full of deceit. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:01 | My son, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for temptation. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:02 | Set your heart aright, constantly endure, and don’t make haste in time of calamity. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:03 | Cling to him, and don’t depart, that you may be increased at your latter end. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:04 | Accept whatever is brought upon you, and be patient when you suffer humiliation. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:05 | For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:06 | Put your trust in him, and he will help you. Make your ways straight, and set your hope on him. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:07 | All you who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy. Don’t turn aside, lest you fall. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:08 | All you who fear the Lord, put your trust in him, and your reward will not fail. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:09 | All you who fear the Lord, hope for good things, and for eternal gladness and mercy. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:10 | Look at the generations of old, and see: Who ever put his trust in the Lord, and was ashamed? Or who remained in his fear, and was forsaken? Or who called upon him, and he despised him? +Wisdom of Sirach 02:11 | For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. He forgives sins and saves in time of affliction. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:12 | Woe to fearful hearts, to faint hands, and to the sinner who goes two ways! +Wisdom of Sirach 02:13 | Woe to the faint heart! For it doesn’t believe. Therefore it won’t be defended. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:14 | Woe to you who have lost your patience! And what will you all do when the Lord visits you? +Wisdom of Sirach 02:15 | Those who fear the Lord will not disobey his words. Those who love him will keep his ways. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:16 | Those who fear the Lord will seek his good pleasure. Those who love him will be filled with the law. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:17 | Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and will humble their souls in his sight. +Wisdom of Sirach 02:18 | We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men; for as his majesty is, so also is his mercy. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:01 | Hear me, your father, O my children, and do what you hear, that you all may be saved. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:02 | For the Lord has given the father glory concerning the children, and has confirmed the judgement of the mother concerning the sons. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:03 | He who honours his father will make atonement for sins. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:04 | He who gives glory to his mother is as one who lays up treasure. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:05 | Whoever honours his father will have joy in his own children. He will be heard in the day of his prayer. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:06 | He who gives glory to his father will have length of days. He who listens to the Lord will bring rest to his mother, +Wisdom of Sirach 03:08 | Honour your father in deed and word, that a blessing may come upon you from him. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:09 | For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children, but the curse of the mother roots out the foundations. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:10 | Don’t glorify yourself in the dishonour of your father, for your father’s dishonour is no glory to you. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:11 | For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to her children. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:12 | My son, help your father in his old age, and don’t grieve him as long as he lives. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:13 | If he fails in understanding, have patience with him. Don’t dishonour him in your full strength. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:14 | For the relieving of your father will not be forgotten. Instead of sins it will be added to build you up. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:15 | In the day of your affliction it will remember you, as fair weather upon ice, so will your sins also melt away. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:16 | He who forsakes his father is as a blasphemer. He who provokes his mother is cursed by the Lord. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:17 | My son, go on with your business in humility; so you will be loved by an acceptable man. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:18 | The greater you are, humble yourself the more, and you will find favour before the Lord. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:20 | For the power of the Lord is great, and he is glorified by those who are lowly. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:21 | Don’t seek things that are too hard for you, and don’t search out things that are above your strength. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:22 | Think about the things that have been commanded you, for you have no need of the things that are secret. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:23 | Don’t be overly busy in your superfluous works, for more things are showed to you than men can understand. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:24 | For the conceit of many has led them astray. Evil opinion has caused their judgement to slip. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:25 | There is no light without eyes. There is no wisdom without knowledge. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:26 | A stubborn heart will do badly at the end. He who loves danger will perish in it. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:27 | A stubborn heart will be burdened with troubles. The sinner will heap sin upon sins. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:28 | The calamity of the proud is no healing, for a weed of wickedness has taken root in him. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:29 | The heart of the prudent will understand a parable. A wise man desires the ear of a listener. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:30 | Water will quench a flaming fire; almsgiving will make atonement for sins. +Wisdom of Sirach 03:31 | He who repays good turns is mindful of that which comes afterward. In the time of his falling he will find a support. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:01 | My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living. Don’t make the needy eyes wait long. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:02 | Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful, or provoke a man in his distress. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:03 | Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked. Don’t put off giving to him who is in need. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:04 | Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction. Don’t turn your face away from a poor man. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:05 | Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks. Give no occasion to a man to curse you. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:06 | For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul, he who made him will hear his supplication. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:07 | Endear yourself to the assembly. Bow your head to a great man. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:08 | Incline your ear to a poor man. Answer him with peaceful words in humility. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:09 | Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him; Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:10 | Be as a father to the fatherless, and like a husband to their mother. So you will be as a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than your mother does. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:11 | Wisdom exalts her sons, and takes hold of those who seek her. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:12 | He who loves her loves life. Those who seek her early will be filled with gladness. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:13 | He who holds her fast will inherit glory. Where he enters, the Lord will bless. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:14 | Those who serve her minister to the Holy One. The Lord loves those who love her. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:15 | He who gives ear to her will judge the nations. He who heeds her will dwell securely. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:16 | If he trusts her, he will inherit her, and his generations will possess her. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:17 | For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways, and will bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgements. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:18 | Then she will return him again to the straight way, and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:19 | If he goes astray, she will forsake him, and hand him over to his fall. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:20 | Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil. Don’t be ashamed of your soul. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:21 | For there is a shame that brings sin, and there is a shame that is glory and grace. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:22 | Don’t show partiality against your soul. Don’t revere any man to your falling. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:23 | Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety. Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:24 | For wisdom will be known by speech, and instruction by the word of the tongue. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:25 | Don’t speak against the truth and be shamed for your ignorance. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:26 | Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins. Don’t fight the river’s current. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:27 | Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon. Don’t be partial to one who is mighty. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:28 | Strive for the truth to death, and the Lord God will fight for you. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:29 | Don’t be hasty with your tongue, or slack and negligent in your deeds. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:30 | Don’t be like a lion in your house, or suspicious of your servants. +Wisdom of Sirach 04:31 | Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive, and closed when you should repay. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:01 | Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, "They are sufficient for me." +Wisdom of Sirach 05:02 | Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:03 | Don’t say, "Who will have dominion over me?" for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:04 | Don’t say, "I sinned, and what happened to me?" for the Lord is patient. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:05 | Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:06 | Don’t say, "His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins," for mercy and wrath are with him, and his indignation will rest on sinners. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:07 | Don’t wait to turn to the Lord. Don’t put off from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you, and you will perish in the time of vengeance. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:08 | Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:09 | Don’t winnow with every wind. Don’t walk in every path. This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:10 | Be steadfast in your understanding. Let your speech be consistent. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:11 | Be swift to hear and answer with patience. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:12 | If you have understanding, answer your neighbour; but if not, put your hand over your mouth. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:13 | Glory and dishonour is in talk. A man’s tongue may be his downfall. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:14 | Don’t be called a whisperer. Don’t lie in wait with your tongue; for shame is on the thief, and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue. +Wisdom of Sirach 05:15 | Don’t be ignorant in a great or small matter. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:01 | Don’t become an enemy instead of a friend; for an evil name will inherit shame and reproach. So it is with the sinner who has a double tongue. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:02 | Don’t exalt yourself in the counsel of your soul, that your soul not be torn in pieces like a bull. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:03 | You will eat up your leaves, destroy your fruit, and leave yourself like a dry tree. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:04 | A wicked soul will destroy him who has it, and will make him a laughing stock to his enemies. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:05 | Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends. A gracious tongue will multiply courtesies. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:06 | Let those that are at peace with you be many, but your advisers one of a thousand. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:07 | If you want to gain a friend, get him in a time of testing, and don’t be in a hurry to trust him. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:08 | For there is a friend just for an occasion. He won’t continue in the day of your affliction. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:09 | And there is a friend who turns into an enemy. He will discover strife to your reproach. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:10 | And there is a friend who is a companion at the table, but he won’t continue in the day of your affliction. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:11 | In your prosperity he will be as yourself, and will be bold over your servants. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:12 | If you are brought low, he will be against you, and will hide himself from your face. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:13 | Separate yourself from your enemies, and beware of your friends. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:14 | A faithful friend is a strong defence. He who has found him has found a treasure. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:15 | There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend. His excellency is beyond price. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:16 | A faithful friend is a life-saving medicine. Those who fear the Lord will find him. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:17 | He who fears the Lord directs his friendship properly; for as he is, so is his neighbour also. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:18 | My son, gather instruction from your youth up. Even when you have grey hair you will find wisdom. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:19 | Come to her as one who ploughs and sows and wait for her good fruit; for your toil will be little in her tillage, and you will soon eat of her fruit. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:20 | How exceedingly harsh she is to the unlearned! He who is without understanding will not remain in her. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:21 | She will rest upon him as a mighty stone of trial. He won’t hesitate to cast her from him. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:22 | For wisdom is according to her name. She isn’t manifest to many. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:23 | Give ear, my son, and accept my judgement. Don’t refuse my counsel. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:24 | Bring your feet into her fetters, and your neck into her chain. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:25 | Put your shoulder under her and bear her. Don’t be grieved with her bonds. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:26 | Come to her with all your soul. Keep her ways with your whole power. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:27 | Search and seek, and she will be made known to you. When you get hold of her, don’t let her go. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:28 | For at the last you will find her rest; and she will be turned for you into gladness. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:29 | Her fetters will be to you for a covering of strength, and her chains for a robe of glory. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:30 | For there is a golden ornament upon her, and her bands are a blue ribbon. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:31 | You shall put her on as a robe of glory, and shall put her on as a crown of rejoicing. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:32 | My son, if you are willing, you will be instructed. If you will yield your soul, you will be prudent. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:33 | If you love to hear, you will receive. If you incline your ear, you will be wise. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:34 | Stand in the multitude of the elders. Attach yourself to whomever is wise. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:35 | Be willing to listen to every godly discourse. Don’t let the proverbs of understanding escape you. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:36 | If you see a man of understanding, get to him early. Let your foot wear out the steps of his doors. +Wisdom of Sirach 06:37 | Let your mind dwell on the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually on his commandments. He will establish your heart and your desire for wisdom will be given to you. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:01 | Do no evil, so no evil will overtake you. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:02 | Depart from wrong, and it will turn away from you. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:03 | My son, don’t sow upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and you won’t reap them sevenfold. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:04 | Don’t seek preeminence from the Lord, nor the seat of honour from the king. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:05 | Don’t justify yourself in the presence of the Lord, and don’t display your wisdom before the king. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:06 | Don’t seek to be a judge, lest you not be able to take away iniquities, lest perhaps you fear the person of a mighty man, and lay a stumbling block in the way of your uprightness. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:07 | Don’t sin against the multitude of the city. Don’t cast yourself down in the crowd. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:08 | Don’t commit a sin twice, for even in one you will not be unpunished. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:09 | Don’t say, "He will look upon the multitude of my gifts. When I make an offering to the Most High God, he will accept it." +Wisdom of Sirach 07:10 | Don’t be faint-hearted in your prayer. Don’t neglect to give alms. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:11 | Don’t laugh a man to scorn when he is in the bitterness of his soul, for there is one who humbles and exalts. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:12 | Don’t devise a lie against your brother, or do the same to a friend. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:13 | Don’t love to make any manner of lie, for that is not a good habit. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:14 | Don’t babble in the multitude of elders. Don’t repeat your words in your prayer. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:15 | Don’t hate hard labour or farm work, which the Most High has created. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:16 | Don’t number yourself amongst the multitude of sinners. Remember that wrath will not wait. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:17 | Humble your soul greatly, for the punishment of the ungodly man is fire and the worm. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:18 | Don’t exchange a friend for something, neither a true brother for the gold of Ophir. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:19 | Don’t deprive yourself of a wise and good wife, for her grace is worth more than gold. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:20 | Don’t abuse a servant who works faithfully, or a hireling who gives you his life. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:21 | Let your soul love a wise servant. Don’t defraud him of liberty. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:22 | Do you have cattle? Look after them. If they are profitable to you, let them stay by you. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:23 | Do you have children? Correct them, and bow down their necks from their youth. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:24 | Do you have daughters? Take care of their bodies, and don’t be overly indulgent towards them. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:25 | Give your daughter in marriage, and you will have accomplished a great matter. Give her to a man of understanding. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:26 | Do you have a wife after your mind? Don’t cast her out. But don’t trust yourself to one who is hateful. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:27 | Give glory to your father with your whole heart, and don’t forget the birth pangs of your mother. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:28 | Remember that you were born of them. What will you repay them for the things that they have done for you? +Wisdom of Sirach 07:29 | Fear the Lord with all your soul; and revere his priests. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:30 | With all your strength love him who made you. Don’t forsake his ministers. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:31 | Fear the Lord and honour the priest. Give him his portion, even as it is commanded you: the first fruits, the trespass offering, the gift of the shoulders, the sacrifice of sanctification, and the first fruits of holy things. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:32 | Also stretch out your hand to the poor man, that your blessing may be perfected. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:33 | A gift has grace in the sight of every living man. Don’t withhold grace for a dead man. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:34 | Don’t be lacking to those who weep, and mourn with those who mourn. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:35 | Don’t be slow to visit a sick man, for by such things you will gain love. +Wisdom of Sirach 07:36 | In all your words, remember eternity, and you will never sin. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:01 | Don’t contend with a mighty man, lest perhaps you fall into his hands. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:02 | Don’t strive with a rich man, lest perhaps he overpower you; for gold has destroyed many, and turned away the hearts of kings. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:03 | Don’t contend with a talkative man. Don’t heap wood upon his fire. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:04 | Don’t jest with a rude man, lest your ancestors be dishonoured. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:05 | Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin. Remember that we are all worthy of punishment. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:06 | Don’t dishonour a man in his old age; for some of us are also growing old. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:07 | Don’t rejoice over one who is dead. Remember that we all die. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:08 | Don’t neglect the discourse of the wise. Be conversant with their proverbs; for from them you will learn instruction and how to minister to great men. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:09 | Don’t miss the discourse of the aged, for they also learnt from their fathers, because from them you will learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:10 | Don’t kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burnt with the flame of his fire. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:11 | Don’t rise up from the presence of an insolent man, lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:12 | Don’t lend to a man who is mightier than yourself; and if you lend, be as one who has lost. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:13 | Don’t be surety above your power. If you are surety, think as one who will have to pay. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:14 | Don’t go to law with a judge; for according to his honour they will give judgement for him. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:15 | Don’t go in the way with a rash man, lest he be burdensome to you; for he will do according to his own will, and you will perish with his folly. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:16 | Don’t fight with a wrathful man. Don’t travel with him through the desert, for blood is as nothing in his sight. Where there is no help, he will overthrow you. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:17 | Don’t take counsel with a fool, for he will not be able to conceal the matter. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:18 | Do no secret thing before a stranger, For you don’t know what it will cause. +Wisdom of Sirach 08:19 | Don’t open your heart to every man. Don’t let him return you a favour. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:01 | Don’t be jealous over the wife of your bosom, and don’t teach her an evil lesson against yourself. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:02 | Don’t give your soul to a woman, that she should set her foot upon your strength. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:03 | Don’t go to meet a woman who plays the prostitute, lest perhaps you fall into her snares. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:04 | Don’t use the company of a woman who is a singer, lest perhaps you be caught by her attempts. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:05 | Don’t gaze at a maid, lest perhaps you be trapped in her penalties. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:06 | Don’t give your soul to prostitutes, that you not lose your inheritance. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:07 | Don’t look around you in the streets of the city, neither wander in its solitary places. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:08 | Turn your eye away from a beautiful woman, and don’t gaze at another’s beauty. Many have been led astray by the beauty of a woman; and with this, affection is kindled as a fire. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:09 | Don’t sit at all with a woman who has a husband, or revel with her at the wine, lest perhaps your soul turn away to her, and with your spirit you slide into destruction. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:10 | Don’t forsake an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is like new wine: if it becomes old, you will drink it with gladness. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:11 | Don’t envy the glory of a sinner; for you don’t know what his overthrow will be. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:12 | Don’t delight in the delights of the ungodly. Remember they will not go unpunished to the grave. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:13 | Keep yourself far from the man who has power to kill, and you will have no suspicion of the fear of death. If you come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away your life. Know surely that you go about in the midst of snares, and walk upon the battlements of a city. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:14 | As well as you can, aim to know your neighbours, and take counsel with the wise. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:15 | Let your conversation be with men of understanding. Let all your discourse be in the law of the Most High. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:16 | Let just men be companions at your table. Let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:17 | A work is commended because of the hand of the artisan; so he who rules the people will be considered wise for his speech. +Wisdom of Sirach 09:18 | A talkative man is dangerous in his city. He who is headlong in his speech will be hated. Wisdom of Sirach 10:01 | A wise judge will instruct his people. The government of a man of understanding will be well ordered. Wisdom of Sirach 10:02 | As is the judge of his people, so are his ministers. As the city’s ruler is, so are all those who dwell in it. Wisdom of Sirach 10:03 | An uninstructed king will destroy his people. A city will be established through the understanding of the powerful. @@ -30807,33 +30776,6 @@ Wisdom of Sirach 19:27 | bowing down his face, and making as if he were deaf in Wisdom of Sirach 19:28 | And if for lack of power he is hindered from sinning, if he finds opportunity, he will do mischief. Wisdom of Sirach 19:29 | A man will be known by his look, One who has understanding will be known by his face, when you meet him. Wisdom of Sirach 19:30 | A man’s attire, grinning laughter, and gait show what he is. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:01 | All wisdom comes from the Lord, and is with him forever. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:02 | Who can count the sand of the seas, the drops of rain, and the days of eternity? -Wisdom of Sirach 1:03 | Who will search out the height of the sky, the breadth of the earth, the deep, and wisdom? -Wisdom of Sirach 1:04 | Wisdom has been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:06 | To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed? Who has known her shrewd counsels? -Wisdom of Sirach 1:08 | There is one wise, greatly to be feared, sitting upon his throne: the Lord. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:09 | He created her. He saw and measured her. He poured her out upon all his works. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:10 | She is with all flesh according to his gift. He gave her freely to those who love him. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:11 | The fear of the Lord is glory, exultation, and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:12 | The fear of the Lord will delight the heart, and will give gladness, joy, and length of days. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:13 | Whoever fears the Lord, it will go well with him at the last. He will be blessed in the day of his death. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:14 | To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It was created together with the faithful in the womb. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:15 | She laid an eternal foundation with men. She will be trusted amongst their offspring. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:16 | To fear the Lord is the fullness of wisdom. She inebriates men with her fruits. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:17 | She will fill all her house with desirable things, and her storehouses with her produce. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:18 | The fear of the Lord is the crown of wisdom, making peace and perfect health to flourish. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:19 | He both saw and measured her. He rained down skill and knowledge of understanding, and exalted the honour of those who hold her fast. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:20 | To fear the Lord is the root of wisdom. Her branches are length of days. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:22 | Unjust wrath can never be justified, for the sway of his wrath is his downfall. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:23 | A man that is patient will resist for a season, and afterward gladness will spring up to him. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:24 | He will hide his words for a season, and the lips of many will tell of his understanding. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:25 | A parable of knowledge is in the treasures of wisdom; but godliness is an abomination to a sinner. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:26 | If you desire wisdom, keep the commandments and the Lord will give her to you freely; -Wisdom of Sirach 1:27 | for the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction. Faith and humility are his good pleasure. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:28 | Don’t disobey the fear of the Lord. Don’t come to him with a double heart. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:29 | Don’t be a hypocrite in the mouths of men. Keep watch over your lips. -Wisdom of Sirach 1:30 | Don’t exalt yourself, lest you fall and bring dishonour upon your soul. The Lord will reveal your secrets and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation, because you didn’t come to the fear of the Lord and your heart was full of deceit. Wisdom of Sirach 20:01 | There is a reproof that is not timely; and there is a man who keeps silent and is wise. Wisdom of Sirach 20:02 | How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry. He who confesses will be kept back from harm. Wisdom of Sirach 20:04 | As is the lust of a eunuch to deflower a virgin, so is he who executes judgements with violence. @@ -31105,24 +31047,6 @@ Wisdom of Sirach 29:25 | You shall entertain, and give to drink, and have no tha Wisdom of Sirach 29:26 | Come here, you sojourner, furnish a table, And if you have anything in your hand, feed me with it. Wisdom of Sirach 29:27 | Go forth, you sojourner, from the face of honour; My brother is come to be my guest; I have need of my house. Wisdom of Sirach 29:28 | These things are grievous to a man of understanding; The upbraiding of house-room, and the reproaching of the money-lender. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:01 | My son, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for temptation. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:02 | Set your heart aright, constantly endure, and don’t make haste in time of calamity. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:03 | Cling to him, and don’t depart, that you may be increased at your latter end. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:04 | Accept whatever is brought upon you, and be patient when you suffer humiliation. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:05 | For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:06 | Put your trust in him, and he will help you. Make your ways straight, and set your hope on him. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:07 | All you who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy. Don’t turn aside, lest you fall. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:08 | All you who fear the Lord, put your trust in him, and your reward will not fail. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:09 | All you who fear the Lord, hope for good things, and for eternal gladness and mercy. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:10 | Look at the generations of old, and see: Who ever put his trust in the Lord, and was ashamed? Or who remained in his fear, and was forsaken? Or who called upon him, and he despised him? -Wisdom of Sirach 2:11 | For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. He forgives sins and saves in time of affliction. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:12 | Woe to fearful hearts, to faint hands, and to the sinner who goes two ways! -Wisdom of Sirach 2:13 | Woe to the faint heart! For it doesn’t believe. Therefore it won’t be defended. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:14 | Woe to you who have lost your patience! And what will you all do when the Lord visits you? -Wisdom of Sirach 2:15 | Those who fear the Lord will not disobey his words. Those who love him will keep his ways. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:16 | Those who fear the Lord will seek his good pleasure. Those who love him will be filled with the law. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:17 | Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and will humble their souls in his sight. -Wisdom of Sirach 2:18 | We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men; for as his majesty is, so also is his mercy. Wisdom of Sirach 30:01 | He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him, That he may have joy of him in the end. Wisdom of Sirach 30:02 | He that chastises his son shall have profit of him, And shall glory of him amongst his acquaintance. Wisdom of Sirach 30:03 | He that teaches his son shall provoke his enemy to jealousy; And before friends he shall rejoice of him. @@ -31404,35 +31328,6 @@ Wisdom of Sirach 39:32 | Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, And I thou Wisdom of Sirach 39:33 | All the works of the Lord are good: And he will supply every need in its season. Wisdom of Sirach 39:34 | And none can say, This is worse than that: For they shall all be well approved in their season. Wisdom of Sirach 39:35 | And now with all your heart and mouth sing you praises, And bless the name of the Lord. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:01 | Hear me, your father, O my children, and do what you hear, that you all may be saved. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:02 | For the Lord has given the father glory concerning the children, and has confirmed the judgement of the mother concerning the sons. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:03 | He who honours his father will make atonement for sins. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:04 | He who gives glory to his mother is as one who lays up treasure. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:05 | Whoever honours his father will have joy in his own children. He will be heard in the day of his prayer. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:06 | He who gives glory to his father will have length of days. He who listens to the Lord will bring rest to his mother, -Wisdom of Sirach 3:08 | Honour your father in deed and word, that a blessing may come upon you from him. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:09 | For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children, but the curse of the mother roots out the foundations. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:10 | Don’t glorify yourself in the dishonour of your father, for your father’s dishonour is no glory to you. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:11 | For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to her children. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:12 | My son, help your father in his old age, and don’t grieve him as long as he lives. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:13 | If he fails in understanding, have patience with him. Don’t dishonour him in your full strength. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:14 | For the relieving of your father will not be forgotten. Instead of sins it will be added to build you up. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:15 | In the day of your affliction it will remember you, as fair weather upon ice, so will your sins also melt away. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:16 | He who forsakes his father is as a blasphemer. He who provokes his mother is cursed by the Lord. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:17 | My son, go on with your business in humility; so you will be loved by an acceptable man. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:18 | The greater you are, humble yourself the more, and you will find favour before the Lord. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:20 | For the power of the Lord is great, and he is glorified by those who are lowly. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:21 | Don’t seek things that are too hard for you, and don’t search out things that are above your strength. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:22 | Think about the things that have been commanded you, for you have no need of the things that are secret. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:23 | Don’t be overly busy in your superfluous works, for more things are showed to you than men can understand. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:24 | For the conceit of many has led them astray. Evil opinion has caused their judgement to slip. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:25 | There is no light without eyes. There is no wisdom without knowledge. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:26 | A stubborn heart will do badly at the end. He who loves danger will perish in it. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:27 | A stubborn heart will be burdened with troubles. The sinner will heap sin upon sins. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:28 | The calamity of the proud is no healing, for a weed of wickedness has taken root in him. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:29 | The heart of the prudent will understand a parable. A wise man desires the ear of a listener. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:30 | Water will quench a flaming fire; almsgiving will make atonement for sins. -Wisdom of Sirach 3:31 | He who repays good turns is mindful of that which comes afterward. In the time of his falling he will find a support. Wisdom of Sirach 40:01 | Great travail is created for every man, And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, From the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb, Until the day for their burial in the mother of all things. Wisdom of Sirach 40:02 | The expectation of things to come, and the day of death, [Trouble] their thoughts, and [cause] fear of heart; Wisdom of Sirach 40:03 | From him that sits on a throne of glory, Even to him that is humbled in earth and ashes; @@ -31680,37 +31575,6 @@ Wisdom of Sirach 49:13 | Also of Nehemiah the memorial is great; Who raised up f Wisdom of Sirach 49:14 | No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch; For he was taken up from the earth. Wisdom of Sirach 49:15 | Neither was there a man born like to Joseph, A governor of his kindred, a stay of the people: Yes, his bones were visited. Wisdom of Sirach 49:16 | Shem and Seth were glorified amongst men; And above every living thing in the creation is Adam. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:01 | My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living. Don’t make the needy eyes wait long. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:02 | Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful, or provoke a man in his distress. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:03 | Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked. Don’t put off giving to him who is in need. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:04 | Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction. Don’t turn your face away from a poor man. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:05 | Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks. Give no occasion to a man to curse you. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:06 | For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul, he who made him will hear his supplication. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:07 | Endear yourself to the assembly. Bow your head to a great man. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:08 | Incline your ear to a poor man. Answer him with peaceful words in humility. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:09 | Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him; Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:10 | Be as a father to the fatherless, and like a husband to their mother. So you will be as a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than your mother does. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:11 | Wisdom exalts her sons, and takes hold of those who seek her. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:12 | He who loves her loves life. Those who seek her early will be filled with gladness. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:13 | He who holds her fast will inherit glory. Where he enters, the Lord will bless. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:14 | Those who serve her minister to the Holy One. The Lord loves those who love her. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:15 | He who gives ear to her will judge the nations. He who heeds her will dwell securely. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:16 | If he trusts her, he will inherit her, and his generations will possess her. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:17 | For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways, and will bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgements. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:18 | Then she will return him again to the straight way, and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:19 | If he goes astray, she will forsake him, and hand him over to his fall. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:20 | Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil. Don’t be ashamed of your soul. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:21 | For there is a shame that brings sin, and there is a shame that is glory and grace. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:22 | Don’t show partiality against your soul. Don’t revere any man to your falling. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:23 | Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety. Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:24 | For wisdom will be known by speech, and instruction by the word of the tongue. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:25 | Don’t speak against the truth and be shamed for your ignorance. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:26 | Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins. Don’t fight the river’s current. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:27 | Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon. Don’t be partial to one who is mighty. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:28 | Strive for the truth to death, and the Lord God will fight for you. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:29 | Don’t be hasty with your tongue, or slack and negligent in your deeds. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:30 | Don’t be like a lion in your house, or suspicious of your servants. -Wisdom of Sirach 4:31 | Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive, and closed when you should repay. Wisdom of Sirach 50:01 | [It was] Simon, the son of Onias, the great priest, Who in his life repaired the house, And in his days strengthened the temple: Wisdom of Sirach 50:02 | And by him was built from the foundation the height of the double [wall] The lofty underworks of the inclosure of the temple: Wisdom of Sirach 50:03 | In his days the cistern of waters was diminished, The brazen vessel in compass as the sea. @@ -31770,131 +31634,199 @@ Wisdom of Sirach 51:27 | Behold with your eyes, How that I laboured but a little Wisdom of Sirach 51:28 | Get you instruction with a great sum of silver, And gain much gold by her. Wisdom of Sirach 51:29 | May your soul rejoice in his mercy, And may you not be put to shame in praising him. Wisdom of Sirach 51:30 | Work your work before the time comes, And in his time he will give you your reward. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:01 | Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, "They are sufficient for me." -Wisdom of Sirach 5:02 | Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:03 | Don’t say, "Who will have dominion over me?" for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:04 | Don’t say, "I sinned, and what happened to me?" for the Lord is patient. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:05 | Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:06 | Don’t say, "His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins," for mercy and wrath are with him, and his indignation will rest on sinners. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:07 | Don’t wait to turn to the Lord. Don’t put off from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you, and you will perish in the time of vengeance. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:08 | Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:09 | Don’t winnow with every wind. Don’t walk in every path. This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:10 | Be steadfast in your understanding. Let your speech be consistent. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:11 | Be swift to hear and answer with patience. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:12 | If you have understanding, answer your neighbour; but if not, put your hand over your mouth. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:13 | Glory and dishonour is in talk. A man’s tongue may be his downfall. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:14 | Don’t be called a whisperer. Don’t lie in wait with your tongue; for shame is on the thief, and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue. -Wisdom of Sirach 5:15 | Don’t be ignorant in a great or small matter. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:01 | Don’t become an enemy instead of a friend; for an evil name will inherit shame and reproach. So it is with the sinner who has a double tongue. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:02 | Don’t exalt yourself in the counsel of your soul, that your soul not be torn in pieces like a bull. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:03 | You will eat up your leaves, destroy your fruit, and leave yourself like a dry tree. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:04 | A wicked soul will destroy him who has it, and will make him a laughing stock to his enemies. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:05 | Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends. A gracious tongue will multiply courtesies. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:06 | Let those that are at peace with you be many, but your advisers one of a thousand. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:07 | If you want to gain a friend, get him in a time of testing, and don’t be in a hurry to trust him. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:08 | For there is a friend just for an occasion. He won’t continue in the day of your affliction. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:09 | And there is a friend who turns into an enemy. He will discover strife to your reproach. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:10 | And there is a friend who is a companion at the table, but he won’t continue in the day of your affliction. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:11 | In your prosperity he will be as yourself, and will be bold over your servants. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:12 | If you are brought low, he will be against you, and will hide himself from your face. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:13 | Separate yourself from your enemies, and beware of your friends. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:14 | A faithful friend is a strong defence. He who has found him has found a treasure. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:15 | There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend. His excellency is beyond price. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:16 | A faithful friend is a life-saving medicine. Those who fear the Lord will find him. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:17 | He who fears the Lord directs his friendship properly; for as he is, so is his neighbour also. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:18 | My son, gather instruction from your youth up. Even when you have grey hair you will find wisdom. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:19 | Come to her as one who ploughs and sows and wait for her good fruit; for your toil will be little in her tillage, and you will soon eat of her fruit. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:20 | How exceedingly harsh she is to the unlearned! He who is without understanding will not remain in her. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:21 | She will rest upon him as a mighty stone of trial. He won’t hesitate to cast her from him. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:22 | For wisdom is according to her name. She isn’t manifest to many. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:23 | Give ear, my son, and accept my judgement. Don’t refuse my counsel. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:24 | Bring your feet into her fetters, and your neck into her chain. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:25 | Put your shoulder under her and bear her. Don’t be grieved with her bonds. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:26 | Come to her with all your soul. Keep her ways with your whole power. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:27 | Search and seek, and she will be made known to you. When you get hold of her, don’t let her go. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:28 | For at the last you will find her rest; and she will be turned for you into gladness. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:29 | Her fetters will be to you for a covering of strength, and her chains for a robe of glory. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:30 | For there is a golden ornament upon her, and her bands are a blue ribbon. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:31 | You shall put her on as a robe of glory, and shall put her on as a crown of rejoicing. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:32 | My son, if you are willing, you will be instructed. If you will yield your soul, you will be prudent. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:33 | If you love to hear, you will receive. If you incline your ear, you will be wise. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:34 | Stand in the multitude of the elders. Attach yourself to whomever is wise. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:35 | Be willing to listen to every godly discourse. Don’t let the proverbs of understanding escape you. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:36 | If you see a man of understanding, get to him early. Let your foot wear out the steps of his doors. -Wisdom of Sirach 6:37 | Let your mind dwell on the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually on his commandments. He will establish your heart and your desire for wisdom will be given to you. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:01 | Do no evil, so no evil will overtake you. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:02 | Depart from wrong, and it will turn away from you. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:03 | My son, don’t sow upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and you won’t reap them sevenfold. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:04 | Don’t seek preeminence from the Lord, nor the seat of honour from the king. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:05 | Don’t justify yourself in the presence of the Lord, and don’t display your wisdom before the king. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:06 | Don’t seek to be a judge, lest you not be able to take away iniquities, lest perhaps you fear the person of a mighty man, and lay a stumbling block in the way of your uprightness. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:07 | Don’t sin against the multitude of the city. Don’t cast yourself down in the crowd. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:08 | Don’t commit a sin twice, for even in one you will not be unpunished. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:09 | Don’t say, "He will look upon the multitude of my gifts. When I make an offering to the Most High God, he will accept it." -Wisdom of Sirach 7:10 | Don’t be faint-hearted in your prayer. Don’t neglect to give alms. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:11 | Don’t laugh a man to scorn when he is in the bitterness of his soul, for there is one who humbles and exalts. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:12 | Don’t devise a lie against your brother, or do the same to a friend. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:13 | Don’t love to make any manner of lie, for that is not a good habit. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:14 | Don’t babble in the multitude of elders. Don’t repeat your words in your prayer. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:15 | Don’t hate hard labour or farm work, which the Most High has created. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:16 | Don’t number yourself amongst the multitude of sinners. Remember that wrath will not wait. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:17 | Humble your soul greatly, for the punishment of the ungodly man is fire and the worm. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:18 | Don’t exchange a friend for something, neither a true brother for the gold of Ophir. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:19 | Don’t deprive yourself of a wise and good wife, for her grace is worth more than gold. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:20 | Don’t abuse a servant who works faithfully, or a hireling who gives you his life. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:21 | Let your soul love a wise servant. Don’t defraud him of liberty. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:22 | Do you have cattle? Look after them. If they are profitable to you, let them stay by you. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:23 | Do you have children? Correct them, and bow down their necks from their youth. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:24 | Do you have daughters? Take care of their bodies, and don’t be overly indulgent towards them. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:25 | Give your daughter in marriage, and you will have accomplished a great matter. Give her to a man of understanding. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:26 | Do you have a wife after your mind? Don’t cast her out. But don’t trust yourself to one who is hateful. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:27 | Give glory to your father with your whole heart, and don’t forget the birth pangs of your mother. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:28 | Remember that you were born of them. What will you repay them for the things that they have done for you? -Wisdom of Sirach 7:29 | Fear the Lord with all your soul; and revere his priests. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:30 | With all your strength love him who made you. Don’t forsake his ministers. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:31 | Fear the Lord and honour the priest. Give him his portion, even as it is commanded you: the first fruits, the trespass offering, the gift of the shoulders, the sacrifice of sanctification, and the first fruits of holy things. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:32 | Also stretch out your hand to the poor man, that your blessing may be perfected. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:33 | A gift has grace in the sight of every living man. Don’t withhold grace for a dead man. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:34 | Don’t be lacking to those who weep, and mourn with those who mourn. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:35 | Don’t be slow to visit a sick man, for by such things you will gain love. -Wisdom of Sirach 7:36 | In all your words, remember eternity, and you will never sin. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:01 | Don’t contend with a mighty man, lest perhaps you fall into his hands. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:02 | Don’t strive with a rich man, lest perhaps he overpower you; for gold has destroyed many, and turned away the hearts of kings. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:03 | Don’t contend with a talkative man. Don’t heap wood upon his fire. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:04 | Don’t jest with a rude man, lest your ancestors be dishonoured. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:05 | Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin. Remember that we are all worthy of punishment. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:06 | Don’t dishonour a man in his old age; for some of us are also growing old. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:07 | Don’t rejoice over one who is dead. Remember that we all die. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:08 | Don’t neglect the discourse of the wise. Be conversant with their proverbs; for from them you will learn instruction and how to minister to great men. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:09 | Don’t miss the discourse of the aged, for they also learnt from their fathers, because from them you will learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:10 | Don’t kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burnt with the flame of his fire. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:11 | Don’t rise up from the presence of an insolent man, lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:12 | Don’t lend to a man who is mightier than yourself; and if you lend, be as one who has lost. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:13 | Don’t be surety above your power. If you are surety, think as one who will have to pay. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:14 | Don’t go to law with a judge; for according to his honour they will give judgement for him. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:15 | Don’t go in the way with a rash man, lest he be burdensome to you; for he will do according to his own will, and you will perish with his folly. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:16 | Don’t fight with a wrathful man. Don’t travel with him through the desert, for blood is as nothing in his sight. Where there is no help, he will overthrow you. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:17 | Don’t take counsel with a fool, for he will not be able to conceal the matter. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:18 | Do no secret thing before a stranger, For you don’t know what it will cause. -Wisdom of Sirach 8:19 | Don’t open your heart to every man. Don’t let him return you a favour. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:01 | Don’t be jealous over the wife of your bosom, and don’t teach her an evil lesson against yourself. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:02 | Don’t give your soul to a woman, that she should set her foot upon your strength. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:03 | Don’t go to meet a woman who plays the prostitute, lest perhaps you fall into her snares. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:04 | Don’t use the company of a woman who is a singer, lest perhaps you be caught by her attempts. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:05 | Don’t gaze at a maid, lest perhaps you be trapped in her penalties. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:06 | Don’t give your soul to prostitutes, that you not lose your inheritance. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:07 | Don’t look around you in the streets of the city, neither wander in its solitary places. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:08 | Turn your eye away from a beautiful woman, and don’t gaze at another’s beauty. Many have been led astray by the beauty of a woman; and with this, affection is kindled as a fire. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:09 | Don’t sit at all with a woman who has a husband, or revel with her at the wine, lest perhaps your soul turn away to her, and with your spirit you slide into destruction. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:10 | Don’t forsake an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is like new wine: if it becomes old, you will drink it with gladness. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:11 | Don’t envy the glory of a sinner; for you don’t know what his overthrow will be. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:12 | Don’t delight in the delights of the ungodly. Remember they will not go unpunished to the grave. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:13 | Keep yourself far from the man who has power to kill, and you will have no suspicion of the fear of death. If you come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away your life. Know surely that you go about in the midst of snares, and walk upon the battlements of a city. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:14 | As well as you can, aim to know your neighbours, and take counsel with the wise. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:15 | Let your conversation be with men of understanding. Let all your discourse be in the law of the Most High. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:16 | Let just men be companions at your table. Let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:17 | A work is commended because of the hand of the artisan; so he who rules the people will be considered wise for his speech. -Wisdom of Sirach 9:18 | A talkative man is dangerous in his city. He who is headlong in his speech will be hated. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:01 | Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart, +Wisdom of Solomon 01:02 | because he is found by those who don’t tempt him, and is manifested to those who trust him. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:03 | for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish, +Wisdom of Solomon 01:04 | because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:05 | For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:06 | For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips; because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue: +Wisdom of Solomon 01:07 | Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:08 | Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen; neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:09 | For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out, and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction; +Wisdom of Solomon 01:10 | because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:11 | Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:12 | Don’t court death in the error of your life; and don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands, +Wisdom of Solomon 01:13 | because God didn’t make death; neither does he delight when the living perish. +Wisdom of Solomon 01:14 | For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth; +Wisdom of Solomon 01:15 | for righteousness is immortal, +Wisdom of Solomon 01:16 | but ungodly men by their hands and their words summondeath; deeming him a friend they pined away. They made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to belong with him. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:01 | For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, "Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:02 | Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we will be as though we had never been, because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart, +Wisdom of Solomon 02:03 | which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes, and the spirit will be dispersed as thin air. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:04 | Our name will be forgotten in time. No one will remember our works. Our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud, and will be scattered as is a mist, when it is chased by the rays of the sun, and overcome by its heat. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:05 | For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and our end doesn’t retreat, because it is securely sealed, and no one turns it back. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:06 | "Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things that exist. Let’s use the creation earnestly as in our youth. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:07 | Let’s fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes, and let no Spring flower pass us by. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:08 | Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:09 | Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry. Let’s leave tokens of mirth everywhere, because this is our portion, and this is our lot. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:10 | Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor reverence the grey hair of the old man. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:11 | But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:12 | But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:13 | He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:15 | He is grievous to us even to look at, because his life is unlike other men’s, and his paths are strange. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:16 | We were regarded by him as worthless metal, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:17 | Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s test what will happen at the end of his life. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:18 | For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:19 | Let’s test him with outrage and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:20 | Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be overseen according to his words." +Wisdom of Solomon 02:21 | Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them, +Wisdom of Solomon 02:22 | and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls. +Wisdom of Solomon 02:23 | Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness; +Wisdom of Solomon 02:24 | but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:01 | But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:02 | In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered affliction, +Wisdom of Solomon 03:03 | and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:04 | For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:05 | Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:06 | He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:07 | In the time of their visitation they will shine. They will run back and forth like sparks amongst stubble. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:08 | They will judge nations and have dominion over peoples. The Lord will reign over them forever. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:09 | Those who trust him will understand truth. The faithful will live with him in love, because grace and mercy are with his chosen ones. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:10 | But the ungodly will be punished even as they reasoned, those who neglected righteousness and revolted from the Lord; +Wisdom of Solomon 03:11 | for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable. Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable. Their works are useless. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:12 | Their wives are foolish and their children are wicked. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:13 | Their descendants are cursed, because the barren woman who is undefiled is happy, she who has not conceived in transgression. She will have fruit in the visitation of souls. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:14 | So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands, nor imagined wicked things against the Lord; for a precious gift will be given to him for his faithfulness, a special favour, and a delightful inheritance in the Lord’s sanctuary. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:15 | For good labours have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:16 | But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful bed will vanish away. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:17 | For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honour. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:18 | If they die quickly, they will have no hope, nor consolation in the day of decision. +Wisdom of Solomon 03:19 | For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:01 | It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognised both before God and before men. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:02 | When it is present, people imitate it. They long after it when it has departed. Throughout all time it marches crowned in triumph, victorious in the competition for the prizes that are undefiled. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:03 | But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit, and their illegitimate offshoots won’t take deep root, nor will they establish a sure hold. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:04 | For even if they grow branches and flourish for a season, standing unsure, they will be shaken by the wind. They will be uprooted by the violence of winds. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:05 | Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity. Their fruit will be useless, never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:06 | For unlawfully conceived children are witnesses of wickedness against parents when they are investigated. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:07 | But a righteous man, even if he dies before his time, will be at rest. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:08 | For honourable old age is not that which stands in length of time, nor is its measure given by number of years: +Wisdom of Solomon 04:09 | But understanding is grey hair to men, and an unspotted life is ripe old age. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:10 | Being found well-pleasing to God, he was loved. While living amongst sinners he was transported. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:11 | He was caught away, lest evil should change his understanding, or guile deceive his soul. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:12 | For the witchcraft of worthlessness obscures the things which are good, and the whirl of desire perverts an innocent mind. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:13 | Being made perfect quickly, he filled a long time; +Wisdom of Solomon 04:14 | for his soul was pleasing to the Lord. Therefore he hurried out of the midst of wickedness. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:15 | But as for the peoples seeing and not understanding, not considering this, that grace and mercy are with his chosen, and that he visits his holy ones— +Wisdom of Solomon 04:16 | but a righteous man who is dead will condemn the ungodly who are living, and youth that is quickly perfected will condemn the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:17 | For the ungodly will see a wise man’s end, and won’t understand what the Lord planned for him, and why he safely kept him. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:18 | They will see, and they will despise; but the Lord will laugh them to scorn. After this, they will become a dishonoured carcass and a reproach amongst the dead forever; +Wisdom of Solomon 04:19 | because he will dash them speechless to the ground, and will shake them from the foundations. They will lie utterly waste. They will be in anguish and their memory will perish. +Wisdom of Solomon 04:20 | They will come with coward fear when their sins are counted. Their lawless deeds will convict them to their face. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:01 | Then the righteous man will stand in great boldness before the face of those who afflicted him, and those who make his labours of no account. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:02 | When they see him, they will be troubled with terrible fear, and will be amazed at the marvel of salvation. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:03 | They will speak amongst themselves repenting, and for distress of spirit they will groan, "This was he whom we used to hold in derision, as a parable of reproach. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:04 | We fools considered his life madness, and his end without honour. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:05 | How was he counted amongst sons of God? How is his lot amongst saints? +Wisdom of Solomon 05:06 | Truly we went astray from the way of truth. The light of righteousness didn’t shine for us. The sun didn’t rise for us. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:07 | We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction. We travelled through trackless deserts, but we didn’t know the Lord’s way. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:08 | What did our arrogance profit us? What good have riches and boasting brought us? +Wisdom of Solomon 05:09 | Those things all passed away as a shadow, like a message that runs by, +Wisdom of Solomon 05:10 | like a ship passing through the billowy water, which, when it has gone by, there is no trace to be found, no pathway of its keel in the billows. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:11 | Or it is like when a bird flies through the air, no evidence of its passage is found, but the light wind, lashed with the stroke of its pinions, and torn apart with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through. Afterwards no sign of its coming remains. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:12 | Or it is like when an arrow is shot at a mark, the air divided by it closes up again immediately, so that men don’t know where it passed through. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:13 | So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be; and we had no sign of virtue to show, but we were utterly consumed in our wickedness." +Wisdom of Solomon 05:14 | Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest that waits but a day. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:15 | But the righteous live forever. Their reward is in the Lord, and the care for them with the Most High. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:16 | Therefore they will receive the crown of royal dignity and the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand, because he will cover them with his right hand, and he will shield them with his arm. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:17 | He will take his jealousy as complete armour, and will make the whole creation his weapons to punish his enemies: +Wisdom of Solomon 05:18 | He will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and will wear impartial judgement as a helmet. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:19 | He will take holiness as an invincible shield. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:20 | He will sharpen stern wrath for a sword. The world will go with him to fight against his frenzied foes. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:21 | Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim. They will leap to the mark from the clouds, as from a well-drawn bow. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:22 | Hailstones full of wrath will be hurled from an engine of war. The water of the sea will be angered against them. Rivers will sternly overwhelm them. +Wisdom of Solomon 05:23 | A mighty blast will encounter them. It will winnow them away like a tempest. So lawlessness will make all the land desolate. Their evil-doing will overturn the thrones of princes. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:01 | Hear therefore, you kings, and understand. Learn, you judges of the ends of the earth. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:02 | Give ear, you rulers who have dominion over many people, and make your boast in multitudes of nations, +Wisdom of Solomon 06:03 | because your dominion was given to you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High. He will search out your works, and will enquire about your plans, +Wisdom of Solomon 06:04 | because being officers of his kingdom, you didn’t judge rightly, nor did you keep the law, nor did you walk according to God’s counsel. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:05 | He will come upon you awfully and swiftly, because a stern judgement comes on those who are in high places. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:06 | For the man of low estate may be pardoned in mercy, but mighty men will be mightily tested. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:07 | For the Sovereign Lord of all will not be impressed with anyone, neither will he show deference to greatness; because it is he who made both small and great, and cares about them all; +Wisdom of Solomon 06:08 | but the scrutiny that comes upon the powerful is strict. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:09 | Therefore, my words are to you, O princes, that you may learn wisdom and not fall away. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:10 | For those who have kept the things that are holy in holiness will be made holy. Those who have been taught them will find what to say in defence. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:11 | Therefore set your desire on my words. Long for them, and you princes will be instructed. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:12 | Wisdom is radiant and doesn’t fade away; and is easily seen by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:13 | She anticipates those who desire her, making herself known. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:14 | He who rises up early to seek her won’t have difficulty, for he will find her sitting at his gates. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:15 | For to think upon her is perfection of understanding, and he who watches for her will quickly be free from care; +Wisdom of Solomon 06:16 | because she herself goes around, seeking those who are worthy of her, and in their paths she appears to them graciously, and in every purpose she meets them. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:17 | For her true beginning is desire for instruction; and desire for instruction is love. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:18 | And love is observance of her laws. To give heed to her laws confirms immortality. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:19 | Immortality brings closeness to God. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:20 | So then desire for wisdom promotes to a kingdom. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:21 | If therefore you delight in thrones and sceptres, you princes of peoples, honour wisdom, that you may reign forever. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:22 | But what wisdom is, and how she came into being, I will declare. I won’t hide mysteries from you; but I will explore from her first beginning, bring the knowledge of her into clear light, and I will not pass by the truth. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:23 | Indeed, I won’t go with consuming envy, because envy will have no fellowship with wisdom. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:24 | But a multitude of wise men is salvation to the world, and an understanding king is stability for his people. +Wisdom of Solomon 06:25 | Therefore be instructed by my words, and you will profit. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:01 | I myself am also mortal, like everyone else, and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:02 | I moulded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb, being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:03 | I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, uttering, like all, for my first voice, the same cry. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:04 | I was nursed with care in swaddling clothes. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:06 | but all men have one entrance into life, and a common departure. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:07 | For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given to me. I asked, and a spirit of wisdom came to me. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:08 | I preferred her before sceptres and thrones. I considered riches nothing in comparison to her. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:09 | Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold in her presence is a little sand, and silver will be considered as clay before her. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:10 | I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her bright shining is never laid to sleep. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:11 | All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches are in her hands. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:12 | And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them; although I didn’t know that she was their mother. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:13 | As I learnt without guile, I impart without grudging. I don’t hide her riches. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:14 | For she is a treasure for men that doesn’t fail, and those who use it obtain friendship with God, commended by the gifts which they present through discipline. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:15 | But may God grant that I may speak his judgement, and to conceive thoughts worthy of what has been given me; because he is one who guides even wisdom and who corrects the wise. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:16 | For both we and our words are in his hand, with all understanding and skill in various crafts. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:17 | For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the structure of the universe and the operation of the elements; +Wisdom of Solomon 07:18 | the beginning, end, and middle of times; the alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons; +Wisdom of Solomon 07:20 | the natures of living creatures and the raging of wild beasts; the violence of winds and the thoughts of men; the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:21 | All things that are either secret or manifest I learnt, +Wisdom of Solomon 07:22 | for wisdom, that is the architect of all things, taught me. For there is in her a spirit that is quick to understand, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, freely moving, clear in utterance, unpolluted, distinct, unharmed, loving what is good, keen, unhindered, +Wisdom of Solomon 07:23 | beneficent, loving towards man, steadfast, sure, free from care, all-powerful, all-surveying, and penetrating through all spirits that are quick to understand, pure, most subtle: +Wisdom of Solomon 07:24 | For wisdom is more mobile than any motion. Yes, she pervades and penetrates all things by reason of her purity. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:25 | For she is a breath of the power of God, and a clear effluence of the glory of the Almighty. Therefore nothing defiled can find entrance into her. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:26 | For she is a reflection of everlasting light, an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:27 | She, being one, has power to do all things. Remaining in herself, she renews all things. From generation to generation passing into holy souls, she makes friends of God and prophets. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:28 | For God loves nothing as much as one who dwells with wisdom. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:29 | For she is fairer than the sun, and above all the constellations of the stars. She is better than light. +Wisdom of Solomon 07:30 | For daylight yields to night, but evil does not prevail against wisdom. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:01 | But she reaches from one end to the other with full strength, and orders all things well. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:02 | I loved her and sought her from my youth. I sought to take her for my bride. I became enamoured by her beauty. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:03 | She glorifies her noble birth by living with God. The Sovereign Lord of all loves her. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:04 | For she is initiated into the knowledge of God, and she chooses his works. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:05 | But if riches are a desired possession in life, what is richer than wisdom, which makes all things? +Wisdom of Solomon 08:06 | And if understanding works, who more than wisdom is an architect of the things that exist? +Wisdom of Solomon 08:07 | If a man loves righteousness, the fruits of wisdom’s labour are virtues, for she teaches soberness, understanding, righteousness, and courage. There is nothing in life more profitable for people than these. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:08 | And if anyone longs for wide experience, she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come. She understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings. She foresees signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:09 | Therefore I determined to take her to live with me, knowing that she is one who would give me good counsel, and encourage me in cares and grief. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:10 | Because of her, I will have glory amongst multitudes, and honour in the sight of elders, though I am young. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:11 | I will be found keen when I give judgement. I will be admired in the presence of rulers. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:12 | When I am silent, they will wait for me. When I open my lips, they will heed what I say. If I continue speaking, they will put their hands on their mouths. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:13 | Because of her, I will have immortality, and leave behind an eternal memory to those who come after me. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:14 | I will govern peoples. Nations will be subjected to me. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:15 | Dreaded monarchs will fear me when they hear of me. Amongst the people, I will show myself to be good, and courageous in war. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:16 | When I come into my house, I will find rest with her. For conversation with her has no bitterness, and living with her has no pain, but gladness and joy. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:17 | When I considered these things in myself, and thought in my heart how immortality is in kinship to wisdom, +Wisdom of Solomon 08:18 | and in her friendship is good delight, and in the labours of her hands is wealth that doesn’t fail, and understanding is in her companionship, and great renown in having fellowship with her words, I went about seeking how to take her to myself. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:19 | Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:20 | Or rather, being good, I came into an undefiled body. +Wisdom of Solomon 08:21 | But perceiving that I could not otherwise possess wisdom unless God gave her to me— yes, and to know and understand by whom the grace is given— I pleaded with the Lord and implored him, and with my whole heart I said, +Wisdom of Solomon 09:01 | "O God of the fathers, and Lord of mercy, who made all things by your word; +Wisdom of Solomon 09:02 | and by your wisdom you formed man, that he should have dominion over the creatures that were made by you, +Wisdom of Solomon 09:03 | and rule the world in holiness and righteousness, and execute judgement in uprightness of soul, +Wisdom of Solomon 09:04 | give me wisdom, her who sits by you on your thrones. Don’t reject me from amongst your servants, +Wisdom of Solomon 09:05 | because I am your servant and the son of your handmaid, a weak and short-lived man, with little power to understand judgement and laws. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:06 | For even if a man is perfect amongst the sons of men, if the wisdom that comes from you is not with him, he will count for nothing. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:07 | You chose me to be king of your people, and a judge for your sons and daughters. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:08 | You gave a command to build a sanctuary on your holy mountain, and an altar in the city where you pitch your tent, a copy of the holy tent which you prepared from the beginning. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:09 | Wisdom is with you and knows your works, and was present when you were making the world, and understands what is pleasing in your eyes, and what is right according to your commandments. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:10 | Send her from the holy heavens, and ask her to come from the throne of your glory, that being present with me she may work, and I may learn what pleases you well. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:11 | For she knows all things and understands, and she will guide me soberly in my actions. She will guard me in her glory. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:12 | So my works will be acceptible. I will judge your people righteously, and I will be worthy of my father’s throne. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:13 | For what man will know the counsel of God? Or who will conceive what the Lord wills? +Wisdom of Solomon 09:14 | For the thoughts of mortals are unstable, and our plans are prone to fail. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:15 | For a corruptible body weighs down the soul. The earthy frame lies heavy on a mind that is full of cares. +Wisdom of Solomon 09:16 | We can hardly guess the things that are on earth, and we find the things that are close at hand with labour; but who has traced out the things that are in the heavens? +Wisdom of Solomon 09:17 | and who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom, and sent your holy spirit from the highest?; +Wisdom of Solomon 09:18 | It was thus that the ways of those who are on earth were corrected, and men were taught the things that are pleasing to you. They were saved through wisdom." Wisdom of Solomon 10:01 | Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone, and delivered him out of his own transgression, Wisdom of Solomon 10:02 | and gave him strength to get dominion over all things. Wisdom of Solomon 10:03 | But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, he perished himself in the rage wherewith he killed his brother. @@ -32133,196 +32065,264 @@ Wisdom of Solomon 19:19 | For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatur Wisdom of Solomon 19:20 | Fire kept the mastery of its own power in water, and water forgot its quenching nature. Wisdom of Solomon 19:21 | On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked amongst them, neither did they melt the ice-like grains of ambrosial food that were apt to melt. Wisdom of Solomon 19:22 | For in all things, O Lord, you magnified your people, and you glorified them and didn’t lightly regard them, standing by their side in every time and place. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:01 | Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart, -Wisdom of Solomon 1:02 | because he is found by those who don’t tempt him, and is manifested to those who trust him. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:03 | for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish, -Wisdom of Solomon 1:04 | because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:05 | For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:06 | For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips; because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue: -Wisdom of Solomon 1:07 | Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:08 | Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen; neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:09 | For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out, and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction; -Wisdom of Solomon 1:10 | because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:11 | Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:12 | Don’t court death in the error of your life; and don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands, -Wisdom of Solomon 1:13 | because God didn’t make death; neither does he delight when the living perish. -Wisdom of Solomon 1:14 | For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth; -Wisdom of Solomon 1:15 | for righteousness is immortal, -Wisdom of Solomon 1:16 | but ungodly men by their hands and their words summondeath; deeming him a friend they pined away. They made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to belong with him. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:01 | For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, "Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:02 | Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we will be as though we had never been, because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart, -Wisdom of Solomon 2:03 | which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes, and the spirit will be dispersed as thin air. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:04 | Our name will be forgotten in time. No one will remember our works. Our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud, and will be scattered as is a mist, when it is chased by the rays of the sun, and overcome by its heat. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:05 | For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and our end doesn’t retreat, because it is securely sealed, and no one turns it back. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:06 | "Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things that exist. Let’s use the creation earnestly as in our youth. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:07 | Let’s fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes, and let no Spring flower pass us by. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:08 | Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:09 | Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry. Let’s leave tokens of mirth everywhere, because this is our portion, and this is our lot. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:10 | Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor reverence the grey hair of the old man. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:11 | But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:12 | But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:13 | He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:15 | He is grievous to us even to look at, because his life is unlike other men’s, and his paths are strange. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:16 | We were regarded by him as worthless metal, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:17 | Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s test what will happen at the end of his life. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:18 | For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:19 | Let’s test him with outrage and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:20 | Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be overseen according to his words." -Wisdom of Solomon 2:21 | Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them, -Wisdom of Solomon 2:22 | and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:23 | Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness; -Wisdom of Solomon 2:24 | but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:01 | But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:02 | In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered affliction, -Wisdom of Solomon 3:03 | and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:04 | For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:05 | Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:06 | He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:07 | In the time of their visitation they will shine. They will run back and forth like sparks amongst stubble. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:08 | They will judge nations and have dominion over peoples. The Lord will reign over them forever. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:09 | Those who trust him will understand truth. The faithful will live with him in love, because grace and mercy are with his chosen ones. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:10 | But the ungodly will be punished even as they reasoned, those who neglected righteousness and revolted from the Lord; -Wisdom of Solomon 3:11 | for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable. Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable. Their works are useless. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:12 | Their wives are foolish and their children are wicked. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:13 | Their descendants are cursed, because the barren woman who is undefiled is happy, she who has not conceived in transgression. She will have fruit in the visitation of souls. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:14 | So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands, nor imagined wicked things against the Lord; for a precious gift will be given to him for his faithfulness, a special favour, and a delightful inheritance in the Lord’s sanctuary. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:15 | For good labours have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:16 | But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful bed will vanish away. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:17 | For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honour. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:18 | If they die quickly, they will have no hope, nor consolation in the day of decision. -Wisdom of Solomon 3:19 | For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:01 | It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognised both before God and before men. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:02 | When it is present, people imitate it. They long after it when it has departed. Throughout all time it marches crowned in triumph, victorious in the competition for the prizes that are undefiled. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:03 | But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit, and their illegitimate offshoots won’t take deep root, nor will they establish a sure hold. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:04 | For even if they grow branches and flourish for a season, standing unsure, they will be shaken by the wind. They will be uprooted by the violence of winds. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:05 | Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity. Their fruit will be useless, never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:06 | For unlawfully conceived children are witnesses of wickedness against parents when they are investigated. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:07 | But a righteous man, even if he dies before his time, will be at rest. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:08 | For honourable old age is not that which stands in length of time, nor is its measure given by number of years: -Wisdom of Solomon 4:09 | But understanding is grey hair to men, and an unspotted life is ripe old age. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:10 | Being found well-pleasing to God, he was loved. While living amongst sinners he was transported. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:11 | He was caught away, lest evil should change his understanding, or guile deceive his soul. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:12 | For the witchcraft of worthlessness obscures the things which are good, and the whirl of desire perverts an innocent mind. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:13 | Being made perfect quickly, he filled a long time; -Wisdom of Solomon 4:14 | for his soul was pleasing to the Lord. Therefore he hurried out of the midst of wickedness. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:15 | But as for the peoples seeing and not understanding, not considering this, that grace and mercy are with his chosen, and that he visits his holy ones— -Wisdom of Solomon 4:16 | but a righteous man who is dead will condemn the ungodly who are living, and youth that is quickly perfected will condemn the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:17 | For the ungodly will see a wise man’s end, and won’t understand what the Lord planned for him, and why he safely kept him. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:18 | They will see, and they will despise; but the Lord will laugh them to scorn. After this, they will become a dishonoured carcass and a reproach amongst the dead forever; -Wisdom of Solomon 4:19 | because he will dash them speechless to the ground, and will shake them from the foundations. They will lie utterly waste. They will be in anguish and their memory will perish. -Wisdom of Solomon 4:20 | They will come with coward fear when their sins are counted. Their lawless deeds will convict them to their face. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:01 | Then the righteous man will stand in great boldness before the face of those who afflicted him, and those who make his labours of no account. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:02 | When they see him, they will be troubled with terrible fear, and will be amazed at the marvel of salvation. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:03 | They will speak amongst themselves repenting, and for distress of spirit they will groan, "This was he whom we used to hold in derision, as a parable of reproach. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:04 | We fools considered his life madness, and his end without honour. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:05 | How was he counted amongst sons of God? How is his lot amongst saints? -Wisdom of Solomon 5:06 | Truly we went astray from the way of truth. The light of righteousness didn’t shine for us. The sun didn’t rise for us. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:07 | We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction. We travelled through trackless deserts, but we didn’t know the Lord’s way. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:08 | What did our arrogance profit us? What good have riches and boasting brought us? -Wisdom of Solomon 5:09 | Those things all passed away as a shadow, like a message that runs by, -Wisdom of Solomon 5:10 | like a ship passing through the billowy water, which, when it has gone by, there is no trace to be found, no pathway of its keel in the billows. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:11 | Or it is like when a bird flies through the air, no evidence of its passage is found, but the light wind, lashed with the stroke of its pinions, and torn apart with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through. Afterwards no sign of its coming remains. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:12 | Or it is like when an arrow is shot at a mark, the air divided by it closes up again immediately, so that men don’t know where it passed through. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:13 | So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be; and we had no sign of virtue to show, but we were utterly consumed in our wickedness." -Wisdom of Solomon 5:14 | Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest that waits but a day. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:15 | But the righteous live forever. Their reward is in the Lord, and the care for them with the Most High. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:16 | Therefore they will receive the crown of royal dignity and the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand, because he will cover them with his right hand, and he will shield them with his arm. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:17 | He will take his jealousy as complete armour, and will make the whole creation his weapons to punish his enemies: -Wisdom of Solomon 5:18 | He will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and will wear impartial judgement as a helmet. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:19 | He will take holiness as an invincible shield. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:20 | He will sharpen stern wrath for a sword. The world will go with him to fight against his frenzied foes. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:21 | Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim. They will leap to the mark from the clouds, as from a well-drawn bow. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:22 | Hailstones full of wrath will be hurled from an engine of war. The water of the sea will be angered against them. Rivers will sternly overwhelm them. -Wisdom of Solomon 5:23 | A mighty blast will encounter them. It will winnow them away like a tempest. So lawlessness will make all the land desolate. Their evil-doing will overturn the thrones of princes. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:01 | Hear therefore, you kings, and understand. Learn, you judges of the ends of the earth. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:02 | Give ear, you rulers who have dominion over many people, and make your boast in multitudes of nations, -Wisdom of Solomon 6:03 | because your dominion was given to you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High. He will search out your works, and will enquire about your plans, -Wisdom of Solomon 6:04 | because being officers of his kingdom, you didn’t judge rightly, nor did you keep the law, nor did you walk according to God’s counsel. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:05 | He will come upon you awfully and swiftly, because a stern judgement comes on those who are in high places. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:06 | For the man of low estate may be pardoned in mercy, but mighty men will be mightily tested. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:07 | For the Sovereign Lord of all will not be impressed with anyone, neither will he show deference to greatness; because it is he who made both small and great, and cares about them all; -Wisdom of Solomon 6:08 | but the scrutiny that comes upon the powerful is strict. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:09 | Therefore, my words are to you, O princes, that you may learn wisdom and not fall away. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:10 | For those who have kept the things that are holy in holiness will be made holy. Those who have been taught them will find what to say in defence. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:11 | Therefore set your desire on my words. Long for them, and you princes will be instructed. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:12 | Wisdom is radiant and doesn’t fade away; and is easily seen by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:13 | She anticipates those who desire her, making herself known. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:14 | He who rises up early to seek her won’t have difficulty, for he will find her sitting at his gates. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:15 | For to think upon her is perfection of understanding, and he who watches for her will quickly be free from care; -Wisdom of Solomon 6:16 | because she herself goes around, seeking those who are worthy of her, and in their paths she appears to them graciously, and in every purpose she meets them. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:17 | For her true beginning is desire for instruction; and desire for instruction is love. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:18 | And love is observance of her laws. To give heed to her laws confirms immortality. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:19 | Immortality brings closeness to God. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:20 | So then desire for wisdom promotes to a kingdom. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:21 | If therefore you delight in thrones and sceptres, you princes of peoples, honour wisdom, that you may reign forever. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:22 | But what wisdom is, and how she came into being, I will declare. I won’t hide mysteries from you; but I will explore from her first beginning, bring the knowledge of her into clear light, and I will not pass by the truth. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:23 | Indeed, I won’t go with consuming envy, because envy will have no fellowship with wisdom. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:24 | But a multitude of wise men is salvation to the world, and an understanding king is stability for his people. -Wisdom of Solomon 6:25 | Therefore be instructed by my words, and you will profit. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:01 | I myself am also mortal, like everyone else, and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:02 | I moulded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb, being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:03 | I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, uttering, like all, for my first voice, the same cry. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:04 | I was nursed with care in swaddling clothes. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:06 | but all men have one entrance into life, and a common departure. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:07 | For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given to me. I asked, and a spirit of wisdom came to me. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:08 | I preferred her before sceptres and thrones. I considered riches nothing in comparison to her. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:09 | Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold in her presence is a little sand, and silver will be considered as clay before her. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:10 | I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her bright shining is never laid to sleep. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:11 | All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches are in her hands. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:12 | And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them; although I didn’t know that she was their mother. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:13 | As I learnt without guile, I impart without grudging. I don’t hide her riches. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:14 | For she is a treasure for men that doesn’t fail, and those who use it obtain friendship with God, commended by the gifts which they present through discipline. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:15 | But may God grant that I may speak his judgement, and to conceive thoughts worthy of what has been given me; because he is one who guides even wisdom and who corrects the wise. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:16 | For both we and our words are in his hand, with all understanding and skill in various crafts. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:17 | For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the structure of the universe and the operation of the elements; -Wisdom of Solomon 7:18 | the beginning, end, and middle of times; the alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons; -Wisdom of Solomon 7:20 | the natures of living creatures and the raging of wild beasts; the violence of winds and the thoughts of men; the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:21 | All things that are either secret or manifest I learnt, -Wisdom of Solomon 7:22 | for wisdom, that is the architect of all things, taught me. For there is in her a spirit that is quick to understand, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, freely moving, clear in utterance, unpolluted, distinct, unharmed, loving what is good, keen, unhindered, -Wisdom of Solomon 7:23 | beneficent, loving towards man, steadfast, sure, free from care, all-powerful, all-surveying, and penetrating through all spirits that are quick to understand, pure, most subtle: -Wisdom of Solomon 7:24 | For wisdom is more mobile than any motion. Yes, she pervades and penetrates all things by reason of her purity. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:25 | For she is a breath of the power of God, and a clear effluence of the glory of the Almighty. Therefore nothing defiled can find entrance into her. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 | For she is a reflection of everlasting light, an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:27 | She, being one, has power to do all things. Remaining in herself, she renews all things. From generation to generation passing into holy souls, she makes friends of God and prophets. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:28 | For God loves nothing as much as one who dwells with wisdom. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:29 | For she is fairer than the sun, and above all the constellations of the stars. She is better than light. -Wisdom of Solomon 7:30 | For daylight yields to night, but evil does not prevail against wisdom. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:01 | But she reaches from one end to the other with full strength, and orders all things well. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:02 | I loved her and sought her from my youth. I sought to take her for my bride. I became enamoured by her beauty. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:03 | She glorifies her noble birth by living with God. The Sovereign Lord of all loves her. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:04 | For she is initiated into the knowledge of God, and she chooses his works. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:05 | But if riches are a desired possession in life, what is richer than wisdom, which makes all things? -Wisdom of Solomon 8:06 | And if understanding works, who more than wisdom is an architect of the things that exist? -Wisdom of Solomon 8:07 | If a man loves righteousness, the fruits of wisdom’s labour are virtues, for she teaches soberness, understanding, righteousness, and courage. There is nothing in life more profitable for people than these. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:08 | And if anyone longs for wide experience, she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come. She understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings. She foresees signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:09 | Therefore I determined to take her to live with me, knowing that she is one who would give me good counsel, and encourage me in cares and grief. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:10 | Because of her, I will have glory amongst multitudes, and honour in the sight of elders, though I am young. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:11 | I will be found keen when I give judgement. I will be admired in the presence of rulers. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:12 | When I am silent, they will wait for me. When I open my lips, they will heed what I say. If I continue speaking, they will put their hands on their mouths. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:13 | Because of her, I will have immortality, and leave behind an eternal memory to those who come after me. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:14 | I will govern peoples. Nations will be subjected to me. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:15 | Dreaded monarchs will fear me when they hear of me. Amongst the people, I will show myself to be good, and courageous in war. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:16 | When I come into my house, I will find rest with her. For conversation with her has no bitterness, and living with her has no pain, but gladness and joy. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:17 | When I considered these things in myself, and thought in my heart how immortality is in kinship to wisdom, -Wisdom of Solomon 8:18 | and in her friendship is good delight, and in the labours of her hands is wealth that doesn’t fail, and understanding is in her companionship, and great renown in having fellowship with her words, I went about seeking how to take her to myself. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:19 | Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:20 | Or rather, being good, I came into an undefiled body. -Wisdom of Solomon 8:21 | But perceiving that I could not otherwise possess wisdom unless God gave her to me— yes, and to know and understand by whom the grace is given— I pleaded with the Lord and implored him, and with my whole heart I said, -Wisdom of Solomon 9:01 | "O God of the fathers, and Lord of mercy, who made all things by your word; -Wisdom of Solomon 9:02 | and by your wisdom you formed man, that he should have dominion over the creatures that were made by you, -Wisdom of Solomon 9:03 | and rule the world in holiness and righteousness, and execute judgement in uprightness of soul, -Wisdom of Solomon 9:04 | give me wisdom, her who sits by you on your thrones. Don’t reject me from amongst your servants, -Wisdom of Solomon 9:05 | because I am your servant and the son of your handmaid, a weak and short-lived man, with little power to understand judgement and laws. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:06 | For even if a man is perfect amongst the sons of men, if the wisdom that comes from you is not with him, he will count for nothing. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:07 | You chose me to be king of your people, and a judge for your sons and daughters. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:08 | You gave a command to build a sanctuary on your holy mountain, and an altar in the city where you pitch your tent, a copy of the holy tent which you prepared from the beginning. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:09 | Wisdom is with you and knows your works, and was present when you were making the world, and understands what is pleasing in your eyes, and what is right according to your commandments. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:10 | Send her from the holy heavens, and ask her to come from the throne of your glory, that being present with me she may work, and I may learn what pleases you well. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:11 | For she knows all things and understands, and she will guide me soberly in my actions. She will guard me in her glory. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:12 | So my works will be acceptible. I will judge your people righteously, and I will be worthy of my father’s throne. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:13 | For what man will know the counsel of God? Or who will conceive what the Lord wills? -Wisdom of Solomon 9:14 | For the thoughts of mortals are unstable, and our plans are prone to fail. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:15 | For a corruptible body weighs down the soul. The earthy frame lies heavy on a mind that is full of cares. -Wisdom of Solomon 9:16 | We can hardly guess the things that are on earth, and we find the things that are close at hand with labour; but who has traced out the things that are in the heavens? -Wisdom of Solomon 9:17 | and who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom, and sent your holy spirit from the highest?; -Wisdom of Solomon 9:18 | It was thus that the ways of those who are on earth were corrected, and men were taught the things that are pleasing to you. They were saved through wisdom." \ No newline at end of file +Zechariah 01:03 | Therefore tell them: the Lord of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord of Armies. +Zechariah 01:04 | Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The Lord of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says the Lord. +Zechariah 01:05 | Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? +Zechariah 01:06 | But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the Lord of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’" +Zechariah 01:08 | "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood amongst the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses. +Zechariah 01:09 | Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are." +Zechariah 01:10 | The man who stood amongst the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones the Lord has sent to go back and forth through the earth." +Zechariah 01:11 | They reported to the Lord’s angel who stood amongst the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace." +Zechariah 01:12 | Then the Lord’s angel replied, "O Lord of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?" +Zechariah 01:13 | The Lord answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. +Zechariah 01:14 | So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. +Zechariah 01:15 | I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity." +Zechariah 01:16 | Therefore the Lord says: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the Lord of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."’ +Zechariah 01:17 | "Proclaim further, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem." +Zechariah 01:19 | I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." +Zechariah 01:21 | Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it." +Zechariah 02:01 | I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. +Zechariah 02:02 | Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length." +Zechariah 02:03 | Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him, +Zechariah 02:04 | and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. +Zechariah 02:05 | "I myself will be a wall of fire around it" declares the Lord, "and I will be its glory within." +Zechariah 02:05 | For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her. +Zechariah 02:06 | Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the Lord; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the Lord. +Zechariah 02:07 | ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’ +Zechariah 02:08 | For the Lord of Armies says: ‘For honour he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. +Zechariah 02:08 | The Lord Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you, for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye." +Zechariah 02:09 | For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me. +Zechariah 02:10 | Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says the Lord. +Zechariah 02:11 | Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell amongst you, and you shall know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. +Zechariah 02:12 | The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. +Zechariah 02:13 | Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!" +Zechariah 03:01 | He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Lord’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. +Zechariah 03:02 | The Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?" +Zechariah 03:03 | Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. +Zechariah 03:04 | He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing." +Zechariah 03:05 | I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head." So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the Lord’s angel was standing by. +Zechariah 03:07 | "The Lord of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access amongst these who stand by. +Zechariah 03:07 | The Lord says: "If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here." +Zechariah 03:08 | Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch. +Zechariah 03:09 | For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. +Zechariah 03:10 | In that day,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.’" +Zechariah 04:01 | The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. +Zechariah 04:02 | He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; +Zechariah 04:03 | and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it." +Zechariah 04:04 | I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?" +Zechariah 04:05 | Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don’t you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." +Zechariah 04:06 | Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the Lord’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of Armies. +Zechariah 04:07 | Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’" +Zechariah 04:09 | "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. +Zechariah 04:10 | Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the Lord’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth." +Zechariah 04:11 | Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?" +Zechariah 04:12 | I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?" +Zechariah 04:13 | He answered me, "Don’t you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." +Zechariah 04:14 | Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth." +Zechariah 05:01 | Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. +Zechariah 05:02 | He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits." +Zechariah 05:03 | Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. +Zechariah 05:04 | I will cause it to go out," says the Lord of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones." +Zechariah 05:05 | Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing." +Zechariah 05:06 | I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is their appearance in all the land +Zechariah 05:07 | (and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket." +Zechariah 05:08 | He said, "This is Wickedness" and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth. +Zechariah 05:09 | Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky. +Zechariah 05:10 | Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?" +Zechariah 05:11 | He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place." +Zechariah 06:01 | Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze. +Zechariah 06:02 | In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses; +Zechariah 06:03 | in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. +Zechariah 06:04 | Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" +Zechariah 06:05 | The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth. +Zechariah 06:06 | The one with the black horses goes out towards the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out towards the south country." +Zechariah 06:07 | The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth. +Zechariah 06:08 | Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go towards the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country." +Zechariah 06:10 | "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon. +Zechariah 06:11 | Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; +Zechariah 06:12 | and speak to him, saying, ‘The Lord of Armies says, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the Lord’s temple; +Zechariah 06:13 | even he shall build the Lord’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. +Zechariah 06:14 | The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the Lord’s temple. +Zechariah 06:15 | Those who are far off shall come and build in the Lord’s temple; and you shall know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the Lord your God’s voice." +Zechariah 07:01 | In the fourth year of king Darius, the Lord’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. +Zechariah 07:02 | The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the Lord’s favour, +Zechariah 07:03 | and to speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" +Zechariah 07:05 | "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? +Zechariah 07:06 | When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? +Zechariah 07:07 | Aren’t these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’" +Zechariah 07:09 | "Thus has the Lord of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgement, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. +Zechariah 07:10 | Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’ +Zechariah 07:11 | But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. +Zechariah 07:12 | Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of Armies. +Zechariah 07:12-13 | They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to The Law or to the words that the Lord had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Almighty was very angry. "When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen" says the Lord Almighty. +Zechariah 07:13 | It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the Lord of Armies; +Zechariah 07:14 | "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind amongst all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate." +Zechariah 08:02 | The Lord of Armies says: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath." +Zechariah 08:03 | The Lord says: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of the Lord of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’" +Zechariah 08:04 | The Lord of Armies says: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. +Zechariah 08:05 | The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets." +Zechariah 08:06 | The Lord of Armies says: "If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes?" says the Lord of Armies. +Zechariah 08:07 | The Lord of Armies says: "Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; +Zechariah 08:08 | and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness." +Zechariah 08:09 | The Lord of Armies says: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. +Zechariah 08:10 | For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbour. +Zechariah 08:11 | But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says the Lord of Armies. +Zechariah 08:12 | "For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. +Zechariah 08:13 | It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse amongst the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong." +Zechariah 08:14 | For the Lord of Armies says: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says the Lord of Armies, "and I didn’t repent; +Zechariah 08:14-15 | the Lord Almighty says: "Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me, now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid." +Zechariah 08:15 | so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid. +Zechariah 08:16 | These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbour. Execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates, +Zechariah 08:17 | and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says the Lord. +Zechariah 08:19 | The Lord of Armies says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace." +Zechariah 08:20 | The Lord of Armies says: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; +Zechariah 08:21 | and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Armies. I will go also.’ +Zechariah 08:22 | Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favour of the Lord." +Zechariah 08:23 | The Lord of Armies says: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’" +Zechariah 09:01 | A revelation. The Lord’s word is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is towards the LORD; +Zechariah 09:02 | and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise. +Zechariah 09:03 | Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets. +Zechariah 09:04 | Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire. +Zechariah 09:05 | Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. +Zechariah 09:06 | Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. +Zechariah 09:07 | I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. +Zechariah 09:08 | I will encamp around my house against the army, that no one pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes. +Zechariah 09:09 | Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. +Zechariah 09:10 | I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. +Zechariah 09:11 | As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. +Zechariah 09:12 | Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you. +Zechariah 09:13 | For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man. +Zechariah 09:14 | The Lord will be seen over them; and his arrow will flash like lightning; and the Lord God will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south. +Zechariah 09:15 | The Lord of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar. +Zechariah 09:16 | The Lord their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land. +Zechariah 09:17 | For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins. +Zechariah 10:01 | Ask of the Lord rain in the spring time, The Lord who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field. +Zechariah 10:02 | For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd. +Zechariah 10:03 | My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats, for the Lord of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle. +Zechariah 10:04 | From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together. +Zechariah 10:05 | They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded. +Zechariah 10:06 | "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them. +Zechariah 10:07 | Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in the Lord. +Zechariah 10:08 | I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased. +Zechariah 10:09 | I will sow them amongst the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return. +Zechariah 10:10 | I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them. +Zechariah 10:11 | He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt will depart. +Zechariah 10:12 | I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they will walk up and down in his name," says the Lord. +Zechariah 11:01 | Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. +Zechariah 11:02 | Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down. +Zechariah 11:03 | A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined. +Zechariah 11:04 | The Lord my God says: "Feed the flock of slaughter. +Zechariah 11:05 | Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them. +Zechariah 11:06 | For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says the Lord; "but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them." +Zechariah 11:07 | So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favour", and the other I called "Union", and I fed the flock. +Zechariah 11:08 | I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. +Zechariah 11:09 | Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh." +Zechariah 11:10 | I took my staff Favour, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. +Zechariah 11:11 | It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the Lord’s word. +Zechariah 11:12 | I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. +Zechariah 11:13 | The Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the Lord’s house. +Zechariah 11:14 | Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. +Zechariah 11:15 | The Lord said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. +Zechariah 11:16 | For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. +Zechariah 11:17 | Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!" +Zechariah 12:01 | A revelation: the Lord’s word concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: +Zechariah 12:02 | "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. +Zechariah 12:03 | It will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. +Zechariah 12:04 | In that day," says the Lord, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. +Zechariah 12:05 | The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of Armies their God.’ +Zechariah 12:06 | In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire amongst wood, and like a flaming torch amongst sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem. +Zechariah 12:07 | The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. +Zechariah 12:08 | In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble amongst them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like the Lord’s angel before them. +Zechariah 12:09 | It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. +Zechariah 12:10 | I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn. +Zechariah 12:11 | In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. +Zechariah 12:12 | The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; +Zechariah 12:13 | the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; +Zechariah 12:14 | all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. +Zechariah 13:01 | "In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. +Zechariah 13:02 | It will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. +Zechariah 13:03 | It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in the Lord’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. +Zechariah 13:04 | It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive, +Zechariah 13:05 | but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’ +Zechariah 13:06 | If someone asks, "What are these wounds on your body?" they will answer, "The wounds I was given at the house of my friends." +Zechariah 13:06 | One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’ +Zechariah 13:07 | "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says the Lord of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones. +Zechariah 13:08 | It shall happen that in all the land," says the Lord, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it. +Zechariah 13:09 | I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’" +Zechariah 14:01 | Behold, a day of the Lord comes, when your plunder will be divided within you. +Zechariah 14:02 | For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. +Zechariah 14:03 | Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. +Zechariah 14:04 | His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move towards the north, and half of it towards the south. +Zechariah 14:05 | You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. The Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with you. +Zechariah 14:06 | It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost. +Zechariah 14:07 | It will be a unique day which is known to the Lord; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light. +Zechariah 14:08 | It will happen in that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them towards the eastern sea, and half of them towards the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter. +Zechariah 14:09 | The Lord will be King over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be one, and his name one. +Zechariah 14:10 | All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. +Zechariah 14:11 | Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely. +Zechariah 14:12 | This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. +Zechariah 14:13 | It will happen in that day, that a great panic from the Lord will be amongst them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbour, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbour. +Zechariah 14:14 | Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, silver, and clothing, in great abundance. +Zechariah 14:15 | A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps. +Zechariah 14:16 | It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths. +Zechariah 14:17 | It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, on them there will be no rain. +Zechariah 14:18 | If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. +Zechariah 14:19 | This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. +Zechariah 14:20 | In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO THE LORD"; and the pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. +Zechariah 14:21 | Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Armies. +Zephaniah 01:01 | The Lord’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. +Zephaniah 01:02 | I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says the Lord. +Zephaniah 01:03 | I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says the Lord. +Zephaniah 01:04 | I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, +Zephaniah 01:05 | those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the Lord and also swear by Malcam, +Zephaniah 01:06 | those who have turned back from following the Lord, and those who haven’t sought the Lord nor enquired after him. +Zephaniah 01:07 | Be silent at the presence of the Lord GOD, for the day of the Lord is at hand. For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests. +Zephaniah 01:08 | It will happen in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing. +Zephaniah 01:09 | In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit. +Zephaniah 01:10 | In that day, says the Lord, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills. +Zephaniah 01:11 | Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off. +Zephaniah 01:12 | It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil." +Zephaniah 01:13 | Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine. +Zephaniah 01:14 | The great day of the Lord is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of the Lord. The mighty man cries there bitterly. +Zephaniah 01:15 | That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, +Zephaniah 01:16 | a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements. +Zephaniah 01:17 | I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. +Zephaniah 01:18 | Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land. +Zephaniah 02:01 | Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame, +Zephaniah 02:02 | before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord’s anger comes on you. +Zephaniah 02:03 | Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger. +Zephaniah 02:04 | For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. +Zephaniah 02:05 | Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The Lord’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant. +Zephaniah 02:06 | The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. +Zephaniah 02:07 | The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord, their God, will visit them, and restore them. +Zephaniah 02:08 | I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. +Zephaniah 02:09 | Therefore as I live, says the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. +Zephaniah 02:10 | This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Armies. +Zephaniah 02:11 | The Lord will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations. +Zephaniah 02:12 | You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword. +Zephaniah 02:13 | He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness. +Zephaniah 02:14 | Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. +Zephaniah 02:15 | This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists. +Zephaniah 03:01 | Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! +Zephaniah 03:02 | She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in the Lord. She didn’t draw near to her God. +Zephaniah 03:03 | Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day. +Zephaniah 03:04 | Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law. +Zephaniah 03:05 | The Lord, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame. +Zephaniah 03:06 | I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant. +Zephaniah 03:07 | I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings. +Zephaniah 03:08 | "Therefore wait for me", says the Lord, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. +Zephaniah 03:08 | "Therefore wait for Me," declares the Lord, "For the day when I rise up as a witness indeed, My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them My indignation, all My burning anger; for all the Earth will be devoured by the fire of My zeal. +Zephaniah 03:09 | For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the Lord’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder. +Zephaniah 03:10 | From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshippers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering. +Zephaniah 03:11 | In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from amongst you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain. +Zephaniah 03:12 | But I will leave amongst you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the Lord’s name. +Zephaniah 03:13 | The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid." +Zephaniah 03:14 | Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem. +Zephaniah 03:15 | The Lord has taken away your judgements. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, the Lord, is amongst you. You will not be afraid of evil any more. +Zephaniah 03:16 | In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak." +Zephaniah 03:17 | The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. +Zephaniah 03:17 | The Lord, your God, is amongst you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing. +Zephaniah 03:18 | I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you. +Zephaniah 03:19 | Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honour, whose shame has been in all the earth. +Zephaniah 03:20 | At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honour and praise amongst all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord. +Zephaniah 08:16-17 | "These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this!" declares the Lord. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Class_ImageButton.ahk b/lib/Class_ImageButton.ahk similarity index 98% rename from Class_ImageButton.ahk rename to lib/Class_ImageButton.ahk index a89c662..2932056 100644 --- a/Class_ImageButton.ahk +++ b/lib/Class_ImageButton.ahk @@ -1,487 +1,487 @@ -; ====================================================================================================================== -; Namespace: ImageButton -; Function: Create images and assign them to pushbuttons. -; Tested with: AHK 1.1.14.03 (A32/U32/U64) -; Tested on: Win 7 (x64) -; Change history: 1.4.00.00/2014-06-07/just me - fixed bug for button caption = "0", "000", etc. -; 1.3.00.00/2014-02-28/just me - added support for ARGB colors -; 1.2.00.00/2014-02-23/just me - added borders -; 1.1.00.00/2013-12-26/just me - added rounded and bicolored buttons -; 1.0.00.00/2013-12-21/just me - initial release -; How to use: -; 1. Create a push button (e.g. "Gui, Add, Button, vMyButton hwndHwndButton, Caption") using the 'Hwnd' option -; to get its HWND. -; 2. Call ImageButton.Create() passing two parameters: -; HWND - Button's HWND. -; Options* - variadic array containing up to 6 option arrays (see below). -; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -; The index of each option object determines the corresponding button state on which the bitmap will be shown. -; MSDN defines 6 states (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb775975): -; PBS_NORMAL = 1 -; PBS_HOT = 2 -; PBS_PRESSED = 3 -; PBS_DISABLED = 4 -; PBS_DEFAULTED = 5 -; PBS_STYLUSHOT = 6 <- used only on tablet computers (that's false for Windows Vista and 7, see below) -; If you don't want the button to be 'animated' on themed GUIs, just pass one option object with index 1. -; On Windows Vista and 7 themed bottons are 'animated' using the images of states 5 and 6 after clicked. -; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -; Each option array may contain the following values: -; Index Value -; 1 Mode mandatory: -; 0 - unicolored or bitmap -; 1 - vertical bicolored -; 2 - horizontal bicolored -; 3 - vertical gradient -; 4 - horizontal gradient -; 5 - vertical gradient using StartColor at both borders and TargetColor at the center -; 6 - horizontal gradient using StartColor at both borders and TargetColor at the center -; 7 - 'raised' style -; 2 StartColor mandatory for Option[1], higher indices will inherit the value of Option[1], if omitted: -; - ARGB integer value (0xAARRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). -; - Path of an image file or HBITMAP handle for mode 0. -; 3 TargetColor mandatory for Option[1] if Mode > 0, ignored if Mode = 0. Higher indcices will inherit -; the color of Option[1], if omitted: -; - ARGB integer value (0xAARRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). -; 4 TextColor optional, if omitted, the default text color will be used for Option[1], higher indices -; will inherit the color of Option[1]: -; - ARGB integer value (0xAARRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). -; Default: 0xFF000000 (black) -; 5 Rounded optional: -; - Radius of the rounded corners in pixel; the letters 'H' and 'W' may be specified -; also to use the half of the button's height or width respectively. -; Default: 0 - not rounded -; 6 GuiColor optional, needed for rounded buttons if you've changed the GUI background color: -; - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). -; Default: AHK default GUI background color -; 7 BorderColor optional, ignored for modes 0 (bitmap) and 7, color of the border: -; - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). -; 8 BorderWidth optional, ignored for modes 0 (bitmap) and 7, width of the border in pixels: -; - Default: 1 -; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -; If the the button has a caption it will be drawn above the bitmap. -; Credits: THX tic for GDIP.AHK : http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-198949.html -; THX tkoi for ILBUTTON.AHK : http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic40468.html -; ====================================================================================================================== -; This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. -; In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. -; ====================================================================================================================== -; ====================================================================================================================== -; CLASS ImageButton() -; ====================================================================================================================== -Class ImageButton { - ; =================================================================================================================== - ; PUBLIC PROPERTIES ================================================================================================= - ; =================================================================================================================== - Static DefGuiColor := "" ; default GUI color (read/write) - Static DefTxtColor := "Black" ; default caption color (read/write) - Static LastError := "" ; will contain the last error message, if any (readonly) - ; =================================================================================================================== - ; PRIVATE PROPERTIES ================================================================================================ - ; =================================================================================================================== - Static BitMaps := [] - Static GDIPDll := 0 - Static GDIPToken := 0 - Static MaxOptions := 8 - ; HTML colors - Static HTML := {BLACK: 0x000000, GRAY: 0x808080, SILVER: 0xC0C0C0, WHITE: 0xFFFFFF, MAROON: 0x800000 - , PURPLE: 0x800080, FUCHSIA: 0xFF00FF, RED: 0xFF0000, GREEN: 0x008000, OLIVE: 0x808000 - , YELLOW: 0xFFFF00, LIME: 0x00FF00, NAVY: 0x000080, TEAL: 0x008080, AQUA: 0x00FFFF, BLUE: 0x0000FF} - ; Initialize - Static ClassInit := ImageButton.InitClass() - ; =================================================================================================================== - ; PRIVATE METHODS =================================================================================================== - ; =================================================================================================================== - __New(P*) { - Return False - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - InitClass() { - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Get AHK's default GUI background color - GuiColor := DllCall("User32.dll\GetSysColor", "Int", 15, "UInt") ; COLOR_3DFACE is used by AHK as default - This.DefGuiColor := ((GuiColor >> 16) & 0xFF) | (GuiColor & 0x00FF00) | ((GuiColor & 0xFF) << 16) - Return True - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - GdiplusStartup() { - This.GDIPDll := This.GDIPToken := 0 - If (This.GDIPDll := DllCall("Kernel32.dll\LoadLibrary", "Str", "Gdiplus.dll", "Ptr")) { - VarSetCapacity(SI, 24, 0) - Numput(1, SI, 0, "Int") - If !DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdiplusStartup", "PtrP", GDIPToken, "Ptr", &SI, "Ptr", 0) - This.GDIPToken := GDIPToken - Else - This.GdiplusShutdown() - } - Return This.GDIPToken - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - GdiplusShutdown() { - If This.GDIPToken - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdiplusShutdown", "Ptr", This.GDIPToken) - If This.GDIPDll - DllCall("Kernel32.dll\FreeLibrary", "Ptr", This.GDIPDll) - This.GDIPDll := This.GDIPToken := 0 - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - FreeBitmaps() { - For I, HBITMAP In This.BitMaps - DllCall("Gdi32.dll\DeleteObject", "Ptr", HBITMAP) - This.BitMaps := [] - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - GetARGB(RGB) { - ARGB := This.HTML.HasKey(RGB) ? This.HTML[RGB] : RGB - Return (ARGB & 0xFF000000) = 0 ? 0xFF000000 | ARGB : ARGB - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - PathAddRectangle(Path, X, Y, W, H) { - Return DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathRectangle", "Ptr", Path, "Float", X, "Float", Y, "Float", W, "Float", H) - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - PathAddRoundedRect(Path, X1, Y1, X2, Y2, R) { - D := (R * 2), X2 -= D, Y2 -= D - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" - , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X1, "Float", Y1, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 180, "Float", 90) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" - , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X2, "Float", Y1, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 270, "Float", 90) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" - , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X2, "Float", Y2, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 0, "Float", 90) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" - , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X1, "Float", Y2, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 90, "Float", 90) - Return DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipClosePathFigure", "Ptr", Path) - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - SetRect(ByRef Rect, X1, Y1, X2, Y2) { - VarSetCapacity(Rect, 16, 0) - NumPut(X1, Rect, 0, "Int"), NumPut(Y1, Rect, 4, "Int") - NumPut(X2, Rect, 8, "Int"), NumPut(Y2, Rect, 12, "Int") - Return True - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - SetRectF(ByRef Rect, X, Y, W, H) { - VarSetCapacity(Rect, 16, 0) - NumPut(X, Rect, 0, "Float"), NumPut(Y, Rect, 4, "Float") - NumPut(W, Rect, 8, "Float"), NumPut(H, Rect, 12, "Float") - Return True - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - SetError(Msg) { - This.FreeBitmaps() - This.GdiplusShutdown() - This.LastError := Msg - Return False - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - ; PUBLIC METHODS ==================================================================================================== - ; =================================================================================================================== - Create(HWND, Options*) { - ; Windows constants - Static BCM_SETIMAGELIST := 0x1602 - , BS_CHECKBOX := 0x02, BS_RADIOBUTTON := 0x04, BS_GROUPBOX := 0x07, BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON := 0x09 - , BS_LEFT := 0x0100, BS_RIGHT := 0x0200, BS_CENTER := 0x0300, BS_TOP := 0x0400, BS_BOTTOM := 0x0800 - , BS_VCENTER := 0x0C00, BS_BITMAP := 0x0080 - , BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_LEFT := 0, BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_RIGHT := 1, BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_CENTER := 4 - , ILC_COLOR32 := 0x20 - , OBJ_BITMAP := 7 - , RCBUTTONS := BS_CHECKBOX | BS_RADIOBUTTON | BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON - , SA_LEFT := 0x00, SA_CENTER := 0x01, SA_RIGHT := 0x02 - , WM_GETFONT := 0x31 - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - This.LastError := "" - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Check HWND - If !DllCall("User32.dll\IsWindow", "Ptr", HWND) - Return This.SetError("Invalid parameter HWND!") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Check Options - If !(IsObject(Options)) || (Options.MinIndex() <> 1) || (Options.MaxIndex() > This.MaxOptions) - Return This.SetError("Invalid parameter Options!") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Get and check control's class and styles - WinGetClass, BtnClass, ahk_id %HWND% - ControlGet, BtnStyle, Style, , , ahk_id %HWND% - If (BtnClass != "Button") || ((BtnStyle & 0xF ^ BS_GROUPBOX) = 0) || ((BtnStyle & RCBUTTONS) > 1) - Return This.SetError("The control must be a pushbutton!") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Load GdiPlus - If !This.GdiplusStartup() - Return This.SetError("GDIPlus could not be started!") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Get the button's font - GDIPFont := 0 - HFONT := DllCall("User32.dll\SendMessage", "Ptr", HWND, "UInt", WM_GETFONT, "Ptr", 0, "Ptr", 0, "Ptr") - DC := DllCall("User32.dll\GetDC", "Ptr", HWND, "Ptr") - DllCall("Gdi32.dll\SelectObject", "Ptr", DC, "Ptr", HFONT) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateFontFromDC", "Ptr", DC, "PtrP", PFONT) - DllCall("User32.dll\ReleaseDC", "Ptr", HWND, "Ptr", DC) - If !(PFONT) - Return This.SetError("Couldn't get button's font!") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Get the button's rectangle - VarSetCapacity(RECT, 16, 0) - If !DllCall("User32.dll\GetWindowRect", "Ptr", HWND, "Ptr", &RECT) - Return This.SetError("Couldn't get button's rectangle!") - BtnW := NumGet(RECT, 8, "Int") - NumGet(RECT, 0, "Int") - BtnH := NumGet(RECT, 12, "Int") - NumGet(RECT, 4, "Int") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Get the button's caption - ControlGetText, BtnCaption, , ahk_id %HWND% - If (ErrorLevel) - Return This.SetError("Couldn't get button's caption!") - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Create the bitmap(s) - This.BitMaps := [] - For Index, Option In Options { - If !IsObject(Option) - Continue - BkgColor1 := BkgColor2 := TxtColor := Mode := Rounded := GuiColor := Image := "" - ; Replace omitted options with the values of Options.1 - Loop, % This.MaxOptions { - If (Option[A_Index] = "") - Option[A_Index] := Options.1[A_Index] - } - ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Check option values - ; Mode - Mode := SubStr(Option.1, 1 ,1) - If !InStr("0123456789", Mode) - Return This.SetError("Invalid value for Mode in Options[" . Index . "]!") - ; StartColor & TargetColor - If (Mode = 0) - && (FileExist(Option.2) || (DllCall("Gdi32.dll\GetObjectType", "Ptr", Option.2, "UInt") = OBJ_BITMAP)) - Image := Option.2 - Else { - If !(Option.2 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.2) - Return This.SetError("Invalid value for StartColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") - BkgColor1 := This.GetARGB(Option.2) - If (Option.3 = "") - Option.3 := Option.2 - If !(Option.3 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.3) - Return This.SetError("Invalid value for TargetColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") - BkgColor2 := This.GetARGB(Option.3) - } - ; TextColor - If (Option.4 = "") - Option.4 := This.DefTxtColor - If !(Option.4 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.4) - Return This.SetError("Invalid value for TxtColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") - TxtColor := This.GetARGB(Option.4) - ; Rounded - Rounded := Option.5 - If (Rounded = "H") - Rounded := BtnH * 0.5 - If (Rounded = "W") - Rounded := BtnW * 0.5 - If !(Rounded + 0) - Rounded := 0 - ; GuiColor - If (Option.6 = "") - Option.6 := This.DefGuiColor - If !(Option.6 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.6) - Return This.SetError("Invalid value for GuiColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") - GuiColor := This.GetARGB(Option.6) - ; BorderColor - BorderColor := "" - If (Option.7 <> "") { - If !(Option.7 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.7) - Return This.SetError("Invalid value for BorderColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") - BorderColor := 0xFF000000 | This.GetARGB(Option.7) ; BorderColor must be always opaque - } - ; BorderWidth - BorderWidth := Option.8 ? Option.8 : 1 - ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Create a GDI+ bitmap - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0", "Int", BtnW, "Int", BtnH, "Int", 0 - , "UInt", 0x26200A, "Ptr", 0, "PtrP", PBITMAP) - ; Get the pointer to its graphics - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipGetImageGraphicsContext", "Ptr", PBITMAP, "PtrP", PGRAPHICS) - ; Quality settings - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetSmoothingMode", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", 4) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetInterpolationMode", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Int", 7) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetCompositingQuality", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", 4) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetRenderingOrigin", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Int", 0, "Int", 0) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPixelOffsetMode", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", 4) - ; Clear the background - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipGraphicsClear", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", GuiColor) - ; Create the image - If (Image = "") { ; Create a BitMap based on the specified colors - PathX := PathY := 0, PathW := BtnW, PathH := BtnH - ; Create a GraphicsPath - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreatePath", "UInt", 0, "PtrP", PPATH) - If (Rounded < 1) ; the path is a rectangular rectangle - This.PathAddRectangle(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH) - Else ; the path is a rounded rectangle - This.PathAddRoundedRect(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH, Rounded) - ; If BorderColor and BorderWidth are specified, 'draw' the border (not for Mode 7) - If (BorderColor <> "") && (BorderWidth > 0) && (Mode <> 7) { - ; Create a SolidBrush - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", BorderColor, "PtrP", PBRUSH) - ; Fill the path - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) - ; Free the brush - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteBrush", "Ptr", PBRUSH) - ; Reset the path - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipResetPath", "Ptr", PPATH) - ; Add a new 'inner' path - PathX := PathY := BorderWidth, PathW -= BorderWidth, PathH -= BorderWidth, Rounded -= BorderWidth - If (Rounded < 1) ; the path is a rectangular rectangle - This.PathAddRectangle(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW - PathX, PathH - PathY) - Else ; the path is a rounded rectangle - This.PathAddRoundedRect(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH, Rounded) - ; If a BorderColor has been drawn, BkgColors must be opaque - BkgColor1 := 0xFF000000 | BkgColor1 - BkgColor2 := 0xFF000000 | BkgColor2 - } - PathW -= PathX - PathH -= PathY - If (Mode = 0) { ; the background is unicolored - ; Create a SolidBrush - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", BkgColor1, "PtrP", PBRUSH) - ; Fill the path - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) - } - Else If (Mode = 1) || (Mode = 2) { ; the background is bicolored - ; Create a LineGradientBrush - This.SetRectF(RECTF, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateLineBrushFromRect", "Ptr", &RECTF - , "UInt", BkgColor1, "UInt", BkgColor2, "Int", Mode & 1, "Int", 3, "PtrP", PBRUSH) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetLineGammaCorrection", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Int", 1) - ; Set up colors and positions - This.SetRect(COLORS, BkgColor1, BkgColor1, BkgColor2, BkgColor2) ; sorry for function misuse - This.SetRectF(POSITIONS, 0, 0.5, 0.5, 1) ; sorry for function misuse - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetLinePresetBlend", "Ptr", PBRUSH - , "Ptr", &COLORS, "Ptr", &POSITIONS, "Int", 4) - ; Fill the path - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) - } - Else If (Mode >= 3) && (Mode <= 6) { ; the background is a gradient - ; Determine the brush's width/height - W := Mode = 6 ? PathW / 2 : PathW ; horizontal - H := Mode = 5 ? PathH / 2 : PathH ; vertical - ; Create a LineGradientBrush - This.SetRectF(RECTF, PathX, PathY, W, H) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateLineBrushFromRect", "Ptr", &RECTF - , "UInt", BkgColor1, "UInt", BkgColor2, "Int", Mode & 1, "Int", 3, "PtrP", PBRUSH) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetLineGammaCorrection", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Int", 1) - ; Fill the path - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) - } - Else { ; raised mode - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreatePathGradientFromPath", "Ptr", PPATH, "PtrP", PBRUSH) - ; Set Gamma Correction - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientGammaCorrection", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "UInt", 1) - ; Set surround and center colors - VarSetCapacity(ColorArray, 4, 0) - NumPut(BkgColor1, ColorArray, 0, "UInt") - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientSurroundColorsWithCount", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", &ColorArray - , "IntP", 1) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientCenterColor", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "UInt", BkgColor2) - ; Set the FocusScales - FS := (BtnH < BtnW ? BtnH : BtnW) / 3 - XScale := (BtnW - FS) / BtnW - YScale := (BtnH - FS) / BtnH - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientFocusScales", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Float", XScale, "Float", YScale) - ; Fill the path - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) - } - ; Free resources - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteBrush", "Ptr", PBRUSH) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeletePath", "Ptr", PPATH) - } Else { ; Create a bitmap from HBITMAP or file - If (Image + 0) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateBitmapFromHBITMAP", "Ptr", Image, "Ptr", 0, "PtrP", PBM) - Else - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateBitmapFromFile", "WStr", Image, "PtrP", PBM) - ; Draw the bitmap - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDrawImageRectI", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBM, "Int", 0, "Int", 0 - , "Int", BtnW, "Int", BtnH) - ; Free the bitmap - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDisposeImage", "Ptr", PBM) - } - ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Draw the caption - If (BtnCaption <> "") { - ; Create a StringFormat object - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipStringFormatGetGenericTypographic", "PtrP", HFORMAT) - ; Text color - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", TxtColor, "PtrP", PBRUSH) - ; Horizontal alignment - HALIGN := (BtnStyle & BS_CENTER) = BS_CENTER ? SA_CENTER - : (BtnStyle & BS_CENTER) = BS_RIGHT ? SA_RIGHT - : (BtnStyle & BS_CENTER) = BS_Left ? SA_LEFT - : SA_CENTER - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetStringFormatAlign", "Ptr", HFORMAT, "Int", HALIGN) - ; Vertical alignment - VALIGN := (BtnStyle & BS_VCENTER) = BS_TOP ? 0 - : (BtnStyle & BS_VCENTER) = BS_BOTTOM ? 2 - : 1 - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetStringFormatLineAlign", "Ptr", HFORMAT, "Int", VALIGN) - ; Set render quality to system default - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetTextRenderingHint", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Int", 0) - ; Set the text's rectangle - VarSetCapacity(RECT, 16, 0) - NumPut(BtnW, RECT, 8, "Float") - NumPut(BtnH, RECT, 12, "Float") - ; Draw the text - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDrawString", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "WStr", BtnCaption, "Int", -1 - , "Ptr", PFONT, "Ptr", &RECT, "Ptr", HFORMAT, "Ptr", PBRUSH) - } - ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Create a HBITMAP handle from the bitmap and add it to the array - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap", "Ptr", PBITMAP, "PtrP", HBITMAP, "UInt", 0X00FFFFFF) - This.BitMaps[Index] := HBITMAP - ; Free resources - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDisposeImage", "Ptr", PBITMAP) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteBrush", "Ptr", PBRUSH) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteStringFormat", "Ptr", HFORMAT) - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteGraphics", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS) - ; Add the bitmap to the array - } - ; Now free the font object - DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteFont", "Ptr", PFONT) - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; Create the ImageList - HIL := DllCall("Comctl32.dll\ImageList_Create" - , "UInt", BtnW, "UInt", BtnH, "UInt", ILC_COLOR32, "Int", 6, "Int", 0, "Ptr") - Loop, % (This.BitMaps.MaxIndex() > 1 ? 6 : 1) { - HBITMAP := This.BitMaps.HasKey(A_Index) ? This.BitMaps[A_Index] : This.BitMaps.1 - DllCall("Comctl32.dll\ImageList_Add", "Ptr", HIL, "Ptr", HBITMAP, "Ptr", 0) - } - ; Create a BUTTON_IMAGELIST structure - VarSetCapacity(BIL, 20 + A_PtrSize, 0) - NumPut(HIL, BIL, 0, "Ptr") - Numput(BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_CENTER, BIL, A_PtrSize + 16, "UInt") - ; Hide buttons's caption - ControlSetText, , , ahk_id %HWND% - Control, Style, +%BS_BITMAP%, , ahk_id %HWND% - ; Assign the ImageList to the button - SendMessage, %BCM_SETIMAGELIST%, 0, 0, , ahk_id %HWND% - SendMessage, %BCM_SETIMAGELIST%, 0, % &BIL, , ahk_id %HWND% - ; Free the bitmaps - This.FreeBitmaps() - ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ; All done successfully - This.GdiplusShutdown() - Return True - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - ; Set the default GUI color - SetGuiColor(GuiColor) { - ; GuiColor - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). - If !(GuiColor + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(GuiColor) - Return False - This.DefGuiColor := (This.HTML.HasKey(GuiColor) ? This.HTML[GuiColor] : GuiColor) & 0xFFFFFF - Return True - } - ; =================================================================================================================== - ; Set the default text color - SetTxtColor(TxtColor) { - ; TxtColor - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). - If !(TxtColor + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(TxtColor) - Return False - This.DefTxtColor := (This.HTML.HasKey(TxtColor) ? This.HTML[TxtColor] : TxtColor) & 0xFFFFFF - Return True - } +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Namespace: ImageButton +; Function: Create images and assign them to pushbuttons. +; Tested with: AHK 1.1.14.03 (A32/U32/U64) +; Tested on: Win 7 (x64) +; Change history: 1.4.00.00/2014-06-07/just me - fixed bug for button caption = "0", "000", etc. +; 1.3.00.00/2014-02-28/just me - added support for ARGB colors +; 1.2.00.00/2014-02-23/just me - added borders +; 1.1.00.00/2013-12-26/just me - added rounded and bicolored buttons +; 1.0.00.00/2013-12-21/just me - initial release +; How to use: +; 1. Create a push button (e.g. "Gui, Add, Button, vMyButton hwndHwndButton, Caption") using the 'Hwnd' option +; to get its HWND. +; 2. Call ImageButton.Create() passing two parameters: +; HWND - Button's HWND. +; Options* - variadic array containing up to 6 option arrays (see below). +; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +; The index of each option object determines the corresponding button state on which the bitmap will be shown. +; MSDN defines 6 states (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb775975): +; PBS_NORMAL = 1 +; PBS_HOT = 2 +; PBS_PRESSED = 3 +; PBS_DISABLED = 4 +; PBS_DEFAULTED = 5 +; PBS_STYLUSHOT = 6 <- used only on tablet computers (that's false for Windows Vista and 7, see below) +; If you don't want the button to be 'animated' on themed GUIs, just pass one option object with index 1. +; On Windows Vista and 7 themed bottons are 'animated' using the images of states 5 and 6 after clicked. +; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +; Each option array may contain the following values: +; Index Value +; 1 Mode mandatory: +; 0 - unicolored or bitmap +; 1 - vertical bicolored +; 2 - horizontal bicolored +; 3 - vertical gradient +; 4 - horizontal gradient +; 5 - vertical gradient using StartColor at both borders and TargetColor at the center +; 6 - horizontal gradient using StartColor at both borders and TargetColor at the center +; 7 - 'raised' style +; 2 StartColor mandatory for Option[1], higher indices will inherit the value of Option[1], if omitted: +; - ARGB integer value (0xAARRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). +; - Path of an image file or HBITMAP handle for mode 0. +; 3 TargetColor mandatory for Option[1] if Mode > 0, ignored if Mode = 0. Higher indcices will inherit +; the color of Option[1], if omitted: +; - ARGB integer value (0xAARRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). +; 4 TextColor optional, if omitted, the default text color will be used for Option[1], higher indices +; will inherit the color of Option[1]: +; - ARGB integer value (0xAARRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). +; Default: 0xFF000000 (black) +; 5 Rounded optional: +; - Radius of the rounded corners in pixel; the letters 'H' and 'W' may be specified +; also to use the half of the button's height or width respectively. +; Default: 0 - not rounded +; 6 GuiColor optional, needed for rounded buttons if you've changed the GUI background color: +; - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). +; Default: AHK default GUI background color +; 7 BorderColor optional, ignored for modes 0 (bitmap) and 7, color of the border: +; - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). +; 8 BorderWidth optional, ignored for modes 0 (bitmap) and 7, width of the border in pixels: +; - Default: 1 +; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +; If the the button has a caption it will be drawn above the bitmap. +; Credits: THX tic for GDIP.AHK : http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-198949.html +; THX tkoi for ILBUTTON.AHK : http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic40468.html +; ====================================================================================================================== +; This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. +; In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. +; ====================================================================================================================== +; ====================================================================================================================== +; CLASS ImageButton() +; ====================================================================================================================== +Class ImageButton { + ; =================================================================================================================== + ; PUBLIC PROPERTIES ================================================================================================= + ; =================================================================================================================== + Static DefGuiColor := "" ; default GUI color (read/write) + Static DefTxtColor := "Black" ; default caption color (read/write) + Static LastError := "" ; will contain the last error message, if any (readonly) + ; =================================================================================================================== + ; PRIVATE PROPERTIES ================================================================================================ + ; =================================================================================================================== + Static BitMaps := [] + Static GDIPDll := 0 + Static GDIPToken := 0 + Static MaxOptions := 8 + ; HTML colors + Static HTML := {BLACK: 0x000000, GRAY: 0x808080, SILVER: 0xC0C0C0, WHITE: 0xFFFFFF, MAROON: 0x800000 + , PURPLE: 0x800080, FUCHSIA: 0xFF00FF, RED: 0xFF0000, GREEN: 0x008000, OLIVE: 0x808000 + , YELLOW: 0xFFFF00, LIME: 0x00FF00, NAVY: 0x000080, TEAL: 0x008080, AQUA: 0x00FFFF, BLUE: 0x0000FF} + ; Initialize + Static ClassInit := ImageButton.InitClass() + ; =================================================================================================================== + ; PRIVATE METHODS =================================================================================================== + ; =================================================================================================================== + __New(P*) { + Return False + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + InitClass() { + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Get AHK's default GUI background color + GuiColor := DllCall("User32.dll\GetSysColor", "Int", 15, "UInt") ; COLOR_3DFACE is used by AHK as default + This.DefGuiColor := ((GuiColor >> 16) & 0xFF) | (GuiColor & 0x00FF00) | ((GuiColor & 0xFF) << 16) + Return True + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + GdiplusStartup() { + This.GDIPDll := This.GDIPToken := 0 + If (This.GDIPDll := DllCall("Kernel32.dll\LoadLibrary", "Str", "Gdiplus.dll", "Ptr")) { + VarSetCapacity(SI, 24, 0) + Numput(1, SI, 0, "Int") + If !DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdiplusStartup", "PtrP", GDIPToken, "Ptr", &SI, "Ptr", 0) + This.GDIPToken := GDIPToken + Else + This.GdiplusShutdown() + } + Return This.GDIPToken + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + GdiplusShutdown() { + If This.GDIPToken + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdiplusShutdown", "Ptr", This.GDIPToken) + If This.GDIPDll + DllCall("Kernel32.dll\FreeLibrary", "Ptr", This.GDIPDll) + This.GDIPDll := This.GDIPToken := 0 + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + FreeBitmaps() { + For I, HBITMAP In This.BitMaps + DllCall("Gdi32.dll\DeleteObject", "Ptr", HBITMAP) + This.BitMaps := [] + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + GetARGB(RGB) { + ARGB := This.HTML.HasKey(RGB) ? This.HTML[RGB] : RGB + Return (ARGB & 0xFF000000) = 0 ? 0xFF000000 | ARGB : ARGB + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + PathAddRectangle(Path, X, Y, W, H) { + Return DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathRectangle", "Ptr", Path, "Float", X, "Float", Y, "Float", W, "Float", H) + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + PathAddRoundedRect(Path, X1, Y1, X2, Y2, R) { + D := (R * 2), X2 -= D, Y2 -= D + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" + , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X1, "Float", Y1, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 180, "Float", 90) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" + , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X2, "Float", Y1, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 270, "Float", 90) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" + , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X2, "Float", Y2, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 0, "Float", 90) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipAddPathArc" + , "Ptr", Path, "Float", X1, "Float", Y2, "Float", D, "Float", D, "Float", 90, "Float", 90) + Return DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipClosePathFigure", "Ptr", Path) + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + SetRect(ByRef Rect, X1, Y1, X2, Y2) { + VarSetCapacity(Rect, 16, 0) + NumPut(X1, Rect, 0, "Int"), NumPut(Y1, Rect, 4, "Int") + NumPut(X2, Rect, 8, "Int"), NumPut(Y2, Rect, 12, "Int") + Return True + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + SetRectF(ByRef Rect, X, Y, W, H) { + VarSetCapacity(Rect, 16, 0) + NumPut(X, Rect, 0, "Float"), NumPut(Y, Rect, 4, "Float") + NumPut(W, Rect, 8, "Float"), NumPut(H, Rect, 12, "Float") + Return True + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + SetError(Msg) { + This.FreeBitmaps() + This.GdiplusShutdown() + This.LastError := Msg + Return False + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + ; PUBLIC METHODS ==================================================================================================== + ; =================================================================================================================== + Create(HWND, Options*) { + ; Windows constants + Static BCM_SETIMAGELIST := 0x1602 + , BS_CHECKBOX := 0x02, BS_RADIOBUTTON := 0x04, BS_GROUPBOX := 0x07, BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON := 0x09 + , BS_LEFT := 0x0100, BS_RIGHT := 0x0200, BS_CENTER := 0x0300, BS_TOP := 0x0400, BS_BOTTOM := 0x0800 + , BS_VCENTER := 0x0C00, BS_BITMAP := 0x0080 + , BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_LEFT := 0, BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_RIGHT := 1, BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_CENTER := 4 + , ILC_COLOR32 := 0x20 + , OBJ_BITMAP := 7 + , RCBUTTONS := BS_CHECKBOX | BS_RADIOBUTTON | BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON + , SA_LEFT := 0x00, SA_CENTER := 0x01, SA_RIGHT := 0x02 + , WM_GETFONT := 0x31 + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + This.LastError := "" + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Check HWND + If !DllCall("User32.dll\IsWindow", "Ptr", HWND) + Return This.SetError("Invalid parameter HWND!") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Check Options + If !(IsObject(Options)) || (Options.MinIndex() <> 1) || (Options.MaxIndex() > This.MaxOptions) + Return This.SetError("Invalid parameter Options!") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Get and check control's class and styles + WinGetClass, BtnClass, ahk_id %HWND% + ControlGet, BtnStyle, Style, , , ahk_id %HWND% + If (BtnClass != "Button") || ((BtnStyle & 0xF ^ BS_GROUPBOX) = 0) || ((BtnStyle & RCBUTTONS) > 1) + Return This.SetError("The control must be a pushbutton!") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Load GdiPlus + If !This.GdiplusStartup() + Return This.SetError("GDIPlus could not be started!") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Get the button's font + GDIPFont := 0 + HFONT := DllCall("User32.dll\SendMessage", "Ptr", HWND, "UInt", WM_GETFONT, "Ptr", 0, "Ptr", 0, "Ptr") + DC := DllCall("User32.dll\GetDC", "Ptr", HWND, "Ptr") + DllCall("Gdi32.dll\SelectObject", "Ptr", DC, "Ptr", HFONT) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateFontFromDC", "Ptr", DC, "PtrP", PFONT) + DllCall("User32.dll\ReleaseDC", "Ptr", HWND, "Ptr", DC) + If !(PFONT) + Return This.SetError("Couldn't get button's font!") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Get the button's rectangle + VarSetCapacity(RECT, 16, 0) + If !DllCall("User32.dll\GetWindowRect", "Ptr", HWND, "Ptr", &RECT) + Return This.SetError("Couldn't get button's rectangle!") + BtnW := NumGet(RECT, 8, "Int") - NumGet(RECT, 0, "Int") + BtnH := NumGet(RECT, 12, "Int") - NumGet(RECT, 4, "Int") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Get the button's caption + ControlGetText, BtnCaption, , ahk_id %HWND% + If (ErrorLevel) + Return This.SetError("Couldn't get button's caption!") + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Create the bitmap(s) + This.BitMaps := [] + For Index, Option In Options { + If !IsObject(Option) + Continue + BkgColor1 := BkgColor2 := TxtColor := Mode := Rounded := GuiColor := Image := "" + ; Replace omitted options with the values of Options.1 + Loop, % This.MaxOptions { + If (Option[A_Index] = "") + Option[A_Index] := Options.1[A_Index] + } + ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Check option values + ; Mode + Mode := SubStr(Option.1, 1 ,1) + If !InStr("0123456789", Mode) + Return This.SetError("Invalid value for Mode in Options[" . Index . "]!") + ; StartColor & TargetColor + If (Mode = 0) + && (FileExist(Option.2) || (DllCall("Gdi32.dll\GetObjectType", "Ptr", Option.2, "UInt") = OBJ_BITMAP)) + Image := Option.2 + Else { + If !(Option.2 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.2) + Return This.SetError("Invalid value for StartColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") + BkgColor1 := This.GetARGB(Option.2) + If (Option.3 = "") + Option.3 := Option.2 + If !(Option.3 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.3) + Return This.SetError("Invalid value for TargetColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") + BkgColor2 := This.GetARGB(Option.3) + } + ; TextColor + If (Option.4 = "") + Option.4 := This.DefTxtColor + If !(Option.4 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.4) + Return This.SetError("Invalid value for TxtColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") + TxtColor := This.GetARGB(Option.4) + ; Rounded + Rounded := Option.5 + If (Rounded = "H") + Rounded := BtnH * 0.5 + If (Rounded = "W") + Rounded := BtnW * 0.5 + If !(Rounded + 0) + Rounded := 0 + ; GuiColor + If (Option.6 = "") + Option.6 := This.DefGuiColor + If !(Option.6 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.6) + Return This.SetError("Invalid value for GuiColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") + GuiColor := This.GetARGB(Option.6) + ; BorderColor + BorderColor := "" + If (Option.7 <> "") { + If !(Option.7 + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(Option.7) + Return This.SetError("Invalid value for BorderColor in Options[" . Index . "]!") + BorderColor := 0xFF000000 | This.GetARGB(Option.7) ; BorderColor must be always opaque + } + ; BorderWidth + BorderWidth := Option.8 ? Option.8 : 1 + ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Create a GDI+ bitmap + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0", "Int", BtnW, "Int", BtnH, "Int", 0 + , "UInt", 0x26200A, "Ptr", 0, "PtrP", PBITMAP) + ; Get the pointer to its graphics + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipGetImageGraphicsContext", "Ptr", PBITMAP, "PtrP", PGRAPHICS) + ; Quality settings + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetSmoothingMode", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", 4) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetInterpolationMode", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Int", 7) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetCompositingQuality", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", 4) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetRenderingOrigin", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Int", 0, "Int", 0) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPixelOffsetMode", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", 4) + ; Clear the background + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipGraphicsClear", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "UInt", GuiColor) + ; Create the image + If (Image = "") { ; Create a BitMap based on the specified colors + PathX := PathY := 0, PathW := BtnW, PathH := BtnH + ; Create a GraphicsPath + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreatePath", "UInt", 0, "PtrP", PPATH) + If (Rounded < 1) ; the path is a rectangular rectangle + This.PathAddRectangle(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH) + Else ; the path is a rounded rectangle + This.PathAddRoundedRect(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH, Rounded) + ; If BorderColor and BorderWidth are specified, 'draw' the border (not for Mode 7) + If (BorderColor <> "") && (BorderWidth > 0) && (Mode <> 7) { + ; Create a SolidBrush + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", BorderColor, "PtrP", PBRUSH) + ; Fill the path + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) + ; Free the brush + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteBrush", "Ptr", PBRUSH) + ; Reset the path + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipResetPath", "Ptr", PPATH) + ; Add a new 'inner' path + PathX := PathY := BorderWidth, PathW -= BorderWidth, PathH -= BorderWidth, Rounded -= BorderWidth + If (Rounded < 1) ; the path is a rectangular rectangle + This.PathAddRectangle(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW - PathX, PathH - PathY) + Else ; the path is a rounded rectangle + This.PathAddRoundedRect(PPATH, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH, Rounded) + ; If a BorderColor has been drawn, BkgColors must be opaque + BkgColor1 := 0xFF000000 | BkgColor1 + BkgColor2 := 0xFF000000 | BkgColor2 + } + PathW -= PathX + PathH -= PathY + If (Mode = 0) { ; the background is unicolored + ; Create a SolidBrush + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", BkgColor1, "PtrP", PBRUSH) + ; Fill the path + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) + } + Else If (Mode = 1) || (Mode = 2) { ; the background is bicolored + ; Create a LineGradientBrush + This.SetRectF(RECTF, PathX, PathY, PathW, PathH) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateLineBrushFromRect", "Ptr", &RECTF + , "UInt", BkgColor1, "UInt", BkgColor2, "Int", Mode & 1, "Int", 3, "PtrP", PBRUSH) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetLineGammaCorrection", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Int", 1) + ; Set up colors and positions + This.SetRect(COLORS, BkgColor1, BkgColor1, BkgColor2, BkgColor2) ; sorry for function misuse + This.SetRectF(POSITIONS, 0, 0.5, 0.5, 1) ; sorry for function misuse + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetLinePresetBlend", "Ptr", PBRUSH + , "Ptr", &COLORS, "Ptr", &POSITIONS, "Int", 4) + ; Fill the path + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) + } + Else If (Mode >= 3) && (Mode <= 6) { ; the background is a gradient + ; Determine the brush's width/height + W := Mode = 6 ? PathW / 2 : PathW ; horizontal + H := Mode = 5 ? PathH / 2 : PathH ; vertical + ; Create a LineGradientBrush + This.SetRectF(RECTF, PathX, PathY, W, H) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateLineBrushFromRect", "Ptr", &RECTF + , "UInt", BkgColor1, "UInt", BkgColor2, "Int", Mode & 1, "Int", 3, "PtrP", PBRUSH) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetLineGammaCorrection", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Int", 1) + ; Fill the path + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) + } + Else { ; raised mode + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreatePathGradientFromPath", "Ptr", PPATH, "PtrP", PBRUSH) + ; Set Gamma Correction + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientGammaCorrection", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "UInt", 1) + ; Set surround and center colors + VarSetCapacity(ColorArray, 4, 0) + NumPut(BkgColor1, ColorArray, 0, "UInt") + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientSurroundColorsWithCount", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", &ColorArray + , "IntP", 1) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientCenterColor", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "UInt", BkgColor2) + ; Set the FocusScales + FS := (BtnH < BtnW ? BtnH : BtnW) / 3 + XScale := (BtnW - FS) / BtnW + YScale := (BtnH - FS) / BtnH + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetPathGradientFocusScales", "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Float", XScale, "Float", YScale) + ; Fill the path + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipFillPath", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBRUSH, "Ptr", PPATH) + } + ; Free resources + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteBrush", "Ptr", PBRUSH) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeletePath", "Ptr", PPATH) + } Else { ; Create a bitmap from HBITMAP or file + If (Image + 0) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateBitmapFromHBITMAP", "Ptr", Image, "Ptr", 0, "PtrP", PBM) + Else + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateBitmapFromFile", "WStr", Image, "PtrP", PBM) + ; Draw the bitmap + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDrawImageRectI", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Ptr", PBM, "Int", 0, "Int", 0 + , "Int", BtnW, "Int", BtnH) + ; Free the bitmap + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDisposeImage", "Ptr", PBM) + } + ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Draw the caption + If (BtnCaption <> "") { + ; Create a StringFormat object + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipStringFormatGetGenericTypographic", "PtrP", HFORMAT) + ; Text color + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", TxtColor, "PtrP", PBRUSH) + ; Horizontal alignment + HALIGN := (BtnStyle & BS_CENTER) = BS_CENTER ? SA_CENTER + : (BtnStyle & BS_CENTER) = BS_RIGHT ? SA_RIGHT + : (BtnStyle & BS_CENTER) = BS_Left ? SA_LEFT + : SA_CENTER + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetStringFormatAlign", "Ptr", HFORMAT, "Int", HALIGN) + ; Vertical alignment + VALIGN := (BtnStyle & BS_VCENTER) = BS_TOP ? 0 + : (BtnStyle & BS_VCENTER) = BS_BOTTOM ? 2 + : 1 + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetStringFormatLineAlign", "Ptr", HFORMAT, "Int", VALIGN) + ; Set render quality to system default + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipSetTextRenderingHint", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "Int", 0) + ; Set the text's rectangle + VarSetCapacity(RECT, 16, 0) + NumPut(BtnW, RECT, 8, "Float") + NumPut(BtnH, RECT, 12, "Float") + ; Draw the text + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDrawString", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS, "WStr", BtnCaption, "Int", -1 + , "Ptr", PFONT, "Ptr", &RECT, "Ptr", HFORMAT, "Ptr", PBRUSH) + } + ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Create a HBITMAP handle from the bitmap and add it to the array + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap", "Ptr", PBITMAP, "PtrP", HBITMAP, "UInt", 0X00FFFFFF) + This.BitMaps[Index] := HBITMAP + ; Free resources + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDisposeImage", "Ptr", PBITMAP) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteBrush", "Ptr", PBRUSH) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteStringFormat", "Ptr", HFORMAT) + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteGraphics", "Ptr", PGRAPHICS) + ; Add the bitmap to the array + } + ; Now free the font object + DllCall("Gdiplus.dll\GdipDeleteFont", "Ptr", PFONT) + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; Create the ImageList + HIL := DllCall("Comctl32.dll\ImageList_Create" + , "UInt", BtnW, "UInt", BtnH, "UInt", ILC_COLOR32, "Int", 6, "Int", 0, "Ptr") + Loop, % (This.BitMaps.MaxIndex() > 1 ? 6 : 1) { + HBITMAP := This.BitMaps.HasKey(A_Index) ? This.BitMaps[A_Index] : This.BitMaps.1 + DllCall("Comctl32.dll\ImageList_Add", "Ptr", HIL, "Ptr", HBITMAP, "Ptr", 0) + } + ; Create a BUTTON_IMAGELIST structure + VarSetCapacity(BIL, 20 + A_PtrSize, 0) + NumPut(HIL, BIL, 0, "Ptr") + Numput(BUTTON_IMAGELIST_ALIGN_CENTER, BIL, A_PtrSize + 16, "UInt") + ; Hide buttons's caption + ControlSetText, , , ahk_id %HWND% + Control, Style, +%BS_BITMAP%, , ahk_id %HWND% + ; Assign the ImageList to the button + SendMessage, %BCM_SETIMAGELIST%, 0, 0, , ahk_id %HWND% + SendMessage, %BCM_SETIMAGELIST%, 0, % &BIL, , ahk_id %HWND% + ; Free the bitmaps + This.FreeBitmaps() + ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ; All done successfully + This.GdiplusShutdown() + Return True + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + ; Set the default GUI color + SetGuiColor(GuiColor) { + ; GuiColor - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). + If !(GuiColor + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(GuiColor) + Return False + This.DefGuiColor := (This.HTML.HasKey(GuiColor) ? This.HTML[GuiColor] : GuiColor) & 0xFFFFFF + Return True + } + ; =================================================================================================================== + ; Set the default text color + SetTxtColor(TxtColor) { + ; TxtColor - RGB integer value (0xRRGGBB) or HTML color name ("Red"). + If !(TxtColor + 0) && !This.HTML.HasKey(TxtColor) + Return False + This.DefTxtColor := (This.HTML.HasKey(TxtColor) ? This.HTML[TxtColor] : TxtColor) & 0xFFFFFF + Return True + } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/lib/Gdip_All.ahk b/lib/Gdip_All.ahk new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b965d79 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/Gdip_All.ahk @@ -0,0 +1,8849 @@ +; Gdip_All.ahk - GDI+ library compilation of user contributed GDI+ functions +; made by Marius Șucan: https://github.com/marius-sucan/AHK-GDIp-Library-Compilation +; a fork from: https://github.com/mmikeww/AHKv2-Gdip +; based on https://github.com/tariqporter/Gdip +; Supports: AHK_L / AHK_H Unicode/ANSI x86/x64 and AHK v2 alpha +; This file is the AHK v1.1 edition; for AHK v2 compatible edition, please see the repository. +; +; NOTES: The drawing of GDI+ Bitmaps is limited to a size +; of 32767 pixels in either direction (width, height). +; To calculate the largest bitmap you can create: +; The maximum object size is 2GB = 2,147,483,648 bytes +; Default bitmap is 32bpp (4 bytes), the largest area we can have is 2GB / 4 = 536,870,912 bytes +; If we want a square, the largest we can get is sqrt(2GB/4) = 23,170 pixels +; +; Gdip standard library versions: +; by Marius Șucan - gathered user-contributed functions and implemented hundreds of new functions +; - v1.85 on 24/08/2020 +; - v1.84 on 05/06/2020 +; - v1.83 on 24/05/2020 +; - v1.82 on 11/03/2020 +; - v1.81 on 25/02/2020 +; - v1.80 on 11/01/2019 +; - v1.79 on 10/28/2019 +; - v1.78 on 10/27/2019 +; - v1.77 on 10/06/2019 +; - v1.76 on 09/27/2019 +; - v1.75 on 09/23/2019 +; - v1.74 on 09/19/2019 +; - v1.73 on 09/17/2019 +; - v1.72 on 09/16/2019 +; - v1.71 on 09/15/2019 +; - v1.70 on 09/13/2019 +; - v1.69 on 09/12/2019 +; - v1.68 on 09/11/2019 +; - v1.67 on 09/10/2019 +; - v1.66 on 09/09/2019 +; - v1.65 on 09/08/2019 +; - v1.64 on 09/07/2019 +; - v1.63 on 09/06/2019 +; - v1.62 on 09/05/2019 +; - v1.61 on 09/04/2019 +; - v1.60 on 09/03/2019 +; - v1.59 on 09/01/2019 +; - v1.58 on 08/29/2019 +; - v1.57 on 08/23/2019 +; - v1.56 on 08/21/2019 +; - v1.55 on 08/14/2019 +; +; bug fixes and AHK v2 compatibility by mmikeww and others +; - v1.54 on 11/15/2017 +; - v1.53 on 06/19/2017 +; - v1.52 on 06/11/2017 +; - v1.51 on 01/27/2017 +; - v1.50 on 11/20/2016 +; +; - v1.47 on 02/20/2014 [?] +; +; modified by Rseding91 using fincs 64 bit compatible +; - v1.45 on 05/01/2013 +; +; by tic (Tariq Porter) +; - v1.45 on 07/09/2011 +; - v1.01 on 31/05/2008 +; +; Detailed history: +; - 24/08/2020 = Bug fixes and added Gdip_BlendBitmaps() and Gdip_SetAlphaChannel() +; - 05/06/2020 = Synchronized with mmikeww's repository and fixed a few bugs +; - 24/05/2020 = Added a few more functions and fixed or improved already exiting functions +; - 11/02/2020 = Imported updated MDMF functions from mmikeww, and AHK v2 examples, and other minor changes +; - 25/02/2020 = Added several new functions, including for color conversions [from Tidbit], improved/fixed several functions +; - 11/01/2019 = Implemented support for a private font file for Gdip_AddPathStringSimplified() +; - 10/28/2019 = Added 7 new GDI+ functions and fixes related to Gdip_CreateFontFamilyFromFile() +; - 10/27/2019 = Added 5 new GDI+ functions and bug fixes for Gdip_TestBitmapUniformity(), Gdip_RotateBitmapAtCenter() and Gdip_ResizeBitmap() +; - 10/06/2019 = Added more parameters to Gdip_GraphicsFromImage/HDC/HWND and added Gdip_GetPixelColor() +; - 09/27/2019 = bug fixes... +; - 09/23/2019 = Added 4 new functions and improved Gdip_CreateBitmap() [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/19/2019 = Added 4 new functions and improved Gdip_RotateBitmapAtCenter() [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/17/2019 = Added 6 new GDI+ functions and renamed curve related functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/16/2019 = Added 10 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/15/2019 = Added 3 new GDI+ functions and improved Gdip_DrawStringAlongPolygon() [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/13/2019 = Added 10 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/12/2019 = Added 6 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/11/2019 = Added 10 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/10/2019 = Added 17 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/09/2019 = Added 14 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/08/2019 = Added 3 new functions and fixed Gdip_SetPenDashArray() [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/07/2019 = Added 12 new functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/06/2019 = Added 14 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/05/2019 = Added 27 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/04/2019 = Added 36 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 09/03/2019 = Added about 37 new GDI+ functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 08/29/2019 = Fixed Gdip_GetPropertyTagName() [on AHK v2], Gdip_GetPenColor() and Gdip_GetSolidFillColor(), added Gdip_LoadImageFromFile() +; - 08/23/2019 = Added Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle2() and Gdip_DrawRoundedRectangle2(); extracted from Gdip2 by Tariq [tic] and corrected functions names +; - 08/21/2019 = Added GenerateColorMatrix() by Marius Șucan +; - 08/19/2019 = Added 12 functions. Extracted from a class wrapper for GDI+ written by nnnik in 2017. +; - 08/18/2019 = Added Gdip_AddPathRectangle() and eight PathGradient related functions by JustMe +; - 08/16/2019 = Added Gdip_DrawImageFX(), Gdip_CreateEffect() and other related functions [ Marius Șucan ] +; - 08/15/2019 = Added Gdip_DrawRoundedLine() by DevX and Rabiator +; - 08/15/2019 = Added 11 GraphicsPath related functions by "Learning one" and updated by Marius Șucan +; - 08/14/2019 = Added Gdip_IsVisiblePathPoint() and RotateAtCenter() by RazorHalo +; - 08/08/2019 = Added Gdi_GetDIBits() and Gdi_CreateDIBitmap() by Marius Șucan +; - 07/19/2019 = Added Gdip_GetHistogram() by swagfag and GetProperty GDI+ functions by JustMe +; - 11/15/2017 = compatibility with both AHK v2 and v1, restored by nnnik +; - 06/19/2017 = Fixed few bugs from old syntax by Bartlomiej Uliasz +; - 06/11/2017 = made code compatible with new AHK v2.0-a079-be5df98 by Bartlomiej Uliasz +; - 01/27/2017 = fixed some bugs and made #Warn All compatible by Bartlomiej Uliasz +; - 11/20/2016 = fixed Gdip_BitmapFromBRA() by 'just me' +; - 11/18/2016 = backward compatible support for both AHK v1.1 and AHK v2 +; - 11/15/2016 = initial AHK v2 support by guest3456 +; - 02/20/2014 = fixed Gdip_CreateRegion() and Gdip_GetClipRegion() on AHK Unicode x86 +; - 05/13/2013 = fixed Gdip_SetBitmapToClipboard() on AHK Unicode x64 +; - 07/09/2011 = v1.45 release by tic (Tariq Porter) +; - 31/05/2008 = v1.01 release by tic (Tariq Porter) +; +;##################################################################################### +; STATUS ENUMERATION +; Return values for functions specified to have status enumerated return type +;##################################################################################### +; +; Ok = = 0 +; GenericError = 1 +; InvalidParameter = 2 +; OutOfMemory = 3 +; ObjectBusy = 4 +; InsufficientBuffer = 5 +; NotImplemented = 6 +; Win32Error = 7 +; WrongState = 8 +; Aborted = 9 +; FileNotFound = 10 +; ValueOverflow = 11 +; AccessDenied = 12 +; UnknownImageFormat = 13 +; FontFamilyNotFound = 14 +; FontStyleNotFound = 15 +; NotTrueTypeFont = 16 +; UnsupportedGdiplusVersion= 17 +; GdiplusNotInitialized = 18 +; PropertyNotFound = 19 +; PropertyNotSupported = 20 +; ProfileNotFound = 21 +; +;##################################################################################### +; FUNCTIONS LIST +; See functions-list.txt file. +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: UpdateLayeredWindow +; Description: Updates a layered window with the handle to the DC of a gdi bitmap +; +; hwnd Handle of the layered window to update +; hdc Handle to the DC of the GDI bitmap to update the window with +; x, y x, y coordinates to place the window +; w, h Width and height of the window +; Alpha Default = 255 : The transparency (0-255) to set the window transparency +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero +; +; notes If x or y are omitted, the layered window will use its current coordinates +; If w or h are omitted, the current width and height will be used + +UpdateLayeredWindow(hwnd, hdcSrc, x:="", y:="", w:="", h:="", Alpha:=255) { + if (x!="" && y!="") + { + VarSetCapacity(pt, 8) + NumPut(x, pt, 0, "UInt") + NumPut(y, pt, 4, "UInt") + } + + if (w="" || h="") + GetWindowRect(hwnd, W, H) + + return DllCall("UpdateLayeredWindow" + , "UPtr", hwnd + , "UPtr", 0 + , "UPtr", ((x = "") && (y = "")) ? 0 : &pt + , "int64*", w|h<<32 + , "UPtr", hdcSrc + , "Int64*", 0 + , "UInt", 0 + , "UInt*", Alpha<<16|1<<24 + , "UInt", 2) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function BitBlt +; Description The BitBlt function performs a bit-block transfer of the color data corresponding to a rectangle +; of pixels from the specified source device context into a destination device context. +; +; dDC handle to destination DC +; dX, dY x, y coordinates of the destination upper-left corner +; dW, dH width and height of the area to copy +; sDC handle to source DC +; sX, sY x, y coordinates of the source upper-left corner +; Raster raster operation code +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero +; +; notes If no raster operation is specified, then SRCCOPY is used, which copies the source directly to the destination rectangle +; +; Raster operation codes: +; BLACKNESS = 0x00000042 +; NOTSRCERASE = 0x001100A6 +; NOTSRCCOPY = 0x00330008 +; SRCERASE = 0x00440328 +; DSTINVERT = 0x00550009 +; PATINVERT = 0x005A0049 +; SRCINVERT = 0x00660046 +; SRCAND = 0x008800C6 +; MERGEPAINT = 0x00BB0226 +; MERGECOPY = 0x00C000CA +; SRCCOPY = 0x00CC0020 +; SRCPAINT = 0x00EE0086 +; PATCOPY = 0x00F00021 +; PATPAINT = 0x00FB0A09 +; WHITENESS = 0x00FF0062 +; CAPTUREBLT = 0x40000000 +; NOMIRRORBITMAP = 0x80000000 + +BitBlt(ddc, dx, dy, dw, dh, sdc, sx, sy, raster:="") { +; This function works only with GDI hBitmaps that +; are Device-Dependent Bitmaps [DDB]. + + return DllCall("gdi32\BitBlt" + , "UPtr", dDC + , "int", dX, "int", dY + , "int", dW, "int", dH + , "UPtr", sDC + , "int", sX, "int", sY + , "uint", Raster ? Raster : 0x00CC0020) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function StretchBlt +; Description The StretchBlt function copies a bitmap from a source rectangle into a destination rectangle, +; stretching or compressing the bitmap to fit the dimensions of the destination rectangle, if necessary. +; The system stretches or compresses the bitmap according to the stretching mode currently set in the destination device context. +; +; ddc handle to destination DC +; dX, dY x, y coordinates of the destination upper-left corner +; dW, dH width and height of the destination rectangle +; sdc handle to source DC +; sX, sY x, y coordinates of the source upper-left corner +; sW, sH width and height of the source rectangle +; Raster raster operation code +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero +; +; notes If no raster operation is specified, then SRCCOPY is used. It uses the same raster operations as BitBlt + +StretchBlt(ddc, dx, dy, dw, dh, sdc, sx, sy, sw, sh, Raster:="") { + return DllCall("gdi32\StretchBlt" + , "UPtr", ddc + , "int", dX, "int", dY + , "int", dW, "int", dH + , "UPtr", sdc + , "int", sX, "int", sY + , "int", sW, "int", sH + , "uint", Raster ? Raster : 0x00CC0020) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function SetStretchBltMode +; Description The SetStretchBltMode function sets the bitmap stretching mode in the specified device context +; +; hdc handle to the DC +; iStretchMode The stretching mode, describing how the target will be stretched +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is the previous stretching mode. If it fails it will return 0 +; + +SetStretchBltMode(hdc, iStretchMode:=4) { +; iStretchMode options: +; BLACKONWHITE = 1 +; COLORONCOLOR = 3 +; HALFTONE = 4 +; WHITEONBLACK = 2 +; STRETCH_ANDSCANS = BLACKONWHITE +; STRETCH_DELETESCANS = COLORONCOLOR +; STRETCH_HALFTONE = HALFTONE +; STRETCH_ORSCANS = WHITEONBLACK + + return DllCall("gdi32\SetStretchBltMode" + , "UPtr", hdc, "int", iStretchMode) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function SetImage +; Description Associates a new image with a static control +; +; hwnd handle of the control to update +; hBitmap a gdi bitmap to associate the static control with +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero + +SetImage(hwnd, hBitmap) { +; STM_SETIMAGE = 0x172 +; Example: Gui, Add, Text, 0xE w500 h300 hwndhPic ; SS_Bitmap = 0xE + If (!hBitmap || !hwnd) + Return + + E := DllCall("SendMessage", "UPtr", hwnd, "UInt", 0x172, "UInt", 0x0, Ptr, hBitmap) + DeleteObject(E) + return E +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function SetSysColorToControl +; Description Sets a solid colour to a control +; +; hwnd handle of the control to update +; SysColor A system colour to set to the control +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is zero +; +; notes A control must have the 0xE style set to it so it is recognised as a bitmap +; By default SysColor=15 is used which is COLOR_3DFACE. This is the standard background for a control + +SetSysColorToControl(hwnd, SysColor:=15) { +; SysColor options: +; 3DDKSHADOW = 21 +; 3DFACE = 15 +; 3DHIGHLIGHT = 20 +; 3DHILIGHT = 20 +; 3DLIGHT = 22 +; 3DSHADOW = 16 +; ACTIVEBORDER = 10 +; ACTIVECAPTION = 2 +; APPWORKSPACE = 12 +; BACKGROUND = 1 +; BTNFACE = 15 +; BTNHIGHLIGHT = 20 +; BTNHILIGHT = 20 +; BTNSHADOW = 16 +; BTNTEXT = 18 +; CAPTIONTEXT = 9 +; DESKTOP = 1 +; GRADIENTACTIVECAPTION 27 +; GRADIENTINACTIVECAPTION = 28 +; GRAYTEXT = 17 +; HIGHLIGHT = 13 +; HIGHLIGHTTEXT = 14 +; HOTLIGHT = 26 +; INACTIVEBORDER = 11 +; INACTIVECAPTION = 3 +; INACTIVECAPTIONTEXT = 19 +; INFOBK = 24 +; INFOTEXT = 23 +; MENU = 4 +; MENUHILIGHT = 29 +; MENUBAR = 30 +; MENUTEXT = 7 +; SCROLLBAR = 0 +; WINDOW = 5 +; WINDOWFRAME = 6 +; WINDOWTEXT = 8 + + GetWindowRect(hwnd, W, H) + bc := DllCall("GetSysColor", "Int", SysColor, "UInt") + pBrushClear := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(0xff000000 | (bc >> 16 | bc & 0xff00 | (bc & 0xff) << 16)) + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(w, h) + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap) + Gdip_FillRectangle(G, pBrushClear, 0, 0, w, h) + hBitmap := Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(pBitmap) + SetImage(hwnd, hBitmap) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrushClear) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap) + DeleteObject(hBitmap) + return 0 +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_BitmapFromScreen +; Description Gets a gdi+ bitmap from the screen +; +; Screen 0 = All screens +; Any numerical value = Just that screen +; x|y|w|h = Take specific coordinates with a width and height +; Raster raster operation code +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is a pointer to a gdi+ bitmap +; -1: one or more of x,y,w,h parameters were not passed properly +; +; notes If no raster operation is specified, then SRCCOPY is used to the returned bitmap + +Gdip_BitmapFromScreen(Screen:=0, Raster:="") { + hhdc := 0 + if (Screen = 0) + { + _x := DllCall("GetSystemMetrics", "Int", 76) + _y := DllCall("GetSystemMetrics", "Int", 77) + _w := DllCall("GetSystemMetrics", "Int", 78) + _h := DllCall("GetSystemMetrics", "Int", 79) + } else if (SubStr(Screen, 1, 5) = "hwnd:") + { + hwnd := SubStr(Screen, 6) + if !WinExist("ahk_id " hwnd) + return -2 + + GetWindowRect(hwnd, _w, _h) + _x := _y := 0 + hhdc := GetDCEx(hwnd, 3) + } else if IsInteger(Screen) + { + M := GetMonitorInfo(Screen) + _x := M.Left, _y := M.Top, _w := M.Right-M.Left, _h := M.Bottom-M.Top + } else + { + S := StrSplit(Screen, "|") + _x := S[1], _y := S[2], _w := S[3], _h := S[4] + } + + if (_x = "") || (_y = "") || (_w = "") || (_h = "") + return -1 + + chdc := CreateCompatibleDC() + hbm := CreateDIBSection(_w, _h, chdc) + obm := SelectObject(chdc, hbm) + hhdc := hhdc ? hhdc : GetDC() + BitBlt(chdc, 0, 0, _w, _h, hhdc, _x, _y, Raster) + ReleaseDC(hhdc) + + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hbm) + SelectObject(chdc, obm), DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(hhdc), DeleteDC(chdc) + return pBitmap +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_BitmapFromHWND +; Description Uses PrintWindow to get a handle to the specified window and return a bitmap from it +; +; hwnd handle to the window to get a bitmap from +; clientOnly capture only the client area of the window, without title bar and border +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is a pointer to a gdi+ bitmap + +Gdip_BitmapFromHWND(hwnd, clientOnly:=0) { + ; Restore the window if minimized! Must be visible for capture. + if DllCall("IsIconic", "ptr", hwnd) + DllCall("ShowWindow", "ptr", hwnd, "int", 4) + + thisFlag := 0 + If (clientOnly=1) + { + VarSetCapacity(rc, 16, 0) + DllCall("GetClientRect", "ptr", hwnd, "ptr", &rc) + Width := NumGet(rc, 8, "int") + Height := NumGet(rc, 12, "int") + thisFlag := 1 + } Else GetWindowRect(hwnd, Width, Height) + + hbm := CreateDIBSection(Width, Height) + hdc := CreateCompatibleDC() + obm := SelectObject(hdc, hbm) + PrintWindow(hwnd, hdc, 2 + thisFlag) + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hbm) + SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(hdc) + return pBitmap +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function CreateRectF +; Description Creates a RectF object, containing a the coordinates and dimensions of a rectangle +; +; RectF Name to call the RectF object +; x, y x, y coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangle +; w, h Width and height of the rectangle +; +; return No return value + +CreateRectF(ByRef RectF, x, y, w, h) { + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16) + NumPut(x, RectF, 0, "float"), NumPut(y, RectF, 4, "float") + NumPut(w, RectF, 8, "float"), NumPut(h, RectF, 12, "float") +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function CreateRect +; Description Creates a Rect object, containing a the coordinates and dimensions of a rectangle +; +; Rect Name to call the Rect object +; x, y x, y coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangle +; x2, y2 x, y coordinates of the bottom right corner of the rectangle + +; return No return value + +CreateRect(ByRef Rect, x, y, x2, y2) { +; modified by Marius Șucan according to dangerdogL2121 +; found on https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-93 + + VarSetCapacity(Rect, 16) + NumPut(x, Rect, 0, "uint"), NumPut(y, Rect, 4, "uint") + NumPut(x2, Rect, 8, "uint"), NumPut(y2, Rect, 12, "uint") +} +;##################################################################################### + +; Function CreateSizeF +; Description Creates a SizeF object, containing an 2 values +; +; SizeF Name to call the SizeF object +; w, h width and height values for the SizeF object +; +; return No Return value + +CreateSizeF(ByRef SizeF, w, h) { + VarSetCapacity(SizeF, 8) + NumPut(w, SizeF, 0, "float"), NumPut(h, SizeF, 4, "float") +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function CreatePointF +; Description Creates a SizeF object, containing two values +; +; SizeF Name to call the SizeF object +; x, y x, y values for the SizeF object +; +; return No Return value + +CreatePointF(ByRef PointF, x, y) { + VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8) + NumPut(x, PointF, 0, "float") + NumPut(y, PointF, 4, "float") +} + +CreatePointsF(ByRef PointsF, inPoints) { + Points := StrSplit(inPoints, "|") + PointsCount := Points.Length() + VarSetCapacity(PointsF, 8 * PointsCount, 0) + for eachPoint, Point in Points + { + Coord := StrSplit(Point, ",") + NumPut(Coord[1], &PointsF, 8*(A_Index-1), "float") + NumPut(Coord[2], &PointsF, (8*(A_Index-1))+4, "float") + } + Return PointsCount +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function CreateDIBSection +; Description The CreateDIBSection function creates a DIB (Device Independent Bitmap) that applications can write to directly +; +; w, h width and height of the bitmap to create +; hdc a handle to the device context to use the palette from +; bpp bits per pixel (32 = ARGB) +; ppvBits A pointer to a variable that receives a pointer to the location of the DIB bit values +; +; return returns a DIB. A gdi bitmap +; +; notes ppvBits will receive the location of the pixels in the DIB + +CreateDIBSection(w, h, hdc:="", bpp:=32, ByRef ppvBits:=0, Usage:=0, hSection:=0, Offset:=0) { +; A GDI function that creates a new hBitmap, +; a device-independent bitmap [DIB]. +; A DIB consists of two distinct parts: +; a BITMAPINFO structure describing the dimensions +; and colors of the bitmap, and an array of bytes +; defining the pixels of the bitmap. + + hdc2 := hdc ? hdc : GetDC() + VarSetCapacity(bi, 40, 0) + NumPut(40, bi, 0, "uint") + NumPut(w, bi, 4, "uint") + NumPut(h, bi, 8, "uint") + NumPut(1, bi, 12, "ushort") + NumPut(bpp, bi, 14, "ushort") + NumPut(0, bi, 16, "uInt") + + hbm := DllCall("CreateDIBSection" + , "UPtr", hdc2 + , "UPtr", &bi ; BITMAPINFO + , "UInt", Usage + , "UPtr*", ppvBits + , "UPtr", hSection + , "UInt", OffSet, "UPtr") + + if !hdc + ReleaseDC(hdc2) + return hbm +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function PrintWindow +; Description The PrintWindow function copies a visual window into the specified device context (DC), typically a printer DC +; +; hwnd A handle to the window that will be copied +; hdc A handle to the device context +; Flags Drawing options +; +; return If the function succeeds, it returns a nonzero value +; +; PW_CLIENTONLY = 1 + +PrintWindow(hwnd, hdc, Flags:=2) { +; set Flags to 2, to capture hardware accelerated windows +; this only applies on Windows 8.1 and later versions. + + If ((A_OSVersion="WIN_XP" || A_OSVersion="WIN_2000" || A_OSVersion="WIN_2003") && flags=2) + flags := 0 + + return DllCall("PrintWindow", "UPtr", hwnd, "UPtr", hdc, "uint", Flags) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function DestroyIcon +; Description Destroys an icon and frees any memory the icon occupied +; +; hIcon Handle to the icon to be destroyed. The icon must not be in use +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero + +DestroyIcon(hIcon) { + return DllCall("DestroyIcon", "UPtr", hIcon) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: GetIconDimensions +; Description: Retrieves a given icon/cursor's width and height +; +; hIcon Pointer to an icon or cursor +; Width, Height ByRef variables. These variables are set to the icon's width and height +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is zero, otherwise: +; -1 = Could not retrieve the icon's info. Check A_LastError for extended information +; -2 = Could not delete the icon's bitmask bitmap +; -3 = Could not delete the icon's color bitmap + +GetIconDimensions(hIcon, ByRef Width, ByRef Height) { + Width := Height := 0 + + VarSetCapacity(ICONINFO, size := 16 + 2 * A_PtrSize, 0) + if !DllCall("user32\GetIconInfo", "UPtr", hIcon, "UPtr", &ICONINFO) + return -1 + + hbmMask := NumGet(&ICONINFO, 16, "UPtr") + hbmColor := NumGet(&ICONINFO, 16 + A_PtrSize, "UPtr") + VarSetCapacity(BITMAP, size, 0) + if DllCall("gdi32\GetObject", "UPtr", hbmColor, "Int", size, "UPtr", &BITMAP) + { + Width := NumGet(&BITMAP, 4, "Int") + Height := NumGet(&BITMAP, 8, "Int") + } + + if !DeleteObject(hbmMask) + return -2 + + if !DeleteObject(hbmColor) + return -3 + + return 0 +} + +PaintDesktop(hdc) { + return DllCall("PaintDesktop", "UPtr", hdc) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function CreateCompatibleDC +; Description This function creates a memory device context (DC) compatible with the specified device +; +; hdc Handle to an existing device context +; +; return returns the handle to a device context or 0 on failure +; +; notes If this handle is 0 (by default), the function creates a memory device context compatible with the application's current screen + +CreateCompatibleDC(hdc:=0) { + return DllCall("CreateCompatibleDC", "UPtr", hdc) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function SelectObject +; Description The SelectObject function selects an object into the specified device context (DC). The new object replaces the previous object of the same type +; +; hdc Handle to a DC +; hgdiobj A handle to the object to be selected into the DC +; +; return If the selected object is not a region and the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the object being replaced +; +; notes The specified object must have been created by using one of the following functions +; Bitmap - CreateBitmap, CreateBitmapIndirect, CreateCompatibleBitmap, CreateDIBitmap, CreateDIBSection (A single bitmap cannot be selected into more than one DC at the same time) +; Brush - CreateBrushIndirect, CreateDIBPatternBrush, CreateDIBPatternBrushPt, CreateHatchBrush, CreatePatternBrush, CreateSolidBrush +; Font - CreateFont, CreateFontIndirect +; Pen - CreatePen, CreatePenIndirect +; Region - CombineRgn, CreateEllipticRgn, CreateEllipticRgnIndirect, CreatePolygonRgn, CreateRectRgn, CreateRectRgnIndirect +; +; notes If the selected object is a region and the function succeeds, the return value is one of the following value +; +; SIMPLEREGION = 2 Region consists of a single rectangle +; COMPLEXREGION = 3 Region consists of more than one rectangle +; NULLREGION = 1 Region is empty + +SelectObject(hdc, hgdiobj) { + return DllCall("SelectObject", "UPtr", hdc, "UPtr", hgdiobj) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function DeleteObject +; Description This function deletes a logical pen, brush, font, bitmap, region, or palette, freeing all system resources associated with the object +; After the object is deleted, the specified handle is no longer valid +; +; hObject Handle to a logical pen, brush, font, bitmap, region, or palette to delete +; +; return Nonzero indicates success. Zero indicates that the specified handle is not valid or that the handle is currently selected into a device context + +DeleteObject(hObject) { + return DllCall("DeleteObject", "UPtr", hObject) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function GetDC +; Description This function retrieves a handle to a display device context (DC) for the client area of the specified window. +; The display device context can be used in subsequent graphics display interface (GDI) functions to draw in the client area of the window. +; +; hwnd Handle to the window whose device context is to be retrieved. If this value is NULL, GetDC retrieves the device context for the entire screen +; +; return The handle the device context for the specified window's client area indicates success. NULL indicates failure + +GetDC(hwnd:=0) { + return DllCall("GetDC", "UPtr", hwnd) +} + +GetDCEx(hwnd, flags:=0, hrgnClip:=0) { +; Device Context extended flags: +; DCX_CACHE = 0x2 +; DCX_CLIPCHILDREN = 0x8 +; DCX_CLIPSIBLINGS = 0x10 +; DCX_EXCLUDERGN = 0x40 +; DCX_EXCLUDEUPDATE = 0x100 +; DCX_INTERSECTRGN = 0x80 +; DCX_INTERSECTUPDATE = 0x200 +; DCX_LOCKWINDOWUPDATE = 0x400 +; DCX_NORECOMPUTE = 0x100000 +; DCX_NORESETATTRS = 0x4 +; DCX_PARENTCLIP = 0x20 +; DCX_VALIDATE = 0x200000 +; DCX_WINDOW = 0x1 + + return DllCall("GetDCEx", "UPtr", hwnd, "UPtr", hrgnClip, "int", flags) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function ReleaseDC +; Description This function releases a device context (DC), freeing it for use by other applications. The effect of ReleaseDC depends on the type of device context +; +; hdc Handle to the device context to be released +; hwnd Handle to the window whose device context is to be released +; +; return 1 = released +; 0 = not released +; +; notes The application must call the ReleaseDC function for each call to the GetWindowDC function and for each call to the GetDC function that retrieves a common device context +; An application cannot use the ReleaseDC function to release a device context that was created by calling the CreateDC function; instead, it must use the DeleteDC function. + +ReleaseDC(hdc, hwnd:=0) { + return DllCall("ReleaseDC", "UPtr", hwnd, "UPtr", hdc) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function DeleteDC +; Description The DeleteDC function deletes the specified device context (DC) +; +; hdc A handle to the device context +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero +; +; notes An application must not delete a DC whose handle was obtained by calling the GetDC function. Instead, it must call the ReleaseDC function to free the DC + +DeleteDC(hdc) { + return DllCall("DeleteDC", "UPtr", hdc) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_LibraryVersion +; Description Get the current library version +; +; return the library version +; +; notes This is useful for non compiled programs to ensure that a person doesn't run an old version when testing your scripts + +Gdip_LibraryVersion() { + return 1.45 +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_LibrarySubVersion +; Description Get the current library sub version +; +; return the library sub version +; +; notes This is the sub-version currently maintained by Rseding91 +; Updated by guest3456 preliminary AHK v2 support +; Updated by Marius Șucan reflecting the work on Gdip_all extended compilation + +Gdip_LibrarySubVersion() { + return 1.86 +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: Gdip_BitmapFromBRA +; Description: Gets a pointer to a gdi+ bitmap from a BRA file +; +; BRAFromMemIn The variable for a BRA file read to memory +; File The name of the file, or its number that you would like (This depends on alternate parameter) +; Alternate Changes whether the File parameter is the file name or its number +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is a pointer to a gdi+ bitmap +; -1 = The BRA variable is empty +; -2 = The BRA has an incorrect header +; -3 = The BRA has information missing +; -4 = Could not find file inside the BRA + +Gdip_BitmapFromBRA(ByRef BRAFromMemIn, File, Alternate := 0) { + pBitmap := 0 + pStream := 0 + + If !(BRAFromMemIn) + Return -1 + + Headers := StrSplit(StrGet(&BRAFromMemIn, 256, "CP0"), "`n") + Header := StrSplit(Headers.1, "|") + If (Header.Length() != 4) || (Header.2 != "BRA!") + Return -2 + + _Info := StrSplit(Headers.2, "|") + If (_Info.Length() != 3) + Return -3 + + OffsetTOC := StrPut(Headers.1, "CP0") + StrPut(Headers.2, "CP0") ; + 2 + OffsetData := _Info.2 + SearchIndex := Alternate ? 1 : 2 + TOC := StrGet(&BRAFromMemIn + OffsetTOC, OffsetData - OffsetTOC - 1, "CP0") + RX1 := A_AhkVersion < "2" ? "mi`nO)^" : "mi`n)^" + Offset := Size := 0 + If RegExMatch(TOC, RX1 . (Alternate ? File "\|.+?" : "\d+\|" . File) . "\|(\d+)\|(\d+)$", FileInfo) { + Offset := OffsetData + FileInfo.1 + Size := FileInfo.2 + } + If (Size=0) + Return -4 + + hData := DllCall("GlobalAlloc", "UInt", 2, "UInt", Size, "UPtr") + pData := DllCall("GlobalLock", "Ptr", hData, "UPtr") + DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", "Ptr", pData, "Ptr", &BRAFromMemIn + Offset, "Ptr", Size) + DllCall("GlobalUnlock", "Ptr", hData) + DllCall("Ole32.dll\CreateStreamOnHGlobal", "Ptr", hData, "Int", 1, "PtrP", pStream) + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromStream(pStream) + ObjRelease(pStream) + Return pBitmap +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: Gdip_BitmapToBase64 +; Description: Creates a Base64 encoded string from a pBitmap. +; +; pBitmap The handle of a GDI+ image object +; Format The format or encoder to use. Supported extensions and formats: BMP, DIB, RLE, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JFIF, GIF, TIF, TIFF, PNG +; Quality If saving as jpg (.JPG,.JPEG,.JPE,.JFIF) then quality can be 1-100 +; +; return If the function succeeds, the base64 encoded string is returned. otherwise: +; -1 = Extension supplied is not a supported image file encoder +; -2 = Could not get a list of encoders on system +; -3 = Could not find matching encoder for specified file format +; -6 = Could not save image to stream [for base64] +; -7 = Could not convert to base64 + +Gdip_BitmapToBase64(pBitmap, Format, Quality:=90) { + Format := "none." Format + Return Gdip_SaveBitmapToFile(pBitmap, Format, Quality, 1) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: Gdip_BitmapFromBase64 +; Description: Creates a bitmap from a Base64 encoded string +; +; Base64 ByRef variable. Base64 encoded string. Immutable, ByRef to avoid performance overhead of passing long strings. +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is a pointer to a bitmap, otherwise: +; -1 = Could not calculate the length of the required buffer +; -2 = Could not decode the Base64 encoded string +; -3 = Could not create a memory stream + + +Gdip_BitmapFromBase64(ByRef Base64) { + pBitmap := 0 + DecLen := 0 + ; calculate the length of the buffer needed + if !(DllCall("crypt32\CryptStringToBinary", "UPtr", &Base64, "UInt", 0, "UInt", 0x01, "UPtr", 0, "UIntP", DecLen, "UPtr", 0, "UPtr", 0)) + return -1 + + ; decode the Base64 encoded string + VarSetCapacity(Dec, DecLen, 0) + if !(DllCall("crypt32\CryptStringToBinary", "UPtr", &Base64, "UInt", 0, "UInt", 0x01, "UPtr", &Dec, "UIntP", DecLen, "UPtr", 0, "UPtr", 0)) + return -2 + + ; create a memory stream + if !(pStream := DllCall("shlwapi\SHCreateMemStream", "UPtr", &Dec, "UInt", DecLen, "UPtr")) + return -3 + + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromStream(pStream, 1) + ObjRelease(pStream) + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromStream(pStream, useICM:=0) { + pBitmap := 0 + function2call := (useICM=1) ? "ICM" : "" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromStream" function2call, "UPtr", pStream, "PtrP", pBitmap) + Return pBitmap +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawRectangle +; Description This function uses a pen to draw the outline of a rectangle into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the rectangle +; w, h width and height of the rectangle +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes as all coordinates are taken from the top left of each pixel, then the entire width/height should be specified as subtracting the pen width + +Gdip_DrawRectangle(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawRectangle", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawRoundedRectangle +; Description This function uses a pen to draw the outline of a rounded rectangle into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the rounded rectangle +; w, h width and height of the rectanlge +; r radius of the rounded corners +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes as all coordinates are taken from the top left of each pixel, then the entire width/height should be specified as subtracting the pen width + +Gdip_DrawRoundedRectangle(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, r) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + _E := Gdip_DrawRectangle(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h) + Gdip_ResetClip(pGraphics) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-(2*r), y+r, w+(4*r), h-(2*r), 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+r, y-(2*r), w-(2*r), h+(4*r), 4) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x+w-(2*r), y, 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x, y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x+w-(2*r), y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_ResetClip(pGraphics) + return _E +} + +Gdip_DrawRoundedRectangle2(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, r, Angle:=0) { +; extracted from: https://github.com/tariqporter/Gdip2/blob/master/lib/Object.ahk +; and adapted by Marius Șucan + + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + penWidth := Gdip_GetPenWidth(pPen) + pw := penWidth / 2 + if (w <= h && (r + pw > w / 2)) + { + r := (w / 2 > pw) ? w / 2 - pw : 0 + } else if (h < w && r + pw > h / 2) + { + r := (h / 2 > pw) ? h / 2 - pw : 0 + } else if (r < pw / 2) + { + r := pw / 2 + } + + r2 := r * 2 + path1 := Gdip_CreatePath(0) + Gdip_AddPathArc(path1, x + pw, y + pw, r2, r2, 180, 90) + Gdip_AddPathLine(path1, x + pw + r, y + pw, x + w - r - pw, y + pw) + Gdip_AddPathArc(path1, x + w - r2 - pw, y + pw, r2, r2, 270, 90) + Gdip_AddPathLine(path1, x + w - pw, y + r + pw, x + w - pw, y + h - r - pw) + Gdip_AddPathArc(path1, x + w - r2 - pw, y + h - r2 - pw, r2, r2, 0, 90) + Gdip_AddPathLine(path1, x + w - r - pw, y + h - pw, x + r + pw, y + h - pw) + Gdip_AddPathArc(path1, x + pw, y + h - r2 - pw, r2, r2, 90, 90) + Gdip_AddPathLine(path1, x + pw, y + h - r - pw, x + pw, y + r + pw) + Gdip_ClosePathFigure(path1) + If (Angle>0) + Gdip_RotatePathAtCenter(path1, Angle) + _E := Gdip_DrawPath(pGraphics, pPen, path1) + Gdip_DeletePath(path1) + return _E +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawEllipse +; Description This function uses a pen to draw the outline of an ellipse into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the rectangle the ellipse will be drawn into +; w, h width and height of the ellipse +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes as all coordinates are taken from the top left of each pixel, then the entire width/height should be specified as subtracting the pen width + +Gdip_DrawEllipse(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawEllipse", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawBezier +; Description This function uses a pen to draw the outline of a bezier (a weighted curve) into the Graphics of a bitmap +; A Bezier spline does not pass through its control points. The control points act as magnets, pulling the curve +; in certain directions to influence the way the spline bends. + +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x1, y1 x, y coordinates of the start of the bezier +; x2, y2 x, y coordinates of the first arc of the bezier +; x3, y3 x, y coordinates of the second arc of the bezier +; x4, y4 x, y coordinates of the end of the bezier +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes as all coordinates are taken from the top left of each pixel, then the entire width/height should be specified as subtracting the pen width + +Gdip_DrawBezier(pGraphics, pPen, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawBezier" + , "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen + , "float", x1, "float", y1 + , "float", x2, "float", y2 + , "float", x3, "float", y3 + , "float", x4, "float", y4) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawBezierCurve +; Description This function uses a pen to draw beziers +; Parameters: +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; Points +; An array of starting and control points of a Bezier line +; A single Bezier line consists of 4 points a starting point 2 control +; points and an end point. +; The line never actually goes through the control points. +; The control points define the tangent in the starting and end points and their +; distance controls how strongly the curve follows there. +; +; Return: status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; This function was extracted and modified by Marius Șucan from +; a class based wrapper around the GDI+ API made by nnnik. +; Source: https://github.com/nnnik/classGDIp +; +; Points array format: +; Points := "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3|x4,y4" [... and so on] + +Gdip_DrawBezierCurve(pGraphics, pPen, Points) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawBeziers", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "UInt", iCount) +} + +Gdip_DrawClosedCurve(pGraphics, pPen, Points, Tension:="") { +; Draws a closed cardinal spline on a pGraphics object using a pPen object. +; A cardinal spline is a curve that passes through each point in the array. + +; Tension: Non-negative real number that controls the length of the curve and how the curve bends. A value of +; zero specifies that the spline is a sequence of straight lines. As the value increases, the curve becomes fuller. +; Number that specifies how tightly the curve bends through the coordinates of the closed cardinal spline. + +; Example points array: +; Points := "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3" [and so on] +; At least three points must be defined. + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + If IsNumber(Tension) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawClosedCurve2", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "UInt", iCount, "float", Tension) + Else + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawClosedCurve", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "UInt", iCount) +} + +Gdip_DrawCurve(pGraphics, pPen, Points, Tension:="") { +; Draws an open spline on a pGraphics object using a pPen object. +; A cardinal spline is a curve that passes through each point in the array. + +; Tension: Non-negative real number that controls the length of the curve and how the curve bends. A value of +; zero specifies that the spline is a sequence of straight lines. As the value increases, the curve becomes fuller. +; Number that specifies how tightly the curve bends through the coordinates of the closed cardinal spline. + +; Example points array: +; Points := "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3" [and so on] +; At least three points must be defined. + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + If IsNumber(Tension) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawCurve2", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "UInt", iCount, "float", Tension) + Else + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawCurve", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "UInt", iCount) +} + +Gdip_DrawPolygon(pGraphics, pPen, Points) { +; Draws a closed polygonal line on a pGraphics object using a pPen object. +; +; Example points array: +; Points := "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3" [and so on] + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawPolygon", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "UInt", iCount) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawArc +; Description This function uses a pen to draw the outline of an arc into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x, y x, y coordinates of the start of the arc +; w, h width and height of the arc +; StartAngle specifies the angle between the x-axis and the starting point of the arc +; SweepAngle specifies the angle between the starting and ending points of the arc +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes as all coordinates are taken from the top left of each pixel, then the entire width/height should be specified as subtracting the pen width + +Gdip_DrawArc(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawArc" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pPen + , "float", x, "float", y + , "float", w, "float", h + , "float", StartAngle + , "float", SweepAngle) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawPie +; Description This function uses a pen to draw the outline of a pie into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x, y x, y coordinates of the start of the pie +; w, h width and height of the pie +; StartAngle specifies the angle between the x-axis and the starting point of the pie +; SweepAngle specifies the angle between the starting and ending points of the pie +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes as all coordinates are taken from the top left of each pixel, then the entire width/height should be specified as subtracting the pen width + +Gdip_DrawPie(pGraphics, pPen, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawPie", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "float", StartAngle, "float", SweepAngle) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawLine +; Description This function uses a pen to draw a line into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; x1, y1 x, y coordinates of the start of the line +; x2, y2 x, y coordinates of the end of the line +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_DrawLine(pGraphics, pPen, x1, y1, x2, y2) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawLine" + , "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen + , "float", x1, "float", y1 + , "float", x2, "float", y2) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawLines +; Description This function uses a pen to draw a series of joined lines into the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen Pointer to a pen +; Points the coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3..... +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_DrawLines(pGraphics, pPen, Points) { + If (!pGraphics || !pPen || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawLines", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillRectangle +; Description This function uses a brush to fill a rectangle in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the rectangle +; w, h width and height of the rectangle +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_FillRectangle(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillRectangle" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBrush + , "float", x, "float", y + , "float", w, "float", h) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle +; Description This function uses a brush to fill a rounded rectangle in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the rounded rectangle +; w, h width and height of the rectanlge +; r radius of the rounded corners +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle2(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h, r) { +; extracted from: https://github.com/tariqporter/Gdip2/blob/master/lib/Object.ahk +; and adapted by Marius Șucan + + r := (w <= h) ? (r < w // 2) ? r : w // 2 : (r < h // 2) ? r : h // 2 + path1 := Gdip_CreatePath(0) + Gdip_AddPathRectangle(path1, x+r, y, w-(2*r), r) + Gdip_AddPathRectangle(path1, x+r, y+h-r, w-(2*r), r) + Gdip_AddPathRectangle(path1, x, y+r, r, h-(2*r)) + Gdip_AddPathRectangle(path1, x+w-r, y+r, r, h-(2*r)) + Gdip_AddPathRectangle(path1, x+r, y+r, w-(2*r), h-(2*r)) + Gdip_AddPathPie(path1, x, y, 2*r, 2*r, 180, 90) + Gdip_AddPathPie(path1, x+w-(2*r), y, 2*r, 2*r, 270, 90) + Gdip_AddPathPie(path1, x, y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r, 90, 90) + Gdip_AddPathPie(path1, x+w-(2*r), y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r, 0, 90) + E := Gdip_FillPath(pGraphics, pBrush, path1) + Gdip_DeletePath(path1) + return E +} + +Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h, r) { + Region := Gdip_GetClipRegion(pGraphics) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+w-r, y+h-r, 2*r, 2*r, 4) + _E := Gdip_FillRectangle(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h) + Gdip_SetClipRegion(pGraphics, Region, 0) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x-(2*r), y+r, w+(4*r), h-(2*r), 4) + Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x+r, y-(2*r), w-(2*r), h+(4*r), 4) + Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x+w-(2*r), y, 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x+w-(2*r), y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r) + Gdip_SetClipRegion(pGraphics, Region, 0) + Gdip_DeleteRegion(Region) + return _E +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillPolygon +; Description This function uses a brush to fill a polygon in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; Points the coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3..... +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes Alternate will fill the polygon as a whole, wheras winding will fill each new "segment" +; Alternate = 0 +; Winding = 1 + +Gdip_FillPolygon(pGraphics, pBrush, Points, FillMode:=0) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillPolygon", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount, "int", FillMode) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillPie +; Description This function uses a brush to fill a pie in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the pie +; w, h width and height of the pie +; StartAngle specifies the angle between the x-axis and the starting point of the pie +; SweepAngle specifies the angle between the starting and ending points of the pie +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_FillPie(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillPie" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBrush + , "float", x, "float", y + , "float", w, "float", h + , "float", StartAngle + , "float", SweepAngle) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillEllipse +; Description This function uses a brush to fill an ellipse in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; x, y x, y coordinates of the top left of the ellipse +; w, h width and height of the ellipse +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_FillEllipse(pGraphics, pBrush, x, y, w, h) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !w || !h) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillEllipse", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pBrush, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillRegion +; Description This function uses a brush to fill a region in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; Region Pointer to a Region +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes You can create a region Gdip_CreateRegion() and then add to this + +Gdip_FillRegion(pGraphics, pBrush, hRegion) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !hRegion) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillRegion", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr", hRegion) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillPath +; Description This function uses a brush to fill a path in the Graphics of a bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; Region Pointer to a Path +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_FillPath(pGraphics, pBrush, pPath) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !pPath) + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillPath", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr", pPath) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_FillClosedCurve +; Description This function fills a closed cardinal spline on a pGraphics object +; using a pBrush object. +; A cardinal spline is a curve that passes through each point in the array. +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBrush Pointer to a brush +; +; Points array format: +; Points := "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3|x4,y4" [... and so on] +; +; Tension Non-negative real number that controls the length of the curve and how the curve bends. A value of +; zero specifies that the spline is a sequence of straight lines. As the value increases, the curve becomes fuller. +; Number that specifies how tightly the curve bends through the coordinates of the closed cardinal spline. +; +; Fill mode: 0 - [Alternate] The areas are filled according to the even-odd parity rule +; 1 - [Winding] The areas are filled according to the non-zero winding rule +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_FillClosedCurve(pGraphics, pBrush, Points, Tension:="", FillMode:=0) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBrush || !Points) + Return 2 + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + If IsNumber(Tension) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillClosedCurve2", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount, "float", Tension, "int", FillMode) + Else + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFillClosedCurve", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawImagePointsRect +; Description This function draws a bitmap into the Graphics of another bitmap and skews it +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap to be drawn +; Points Points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3 (3 points: top left, top right, bottom left) describing the drawing of the bitmap +; sX, sY x, y coordinates of the source upper-left corner +; sW, sH width and height of the source rectangle +; Matrix a color matrix used to alter image attributes when drawing +; Unit see Gdip_DrawImage() +; Return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; Notes If sx, sy, sw, sh are omitted the entire source bitmap will be used. +; Matrix can be omitted to just draw with no alteration to ARGB. +; Matrix may be passed as a digit from 0 - 1 to change just transparency. +; Matrix can be passed as a matrix with "|" delimiter. +; To generate a color matrix using user-friendly parameters, +; use GenerateColorMatrix() + +Gdip_DrawImagePointsRect(pGraphics, pBitmap, Points, sx:="", sy:="", sw:="", sh:="", Matrix:=1, Unit:=2, ImageAttr:=0) { + If !ImageAttr + { + if !IsNumber(Matrix) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) + else if (Matrix != 1) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix("1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|" Matrix "|0|0|0|0|0|1") + } Else usrImageAttr := 1 + + if (sx="" && sy="" && sw="" && sh="") + { + sx := sy := 0 + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, sw, sh) + } + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImagePointsRect" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "UPtr", &PointsF + , "int", iCount + , "float", sX, "float", sY + , "float", sW, "float", sH + , "int", Unit + , "UPtr", ImageAttr ? ImageAttr : 0 + , "UPtr", 0, "UPtr", 0) + + If (E=1 && A_LastError=8) ; out of memory + E := 3 + + if (ImageAttr && usrImageAttr!=1) + Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) + + return E +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawImage +; Description This function draws a bitmap into the Graphics of another bitmap +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap to be drawn +; dX, dY x, y coordinates of the destination upper-left corner +; dW, dH width and height of the destination image +; sX, sY x, y coordinates of the source upper-left corner +; sW, sH width and height of the source image +; Matrix a color matrix used to alter image attributes when drawing +; Unit Unit of measurement: +; 0 - World coordinates, a nonphysical unit +; 1 - Display units +; 2 - A unit is 1 pixel +; 3 - A unit is 1 point or 1/72 inch +; 4 - A unit is 1 inch +; 5 - A unit is 1/300 inch +; 6 - A unit is 1 millimeter +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes When sx,sy,sw,sh are omitted the entire source bitmap will be used +; Gdip_DrawImage performs faster. +; Matrix can be omitted to just draw with no alteration to ARGB +; Matrix may be passed as a digit from 0.0 - 1.0 to change just transparency +; Matrix can be passed as a matrix with "|" as delimiter. For example: +; MatrixBright= +; ( +; 1.5 |0 |0 |0 |0 +; 0 |1.5 |0 |0 |0 +; 0 |0 |1.5 |0 |0 +; 0 |0 |0 |1 |0 +; 0.05 |0.05 |0.05 |0 |1 +; ) +; +; example color matrix: +; MatrixBright = 1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0.05|0.05|0.05|0|1 +; MatrixGreyScale = 0.299|0.299|0.299|0|0|0.587|0.587|0.587|0|0|0.114|0.114|0.114|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1 +; MatrixNegative = -1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|1|1|0|1 +; To generate a color matrix using user-friendly parameters, +; use GenerateColorMatrix() + +Gdip_DrawImage(pGraphics, pBitmap, dx:="", dy:="", dw:="", dh:="", sx:="", sy:="", sw:="", sh:="", Matrix:=1, Unit:=2, ImageAttr:=0) { + If (!pGraphics || !pBitmap) + Return 2 + + If !ImageAttr + { + if !IsNumber(Matrix) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) + else if (Matrix!=1) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix("1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|" Matrix "|0|0|0|0|0|1") + } Else usrImageAttr := 1 + + If (dx!="" && dy!="" && dw="" && dh="" && sx="" && sy="" && sw="" && sh="") + { + sx := sy := 0 + sw := dw := Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) + sh := dh := Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) + } Else If (sx="" && sy="" && sw="" && sh="") + { + If (dx="" && dy="" && dw="" && dh="") + { + sx := dx := 0, sy := dy := 0 + sw := dw := Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) + sh := dh := Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) + } Else + { + sx := sy := 0 + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, sw, sh) + } + } + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImageRectRect" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "float", dX, "float", dY + , "float", dW, "float", dH + , "float", sX, "float", sY + , "float", sW, "float", sH + , "int", Unit + , "UPtr", ImageAttr ? ImageAttr : 0 + , "UPtr", 0, "UPtr", 0) + + If (E=1 && A_LastError=8) ; out of memory + E := 3 + + if (ImageAttr && usrImageAttr!=1) + Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) + + return E +} + +Gdip_DrawImageFast(pGraphics, pBitmap, X:=0, Y:=0) { +; This function performs faster than Gdip_DrawImage(). +; X, Y - the coordinates of the destination upper-left corner +; where the pBitmap will be drawn. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImage" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "float", X + , "float", Y) +} + +Gdip_DrawImageRect(pGraphics, pBitmap, X, Y, W, H) { +; X, Y - the coordinates of the destination upper-left corner +; where the pBitmap will be drawn. +; W, H - the width and height of the destination rectangle, where the pBitmap will be drawn. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImageRect" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "float", X, "float", Y + , "float", W, "float", H) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix +; Description This function creates an image color matrix ready for drawing if no ImageAttr is given. +; It can set or clear the color and/or grayscale-adjustment matrices for a specified ImageAttr object. +; +; clrMatrix A color-adjustment matrix used to alter image attributes when drawing +; passed with "|" as delimeter. +; grayMatrix A grayscale-adjustment matrix used to alter image attributes when drawing +; passed with "|" as delimeter. This applies only when ColorMatrixFlag=2. +; +; ColorAdjustType The category for which the color and grayscale-adjustment matrices are set or cleared. +; 0 - adjustments apply to all categories that do not have adjustment settings of their own +; 1 - adjustments apply to bitmapped images +; 2 - adjustments apply to brush operations in metafiles +; 3 - adjustments apply to pen operations in metafiles +; 4 - adjustments apply to text drawn in metafiles +; +; fEnable If True, the specified matrices (color, grayscale or both) adjustments for the specified +; category are applied; otherwise the category is cleared +; +; ColorMatrixFlag Type of image and color that will be affected by the adjustment matrices: +; 0 - All color values (including grays) are adjusted by the same color-adjustment matrix. +; 1 - Colors are adjusted but gray shades are not adjusted. +; A gray shade is any color that has the same value for its red, green, and blue components. +; 2 - Colors are adjusted by one matrix and gray shades are adjusted by another matrix. + +; ImageAttr A pointer to an ImageAttributes object. +; If this parameter is omitted, a new one is created. + +; return It return 0 on success, if an ImageAttr object was given, +; otherwise, it returns the handle of a new ImageAttr object [if succesful]. +; +; notes MatrixBright = 1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0.05|0.05|0.05|0|1 +; MatrixGreyScale = 0.299|0.299|0.299|0|0|0.587|0.587|0.587|0|0|0.114|0.114|0.114|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1 +; MatrixNegative = -1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|1|1|0|1 +; To generate a color matrix using user-friendly parameters, +; use GenerateColorMatrix() +; +; additional remarks: +; In my tests, it seems that the grayscale matrix is not functioning properly. +; Grayscale images are rendered invisible [with zero opacity] for some reason... +; TO DO: fix this? + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(clrMatrix, ImageAttr:=0, grayMatrix:=0, ColorAdjustType:=1, fEnable:=1, ColorMatrixFlag:=0) { + If (StrLen(clrMatrix)<5 && ImageAttr) + Return -1 + + If (StrLen(clrMatrix)<5) || (ColorMatrixFlag=2 && StrLen(grayMatrix)<5) + Return + + CreateColourMatrix(clrMatrix, ColourMatrix) + If (ColorMatrixFlag=2) + CreateColourMatrix(grayMatrix, GrayscaleMatrix) + + If !ImageAttr + { + created := 1 + ImageAttr := Gdip_CreateImageAttributes() + } + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesColorMatrix" + , "UPtr", ImageAttr + , "int", ColorAdjustType + , "int", fEnable + , "UPtr", &ColourMatrix + , "UPtr", &GrayscaleMatrix + , "int", ColorMatrixFlag) + + gdipLastError := E + E := created=1 ? ImageAttr : E + return E +} + +CreateColourMatrix(clrMatrix, ByRef ColourMatrix) { + VarSetCapacity(ColourMatrix, 100, 0) + Matrix := RegExReplace(RegExReplace(clrMatrix, "^[^\d-\.]+([\d\.])", "$1", , 1), "[^\d-\.]+", "|") + Matrix := StrSplit(Matrix, "|") + Loop 25 + { + M := (Matrix[A_Index] != "") ? Matrix[A_Index] : Mod(A_Index - 1, 6) ? 0 : 1 + NumPut(M, ColourMatrix, (A_Index - 1)*4, "float") + } +} + +Gdip_CreateImageAttributes() { + ImageAttr := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateImageAttributes", "UPtr*", ImageAttr) + return ImageAttr +} + +Gdip_CloneImageAttributes(ImageAttr) { + newImageAttr := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneImageAttributes", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "UPtr*", newImageAttr) + return newImageAttr +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesThreshold(ImageAttr, Threshold, ColorAdjustType:=1, fEnable:=1) { +; Sets or clears the threshold (transparency range) for a specified category by ColorAdjustType +; The threshold is a value from 0 through 1 that specifies a cutoff point for each color component. For example, +; suppose the threshold is set to 0.7, and suppose you are rendering a color whose red, green, and blue +; components are 230, 50, and 220. The red component, 230, is greater than 0.7ª255, so the red component will +; be changed to 255 (full intensity). The green component, 50, is less than 0.7ª255, so the green component will +; be changed to 0. The blue component, 220, is greater than 0.7ª255, so the blue component will be changed to 255. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesThreshold", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType, "int", fEnable, "float", Threshold) +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesResetMatrix(ImageAttr, ColorAdjustType) { +; Sets the color-adjustment matrix of a specified category to the identity matrix. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesToIdentity", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType) +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesGamma(ImageAttr, Gamma, ColorAdjustType:=1, fEnable:=1) { +; Gamma from 0.1 to 5.0 + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesGamma", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType, "int", fEnable, "float", Gamma) +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesToggle(ImageAttr, ColorAdjustType, fEnable) { +; Turns on or off color adjustment for a specified category defined by ColorAdjustType +; fEnable - 0 or 1 +; ColorAdjustType - The category for which color adjustment is reset: +; see Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix() for details. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesNoOp", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType, "int", fEnable) +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesOutputChannel(ImageAttr, ColorChannelFlags, ColorAdjustType:=1, fEnable:=1) { +; ColorChannelFlags - The output channel, can be any combination: +; 0 - Cyan color channel +; 1 - Magenta color channel +; 2 - Yellow color channel +; 3 - Black color channel +; 4 - The previous selected channel + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesOutputChannel", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType, "int", fEnable, "int", ColorChannelFlags) +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorKeys(ImageAttr, ARGBLow, ARGBHigh, ColorAdjustType:=1, fEnable:=1) { +; initial tests of this function lead to a crash of the application ... + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesColorKeys", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType, "int", fEnable, "uint", ARGBLow, "uint", ARGBHigh) +} + +Gdip_SetImageAttributesWrapMode(ImageAttr, WrapMode, ARGB:=0) { +; ImageAttr - Pointer to an ImageAttribute object +; WrapMode - Specifies how repeated copies of an image are used to tile an area: +; 0 - Tile - Tiling without flipping +; 1 - TileFlipX - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move from one tile to the next in a row +; 2 - TileFlipY - Tiles are flipped vertically as you move from one tile to the next in a column +; 3 - TileFlipXY - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move along a row and flipped vertically as you move along a column +; 4 - Clamp - No tiling takes place +; ARGB - Alpha, Red, Green and Blue components of the color of pixels outside of a rendered image. +; This color is visible if the wrap mode is set to 4 and the source rectangle of the image is greater than the +; image itself. + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetImageAttributesWrapMode", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", WrapMode, "uint", ARGB, "int", 0) +} + +Gdip_ResetImageAttributes(ImageAttr, ColorAdjustType) { +; Clears all color and grayscale-adjustment settings for a specified category defined by ColorAdjustType. +; +; ImageAttr - a pointer to an ImageAttributes object. +; ColorAdjustType - The category for which color adjustment is reset: +; see Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix() for details. + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetImageAttributes", "UPtr", ImageAttr, "int", ColorAdjustType) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GraphicsFromImage +; Description This function gets the graphics for a bitmap used for drawing functions +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap to get the pointer to its graphics +; +; return returns a pointer to the graphics of a bitmap +; +; notes a bitmap can be drawn into the graphics of another bitmap + +Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap, InterpolationMode:="", SmoothingMode:="", PageUnit:="", CompositingQuality:="") { + pGraphics := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageGraphicsContext", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr*", pGraphics) + If (gdipLastError=1 && A_LastError=8) ; out of memory + gdipLastError := 3 + + If (pGraphics && !gdipLastError) + { + If (InterpolationMode!="") + Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(pGraphics, InterpolationMode) + If (SmoothingMode!="") + Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(pGraphics, SmoothingMode) + If (PageUnit!="") + Gdip_SetPageUnit(pGraphics, PageUnit) + If (CompositingQuality!="") + Gdip_SetCompositingQuality(pGraphics, CompositingQuality) + } + return pGraphics +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC +; Description This function gets the graphics from the handle of a device context. +; +; hDC The handle to the device context. +; hDevice Handle to a device that will be associated with the new Graphics object. +; +; return A pointer to the graphics of a bitmap. +; +; notes You can draw a bitmap into the graphics of another bitmap. + +Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC(hDC, hDevice:="", InterpolationMode:="", SmoothingMode:="", PageUnit:="", CompositingQuality:="") { + pGraphics := 0 + If hDevice + gdipLastError := DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipCreateFromHDC2", "UPtr", hDC, "UPtr", hDevice, "UPtr*", pGraphics) + Else + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFromHDC", "UPtr", hdc, "UPtr*", pGraphics) + + If (gdipLastError=1 && A_LastError=8) ; out of memory + gdipLastError := 3 + + If (pGraphics && !gdipLastError) + { + If (InterpolationMode!="") + Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(pGraphics, InterpolationMode) + If (SmoothingMode!="") + Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(pGraphics, SmoothingMode) + If (PageUnit!="") + Gdip_SetPageUnit(pGraphics, PageUnit) + If (CompositingQuality!="") + Gdip_SetCompositingQuality(pGraphics, CompositingQuality) + } + + return pGraphics +} + +Gdip_GraphicsFromHWND(HWND, useICM:=0, InterpolationMode:="", SmoothingMode:="", PageUnit:="", CompositingQuality:="") { +; Creates a pGraphics object that is associated with a specified window handle [HWND] +; If useICM=1, the created graphics uses ICM [color management - (International Color Consortium = ICC)]. + pGraphics := 0 + function2call := (useICM=1) ? "ICM" : "" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFromHWND" function2call, "UPtr", HWND, "UPtr*", pGraphics) + If (gdipLastError=1 && A_LastError=8) ; out of memory + gdipLastError := 3 + + If (pGraphics && !gdipLastError) + { + If (InterpolationMode!="") + Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(pGraphics, InterpolationMode) + If (SmoothingMode!="") + Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(pGraphics, SmoothingMode) + If (PageUnit!="") + Gdip_SetPageUnit(pGraphics, PageUnit) + If (CompositingQuality!="") + Gdip_SetCompositingQuality(pGraphics, CompositingQuality) + } + return pGraphics +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GetDC +; Description This function gets the device context of the passed Graphics +; +; hDC This is the handle to the device context +; +; return returns the device context for the graphics of a bitmap + +Gdip_GetDC(pGraphics) { + hDC := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetDC", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr*", hDC) + return hDC +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_ReleaseDC +; Description This function releases a device context from use for further use +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the graphics of a bitmap +; hdc This is the handle to the device context +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_ReleaseDC(pGraphics, hdc) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipReleaseDC", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", hdc) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GraphicsClear +; Description Clears the graphics of a bitmap ready for further drawing +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the graphics of a bitmap +; ARGB The colour to clear the graphics to +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes By default this will make the background invisible +; Using clipping regions you can clear a particular area on the graphics rather than clearing the entire graphics + +Gdip_GraphicsClear(pGraphics, ARGB:=0x00ffffff) { + If !pGraphics + return 2 + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGraphicsClear", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_GraphicsFlush(pGraphics, intent) { +; intent - Specifies whether the method returns immediately or waits for any existing operations to finish: +; 0 - Flush all batched rendering operations and return immediately +; 1 - Flush all batched rendering operations and wait for them to complete + If !pGraphics + return 2 + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFlush", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", intent) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_BlurBitmap +; Description Gives a pointer to a blurred bitmap from a pointer to a bitmap +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap to be blurred +; BlurAmount The Amount to blur a bitmap by from 1 (least blur) to 100 (most blur) +; usePARGB option to convert to PARGB pixel format +; quality option to set resizing quality [0 - 7]; see Gdip_SetInterpolationMode() +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is a pointer to the new blurred bitmap +; -1 = The blur parameter is outside the range 1-100 +; +; notes This function will not dispose of the original bitmap + +Gdip_BlurBitmap(pBitmap, BlurAmount, usePARGB:=0, quality:=7, softEdges:=1) { + ; suggested quality is 6; + ; quality 7 creates sharpening effect + ; for higher speed set usePARGB to 1 + + If (!pBitmap || !IsNumber(BlurAmount)) + Return + + If (BlurAmount>100) + BlurAmount := 100 + Else If (BlurAmount<1) + BlurAmount := 1 + + PixelFormat := (usePARGB=1) ? "0xE200B" : "0x26200A" + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, sWidth, sHeight) + dWidth := sWidth//BlurAmount + dHeight := sHeight//BlurAmount + + pBitmap1 := Gdip_CreateBitmap(dWidth, dHeight, PixelFormat) + If !pBitmap1 + Return + + G1 := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap1, quality) + If !G1 + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1, 1) + Return + } + + E1 := Gdip_DrawImage(G1, pBitmap, 0, 0, dWidth, dHeight, 0, 0, sWidth, sHeight) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G1) + If E1 + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1, 1) + Return + } + + If (softEdges=1) + pBitmap2 := Gdip_CreateBitmap(sWidth, sHeight, PixelFormat) + Else + pBitmap2 := Gdip_CloneBitmapArea(pBitmap, 0, 0, sWidth, sHeight, PixelFormat, 0) + + If !pBitmap2 + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1, 1) + Return + } + + G2 := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap2, quality) + If !G2 + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1, 1) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap2, 1) + Return + } + + E2 := Gdip_DrawImage(G2, pBitmap1, 0, 0, sWidth, sHeight, 0, 0, dWidth, dHeight) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G2) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1) + If E2 + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap2, 1) + Return + } + + return pBitmap2 +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: Gdip_SaveBitmapToFile +; Description: Saves a bitmap to a file in any supported format onto disk +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a GDI+ bitmap +; sOutput The name of the file that the bitmap will be saved to. Supported extensions and formats: .BMP,.DIB,.RLE,.JPG,.JPEG,.JPE,.JFIF,.GIF,.TIF,.TIFF,.PNG +; When using toBase64=1, the file extension will be used to choose the image encoder. +; +; Quality If saving as jpg (.JPG,.JPEG,.JPE,.JFIF) then quality can be 1-100 +; +; toBase64orStream = 0, saves the image file [this is the default] +; toBase64orStream = 1, instead of saving the file to disk, the function will return on success the base64 encoded data. +; A "base64" string is the binary image data encoded into text using only 64 characters. +; To convert it back into an image use: Gdip_BitmapFromBase64(). +; toBase64orStream = 2, instead of saving the file to disk, the function will save the image into a newly created memory stream. +; On success, the handle of the stream is returned. +; To load it again, use Gdip_CreateBitmapFromStream(). +; +; return if toBase64orStream = 1, the function returns the encoded binary data on success. +; if toBase64orStream = 2, on success, the function returns a newly created stream handle where the image is saved. +; Possible error codes: +; 0 = file saved succesfully [only when toBase64orStream=0] +; -1 = Extension supplied is not a supported image file format +; -2 = Could not get a list of encoders on the system +; -3 = Could not find matching encoder for specified file format +; -4 = Could not get WideChar name of output file +; -5 = Could not save file to disk +; -6 = Could not save image to stream [when using toBase64orStream set to 1 or 2] +; -7 = Could not convert to base64 [when toBase64orStream=1] +; +; notes This function will use the extension supplied from the sOutput parameter to determine the output format + +Gdip_SaveBitmapToFile(pBitmap, sOutput, Quality:=75, toBase64orStream:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + nCount := 0 + nSize := 0 + pStream := 0 + hData := 0 + _p := 0 + + SplitPath sOutput,,, Extension + If !RegExMatch(Extension, "^(?i:BMP|DIB|RLE|JPG|JPEG|JPE|JFIF|GIF|TIF|TIFF|PNG)$") + Return -1 + + Extension := "." Extension + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageEncodersSize", "uint*", nCount, "uint*", nSize) + VarSetCapacity(ci, nSize) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageEncoders", "uint", nCount, "uint", nSize, Ptr, &ci) + If !(nCount && nSize) + Return -2 + + If (A_IsUnicode) + { + StrGet_Name := "StrGet" + N := (A_AhkVersion < 2) ? nCount : "nCount" + Loop %N% + { + sString := %StrGet_Name%(NumGet(ci, (idx := (48+7*A_PtrSize)*(A_Index-1))+32+3*A_PtrSize), "UTF-16") + If !InStr(sString, "*" Extension) + Continue + + pCodec := &ci+idx + Break + } + } Else + { + N := (A_AhkVersion < 2) ? nCount : "nCount" + Loop %N% + { + Location := NumGet(ci, 76*(A_Index-1)+44) + nSize := DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", Location, "int", -1, "uint", 0, "int", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) + VarSetCapacity(sString, nSize) + DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", Location, "int", -1, "str", sString, "int", nSize, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) + If !InStr(sString, "*" Extension) + Continue + + pCodec := &ci+76*(A_Index-1) + Break + } + } + + If !pCodec + Return -3 + + If (Quality!=75) + { + Quality := (Quality < 0) ? 0 : (Quality > 100) ? 100 : Quality + If (quality>95 && toBase64=1) + Quality := 95 + + If RegExMatch(Extension, "^\.(?i:JPG|JPEG|JPE|JFIF)$") + { + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetEncoderParameterListSize", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, pCodec, "uint*", nSize) + VarSetCapacity(EncoderParameters, nSize, 0) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetEncoderParameterList", Ptr, pBitmap, Ptr, pCodec, "uint", nSize, Ptr, &EncoderParameters) + nCount := NumGet(EncoderParameters, "UInt") + N := (A_AhkVersion < 2) ? nCount : "nCount" + Loop %N% + { + elem := (24+A_PtrSize)*(A_Index-1) + 4 + (pad := A_PtrSize = 8 ? 4 : 0) + If (NumGet(EncoderParameters, elem+16, "UInt") = 1) && (NumGet(EncoderParameters, elem+20, "UInt") = 6) + { + _p := elem+&EncoderParameters-pad-4 + NumPut(Quality, NumGet(NumPut(4, NumPut(1, _p+0)+20, "UInt")), "UInt") + Break + } + } + } + } + + If (toBase64orStream=1 || toBase64orStream=2) + { + ; part of the function extracted from ImagePut by iseahound + ; https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=76301&sid=bfb7c648736849c3c53f08ea6b0b1309 + DllCall("ole32\CreateStreamOnHGlobal", "ptr",0, "int",true, "ptr*",pStream) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSaveImageToStream", "ptr",pBitmap, "ptr",pStream, "ptr",pCodec, "uint", _p ? _p : 0) + If gdipLastError + Return -6 + + If (toBase64orStream=2) + Return pStream + + DllCall("ole32\GetHGlobalFromStream", "ptr",pStream, "uint*",hData) + pData := DllCall("GlobalLock", "ptr",hData, "ptr") + nSize := DllCall("GlobalSize", "uint",pData) + + VarSetCapacity(bin, nSize, 0) + DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", "ptr",&bin, "ptr",pData, "uptr",nSize) + DllCall("GlobalUnlock", "ptr",hData) + ObjRelease(pStream) + DllCall("GlobalFree", "ptr",hData) + + ; Using CryptBinaryToStringA saves about 2MB in memory. + DllCall("Crypt32.dll\CryptBinaryToStringA", "ptr",&bin, "uint",nSize, "uint",0x40000001, "ptr",0, "uint*",base64Length) + VarSetCapacity(base64, base64Length, 0) + _E := DllCall("Crypt32.dll\CryptBinaryToStringA", "ptr",&bin, "uint",nSize, "uint",0x40000001, "ptr",&base64, "uint*",base64Length) + If !_E + Return -7 + + VarSetCapacity(bin, 0) + Return StrGet(&base64, base64Length, "CP0") + } + + _E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSaveImageToFile", Ptr, pBitmap, "WStr", sOutput, Ptr, pCodec, "uint", _p ? _p : 0) + gdipLastError := _E + Return _E ? -5 : 0 +} + + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: Gdip_SaveBitmapToStream +; Description: Saves the provided pBitmap to a newly created memory stream. +; +; pBitmap The handle of a GDI+ image object +; Format The format or encoder to use. Supported extensions and formats: BMP, DIB, RLE, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JFIF, GIF, TIF, TIFF, PNG +; Quality If saving as jpg (.JPG,.JPEG,.JPE,.JFIF) then quality can be 1-100 +; +; return If the function succeeds, the handle to the memory stream is returned. otherwise: +; -1 = Extension supplied is not a supported image file encoder +; -2 = Could not get a list of encoders on system +; -3 = Could not find matching encoder for specified file format +; -6 = Could not save image to stream + +Gdip_SaveBitmapToStream(pBitmap, Format, Quality:=90) { + Format := "none." Format + Return Gdip_SaveBitmapToFile(pBitmap, Format, Quality, 2) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GetPixel +; Description Gets the ARGB of a pixel in a bitmap +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap +; x, y x, y coordinates of the pixel +; +; return Returns the ARGB value of the pixel + +Gdip_GetPixel(pBitmap, x, y) { + ARGB := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapGetPixel", "UPtr", pBitmap, "int", x, "int", y, "uint*", ARGB) + Return ARGB + ; should use Format("{1:#x}", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_GetPixelColor(pBitmap, x, y, Format) { + ARGBdec := Gdip_GetPixel(pBitmap, x, y) + If !ARGBdec + Return + + If (format=1) ; in ARGB [HEX; 00-FF] with 0x prefix + { + Return Format("{1:#x}", ARGBdec) + } Else If (format=2) ; in RGBA [0-255] + { + Gdip_FromARGB(ARGBdec, A, R, G, B) + Return R "," G "," B "," A + } Else If (format=3) ; in BGR [HEX; 00-FF] with 0x prefix + { + clr := Format("{1:#x}", ARGBdec) + Return "0x" SubStr(clr, -1) SubStr(clr, 7, 2) SubStr(clr, 5, 2) + } Else If (format=4) ; in RGB [HEX; 00-FF] with no prefix + { + Return SubStr(Format("{1:#x}", ARGBdec), 5) + } Else Return ARGBdec +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_SetPixel +; Description Sets the ARGB of a pixel in a bitmap +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap +; x, y x, y coordinates of the pixel +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success + +Gdip_SetPixel(pBitmap, x, y, ARGB) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapSetPixel", "UPtr", pBitmap, "int", x, "int", y, "int", ARGB) +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GetImageWidth +; Description Gives the width of a bitmap +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap +; +; return Returns the width in pixels of the supplied bitmap + +Gdip_GetImageWidth(pBitmap) { + Width := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageWidth", "UPtr", pBitmap, "uint*", Width) + return Width +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GetImageHeight +; Description Gives the height of a bitmap +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap +; +; return Returns the height in pixels of the supplied bitmap + +Gdip_GetImageHeight(pBitmap) { + Height := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageHeight", "UPtr", pBitmap, "uint*", Height) + return Height +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_GetImageDimensions +; Description Gives the width and height of a bitmap +; +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap +; Width ByRef variable. This variable will be set to the width of the bitmap +; Height ByRef variable. This variable will be set to the height of the bitmap +; +; return GDI+ status enumeration return value + +Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, ByRef Width, ByRef Height) { + Width := 0, Height := 0 + If StrLen(pBitmap)<3 + Return 2 + + E := Gdip_GetImageDimension(pBitmap, Width, Height) + Width := Round(Width) + Height := Round(Height) + return E +} + +Gdip_GetImageDimension(pBitmap, ByRef w, ByRef h) { + w := 0, h := 0 + If !pBitmap + Return 2 + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageDimension", "UPtr", pBitmap, "float*", w, "float*", h) +} + +Gdip_GetImageBounds(pBitmap) { + If !pBitmap + Return 2 + + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageBounds", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &RectF, "Int*", 0) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_GetImageFlags(pBitmap) { +; Gets a set of flags that indicate certain attributes of this Image object. +; Returns an element of the ImageFlags Enumeration that holds a set of single-bit flags. +; ImageFlags enumeration + ; None := 0x0000 ; Specifies no format information. + ; ; Low-word: shared with SINKFLAG_x: + ; Scalable := 0x00001 ; the image can be scaled. + ; HasAlpha := 0x00002 ; the pixel data contains alpha values. + ; HasTranslucent := 0x00004 ; the pixel data has alpha values other than 0 (transparent) and 255 (opaque). + ; PartiallyScalable := 0x00008 ; the pixel data is partially scalable with some limitations. + ; ; Low-word: color space definition: + ; ColorSpaceRGB := 0x00010 ; the image is stored using an RGB color space. + ; ColorSpaceCMYK := 0x00020 ; the image is stored using a CMYK color space. + ; ColorSpaceGRAY := 0x00040 ; the image is a grayscale image. + ; ColorSpaceYCBCR := 0x00080 ; the image is stored using a YCBCR color space. + ; ColorSpaceYCCK := 0x00100 ; the image is stored using a YCCK color space. + ; ; Low-word: image size info: + ; HasRealDPI := 0x01000 ; dots per inch information is stored in the image. + ; HasRealPixelSize := 0x02000 ; the pixel size is stored in the image. + ; ; High-word: + ; ReadOnly := 0x10000 ; the pixel data is read-only. + ; Caching := 0x20000 ; the pixel data can be cached for faster access. +; function extracted from : https://github.com/flipeador/Library-AutoHotkey/tree/master/graphics +; by flipeador + + Flags := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageFlags", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UInt*", Flags) + Return Flags +} + +Gdip_GetImageRawFormat(pBitmap) { +; retrieves the pBitmap [file] format + + Static RawFormatsList := {"{B96B3CA9-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"Undefined", "{B96B3CAA-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"MemoryBMP", "{B96B3CAB-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"BMP", "{B96B3CAC-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"EMF", "{B96B3CAD-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"WMF", "{B96B3CAE-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"JPEG", "{B96B3CAF-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"PNG", "{B96B3CB0-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"GIF", "{B96B3CB1-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"TIFF", "{B96B3CB2-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"EXIF", "{B96B3CB5-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}":"Icon"} + VarSetCapacity(pGuid, 16, 0) + E1 := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageRawFormat", "UPtr", pBitmap, "Ptr", &pGuid) + + size := VarSetCapacity(sguid, (38 << !!A_IsUnicode) + 1, 0) + E2 := DllCall("ole32.dll\StringFromGUID2", "ptr", &pguid, "ptr", &sguid, "int", size) + R1 := E2 ? StrGet(&sguid) : E2 + R2 := RawFormatsList[R1] + Return R2 ? R2 : R1 +} + +Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap, mode:=0) { +; Mode options +; 0 - in decimal +; 1 - in hex +; 2 - in human readable format +; +; PXF01INDEXED = 0x00030101 ; 1 bpp, indexed +; PXF04INDEXED = 0x00030402 ; 4 bpp, indexed +; PXF08INDEXED = 0x00030803 ; 8 bpp, indexed +; PXF16GRAYSCALE = 0x00101004; 16 bpp, grayscale +; PXF16RGB555 = 0x00021005 ; 16 bpp; 5 bits for each RGB +; PXF16RGB565 = 0x00021006 ; 16 bpp; 5 bits red, 6 bits green, and 5 bits blue +; PXF16ARGB1555 = 0x00061007 ; 16 bpp; 1 bit for alpha and 5 bits for each RGB component +; PXF24RGB = 0x00021808 ; 24 bpp; 8 bits for each RGB +; PXF32RGB = 0x00022009 ; 32 bpp; 8 bits for each RGB, no alpha. +; PXF32ARGB = 0x0026200A ; 32 bpp; 8 bits for each RGB and alpha +; PXF32PARGB = 0x000E200B ; 32 bpp; 8 bits for each RGB and alpha, pre-mulitiplied +; PXF48RGB = 0x0010300C ; 48 bpp; 16 bits for each RGB +; PXF64ARGB = 0x0034400D ; 64 bpp; 16 bits for each RGB and alpha +; PXF64PARGB = 0x001A400E ; 64 bpp; 16 bits for each RGB and alpha, pre-multiplied +; PXF32CMYK = 0x200F ; 32 bpp; CMYK + +; INDEXED [1-bits, 4-bits and 8-bits] pixel formats rely on color palettes. +; The color information for the pixels is stored in palettes. +; Indexed images always contain a palette - a special table of colors. +; Each pixel is an index in this table. Usually a palette contains 256 +; or less entries. That's why the maximum depth of an indexed pixel is 8 bpp. +; Using palettes is a common practice when working with small color depths. + +; modified by Marius Șucan + + Static PixelFormatsList := {0x30101:"1-INDEXED", 0x30402:"4-INDEXED", 0x30803:"8-INDEXED", 0x101004:"16-GRAYSCALE", 0x021005:"16-RGB555", 0x21006:"16-RGB565", 0x61007:"16-ARGB1555", 0x21808:"24-RGB", 0x22009:"32-RGB", 0x26200A:"32-ARGB", 0xE200B:"32-PARGB", 0x10300C:"48-RGB", 0x34400D:"64-ARGB", 0x1A400E:"64-PARGB", 0x200f:"32-CMYK"} + PixelFormat := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImagePixelFormat", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr*", PixelFormat) + If gdipLastError + Return -1 + + If (mode=0) + Return PixelFormat + + inHEX := Format("{1:#x}", PixelFormat) + If (PixelFormatsList.Haskey(inHEX) && mode=2) + result := PixelFormatsList[inHEX] + Else + result := inHEX + return result +} + +Gdip_GetImageType(pBitmap) { +; RETURN VALUES: +; UNKNOWN = 0 +; BITMAP = 1 +; METAFILE = 2 +; ERROR = -1 + + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageType", Ptr, pBitmap, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetDPI(pGraphics, ByRef DpiX, ByRef DpiY) { + DpiX := Gdip_GetDpiX(pGraphics) + DpiY := Gdip_GetDpiY(pGraphics) +} + +Gdip_GetDpiX(pGraphics) { + dpix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetDpiX", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float*", dpix) + return Round(dpix) +} + +Gdip_GetDpiY(pGraphics) { + dpiy := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetDpiY", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float*", dpiy) + return Round(dpiy) +} + +Gdip_GetImageHorizontalResolution(pBitmap) { + dpix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageHorizontalResolution", "UPtr", pBitmap, "float*", dpix) + return Round(dpix) +} + +Gdip_GetImageVerticalResolution(pBitmap) { + dpiy := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageVerticalResolution", "UPtr", pBitmap, "float*", dpiy) + return Round(dpiy) +} + +Gdip_BitmapSetResolution(pBitmap, dpix, dpiy) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapSetResolution", "UPtr", pBitmap, "float", dpix, "float", dpiy) +} + +Gdip_BitmapGetDPIResolution(pBitmap, ByRef dpix, ByRef dpiy) { + dpix := dpiy := 0 + If StrLen(pBitmap)<3 + Return 2 + + dpix := Gdip_GetImageHorizontalResolution(pBitmap) + dpiy := Gdip_GetImageVerticalResolution(pBitmap) +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromGraphics(pGraphics, Width, Height) { + pBitmap := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromGraphics", "int", Width, "int", Height, "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr*", pBitmap) + Return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromFile(sFile, IconNumber:=1, IconSize:="", useICM:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + PtrA := "UPtr*" + pBitmap := 0 + pBitmapOld := 0 + hIcon := 0 + + SplitPath sFile,,, Extension + if RegExMatch(Extension, "^(?i:exe|dll)$") + { + Sizes := IconSize ? IconSize : 256 "|" 128 "|" 64 "|" 48 "|" 32 "|" 16 + BufSize := 16 + (2*A_PtrSize) + + VarSetCapacity(buf, BufSize, 0) + For eachSize, Size in StrSplit( Sizes, "|" ) + { + DllCall("PrivateExtractIcons", "str", sFile, "int", IconNumber-1, "int", Size, "int", Size, PtrA, hIcon, PtrA, 0, "uint", 1, "uint", 0) + if !hIcon + continue + + if !DllCall("GetIconInfo", Ptr, hIcon, Ptr, &buf) + { + DestroyIcon(hIcon) + continue + } + + hbmMask := NumGet(buf, 12 + (A_PtrSize - 4)) + hbmColor := NumGet(buf, 12 + (A_PtrSize - 4) + A_PtrSize) + if !(hbmColor && DllCall("GetObject", Ptr, hbmColor, "int", BufSize, Ptr, &buf)) + { + DestroyIcon(hIcon) + continue + } + break + } + if !hIcon + return -1 + + Width := NumGet(buf, 4, "int"), Height := NumGet(buf, 8, "int") + hbm := CreateDIBSection(Width, -Height), hdc := CreateCompatibleDC(), obm := SelectObject(hdc, hbm) + if !DllCall("DrawIconEx", Ptr, hdc, "int", 0, "int", 0, Ptr, hIcon, "uint", Width, "uint", Height, "uint", 0, Ptr, 0, "uint", 3) + { + DestroyIcon(hIcon) + return -2 + } + + VarSetCapacity(dib, 104) + DllCall("GetObject", Ptr, hbm, "int", A_PtrSize = 8 ? 104 : 84, Ptr, &dib) ; sizeof(DIBSECTION) = 76+2*(A_PtrSize=8?4:0)+2*A_PtrSize + Stride := NumGet(dib, 12, "Int") + Bits := NumGet(dib, 20 + (A_PtrSize = 8 ? 4 : 0)) ; padding + pBitmapOld := Gdip_CreateBitmap(Width, Height, 0, Stride, Bits) + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(Width, Height) + _G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(pBitmap) + Gdip_DrawImage(_G, pBitmapOld, 0, 0, Width, Height, 0, 0, Width, Height) + SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(hdc) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(_G), Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmapOld) + DestroyIcon(hIcon) + } else + { + function2call := (useICM=1) ? "ICM" : "" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromFile" function2call, "WStr", sFile, "UPtr*", pBitmap) + } + + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromFileSimplified(sFile, useICM:=0) { + function2call := (useICM=1) ? "ICM" : "" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromFile" function2call, "WStr", sFile, "UPtr*", pBitmap) + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateARGBBitmapFromHBITMAP(hImage) { +; function by iseahound found on: +; https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63345 +; part of https://github.com/iseahound/Graphics/blob/master/lib/Graphics.ahk + If !hImage + Return + + ; struct BITMAP - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/wingdi/ns-wingdi-tagbitmap + E := DllCall("GetObject" + , "ptr", hImage + , "int", VarSetCapacity(dib, 76+2*(A_PtrSize=8?4:0)+2*A_PtrSize) + , "ptr", &dib) ; sizeof(DIBSECTION) = x86:84, x64:104 + If !E + Return + + width := NumGet(dib, 4, "uint") + height := NumGet(dib, 8, "uint") + bpp := NumGet(dib, 18, "ushort") + + ; Fallback to built-in method if pixels are not ARGB. + if (bpp!=32) + return Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hImage) + + ; Create a handle to a device context and associate the hImage. + hdc := CreateCompatibleDC() + If !hdc + Return + + obm := SelectObject(hdc, hImage) + ; Buffer the hImage with a top-down device independent bitmap via negative height. + ; Note that a DIB is an hBitmap, pixels are formatted as pARGB, and has a pointer to the bits. + cdc := CreateCompatibleDC(hdc) + If !cdc + { + SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteDC(hdc) + Return + } + + hbm := CreateDIBSection(width, -height, hdc, 32, pBits) + If !hbm + { + DeleteDC(cdc), SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteDC(hdc) + Return + } + + ob2 := SelectObject(cdc, hbm) + ; Create a new Bitmap (different from an hBitmap) which holds ARGB pixel values. + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(width, height) + If !pBitmap + { + SelectObject(cdc, ob2) + DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(cdc) + SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteDC(hdc) + Return + } + + ; Create a Scan0 buffer pointing to pBits. The buffer has pixel format pARGB. + CreateRect(Rect, 0, 0, width, height) + VarSetCapacity(BitmapData, 16+2*A_PtrSize, 0) + , NumPut( width, BitmapData, 0, "uint") ; Width + , NumPut( height, BitmapData, 4, "uint") ; Height + , NumPut( 4 * width, BitmapData, 8, "int") ; Stride + , NumPut( 0xE200B, BitmapData, 12, "int") ; PixelFormat + , NumPut( pBits, BitmapData, 16, "ptr") ; Scan0 + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapLockBits" + , "ptr", pBitmap + , "ptr", &Rect + , "uint", 6 ; ImageLockMode.UserInputBuffer | ImageLockMode.WriteOnly + , "int", 0xE200B ; Format32bppPArgb + , "ptr", &BitmapData) + + ; Ensure that our hBitmap (hImage) is top-down by copying it to a top-down bitmap. + BitBlt(cdc, 0, 0, width, height, hdc, 0, 0) + + ; Convert the pARGB pixels copied into the device independent bitmap (hbm) to ARGB. + If !E + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapUnlockBits", "ptr",pBitmap, "ptr",&BitmapData) + + ; Cleanup the buffer and device contexts. + SelectObject(cdc, ob2) + DeleteObject(hbm), DeleteDC(cdc) + SelectObject(hdc, obm), DeleteDC(hdc) + + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hBitmap, hPalette:=0) { +; Creates a Bitmap GDI+ object from a GDI [DIB] bitmap handle. +; hPalette - Handle to a GDI palette used to define the bitmap colors + +; Do not pass to this function a GDI bitmap or a GDI palette that is +; currently is selected into a device context [hDC]. + + pBitmap := 0 + If !hBitmap + { + gdipLastError := 2 + Return + } + + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromHBITMAP", "UPtr", hBitmap, "UPtr", hPalette, "UPtr*", pBitmap) + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(pBitmap, Background:=0xffffffff) { +; background should be zero, to not alter alpha channel of the image + hBitmap := 0 + If !pBitmap + { + gdipLastError := 2 + Return + } + + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr*", hBitmap, "int", Background) + return hBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateARGBHBITMAPFromBitmap(ByRef pBitmap) { + ; function by iseahound ; source: https://github.com/mmikeww/AHKv2-Gdip + ; modified by Marius Șucan to rely on already present functions [within the library] + ; and improved error handling + + ; Convert the source pBitmap into a hBitmap manually. + ; This version is about 25% faster than Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(). + ; struct BITMAPINFOHEADER - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/ns-wingdi-bitmapinfoheader + + If !pBitmap + Return + + hdc := CreateCompatibleDC() + If !hdc + Return + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, Width, Height) + hbm := CreateDIBSection(width, -height, hdc, 32, pBits) + If !hbm + { + DeleteObject(hdc) + Return + } + + obm := SelectObject(hdc, hbm) + ; Transfer data from source pBitmap to an hBitmap manually. + CreateRect(Rect, 0, 0, width, height) + VarSetCapacity(BitmapData, 16+2*A_PtrSize, 0) ; sizeof(BitmapData) = 24, 32 + , NumPut( width, BitmapData, 0, "uint") ; Width + , NumPut( height, BitmapData, 4, "uint") ; Height + , NumPut( 4 * width, BitmapData, 8, "int") ; Stride + , NumPut( 0xE200B, BitmapData, 12, "int") ; PixelFormat + , NumPut( pBits, BitmapData, 16, "ptr") ; Scan0 + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapLockBits" + , "ptr", pBitmap + , "ptr", &Rect + , "uint", 5 ; ImageLockMode.UserInputBuffer | ImageLockMode.ReadOnly + , "int", 0xE200B ; Format32bppPArgb + , "ptr", &BitmapData) ; Contains the pointer (pBits) to the hbm. + If !E + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapUnlockBits", "ptr", pBitmap, "ptr", &BitmapData) + + ; Cleanup the hBitmap and device contexts. + SelectObject(hdc, obm) + DeleteObject(hdc) + return hbm +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHICON(hIcon) { + pBitmap := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromHICON", "UPtr", hIcon, "UPtr*", pBitmap) + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateHICONFromBitmap(pBitmap) { + hIcon := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateHICONFromBitmap", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr*", hIcon) + return hIcon +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmap(Width, Height, PixelFormat:=0, Stride:=0, Scan0:=0) { +; By default, this function creates a new 32-ARGB bitmap. +; modified by Marius Șucan + If (!Width || !Height) + { + gdipLastError := 2 + Return + } + + pBitmap := 0 + If !PixelFormat + PixelFormat := 0x26200A ; 32-ARGB + + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0" + , "int", Width , "int", Height + , "int", Stride , "int", PixelFormat + , "UPtr", Scan0 , "UPtr*", pBitmap) + + Return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromClipboard() { +; modified by Marius Șucan + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + pid := DllCall("GetCurrentProcessId","uint") + hwnd := WinExist("ahk_pid " . pid) + if !DllCall("IsClipboardFormatAvailable", "uint", 8) ; CF_DIB = 8 + { + if DllCall("IsClipboardFormatAvailable", "uint", 2) ; CF_BITMAP = 2 + { + if !DllCall("OpenClipboard", Ptr, hwnd) + return -1 + + hData := DllCall("User32.dll\GetClipboardData", "UInt", 0x0002, "UPtr") + hBitmap := DllCall("User32.dll\CopyImage", "UPtr", hData, "UInt", 0, "Int", 0, "Int", 0, "UInt", 0x2004, "Ptr") + DllCall("CloseClipboard") + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hBitmap) + DeleteObject(hBitmap) + return pBitmap + } + return -2 + } + + if !DllCall("OpenClipboard", Ptr, hwnd) + return -1 + + hBitmap := DllCall("GetClipboardData", "uint", 2, Ptr) + if !hBitmap + { + DllCall("CloseClipboard") + return -3 + } + + DllCall("CloseClipboard") + If hBitmap + { + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateARGBBitmapFromHBITMAP(hBitmap) ; this function can return a completely empty/transparent bitmap + If pBitmap + isUniform := Gdip_TestBitmapUniformity(pBitmap, 7, maxLevelIndex) + + If (pBitmap && isUniform=1 && maxLevelIndex<=2) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap, 1) + pBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hBitmap) + } + DeleteObject(hBitmap) + } + + if !pBitmap + return -4 + + return pBitmap +} + +Gdip_SetBitmapToClipboard(pBitmap, hBitmap:=0) { +; modified by Marius Șucan to have this function report errors +; you can feed this function a hBitmap directly +; return value: 0 = succes + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + off1 := A_PtrSize = 8 ? 52 : 44 + off2 := A_PtrSize = 8 ? 32 : 24 + + pid := DllCall("GetCurrentProcessId","uint") + hwnd := WinExist("ahk_pid " . pid) + r1 := DllCall("OpenClipboard", Ptr, hwnd) + If !r1 + Return -1 + + If !hBitmap + { + If pBitmap + hBitmap := Gdip_CreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(pBitmap, 0) + } + + If !hBitmap + { + DllCall("CloseClipboard") + Return -3 + } + + r2 := DllCall("EmptyClipboard") + If !r2 + { + DeleteObject(hBitmap) + DllCall("CloseClipboard") + Return -2 + } + + DllCall("GetObject", Ptr, hBitmap, "int", VarSetCapacity(oi, A_PtrSize = 8 ? 104 : 84, 0), Ptr, &oi) + hdib := DllCall("GlobalAlloc", "uint", 2, Ptr, 40+NumGet(oi, off1, "UInt"), Ptr) + pdib := DllCall("GlobalLock", Ptr, hdib, Ptr) + DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", Ptr, pdib, Ptr, &oi+off2, Ptr, 40) + DllCall("RtlMoveMemory", Ptr, pdib+40, Ptr, NumGet(oi, off2 - A_PtrSize, Ptr), Ptr, NumGet(oi, off1, "UInt")) + DllCall("GlobalUnlock", Ptr, hdib) + DeleteObject(hBitmap) + r3 := DllCall("SetClipboardData", "uint", 8, Ptr, hdib) ; CF_DIB = 8 + DllCall("CloseClipboard") + DllCall("GlobalFree", Ptr, hdib) + E := r3 ? 0 : -4 ; 0 - success + Return E +} + +Gdip_CloneBitmapArea(pBitmap, x:="", y:="", w:=0, h:=0, PixelFormat:=0, KeepPixelFormat:=0) { +; The new pBitmap is by default in the 32-ARGB PixelFormat. +; +; If the specified coordinates exceed the boundaries of pBitmap +; the resulted pBitmap is erroneuous / defective. + If !pBitmap + { + gdipLastError := 2 + Return + } + + pBitmapDest := 0 + If !PixelFormat + PixelFormat := 0x26200A ; 32-ARGB + + If (KeepPixelFormat=1) + PixelFormat := Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap, 1) + + If (y="") + y := 0 + + If (x="") + x := 0 + + If (!w || !h) + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, w, h) + + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneBitmapArea" + , "float", x, "float", y + , "float", w, "float", h + , "int", PixelFormat + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "UPtr*", pBitmapDest) + + return pBitmapDest +} + +Gdip_CloneBitmap(pBitmap) { + ; the new pBitmap will have the same PixelFormat, unchanged. + If !pBitmap + { + gdipLastError := 2 + Return + } + + pBitmapDest := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneImage", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr*", pBitmapDest) + return pBitmapDest +} + +Gdip_BitmapSelectActiveFrame(pBitmap, FrameIndex) { +; Selects as the active frame the given FrameIndex +; within an animated GIF or a multi-paged TIFF. +; On succes, it returns the frames count. +; On fail, the return value is -1. + + Countu := 0 + CountFrames := 0 + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageGetFrameDimensionsCount", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UInt*", Countu) + VarSetCapacity(dIDs, 16, 0) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageGetFrameDimensionsList", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &dIDs, "UInt", Countu) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageGetFrameCount", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &dIDs, "UInt*", CountFrames) + If (FrameIndex>CountFrames) + FrameIndex := CountFrames + Else If (FrameIndex<1) + FrameIndex := 0 + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageSelectActiveFrame", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &dIDs, "UInt", FrameIndex) + If E + Return -1 + Return CountFrames +} + +Gdip_GetBitmapFramesCount(pBitmap) { +; The function returns the number of frames or pages a given pBitmap has. +; GDI+ only supports multi-frames/pages for GIFs and TIFFs. +; Function written by SBC in September 2010 and +; extracted from his «Picture Viewer» script. +; https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/58226-ahk-picture-viewer/ + + Countu := 0 + CountFrames := 0 + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageGetFrameDimensionsCount", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UInt*", Countu) + VarSetCapacity(dIDs, 16, 0) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageGetFrameDimensionsList", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &dIDs, "UInt", Countu) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageGetFrameCount", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &dIDs, "UInt*", CountFrames) + Return CountFrames +} + +Gdip_CreateCachedBitmap(pBitmap, pGraphics) { +; Creates a CachedBitmap object based on a Bitmap object and a pGraphics object. The cached bitmap takes +; the pixel data from the Bitmap object and stores it in a format that is optimized for the display device +; associated with the pGraphics object. + + pCachedBitmap := 0 + gdipLastError := := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateCachedBitmap", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", pGraphics, "Ptr*", pCachedBitmap) + return pCachedBitmap +} + +Gdip_DeleteCachedBitmap(pCachedBitmap) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteCachedBitmap", "UPtr", pCachedBitmap) +} + +Gdip_DrawCachedBitmap(pGraphics, pCachedBitmap, X, Y) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawCachedBitmap", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, pCachedBitmap, "int", X, "int", Y) +} + +Gdip_ImageRotateFlip(pBitmap, RotateFlipType:=1) { +; RotateFlipType options: +; RotateNoneFlipNone = 0 +; Rotate90FlipNone = 1 +; Rotate180FlipNone = 2 +; Rotate270FlipNone = 3 +; RotateNoneFlipX = 4 +; Rotate90FlipX = 5 +; Rotate180FlipX = 6 +; Rotate270FlipX = 7 +; RotateNoneFlipY = Rotate180FlipX +; Rotate90FlipY = Rotate270FlipX +; Rotate180FlipY = RotateNoneFlipX +; Rotate270FlipY = Rotate90FlipX +; RotateNoneFlipXY = Rotate180FlipNone +; Rotate90FlipXY = Rotate270FlipNone +; Rotate180FlipXY = RotateNoneFlipNone +; Rotate270FlipXY = Rotate90FlipNone + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipImageRotateFlip", "UPtr", pBitmap, "int", RotateFlipType) +} + +Gdip_RotateBitmapAtCenter(pBitmap, Angle, pBrush:=0, InterpolationMode:=7, PixelFormat:=0) { +; the pBrush will be used to fill the background of the image +; by default, it is black. +; It returns the pointer to a new pBitmap. + If !pBitmap + Return + + If !Angle + Return Gdip_CloneBitmap(pBitmap) + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, Width, Height) + Gdip_GetRotatedDimensions(Width, Height, Angle, RWidth, RHeight) + Gdip_GetRotatedTranslation(Width, Height, Angle, xTranslation, yTranslation) + If (RWidth*RHeight>536848912) || (Rwidth>32100) || (RHeight>32100) + Return + + PixelFormatReadable := Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap, 2) + If InStr(PixelFormatReadable, "indexed") + { + hbm := CreateDIBSection(RWidth, RHeight,,24) + If !hbm + Return + + hDC := CreateCompatibleDC() + If !hDC + { + DeleteDC(hDC) + Return + } + + obm := SelectObject(hDC, hbm) + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC(hDC, InterpolationMode, 4) + indexedMode := 1 + } Else + { + If (PixelFormat=-1) + PixelFormat := "0xE200B" + + newBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(RWidth, RHeight, PixelFormat) + If StrLen(newBitmap)>1 + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(newBitmap, InterpolationMode, 4) + } + + If (!newBitmap || !G) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + SelectObject(hDC, obm) + DeleteObject(hbm) + DeleteDC(hDC) + Return + } + + If (pBrush=0) + { + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid("0xFF000000") + defaultBrush := 1 + } + + If StrLen(pBrush)>1 + Gdip_FillRectangle(G, pBrush, 0, 0, RWidth, RHeight) + + Gdip_TranslateWorldTransform(G, xTranslation, yTranslation) + Gdip_RotateWorldTransform(G, Angle) + r := Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, Width, Height) + + If (indexedMode=1) + { + newBitmap := !r ? Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hbm) : "" + SelectObject(hDC, obm) + DeleteObject(hbm) + DeleteDC(hDC) + } Else If r + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + newBitmap := "" + } + + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + If (defaultBrush=1) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + Return newBitmap +} + +Gdip_ResizeBitmap(pBitmap, givenW, givenH, KeepRatio, InterpolationMode:="", KeepPixelFormat:=0, checkTooLarge:=0, bgrColor:=0) { +; KeepPixelFormat can receive a specific PixelFormat. +; The function returns a pointer to a new pBitmap. +; Default is 0 = 32-ARGB. +; For maximum speed, use 0xE200B - 32-PARGB pixel format. +; Set bgrColor to have a background colour painted. + + If (!pBitmap || !givenW || !givenH) + Return + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, Width, Height) + If (KeepRatio=1) + { + calcIMGdimensions(Width, Height, givenW, givenH, ResizedW, ResizedH) + } Else + { + ResizedW := givenW + ResizedH := givenH + } + + + If (((ResizedW*ResizedH>536848912) || (ResizedW>32100) || (ResizedH>32100)) && checkTooLarge=1) + Return + + PixelFormatReadable := Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap, 2) + If (KeepPixelFormat=1) + PixelFormat := Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap, 1) + Else If (KeepPixelFormat=-1) + PixelFormat := "0xE200B" + Else If Strlen(KeepPixelFormat)>3 + PixelFormat := KeepPixelFormat + + If (ResizedW=Width && ResizedH=Height) + InterpolationMode := 5 + + If bgrColor + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(bgrColor) + + If InStr(PixelFormatReadable, "indexed") + { + hbm := CreateDIBSection(ResizedW, ResizedH,,24) + If !hbm + Return + + hDC := CreateCompatibleDC() + If !hDC + { + DeleteDC(hdc) + Return + } + + obm := SelectObject(hDC, hbm) + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC(hDC, InterpolationMode, 4) + Gdip_SetPixelOffsetMode(G, 2) + If G + { + If pBrush + Gdip_FillRectangle(G, pBrush, 0, 0, ResizedW, ResizedH) + r := Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, ResizedW, ResizedH) + } + newBitmap := !r ? Gdip_CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(hbm) : "" + If (KeepPixelFormat=1 && newBitmap) + Gdip_BitmapSetColorDepth(newBitmap, SubStr(PixelFormatReadable, 1, 1), 1) + SelectObject(hdc, obm) + DeleteObject(hbm) + DeleteDC(hdc) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + } Else + { + newBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(ResizedW, ResizedH, PixelFormat) + If StrLen(newBitmap)>2 + { + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(newBitmap, InterpolationMode, 4) + Gdip_SetPixelOffsetMode(G, 2) + If G + { + If pBrush + Gdip_FillRectangle(G, pBrush, 0, 0, ResizedW, ResizedH) + r := Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, ResizedW, ResizedH) + } + + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + If (r || !G) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + newBitmap := "" + } + } + } + + Return newBitmap +} + +;##################################################################################### +; pPen functions +; With Gdip_SetPenBrushFill() or Gdip_CreatePenFromBrush() functions, +; pPen objects can have gradients or textures. +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_CreatePen(ARGB, w, Unit:=2) { + pPen := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePen1", "UInt", ARGB, "float", w, "int", Unit, "UPtr*", pPen) + return pPen +} + +Gdip_CreatePenFromBrush(pBrush, w, Unit:=2) { +; Unit - Unit of measurement for the pen size: +; 0 - World coordinates, a non-physical unit +; 1 - Display units +; 2 - A unit is 1 pixel [default] +; 3 - A unit is 1 point or 1/72 inch +; 4 - A unit is 1 inch +; 5 - A unit is 1/300 inch +; 6 - A unit is 1 millimeter + + pPen := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePen2", "UPtr", pBrush, "float", w, "int", 2, "UPtr*", pPen, "int", Unit) + return pPen +} + +Gdip_SetPenWidth(pPen, width) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenWidth", "UPtr", pPen, "float", width) +} + +Gdip_GetPenWidth(pPen) { + width := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenWidth", "UPtr", pPen, "float*", width) + If E + return -1 + return width +} + +Gdip_GetPenDashStyle(pPen) { + DashStyle := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenDashStyle", "UPtr", pPen, "float*", DashStyle) + If E + return -1 + return DashStyle +} + +Gdip_SetPenColor(pPen, ARGB) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenColor", "UPtr", pPen, "UInt", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_GetPenColor(pPen) { + ARGB := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenColor", "UPtr", pPen, "UInt*", ARGB) + If E + return -1 + + return Format("{1:#x}", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_SetPenBrushFill(pPen, pBrush) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenBrushFill", "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", pBrush) +} + +Gdip_ResetPenTransform(pPen) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetPenTransform", "UPtr", pPen) +} + +Gdip_MultiplyPenTransform(pPen, hMatrix, matrixOrder:=0) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMultiplyPenTransform", "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", hMatrix, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_RotatePenTransform(pPen, Angle, matrixOrder:=0) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotatePenTransform", "UPtr", pPen, "float", Angle, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_ScalePenTransform(pPen, ScaleX, ScaleY, matrixOrder:=0) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScalePenTransform", "UPtr", pPen, "float", ScaleX, "float", ScaleY, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_TranslatePenTransform(pPen, X, Y, matrixOrder:=0) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslatePenTransform", "UPtr", pPen, "float", X, "float", Y, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_SetPenTransform(pPen, pMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenTransform", "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", pMatrix) +} + +Gdip_GetPenTransform(pPen) { + pMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenTransform", "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr*", pMatrix) + Return pMatrix +} + +Gdip_GetPenBrushFill(pPen) { +; Gets the pBrush object that is currently set for the pPen object + pBrush := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenBrushFill", "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr*", pBrush) + Return pBrush +} + +Gdip_GetPenFillType(pPen) { +; Description: Gets the type of brush fill currently set for a Pen object +; Return values: +; 0 - The pen draws with a solid color +; 1 - The pen draws with a hatch pattern that is specified by a HatchBrush object +; 2 - The pen draws with a texture that is specified by a TextureBrush object +; 3 - The pen draws with a color gradient that is specified by a PathGradientBrush object +; 4 - The pen draws with a color gradient that is specified by a LinearGradientBrush object +; -1 - The pen type is unknown +; -2 - Error + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenFillType", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + return -2 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenStartCap(pPen) { + result := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenStartCap", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenEndCap(pPen) { + result := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenEndCap", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenDashCaps(pPen) { + result := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenDashCap197819", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenAlignment(pPen) { + result := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenMode", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + return -1 + Return result +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Function - Gdip_SetPenLineCaps +; Description - Sets the cap styles for the start, end, and dashes in a line drawn with the pPen object +; Parameters +; pPen - Pointer to a Pen object. Start and end caps do not apply to closed lines. +; - StartCap - Line cap style for the start cap: +; 0x00 - Line ends at the last point. The end is squared off +; 0x01 - Square cap. The center of the square is the last point in the line. The height and width of the square are the line width. +; 0x02 - Circular cap. The center of the circle is the last point in the line. The diameter of the circle is the line width. +; 0x03 - Triangular cap. The base of the triangle is the last point in the line. The base of the triangle is the line width. +; 0x10 - Line ends are not anchored. +; 0x11 - Line ends are anchored with a square. The center of the square is the last point in the line. The height and width of the square are the line width. +; 0x12 - Line ends are anchored with a circle. The center of the circle is at the last point in the line. The circle is wider than the line. +; 0x13 - Line ends are anchored with a diamond (a square turned at 45 degrees). The center of the diamond is at the last point in the line. The diamond is wider than the line. +; 0x14 - Line ends are anchored with arrowheads. The arrowhead point is located at the last point in the line. The arrowhead is wider than the line. +; 0xff - Line ends are made from a CustomLineCap object. +; EndCap - Line cap style for the end cap (same values as StartCap) +; DashCap - Start and end caps for a dashed line: +; 0 - A square cap that squares off both ends of each dash +; 2 - A circular cap that rounds off both ends of each dash +; 3 - A triangular cap that points both ends of each dash +; Return value: status enumeration + +Gdip_SetPenLineCaps(pPen, StartCap, EndCap, DashCap) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenLineCap197819", Ptr, pPen, "int", StartCap, "int", EndCap, "int", DashCap) +} + +Gdip_SetPenStartCap(pPen, LineCap) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenStartCap", Ptr, pPen, "int", LineCap) +} + +Gdip_SetPenEndCap(pPen, LineCap) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenEndCap", Ptr, pPen, "int", LineCap) +} + +Gdip_SetPenDashCaps(pPen, LineCap) { +; If you set the alignment of a Pen object to +; Pen Alignment Inset, you cannot use that pen +; to draw triangular dash caps. + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenDashCap197819", Ptr, pPen, "int", LineCap) +} + +Gdip_SetPenAlignment(pPen, Alignment) { +; Specifies the alignment setting of the pen relative to the line that is drawn. The default value is Center. +; If you set the alignment of a Pen object to Inset, you cannot use that pen to draw compound lines or triangular dash caps. +; Alignment options: +; 0 [Center] - Specifies that the pen is aligned on the center of the line that is drawn. +; 1 [Inset] - Specifies, when drawing a polygon, that the pen is aligned on the inside of the edge of the polygon. + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenMode", Ptr, pPen, "int", Alignment) +} + +Gdip_GetPenCompoundCount(pPen) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenCompoundCount", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_SetPenCompoundArray(pPen, inCompounds) { +; Parameters - pPen - Pointer to a pPen object +; inCompounds - A string of compound values: +; "value1|value2|value3" [and so on] +; ExampleCompounds := "0.0|0.2|0.7|1.0" +; Remarks - The elements in the string array must be in increasing order, between 0 and not greater than 1. +; Suppose you want a pen to draw two parallel lines where the width of the first line is 20 percent of the pen's +; width, the width of the space that separates the two lines is 50 percent of the pen's width, and the width +; of the second line is 30 percent of the pen's width. Start by creating a pPen object and an array of compound +; values. For this, you can then set the compound array by passing the array with the values "0.0|0.2|0.7|1.0". +; Return status enumeration + + arrCompounds := StrSplit(inCompounds, "|") + totalCompounds := arrCompounds.Length() + VarSetCapacity(pCompounds, 8 * totalCompounds, 0) + Loop %totalCompounds% + NumPut(arrCompounds[A_Index], &pCompounds, 4*(A_Index - 1), "float") + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenCompoundArray", Ptr, pPen, Ptr, &pCompounds, "int", totalCompounds) +} + +Gdip_SetPenDashStyle(pPen, DashStyle) { +; DashStyle options: +; Solid = 0 +; Dash = 1 +; Dot = 2 +; DashDot = 3 +; DashDotDot = 4 +; Custom = 5 +; https://technet.microsoft.com/pt-br/ms534104(v=vs.71).aspx +; function by IPhilip + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenDashStyle", Ptr, pPen, "Int", DashStyle) +} + +Gdip_SetPenDashArray(pPen, Dashes) { +; Description Sets custom dashes and spaces for the pPen object. +; +; Parameters pPen - Pointer to a Pen object +; Dashes - The string that specifies the length of the custom dashes and spaces: +; Format: "dL1,sL1,dL2,sL2,dL3,sL3" [... and so on] +; dLn - Dash N length +; sLn - Space N length +; ExampleDashesArgument := "3,6,8,4,2,1" +; +; Remarks This function sets the dash style for the pPen object to DashStyleCustom (6). +; Return status enumeration. + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Points := StrSplit(Dashes, ",") + PointsCount := Points.Length() + VarSetCapacity(PointsF, 8 * PointsCount, 0) + Loop %PointsCount% + NumPut(Points[A_Index], &PointsF, 4*(A_Index - 1), "float") + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenDashArray", Ptr, pPen, Ptr, &PointsF, "int", PointsCount) +} + +Gdip_SetPenDashOffset(pPen, Offset) { +; Sets the distance from the start of the line to the start of the first space in a dashed line +; Offset - Real number that specifies the number of times to shift the spaces in a dashed line. Each shift is +; equal to the length of a space in the dashed line + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenDashOffset", Ptr, pPen, "float", Offset) +} + +Gdip_GetPenDashArray(pPen) { + iCount := Gdip_GetPenDashCount(pPen) + If (iCount=-1) + Return 0 + + VarSetCapacity(PointsF, 8 * iCount, 0) + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenDashArray", Ptr, pPen, "uPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) + + Loop %iCount% + { + A := NumGet(&PointsF, 4*(A_Index-1), "float") + printList .= A "," + } + + Return Trim(printList, ",") +} + +Gdip_GetPenCompoundArray(pPen) { + iCount := Gdip_GetPenCompoundCount(pPen) + VarSetCapacity(PointsF, 4 * iCount, 0) + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenCompoundArray", Ptr, pPen, "uPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) + + Loop %iCount% + { + A := NumGet(&PointsF, 4*(A_Index-1), "float") + printList .= A "|" + } + + Return Trim(printList, "|") +} + +Gdip_SetPenLineJoin(pPen, LineJoin) { +; LineJoin - Line join style: +; MITER = 0 - it produces a sharp corner or a clipped corner, depending on whether the length of the miter exceeds the miter limit. +; BEVEL = 1 - it produces a diagonal corner. +; ROUND = 2 - it produces a smooth, circular arc between the lines. +; MITERCLIPPED = 3 - it produces a sharp corner or a beveled corner, depending on whether the length of the miter exceeds the miter limit. + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenLineJoin", Ptr, pPen, "int", LineJoin) +} + +Gdip_SetPenMiterLimit(pPen, MiterLimit) { +; MiterLimit - Real number that specifies the miter limit of the Pen object. A real number value that is less +; than 1.0 will be replaced with 1.0, +; +; Remarks +; The miter length is the distance from the intersection of the line walls on the inside of the join to the +; intersection of the line walls outside of the join. The miter length can be large when the angle between two +; lines is small. The miter limit is the maximum allowed ratio of miter length to stroke width. The default +; value is 10.0. +; If the miter length of the join of the intersection exceeds the limit of the join, then the join will be +; beveled to keep it within the limit of the join of the intersection + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenMiterLimit", Ptr, pPen, "float", MiterLimit) +} + +Gdip_SetPenUnit(pPen, Unit) { +; Sets the unit of measurement for a pPen object. +; Unit - New unit of measurement for the pen: +; 0 - World coordinates, a non-physical unit +; 1 - Display units +; 2 - A unit is 1 pixel +; 3 - A unit is 1 point or 1/72 inch +; 4 - A unit is 1 inch +; 5 - A unit is 1/300 inch +; 6 - A unit is 1 millimeter + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPenUnit", Ptr, pPen, "int", Unit) +} + +Gdip_GetPenDashCount(pPen) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenDashCount", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenDashOffset(pPen) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenDashOffset", Ptr, pPen, "float*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenLineJoin(pPen) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenLineJoin", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenMiterLimit(pPen) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenMiterLimit", Ptr, pPen, "float*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPenUnit(pPen) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPenUnit", Ptr, pPen, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_ClonePen(pPen) { + newPen := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipClonePen", "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr*", newPen) + Return newPen +} + +;##################################################################################### +; pBrush functions [types: SolidFill, Texture, Hatch patterns, PathGradient and LinearGradient] +; pBrush objects can be used by pPen objects via Gdip_SetPenBrushFill() +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(ARGB:=0xff000000) { + pBrush := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateSolidFill", "UInt", ARGB, "UPtr*", pBrush) + return pBrush +} + +Gdip_SetSolidFillColor(pBrush, ARGB) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetSolidFillColor", "UPtr", pBrush, "UInt", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_GetSolidFillColor(pBrush) { + ARGB := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetSolidFillColor", "UPtr", pBrush, "UInt*", ARGB) + If E + return -1 + return Format("{1:#x}", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_BrushCreateHatch(ARGBfront, ARGBback, HatchStyle:=0) { +; HatchStyle options: +; Horizontal = 0 +; Vertical = 1 +; ForwardDiagonal = 2 +; BackwardDiagonal = 3 +; Cross = 4 +; DiagonalCross = 5 +; 05Percent = 6 +; 10Percent = 7 +; 20Percent = 8 +; 25Percent = 9 +; 30Percent = 10 +; 40Percent = 11 +; 50Percent = 12 +; 60Percent = 13 +; 70Percent = 14 +; 75Percent = 15 +; 80Percent = 16 +; 90Percent = 17 +; LightDownwardDiagonal = 18 +; LightUpwardDiagonal = 19 +; DarkDownwardDiagonal = 20 +; DarkUpwardDiagonal = 21 +; WideDownwardDiagonal = 22 +; WideUpwardDiagonal = 23 +; LightVertical = 24 +; LightHorizontal = 25 +; NarrowVertical = 26 +; NarrowHorizontal = 27 +; DarkVertical = 28 +; DarkHorizontal = 29 +; DashedDownwardDiagonal = 30 +; DashedUpwardDiagonal = 31 +; DashedHorizontal = 32 +; DashedVertical = 33 +; SmallConfetti = 34 +; LargeConfetti = 35 +; ZigZag = 36 +; Wave = 37 +; DiagonalBrick = 38 +; HorizontalBrick = 39 +; Weave = 40 +; Plaid = 41 +; Divot = 42 +; DottedGrid = 43 +; DottedDiamond = 44 +; Shingle = 45 +; Trellis = 46 +; Sphere = 47 +; SmallGrid = 48 +; SmallCheckerBoard = 49 +; LargeCheckerBoard = 50 +; OutlinedDiamond = 51 +; SolidDiamond = 52 +; Total = 53 + pBrush := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateHatchBrush", "int", HatchStyle, "UInt", ARGBfront, "UInt", ARGBback, "UPtr*", pBrush) + return pBrush +} + +Gdip_GetHatchBackgroundColor(pHatchBrush) { + ARGB := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetHatchBackgroundColor", Ptr, pHatchBrush, "uint*", ARGB) + If E + Return -1 + return Format("{1:#x}", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_GetHatchForegroundColor(pHatchBrush) { + ARGB := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetHatchForegroundColor", Ptr, pHatchBrush, "uint*", ARGB) + If E + Return -1 + return Format("{1:#x}", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_GetHatchStyle(pHatchBrush) { + result := 0 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetHatchStyle", Ptr, pHatchBrush, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function: Gdip_CreateTextureBrush +; Description: Creates a TextureBrush object based on an image, a wrap mode and a defining rectangle. +; +; pBitmap Pointer to an Image object +; WrapMode Wrap mode that specifies how repeated copies of an image are used to tile an area when it is +; painted with the texture brush: +; 0 - Tile - Tiling without flipping +; 1 - TileFlipX - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move from one tile to the next in a row +; 2 - TileFlipY - Tiles are flipped vertically as you move from one tile to the next in a column +; 3 - TileFlipXY - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move along a row and flipped vertically as you move along a column +; 4 - Clamp - No tiling takes place +; x, y x, y coordinates of the image portion to be used by this brush +; w, h Width and height of the image portion +; matrix A color matrix to alter the colors of the given pBitmap +; ScaleX, ScaleY x, y scaling factor for the texture +; Angle Rotates the texture at given angle +; +; return If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero +; notes If w and h are omitted, the entire pBitmap is used +; Matrix can be omitted to just draw with no alteration to the ARGB channels +; Matrix may be passed as a digit from 0.0 - 1.0 to change just transparency +; Matrix can be passed as a matrix with "|" as delimiter. +; Function modified by Marius Șucan, to allow use of color matrix and ImageAttributes object. + +Gdip_CreateTextureBrush(pBitmap, WrapMode:=1, x:=0, y:=0, w:="", h:="", matrix:="", ScaleX:="", ScaleY:="", Angle:=0, ImageAttr:=0) { + pBrush := 0 + If !(w && h) + { + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateTexture", "UPtr", pBitmap, "int", WrapMode, "UPtr*", pBrush) + } Else + { + If !ImageAttr + { + If !IsNumber(Matrix) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) + Else If (Matrix != 1) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix("1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|" Matrix "|0|0|0|0|0|1") + } Else usrImageAttr := 1 + + If ImageAttr + { + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateTextureIA", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", ImageAttr, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "UPtr*", pBrush) + If pBrush + Gdip_SetTextureWrapMode(pBrush, WrapMode) + } Else + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateTexture2", "UPtr", pBitmap, "int", WrapMode, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "UPtr*", pBrush) + } + + if (ImageAttr && usrImageAttr!=1) + Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) + + If (ScaleX && ScaleX && pBrush) + Gdip_ScaleTextureTransform(pBrush, ScaleX, ScaleY) + + If (Angle && pBrush) + Gdip_RotateTextureTransform(pBrush, Angle) + + return pBrush +} + +Gdip_RotateTextureTransform(pTexBrush, Angle, MatrixOrder:=0) { +; MatrixOrder options: +; Prepend = 0; The new operation is applied before the old operation. +; Append = 1; The new operation is applied after the old operation. +; Order of matrices multiplication:. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotateTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "float", Angle, "int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_ScaleTextureTransform(pTexBrush, ScaleX, ScaleY, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScaleTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "float", ScaleX, "float", ScaleY, "int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_TranslateTextureTransform(pTexBrush, X, Y, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "float", X, "float", Y, "int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_MultiplyTextureTransform(pTexBrush, hMatrix, matrixOrder:=0) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMultiplyTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "UPtr", hMatrix, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_SetTextureTransform(pTexBrush, hMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "UPtr", hMatrix) +} + +Gdip_GetTextureTransform(pTexBrush) { + hMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "UPtr*", hMatrix) + Return hMatrix +} + +Gdip_ResetTextureTransform(pTexBrush) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetTextureTransform", "UPtr", pTexBrush) +} + +Gdip_SetTextureWrapMode(pTexBrush, WrapMode) { +; WrapMode options: +; 0 - Tile - Tiling without flipping +; 1 - TileFlipX - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move from one tile to the next in a row +; 2 - TileFlipY - Tiles are flipped vertically as you move from one tile to the next in a column +; 3 - TileFlipXY - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move along a row and flipped vertically as you move along a column +; 4 - Clamp - No tiling takes place + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetTextureWrapMode", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "int", WrapMode) +} + +Gdip_GetTextureWrapMode(pTexBrush) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetTextureWrapMode", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetTextureImage(pTexBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + pBitmapDest := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetTextureImage", "UPtr", pTexBrush, "UPtr*", pBitmapDest) + Return pBitmapDest +} + +;##################################################################################### +; LinearGradientBrush functions +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_CreateLineBrush(x1, y1, x2, y2, ARGB1, ARGB2, WrapMode:=1) { + return Gdip_CreateLinearGrBrush(x1, y1, x2, y2, ARGB1, ARGB2, WrapMode) +} + +Gdip_CreateLinearGrBrush(x1, y1, x2, y2, ARGB1, ARGB2, WrapMode:=1) { +; Linear gradient brush. +; WrapMode specifies how the pattern is repeated once it exceeds the defined space +; Tile [no flipping] = 0 +; TileFlipX = 1 +; TileFlipY = 2 +; TileFlipXY = 3 +; Clamp [no tiling] = 4 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + CreatePointF(PointF1, x1, y1) + CreatePointF(PointF2, x2, y2) + pLinearGradientBrush := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateLineBrush", Ptr, &PointF1, Ptr, &PointF2, "Uint", ARGB1, "Uint", ARGB2, "int", WrapMode, "UPtr*", pLinearGradientBrush) + return pLinearGradientBrush +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushColors(pLinearGradientBrush, ARGB1, ARGB2) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetLineColors", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "UInt", ARGB1, "UInt", ARGB2) +} + +Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushColors(pLinearGradientBrush, ByRef ARGB1, ByRef ARGB2) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + VarSetCapacity(colors, 8, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineColors", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "Ptr", &colors) + ARGB1 := NumGet(colors, 0, "UInt") + ARGB2 := NumGet(colors, 4, "UInt") + ARGB1 := Format("{1:#x}", ARGB1) + ARGB2 := Format("{1:#x}", ARGB2) + return E +} + +Gdip_CreateLineBrushFromRect(x, y, w, h, ARGB1, ARGB2, LinearGradientMode:=1, WrapMode:=1) { + return Gdip_CreateLinearGrBrushFromRect(x, y, w, h, ARGB1, ARGB2, LinearGradientMode, WrapMode) +} + +Gdip_CreateLinearGrBrushFromRect(x, y, w, h, ARGB1, ARGB2, LinearGradientMode:=1, WrapMode:=1) { +; WrapMode options [LinearGradientMode]: +; Horizontal = 0 +; Vertical = 1 +; ForwardDiagonal = 2 +; BackwardDiagonal = 3 + CreateRectF(RectF, x, y, w, h) + pLinearGradientBrush := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateLineBrushFromRect", "UPtr", &RectF, "int", ARGB1, "int", ARGB2, "int", LinearGradientMode, "int", WrapMode, "UPtr*", pLinearGradientBrush) + return pLinearGradientBrush +} + +Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushGammaCorrection(pLinearGradientBrush) { + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineGammaCorrection", "UPtr", pLinearGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If gdipLastError + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushGammaCorrection(pLinearGradientBrush, UseGammaCorrection) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetLineGammaCorrection", "UPtr", pLinearGradientBrush, "int", UseGammaCorrection) +} + +Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushRect(pLinearGradientBrush) { + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineRect", "UPtr", pLinearGradientBrush, "UPtr", &RectF) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_ResetLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetLineTransform", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush) +} + +Gdip_ScaleLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush, ScaleX, ScaleY, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScaleLineTransform", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "float", ScaleX, "float", ScaleY, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_MultiplyLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush, hMatrix, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMultiplyLineTransform", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, Ptr, hMatrix, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_TranslateLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush, X, Y, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateLineTransform", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "float", X, "float", Y, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_RotateLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush, Angle, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotateLineTransform", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "float", Angle, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush, pMatrix) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetLineTransform", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, Ptr, pMatrix) +} + +Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushTransform(pLineGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + pMatrix := 0 + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineTransform", Ptr, pLineGradientBrush, "UPtr*", pMatrix) + Return pMatrix +} + +Gdip_RotateLinearGrBrushAtCenter(pLinearGradientBrush, Angle, MatrixOrder:=1) { +; function by Marius Șucan +; based on Gdip_RotatePathAtCenter() by RazorHalo + + Rect := Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushRect(pLinearGradientBrush) ; boundaries + cX := Rect.x + (Rect.w / 2) + cY := Rect.y + (Rect.h / 2) + pMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, -cX , -cY) + Gdip_RotateMatrix(pMatrix, Angle, MatrixOrder) + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, cX, cY, MatrixOrder) + E := Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushTransform(pLinearGradientBrush, pMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(pMatrix) + Return E +} + +Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushWrapMode(pLinearGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineWrapMode", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushLinearBlend(pLinearGradientBrush, nFocus, nScale) { +; https://purebasic.developpez.com/tutoriels/gdi/documentation/GdiPlus/LinearGradientBrush/html/GdipSetLineLinearBlend.html + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetLineLinearBlend", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "float", nFocus, "float", nScale) +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushSigmaBlend(pLinearGradientBrush, nFocus, nScale) { +; https://purebasic.developpez.com/tutoriels/gdi/documentation/GdiPlus/LinearGradientBrush/html/GdipSetLineSigmaBlend.html + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetLineSigmaBlend", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "float", nFocus, "float", nScale) +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushWrapMode(pLinearGradientBrush, WrapMode) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetLineWrapMode", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "int", WrapMode) +} + +Gdip_GetLinearGrBrushBlendCount(pLinearGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineBlendCount", Ptr, pLinearGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushPresetBlend(pBrush, _positions, _colors, pathBrush:=0) { +; function by TheArkive + + elements := _colors.Length() + If (elements>_positions.Length() || elements<2) + Return 2 ; invalid parameters + + _positions.InsertAt(1, 0.0), _positions.Push(1.0) + _colors.Push(_colors[elements]) + _colors.InsertAt(1, _colors[1]) + elements := _colors.Length() + + VarSetCapacity(COLORS, elements*4, 0) + For i, _color in _colors + NumPut(_color, COLORS, (i-1)*4, "UInt") + + VarSetCapacity(POSITIONS, elements*4, 0) + For i, _pos in _positions + NumPut(_pos, POSITIONS, (i-1)*4, "Float") + + func2exec := (pathBrush=1) ? "GdipSetPathGradientPresetBlend" : "GdipSetLinePresetBlend" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\" func2exec, "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr", &COLORS, "UPtr", &POSITIONS, "Int", elements) +} + +Gdip_SetPathGradientPresetBlend(pBrush, _positions, _colors) { + Return Gdip_SetLinearGrBrushPresetBlend(pBrush, _positions, _colors, 1) +} + +Gdip_CloneBrush(pBrush) { + pBrushClone := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneBrush", "UPtr", pBrush, "UPtr*", pBrushClone) + return pBrushClone +} + +Gdip_GetBrushType(pBrush) { +; Possible brush types [return values]: +; 0 - Solid color +; 1 - Hatch pattern fill +; 2 - Texture fill +; 3 - Path gradient +; 4 - Linear gradient +; -1 - error + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetBrushType", Ptr, pBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Delete resources +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_DeleteRegion(hRegion) { + If hRegion + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteRegion", "UPtr", hRegion) +} + +Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) { + If pPen + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeletePen", "UPtr", pPen) +} + +Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) { + If pBrush + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteBrush", "UPtr", pBrush) +} + +Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap, noErr:=0) { +; modified by Marius Șucan to help avoid crashes +; by disposing a non-existent pBitmap + + If (StrLen(pBitmap)<=2 && noErr=1) + Return 0 + + r := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDisposeImage", "UPtr", pBitmap) + If (r=2 || r=1) && (noErr=1) + r := 0 + Return r +} + +Gdip_DeleteGraphics(pGraphics) { + If pGraphics + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteGraphics", "UPtr", pGraphics) +} + +Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) { + If ImageAttr + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDisposeImageAttributes", "UPtr", ImageAttr) +} + +Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) { + If hFont + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteFont", "UPtr", hFont) +} + +Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hStringFormat) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteStringFormat", "UPtr", hStringFormat) +} + +Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) { + If hFontFamily + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteFontFamily", "UPtr", hFontFamily) +} + +Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) { + If hFontCollection + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeletePrivateFontCollection", "Ptr", hFontCollection) +} + +Gdip_DeleteMatrix(hMatrix) { + If hMatrix + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteMatrix", "UPtr", hMatrix) +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Text functions +; Easy to use functions: +; Gdip_DrawOrientedString() - allows to draw strings or string contours/outlines, +; or both, rotated at any angle. On success, its boundaries are returned. +; Gdip_DrawStringAlongPolygon() - allows you to draw a string along a pPath +; or multiple given coordinates. +; Gdip_TextToGraphics() - allows you to draw strings or measure their boundaries. +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_DrawOrientedString(pGraphics, String, FontName, Size, Style, X, Y, Width, Height, Angle:=0, pBrush:=0, pPen:=0, Align:=0, ScaleX:=1) { +; FontName can be a name of an already installed font or it can point to a font file +; to be loaded and used to draw the string. + +; Size - in em, in world units [font size] +; Remarks: a high value might be required; over 60, 90... to see the text. +; X, Y - coordinates for the rectangle where the text will be drawn +; W, H - width and heigh for the rectangle where the text will be drawn +; Angle - the angle at which the text should be rotated + +; pBrush - a pointer to a pBrush object to fill the text with +; pPen - a pointer to a pPen object to draw the outline [contour] of the text +; Remarks: both are optional, but one at least must be given, otherwise +; the function fails, returns -3. +; For example, if you want only the contour of the text, pass only a pPen object. + +; Align options: +; Near/left = 0 +; Center = 1 +; Far/right = 2 + +; Style options: +; Regular = 0 +; Bold = 1 +; Italic = 2 +; BoldItalic = 3 +; Underline = 4 +; Strikeout = 8 + +; ScaleX - if you want to distort the text [make it wider or narrower] + +; On success, the function returns an array: +; PathBounds.x , PathBounds.y , PathBounds.w , PathBounds.h + + If (!pBrush && !pPen) + Return -3 + + If RegExMatch(FontName, "^(.\:\\.)") + { + hFontCollection := Gdip_NewPrivateFontCollection() + hFontFamily := Gdip_CreateFontFamilyFromFile(FontName, hFontCollection) + } Else hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(FontName) + + If !hFontFamily + hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreateGeneric(1) + + If !hFontFamily + { + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return -1 + } + + FormatStyle := 0x4000 + hStringFormat := Gdip_StringFormatCreate(FormatStyle) + If !hStringFormat + hStringFormat := Gdip_StringFormatGetGeneric(1) + + If !hStringFormat + { + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return -2 + } + + Gdip_SetStringFormatTrimming(hStringFormat, 3) + Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(hStringFormat, Align) + pPath := Gdip_CreatePath() + + E := Gdip_AddPathString(pPath, String, hFontFamily, Style, Size, hStringFormat, X, Y, Width, Height) + If (ScaleX>0 && ScaleX!=1) + { + hMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_ScaleMatrix(hMatrix, ScaleX, 1) + Gdip_TransformPath(pPath, hMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(hMatrix) + } + Gdip_RotatePathAtCenter(pPath, Angle) + + If (!E && pBrush) + E := Gdip_FillPath(pGraphics, pBrush, pPath) + If (!E && pPen) + E := Gdip_DrawPath(pGraphics, pPen, pPath) + PathBounds := Gdip_GetPathWorldBounds(pPath) + Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hStringFormat) + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + Gdip_DeletePath(pPath) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return E ? E : PathBounds +} + +Gdip_TextToGraphics(pGraphics, Text, Options, Font:="Arial", Width:="", Height:="", Measure:=0, userBrush:=0, Unit:=0) { +; Font parameter can be a name of an already installed font or it can point to a font file +; to be loaded and used to draw the string. +; +; Set Unit to 3 [Pts] to have the texts rendered at the same size +; with the texts rendered in GUIs with -DPIscale +; +; userBrush - if a pBrush object is passed, this will be used to draw the text +; Remarks: by changing the alignment, the text will be rendered at a different X +; coordinate position; the position of the text is set relative to +; the given X position coordinate and the text width.. +; See also Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(). +; +; On success, the function returns a string in the following format: +; "x|y|width|height|chars|lines" +; The first four elements represent the boundaries of the text. +; The string is returned by Gdip_MeasureString() + + Static Styles := "Regular|Bold|Italic|BoldItalic|Underline|Strikeout" + , Alignments := "Near|Left|Centre|Center|Far|Right" + + OWidth := Width + IWidth := Width, IHeight:= Height + pattern_opts := (A_AhkVersion < "2") ? "iO)" : "i)" + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "X([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", xpos) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "Y([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", ypos) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "W([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", PWidth) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "H([\-\d\.]+)(p*)", Height) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "C(?!(entre|enter))([a-f\d]+)", Colour) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "Top|Up|Bottom|Down|vCentre|vCenter", vPos) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "NoWrap", NoWrap) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "R(\d)", Rendering) + RegExMatch(Options, pattern_opts "S(\d+)(p*)", Size) + Width := PWidth + + if Colour && IsInteger(Colour[2]) && !Gdip_DeleteBrush(Gdip_CloneBrush(Colour[2])) + { + PassBrush := 1 + pBrush := Colour[2] + } + + if !(IWidth && IHeight) && ((xpos && xpos[2]) || (ypos && ypos[2]) || (Width && Width[2]) || (Height && Height[2]) || (Size && Size[2])) + return -1 + + Style := 0 + For eachStyle, valStyle in StrSplit(Styles, "|") + { + if RegExMatch(Options, "\b" valStyle) + Style |= (valStyle != "StrikeOut") ? (A_Index-1) : 8 + } + + Align := 0 + For eachAlignment, valAlignment in StrSplit(Alignments, "|") + { + if RegExMatch(Options, "\b" valAlignment) + Align |= A_Index//2.1 ; 0|0|1|1|2|2 + } + + xpos := (xpos && (xpos[1] != "")) ? xpos[2] ? IWidth*(xpos[1]/100) : xpos[1] : 0 + ypos := (ypos && (ypos[1] != "")) ? ypos[2] ? IHeight*(ypos[1]/100) : ypos[1] : 0 + Width := (Width && Width[1]) ? Width[2] ? IWidth*(Width[1]/100) : Width[1] : IWidth + Height := (Height && Height[1]) ? Height[2] ? IHeight*(Height[1]/100) : Height[1] : IHeight + If !PassBrush + Colour := "0x" (Colour && Colour[2] ? Colour[2] : "ff000000") + Rendering := (Rendering && (Rendering[1] >= 0) && (Rendering[1] <= 5)) ? Rendering[1] : 4 + Size := (Size && (Size[1] > 0)) ? Size[2] ? IHeight*(Size[1]/100) : Size[1] : 12 + If RegExMatch(Font, "^(.\:\\.)") + { + hFontCollection := Gdip_NewPrivateFontCollection() + hFontFamily := Gdip_CreateFontFamilyFromFile(Font, hFontCollection) + } Else hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(Font) + + If !hFontFamily + hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreateGeneric(1) + + hFont := Gdip_FontCreate(hFontFamily, Size, Style, Unit) + FormatStyle := NoWrap ? 0x4000 | 0x1000 : 0x4000 + hStringFormat := Gdip_StringFormatCreate(FormatStyle) + If !hStringFormat + hStringFormat := Gdip_StringFormatGetGeneric(1) + + pBrush := PassBrush ? pBrush : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(Colour) + if !(hFontFamily && hFont && hStringFormat && pBrush && pGraphics) + { + E := !pGraphics ? -2 : !hFontFamily ? -3 : !hFont ? -4 : !hStringFormat ? -5 : !pBrush ? -6 : 0 + If pBrush + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + If hStringFormat + Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hStringFormat) + If hFont + Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) + If hFontFamily + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + return E + } + + CreateRectF(RC, xpos, ypos, Width, Height) + Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(hStringFormat, Align) + If InStr(Options, "autotrim") + Gdip_SetStringFormatTrimming(hStringFormat, 3) + + Gdip_SetTextRenderingHint(pGraphics, Rendering) + ReturnRC := Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hStringFormat, RC) + ReturnRCtest := StrSplit(ReturnRC, "|") + testX := Floor(ReturnRCtest[1]) - 2 + If (testX>xpos && NoWrap && (PWidth>2 || OWidth>2)) + { + ; error correction of posX for different text alignments + ; when width is given, but no text wrap + nxpos := Floor(xpos - (testX - xpos)) + CreateRectF(RC, nxpos, ypos, Width, Height) + ReturnRC := Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hStringFormat, RC) + ; MsgBox, % nxpos "--" xpos "--" ypos "`n" width "--" height "`n" ReturnRC + } + + If vPos + { + ReturnRC := StrSplit(ReturnRC, "|") + if (vPos[0] = "vCentre") || (vPos[0] = "vCenter") + ypos += (Height-ReturnRC[4])//2 + else if (vPos[0] = "Top") || (vPos[0] = "Up") + ypos += 0 + else if (vPos[0] = "Bottom") || (vPos[0] = "Down") + ypos += Height-ReturnRC[4] + + CreateRectF(RC, xpos, ypos, Width, ReturnRC[4]) + ReturnRC := Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hStringFormat, RC) + } + + thisBrush := userBrush ? userBrush : pBrush + if !Measure + _E := Gdip_DrawString(pGraphics, Text, hFont, hStringFormat, thisBrush, RC) + + if !PassBrush + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hStringFormat) + Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + return _E ? _E : ReturnRC +} + +Gdip_DrawString(pGraphics, sString, hFont, hStringFormat, pBrush, ByRef RectF) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawString" + , Ptr, pGraphics + , "WStr", sString + , "int", -1 + , Ptr, hFont + , Ptr, &RectF + , Ptr, hStringFormat + , Ptr, pBrush) +} + +Gdip_MeasureString(pGraphics, sString, hFont, hStringFormat, ByRef RectF) { +; The function returns a string in the following format: +; "x|y|width|height|chars|lines" +; The first four elements represent the boundaries of the text + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + VarSetCapacity(RC, 16) + Chars := 0 + Lines := 0 + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMeasureString" + , Ptr, pGraphics + , "WStr", sString + , "int", -1 + , Ptr, hFont + , Ptr, &RectF + , Ptr, hStringFormat + , Ptr, &RC + , "uint*", Chars + , "uint*", Lines) + + return &RC ? NumGet(RC, 0, "float") "|" NumGet(RC, 4, "float") "|" NumGet(RC, 8, "float") "|" NumGet(RC, 12, "float") "|" Chars "|" Lines : 0 +} + +Gdip_DrawStringAlongPolygon(pGraphics, String, FontName, FontSize, Style, pBrush, DriverPoints:=0, pPath:=0, minDist:=0, flatness:=4, hMatrix:=0, Unit:=0) { +; The function allows you to draw a text string along a polygonal line. +; Each point on the line corresponds to a letter. +; If they are too close, the letters will overlap. If they are fewer than +; the string length, the text is going to be truncated. +; If given, a pPath object will be segmented according to the precision defined by «flatness». +; +; pGraphics - a pointer to a pGraphics object where to draw the text +; FontName can be the name of an already installed font or it can point to a font file +; to be loaded and used to draw the string. +; FontSize - in em, in world units +; a high value might be required; over 60, 90... to see the text. +; pBrush - a pointer to a pBrush object to fill the text with +; DriverPoints - a string with X, Y coordinates where the letters +; of the string will be drawn. Each X/Y pair corresponds to a letter. +; "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3" [...and so on] +; pPath - A pointer to a pPath object. +; It will be used only if DriverPoints parameter is omitted. +; If both DriverPoints and pPath are omitted, the function will return -4. +; Intermmediate points will be generated if there are more glyphs / letters than defined points. +; +; flatness - from 0.1 to 5; the precision for arcs, beziers and curves segmentation; +; the lower the number is, the higher density of points is; +; it applies only for given pPath objects +; +; minDist - the minimum distance between letters; by default it is FontSize/4 +; does not apply for pPath objects; use the flatness parameter to control points density +; +; Style options: +; Regular = 0 +; Bold = 1 +; Italic = 2 +; BoldItalic = 3 +; Underline = 4 +; Strikeout = 8 +; +; Set Unit to 3 [Pts] to have the texts rendered at the same size +; with the texts rendered in GUIs with -DPIscale + + If (!minDist || minDist<1) + minDist := FontSize//4 + 1 + + If (pPath && !DriverPoints) + { + newPath := Gdip_ClonePath(pPath) + Gdip_PathOutline(newPath, flatness) + DriverPoints := Gdip_GetPathPoints(newPath) + Gdip_DeletePath(newPath) + If !DriverPoints + Return -5 + } + + If (!pPath && !DriverPoints) + Return -4 + + If RegExMatch(FontName, "^(.\:\\.)") + { + hFontCollection := Gdip_NewPrivateFontCollection() + hFontFamily := Gdip_CreateFontFamilyFromFile(FontName, hFontCollection) + } Else hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(FontName) + + If !hFontFamily + hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreateGeneric(1) + + If !hFontFamily + { + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return -1 + } + + hFont := Gdip_FontCreate(hFontFamily, FontSize, Style, Unit) + If !hFont + { + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + Return -2 + } + + Points := StrSplit(DriverPoints, "|") + PointsCount := Points.Length() + If (PointsCount<2) + { + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + Return -3 + } + + txtLen := StrLen(String) + If (PointsCount=txtLen) + Break + } + String := SubStr(String, 1, totalResult) + } Else newDriverPoints := DriverPoints + + E := Gdip_DrawDrivenString(pGraphics, String, hFont, pBrush, newDriverPoints, 1, hMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteFont(hFont) + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + return E +} + +GenerateIntermediatePoints(PointsList, minDist, ByRef resultPointsCount) { +; function used by Gdip_DrawFreeFormString() + AllPoints := StrSplit(PointsList, "|") + PointsCount := AllPoints.Length() + thizIndex := 0.5 + resultPointsCount := 0 + loopsMax := PointsCount*2 + Loop %loopsMax% + { + thizIndex += 0.5 + thisIndex := InStr(thizIndex, ".5") ? thizIndex : Trim(Round(thizIndex)) + thisPoint := AllPoints[thisIndex] + theseCoords := StrSplit(thisPoint, ",") + If (theseCoords[1]!="" && theseCoords[2]!="") + { + resultPointsCount++ + newPointsList .= theseCoords[1] "," theseCoords[2] "|" + } Else + { + aIndex := Trim(Round(thizIndex - 0.5)) + bIndex := Trim(Round(thizIndex + 0.5)) + theseAcoords := StrSplit(AllPoints[aIndex], ",") + theseBcoords := StrSplit(AllPoints[bIndex], ",") + If (theseAcoords[1]!="" && theseAcoords[2]!="") + && (theseBcoords[1]!="" && theseBcoords[2]!="") + { + newPosX := (theseAcoords[1] + theseBcoords[1])//2 + newPosY := (theseAcoords[2] + theseBcoords[2])//2 + distPosX := newPosX - theseAcoords[1] + distPosY := newPosY - theseAcoords[2] + If (distPosX>minDist || distPosY>minDist) + { + newPointsList .= newPosX "," newPosY "|" + resultPointsCount++ + } + } + } + } + If !newPointsList + Return PointsList + Return Trim(newPointsList, "|") +} + +Gdip_DrawDrivenString(pGraphics, String, hFont, pBrush, DriverPoints, Flags:=1, hMatrix:=0) { +; Parameters: +; pBrush - pointer to a pBrush object used to draw the text into the given pGraphics +; hFont - pointer for a Font object used to draw the given text that determines font, size and style +; hMatrix - pointer to a transformation matrix object that specifies the transformation matrix to apply to each value in the DriverPoints +; DriverPoints - a list of points coordinates that determines where the glyphs [letters] will be drawn +; "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3" [... and so on] +; Flags options: +; 1 - The string array contains Unicode character values. If this flag is not set, each value in $vText is +; interpreted as an index to a font glyph that defines a character to be displayed +; 2 - The string is displayed vertically +; 4 - The glyph positions are calculated from the position of the first glyph. If this flag is not set, the +; glyph positions are obtained from an array of coordinates ($aPoints) +; 8 - Less memory should be used for cache of antialiased glyphs. This also produces lower quality. If this +; flag is not set, more memory is used, but the quality is higher + + txtLen := -1 ; StrLen(String) + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, DriverPoints) + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawDriverString", Ptr, pGraphics, "UPtr", &String, "int", txtLen, Ptr, hFont, Ptr, pBrush, Ptr, &PointsF, "int", Flags, Ptr, hMatrix) +} + +Gdip_GetStringFormatFlags(hStringFormat) { +; please see Gdip_StringFormatCreate() +; thanks to xelowek ; https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6517&start=360 + + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetStringFormatFlags", "UPtr", hStringFormat, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + + Return result +} + + +Gdip_StringFormatCreate(FormatFlags:=0, LangID:=0) { +; Format options [StringFormatFlags] +; DirectionRightToLeft = 0x00000001 +; - Activates is right to left reading order. For horizontal text, characters are read from right to left. For vertical text, columns are read from right to left. +; DirectionVertical = 0x00000002 +; - Individual lines of text are drawn vertically on the display device. +; NoFitBlackBox = 0x00000004 +; - Parts of characters are allowed to overhang the string's layout rectangle. +; DisplayFormatControl = 0x00000020 +; - Unicode layout control characters are displayed with a representative character. +; NoFontFallback = 0x00000400 +; - Prevent using an alternate font for characters that are not supported in the requested font. +; MeasureTrailingSpaces = 0x00000800 +; - The spaces at the end of each line are included in a string measurement. +; NoWrap = 0x00001000 +; - Disable text wrapping +; LineLimit = 0x00002000 +; - Only entire lines are laid out in the layout rectangle. +; NoClip = 0x00004000 +; - Characters overhanging the layout rectangle and text extending outside the layout rectangle are allowed to show. + + hStringFormat := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateStringFormat", "int", FormatFlags, "int", LangID, "UPtr*", hStringFormat) + return hStringFormat +} + +Gdip_CloneStringFormat(hStringFormat) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + newHStringFormat := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneStringFormat", Ptr, hStringFormat, "uint*", newHStringFormat) + Return newHStringFormat +} + +Gdip_StringFormatGetGeneric(whichFormat:=0) { +; Returns a generic string format. +; Default = 0 +; Typographic := 1 + hStringFormat := 0 + If (whichFormat=1) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipStringFormatGetGenericTypographic", "UPtr*", hStringFormat) + Else + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipStringFormatGetGenericDefault", "UPtr*", hStringFormat) + Return hStringFormat +} + +Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(hStringFormat, Align) { +; Text alignments: +; 0 - [Near / Left] Alignment is towards the origin of the bounding rectangle +; 1 - [Center] Alignment is centered between origin and extent (width) of the formatting rectangle +; 2 - [Far / Right] Alignment is to the far extent (right side) of the formatting rectangle + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatAlign", "UPtr", hStringFormat, "int", Align) +} + +Gdip_GetStringFormatAlign(hStringFormat) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetStringFormatAlign", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetStringFormatLineAlign(hStringFormat) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetStringFormatLineAlign", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetStringFormatDigitSubstitution(hStringFormat) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetStringFormatDigitSubstitution", Ptr, hStringFormat, "ushort*", 0, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetStringFormatHotkeyPrefix(hStringFormat) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetStringFormatHotkeyPrefix", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetStringFormatTrimming(hStringFormat) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetStringFormatTrimming", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_SetStringFormatLineAlign(hStringFormat, StringAlign) { +; The line alignment setting specifies how to align the string vertically in the layout rectangle. +; The layout rectangle is used to position the displayed string +; StringAlign - Type of vertical line alignment to use: +; 0 - Top +; 1 - Center +; 2 - Bottom + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatLineAlign", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int", StringAlign) +} + +Gdip_SetStringFormatDigitSubstitution(hStringFormat, DigitSubstitute, LangID:=0) { +; Sets the language ID and the digit substitution method that is used by a StringFormat object +; DigitSubstitute - Digit substitution method that will be used by the StringFormat object: +; 0 - A user-defined substitution scheme +; 1 - Digit substitution is disabled +; 2 - Substitution digits that correspond with the official national language of the user's locale +; 3 - Substitution digits that correspond with the user's native script or language + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatDigitSubstitution", Ptr, hStringFormat, "ushort", LangID, "int", DigitSubstitute) +} + +Gdip_SetStringFormatFlags(hStringFormat, Flags) { +; see Gdip_StringFormatCreate() for possible StringFormatFlags + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatFlags", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int", Flags) +} + +Gdip_SetStringFormatHotkeyPrefix(hStringFormat, PrefixProcessMode) { +; Sets the type of processing that is performed on a string when a hot key prefix (&) is encountered +; PrefixProcessMode - Type of hot key prefix processing to use: +; 0 - No hot key processing occurs. +; 1 - Unicode text is scanned for ampersands (&). All pairs of ampersands are replaced by a single ampersand. +; All single ampersands are removed, the first character that follows a single ampersand is displayed underlined. +; 2 - Same as 1 but a character following a single ampersand is not displayed underlined. + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatHotkeyPrefix", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int", PrefixProcessMode) +} + +Gdip_SetStringFormatTrimming(hStringFormat, TrimMode) { +; TrimMode - The trimming style to use: +; 0 - No trimming is done +; 1 - String is broken at the boundary of the last character that is inside the layout rectangle +; 2 - String is broken at the boundary of the last word that is inside the layout rectangle +; 3 - String is broken at the boundary of the last character that is inside the layout rectangle and an ellipsis (...) is inserted after the character +; 4 - String is broken at the boundary of the last word that is inside the layout rectangle and an ellipsis (...) is inserted after the word +; 5 - The center is removed from the string and replaced by an ellipsis. The algorithm keeps as much of the last portion of the string as possible + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetStringFormatTrimming", Ptr, hStringFormat, "int", TrimMode) +} + +Gdip_FontCreate(hFontFamily, Size, Style:=0, Unit:=0) { +; Font style options: +; Regular = 0 +; Bold = 1 +; Italic = 2 +; BoldItalic = 3 +; Underline = 4 +; Strikeout = 8 +; Unit options: see Gdip_SetPageUnit() + hFont := 0 + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFont", "UPtr", hFontFamily, "float", Size, "int", Style, "int", Unit, "UPtr*", hFont) + return hFont +} + +Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(FontName) { + hFontFamily := 0 + _E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFontFamilyFromName" + , "WStr", FontName, "uint", 0 + , "UPtr*", hFontFamily) + + return hFontFamily +} + +Gdip_NewPrivateFontCollection() { + hFontCollection := 0 + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipNewPrivateFontCollection", "ptr*", hFontCollection) + Return hFontCollection +} + +Gdip_CreateFontFamilyFromFile(FontFile, hFontCollection, FontName:="") { +; hFontCollection - the collection to add the font to +; Pass the result of Gdip_NewPrivateFontCollection() to this parameter +; to create a private collection of fonts. +; After no longer needing the private fonts, use Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection() +; to free up resources. +; +; GDI+ does not support PostScript fonts or OpenType fonts which do not have TrueType outlines. +; +; function by tmplinshi +; source: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=813&p=298435#p297794 +; modified by Marius Șucan + If !hFontCollection + Return + + hFontFamily := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipPrivateAddFontFile", "ptr", hFontCollection, "str", FontFile) + if (FontName="" && !E) + { + VarSetCapacity(pFontFamily, 10, 0) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFontCollectionFamilyList", "ptr", hFontCollection, "int", 1, "ptr", &pFontFamily, "int*", found) + + VarSetCapacity(FontName, 100) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFamilyName", "ptr", NumGet(pFontFamily, 0, "ptr"), "str", FontName, "ushort", 1033) + } + + If !E + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFontFamilyFromName", "str", FontName, "ptr", hFontCollection, "uint*", hFontFamily) + Return hFontFamily +} + +Gdip_FontFamilyCreateGeneric(whichStyle) { +; This function returns a hFontFamily font object that uses a generic font. +; +; whichStyle options: +; 0 - monospace generic font +; 1 - sans-serif generic font +; 2 - serif generic font + + hFontFamily := 0 + If (whichStyle=0) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetGenericFontFamilyMonospace", "UPtr*", hFontFamily) + Else If (whichStyle=1) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetGenericFontFamilySansSerif", "UPtr*", hFontFamily) + Else If (whichStyle=2) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetGenericFontFamilySerif", "UPtr*", hFontFamily) + Return hFontFamily +} + +Gdip_CreateFontFromDC(hDC) { +; a font must be selected in the hDC for this function to work +; function extracted from a class based wrapper around the GDI+ API made by nnnik + + pFont := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateFontFromDC", "UPtr", hDC, "UPtr*", pFont) + Return pFont +} + +Gdip_CreateFontFromLogfontW(hDC, LogFont) { +; extracted from: https://github.com/flipeador/Library-AutoHotkey/tree/master/graphics +; by flipeador +; +; Creates a Font object directly from a GDI logical font. +; The GDI logical font is a LOGFONTW structure, which is the wide character version of a logical font. +; Parameters: +; hDC: +; A handle to a Windows device context that has a font selected. +; LogFont: +; A LOGFONTW structure that contains attributes of the font. +; The LOGFONTW structure is the wide character version of the logical font. +; +; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/gdiplusheaders/nf-gdiplusheaders-font-font(inhdc_inconstlogfontw) + + pFont := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipCreateFontFromLogfontW", "Ptr", hDC, "Ptr", LogFont, "UPtrP", pFont) + return pFont +} + +Gdip_GetFontHeight(hFont, pGraphics:=0) { +; Gets the line spacing of a font in the current unit of a specified pGraphics object. +; The line spacing is the vertical distance between the base lines of two consecutive lines of text. +; Therefore, the line spacing includes the blank space between lines along with the height of +; the character itself. + + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFontHeight", "UPtr", hFont, "UPtr", pGraphics, "float*", result) + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontHeightGivenDPI(hFont, DPI:=72) { +; Remarks: it seems to always yield the same value +; regardless of the given DPI. + + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFontHeightGivenDPI", "UPtr", hFont, "float", DPI, "float*", result) + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontSize(hFont) { + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFontSize", "UPtr", hFont, "float*", result) + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontStyle(hFont) { +; see also Gdip_FontCreate() + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFontStyle", Ptr, hFont, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontUnit(hFont) { +; Gets the unit of measure of a Font object. + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFontUnit", Ptr, hFont, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_CloneFont(hfont) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + newHFont := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneFont", Ptr, hFont, "UPtr*", newHFont) + Return newHFont +} + +Gdip_GetFontFamily(hFont) { +; On success returns a handle to a hFontFamily object + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + hFontFamily := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFamily", Ptr, hFont, "UPtr*", hFontFamily) + Return hFontFamily +} + + +Gdip_CloneFontFamily(hFontFamily) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + newHFontFamily := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneFontFamily", Ptr, hFontFamily, "UPtr*", newHFontFamily) + Return newHFontFamily +} + +Gdip_IsFontStyleAvailable(hFontFamily, Style) { +; Remarks: given a proper hFontFamily object, it seems to be always +; returning 1 [true] regardless of Style... + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsStyleAvailable", Ptr, hFontFamily, "int", Style, "Int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontFamilyCellScents(hFontFamily, ByRef Ascent, ByRef Descent, Style:=0) { +; Ascent and Descent values are given in «design units» + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Ascent := 0 + Descent := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetCellAscent", Ptr, hFontFamily, "int", Style, "ushort*", Ascent) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetCellDescent", Ptr, hFontFamily, "int", Style, "ushort*", Descent) + Return E +} + +Gdip_GetFontFamilyEmHeight(hFontFamily, Style:=0) { +; EmHeight returned in «design units» + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetEmHeight", Ptr, hFontFamily, "int", Style, "ushort*", result) + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontFamilyLineSpacing(hFontFamily, Style:=0) { +; Line spacing returned in «design units» + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLineSpacing", Ptr, hFontFamily, "int", Style, "ushort*", result) + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetFontFamilyName(hFontFamily) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + VarSetCapacity(FontName, 90) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetFamilyName", Ptr, hFontFamily, "Ptr", &FontName, "ushort", 0) + Return FontName +} + + +;##################################################################################### +; Matrix functions +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_CreateAffineMatrix(m11, m12, m21, m22, x, y) { + hMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateMatrix2", "float", m11, "float", m12, "float", m21, "float", m22, "float", x, "float", y, "UPtr*", hMatrix) + return hMatrix +} + +Gdip_CreateMatrix() { + hMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateMatrix", "UPtr*", hMatrix) + return hMatrix +} + +Gdip_InvertMatrix(hMatrix) { +; Replaces the elements of a matrix with the elements of its inverse + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipInvertMatrix", Ptr, hMatrix) +} + +Gdip_IsMatrixEqual(hMatrixA, hMatrixB) { +; compares two matrices; if identical, the function returns 1 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsMatrixEqual", Ptr, hMatrixA, Ptr, hMatrixB, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsMatrixIdentity(hMatrix) { +; The identity matrix represents a transformation with no scaling, translation, rotation and conversion, and +; represents a transformation that does nothing. + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsMatrixIdentity", Ptr, hMatrix, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsMatrixInvertible(hMatrix) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsMatrixInvertible", Ptr, hMatrix, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_MultiplyMatrix(hMatrixA, hMatrixB, matrixOrder) { +; Updates hMatrixA with the product of itself and hMatrixB +; matrixOrder - Order of matrices multiplication: +; 0 - The second matrix is on the left +; 1 - The second matrix is on the right + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMultiplyMatrix", Ptr, hMatrixA, Ptr, hMatrixB, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_CloneMatrix(hMatrix) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + newHMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneMatrix", Ptr, hMatrix, "UPtr*", newHMatrix) + return newHMatrix +} + +;##################################################################################### +; GraphicsPath functions +; pPath objects are rendered/drawn by pGraphics object using: +; - a) Gdip_FillPath() with an associated pBrush object created with any of the following functions: +; - Gdip_BrushCreateSolid() - SolidFill +; - Gdip_CreateTextureBrush() - Texture brush derived from a pBitmap +; - Gdip_CreateLinearGrBrush() - LinearGradient +; - Gdip_BrushCreateHatch() - Hatch pattern +; - Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath() +; - b) Gdip_DrawPath() with an associated pPen created with Gdip_CreatePen() +; +; A pPath object can be converted using: +; - a) Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath() to a PathGradient brush object +; - b) Gdip_CreateRegionPath() to a region object +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_CreatePath(BrushMode:=0) { +; Alternate = 0 +; Winding = 1 + pPath := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePath", "int", BrushMode, "UPtr*", pPath) + return pPath +} + +Gdip_AddPathEllipse(pPath, x, y, w, h) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathEllipse", "UPtr", pPath, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) +} + +Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x, y, w, h) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathRectangle", "UPtr", pPath, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h) +} + +Gdip_AddPathRoundedRectangle(pPath, x, y, w, h, r) { +; extracted from: https://github.com/tariqporter/Gdip2/blob/master/lib/Object.ahk +; and adapted by Marius Șucan + E := 0 + r := (w <= h) ? (r < w / 2) ? r : w / 2 : (r < h / 2) ? r : h / 2 + If (E := Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x+r, y, w-(2*r), r)) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x+r, y+h-r, w-(2*r), r)) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x, y+r, r, h-(2*r))) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x+w-r, y+r, r, h-(2*r))) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x+r, y+r, w-(2*r), h-(2*r))) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathPie(pPath, x, y, 2*r, 2*r, 180, 90)) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathPie(pPath, x+w-(2*r), y, 2*r, 2*r, 270, 90)) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathPie(pPath, x, y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r, 90, 90)) + Return E + If (E := Gdip_AddPathPie(pPath, x+w-(2*r), y+h-(2*r), 2*r, 2*r, 0, 90)) + Return E + Return E +} + + +Gdip_AddPathPolygon(pPath, Points) { +; Points: the coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3..... [minimum three points must be given] + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathPolygon", Ptr, pPath, Ptr, &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +Gdip_AddPathClosedCurve(pPath, Points, Tension:=1) { +; Adds a closed cardinal spline to a path. +; A cardinal spline is a curve that passes through each point in the array. +; +; Parameters: +; pPath: Pointer to the GraphicsPath +; Points: the coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3..... [minimum three points must be given] +; Tension: Non-negative real number that controls the length of the curve and how the curve bends. A value of +; zero specifies that the spline is a sequence of straight lines. As the value increases, the curve becomes fuller. + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + If Tension + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathClosedCurve2", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount, "float", Tension) + Else + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathClosedCurve", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +Gdip_AddPathCurve(pPath, Points, Tension:="") { +; Adds a cardinal spline to the current figure of a path +; A cardinal spline is a curve that passes through each point in the array. +; +; Parameters: +; pPath: Pointer to the GraphicsPath +; Points: the coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3..... [minimum three points must be given] +; Tension: Non-negative real number that controls the length of the curve and how the curve bends. A value of +; zero specifies that the spline is a sequence of straight lines. As the value increases, the curve becomes fuller. + + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + If Tension + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathCurve2", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount, "float", Tension) + Else + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathCurve", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +Gdip_AddPathToPath(pPathA, pPathB, fConnect) { +; Adds a path into another path. +; +; Parameters: +; pPathA and pPathB - Pointers to GraphicsPath objects +; fConnect - Specifies whether the first figure in the added path is part of the last figure in this path: +; 1 - The first figure in the added pPathB is part of the last figure in the pPathB path. +; 0 - The first figure in the added pPathB is separated from the last figure in the pPathA path. +; +; Remarks: Even if the value of the fConnect parameter is 1, this function might not be able to make the first figure +; of the added pPathB path part of the last figure of the pPathA path. If either of those figures is closed, +; then they must remain separated figures. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathCurve2", "UPtr", pPathA, "UPtr", pPathB, "int", fConnect) +} + +Gdip_AddPathStringSimplified(pPath, String, FontName, Size, Style, X, Y, Width, Height, Align:=0, NoWrap:=0) { +; Adds the outline of a given string with the given font name, size and style +; to a Path object. + +; Size - in em, in world units [font size] +; Remarks: a high value might be required; over 60, 90... to see the text. + +; X, Y - coordinates for the rectangle where the text will be placed +; W, H - width and heigh for the rectangle where the text will be placed + +; Align options: +; Near/left = 0 +; Center = 1 +; Far/right = 2 + +; Style options: +; Regular = 0 +; Bold = 1 +; Italic = 2 +; BoldItalic = 3 +; Underline = 4 +; Strikeout = 8 + + FormatStyle := NoWrap ? 0x4000 | 0x1000 : 0x4000 + If RegExMatch(FontName, "^(.\:\\.)") + { + hFontCollection := Gdip_NewPrivateFontCollection() + hFontFamily := Gdip_CreateFontFamilyFromFile(FontName, hFontCollection) + } Else hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreate(FontName) + + If !hFontFamily + hFontFamily := Gdip_FontFamilyCreateGeneric(1) + + If !hFontFamily + { + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return -1 + } + + hStringFormat := Gdip_StringFormatCreate(FormatStyle) + If !hStringFormat + hStringFormat := Gdip_StringFormatGetGeneric(1) + + If !hStringFormat + { + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return -2 + } + + Gdip_SetStringFormatTrimming(hStringFormat, 3) + Gdip_SetStringFormatAlign(hStringFormat, Align) + E := Gdip_AddPathString(pPath, String, hFontFamily, Style, Size, hStringFormat, X, Y, Width, Height) + Gdip_DeleteStringFormat(hStringFormat) + Gdip_DeleteFontFamily(hFontFamily) + If hFontCollection + Gdip_DeletePrivateFontCollection(hFontCollection) + Return E +} + +Gdip_AddPathString(pPath, String, hFontFamily, Style, Size, hStringFormat, X, Y, W, H) { + CreateRectF(RectF, X, Y, W, H) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathString", "UPtr", pPath, "WStr", String, "int", -1, "UPtr", hFontFamily, "int", Style, "float", Size, "UPtr", &RectF, "UPtr", hStringFormat) +} + +Gdip_SetPathFillMode(pPath, FillMode) { +; Parameters +; pPath - Pointer to a GraphicsPath object +; FillMode - Path fill mode: +; 0 - [Alternate] The areas are filled according to the even-odd parity rule +; 1 - [Winding] The areas are filled according to the non-zero winding rule + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathFillMode", "UPtr", pPath, "int", FillMode) +} + +Gdip_GetPathFillMode(pPath) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathFillMode", "UPtr", pPath, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPathLastPoint(pPath, ByRef X, ByRef Y) { + VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathLastPoint", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointF) + If !E + { + x := NumGet(PointF, 0, "float") + y := NumGet(PointF, 4, "float") + } + + Return E +} + +Gdip_GetPathPointsCount(pPath) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPointCount", "UPtr", pPath, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPathPoints(pPath) { + PointsCount := Gdip_GetPathPointsCount(pPath) + If (PointsCount=-1) + Return + + VarSetCapacity(PointsF, 8 * PointsCount, 0) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathPoints", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "intP", PointsCount) + Loop %PointsCount% + { + A := NumGet(&PointsF, 8*(A_Index-1), "float") + B := NumGet(&PointsF, (8*(A_Index-1))+4, "float") + printList .= A "," B "|" + } + Return Trim(printList, "|") +} + +Gdip_FlattenPath(pPath, flatness, hMatrix:=0) { +; flatness - a precision value that specifies the maximum error between the path and +; its flattened [segmented] approximation. Reducing the flatness increases the number +; of line segments in the approximation. +; +; hMatrix - a pointer to a transformation matrix to apply. + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipFlattenPath", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", flatness) +} + +Gdip_WidenPath(pPath, pPen, hMatrix:=0, Flatness:=1) { +; Replaces this path with curves that enclose the area that is filled when this path is drawn by a specified pen. +; This method also flattens the path. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipWidenPath", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", Flatness) +} + +Gdip_PathOutline(pPath, flatness:=1, hMatrix:=0) { +; Transforms and flattens [segmentates] a pPath object, and then converts the path's data points +; so that they represent only the outline of the given path. +; +; flatness - a precision value that specifies the maximum error between the path and +; its flattened [segmented] approximation. Reducing the flatness increases the number +; of line segments in the resulted approximation. +; +; hMatrix - a pointer to a transformation matrix to apply. + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipWindingModeOutline", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", flatness) +} + +Gdip_ResetPath(pPath) { +; Empties a path and sets the fill mode to alternate (0) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetPath", "UPtr", pPath) +} + +Gdip_ReversePath(pPath) { +; Reverses the order of the points that define a path's lines and curves + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipReversePath", "UPtr", pPath) +} + +Gdip_IsOutlineVisiblePathPoint(pGraphics, pPath, pPen, X, Y) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsOutlineVisiblePathPoint", "UPtr", pPath, "float", X, "float", Y, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisiblePathPoint(pPath, x, y, pGraphics) { +; Function by RazorHalo, modified by Marius Șucan + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsVisiblePathPoint", "UPtr", pPath, "float", x, "float", y, "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr*", result) + If E + return -1 + return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisiblePathRectEntirely(pGraphics, pPath, X, Y, Width, Height) { + ; Return values: + ; -2 - mixed state + ; -1 - error + ; 0 - rect is entirely not visible + ; 1 - rect is entirely visible + + a := Gdip_IsVisiblePathPoint(pPath, X, Y, pGraphics) + b := Gdip_IsVisiblePathPoint(pPath, X + Width, Y, pGraphics) + c := Gdip_IsVisiblePathPoint(pPath, X + Width, Y + Height, pGraphics) + d := Gdip_IsVisiblePathPoint(pPath, X, Y + Height, pGraphics) + If (a=1 && b=1 && c=1 && d=1) + Return 1 + Else If (a=-1 || b=-1 || c=-1 || d=-1) + Return -1 + Else If (a=0 && b=0 && c=0 && d=0) + Return 0 + Else + Return -2 +} + +Gdip_DeletePath(pPath) { + If pPath + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeletePath", "UPtr", pPath) +} + +;##################################################################################### +; pGraphics rendering options functions +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_SetTextRenderingHint(pGraphics, RenderingHint) { +; RenderingHint options: +; SystemDefault = 0 +; SingleBitPerPixelGridFit = 1 +; SingleBitPerPixel = 2 +; AntiAliasGridFit = 3 +; AntiAlias = 4 + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetTextRenderingHint", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", RenderingHint) +} + +Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(pGraphics, InterpolationMode) { +; InterpolationMode options: +; Default = 0 +; LowQuality = 1 +; HighQuality = 2 +; Bilinear = 3 +; Bicubic = 4 +; NearestNeighbor = 5 +; HighQualityBilinear = 6 +; HighQualityBicubic = 7 + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetInterpolationMode", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", InterpolationMode) +} + +Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(pGraphics, SmoothingMode) { +; SmoothingMode options: +; Default = 0 +; HighSpeed = 1 +; HighQuality = 2 +; None = 3 +; AntiAlias = 4 +; AntiAlias8x4 = 5 +; AntiAlias8x8 = 6 + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetSmoothingMode", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", SmoothingMode) +} + +Gdip_SetCompositingMode(pGraphics, CompositingMode) { +; CompositingMode_SourceOver = 0 (blended / default) +; CompositingMode_SourceCopy = 1 (overwrite) + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetCompositingMode", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", CompositingMode) +} + +Gdip_SetCompositingQuality(pGraphics, CompositionQuality) { +; CompositionQuality options: +; 0 - Gamma correction is not applied. +; 1 - Gamma correction is not applied. High speed, low quality. +; 2 - Gamma correction is applied. Composition of high quality and speed. +; 3 - Gamma correction is applied. +; 4 - Gamma correction is not applied. Linear values are used. + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetCompositingQuality", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", CompositionQuality) +} + +Gdip_SetPageScale(pGraphics, Scale) { +; Sets the scaling factor for the page transformation of a pGraphics object. +; The page transformation converts page coordinates to device coordinates. + + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPageScale", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float", Scale) +} + +Gdip_SetPageUnit(pGraphics, Unit) { +; Sets the unit of measurement for a pGraphics object. +; Unit of measuremnet options: +; 0 - World coordinates, a non-physical unit +; 1 - Display units +; 2 - A unit is 1 pixel +; 3 - A unit is 1 point or 1/72 inch +; 4 - A unit is 1 inch +; 5 - A unit is 1/300 inch +; 6 - A unit is 1 millimeter + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPageUnit", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", Unit) +} + +Gdip_SetPixelOffsetMode(pGraphics, PixelOffsetMode) { +; Sets the pixel offset mode of a pGraphics object. +; PixelOffsetMode options: +; HighSpeed = QualityModeLow - Default +; 0, 1, 3 - Pixel centers have integer coordinates +; ModeHalf - ModeHighQuality +; 2, 4 - Pixel centers have coordinates that are half way between integer values (i.e. 0.5, 20, 105.5, etc...) + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPixelOffsetMode", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", PixelOffsetMode) +} + +Gdip_SetRenderingOrigin(pGraphics, X, Y) { +; The rendering origin is used to set the dither origin for 8-bits-per-pixel and 16-bits-per-pixel dithering +; and is also used to set the origin for hatch brushes + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetRenderingOrigin", "UPtr", pGraphics, "int", X, "int", Y) +} + +Gdip_SetTextContrast(pGraphics, Contrast) { +; Contrast - A number between 0 and 12, which defines the value of contrast used for antialiasing text + If !pGraphics + Return 2 + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetTextContrast", "UPtr", pGraphics, "uint", Contrast) +} + +Gdip_RestoreGraphics(pGraphics, State) { + ; Sets the state of this Graphics object to the state stored by a previous call to the Save method of this Graphics object. + ; Parameters: + ; State: + ; A value returned by a previous call to the Save method that identifies a block of saved state. + ; Return value: + ; Returns TRUE if successful, or FALSE otherwise. To get extended error information, check «Gdiplus.LastStatus». + ; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/gdiplusgraphics/nf-gdiplusgraphics-graphics-restore + return DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipRestoreGraphics", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UInt", State) +} + +Gdip_SaveGraphics(pGraphics) { + ; Saves the current state (transformations, clipping region, and quality settings) of this Graphics object. + ; You can restore the state later by calling the Restore method. + ; Return value: + ; Returns a value that identifies the saved state. + ; Pass this value to the Restore method when you want to restore the state. + ; Remarks: + ; The identifier returned by a given call to the Save method can be passed only once to the Restore method. + ; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/gdiplusgraphics/nf-gdiplusgraphics-graphics-save + State := 0 + DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipSaveGraphics", "Ptr", pGraphics, "UIntP", State) + return State +} + +Gdip_GetTextContrast(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetTextContrast", Ptr, pGraphics, "uint*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetCompositingMode(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetCompositingMode", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetCompositingQuality(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetCompositingQuality", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetInterpolationMode(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetInterpolationMode", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetSmoothingMode(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetSmoothingMode", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPageScale(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPageScale", Ptr, pGraphics, "float*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPageUnit(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPageUnit", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPixelOffsetMode(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPixelOffsetMode", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetRenderingOrigin(pGraphics, ByRef X, ByRef Y) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + x := 0 + y := 0 + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetRenderingOrigin", Ptr, pGraphics, "uint*", X, "uint*", Y) +} + +Gdip_GetTextRenderingHint(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetTextRenderingHint", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +;##################################################################################### +; More pGraphics functions +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_RotateWorldTransform(pGraphics, Angle, MatrixOrder:=0) { +; MatrixOrder options: +; Prepend = 0; The new operation is applied before the old operation. +; Append = 1; The new operation is applied after the old operation. +; Order of matrices multiplication:. + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotateWorldTransform", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float", Angle, "int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_ScaleWorldTransform(pGraphics, ScaleX, ScaleY, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScaleWorldTransform", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float", ScaleX, "float", ScaleY, "int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_TranslateWorldTransform(pGraphics, x, y, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateWorldTransform", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float", x, "float", y, "int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_MultiplyWorldTransform(pGraphics, hMatrix, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMultiplyWorldTransform", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, hMatrix, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_ResetWorldTransform(pGraphics) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetWorldTransform", "UPtr", pGraphics) +} + +Gdip_ResetPageTransform(pGraphics) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetPageTransform", "UPtr", pGraphics) +} + +Gdip_SetWorldTransform(pGraphics, hMatrix) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetWorldTransform", Ptr, pGraphics, Ptr, hMatrix) +} + +Gdip_GetRotatedTranslation(Width, Height, Angle, ByRef xTranslation, ByRef yTranslation) { + pi := 3.14159, TAngle := Angle*(pi/180) + + Bound := (Angle >= 0) ? Mod(Angle, 360) : 360-Mod(-Angle, -360) + if ((Bound >= 0) && (Bound <= 90)) + xTranslation := Height*Sin(TAngle), yTranslation := 0 + else if ((Bound > 90) && (Bound <= 180)) + xTranslation := (Height*Sin(TAngle))-(Width*Cos(TAngle)), yTranslation := -Height*Cos(TAngle) + else if ((Bound > 180) && (Bound <= 270)) + xTranslation := -(Width*Cos(TAngle)), yTranslation := -(Height*Cos(TAngle))-(Width*Sin(TAngle)) + else if ((Bound > 270) && (Bound <= 360)) + xTranslation := 0, yTranslation := -Width*Sin(TAngle) +} + +Gdip_GetRotatedDimensions(Width, Height, Angle, ByRef RWidth, ByRef RHeight) { +; modified by Marius Șucan; removed Ceil() + Static pi := 3.14159 + if !(Width && Height) + return -1 + + TAngle := Angle*(pi/180) + RWidth := Abs(Width*Cos(TAngle))+Abs(Height*Sin(TAngle)) + RHeight := Abs(Width*Sin(TAngle))+Abs(Height*Cos(Tangle)) +} + +Gdip_GetRotatedEllipseDimensions(Width, Height, Angle, ByRef RWidth, ByRef RHeight) { + if !(Width && Height) + return -1 + + pPath := Gdip_CreatePath() + Gdip_AddPathEllipse(pPath, 0, 0, Width, Height) + ; testAngle := Mod(Angle, 30) + pMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_RotateMatrix(pMatrix, Angle, MatrixOrder) + E := Gdip_TransformPath(pPath, pMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(pMatrix) + pathBounds := Gdip_GetPathWorldBounds(pPath) + Gdip_DeletePath(pPath) + RWidth := pathBounds.w + RHeight := pathBounds.h + Return E +} + +Gdip_GetWorldTransform(pGraphics) { +; Returns the world transformation matrix of a pGraphics object. +; On error, it returns -1 + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + hMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetWorldTransform", Ptr, pGraphics, "UPtr*", hMatrix) + Return hMatrix +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleGraphPoint(pGraphics, X, Y) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsVisiblePoint", Ptr, pGraphics, "float", X, "float", Y, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleGraphRect(pGraphics, X, Y, Width, Height) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsVisibleRect", Ptr, pGraphics, "float", X, "float", Y, "float", Width, "float", Height, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleGraphRectEntirely(pGraphics, X, Y, Width, Height) { + ; Return values: + ; -2 - mixed state + ; -1 - error + ; 0 - rect is entirely not visible + ; 1 - rect is entirely visible + + a := Gdip_IsVisibleGraphPoint(pGraphics, X, Y) + b := Gdip_IsVisibleGraphPoint(pGraphics, X + Width, Y) + c := Gdip_IsVisibleGraphPoint(pGraphics, X + Width, Y + Height) + d := Gdip_IsVisibleGraphPoint(pGraphics, X, Y + Height) + If (a=1 && b=1 && c=1 && d=1) + Return 1 + Else If (a=-1 || b=-1 || c=-1 || d=-1) + Return -1 + Else If (a=0 && b=0 && c=0 && d=0) + Return 0 + Else + Return -2 +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Region and clip functions [pGraphics related] +; +; One of the properties of the pGraphics class is the clip region. +; All drawing done in a given pGraphics object can be restricted +; to the clip region of that pGraphics object. + +; The GDI+ Region class allows you to define a custom shape. +; The shape[s] can be made up of lines, polygons, and curves. +; +; Two common uses for regions are hit testing and clipping. +; Hit testing is determining whether the mouse was clicked +; in a certain region of the screen. +; +; Clipping is restricting drawing to a certain region in +; a given pGraphics object. +; +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_IsClipEmpty(pGraphics) { +; Determines whether the clipping region of a pGraphics object is empty + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsClipEmpty", Ptr, pGraphics, "int*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleClipEmpty(pGraphics) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsVisibleClipEmpty", Ptr, pGraphics, "uint*", result) + If E + Return -1 + Return result +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Name............. Gdip_SetClipFromGraphics +; +; Parameters: +; pGraphicsA Pointer to a pGraphics object +; pGrahpicsB Pointer to a pGraphics object that contains the clipping region to be combined with +; the clipping region of the pGraphicsA object +; CombineMode Regions combination mode: +; 0 - The existing region is replaced by the new region +; 1 - The existing region is replaced by the intersection of itself and the new region +; 2 - The existing region is replaced by the union of itself and the new region +; 3 - The existing region is replaced by the result of performing an XOR on the two regions +; 4 - The existing region is replaced by the portion of itself that is outside of the new region +; 5 - The existing region is replaced by the portion of the new region that is outside of the existing region +; return Status enumeration value + +Gdip_SetClipFromGraphics(pGraphics, pGraphicsSrc, CombineMode:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipGraphics", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pGraphicsSrc, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_GetClipBounds(pGraphics) { + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetClipBounds", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", &RectF) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_GetVisibleClipBounds(pGraphics) { + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetVisibleClipBounds", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", &RectF) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_TranslateClip(pGraphics, dX, dY) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateClip", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float", dX, "float", dY) +} + +Gdip_ResetClip(pGraphics) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetClip", "UPtr", pGraphics) +} + +Gdip_GetClipRegion(pGraphics) { + hRegion := Gdip_CreateRegion() + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetClip", "UPtr", pGraphics, "uPtr*", hRegion) + return hRegion +} + +Gdip_SetClipRegion(pGraphics, hRegion, CombineMode:=0) { + ; see CombineMode options from Gdip_SetClipRect() + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipRegion", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", hRegion, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_SetClipRect(pGraphics, x, y, w, h, CombineMode:=0) { +; CombineMode options: +; Replace = 0 +; Intersect = 1 +; Union = 2 +; Xor = 3 +; Exclude = 4 +; Complement = 5 + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipRect", "UPtr", pGraphics, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_SetClipPath(pGraphics, pPath, CombineMode:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetClipPath", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPath, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_CreateRegion() { + hRegion := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateRegion", "uPtr*", hRegion) + return hRegion +} + +Gdip_CombineRegionRegion(hRegion1, hRegion2, CombineMode) { +; Updates this region to the portion of itself that intersects another region. Added by Learning one +; see CombineMode options from Gdip_SetClipRect() + + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCombineRegionRegion", "UPtr", hRegion1, "UPtr", hRegion2, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_CombineRegionRect(hRegion, x, y, w, h, CombineMode) { +; Updates this region to the portion of itself that intersects with the given rectangle. +; see CombineMode options from Gdip_SetClipRect() + + CreateRectF(RectF, x, y, w, h) + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCombineRegionRect", "UPtr", hRegion, "UPtr", &RectF, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_CombineRegionPath(hRegion, pPath, CombineMode) { +; see CombineMode options from Gdip_SetClipRect() + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCombineRegionPath", "UPtr", hRegion, "UPtr", pPath, "int", CombineMode) +} + +Gdip_CreateRegionPath(pPath) { +; Creates a region that is defined by a GraphicsPath [pPath object]. Written by Learning one. + + hRegion := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateRegionPath", "UPtr", pPath, "Uint*", hRegion) + return hRegion +} + +Gdip_CreateRegionRect(x, y, w, h) { + hRegion := 0 + CreateRectF(RectF, x, y, w, h) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateRegionRect", "UPtr", &RectF, "Uint*", hRegion) + return hRegion +} + +Gdip_IsEmptyRegion(pGraphics, hRegion) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsEmptyRegion", "UPtr", hRegion, "UPtr", pGraphics, "uInt*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsEqualRegion(pGraphics, hRegion1, hRegion2) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsEqualRegion", "UPtr", hRegion1, "UPtr", hRegion2, "UPtr", pGraphics, "uInt*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsInfiniteRegion(pGraphics, hRegion) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsInfiniteRegion", "UPtr", hRegion, "UPtr", pGraphics, "uInt*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleRegionPoint(pGraphics, hRegion, x, y) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsVisibleRegionPoint", "UPtr", hRegion, "float", X, "float", Y, "UPtr", pGraphics, "uInt*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleRegionRect(pGraphics, hRegion, x, y, width, height) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipIsVisibleRegionRect", "UPtr", hRegion, "float", X, "float", Y, "float", Width, "float", Height, Ptr, pGraphics, "uInt*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_IsVisibleRegionRectEntirely(pGraphics, hRegion, X, Y, Width, Height) { + ; Return values: + ; -2 - mixed state + ; -1 - error + ; 0 - rect is entirely not visible + ; 1 - rect is entirely visible + + a := Gdip_IsVisibleRegionPoint(pGraphics, hRegion, X, Y) + b := Gdip_IsVisibleRegionPoint(pGraphics, hRegion, X + Width, Y) + c := Gdip_IsVisibleRegionPoint(pGraphics, hRegion, X + Width, Y + Height) + d := Gdip_IsVisibleRegionPoint(pGraphics, hRegion, X, Y + Height) + If (a=1 && b=1 && c=1 && d=1) + Return 1 + Else If (a=-1 || b=-1 || c=-1 || d=-1) + Return -1 + Else If (a=0 && b=0 && c=0 && d=0) + Return 0 + Else + Return -2 +} + +Gdip_SetEmptyRegion(hRegion) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetEmpty", "UPtr", hRegion) +} + +Gdip_SetInfiniteRegion(hRegion) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetInfinite", "UPtr", hRegion) +} + +Gdip_GetRegionBounds(pGraphics, hRegion) { + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetRegionBounds", "UPtr", hRegion, "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", &RectF) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_TranslateRegion(hRegion, X, Y) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateRegion", "UPtr", hRegion, "float", X, "float", Y) +} + +Gdip_RotateRegionAtCenter(pGraphics, Region, Angle, MatrixOrder:=1) { +; function by Marius Șucan +; based on Gdip_RotatePathAtCenter() by RazorHalo + + Rect := Gdip_GetRegionBounds(pGraphics, Region) + cX := Rect.x + (Rect.w / 2) + cY := Rect.y + (Rect.h / 2) + pMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, -cX , -cY) + Gdip_RotateMatrix(pMatrix, Angle, MatrixOrder) + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, cX, cY, MatrixOrder) + E := Gdip_TransformRegion(Region, pMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(pMatrix) + Return E +} + +Gdip_TransformRegion(Region, pMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTransformRegion", "UPtr", Region, "UPtr", pMatrix) +} + +Gdip_CloneRegion(Region) { + newRegion := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCloneRegion", "UPtr", Region, "UInt*", newRegion) + return newRegion +} + +;##################################################################################### +; BitmapLockBits +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_LockBits(pBitmap, x, y, w, h, ByRef Stride, ByRef Scan0, ByRef BitmapData, LockMode := 3, PixelFormat := 0x26200a) { +/* +BitmapData structure +Width UINT Number of pixels in one scan line of the bitmap. +Height UINT Number of scan lines in the bitmap. +Stride INT Offset, in bytes, between consecutive scan lines of the bitmap. If the stride is positive, the bitmap is top-down. If the stride is negative, the bitmap is bottom-up. + In other words, it is the amount of bytes to skip to get to the next line of pixels on the image. This is not always equal to "width * bytes per pixel". +PixFmt PixelFormat Integer that specifies the pixel format to convert to when locking the bits data; for performance, should be the same as the bitmap's pixel format + on repetitive pixel format conversions, colors might become visibly altered / affected +Scan0 void* Pointer to the first (index 0) scan line of the bitmap. +LockModes: + 1 - Read + 2 - Write + 3 - Read/Write +*/ + + CreateRect(Rect, x, y, w, h) + VarSetCapacity(BitmapData, 16+2*A_PtrSize, 0) + _E := DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipBitmapLockBits", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &Rect, "uint", LockMode, "int", PixelFormat, "UPtr", &BitmapData) + Stride := NumGet(BitmapData, 8, "Int") + Scan0 := NumGet(BitmapData, 16, "UPtr") + return _E +} + +Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap, ByRef BitmapData) { + return DllCall("Gdiplus\GdipBitmapUnlockBits", "UPtr", pBitmap, "UPtr", &BitmapData) +} + +Gdip_SetLockBitPixel(ARGB, Scan0, x, y, Stride) { + NumPut(ARGB, Scan0+0, (x*4)+(y*Stride), "UInt") +} + +Gdip_GetLockBitPixel(Scan0, x, y, Stride) { + return NumGet(Scan0+0, (x*4)+(y*Stride), "UInt") +} + +;##################################################################################### + +Gdip_PixelateBitmap(pBitmap, ByRef pBitmapOut, BlockSize) { +/* +C/C++ Function by Tic and fixed by Fincs; +https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-55 + +int __stdcall Gdip_PixelateBitmap(unsigned char * sBitmap, unsigned char * dBitmap, int w, int h, int Stride, int Size) +{ + int sA, sR, sG, sB, rw, rh, o; + + for (int y1 = 0; y1 < h/Size; ++y1) + { + for (int x1 = 0; x1 < w/Size; ++x1) + { + sA = sR = sG = sB = 0; + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+x1*Size)+Stride*(y2+y1*Size); + sA += sBitmap[3+o]; + sR += sBitmap[2+o]; + sG += sBitmap[1+o]; + sB += sBitmap[o]; + } + } + + sA /= Size*Size; + sR /= Size*Size; + sG /= Size*Size; + sB /= Size*Size; + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+x1*Size)+Stride*(y2+y1*Size); + dBitmap[3+o] = sA; + dBitmap[2+o] = sR; + dBitmap[1+o] = sG; + dBitmap[o] = sB; + } + } + } + + if (w % Size != 0) + { + sA = sR = sG = sB = 0; + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < w % Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+(w/Size)*Size)+Stride*(y2+y1*Size); + sA += sBitmap[3+o]; + sR += sBitmap[2+o]; + sG += sBitmap[1+o]; + sB += sBitmap[o]; + } + } + + { + int tmp = (w % Size)*Size; + sA = tmp ? (sA / tmp) : 0; + sR = tmp ? (sR / tmp) : 0; + sG = tmp ? (sG / tmp) : 0; + sB = tmp ? (sB / tmp) : 0; + } + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < w % Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+(w/Size)*Size)+Stride*(y2+y1*Size); + dBitmap[3+o] = sA; + dBitmap[2+o] = sR; + dBitmap[1+o] = sG; + dBitmap[o] = sB; + } + } + } + } + + for (int x1 = 0; x1 < w/Size; ++x1) + { + sA = sR = sG = sB = 0; + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < h % Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+x1*Size)+Stride*(y2+(h/Size)*Size); + sA += sBitmap[3+o]; + sR += sBitmap[2+o]; + sG += sBitmap[1+o]; + sB += sBitmap[o]; + } + } + + { + int tmp = Size*(h % Size); + sA = tmp ? (sA / tmp) : 0; + sR = tmp ? (sR / tmp) : 0; + sG = tmp ? (sG / tmp) : 0; + sB = tmp ? (sB / tmp) : 0; + } + + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < h % Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+x1*Size)+Stride*(y2+(h/Size)*Size); + dBitmap[3+o] = sA; + dBitmap[2+o] = sR; + dBitmap[1+o] = sG; + dBitmap[o] = sB; + } + } + } + + sA = sR = sG = sB = 0; + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < h % Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < w % Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+(w/Size)*Size)+Stride*(y2+(h/Size)*Size); + sA += sBitmap[3+o]; + sR += sBitmap[2+o]; + sG += sBitmap[1+o]; + sB += sBitmap[o]; + } + } + + { + int tmp = (w % Size)*(h % Size); + sA = tmp ? (sA / tmp) : 0; + sR = tmp ? (sR / tmp) : 0; + sG = tmp ? (sG / tmp) : 0; + sB = tmp ? (sB / tmp) : 0; + } + + for (int y2 = 0; y2 < h % Size; ++y2) + { + for (int x2 = 0; x2 < w % Size; ++x2) + { + o = 4*(x2+(w/Size)*Size)+Stride*(y2+(h/Size)*Size); + dBitmap[3+o] = sA; + dBitmap[2+o] = sR; + dBitmap[1+o] = sG; + dBitmap[o] = sB; + } + } + return 0; +} + +*/ + + static PixelateBitmap + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + if (!PixelateBitmap) + { + if (A_PtrSize!=8) ; x86 machine code + MCode_PixelateBitmap := " + (LTrim Join + 558BEC83EC3C8B4514538B5D1C99F7FB56578BC88955EC894DD885C90F8E830200008B451099F7FB8365DC008365E000894DC88955F08945E833FF897DD4 + 397DE80F8E160100008BCB0FAFCB894DCC33C08945F88945FC89451C8945143BD87E608B45088D50028BC82BCA8BF02BF2418945F48B45E02955F4894DC4 + 8D0CB80FAFCB03CA895DD08BD1895DE40FB64416030145140FB60201451C8B45C40FB604100145FC8B45F40FB604020145F883C204FF4DE475D6034D18FF + 4DD075C98B4DCC8B451499F7F98945148B451C99F7F989451C8B45FC99F7F98945FC8B45F899F7F98945F885DB7E648B450C8D50028BC82BCA83C103894D + C48BC82BCA41894DF48B4DD48945E48B45E02955E48D0C880FAFCB03CA895DD08BD18BF38A45148B7DC48804178A451C8B7DF488028A45FC8804178A45F8 + 8B7DE488043A83C2044E75DA034D18FF4DD075CE8B4DCC8B7DD447897DD43B7DE80F8CF2FEFFFF837DF0000F842C01000033C08945F88945FC89451C8945 + 148945E43BD87E65837DF0007E578B4DDC034DE48B75E80FAF4D180FAFF38B45088D500203CA8D0CB18BF08BF88945F48B45F02BF22BFA2955F48945CC0F + B6440E030145140FB60101451C0FB6440F010145FC8B45F40FB604010145F883C104FF4DCC75D8FF45E4395DE47C9B8B4DF00FAFCB85C9740B8B451499F7 + F9894514EB048365140033F63BCE740B8B451C99F7F989451CEB0389751C3BCE740B8B45FC99F7F98945FCEB038975FC3BCE740B8B45F899F7F98945F8EB + 038975F88975E43BDE7E5A837DF0007E4C8B4DDC034DE48B75E80FAF4D180FAFF38B450C8D500203CA8D0CB18BF08BF82BF22BFA2BC28B55F08955CC8A55 + 1488540E038A551C88118A55FC88540F018A55F888140183C104FF4DCC75DFFF45E4395DE47CA68B45180145E0015DDCFF4DC80F8594FDFFFF8B451099F7 + FB8955F08945E885C00F8E450100008B45EC0FAFC38365DC008945D48B45E88945CC33C08945F88945FC89451C8945148945103945EC7E6085DB7E518B4D + D88B45080FAFCB034D108D50020FAF4D18034DDC8BF08BF88945F403CA2BF22BFA2955F4895DC80FB6440E030145140FB60101451C0FB6440F010145FC8B + 45F40FB604080145F883C104FF4DC875D8FF45108B45103B45EC7CA08B4DD485C9740B8B451499F7F9894514EB048365140033F63BCE740B8B451C99F7F9 + 89451CEB0389751C3BCE740B8B45FC99F7F98945FCEB038975FC3BCE740B8B45F899F7F98945F8EB038975F88975103975EC7E5585DB7E468B4DD88B450C + 0FAFCB034D108D50020FAF4D18034DDC8BF08BF803CA2BF22BFA2BC2895DC88A551488540E038A551C88118A55FC88540F018A55F888140183C104FF4DC8 + 75DFFF45108B45103B45EC7CAB8BC3C1E0020145DCFF4DCC0F85CEFEFFFF8B4DEC33C08945F88945FC89451C8945148945103BC87E6C3945F07E5C8B4DD8 + 8B75E80FAFCB034D100FAFF30FAF4D188B45088D500203CA8D0CB18BF08BF88945F48B45F02BF22BFA2955F48945C80FB6440E030145140FB60101451C0F + B6440F010145FC8B45F40FB604010145F883C104FF4DC875D833C0FF45108B4DEC394D107C940FAF4DF03BC874068B451499F7F933F68945143BCE740B8B + 451C99F7F989451CEB0389751C3BCE740B8B45FC99F7F98945FCEB038975FC3BCE740B8B45F899F7F98945F8EB038975F88975083975EC7E63EB0233F639 + 75F07E4F8B4DD88B75E80FAFCB034D080FAFF30FAF4D188B450C8D500203CA8D0CB18BF08BF82BF22BFA2BC28B55F08955108A551488540E038A551C8811 + 8A55FC88540F018A55F888140883C104FF4D1075DFFF45088B45083B45EC7C9F5F5E33C05BC9C21800 + )" + else ; 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Flexible parameter handling: + if !IsInteger(Length) + Encoding := Length, Length := -1 + + ; Check for obvious errors. + if (Address+0 < 1024) + return + + ; Ensure 'Encoding' contains a numeric identifier. + if (Encoding = "UTF-16") + Encoding := 1200 + else if (Encoding = "UTF-8") + Encoding := 65001 + else if SubStr(Encoding,1,2)="CP" + Encoding := SubStr(Encoding,3) + + if !Encoding ; "" or 0 + { + ; No conversion necessary, but we might not want the whole string. + if (Length == -1) + Length := DllCall("lstrlen", "uint", Address) + VarSetCapacity(String, Length) + DllCall("lstrcpyn", "str", String, "uint", Address, "int", Length + 1) + } + else if (Encoding = 1200) ; UTF-16 + { + char_count := DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0x400, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) + VarSetCapacity(String, char_count) + DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte", "uint", 0, "uint", 0x400, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "str", String, "int", char_count, "uint", 0, "uint", 0) + } + else if IsInteger(Encoding) + { + ; Convert from target encoding to UTF-16 then to the active code page. + char_count := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", Encoding, "uint", 0, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "uint", 0, "int", 0) + VarSetCapacity(String, char_count * 2) + char_count := DllCall("MultiByteToWideChar", "uint", Encoding, "uint", 0, "uint", Address, "int", Length, "uint", &String, "int", char_count * 2) + String := StrGetB(&String, char_count, 1200) + } + + return String +} + +Gdip_Startup(multipleInstances:=0) { + pToken := 0 + If (multipleInstances=0) + { + if !DllCall("GetModuleHandle", "str", "gdiplus", "UPtr") + DllCall("LoadLibrary", "str", "gdiplus") + } Else DllCall("LoadLibrary", "str", "gdiplus") + + VarSetCapacity(si, A_PtrSize = 8 ? 24 : 16, 0), si := Chr(1) + DllCall("gdiplus\GdiplusStartup", "UPtr*", pToken, "UPtr", &si, "UPtr", 0) + return pToken +} + +Gdip_Shutdown(pToken) { + DllCall("gdiplus\GdiplusShutdown", "UPtr", pToken) + hModule := DllCall("GetModuleHandle", "Str", "gdiplus", "UPtr") + if hModule + DllCall("FreeLibrary", "UPtr", hModule) + return 0 +} + +;##################################################################################### +; in AHK v1: uses normal 'if var is' command +; in AHK v2: all if's are expression-if, so the Integer variable is dereferenced to the string +;##################################################################################### +IsInteger(Var) { + Static Integer := "Integer" + If Var Is Integer + Return True + Return False +} + +IsNumber(Var) { + Static number := "number" + If Var Is number + Return True + Return False +} + +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Multiple Display Monitors Functions -> msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145072(v=vs.85).aspx +; by 'just me' +; https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4606 +; ====================================================================================================================== + +GetMonitorCount() { + Monitors := MDMF_Enum() + for k,v in Monitors + count := A_Index + return count +} + +GetMonitorInfo(MonitorNum) { + Monitors := MDMF_Enum() + for k,v in Monitors + { + if (v.Num = MonitorNum) + return v + } +} + +GetPrimaryMonitor() { + Monitors := MDMF_Enum() + for k,v in Monitors + { + If (v.Primary) + return v.Num + } +} + +; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +; Name ..........: MDMF - Multiple Display Monitor Functions +; Description ...: Various functions for multiple display monitor environments +; Tested with ...: AHK 1.1.32.00 (A32/U32/U64) and 2.0-a108-a2fa0498 (U32/U64) +; Original Author: just me (https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4606) +; Mod Authors ...: iPhilip, guest3456 +; Changes .......: Modified to work with v2.0-a108 and changed 'Count' key to 'TotalCount' to avoid conflicts +; ................ Modified MDMF_Enum() so that it works under both AHK v1 and v2. +; ................ Modified MDMF_EnumProc() to provide Count and Primary keys to the Monitors array. +; ................ Modified MDMF_FromHWND() to allow flag values that determine the function's return value if the +; ................ window does not intersect any display monitor. +; ................ Modified MDMF_FromPoint() to allow the cursor position to be returned ByRef if not specified and +; ................ allow flag values that determine the function's return value if the point is not contained within +; ................ any display monitor. +; ................ Modified MDMF_FromRect() to allow flag values that determine the function's return value if the +; ................ rectangle does not intersect any display monitor. +;................. Modified MDMF_GetInfo() with minor changes. +; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +; +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Multiple Display Monitors Functions -> msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145072(v=vs.85).aspx ======================= +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Enumerates display monitors and returns an object containing the properties of all monitors or the specified monitor. +; ====================================================================================================================== + +MDMF_Enum(HMON := "") { + Static CallbackFunc := Func(A_AhkVersion < "2" ? "RegisterCallback" : "CallbackCreate") + Static EnumProc := CallbackFunc.Call("MDMF_EnumProc") + Static Obj := (A_AhkVersion < "2") ? "Object" : "Map" + Static Monitors := {} + If (HMON = "") ; new enumeration + { + Monitors := %Obj%("TotalCount", 0) + If !DllCall("User32.dll\EnumDisplayMonitors", "Ptr", 0, "Ptr", 0, "Ptr", EnumProc, "Ptr", &Monitors, "Int") + Return False + } + Return (HMON = "") ? Monitors : Monitors.HasKey(HMON) ? Monitors[HMON] : False +} +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Callback function that is called by the MDMF_Enum function. +; ====================================================================================================================== +MDMF_EnumProc(HMON, HDC, PRECT, ObjectAddr) { + Monitors := Object(ObjectAddr) + Monitors[HMON] := MDMF_GetInfo(HMON) + Monitors["TotalCount"]++ + If (Monitors[HMON].Primary) + Monitors["Primary"] := HMON + Return True +} +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Retrieves the display monitor that has the largest area of intersection with a specified window. +; The following flag values determine the function's return value if the window does not intersect any display monitor: +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTONULL = 0 - Returns NULL. +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTOPRIMARY = 1 - Returns a handle to the primary display monitor. +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTONEAREST = 2 - Returns a handle to the display monitor that is nearest to the window. +; ====================================================================================================================== +MDMF_FromHWND(HWND, Flag := 0) { + Return DllCall("User32.dll\MonitorFromWindow", "Ptr", HWND, "UInt", Flag, "Ptr") +} +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Retrieves the display monitor that contains a specified point. +; If either X or Y is empty, the function will use the current cursor position for this value and return it ByRef. +; The following flag values determine the function's return value if the point is not contained within any +; display monitor: +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTONULL = 0 - Returns NULL. +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTOPRIMARY = 1 - Returns a handle to the primary display monitor. +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTONEAREST = 2 - Returns a handle to the display monitor that is nearest to the point. +; ====================================================================================================================== +MDMF_FromPoint(ByRef X := "", ByRef Y := "", Flag := 0) { + If (X = "") || (Y = "") { + VarSetCapacity(PT, 8, 0) + DllCall("User32.dll\GetCursorPos", "Ptr", &PT, "Int") + If (X = "") + X := NumGet(PT, 0, "Int") + If (Y = "") + Y := NumGet(PT, 4, "Int") + } + Return DllCall("User32.dll\MonitorFromPoint", "Int64", (X & 0xFFFFFFFF) | (Y << 32), "UInt", Flag, "Ptr") +} +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Retrieves the display monitor that has the largest area of intersection with a specified rectangle. +; Parameters are consistent with the common AHK definition of a rectangle, which is X, Y, W, H instead of +; Left, Top, Right, Bottom. +; The following flag values determine the function's return value if the rectangle does not intersect any +; display monitor: +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTONULL = 0 - Returns NULL. +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTOPRIMARY = 1 - Returns a handle to the primary display monitor. +; MONITOR_DEFAULTTONEAREST = 2 - Returns a handle to the display monitor that is nearest to the rectangle. +; ====================================================================================================================== +MDMF_FromRect(X, Y, W, H, Flag := 0) { + VarSetCapacity(RC, 16, 0) + NumPut(X, RC, 0, "Int"), NumPut(Y, RC, 4, "Int"), NumPut(X + W, RC, 8, "Int"), NumPut(Y + H, RC, 12, "Int") + Return DllCall("User32.dll\MonitorFromRect", "Ptr", &RC, "UInt", Flag, "Ptr") +} +; ====================================================================================================================== +; Retrieves information about a display monitor. +; ====================================================================================================================== +MDMF_GetInfo(HMON) { + NumPut(VarSetCapacity(MIEX, 40 + (32 << !!A_IsUnicode)), MIEX, 0, "UInt") + If DllCall("User32.dll\GetMonitorInfo", "Ptr", HMON, "Ptr", &MIEX, "Int") + Return {Name: (Name := StrGet(&MIEX + 40, 32)) ; CCHDEVICENAME = 32 + , Num: RegExReplace(Name, ".*(\d+)$", "$1") + , Left: NumGet(MIEX, 4, "Int") ; display rectangle + , Top: NumGet(MIEX, 8, "Int") ; " + , Right: NumGet(MIEX, 12, "Int") ; " + , Bottom: NumGet(MIEX, 16, "Int") ; " + , WALeft: NumGet(MIEX, 20, "Int") ; work area + , WATop: NumGet(MIEX, 24, "Int") ; " + , WARight: NumGet(MIEX, 28, "Int") ; " + , WABottom: NumGet(MIEX, 32, "Int") ; " + , Primary: NumGet(MIEX, 36, "UInt")} ; contains a non-zero value for the primary monitor. + Return False +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; The following functions are written by Just Me +; Taken from https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/85238-get-image-metadata-using-gdi-ahk-l/ +; October 2013; minimal modifications by Marius Șucan in July 2019 + +Gdip_LoadImageFromFile(sFile, useICM:=0) { +; An Image object encapsulates a bitmap or a metafile and stores attributes that you can retrieve. + pImage := 0 + function2call := (useICM=1) ? "ICM" : "" + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipLoadImageFromFile" function2call, "WStr", sFile, "UPtrP", pImage) + Return pImage +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Gdip_GetPropertyCount() - Gets the number of properties (pieces of metadata) stored in this Image object. +; Parameters: +; pImage - Pointer to the Image object. +; Return values: +; On success - Number of properties. +; On failure - 0, ErrorLevel contains the GDIP status +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_GetPropertyCount(pImage) { + PropCount := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPropertyCount", "UPtr", pImage, "UIntP", PropCount) + Return PropCount +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Gdip_GetPropertyIdList() - Gets an aray of the property identifiers used in the metadata of this Image object. +; Parameters: +; pImage - Pointer to the Image object. +; Return values: +; On success - Array containing the property identifiers as integer keys and the name retrieved from +; Gdip_GetPropertyTagName(PropID) as values. +; The total number of properties is stored in Array.Count. +; On failure - False, ErrorLevel contains the GDIP status +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_GetPropertyIdList(pImage) { + PropNum := Gdip_GetPropertyCount(pImage) + If !PropNum + Return False + + VarSetCapacity(PropIDList, 4 * PropNum, 0) + R := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPropertyIdList", "UPtr", pImage, "UInt", PropNum, "Ptr", &PropIDList) + If (R) { + ErrorLevel := R + Return False + } + + PropArray := {Count: PropNum} + Loop %PropNum% + { + PropID := NumGet(PropIDList, (A_Index - 1) << 2, "UInt") + PropArray[PropID] := Gdip_GetPropertyTagName(PropID) + } + Return PropArray +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Gdip_GetPropertyItem() - Gets a specified property item (piece of metadata) from this Image object. +; Parameters: +; pImage - Pointer to the Image object. +; PropID - Integer that identifies the property item to be retrieved (see Gdip_GetPropertyTagName()). +; Return values: +; On success - Property item object containing three keys: +; Length - Length of the value in bytes. +; Type - Type of the value (see Gdip_GetPropertyTagType()). +; Value - The value itself. +; On failure - False, ErrorLevel contains the GDIP status +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_GetPropertyItem(pImage, PropID) { + PropItem := {Length: 0, Type: 0, Value: ""} + ItemSize := 0 + R := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPropertyItemSize", "Ptr", pImage, "UInt", PropID, "UIntP", ItemSize) + If (R) { + ErrorLevel := R + Return False + } + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + VarSetCapacity(Item, ItemSize, 0) + R := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPropertyItem", Ptr, pImage, "UInt", PropID, "UInt", ItemSize, "Ptr", &Item) + If (R) { + ErrorLevel := R + Return False + } + PropLen := NumGet(Item, 4, "UInt") + PropType := NumGet(Item, 8, "Short") + PropAddr := NumGet(Item, 8 + A_PtrSize, "UPtr") + PropItem.Length := PropLen + PropItem.Type := PropType + If (PropLen > 0) + { + PropVal := "" + Gdip_GetPropertyItemValue(PropVal, PropLen, PropType, PropAddr) + If (PropType = 1) || (PropType = 7) { + PropItem.SetCapacity("Value", PropLen) + ValAddr := PropItem.GetAddress("Value") + DllCall("Kernel32.dll\RtlMoveMemory", "Ptr", ValAddr, "Ptr", &PropVal, "Ptr", PropLen) + } Else { + PropItem.Value := PropVal + } + } + ErrorLevel := 0 + Return PropItem +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Gdip_GetAllPropertyItems() - Gets all the property items (metadata) stored in this Image object. +; Parameters: +; pImage - Pointer to the Image object. +; Return values: +; On success - Properties object containing one integer key for each property ID. Each value is an object +; containing three keys: +; Length - Length of the value in bytes. +; Type - Type of the value (see Gdip_GetPropertyTagType()). +; Value - The value itself. +; The total number of properties is stored in Properties.Count. +; On failure - False, ErrorLevel contains the GDIP status +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_GetAllPropertyItems(pImage) { + BufSize := PropNum := ErrorLevel := 0 + R := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPropertySize", "Ptr", pImage, "UIntP", BufSize, "UIntP", PropNum) + If (R) || (PropNum = 0) { + ErrorLevel := R ? R : 19 ; 19 = PropertyNotFound + Return False + } + VarSetCapacity(Buffer, BufSize, 0) + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + R := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetAllPropertyItems", Ptr, pImage, "UInt", BufSize, "UInt", PropNum, "Ptr", &Buffer) + If (R) { + ErrorLevel := R + Return False + } + PropsObj := {Count: PropNum} + PropSize := 8 + (2 * A_PtrSize) + + Loop %PropNum% + { + OffSet := PropSize * (A_Index - 1) + PropID := NumGet(Buffer, OffSet, "UInt") + PropLen := NumGet(Buffer, OffSet + 4, "UInt") + PropType := NumGet(Buffer, OffSet + 8, "Short") + PropAddr := NumGet(Buffer, OffSet + 8 + A_PtrSize, "UPtr") + PropVal := "" + PropsObj[PropID] := {} + PropsObj[PropID, "Length"] := PropLen + PropsObj[PropID, "Type"] := PropType + PropsObj[PropID, "Value"] := PropVal + If (PropLen > 0) + { + Gdip_GetPropertyItemValue(PropVal, PropLen, PropType, PropAddr) + If (PropType = 1) || (PropType = 7) + { + PropsObj[PropID].SetCapacity("Value", PropLen) + ValAddr := PropsObj[PropID].GetAddress("Value") + DllCall("Kernel32.dll\RtlMoveMemory", "Ptr", ValAddr, "Ptr", PropAddr, "Ptr", PropLen) + } Else { + PropsObj[PropID].Value := PropVal + } + } + } + ErrorLevel := 0 + Return PropsObj +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Gdip_GetPropertyTagName() - Gets the name for the integer identifier of this property as defined in "Gdiplusimaging.h". +; Parameters: +; PropID - Integer that identifies the property item to be retrieved. +; Return values: +; On success - Corresponding name. +; On failure - "Unknown" +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_GetPropertyTagName(PropID) { +; All tags are taken from "Gdiplusimaging.h", probably there will be more. +; For most of them you'll find a description on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534418(VS.85).aspx +; +; modified by Marius Șucan in July/August 2019: +; I transformed the function to not yield errors on AHK v2 + + Static PropTagsA := {0x0001:"GPS LatitudeRef",0x0002:"GPS Latitude",0x0003:"GPS LongitudeRef",0x0004:"GPS Longitude",0x0005:"GPS AltitudeRef",0x0006:"GPS Altitude",0x0007:"GPS Time",0x0008:"GPS Satellites",0x0009:"GPS Status",0x000A:"GPS MeasureMode",0x001D:"GPS Date",0x001E:"GPS Differential",0x00FE:"NewSubfileType",0x00FF:"SubfileType",0x0102:"Bits Per Sample",0x0103:"Compression",0x0106:"Photometric Interpolation",0x0107:"ThreshHolding",0x010A:"Fill Order",0x010D:"Document Name",0x010E:"Image Description",0x010F:"Equipment Make",0x0110:"Equipment Model",0x0112:"Orientation",0x0115:"Samples Per Pixel",0x0118:"Min Sample Value",0x0119:"Max Sample Value",0x011D:"Page Name",0x0122:"GrayResponseUnit",0x0123:"GrayResponseCurve",0x0128:"Resolution Unit",0x012D:"Transfer Function",0x0131:"Software Used",0x0132:"Internal Date Time",0x013B:"Artist" + ,0x013C:"Host Computer",0x013D:"Predictor",0x013E:"White Point",0x013F:"Primary Chromaticities",0x0140:"Color Map",0x014C:"Ink Set",0x014D:"Ink Names",0x014E:"Number Of Inks",0x0150:"Dot Range",0x0151:"Target Printer",0x0152:"Extra Samples",0x0153:"Sample Format",0x0156:"Transfer Range",0x0200:"JPEGProc",0x0205:"JPEGLosslessPredictors",0x0301:"Gamma",0x0302:"ICC Profile Descriptor",0x0303:"SRGB Rendering Intent",0x0320:"Image Title",0x5010:"JPEG Quality",0x5011:"Grid Size",0x501A:"Color Transfer Function",0x5100:"Frame Delay",0x5101:"Loop Count",0x5110:"Pixel Unit",0x5111:"Pixel Per Unit X",0x5112:"Pixel Per Unit Y",0x8298:"Copyright",0x829A:"EXIF Exposure Time",0x829D:"EXIF F Number",0x8773:"ICC Profile",0x8822:"EXIF ExposureProg",0x8824:"EXIF SpectralSense",0x8827:"EXIF ISO Speed",0x9003:"EXIF Date Original",0x9004:"EXIF Date Digitized" + ,0x9102:"EXIF CompBPP",0x9201:"EXIF Shutter Speed",0x9202:"EXIF Aperture",0x9203:"EXIF Brightness",0x9204:"EXIF Exposure Bias",0x9205:"EXIF Max. Aperture",0x9206:"EXIF Subject Dist",0x9207:"EXIF Metering Mode",0x9208:"EXIF Light Source",0x9209:"EXIF Flash",0x920A:"EXIF Focal Length",0x9214:"EXIF Subject Area",0x927C:"EXIF Maker Note",0x9286:"EXIF Comments",0xA001:"EXIF Color Space",0xA002:"EXIF PixXDim",0xA003:"EXIF PixYDim",0xA004:"EXIF Related WAV",0xA005:"EXIF Interop",0xA20B:"EXIF Flash Energy",0xA20E:"EXIF Focal X Res",0xA20F:"EXIF Focal Y Res",0xA210:"EXIF FocalResUnit",0xA214:"EXIF Subject Loc",0xA215:"EXIF Exposure Index",0xA217:"EXIF Sensing Method",0xA300:"EXIF File Source",0xA301:"EXIF Scene Type",0xA401:"EXIF Custom Rendered",0xA402:"EXIF Exposure Mode",0xA403:"EXIF White Balance",0xA404:"EXIF Digital Zoom Ratio" + ,0xA405:"EXIF Focal Length In 35mm Film",0xA406:"EXIF Scene Capture Type",0xA407:"EXIF Gain Control",0xA408:"EXIF Contrast",0xA409:"EXIF Saturation",0xA40A:"EXIF Sharpness",0xA40B:"EXIF Device Setting Description",0xA40C:"EXIF Subject Distance Range",0xA420:"EXIF Unique Image ID"} + + Static PropTagsB := {0x0000:"GpsVer",0x000B:"GpsGpsDop",0x000C:"GpsSpeedRef",0x000D:"GpsSpeed",0x000E:"GpsTrackRef",0x000F:"GpsTrack",0x0010:"GpsImgDirRef",0x0011:"GpsImgDir",0x0012:"GpsMapDatum",0x0013:"GpsDestLatRef",0x0014:"GpsDestLat",0x0015:"GpsDestLongRef",0x0016:"GpsDestLong",0x0017:"GpsDestBearRef",0x0018:"GpsDestBear",0x0019:"GpsDestDistRef",0x001A:"GpsDestDist",0x001B:"GpsProcessingMethod",0x001C:"GpsAreaInformation",0x0100:"Original Image Width",0x0101:"Original Image Height",0x0108:"CellWidth",0x0109:"CellHeight",0x0111:"Strip Offsets",0x0116:"RowsPerStrip",0x0117:"StripBytesCount",0x011A:"XResolution",0x011B:"YResolution",0x011C:"Planar Config",0x011E:"XPosition",0x011F:"YPosition",0x0120:"FreeOffset",0x0121:"FreeByteCounts",0x0124:"T4Option",0x0125:"T6Option",0x0129:"PageNumber",0x0141:"Halftone Hints",0x0142:"TileWidth",0x0143:"TileLength",0x0144:"TileOffset" + ,0x0145:"TileByteCounts",0x0154:"SMin Sample Value",0x0155:"SMax Sample Value",0x0201:"JPEGInterFormat",0x0202:"JPEGInterLength",0x0203:"JPEGRestartInterval",0x0206:"JPEGPointTransforms",0x0207:"JPEGQTables",0x0208:"JPEGDCTables",0x0209:"JPEGACTables",0x0211:"YCbCrCoefficients",0x0212:"YCbCrSubsampling",0x0213:"YCbCrPositioning",0x0214:"REFBlackWhite",0x5001:"ResolutionXUnit",0x5002:"ResolutionYUnit",0x5003:"ResolutionXLengthUnit",0x5004:"ResolutionYLengthUnit",0x5005:"PrintFlags",0x5006:"PrintFlagsVersion",0x5007:"PrintFlagsCrop",0x5008:"PrintFlagsBleedWidth",0x5009:"PrintFlagsBleedWidthScale",0x500A:"HalftoneLPI",0x500B:"HalftoneLPIUnit",0x500C:"HalftoneDegree",0x500D:"HalftoneShape",0x500E:"HalftoneMisc",0x500F:"HalftoneScreen",0x5012:"ThumbnailFormat",0x5013:"ThumbnailWidth",0x5014:"ThumbnailHeight",0x5015:"ThumbnailColorDepth" + ,0x5016:"ThumbnailPlanes",0x5017:"ThumbnailRawBytes",0x5018:"ThumbnailSize",0x5019:"ThumbnailCompressedSize",0x501B:"ThumbnailData",0x5020:"ThumbnailImageWidth",0x5021:"ThumbnailImageHeight",0x5022:"ThumbnailBitsPerSample",0x5023:"ThumbnailCompression",0x5024:"ThumbnailPhotometricInterp",0x5025:"ThumbnailImageDescription",0x5026:"ThumbnailEquipMake",0x5027:"ThumbnailEquipModel",0x5028:"ThumbnailStripOffsets",0x5029:"ThumbnailOrientation",0x502A:"ThumbnailSamplesPerPixel",0x502B:"ThumbnailRowsPerStrip",0x502C:"ThumbnailStripBytesCount",0x502D:"ThumbnailResolutionX",0x502E:"ThumbnailResolutionY",0x502F:"ThumbnailPlanarConfig",0x5030:"ThumbnailResolutionUnit",0x5031:"ThumbnailTransferFunction",0x5032:"ThumbnailSoftwareUsed",0x5033:"ThumbnailDateTime",0x5034:"ThumbnailArtist",0x5035:"ThumbnailWhitePoint" + ,0x5036:"ThumbnailPrimaryChromaticities",0x5037:"ThumbnailYCbCrCoefficients",0x5038:"ThumbnailYCbCrSubsampling",0x5039:"ThumbnailYCbCrPositioning",0x503A:"ThumbnailRefBlackWhite",0x503B:"ThumbnailCopyRight",0x5090:"LuminanceTable",0x5091:"ChrominanceTable",0x5102:"Global Palette",0x5103:"Index Background",0x5104:"Index Transparent",0x5113:"Palette Histogram",0x8769:"ExifIFD",0x8825:"GpsIFD",0x8828:"ExifOECF",0x9000:"ExifVer",0x9101:"EXIF CompConfig",0x9290:"EXIF DTSubsec",0x9291:"EXIF DTOrigSS",0x9292:"EXIF DTDigSS",0xA000:"EXIF FPXVer",0xA20C:"EXIF Spatial FR",0xA302:"EXIF CfaPattern"} + + r := PropTagsA.HasKey(PropID) ? PropTagsA[PropID] : "Unknown" + If (r="Unknown") + r := PropTagsB.HasKey(PropID) ? PropTagsB[PropID] : "Unknown" + Return r +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Gdip_GetPropertyTagType() - Gets the name for he type of this property's value as defined in "Gdiplusimaging.h". +; Parameters: +; PropType - Integer that identifies the type of the property item to be retrieved. +; Return values: +; On success - Corresponding type. +; On failure - "Unknown" +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_GetPropertyTagType(PropType) { + Static PropTypes := {1: "Byte", 2: "ASCII", 3: "Short", 4: "Long", 5: "Rational", 7: "Undefined", 9: "SLong", 10: "SRational"} + Return PropTypes.HasKey(PropType) ? PropTypes[PropType] : "Unknown" +} + +Gdip_GetPropertyItemValue(ByRef PropVal, PropLen, PropType, PropAddr) { +; Gdip_GetPropertyItemValue() - Reserved for internal use + PropVal := "" + If (PropType = 2) + { + PropVal := StrGet(PropAddr, PropLen, "CP0") + Return True + } + + If (PropType = 3) + { + PropyLen := PropLen // 2 + Loop %PropyLen% + PropVal .= (A_Index > 1 ? " " : "") . NumGet(PropAddr + 0, (A_Index - 1) << 1, "Short") + Return True + } + + If (PropType = 4) || (PropType = 9) + { + NumType := PropType = 4 ? "UInt" : "Int" + PropyLen := PropLen // 4 + Loop %PropyLen% + PropVal .= (A_Index > 1 ? " " : "") . NumGet(PropAddr + 0, (A_Index - 1) << 2, NumType) + Return True + } + + If (PropType = 5) || (PropType = 10) + { + NumType := PropType = 5 ? "UInt" : "Int" + PropyLen := PropLen // 8 + Loop %PropyLen% + PropVal .= (A_Index > 1 ? " " : "") . NumGet(PropAddr + 0, (A_Index - 1) << 2, NumType) + . "/" . NumGet(PropAddr + 4, (A_Index - 1) << 2, NumType) + Return True + } + + If (PropType = 1) || (PropType = 7) + { + VarSetCapacity(PropVal, PropLen, 0) + DllCall("Kernel32.dll\RtlMoveMemory", "Ptr", &PropVal, "Ptr", PropAddr, "Ptr", PropLen) + Return True + } + Return False +} + +;##################################################################################### +; RotateAtCenter() and related Functions by RazorHalo +; from https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6517&start=260 +; in April 2019. +;##################################################################################### +; The Matrix order has to be "Append" for the transformations to be applied +; in the correct order - instead of the default "Prepend" + +Gdip_RotatePathAtCenter(pPath, Angle, MatrixOrder:=1, withinBounds:=0, withinBkeepRatio:=1) { +; modified by Marius Șucan - added withinBounds option + + ; Gets the bounding rectangle of the GraphicsPath + ; returns array x, y, w, h + Rect := Gdip_GetPathWorldBounds(pPath) + + ; Calculate center of bounding rectangle which will be the center of the graphics path + cX := Rect.x + (Rect.w / 2) + cY := Rect.y + (Rect.h / 2) + + ; Create a Matrix for the transformations + pMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + + ; Move the GraphicsPath center to the origin (0, 0) of the graphics object + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, -cX , -cY) + + ; Rotate matrix on graphics object origin + Gdip_RotateMatrix(pMatrix, Angle, MatrixOrder) + + ; Move the GraphicsPath origin point back to its original position + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, cX, cY, MatrixOrder) + + ; Apply the transformations + E := Gdip_TransformPath(pPath, pMatrix) + + ; Delete Matrix + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(pMatrix) + + If (withinBounds=1 && !E && Angle!=0) + { + nRect := Gdip_GetPathWorldBounds(pPath) + ncX := nRect.x + (nRect.w / 2) + ncY := nRect.y + (nRect.h / 2) + pMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, -ncX , -ncY) + sX := Rect.w / nRect.w + sY := Rect.h / nRect.h + If (withinBkeepRatio=1) + { + sX := min(sX, sY) + sY := min(sX, sY) + } + Gdip_ScaleMatrix(pMatrix, sX, sY, MatrixOrder) + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, ncX, ncY, MatrixOrder) + If (sX!=0 && sY!=0) + E := Gdip_TransformPath(pPath, pMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(pMatrix) + } + Return E +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Matrix transformations functions by RazorHalo +; +; NOTE: Be aware of the order that transformations are applied. You may need +; to pass MatrixOrder as 1 for "Append" +; the (default is 0 for "Prepend") to get the correct results. + +Gdip_ResetMatrix(hMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetMatrix", "UPtr", hMatrix) +} + +Gdip_RotateMatrix(hMatrix, Angle, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotateMatrix", "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", Angle, "Int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_GetPathWorldBounds(pPath, hMatrix:=0, pPen:=0) { +; hMatrix to use for calculating the boundaries +; pPen to use for calculating the boundaries +; Both will not affect the actual GraphicsPath. + + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathWorldBounds", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &RectF, "UPtr", hMatrix, "UPtr", pPen) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_ScaleMatrix(hMatrix, ScaleX, ScaleY, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScaleMatrix", "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", ScaleX, "float", ScaleY, "Int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_TranslateMatrix(hMatrix, offsetX, offsetY, MatrixOrder:=0) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslateMatrix", "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", offsetX, "float", offsetY, "Int", MatrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_TransformPath(pPath, hMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTransformPath", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", hMatrix) +} + +Gdip_SetMatrixElements(hMatrix, m11, m12, m21, m22, x, y) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetMatrixElements", "UPtr", hMatrix, "float", m11, "float", m12, "float", m21, "float", m22, "float", x, "float", y) +} + +Gdip_GetMatrixLastStatus(pMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetLastStatus", "UPtr", pMatrix) +} + +;##################################################################################### +; GraphicsPath functions written by Learning one +; found on https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-75 +; Updated on 14/08/2019 by Marius Șucan +;##################################################################################### +; +; Function: Gdip_AddPathBeziers +; Description: Adds a sequence of connected Bézier splines to the current figure of this path. +; A Bezier spline does not pass through its control points. The control points act as magnets, pulling the curve +; in certain directions to influence the way the spline bends. +; +; pPath: Pointer to the GraphicsPath. +; Points: The coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3... +; +; Return: Status enumeration. 0 = success. +; +; Notes: The first spline is constructed from the first point through the fourth point in the array and uses the second and third points as control points. Each subsequent spline in the sequence needs exactly three more points: the ending point of the previous spline is used as the starting point, the next two points in the sequence are control points, and the third point is the ending point. + +Gdip_AddPathBeziers(pPath, Points) { + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathBeziers", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +Gdip_AddPathBezier(pPath, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4) { + ; Adds a Bézier spline to the current figure of this path + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathBezier", "UPtr", pPath + , "float", x1, "float", y1, "float", x2, "float", y2 + , "float", x3, "float", y3, "float", x4, "float", y4) +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Function: Gdip_AddPathLines +; Description: Adds a sequence of connected lines to the current figure of this path. +; +; pPath: Pointer to the GraphicsPath +; Points: the coordinates of all the points passed as x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3..... +; +; Return: status enumeration. 0 = success. + +Gdip_AddPathLines(pPath, Points) { + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathLine2", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr", &PointsF, "int", iCount) +} + +Gdip_AddPathLine(pPath, x1, y1, x2, y2) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathLine", "UPtr", pPath, "float", x1, "float", y1, "float", x2, "float", y2) +} + +Gdip_AddPathArc(pPath, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathArc", "UPtr", pPath, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "float", StartAngle, "float", SweepAngle) +} + +Gdip_AddPathPie(pPath, x, y, w, h, StartAngle, SweepAngle) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipAddPathPie", "UPtr", pPath, "float", x, "float", y, "float", w, "float", h, "float", StartAngle, "float", SweepAngle) +} + +Gdip_StartPathFigure(pPath) { +; Starts a new figure without closing the current figure. +; Subsequent points added to this path are added to the new figure. + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipStartPathFigure", "UPtr", pPath) +} + +Gdip_ClosePathFigure(pPath) { +; Closes the current figure of this path. + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipClosePathFigure", "UPtr", pPath) +} + +Gdip_ClosePathFigures(pPath) { +; Closes the current figure of this path. + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipClosePathFigures", "UPtr", pPath) +} + +;##################################################################################### +; Function: Gdip_DrawPath +; Description: Draws a sequence of lines and curves defined by a GraphicsPath object +; +; pGraphics: Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pPen: Pointer to a pen object +; pPath: Pointer to a Path object +; +; Return: status enumeration. 0 = success. + +Gdip_DrawPath(pGraphics, pPen, pPath) { + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawPath", "UPtr", pGraphics, "UPtr", pPen, "UPtr", pPath) +} + +Gdip_ClonePath(pPath) { + pPathClone := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipClonePath", "UPtr", pPath, "UPtr*", pPathClone) + return pPathClone +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; The following PathGradient brush functions were written by 'Just Me' in March 2012 +; source: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-65 +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(pPath) { + ; Creates and returns a path gradient brush. + ; pPath path object returned from Gdip_CreatePath() + pBrush := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePathGradientFromPath", "Ptr", pPath, "PtrP", pBrush) + Return pBrush +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetCenterPoint(pBrush, X, Y) { + ; Sets the center point of this path gradient brush. + ; pBrush Brush object returned from Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(). + ; X, Y X, y coordinates in pixels + VarSetCapacity(POINTF, 8) + NumPut(X, POINTF, 0, "Float") + NumPut(Y, POINTF, 4, "Float") + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientCenterPoint", "UPtr", pBrush, "Ptr", &POINTF) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetCenterColor(pBrush, CenterColor) { + ; Sets the center color of this path gradient brush. + ; pBrush Brush object returned from Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(). + ; CenterColor ARGB color value: A(lpha)R(ed)G(reen)B(lue). + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientCenterColor", "UPtr", pBrush, "UInt", CenterColor) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetSurroundColors(pBrush, SurroundColors) { + ; Sets the surround colors of this path gradient brush. + ; pBrush Brush object returned from Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(). + ; SurroundColours One or more ARGB color values seperated by pipe (|)). + ; updated by Marius Șucan + + Colors := StrSplit(SurroundColors, "|") + tColors := Colors.Length() + VarSetCapacity(ColorArray, 4 * tColors, 0) + + Loop %tColors% { + NumPut(Colors[A_Index], ColorArray, 4 * (A_Index - 1), "UInt") + } + + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientSurroundColorsWithCount", "Ptr", pBrush, "Ptr", &ColorArray + , "IntP", tColors) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetSigmaBlend(pBrush, Focus, Scale:=1) { + ; Sets the blend shape of this path gradient brush to bell shape. + ; pBrush Brush object returned from Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(). + ; Focus Number that specifies where the center color will be at its highest intensity. + ; Values: 1.0 (center) - 0.0 (border) + ; Scale Number that specifies the maximum intensity of center color that gets blended with + ; the boundary color. + ; Values: 1.0 (100 %) - 0.0 (0 %) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientSigmaBlend", "Ptr", pBrush, "Float", Focus, "Float", Scale) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetLinearBlend(pBrush, Focus, Scale:=1) { + ; Sets the blend shape of this path gradient brush to triangular shape. + ; pBrush Brush object returned from Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath() + ; Focus Number that specifies where the center color will be at its highest intensity. + ; Values: 1.0 (center) - 0.0 (border) + ; Scale Number that specifies the maximum intensity of center color that gets blended with + ; the boundary color. + ; Values: 1.0 (100 %) - 0.0 (0 %) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientLinearBlend", "Ptr", pBrush, "Float", Focus, "Float", Scale) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetFocusScales(pBrush, xScale, yScale) { + ; Sets the focus scales of this path gradient brush. + ; pBrush Brush object returned from Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(). + ; xScale Number that specifies the x focus scale. + ; Values: 0.0 (0 %) - 1.0 (100 %) + ; yScale Number that specifies the y focus scale. + ; Values: 0.0 (0 %) - 1.0 (100 %) + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientFocusScales", "Ptr", pBrush, "Float", xScale, "Float", yScale) +} + +Gdip_AddPathGradient(pGraphics, x, y, w, h, cX, cY, cClr, sClr, BlendFocus, ScaleX, ScaleY, Shape, Angle:=0) { +; Parameters: +; X, Y - coordinates where to add the gradient path object +; W, H - the width and height of the path gradient object +; cX, cY - the coordinates of the Center Point of the gradient within the wdith and height object boundaries +; cClr - the center color in 0xARGB +; sClr - the surrounding color in 0xARGB +; BlendFocus - 0.0 to 1.0; where the center color reaches the highest intensity +; Shape - 1 = rectangle ; 0 = ellipse +; Angle - Rotate the pPathGradientBrush at given angle +; +; function based on the example provided by Just Me for the path gradient functions +; adaptations/modifications by Marius Șucan + + pPath := Gdip_CreatePath() + If (Shape=1) + Gdip_AddPathRectangle(pPath, x, y, W, H) + Else + Gdip_AddPathEllipse(pPath, x, y, W, H) + zBrush := Gdip_PathGradientCreateFromPath(pPath) + If (Angle!=0) + Gdip_RotatePathGradientAtCenter(zBrush, Angle) + Gdip_PathGradientSetCenterPoint(zBrush, cX, cY) + Gdip_PathGradientSetCenterColor(zBrush, cClr) + Gdip_PathGradientSetSurroundColors(zBrush, sClr) + Gdip_PathGradientSetSigmaBlend(zBrush, BlendFocus) + Gdip_PathGradientSetLinearBlend(zBrush, BlendFocus) + Gdip_PathGradientSetFocusScales(zBrush, ScaleX, ScaleY) + E := Gdip_FillPath(pGraphics, zBrush, pPath) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(zBrush) + Gdip_DeletePath(pPath) + Return E +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; The following PathGradient brush functions were written by Marius Șucan +;###################################################################################################################################### + +Gdip_CreatePathGradient(Points, WrapMode) { +; Creates a PathGradientBrush object based on an array of points and initializes the wrap mode of the brush +; +; Points array format: +; Points := "x1,y1|x2,y2|x3,y3|x4,y4" [... and so on] +; +; WrapMode options: specifies how an area is tiled when it is painted with a brush: +; 0 - Tile - Tiling without flipping +; 1 - TileFlipX - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move from one tile to the next in a row +; 2 - TileFlipY - Tiles are flipped vertically as you move from one tile to the next in a column +; 3 - TileFlipXY - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move along a row and flipped vertically as you move along a column +; 4 - Clamp - No tiling + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + iCount := CreatePointsF(PointsF, Points) + pPathGradientBrush := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreatePathGradient", Ptr, &PointsF, "int", iCount, "int", WrapMode, "int*", pPathGradientBrush) + Return pPathGradientBrush +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetGammaCorrection(pPathGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientGammaCorrection", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetPointCount(pPathGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientPointCount", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetWrapMode(pPathGradientBrush) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientWrapMode", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetRect(pPathGradientBrush) { + rData := {} + VarSetCapacity(RectF, 16, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientRect", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "UPtr", &RectF) + + If (!E) { + rData.x := NumGet(&RectF, 0, "float") + , rData.y := NumGet(&RectF, 4, "float") + , rData.w := NumGet(&RectF, 8, "float") + , rData.h := NumGet(&RectF, 12, "float") + } Else { + Return E + } + + return rData +} + +Gdip_PathGradientResetTransform(pPathGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipResetPathGradientTransform", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientRotateTransform(pPathGradientBrush, Angle, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipRotatePathGradientTransform", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "float", Angle, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientScaleTransform(pPathGradientBrush, ScaleX, ScaleY, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipScalePathGradientTransform", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "float", ScaleX, "float", ScaleY, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientTranslateTransform(pPathGradientBrush, X, Y, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipTranslatePathGradientTransform", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "float", X, "float", Y, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientMultiplyTransform(pPathGradientBrush, hMatrix, matrixOrder:=0) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipMultiplyPathGradientTransform", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, Ptr, hMatrix, "int", matrixOrder) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetTransform(pPathGradientBrush, pMatrix) { + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientTransform", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "UPtr", pMatrix) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetTransform(pPathGradientBrush) { + pMatrix := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientTransform", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "UPtr*", pMatrix) + Return pMatrix +} + +Gdip_RotatePathGradientAtCenter(pPathGradientBrush, Angle, MatrixOrder:=1) { +; function by Marius Șucan +; based on Gdip_RotatePathAtCenter() by RazorHalo + + Rect := Gdip_PathGradientGetRect(pPathGradientBrush) + cX := Rect.x + (Rect.w / 2) + cY := Rect.y + (Rect.h / 2) + pMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, -cX , -cY) + Gdip_RotateMatrix(pMatrix, Angle, MatrixOrder) + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(pMatrix, cX, cY, MatrixOrder) + E := Gdip_PathGradientSetTransform(pPathGradientBrush, pMatrix) + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(pMatrix) + Return E +} + + +Gdip_PathGradientSetGammaCorrection(pPathGradientBrush, UseGammaCorrection) { +; Specifies whether gamma correction is enabled for a path gradient brush +; UseGammaCorrection: 1 or 0. + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientGammaCorrection", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "int", UseGammaCorrection) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientSetWrapMode(pPathGradientBrush, WrapMode) { +; WrapMode options: specifies how an area is tiled when it is painted with a brush: +; 0 - Tile - Tiling without flipping +; 1 - TileFlipX - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move from one tile to the next in a row +; 2 - TileFlipY - Tiles are flipped vertically as you move from one tile to the next in a column +; 3 - TileFlipXY - Tiles are flipped horizontally as you move along a row and flipped vertically as you move along a column +; 4 - Clamp - No tiling + + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetPathGradientWrapMode", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "int", WrapMode) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetCenterColor(pPathGradientBrush) { + Static Ptr := "UPtr" + ARGB := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientCenterColor", Ptr, pPathGradientBrush, "uint*", ARGB) + If E + return -1 + Return Format("{1:#x}", ARGB) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetCenterPoint(pPathGradientBrush, ByRef X, ByRef Y) { + VarSetCapacity(PointF, 8, 0) + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientCenterPoint", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "UPtr", &PointF) + If !E + { + x := NumGet(PointF, 0, "float") + y := NumGet(PointF, 4, "float") + } + Return E +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetFocusScales(pPathGradientBrush, ByRef X, ByRef Y) { + x := y := 0 + Return DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientFocusScales", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "float*", X, "float*", Y) +} + +Gdip_PathGradientGetSurroundColorCount(pPathGradientBrush) { + result := 0 + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientSurroundColorCount", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "int*", result) + If E + return -1 + Return result +} + +Gdip_GetPathGradientSurroundColors(pPathGradientBrush) { + iCount := Gdip_PathGradientGetSurroundColorCount(pPathGradientBrush) + If (iCount=-1) + Return 0 + + VarSetCapacity(sColors, 8 * iCount, 0) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetPathGradientSurroundColorsWithCount", "UPtr", pPathGradientBrush, "UPtr", &sColors, "intP", iCount) + Loop %iCount% + { + A := NumGet(&sColors, 8*(A_Index-1), "uint") + printList .= Format("{1:#x}", A) "," + } + + Return Trim(printList, ",") +} + +;###################################################################################################################################### +; Function written by swagfag in July 2019 +; source https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62550 +; modified by Marius Șucan + +; whichFormat parameter defines what channels to extract the histogram from: + ; choose as a parameter the number based on the channel[s] that interest you + ; ARGB: 0, PARGB: 1, RGB: 2, Gray: 3, B: 4, G: 5, R: 6, A: 7 + +; Return: Status enumerated return type; 0 = OK/Success + +Gdip_GetHistogram(pBitmap, whichFormat, ByRef newArrayA, ByRef newArrayB, ByRef newArrayC, ByRef newArrayD:=0) { + Static sizeofUInt := 4 + + z := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapGetHistogramSize", "UInt", whichFormat, "UInt*", numEntries) + newArrayA := [] + VarSetCapacity(ch0, numEntries * sizeofUInt, 0) + If (whichFormat<=2) + { + newArrayB := [], newArrayC := [], newArrayD := [] + VarSetCapacity(ch1, numEntries * sizeofUInt, 0) + VarSetCapacity(ch2, numEntries * sizeofUInt, 0) + If (whichFormat<2) + VarSetCapacity(ch3, numEntries * sizeofUInt, 0) + } + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapGetHistogram", "Ptr", pBitmap, "UInt", whichFormat, "UInt", numEntries, "Ptr", &ch0 + , "Ptr", (whichFormat<=2) ? &ch1 : 0 + , "Ptr", (whichFormat<=2) ? &ch2 : 0 + , "Ptr", (whichFormat<2) ? &ch3 : 0) + + If (E=1 && A_LastError=8) + E := 3 + + Loop %numEntries% + { + i := A_Index - 1 + newArrayA[i] := NumGet(&ch0+0, i * sizeofUInt, "UInt") + If (whichFormat<=2) + { + newArrayB[i] := NumGet(&ch1+0, i * sizeofUInt, "UInt") + newArrayC[i] := NumGet(&ch2+0, i * sizeofUInt, "UInt") + If (whichFormat<2) + newArrayD[i] := NumGet(&ch3+0, i * sizeofUInt, "UInt") + } + } + + Return E +} + +Gdip_DrawRoundedLine(G, x1, y1, x2, y2, LineWidth, LineColor) { +; function by DevX and Rabiator found on: +; https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-11 + + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen(LineColor, LineWidth) + Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen, x1, y1, x2, y2) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen(LineColor, LineWidth/2) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(G, pPen, x1-LineWidth/4, y1-LineWidth/4, LineWidth/2, LineWidth/2) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(G, pPen, x2-LineWidth/4, y2-LineWidth/4, LineWidth/2, LineWidth/2) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) +} + +Gdip_CreateBitmapFromGdiDib(BITMAPINFO, BitmapData) { + pBitmap := 0 + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateBitmapFromGdiDib", "UPtr", BITMAPINFO, "UPtr", BitmapData, "UPtr*", pBitmap) + Return pBitmap +} + +;##################################################################################### + +; Function Gdip_DrawImageFX +; Description This function draws a bitmap into the pGraphics that can use an Effect. +; +; pGraphics Pointer to the Graphics of a bitmap +; pBitmap Pointer to a bitmap to be drawn +; dX, dY x, y coordinates of the destination upper-left corner where the image will be painted +; sX, sY x, y coordinates of the source upper-left corner +; sW, sH width and height of the source image +; Matrix a color matrix used to alter image attributes when drawing +; pEffect a pointer to an Effect object to apply when drawing the image +; hMatrix a pointer to a transformation matrix +; Unit Unit of measurement: +; 0 - World coordinates, a nonphysical unit +; 1 - Display units +; 2 - A unit is 1 pixel +; 3 - A unit is 1 point or 1/72 inch +; 4 - A unit is 1 inch +; 5 - A unit is 1/300 inch +; 6 - A unit is 1 millimeter +; +; return status enumeration. 0 = success +; +; notes on the color matrix: +; Matrix can be omitted to just draw with no alteration to ARGB +; Matrix may be passed as a digit from 0.0 - 1.0 to change just transparency +; Matrix can be passed as a matrix with "|" as delimiter. For example: +; MatrixBright= +; ( +; 1.5 |0 |0 |0 |0 +; 0 |1.5 |0 |0 |0 +; 0 |0 |1.5 |0 |0 +; 0 |0 |0 |1 |0 +; 0.05 |0.05 |0.05 |0 |1 +; ) +; +; example color matrix: +; MatrixBright = 1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0.05|0.05|0.05|0|1 +; MatrixGreyScale = 0.299|0.299|0.299|0|0|0.587|0.587|0.587|0|0|0.114|0.114|0.114|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1 +; MatrixNegative = -1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|1|1|0|1 +; To generate a color matrix using user-friendly parameters, +; use GenerateColorMatrix() +; Function written by Marius Șucan. + + +Gdip_DrawImageFX(pGraphics, pBitmap, dX:="", dY:="", sX:="", sY:="", sW:="", sH:="", matrix:="", pEffect:="", ImageAttr:=0, hMatrix:=0, Unit:=2) { + If !ImageAttr + { + if !IsNumber(Matrix) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix(Matrix) + else if (Matrix != 1) + ImageAttr := Gdip_SetImageAttributesColorMatrix("1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|" Matrix "|0|0|0|0|0|1") + } Else usrImageAttr := 1 + + if (sX="" && sY="") + sX := sY := 0 + + if (sW="" && sH="") + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, sW, sH) + + if (!hMatrix && dX!="" && dY!="") + { + hMatrix := dhMatrix := Gdip_CreateMatrix() + Gdip_TranslateMatrix(dhMatrix, dX, dY, 1) + } + + CreateRectF(sourceRect, sX, sY, sW, sH) + gdipLastError := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDrawImageFX" + , "UPtr", pGraphics + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "UPtr", &sourceRect + , "UPtr", hMatrix ? hMatrix : 0 ; transformation matrix + , "UPtr", pEffect ? pEffect : 0 + , "UPtr", ImageAttr ? ImageAttr : 0 + , "Uint", Unit) ; srcUnit + ; r4 := GetStatus(A_LineNumber ":GdipDrawImageFX",r4) + + If dhMatrix + Gdip_DeleteMatrix(dhMatrix) + + If (ImageAttr && usrImageAttr!=1) + Gdip_DisposeImageAttributes(ImageAttr) + + Return E +} + +Gdip_BitmapApplyEffect(pBitmap, pEffect, x:="", y:="", w:="", h:="") { +; X, Y - coordinates for the rectangle where the effect is applied +; W, H - width and heigh for the rectangle where the effect is applied +; If X, Y, W or H are omitted , the effect is applied on the entire pBitmap +; +; written by Marius Șucan +; many thanks to Drugwash for the help provided + If (InStr(pEffect, "err-") || !pEffect || !pBitmap) + Return 2 + + If (!x && !y && !w && !h) + none := 1 + Else + CreateRect(Rect, x, y, x + w, y + h) + + E := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapApplyEffect" + , "UPtr", pBitmap + , "UPtr", pEffect + , "UPtr", (none=1) ? 0 : &Rect + , "UPtr", 0 ; useAuxData + , "UPtr", 0 ; auxData + , "UPtr", 0) ; auxDataSize + Return E +} + +COM_CLSIDfromString(ByRef CLSID, String) { + VarSetCapacity(CLSID, 16, 0) + Return DllCall("ole32\CLSIDFromString", "WStr", String, "UPtr", &CLSID) +} + +Gdip_CreateEffect(whichFX, paramA, paramB, paramC:=0) { +/* + whichFX options: + 1 - Blur + paramA - radius [0, 255] + paramB - bool [0, 1] + 2 - Sharpen + paramA - radius [0, 255] + paramB - amount [0, 100] + 3 - ColorMatrix + paramA - color matrix example: + matrixBright := "1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1.5|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0.05|0.05|0.05|0|1" + 4 - ! ColorLUT + 5 - BrightnessContrast + paramA - brightness [-255, 255] + paramB - contrast [-100, 100] + 6 - HueSaturationLightness + paramA - hue [-180, 180] + paramB - saturation [-100, 100] + paramC - light [-100, 100] + 7 - LevelsAdjust + paramA - highlights [0, 100] + paramB - midtones [-100, 100] + paramC - shadows [0, 100] + 8 - Tint + paramA - hue [-180, 180] + paramB - amount [0, 100] + 9 - ColorBalance + paramA - Cyan / Red [-100, 100] + paramB - Magenta / Green [-100, 100] + paramC - Yellow / Blue [-100, 100] + 10 - ! RedEyeCorrection + 11 - ColorCurve + paramA - Type of adjustments [0, 7] + 0 - AdjustExposure [-255, 255] + 1 - AdjustDensity [-255, 255] + 2 - AdjustContrast [-100, 100] + 3 - AdjustHighlight [-100, 100] + 4 - AdjustShadow [-100, 100] + 5 - AdjustMidtone [-100, 100] + 6 - AdjustWhiteSaturation [0, 255] + 7 - AdjustBlackSaturation [0, 255] + + paramB - Apply ColorCurve on channels [1, 4] + 1 - Red + 2 - Green + 3 - Blue + 4 - All channels + + paramC - An adjust value within range according to paramA + + Effects marked with "!" are not yet implemented. + Through ParamA, ParamB and ParamC, the effects can be controlled. + Function written by Marius Șucan. Many thanks to Drugwash for the help provided, +*/ + + Static gdipImgFX := {1:"633C80A4-1843-482b-9EF2-BE2834C5FDD4", 2:"63CBF3EE-C526-402c-8F71-62C540BF5142", 3:"718F2615-7933-40e3-A511-5F68FE14DD74", 4:"A7CE72A9-0F7F-40d7-B3CC-D0C02D5C3212", 5:"D3A1DBE1-8EC4-4c17-9F4C-EA97AD1C343D", 6:"8B2DD6C3-EB07-4d87-A5F0-7108E26A9C5F", 7:"99C354EC-2A31-4f3a-8C34-17A803B33A25", 8:"1077AF00-2848-4441-9489-44AD4C2D7A2C", 9:"537E597D-251E-48da-9664-29CA496B70F8", 10:"74D29D05-69A4-4266-9549-3CC52836B632", 11:"DD6A0022-58E4-4a67-9D9B-D48EB881A53D"} + pEffect := 0 + r1 := COM_CLSIDfromString(eFXguid, "{" gdipImgFX[whichFX] "}" ) + If r1 + Return "err-" r1 + + If (A_PtrSize=4) ; 32 bits + { + r2 := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateEffect" + , "UInt", NumGet(eFXguid, 0, "UInt") + , "UInt", NumGet(eFXguid, 4, "UInt") + , "UInt", NumGet(eFXguid, 8, "UInt") + , "UInt", NumGet(eFXguid, 12, "UInt") + , "Ptr*", pEffect) + } Else + { + r2 := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipCreateEffect" + , "UPtr", &eFXguid + , "Ptr*", pEffect) + } + If r2 + Return "err-" r2 + + ; r2 := GetStatus(A_LineNumber ":GdipCreateEffect", r2) + If (whichFX=3) ; Color matrix + GenerateColorMatrix(paramA, FXparams) + Else + VarSetCapacity(FXparams, 12, 0) + + If (whichFX=1) ; Blur FX + { + FXsize := 8 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Float") ; radius [0, 255] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Uchar") ; bool 0, 1 + } Else If (whichFX=3) ; Color matrix + { + FXsize := 100 + } Else If (whichFX=2) ; Sharpen FX + { + FXsize := 8 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Float") ; radius [0, 255] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Float") ; amount [0, 100] + } Else If (whichFX=5) ; Brightness / Contrast + { + FXsize := 8 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Int") ; brightness [-255, 255] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Int") ; contrast [-100, 100] + } Else If (whichFX=6) ; Hue / Saturation / Lightness + { + FXsize := 12 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Int") ; hue [-180, 180] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Int") ; saturation [-100, 100] + NumPut(paramC, FXparams, 8, "Int") ; light [-100, 100] + } Else If (whichFX=7) ; Levels adjust + { + FXsize := 12 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Int") ; highlights [0, 100] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Int") ; midtones [-100, 100] + NumPut(paramC, FXparams, 8, "Int") ; shadows [0, 100] + } Else If (whichFX=8) ; Tint adjust + { + FXsize := 8 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Int") ; hue [180, 180] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Int") ; amount [0, 100] + } Else If (whichFX=9) ; Colors balance + { + FXsize := 12 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Int") ; Cyan / Red [-100, 100] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Int") ; Magenta / Green [-100, 100] + NumPut(paramC, FXparams, 8, "Int") ; Yellow / Blue [-100, 100] + } Else If (whichFX=11) ; ColorCurve + { + FXsize := 12 + NumPut(paramA, FXparams, 0, "Int") ; Type of adjustment [0, 7] + NumPut(paramB, FXparams, 4, "Int") ; Channels to affect [1, 4] + NumPut(paramC, FXparams, 8, "Int") ; Adjustment value [based on the type of adjustment] + } + + ; DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetEffectParameterSize", "UPtr", pEffect, "uint*", FXsize) + r3 := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipSetEffectParameters", "UPtr", pEffect, "UPtr", &FXparams, "UInt", FXsize) + If r3 + { + Gdip_DisposeEffect(pEffect) + Return "err-" r3 + } + ; r3 := GetStatus(A_LineNumber ":GdipSetEffectParameters", r3) + ; ToolTip, % r1 " -- " r2 " -- " r3 " -- " r4,,, 2 + Return pEffect +} + +Gdip_DisposeEffect(pEffect) { + If (pEffect && !InStr(pEffect, "err")) + r := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipDeleteEffect", "UPtr", pEffect) + Return r +} + +GenerateColorMatrix(modus, bright:=1, contrast:=0, saturation:=1, alph:=1, chnRdec:=0, chnGdec:=0, chnBdec:=0) { +; parameters ranges / intervals: +; bright: [0.001 - 20.0] +; contrast: [-20.0 - 1.00] +; saturation: [0.001 - 5.00] +; alph: [0.001 - 5.00] +; +; modus options: +; 0 - personalized colors based on the bright, contrast [hue], saturation parameters +; 1 - personalized colors based on the bright, contrast, saturation parameters +; 2 - grayscale image +; 3 - grayscale R channel +; 4 - grayscale G channel +; 5 - grayscale B channel +; 6 - negative / invert image +; 7 - alpha channel as grayscale image +; 8 - sepia +; +; chnRdec, chnGdec, chnBdec only apply in modus=1 +; these represent offsets for the RGB channels + +; in modus=0 the parameters have other ranges: +; bright: [-5.00 - 5.00] +; hue: [-1.57 - 1.57] ; pi/2 - contrast stands for hue in this mode +; saturation: [0.001 - 5.00] +; formulas for modus=0 were written by Smurth +; extracted from https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-86 +; +; function written by Marius Șucan +; infos from http://www.graficaobscura.com/matrix/index.html +; real NTSC values: r := 0.300, g := 0.587, b := 0.115 + + Static NTSCr := 0.308, NTSCg := 0.650, NTSCb := 0.095 ; personalized values + matrix := "" + + If (modus=2) ; grayscale + { + LGA := (bright<=1) ? bright/1.5 - 0.6666 : bright - 1 + Ra := NTSCr + LGA + If (Ra<0) + Ra := 0 + Ga := NTSCg + LGA + If (Ga<0) + Ga := 0 + Ba := NTSCb + LGA + If (Ba<0) + Ba := 0 + matrix := Ra "|" Ra "|" Ra "|0|0|" Ga "|" Ga "|" Ga "|0|0|" Ba "|" Ba "|" Ba "|0|0|0|0|0|" alph "|0|" contrast "|" contrast "|" contrast "|0|1" + } Else If (modus=3) ; grayscale R + { + Ga := 0, Ba := 0, GGA := 0 + Ra := bright + matrix := Ra "|" Ra "|" Ra "|0|0|" Ga "|" Ga "|" Ga "|0|0|" Ba "|" Ba "|" Ba "|0|0|0|0|0|" alph "|0|" GGA+0.01 "|" GGA "|" GGA "|0|1" + } Else If (modus=4) ; grayscale G + { + Ra := 0, Ba := 0, GGA := 0 + Ga := bright + matrix := Ra "|" Ra "|" Ra "|0|0|" Ga "|" Ga "|" Ga "|0|0|" Ba "|" Ba "|" Ba "|0|0|0|0|0|" alph "|0|" GGA "|" GGA+0.01 "|" GGA "|0|1" + } Else If (modus=5) ; grayscale B + { + Ra := 0, Ga := 0, GGA := 0 + Ba := bright + matrix := Ra "|" Ra "|" Ra "|0|0|" Ga "|" Ga "|" Ga "|0|0|" Ba "|" Ba "|" Ba "|0|0|0|0|0|" alph "|0|" GGA "|" GGA "|" GGA+0.01 "|0|1" + } Else If (modus=6) ; negative / invert + { + matrix := "-1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|0|0|0|0|0|" alph "|0|1|1|1|0|1" + } Else If (modus=1) ; personalized saturation, contrast and brightness + { + bL := bright, aL := alph + G := contrast, sL := saturation + sLi := 1 - saturation + bLa := bright - 1 + If (sL>1) + { + z := (bL<1) ? bL : 1 + sL := sL*z + If (sL<0.98) + sL := 0.98 + + y := z*(1 - sL) + mA := z*(y*NTSCr + sL + bLa + chnRdec) + mB := z*(y*NTSCr) + mC := z*(y*NTSCr) + mD := z*(y*NTSCg) + mE := z*(y*NTSCg + sL + bLa + chnGdec) + mF := z*(y*NTSCg) + mG := z*(y*NTSCb) + mH := z*(y*NTSCb) + mI := z*(y*NTSCb + sL + bLa + chnBdec) + mtrx:= mA "|" mB "|" mC "| 0 |0" + . "|" mD "|" mE "|" mF "| 0 |0" + . "|" mG "|" mH "|" mI "| 0 |0" + . "| 0 | 0 | 0 |" aL "|0" + . "|" G "|" G "|" G "| 0 |1" + } Else + { + z := (bL<1) ? bL : 1 + tR := NTSCr - 0.5 + bL/2 + tG := NTSCg - 0.5 + bL/2 + tB := NTSCb - 0.5 + bL/2 + rB := z*(tR*sLi+bL*(1 - sLi) + chnRdec) + gB := z*(tG*sLi+bL*(1 - sLi) + chnGdec) + bB := z*(tB*sLi+bL*(1 - sLi) + chnBdec) ; Formula used: A*w + B*(1 – w) + rF := z*(NTSCr*sLi + (bL/2 - 0.5)*sLi) + gF := z*(NTSCg*sLi + (bL/2 - 0.5)*sLi) + bF := z*(NTSCb*sLi + (bL/2 - 0.5)*sLi) + + rB := rB*z+rF*(1 - z) + gB := gB*z+gF*(1 - z) + bB := bB*z+bF*(1 - z) ; Formula used: A*w + B*(1 – w) + If (rB<0) + rB := 0 + If (gB<0) + gB := 0 + If (bB<0) + bB := 0 + If (rF<0) + rF := 0 + + If (gF<0) + gF := 0 + + If (bF<0) + bF := 0 + + ; ToolTip, % rB " - " rF " --- " gB " - " gF + mtrx:= rB "|" rF "|" rF "| 0 |0" + . "|" gF "|" gB "|" gF "| 0 |0" + . "|" bF "|" bF "|" bB "| 0 |0" + . "| 0 | 0 | 0 |" aL "|0" + . "|" G "|" G "|" G "| 0 |1" + ; matrix adjusted for lisibility + } + matrix := StrReplace(mtrx, A_Space) + } Else If (modus=0) ; personalized hue, saturation and brightness + { + s1 := contrast ; in this mode, contrast stands for hue + s2 := saturation + s3 := bright + aL := alph + + s1 := s2*sin(s1) + sc := 1-s2 + r := NTSCr*sc-s1 + g := NTSCg*sc-s1 + b := NTSCb*sc-s1 + + rB := r+s2+3*s1 + gB := g+s2+3*s1 + bB := b+s2+3*s1 + mtrx := rB "|" r "|" r "| 0 |0" + . "|" g "|" gB "|" g "| 0 |0" + . "|" b "|" b "|" bB "| 0 |0" + . "| 0 | 0 | 0 |" aL "|0" + . "|" s3 "|" s3 "|" s3 "| 0 |1" + matrix := StrReplace(mtrx, A_Space) + } Else If (modus=7) ; alpha channel + { + matrix := "0|0|0|0|0" + . "|0|0|0|0|0" + . "|0|0|0|0|0" + . "|1|1|1|25|0" + . "|0|0|0|0|1" + ; matrix := StrReplace(mtrx, A_Space) + } Else If (modus=8) ; sepia + { + matrix := "0.39|0.34|0.27|0|0" + . "|0.76|0.58|0.33|0|0" + . "|0.19|0.16|0.13|0|0" + . "|0|0|0|" alph "|0" + . "|0|0|0|0|1" + ; matrix := StrReplace(mtrx, A_Space) + } Else If (modus=9) ; partial alpha channel remover + { + matrix := "1|0|0|0|0" + . "|0|1|0|0|0" + . "|0|0|1|0|0" + . "|0|0|0|" alph "|0" + . "|0|0|0|0|1" + ; matrix := StrReplace(mtrx, A_Space) + } + Return matrix +} + +Gdip_CompareBitmaps(pBitmapA, pBitmapB, accuracy:=25) { +; On success, it returns the percentage of similarity between the given pBitmaps. +; If the given pBitmaps do not have the same resolution, +; the return value is -1. +; +; Function by Tic, from June 2010 +; Source: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-27 +; +; Warning: it can be very slow with really large images and high accuracy. +; +; Updated and modified by Marius Șucan in September 2019. +; Added accuracy factor. + + If (!pBitmapA || !pBitmapB) + Return -1 + + If (accuracy>99) + accuracy := 100 + Else If (accuracy<5) + accuracy := 5 + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmapA, WidthA, HeightA) + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmapB, WidthB, HeightB) + If (accuracy!=100) + { + pBitmap1 := Gdip_ResizeBitmap(pBitmapA, Floor(WidthA*(accuracy/100)), Floor(HeightA*(accuracy/100)), 0, 5) + pBitmap2 := Gdip_ResizeBitmap(pBitmapB, Floor(WidthB*(accuracy/100)), Floor(HeightB*(accuracy/100)), 0, 5) + If (!pBitmap1 || !pBitmap2) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pbitmap1, 1) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pbitmap2, 1) + Return -1 + } + } Else + { + pBitmap1 := pBitmapA + pBitmap2 := pBitmapB + } + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap1, Width1, Height1) + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap2, Width2, Height2) + if (!Width1 || !Height1 || !Width2 || !Height2 + || Width1 != Width2 || Height1 != Height2) + { + If (accuracy!=100) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1, 1) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap2, 1) + } + Return -1 + } + + E1 := Gdip_LockBits(pBitmap1, 0, 0, Width1, Height1, Stride1, Scan01, BitmapData1) + E2 := Gdip_LockBits(pBitmap2, 0, 0, Width2, Height2, Stride2, Scan02, BitmapData2) + If (E1 || E2) + { + If !E1 + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap1, BitmapData1) + If !E2 + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap2, BitmapData2) + + If (accuracy!=100) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1, 1) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap2, 1) + } + Return -1 + } + + z := 0 + Loop %Height1% + { + y++ + Loop %Width1% + { + Gdip_FromARGB(Gdip_GetLockBitPixel(Scan01, A_Index-1, y-1, Stride1), A1, R1, G1, B1) + Gdip_FromARGB(Gdip_GetLockBitPixel(Scan02, A_Index-1, y-1, Stride2), A2, R2, G2, B2) + z += Abs(A2-A1) + Abs(R2-R1) + Abs(G2-G1) + Abs(B2-B1) + } + } + + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap1, BitmapData1) + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap2, BitmapData2) + If (accuracy!=100) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap1) + Gdip_DisposeImage(pBitmap2) + } + + Return z/(Width1*Width2*3*255/100) +} + +Gdip_RetrieveBitmapChannel(pBitmap, channel, PixelFormat:=0) { +; Channel to retrive: +; 1 - Red +; 2 - Green +; 3 - Blue +; 4 - Alpha +; On success, the function will return a pBitmap +; in 24-RGB PixelFormat containing a grayscale +; rendition of the retrieved channel. + + If !pBitmap + Return + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, imgW, imgH) + If (!imgW || !imgH) + Return + + newBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(imgW, imgH, PixelFormat) + If !newBitmap + Return + + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(newBitmap, 7) + If !G + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + Return + } + + If (channel=1) + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(3) + Else If (channel=2) + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(4) + Else If (channel=3) + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(5) + Else If (channel=4) + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(7) + Else Return + + Gdip_GraphicsClear(G, "0xff000000") + E := Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, imgW, imgH, 0, 0, imgW, imgH, matrix) + If E + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + Return + } + + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + Return newBitmap +} + +Gdip_RenderPixelsOpaque(pBitmap, pBrush:=0, alphaLevel:=0, PixelFormat:=0) { +; alphaLevel - from 0 [transparent] to 1 or beyond [opaque] +; +; This function is meant to make opaque partially transparent pixels. +; It returns a pointer to a new pBitmap. +; +; If pBrush is given, the background of the image is filled using it, +; otherwise, the pixels that are 100% transparent +; might remain transparent. + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, imgW, imgH) + newBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(imgW, imgH, PixelFormat) + If newBitmap + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(newBitmap, 7) + + If (!newBitmap || !G) + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + Return + } + + If alphaLevel + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(0, 0, 0, 1, alphaLevel) + Else + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(0, 0, 0, 1, 25) + + If pBrush + Gdip_FillRectangle(G, pBrush, 0, 0, imgW, imgH) + + E := Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, imgW, imgH, 0, 0, imgW, imgH, matrix) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + If E + { + Gdip_DisposeImage(newBitmap, 1) + Return + } + + Return newBitmap +} + +Gdip_TestBitmapUniformity(pBitmap, HistogramFormat:=3, ByRef maxLevelIndex:=0, ByRef maxLevelPixels:=0) { +; This function tests whether the given pBitmap +; is in a single shade [color] or not. + +; If HistogramFormat parameter is set to 3, the function +; retrieves the intensity/gray histogram and checks +; how many pixels are for each level [0, 255]. +; +; If all pixels are found at a single level, +; the return value is 1, because the pBitmap is considered +; uniform, in a single shade. +; +; One can set the HistogramFormat to 4 [R], 5 [G], 6 [B] or 7 [A] +; to test for the uniformity of a specific channel. +; +; A threshold value of 0.0005% of all the pixels, is used. +; This is to ensure that a few pixels do not change the status. + + If !pBitmap + Return -1 + + LevelsArray := [] + maxLevelIndex := maxLevelPixels := nrPixels := 9 + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, Width, Height) + E := Gdip_GetHistogram(pBitmap, HistogramFormat, LevelsArray, 0, 0) + If E + Return -2 + + Loop 256 + { + nrPixels := Round(LevelsArray[A_Index - 1]) + If (nrPixels>0) + histoList .= nrPixels "." A_Index - 1 "|" + } + Sort histoList, NURD| + histoList := Trim(histoList, "|") + histoListSortedArray := StrSplit(histoList, "|") + maxLevel := StrSplit(histoListSortedArray[1], ".") + maxLevelIndex := maxLevel[2] + maxLevelPixels := maxLevel[1] + ; ToolTip, % maxLevelIndex " -- " maxLevelPixels " | " histoListSortedArray[1] "`n" histoList, , , 3 + pixelsThreshold := Round((Width * Height) * 0.0005) + 1 + If (Floor(histoListSortedArray[2])> whichChannel; + int alpha2 = (invert==1) ? 255 - alpha : alpha; + imageData[px] = (alpha2 << 24) | (imageData[px] & 0x00ffffff); + } + } + } else { + for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) { + for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) { + px = x+y*w; + unsigned char a = imageData[px] >> 24; + unsigned char alpha = maskData[px] >> whichChannel; + int alpha2 = alpha - (255-a); // handles bitmaps that already have alpha + if (alpha2<0) { + alpha2 = 0; + } + + if (invert==1) { + alpha2 = 255 - alpha2; + } + imageData[px] = (alpha2 << 24) | (imageData[px] & 0x00ffffff); + } + } + } + return 1; +} +*/ + + static mCodeFunc := 0 + if (mCodeFunc=0) + { + if (A_PtrSize=8) + base64enc := " + (LTrim Join + 2,x64:QVdBVkFVQVRVV1ZTRItsJGhJicuLTCR4SInWg/kBD4TZAQAAg/kCD4SyAAAAg/kDD4TRAQAAg/kEuBgAAAAPRMiDfCRwAQ+EowAAAEWFwA+OZgEAAEWNcP9NY8Ax7UG8/wAAAEqNHIUAAAAAMf9mkEWFyX5YQYP9AQ+E2QAAAEyNB + K0AAAAAMdIPH4AAAAAAR4sUA0KLBAZFidfT+EHB7xgPtsBCjYQ4Af///4XAD0jHQYHi////AIPCAcHgGEQJ0EOJBANJAdhBOdF1w0iNRQFMOfUPhOEAAABIicXrkYN8JHABuQgAAAAPhV3///9FhcAPjsMAAABBjXj/TWPAMdtOjRSFAAAA + AA8fgAAAAABFhcl+MUGD/QEPhLEAAABIjQSdAAAAAEUxwGYPH0QAAIsUBkGDwAHT+kGIVAMDTAHQRTnBdepIjUMBSDnfdGxIicPrvA8fQABIjRStAAAAAEUxwA8fRAAARYsUE4sEFkWJ19P4QcHvGA+2wEKNhDgB////RYnnhcAPSMdBgeL + ///8AQYPAAUEpx0SJ+MHgGEQJ0EGJBBNIAdpFOcF1ukiNRQFMOfUPhR////+4AQAAAFteX11BXEFdQV5BX8MPHwBIjRSdAAAAAEUxwA8fRAAAiwQWQYPAAdP499BBiEQTA0wB0kU5wXXo6Un///+5EAAAAOk6/v//McnpM/7//w== + )" + else + base64enc := " + (LTrim Join + 2,x86:VVdWU4PsBIN8JDABD4T1AQAAg3wkMAIPhBwBAACDfCQwAw+E7AEAAIN8JDAEuBgAAAAPRUQkMIlEJDCDfCQsAQ+EBgEAAItUJCCF0g+OiQAAAItEJCDHBCQAAAAAjSyFAAAAAI10JgCLRCQkhcB+XosEJItcJBgx/400hQAAAAAB8wN0JByDfCQ + oAXRjjXYAixOLBg+2TCQw0/iJ0cHpGA+2wI2ECAH///+5AAAAAIXAD0jBgeL///8Ag8cBAe7B4BgJwokTAes5fCQkdcKDBCQBiwQkOUQkIHWNg8QEuAEAAABbXl9dw420JgAAAACQixOLBg+2TCQw0/iJ0cHpGA+2wI2ECAH///+5AAAAAIXAD0jBuf8A + AACB4v///wAB7oPHASnBicjB4BgJwokTAes5fCQkdbnrlYN8JCwBx0QkMAgAAAAPhfr+//+LTCQghcl+hzH/i0QkIItsJCSJPCSLTCQwjTSFAAAAAI10JgCF7X42g3wkKAGLBCR0Sot8JByNFIUAAAAAMdsB1wNUJBiNtCYAAAAAiweDwwEB99P4iEIDA + fI53XXugwQkAYsEJDlEJCB1uYPEBLgBAAAAW15fXcONdCYAi1wkHMHgAjHSAcMDRCQYiceNtCYAAAAAiwODwgEB89P499CIRwMB9znVdeyDBCQBiwQkOUQkIA+Fa////+uwx0QkMBAAAADpJ/7//8dEJDAAAAAA6Rr+//8= + )" + + ; FileRead, base64enc, E:\Sucan twins\_small-apps\AutoHotkey\other scripts\MCode4GCC-master\temp-mcode.txt + mCodeFunc := Gdip_RunMCode(base64enc) + } + + ; thisStartZeit := A_TickCount + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, w, h) + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmapMask, w2, h2) + If (w2!=w || h2!=h || !pBitmap || !pBitmapMask) + Return 0 + + E1 := Gdip_LockBits(pBitmap, 0, 0, w, h, stride, iScan, iData) + E2 := Gdip_LockBits(pBitmapMask, 0, 0, w, h, stride, mScan, mData) + If (!E1 && !E2) + r := DllCall(mCodeFunc, "UPtr", iScan, "UPtr", mScan, "Int", w, "Int", h, "Int", invertAlphaMask, "Int", replaceSourceAlphaChannel, "Int", whichChannel) + + If !E1 + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap, iData) + If !E2 + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmapMask, mData) + ; ToolTip, % A_TickCount - thisStartZeit, , , 2 + return r +} + +Gdip_BlendBitmaps(pBitmap, pBitmap2Blend, blendMode) { +/* +pBitmap and pBitmap2Blend must be the same width and height +and in 32-ARGB format: PXF32ARGB - 0x26200A. + +Original code: +int blendBitmaps(int *bgrImageData, int *otherData, int w, int h, int blendMode) { + float rT, gT, bT; // these must be INT for x32, to not crashes + int rO, gO, bO, rB, gB, bB; + unsigned char rF, gF, bF, aB, aO, aX; + for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) + { + for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) + { + unsigned int BGRcolor = bgrImageData[x+(y*w)]; + if (BGRcolor!=0x0) + { + unsigned int colorO = otherData[x+(y*w)]; + aO = (colorO >> 24) & 0xFF; + aB = (BGRcolor >> 24) & 0xFF; + aX = (aO> 16) & 0xFF; + gO = (colorO >> 8) & 0xFF; + bO = colorO & 0xFF; + + rB = (BGRcolor >> 16) & 0xFF; + gB = (BGRcolor >> 8) & 0xFF; + bB = BGRcolor & 0xFF; + + if (blendMode==1) { // darken + rT = (rO < rB) ? rO : rB; + gT = (gO < gB) ? gO : gB; + bT = (bO < bB) ? bO : bB; + } else if (blendMode==2) { // multiply + rT = (rO * rB)/255; + gT = (gO * gB)/255; + bT = (bO * bB)/255; + } else if (blendMode==3) { // linear burn + rT = ((rO + rB - 255) < 0) ? 0 : rO + rB - 255; + gT = ((gO + gB - 255) < 0) ? 0 : gO + gB - 255; + bT = ((bO + bB - 255) < 0) ? 0 : bO + bB - 255; + } else if (blendMode==4) { // color burn + rT = (255 - ((255 - rB) * 255) / (1 + rO) < 1) ? 0 : 255 - ((255 - rB) * 255) / (1 + rO); + gT = (255 - ((255 - gB) * 255) / (1 + gO) < 1) ? 0 : 255 - ((255 - gB) * 255) / (1 + gO); + bT = (255 - ((255 - bB) * 255) / (1 + bO) < 1) ? 0 : 255 - ((255 - bB) * 255) / (1 + bO); + } else if (blendMode==5) { // lighten + rT = (rO > rB) ? rO : rB; + gT = (gO > gB) ? gO : gB; + bT = (bO > bB) ? bO : bB; + } else if (blendMode==6) { // screen + rT = 255 - (((255 - rO) * (255 - rB))/255); + gT = 255 - (((255 - gO) * (255 - gB))/255); + bT = 255 - (((255 - bO) * (255 - bB))/255); + } else if (blendMode==7) { // linear dodge [add] + rT = ((rO + rB) > 255) ? 255 : rO + rB; + gT = ((gO + gB) > 255) ? 255 : gO + gB; + bT = ((bO + bB) > 255) ? 255 : bO + bB; + } else if (blendMode==8) { // hard light + rT = (rO < 127) ? (2 * rO * rB)/255 : 255 - ((2 * (255 - rO) * (255 - rB))/255); + gT = (gO < 127) ? (2 * gO * gB)/255 : 255 - ((2 * (255 - gO) * (255 - gB))/255); + bT = (bO < 127) ? (2 * bO * bB)/255 : 255 - ((2 * (255 - bO) * (255 - bB))/255); + } else if (blendMode==9) { // overlay + rT = (rB < 127) ? (2 * rO * rB)/255 : 255 - ((2 * (255 - rO) * (255 - rB))/255); + gT = (gB < 127) ? (2 * gO * gB)/255 : 255 - ((2 * (255 - gO) * (255 - gB))/255); + bT = (bB < 127) ? (2 * bO * bB)/255 : 255 - ((2 * (255 - bO) * (255 - bB))/255); + } else if (blendMode==10) { // hard mix + rT = (rO <= (255 - rB)) ? 0 : 255; + gT = (gO <= (255 - gB)) ? 0 : 255; + bT = (bO <= (255 - bB)) ? 0 : 255; + } else if (blendMode==11) { // linear light + rT = ((rB + (2*rO) - 255) > 254) ? 255 : rB + (2*rO) - 255; + gT = ((gB + (2*gO) - 255) > 254) ? 255 : gB + (2*gO) - 255; + bT = ((bB + (2*bO) - 255) > 254) ? 255 : bB + (2*bO) - 255; + } else if (blendMode==12) { // color dodge + rT = ((rB * 255) / (256 - rO) > 255) ? 255 : (rB * 255) / (256 - rO); + gT = ((gB * 255) / (256 - gO) > 255) ? 255 : (gB * 255) / (256 - gO); + bT = ((bB * 255) / (256 - bO) > 255) ? 255 : (bB * 255) / (256 - bO); + } else if (blendMode==13) { // vivid light + if (rO < 128) + rT = (255 - ((255 - rB) * 255) / (1 + 2*rO) < 1) ? 0 : 255 - ((255 - rB) * 255) / (1 + 2*rO); + else + rT = ((rB * 255) / (2*(256 - rO)) > 255) ? 255 : (rB * 255) / (2*(256 - rO)); + + if (gO < 128) + gT = (255 - ((255 - gB) * 255) / (1 + 2*gO) < 1) ? 0 : 255 - ((255 - gB) * 255) / (1 + 2*gO); + else + gT = ((gB * 255) / (2*(256 - gO)) > 255) ? 255 : (gB * 255) / (2*(256 - gO)); + + if (bO < 128) + bT = (255 - ((255 - bB) * 255) / (1 + 2*bO) < 1) ? 0 : 255 - ((255 - bB) * 255) / (1 + 2*bO); + else + bT = ((bB * 255) / (2*(256 - bO)) > 255) ? 255 : (bB * 255) / (2*(256 - bO)); + + } else if (blendMode==14) { // division + rT = ((rB * 255) / (1 + rO) > 255) ? 255 : (rB * 255) / (1 + rO); + gT = ((gB * 255) / (1 + gO) > 255) ? 255 : (gB * 255) / (1 + gO); + bT = ((bB * 255) / (1 + bO) > 255) ? 255 : (bB * 255) / (1 + bO); + } else if (blendMode==15) { // exclusion + rT = rO + rB - 2*((rO * rB)/255); + gT = gO + gB - 2*((gO * gB)/255); + bT = bO + bB - 2*((bO * bB)/255); + } else if (blendMode==16) { // difference + rT = (rO > rB) ? rO - rB : rB - rO; + gT = (gO > gB) ? gO - gB : gB - gO; + bT = (bO > bB) ? bO - bB : bB - bO; + } else if (blendMode==17) { // substract + rT = ((rB - rO) <= 0) ? 0 : rB - rO; + gT 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E2 := Gdip_LockBits(pBitmap2Blend, 0, 0, w, h, stride, mScan, mData) + ; thisStartZeit := A_TickCount + If (!E1 && !E2) + r := DllCall(mCodeFunc, "UPtr", iScan, "UPtr", mScan, "Int", w, "Int", h, "Int", blendMode) + ; ToolTip, % "mcode == " A_TickCount - thisStartZeit, , , 2 + ; ToolTip, % r " = r" , , , 2 + If !E1 + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap, iData) + If !E2 + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap2Blend, mData) + return r +} + + +Gdip_BoxBlurBitmap(pBitmap, passes) { +; the blur will be applied on the provided pBitmap +/* +C/C++ function by Tic: +https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/29449-gdi-standard-library-145-by-tic/page-30 + +void BoxBlurBitmap(unsigned char * Bitmap, int w, int h, int Stride, int Passes) +{ + int A1, R1, G1, B1, A2, R2, G2, B2, A3, R3, G3, B3; + for (int i = 0; i < Passes; ++i) + { + for (int y = 0; y < h*Stride; y += Stride) + { + A1 = R1 = G1 = B1 = A2 = R2 = G2 = B2 = 0; + for (int x = 0 ; x < w; ++x) + { + A3 = Bitmap[3+(4*x)+y]; + R3 = Bitmap[2+(4*x)+y]; + G3 = Bitmap[1+(4*x)+y]; + B3 = Bitmap[(4*x)+y]; + + Bitmap[3+(4*x)+y] = (A1+A2+A3)/3; + Bitmap[2+(4*x)+y] = (R1+R2+R3)/3; + Bitmap[1+(4*x)+y] = (G1+G2+G3)/3; + Bitmap[(4*x)+y] = (B1+B2+B3)/3; + + A1 = A2; R1 = R2; G1 = G2; B1 = B2; A2 = A3; R2 = R3; G2 = G3; B2 = B3; + } + + A1 = R1 = G1 = B1 = A2 = R2 = G2 = B2 = 0; + for (int x = w-1 ; x >= 0; --x) + { + A3 = Bitmap[3+(4*x)+y]; + R3 = Bitmap[2+(4*x)+y]; + G3 = Bitmap[1+(4*x)+y]; + B3 = Bitmap[(4*x)+y]; + + Bitmap[3+(4*x)+y] = (A1+A2+A3)/3; + Bitmap[2+(4*x)+y] = (R1+R2+R3)/3; + Bitmap[1+(4*x)+y] = (G1+G2+G3)/3; + Bitmap[(4*x)+y] = (B1+B2+B3)/3; + + A1 = A2; R1 = R2; G1 = G2; B1 = B2; A2 = A3; R2 = R3; G2 = G3; B2 = B3; + } + } + + for (int x = 0; x < w; ++x) + { + A1 = R1 = G1 = B1 = A2 = R2 = G2 = B2 = 0; + for (int y = 0; y < h*Stride; y += Stride) + { + A3 = Bitmap[3+(4*x)+y]; + R3 = Bitmap[2+(4*x)+y]; + G3 = Bitmap[1+(4*x)+y]; + B3 = Bitmap[(4*x)+y]; + + Bitmap[3+(4*x)+y] = (A1+A2+A3)/3; + Bitmap[2+(4*x)+y] = (R1+R2+R3)/3; + 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+ r := DllCall(mCodeFunc, "UPtr",iScan, "Int",w, "Int",h, "Int",stride, "Int",passes) + Gdip_UnlockBits(pBitmap,iData) + ; DllCall("GlobalFree", "ptr", mCodeFunc) + return r +} + +Gdip_RunMCode(mcode) { + static e := {1:4, 2:1} + , c := (A_PtrSize=8) ? "x64" : "x86" + + if (!regexmatch(mcode, "^([0-9]+),(" c ":|.*?," c ":)([^,]+)", m)) + return + + if (!DllCall("crypt32\CryptStringToBinary", "str", m3, "uint", StrLen(m3), "uint", e[m1], "ptr", 0, "uintp", s, "ptr", 0, "ptr", 0)) + return + + p := DllCall("GlobalAlloc", "uint", 0, "ptr", s, "ptr") + ; if (c="x64") + DllCall("VirtualProtect", "ptr", p, "ptr", s, "uint", 0x40, "uint*", op) + + if (DllCall("crypt32\CryptStringToBinary", "str", m3, "uint", StrLen(m3), "uint", e[m1], "ptr", p, "uint*", s, "ptr", 0, "ptr", 0)) + return p + + DllCall("GlobalFree", "ptr", p) +} + +calcIMGdimensions(imgW, imgH, givenW, givenH, ByRef ResizedW, ByRef ResizedH) { +; This function calculates from original imgW and imgH +; new image dimensions that maintain the aspect ratio +; and are within the boundaries of givenW and givenH. +; +; imgW, imgH - original image width and height [in pixels] +; givenW, givenH - the width and height to adapt to [in pixels] +; ResizedW, ResizedH - the width and height resulted from adapting imgW, imgH to givenW, givenH +; by keeping the aspect ratio +; function initially written by SBC; modified by Marius Șucan + + PicRatio := Round(imgW/imgH, 5) + givenRatio := Round(givenW/givenH, 5) + If (imgW<=givenW && imgH<=givenH) + { + ResizedW := givenW + ResizedH := Round(ResizedW / PicRatio) + If (ResizedH>givenH) + { + ResizedH := (imgH <= givenH) ? givenH : imgH + ResizedW := Round(ResizedH * PicRatio) + } + } Else If (PicRatio>givenRatio) + { + ResizedW := givenW + ResizedH := Round(ResizedW / PicRatio) + } Else + { + ResizedH := (imgH >= givenH) ? givenH : imgH ;set the maximum picture height to the original height + ResizedW := Round(ResizedH * PicRatio) + } +} + +GetWindowRect(hwnd, ByRef W, ByRef H) { + ; function by GeekDude: https://gist.github.com/G33kDude/5b7ba418e685e52c3e6507e5c6972959 + ; W10 compatible function to find a window's visible boundaries + ; modified by Marius Șucanto return an array + If !hwnd + Return + + size := VarSetCapacity(rect, 16, 0) + er := DllCall("dwmapi\DwmGetWindowAttribute" + , "UPtr", hWnd ; HWND hwnd + , "UInt", 9 ; DWORD dwAttribute (DWMWA_EXTENDED_FRAME_BOUNDS) + , "UPtr", &rect ; PVOID pvAttribute + , "UInt", size ; DWORD cbAttribute + , "UInt") ; HRESULT + + If er + DllCall("GetWindowRect", "UPtr", hwnd, "UPtr", &rect, "UInt") + + r := [] + r.x1 := NumGet(rect, 0, "Int"), r.y1 := NumGet(rect, 4, "Int") + r.x2 := NumGet(rect, 8, "Int"), r.y2 := NumGet(rect, 12, "Int") + r.w := Abs(max(r.x1, r.x2) - min(r.x1, r.x2)) + r.h := Abs(max(r.y1, r.y2) - min(r.y1, r.y2)) + W := r.w + H := r.h + ; ToolTip, % r.w " --- " r.h , , , 2 + Return r +} + +Gdip_BitmapConvertGray(pBitmap, hue:=0, vibrance:=-40, brightness:=1, contrast:=0, KeepPixelFormat:=0) { +; hue, vibrance, contrast and brightness parameters +; influence the resulted new grayscale pBitmap. +; +; KeepPixelFormat can receive a specific PixelFormat. +; The function returns a pointer to a new pBitmap. + + Gdip_GetImageDimensions(pBitmap, Width, Height) + If (KeepPixelFormat=1) + PixelFormat := Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat(pBitmap, 1) + If StrLen(KeepPixelFormat)>3 + PixelFormat := KeepPixelFormat + + newBitmap := Gdip_CreateBitmap(Width, Height, PixelFormat) + G := Gdip_GraphicsFromImage(newBitmap, InterpolationMode) + If (hue!=0 || vibrance!=0) + pEffect := Gdip_CreateEffect(6, hue, vibrance, 0) + + matrix := GenerateColorMatrix(2, brightness, contrast) + If pEffect + { + E := Gdip_DrawImageFX(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, 0, 0, Width, Height, matrix, pEffect) + Gdip_DisposeEffect(pEffect) + } Else + E := Gdip_DrawImage(G, pBitmap, 0, 0, Width, Height, 0, 0, Width, Height, matrix) + + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(G) + Return newBitmap +} + +Gdip_BitmapSetColorDepth(pBitmap, bitsDepth, useDithering:=1) { +; Return 0 = OK - Success + + ditheringMode := (useDithering=1) ? 9 : 1 + If (useDithering=1 && bitsDepth=16) + ditheringMode := 2 + + Colors := 2**bitsDepth + If bitsDepth Between 2 and 4 + bitsDepth := "40s" + If bitsDepth Between 5 and 8 + bitsDepth := "80s" + + If (bitsDepth="BW") + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x30101, ditheringMode, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth=1) + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x30101, ditheringMode, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth="40s") + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x30402, ditheringMode, 1, Colors, 1, Colors, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth="80s") + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x30803, ditheringMode, 1, Colors, 1, Colors, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth=16) + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x21005, ditheringMode, 1, Colors, 1, Colors, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth=24) + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x21808, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth=32) + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x26200A, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + Else If (bitsDepth=64) + E := Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, 0x34400D, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + Else + E := -1 + Return E +} + +Gdip_BitmapConvertFormat(pBitmap, PixelFormat, DitherType, DitherPaletteType, PaletteEntries, PaletteType, OptimalColors, UseTransparentColor:=0, AlphaThresholdPercent:=0) { +; pBitmap - Handle to a pBitmap object on which the color conversion is applied. + +; PixelFormat options: see Gdip_GetImagePixelFormat() +; Pixel format constant that specifies the new pixel format. + +; PaletteEntries Number of Entries. +; OptimalColors - Integer that specifies the number of colors you want to have in an optimal palette based on a specified pBitmap. +; This parameter is relevant if PaletteType parameter is set to PaletteTypeOptimal [1]. +; UseTransparentColor Boolean value that specifies whether to include the transparent color in the palette. +; AlphaThresholdPercent - Real number in the range 0.0 through 100.0 that specifies which pixels in the source bitmap will map to the transparent color in the converted bitmap. +; +; PaletteType options: +; Custom = 0 ; Arbitrary custom palette provided by caller. +; Optimal = 1 ; Optimal palette generated using a median-cut algorithm. +; FixedBW = 2 ; Black and white palette. +; +; Symmetric halftone palettes. Each of these halftone palettes will be a superset of the system palette. +; e.g. Halftone8 will have its 8-color on-off primaries and the 16 system colors added. With duplicates removed, that leaves 16 colors. +; FixedHalftone8 = 3 ; 8-color, on-off primaries +; FixedHalftone27 = 4 ; 3 intensity levels of each color +; FixedHalftone64 = 5 ; 4 intensity levels of each color +; FixedHalftone125 = 6 ; 5 intensity levels of each color +; FixedHalftone216 = 7 ; 6 intensity levels of each color +; +; Assymetric halftone palettes. These are somewhat less useful than the symmetric ones, but are included for completeness. +; These do not include all of the system colors. +; FixedHalftone252 = 8 ; 6-red, 7-green, 6-blue intensities +; FixedHalftone256 = 9 ; 8-red, 8-green, 4-blue intensities +; +; DitherType options: +; None = 0 +; Solid = 1 +; - it picks the nearest matching color with no attempt to halftone or dither. May be used on an arbitrary palette. +; +; Ordered dithers and spiral dithers must be used with a fixed palette. +; NOTE: DitherOrdered4x4 is unique in that it may apply to 16bpp conversions also. +; Ordered4x4 = 2 +; Ordered8x8 = 3 +; Ordered16x16 = 4 +; Ordered91x91 = 5 +; Spiral4x4 = 6 +; Spiral8x8 = 7 +; DualSpiral4x4 = 8 +; DualSpiral8x8 = 9 +; ErrorDiffusion = 10 ; may be used with any palette +; Return 0 = OK - Success + + VarSetCapacity(hPalette, 4 * PaletteEntries + 8, 0) + ; tPalette := DllStructCreate("uint Flags; uint Count; uint ARGB[" & $iEntries & "];") + NumPut(PaletteType, &hPalette, 0, "uint") + NumPut(PaletteEntries, &hPalette, 4, "uint") + NumPut(0, &hPalette, 8, "uint") + + E1 := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipInitializePalette", "UPtr", &hPalette, "uint", PaletteType, "uint", OptimalColors, "Int", UseTransparentColor, "UPtr", pBitmap) + E2 := DllCall("gdiplus\GdipBitmapConvertFormat", "UPtr", pBitmap, "uint", PixelFormat, "uint", DitherType, "uint", DitherPaletteType, "UPtr", &hPalette, "float", AlphaThresholdPercent) + E := E1 ? E1 : E2 + Return E +} + +Gdip_GetImageThumbnail(pBitmap, W, H) { +; by jballi, source +; https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?style=7&t=70508 + + DllCall("gdiplus\GdipGetImageThumbnail" + ,"UPtr",pBitmap ;-- *image + ,"UInt",W ;-- thumbWidth + ,"UInt",H ;-- thumbHeight + ,"UPtr*",pThumbnail ;-- **thumbImage + ,"UPtr",0 ;-- callback + ,"UPtr",0) ;-- callbackData + + Return pThumbnail +} + +; ================================================= +; The following functions were written by Tidbit +; handed to me by himself to be included here. +; ================================================= + +ConvertRGBtoHSL(R, G, B) { +; http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=MATH&H=18#text18 + SetFormat, float, 0.5 ; for some reason I need this for some colors to work. + + R := (R / 255) + G := (G / 255) + B := (B / 255) + + Min := min(R, G, B) + Max := max(R, G, B) + del_Max := Max - Min + + L := (Max + Min) / 2 + + if (del_Max = 0) + { + H := S := 0 + } else + { + if (L < 0.5) + S := del_Max / (Max + Min) + else + S := del_Max / (2 - Max - Min) + + del_R := (((Max - R) / 6) + (del_Max / 2)) / del_Max + del_G := (((Max - G) / 6) + (del_Max / 2)) / del_Max + del_B := (((Max - B) / 6) + (del_Max / 2)) / del_Max + + if (R = Max) + { + H := del_B - del_G + } else + { + if (G = Max) + H := (1 / 3) + del_R - del_B + else if (B = Max) + H := (2 / 3) + del_G - del_R + } + if (H < 0) + H += 1 + if (H > 1) + H -= 1 + } + ; return round(h*360) "," s "," l + ; return (h*360) "," s "," l + return [abs(round(h*360, 3)), abs(s), abs(l)] +} + +ConvertHSLtoRGB(H, S, L) { +; http://www.had2know.com/technology/hsl-rgb-color-converter.html + + H := H/360 + if (S == 0) + { + R := L*255 + G := L*255 + B := L*255 + } else + { + if (L < 0.5) + var_2 := L * (1 + S) + else + var_2 := (L + S) - (S * L) + var_1 := 2 * L - var_2 + + R := 255 * ConvertHueToRGB(var_1, var_2, H + (1 / 3)) + G := 255 * ConvertHueToRGB(var_1, var_2, H) + B := 255 * ConvertHueToRGB(var_1, var_2, H - (1 / 3)) + } + ; Return round(R) "," round(G) "," round(B) + ; Return (R) "," (G) "," (B) + Return [round(R), round(G), round(B)] +} + +ConvertHueToRGB(v1, v2, vH) { + vH := ((vH<0) ? ++vH : vH) + vH := ((vH>1) ? --vH : vH) + return ((6 * vH) < 1) ? (v1 + (v2 - v1) * 6 * vH) + : ((2 * vH) < 1) ? (v2) + : ((3 * vH) < 2) ? (v1 + (v2 - v1) * ((2 / 3) - vH) * 6) + : v1 +} + +Gdip_ErrorHandler(errCode, throwErrorMsg, additionalInfo:="") { + Static errList := {1:"Generic_Error", 2:"Invalid_Parameter" + , 3:"Out_Of_Memory", 4:"Object_Busy" + , 5:"Insufficient_Buffer", 6:"Not_Implemented" + , 7:"Win32_Error", 8:"Wrong_State" + , 9:"Aborted", 10:"File_Not_Found" + , 11:"Value_Overflow", 12:"Access_Denied" + , 13:"Unknown_Image_Format", 14:"Font_Family_Not_Found" + , 15:"Font_Style_Not_Found", 16:"Not_TrueType_Font" + , 17:"Unsupported_GdiPlus_Version", 18:"Not_Initialized" + , 19:"Property_Not_Found", 20:"Property_Not_Supported" + , 21:"Profile_Not_Found", 100:"Unknown_Wrapper_Error"} + + If !errCode + Return + + aerrCode := (errCode<0) ? 100 : errCode + If errList.HasKey(aerrCode) + GdipErrMsg := "GDI+ ERROR: " errList[aerrCode] " [CODE: " aerrCode "]" additionalInfo + Else + GdipErrMsg := "GDI+ UNKNOWN ERROR: " aerrCode additionalInfo + + If (throwErrorMsg=1) + MsgBox, % GdipErrMsg + + Return GdipErrMsg +} diff --git a/lib/MCI.ahk b/lib/MCI.ahk new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d746045 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/MCI.ahk @@ -0,0 +1,1555 @@ +/* +Title: MCI Library v1.1 +Updated in October, 2019 +https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/32291-library-mci-v11-playcontrol-media-files/ + +Group: Overview + + This library gives the AutoHotkey developer access to the the Media Control + Interface (MCI) which provides standard commands for playing/controlling + multimedia devices. + +Group: Notes + +Devices Referenced Within The Documentation: + + (start code) + Driver Type Description + ------ ---- ----------- + MCIAVI avivideo + MCICDA cdaudio CD audio + dat Digital-audio tape player + digitalvideo Digital video in a window (not GDI-based) + MPEGVideo General-purpose media player + other Undefined MCI device + overlay Overlay device (analog video in a window) + scanner Image scanner + MCISEQ sequencer MIDI sequencer + vcr Video-cassette recorder or player + MCIPIONR videodisc Videodisc (Pioneer LaserDisc) + MCIWAVE waveaudio Audio device that plays digitized waveform files + (end) + +MCI Installation: + + To see a list of MCI devices that have been registered for the computer, go + to the following registry locations... + + (start code) + Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/etc.: + + 16-bit: + HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI + + 32-bit: + HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI32 + + Windows 95/98/ME: + HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaResources\MCI + (end) + + To see a list of registered file extensions and the MCI device that has been + assigned to each extension, go the following locations... + + (start code) + For Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/etc., this information is stored in + the following registry location: + + HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions + + For Windows 95/98/ME, this information is stored in the %windir%\win.ini + file in the "MCI Extensions" section. + (end) + +Performance: + + AutoHotkey automatically loads winmm.dll into memory. There is no need or + advantage to preload this library in order to use the MCI library. + +Debugging: + + *OutputDebug* statements in the core of some of the functions that only + execute on condition are permanent and are provided to help the developer + find and eliminate errors. + +Group: Links + + MCI Reference Guide + - + +Group: Credit + + The MCI library is an offshoot of the Sound_* and Media_* libraries provided + by *Fincs*. + + - + - + + Credit and thanks to *Fincs* for creating and enhancing these libraries + which are a conversion from the AutoIt "Sound.au3" standard library + and to *RazerM* for providing the original "Sound.au3" library. + + Notify idea and code from *Sean* + - + + mciGetErrorString call from *PhiLho* + - + +Group: Functions +*/ + +/* +ERROR MESSAGES (MULTIMEDIA MCI CONTROL) + +The following table lists the trappable errors for the Multimedia MCI control. + +Constant Value Description + mciInvalidProcedureCall 5 Invalid procedure call. + mciInvalidProertyValue 380 invalid property value. + mciSetNotSupported 383 Property is read-only. + mciGetNotSupported 394 Property is write-only. + mciInvalidObjectUse 425 Invalid object use. + mciWrongClipboardFormat 461 Specified format doesn't match format of data. + mciObjectLocked 672 DataObject formats list may not be cleared or expanded outside of the OLEStartDrag event. + mciExpectedArgument 673 Expected at least one argument. + mciRecursiveOleDrag 674 Illegal recursive invocation of OLE drag and drop + mciFormatNotByteArray 675 Non-intrinsic OLE drag and drop formats used with SetData require Byte array data. GetData may return more bytes than were given to SetData. + mciDataNotSetForFormat 676 Requested data was not supplied to the DataObject during the OLESetData event. + mciCantCreateButton 30001 Can't create button + mciCantCreateTimer 30002 Can't create a timer resource + mciUnsupportedFunction 30004 Unsupported function + +Below is a list of the MCI error strings and numbers that are related to the Multimedia MCI control. + +MCI Error Strings MCI Error Numbers: + MCIERR_BASE = 256 + MCIERR_INVALID_DEVICE_ID = 257 + MCIERR_UNRECOGNIZED_KEYWORD = 259 + MCIERR_UNRECOGNIZED_COMMAND = 261 + MCIERR_HARDWARE = 262 + MCIERR_INVALID_DEVICE_NAME = 263 + MCIERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY = 264 + MCIERR_DEVICE_OPEN = 265 + MCIERR_CANNOT_LOAD_DRIVER = 266 + MCIERR_MISSING_COMMAND_STRING = 267 + MCIERR_PARAM_OVERFLOW = 268 + MCIERR_MISSING_STRING_ARGUMENT = 269 + MCIERR_BAD_INTEGER = 270 + MCIERR_PARSER_INTERNAL = 271 + MCIERR_DRIVER_INTERNAL = 272 + MCIERR_MISSING_PARAMETER = 273 + MCIERR_UNSUPPORTED_FUNCTION = 274 + MCIERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND = 275 + MCIERR_DEVICE_NOT_READY = 276 + MCIERR_INTERNAL = 277 + MCIERR_DRIVER = 278 + MCIERR_CANNOT_USE_ALL = 279 + MCIERR_MULTIPLE = 280 + MCIERR_EXTENSION_NOT_FOUND = 281 + MCIERR_OUTOFRANGE = 282 + MCIERR_FLAGS_NOT_COMPATIBLE = 283 + MCIERR_FILE_NOT_SAVED = 286 + MCIERR_DEVICE_TYPE_REQUIRED = 287 + MCIERR_DEVICE_LOCKED = 288 + MCIERR_DUPLICATE_ALIAS = 289 + MCIERR_BAD_CONSTANT = 290 + MCIERR_MUST_USE_SHAREABLE = 291 + MCIERR_MISSING_DEVICE_NAME = 292 + MCIERR_BAD_TIME_FORMAT = 293 + MCIERR_NO_CLOSING_QUOTE = 294 + MCIERR_DUPLICATE_FLAGS = 295 + MCIERR_INVALID_FILE = 296 + MCIERR_NULL_PARAMETER_BLOCK = 297 + MCIERR_UNNAMED_RESOURCE = 298 + MCIERR_NEW_REQUIRES_ALIAS = 299 + MCIERR_NOTIFY_ON_AUTO_OPEN = 300 + MCIERR_NO_ELEMENT_ALLOWED = 301 + MCIERR_NONAPPLICABLE_FUNCTION = 302 + MCIERR_ILLEGAL_FOR_AUTO_OPEN = 303 + MCIERR_FILENAME_REQUIRED = 304 + MCIERR_EXTRA_CHARACTERS = 305 + MCIERR_DEVICE_NOT_INSTALLED = 306 + MCIERR_GET_CD = 307 + MCIERR_SET_CD = 308 + MCIERR_SET_DRIVE = 309 + MCIERR_DEVICE_LENGTH = 310 + MCIERR_DEVICE_ORD_LENGTH = 311 + MCIERR_NO_INTEGER = 312 + MCIERR_WAVE_OUTPUTSINUSE = 320 + MCIERR_WAVE_SETOUTPUTINUSE = 321 + MCIERR_WAVE_INPUTSINUSE = 322 + MCIERR_WAVE_SETINPUTINUSE = 323 + MCIERR_WAVE_OUTPUTUNSPECIFIED = 324 + MCIERR_WAVE_INPUTUNSPECIFIED = 325 + MCIERR_WAVE_OUTPUTSUNSUITABLE = 326 + MCIERR_WAVE_SETOUTPUTUNSUITABLE = 327 + MCIERR_WAVE_INPUTSUNSUITABLE = 328 + MCIERR_WAVE_SETINPUTUNSUITABLE = 329 + MCIERR_SEQ_DIV_INCOMPATIBLE = 336 + MCIERR_SEQ_PORT_INUSE = 337 + MCIERR_SEQ_PORT_NONEXISTENT = 338 + MCIERR_SEQ_PORT_MAPNODEVICE = 339 + MCIERR_SEQ_PORT_MISCERROR = 340 + MCIERR_SEQ_TIMER = 341 + MCIERR_SEQ_PORTUNSPECIFIED = 342 + MCIERR_SEQ_NOMIDIPRESENT = 343 + MCIERR_NO_WINDOW = 346 + MCIERR_CREATEWINDOW = 347 + MCIERR_FILE_READ = 348 + MCIERR_FILE_WRITE = 349 + MCIERR_CUSTOM_DRIVER_BASE = 512 +*/ + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Close +; +; Description: +; +; Closes the device and any associated resources. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Remarks: +; +; For most MCI devices, closing a device usually stops playback but not +; always. If unsure of the device, consider stopping the device before +; closing it. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Close(p_lpszDeviceID) { + Static MM_MCINOTIFY:=0x03B9 + + ;-- Close device + l_Return:=MCI_SendString("close " . p_lpszDeviceID . " wait") + + ;-- Turn off monitoring of MM_MCINOTIFY message? + if OnMessage(MM_MCINOTIFY)="MCI_Notify" + { + ;-- Don't process unless all MCI devices are closed + MCI_SendString("sysinfo all quantity open",l_OpenMCIDevices) + if (l_OpenMCIDevices=0) + ;-- Disable monitoring + OnMessage(MM_MCINOTIFY,"") + } + + Return l_Return +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_CurrentTrack +; +; Description: +; +; Identifies the current track. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The current track. Note: The MCISEQ sequencer returns 1. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_CurrentTrack(p_lpszDeviceID) { + MCI_SendString("status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " current track",l_lpszReturnString) + Return l_lpszReturnString +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_DeviceType +; +; Description: +; +; Identifies the device type name. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; A device type name, which can be one of the following... +; +; (start code) +; cdaudio +; dat +; digitalvideo +; other +; overlay +; scanner +; sequencer +; vcr +; videodisc +; waveaudio +; (end) +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_DeviceType(p_lpszDeviceID) { + MCI_SendString("capability " . p_lpszDeviceID . " device type",l_lpszReturnString) + Return l_lpszReturnString +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Open +; +; Description: +; +; Opens an MCI device and loads the specified file. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_MediaFile - A multimedia file. +; +; p_Alias - Alias. A name such as media1. [Optional] If blank (the default), +; an alias will automatically be generated. +; +; p_Flags - Flags that determine how the device is opened. [Optional] +; +; Flag Notes: +; Some commonly used flags include... +; +; (start code) +; type {device_type} +; sharable +; (end) +; +; If more than one flag is used, separate each flag/value with a space. +; For example: +; +; (start code) +; type MPEGVideo sharable +; (end) +; +; Additional notes... +; +; - The "wait" flag is automatically added to the end of the command string. +; This flag directs the device to complete the "open" request before +; returning. +; +; - Use the "shareable" flag with care. Per msdn, the "shareable" flag +; "initializes the device or file as shareable. Subsequent attempts to +; open the device or file fail unless you specify "shareable" in both the +; original and subsequent open commands. MCI returns an invalid device +; error if the device is already open and not shareable. The MCISEQ +; sequencer and MCIWAVE devices do not support shared files." +; +; - By default, the MCI device that is opened is determined by the file's +; extension. The "type" flag can be used to 1) override the default +; device that is registered for the file extension or to 2) open a media +; file with a file extension that is not registered as a MCI file +; extension. See the section for more information. +; +; - For a complete list of flags and descriptions for the "open" command +; string, see the "MCI Reference Guide" in the section. +; +; Returns: +; +; The multimedia handle (alias) or 0 (FALSE) to indicate failure. Failure +; will occur with any of the following conditions: +; +; - The media file does not exist. +; +; - The media file's extension is not a regisitered MCI extension. Note: +; This test is only performed if the "type" flag is not specified. +; +; - Non-zero return code from the function. +; +; Remarks: +; +; - Use the function to open a CDAudio device. +; +; - After the device has been successfully opened, the time format is set to +; milliseconds which it will remain in effect until it is manually set to +; another value or until the device is closed. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Open(p_MediaFile,p_Alias:="",p_Flags:="", checkFile:=1) { + Static s_Seq:=0 + + ;[==============] + ;[ Parameters ] + ;[==============] + ;-- p_MediaFile + if (p_MediaFile<>"new") + { + ;-- Media file exist? + If (checkFile=1) + { + IfNotExist %p_MediaFile% + { + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: The media file can't be + found. Return=0 + ) + Return False + } + } + + ;-- "Type" flag not defined? + if !InStr(p_Flags," type ") + { + ;-- Registered file extension? + SplitPath p_MediaFile,,,l_Extension + + ;-- Which OS type? + if (A_OSType="WIN32_NT") ;-- Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/etc. + { + RegRead + ,l_Dummy + ,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE + ,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions + ,%l_Extension% + } else + { + ;-- Windows 95/98/ME + iniRead l_Dummy,%A_WinDir%\win.ini,MCI Extensions,%l_Extension% + } + + ;-- Not found? + if (!l_Dummy || StrLen(l_Dummy)<2 || l_Dummy="error") + { + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: The file extension for this media + file is not registered as a valid MCI extension. Return=0 + ) + Return False + } + } + + ;-- Enclose in DQ + p_MediaFile="%p_MediaFile%" + } + + ;-- Alias + if p_Alias is Space + { + s_Seq++ + p_Alias:="MCIFile" . s_Seq + } + + ;[===============] + ;[ Open device ] + ;[===============] + l_CmdString:="open " + . p_MediaFile + . " alias " + . p_Alias + . A_Space + . p_Flags + . " wait" + + l_Return:=MCI_SendString(l_CmdString) + if l_Return + l_Return:=0 + else + l_Return:=p_Alias + + ;-- Set time format to milliseconds + if l_Return + { + l_CmdString:="set " . p_Alias . " time format milliseconds wait" + MCI_SendString(l_CmdString) + } + + ;-- Return to sender + Return l_Return +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_OpenCDAudio +; +; Description: +; +; Opens a CDAudio device. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_Drive - CDROM drive letter. [Optional] If blank (the default), the first +; CDROM drive found is used. +; +; p_Alias - Alias. A name such as media1. [Optional] If blank (the default), +; an alias will automatically be generated. +; +; p_CheckForMedia - Check for media. [Optional] The default is TRUE. +; +; Returns: +; +; The multimedia handle (alias) or 0 to indicate failure. Failure will occur +; with any of the following conditions: +; - The computer does not have a CDROM drive. +; - The specified drive is not CDROM drive. +; - Non-zero return code from the function. +; +; If p_CheckForMedia is TRUE (the default), failure will also occur with +; any of the following conditions: +; - No media was found in the device. +; - Media does not contain audio tracks. +; +; Remarks: +; +; After the device has been successfully opened, the time format is set to +; milliseconds which will remain in effect until it is manually set to another +; value or until the device is closed. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_OpenCDAudio(p_Drive="",p_Alias="",p_CheckForMedia=True) { + Static s_Seq:=0 + + ;-- Parameters + p_Drive=%p_Drive% ;-- Autotrim + p_Drive:=SubStr(p_Drive,1,1) + if p_Drive is not Alpha + p_Drive:="" + + ;-- Drive not specified + if p_Drive is Space + { + ;-- Collect list of CDROM drives + DriveGet l_ListOfCDROMDrives,List,CDROM + if l_ListOfCDROMDrives is Space + { + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: This PC does not have functioning CDROM + drive. Return=0 + ) + + Return False + } + + ;-- Assign the first CDROM drive + p_Drive:=SubStr(l_ListOfCDROMDrives,1,1) + } + + ;-- Is this a CDROM drive? + DriveGet l_DriveType,Type,%p_Drive%: + if (l_DriveType<>"CDROM") + { + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: The specified drive (%p_Drive%:) is not + a CDROM drive. Return=0 + ) + + Return False + } + + ;-- Alias + if p_Alias is Space + { + s_Seq++ + p_Alias:="MCICDAudio" . s_Seq + } + + ;-- Open device + l_CmdString:="open " . p_Drive . ": alias " . p_Alias . " type cdaudio shareable wait" + l_Return:=MCI_SendString(l_CmdString) + if l_Return + l_Return:=0 + else + l_Return:=p_Alias + + ;-- Device is open + if l_Return + { + ;-- Set time format to milliseconds + l_CmdString:="set " . p_Alias . " time format milliseconds wait" + MCI_SendString(l_CmdString) + + ;-- Check for media? + if p_CheckForMedia + { + if not MCI_MediaIsPresent(p_Alias) + { + MCI_Close(p_Alias) + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: Media is not present in the + specified drive (%p_Drive%:). Return=0 + ) + + Return False + } + + ;-- 1st track an audio track? + if not MCI_TrackIsAudio(p_Alias,1) + { + MCI_Close(p_Alias) + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: Media in drive %p_Drive%: does not + contain CD Audio tracks. Return=0 + ) + + Return False + } + } + } + + Return l_Return +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Length +; +; Description: +; +; Gets the total length of the media in the current time format. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Track - Track number. [Optional] The default is 0 (no track number). +; +; Returns: +; +; If a track number is not specified (the default), the length of the entire +; entire media is returned. If a track number is specified, only the +; the length of the specified track is returned. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Length(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Track=0) { + ;-- Build command string + l_CmdString:="status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " length" + if p_Track + l_CmdString.=" track " . p_Track + + ;-- Send it! + MCI_SendString(l_CmdString,l_lpszReturnString) + Return l_lpszReturnString +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_MediaIsPresent +; +; Description: +; +; Checks to see if media is present in the device. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; TRUE if the media is inserted in the device, otherwise FALSE. +; msdn: Sequencer, video-overlay, digital-video, and waveform-audio devices +; (always) return TRUE. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_MediaIsPresent(p_lpszDeviceID) { + l_RC:=MCI_SendString("status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " media present",l_lpszReturnString) + if l_RC ;-- Probably invalid command for the device + Return False + else + Return (l_lpszReturnString="true") ? True:False +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Notify +; +; Description: +; +; (Internal function. Do not call directly) +; +; This function has 2 responsibilties... +; +; 1) If called by the function, wParam contains the name of the +; developer-defined function. This value is assigned to the s_Callback +; static variable for future use. +; +; 2) When called as a result of MM_MCINOTIFY message, this function will call +; the developer-defined function (name stored in the s_Callback static +; variable) sending the MM_MCINOTIFY status flag as the first parameter. +; +; Parameters: +; +; wParam - Function name or a MM_MCINOTIFY flag. +; +; MM_MCINOTIFY flag values are as follows... +; +; (start code) +; MCI_NOTIFY_SUCCESSFUL:=0x1 +; The conditions initiating the callback function have been met. +; +; MCI_NOTIFY_SUPERSEDED:=0x2 +; The device received another command with the "notify" flag set and +; the current conditions for initiating the callback function have +; been superseded. +; +; MCI_NOTIFY_ABORTED:=0x4 +; The device received a command that prevented the current conditions +; for initiating the callback function from being met. If a new +; command interrupts the current command and it also requests +; notification, the device sends this message only and not +; MCI_NOTIFY_SUPERSEDED. +; +; MCI_NOTIFY_FAILURE:=0x8 +; A device error occurred while the device was executing the command. +; (end) +; +; lParam - lDevID. This is the identifier of the device initiating the +; callback function. This information is only useful if operating more +; than one MCI device at a time. +; +; Returns: +; +; Per msdn, returns 0 to indicate a successful call. +; +; Remarks: +; +; This function does not complete until the call to the developer-defined +; function has completed. If a MM_MCINOTIFY message is issued while this +; function is running, the message will be treated as unmonitored. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Notify(wParam,lParam,msg,hWnd) { +;;;;; Critical + ;-- This will cause MM_MCINOTIFY messages to be buffered rather than + ; discared if this function is still running when another MM_MCINOTIFY + ; message is sent. + + Static s_Callback + + ;-- Internal call? + if lParam is Space + { + s_Callback:=wParam + return + } + + ;-- Call developer function + if IsFunc(s_Callback) + %s_Callback%(wParam) + + Return 0 +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_NumberOfTracks +; +; Description: +; +; Identifies the number of tracks on the media. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The number of tracks on the media. +; +; Remarks: +; +; msdn: The MCISEQ and MCIWAVE devices return 1, as do most VCR devices. The +; MCIPIONR device does not support this flag. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_NumberOfTracks(p_lpszDeviceID) { + MCI_SendString("status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " number of tracks",l_lpszReturnString) + Return l_lpszReturnString +} + + +;---------- +; +; Function: MCI_Pause +; +; Description: +; +; Pauses playback or recording. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Remarks: +; +; msdn: With the MCICDA, MCISEQ, and MCIPIONR drivers, the pause command works +; the same as the stop command. +; +; Observation: For MCISEQ devices, pause works OK for me. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Pause(p_lpszDeviceID) { + Return MCI_SendString("pause " . p_lpszDeviceID . " wait") +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Play +; +; Description: +; +; Starts playing a device. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Flags - Flags that determine how the device is played. [Optional] If +; blank, no flags are used. +; +; Flag Notes: +; +; Some commonly used flags include... +; +; (start code) +; from {position} +; to {position} +; (end) +; +; If more than one flag is used, separate each flag/value with a space. +; For example: +; +; (start code) +; from 10144 to 95455 +; (end) +; +; Additional notes... +; +; - With the exception of very short sound files (<300 ms), the "wait" +; flag is not recommended. The entire application will be +; non-responsive while the media is being played. +; +; - Do not add the "notify" flag unless you plan to have your script trap +; the MM_MCINOTIFY message outside of this function. The "notify" +; flag is automatically added if the p_Callback parameter contains a +; value. +; +; - For a complete list of flags and descriptions for the "play" command +; string, see the "MCI Reference Guide" in the section. +; +; p_Callback - Function name that is called when the MM_MCINOTIFY message is +; sent. [Optional] If defined, the "notify" flag is automatically added. +; +; Important: The syntax of this parameter and the associated function is +; critical. If not defined correctly, the script may crash. +; +; The function must have at least one parameter. For example... +; +; (start code) +; MyNotifyFunction(NotifyFlag) +; (end) +; +; Additional parameters are allowed but they must be optional (contain a +; default value). For example: +; +; (start code) +; MyNotifyFunction(NotifyFlag,FirstCall=False,Parm3="ABC") +; (end) +; +; When a notify message is sent, the approriate MM_MCINOTIFY flag is sent +; to the developer-defined function as the first parameter. See the +; function for a description and a list of MM_MCINOTIFY flag +; values. +; +; p_hWndCallback - Handle to a callback window if the p_Callback parameter +; contains a value and/or if the "notify" flag is defined. [Optional] If +; undefined but needed, the handle to default Autohotkey window is used. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Play(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Flags="",p_Callback="",p_hwndCallback=0) { + Static MM_MCINOTIFY:=0x03B9 + + ;-- Build command string + l_CmdString:="play " . p_lpszDeviceID + if p_Flags + l_CmdString.=A_Space . p_Flags + + ;-- Notify + p_Callback=%p_Callback% ;-- AutoTrim + if StrLen(p_Callback) + { + l_CmdString.=" notify" + + ;-- Attach p_Callback to MCI_Notify function + MCI_Notify(p_Callback,"","","") + + ;-- Monitor for MM_MCINOTIFY message + OnMessage(MM_MCINOTIFY,"MCI_Notify") + ;-- Note: If the MM_MCINOTIFY message was monitored elsewhere, + ; this statement will override it. + } + + ;-- Callback handle + if not p_hwndCallback + { + if InStr(A_Space . l_CmdString . A_Space," notify ") + or StrLen(p_Callback) + { + l_DetectHiddenWindows:=A_DetectHiddenWindows + DetectHiddenWindows On + Process Exist + p_hwndCallback:=WinExist("ahk_pid " . ErrorLevel . " ahk_class AutoHotkey") + DetectHiddenWindows %l_DetectHiddenWindows% + } + } + + ;-- Send it! + Return MCI_SendString(l_CmdString,Dummy,p_hwndCallback) +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Position +; +; Description: +; +; Identifies the current playback or recording position. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Track - Track number. [Optional] The default is 0 (no track number). +; +; Returns: +; +; The current playback or recording position in the current time format. If +; the p_Track parameter contains a non-zero value, the start position of the +; track relative to entire media is returned. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Position(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Track=0) { + l_CmdString:="status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " position" + if p_Track + l_CmdString.=" track " . p_Track + + MCI_SendString(l_CmdString,l_lpszReturnString) + Return l_lpszReturnString +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Record +; +; Description: +; +; Starts recording. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Flags - Flags that determine how the device operates for recording. +; [Optional] If blank, no flags are used. +; +; Flag Notes: +; +; Some commonly used flags include... +; +; (start code) +; from {position} +; to {position} +; insert +; overwrite +; (end) +; +; If more than one flag is used, separate each flag/value with a space. +; For example: +; +; (start code) +; overwrite from 18122 to 26427 +; (end) +; +; +; Additional notes... +; +; - The "wait" flag is not recommended. The entire application will be +; non-responsive until recording is stopped with a Stop or Pause +; command. +; +; - For a complete list of flags and descriptions for the "record" +; command string, see the "MCI Reference Guide" in the +; section. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Remarks: +; +; msdn: Recording stops when a Stop or Pause command is issued. For the +; MCIWAVE driver, all data recorded after a file is opened is discarded if the +; file is closed without saving it. +; +; Credit: +; +; Original function and examples by heresy. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Record(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Flags="") { + Return MCI_SendString("record " . p_lpszDeviceID . A_Space . p_Flags) +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Resume +; +; Description: +; +; Resumes playback or recording after the device has been paused. See the +; function for more information. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Remarks: +; +; msdn: Digital-video, VCR, and waveform-audio devices recognize this command. +; Although CD audio, MIDI sequencer, and videodisc devices also recognize this +; command, the MCICDA, MCISEQ, and MCIPIONR device drivers do not support it. +; +; Programming Notes: +; +; The function can sometimes be an alternative to this function. +; Many devices will begin to play where they were last paused. If the device +; does not begin playback correctly, try specifying an appropriate "From" and +; "To" value (if needed) in the p_Flags parameter. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Resume(p_lpszDeviceID) { + Return MCI_SendString("resume " . p_lpszDeviceID . " wait") +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Save +; +; Description: +; +; Saves an MCI file. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_FileName - File name to store a MCI file. If the file does not exist, a +; new file will be created. If the file exists, it will be overwritten. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Remarks: +; +; This command can overwrite existing files. Use with care. +; +; Credit: +; +; Original function and examples by heresy. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Save(p_lpszDeviceID,p_FileName) { + Return MCI_SendString("save " . p_lpszDeviceID . " """ . p_FileName . """") +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Seek +; +; Description: +; +; Move to a specified position. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Position - Position to stop the seek. Value must be "start", "end", +; or an integer. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +/* +Usage and Programming notes: + +MCI Bug?: For some reason, seek for cdaudio doesn't work correctly on the +first attempt. Second and subsequent attempts work fine. + +*/ + +MCI_Seek(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Position) { + ;-- Get current status + l_Status:=MCI_Status(p_lpszDeviceID) + + ;-- Adjust p_Position if necessary + if p_Position not in start,end + { + if p_Position is not Number + p_Position:=0 + + p_Position:=Round(p_Position) ;-- Integer values only + + if (p_Position>MCI_Length(p_lpszDeviceID)) + p_Position:="end" + else + if (p_Position<1) + p_Position:="start" + ;-- This is necessary because some devices don't like a "0" + ; position. + } + + ;-- Seek + l_CmdString:="seek " . p_lpszDeviceID . " to " . p_Position . " wait" + l_Return:=MCI_SendString(l_CmdString) + + ;-- Return to mode before seek + if l_Status in paused,playing + { + MCI_Play(p_lpszDeviceID) + + ;-- Re-pause + if (l_Status="paused") + MCI_Pause(p_lpszDeviceID) + } + +;;;;; l_CurrentPos:=MCI_Position(p_lpszDeviceID) +;;;;; outputdebug After: l_CurrentPos=%l_CurrentPos% + + Return l_Return +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_SetBass +; +; Description: +; +; Sets the audio low frequency level. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Factor - Bass factor. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Observations: +; +; - Factor range appears to be from 0 to ?????. +; - Most MCI devices do not support this command. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_SetBass(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Factor) { + Return MCI_SendString("setaudio " . p_lpszDeviceID . " bass to " . p_Factor) +} + + +;---------- +; +; Function: MCI_SetTreble +; +; Description: +; +; Sets the audio high-frequency level. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Factor - Treble factor. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Observations: +; +; - Factor range appears to be from 0 to ?????. +; - Most MCI devices do not support this command. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_SetTreble(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Factor) { + Return MCI_SendString("setaudio " . p_lpszDeviceID . " treble to " . p_Factor) +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_SetVolume +; +; Description: +; +; Sets the average audio volume for both audio channels. If the left and right +; volumes have been set to different values, then the ratio of left-to-right +; volume is approximately unchanged. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Factor - Volume factor. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Observations: +; +; - Factor range appears to be from 0 to 1000. +; - Most MCI devices do not support this command. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_SetVolume(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Factor) { + Return MCI_SendString("setaudio " . p_lpszDeviceID . " volume to " . p_Factor) +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Status +; +; Description: +; +; Identifies the current mode of the device. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The current mode of the device. +; +; msdn: All devices can return the "not ready", "paused", "playing", and +; "stopped" values. Some devices can return the additional "open", "parked", +; "recording", and "seeking" values. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Status(p_lpszDeviceID) { + MCI_SendString("status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " mode",l_lpszReturnString) + Return Trim(l_lpszReturnString) +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_Stop +; +; Description: +; +; Stops playback or recording. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; Returns: +; +; The return code from the function which is 0 if the command +; completed successfully. +; +; Remarks: +; +; - After close, a "seek to start" is not done because 1) it slows down the +; stop request and 2) it may be unwanted. If you need to set the media +; position back to the beginning after a stop, call the function +; and set the p_Position parameter to 0. +; +; - For some CD audio devices, the stop command stops playback and resets the +; current track position to zero. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_Stop(p_lpszDeviceID) { + Return MCI_SendString("stop " . p_lpszDeviceID . " wait") +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_TrackIsAudio +; +; Description: +; +; Determines if the specified track is an audio track. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszDeviceID - Device name or alias. +; +; p_Track - Track number. [Optional] The default is 1. +; +; Returns: +; +; TRUE if the specified track is an audio track, otherwise FALSE. +; +; Remarks: +; +; This command will only work on a device that supports multiple tracks. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_TrackIsAudio(p_lpszDeviceID,p_Track=1) { + if p_Track is not Integer + p_Track:=1 + + l_RC:=MCI_SendString("status " . p_lpszDeviceID . " type track " . p_Track,l_lpszReturnString) + if l_RC ;-- Probably invalid command for the device + Return False + else + Return (l_lpszReturnString="audio") ? True:False +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_ToHHMMSS +; +; Description: +; +; Converts the specified number of milliseconds to hh:mm:ss format. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_ms - Number of milliseconds. +; +; p_MinimumSize - Minimum size. [Optional] The default is 4. This is the +; minimum size in characters (not significant digits) that is returned. +; Unless you want a ":" character to show as the leading character, don't +; set this value to 3 or 6. +; +; Returns: +; +; The amount of time in hh:mm:ss format with leading zero and ":" characters +; suppressed unless the length is less than p_MinimumSize. Note: If the +; number of hours is greater than 99, the size of hour ("hh") will increase as +; needed. +; +; Usage Notes: +; +; To use this function to create separate variables for the number of hours, +; minutes, and seconds, set the p_MinimumSize parameter to 8 and use simple +; *SubStr* commands to create these variables. For example: +; +; (start code) +; x:=MCI_ToHHMMSS(NumberOfMilliseconds,8) +; HH:=SubStr(x,1,2) +; MM:=SubStr(x,4,2) +; SS:=SubStr(x,6,2) +; (end) +; +; To remove leading zeros from these variables, simply add 0 to the extracted +; value. For example: +; +; (start code) +; MM:=SubStr(x,4,2)+0 +; (end) +; +; Credit: +; +; This function is a customized version of an example that was extracted from +; the AutoHotkey documenation. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_ToHHMMSS(p_ms,p_MinimumSize=4) { + ;-- Convert p_ms to whole seconds + if p_ms is not Number + l_Seconds:=0 + else + if (p_ms<0) + l_Seconds:=0 + else + l_Seconds:=Floor(p_ms/1000) + + ;-- Initialize and format + l_Time:=20121212 ;-- Midnight of an arbitrary date + EnvAdd l_Time,l_Seconds,Seconds + FormatTime l_mmss,%l_Time%,mm:ss + l_FormattedTime:="0" . l_Seconds//3600 . ":" . l_mmss + ;-- Allows support for more than 24 hours. + + ;-- Trim insignificant leading characters + Loop + if StrLen(l_FormattedTime)<=p_MinimumSize + Break + else + if SubStr(l_FormattedTime,1,1)="0" + StringTrimLeft l_FormattedTime,l_FormattedTime,1 + else + if SubStr(l_FormattedTime,1,1)=":" + StringTrimLeft l_FormattedTime,l_FormattedTime,1 + else + Break + + ;-- Return to sender + Return l_FormattedTime +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_ToMilliseconds +; +; Description: +; +; Converts the specified hour, minute and second into a valid milliseconds +; timestamp. +; +; Parameters: +; +; Hour, Min, Sec - Position to convert to milliseconds +; +; Returns: +; +; The specified position converted to milliseconds. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_ToMilliseconds(Hour,Min,Sec) { + milli:=Sec*1000 + milli+=(Min*60)*1000 + milli+=(Hour*3600)*1000 + Return milli +} + + +;----------------------------- +; +; Function: MCI_SendString +; +; Description: +; +; This is the primary function that controls MCI operations. With the +; exception of formatting functions, all of the functions in this library call +; this function. +; +; Parameters: +; +; p_lpszCommand - MCI command string. +; +; r_lpszReturnString - Variable name that receives return information. +; [Optional] +; +; p_hwndCallback - Handle to a callback window if the "notify" flag was +; specified in the command string. [Optional] The default is 0 (No +; callback window). +; +; Returns: +; +; Two values are returned. +; +; 1) The function returns 0 if successful or an error number otherwise. +; +; 2) If the MCI command string was a request for information, the variable +; named in the r_lpszReturnString parameter will contain the requested +; information. +; +; Debugging: +; +; If a non-zero value is returned from the call to the mciSendString API +; function, a call to the mciGetErrorString API function is made to convert +; the error number into a developer-friendly error message. All of this +; information is sent to the debugger in an easy-to-read format. +; +;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +MCI_SendString(p_lpszCommand,ByRef r_lpszReturnString="",p_hwndCallback=0) { + ;-- Workaround for AutoHotkey Basic + PtrType:=A_PtrSize ? "Ptr":"UInt" + + ;-- Send command + VarSetCapacity(r_lpszReturnString,512,0) + l_Return:=DllCall("winmm.dll\mciSendString" . (A_IsUnicode ? "W":"A") + ,"Str",p_lpszCommand ;-- lpszCommand + ,"Str",r_lpszReturnString ;-- lpszReturnString + ,"UInt",512 ;-- cchReturn + ,PtrType,p_hwndCallback ;-- hwndCallback + ,"Cdecl Int") ;-- Return type + + if ErrorLevel + MsgBox + ,262160 ;-- 262160=0 (OK button) + 16 (Error icon) + 262144 (AOT) + ,%A_ThisFunc% Function Error, + (ltrim join`s + Unexpected ErrorLevel from DllCall to the + "winmm.dll\mciSendString" + function. ErrorLevel=%ErrorLevel% %A_Space% + `nSee the AutoHotkey documentation (Keyword: DLLCall) for more + information. %A_Space% + ) + + ;-- Return code? + if l_Return + { + VarSetCapacity(l_MCIErrorString,2048) + DllCall("winmm.dll\mciGetErrorString" . (A_IsUnicode ? "W":"A") + ,"UInt",l_Return ;-- MCI error number + ,"Str",l_MCIErrorString ;-- MCI error text + ,"UInt",2048) + + ;-- This is provided to help debug MCI calls + outputdebug, + (ltrim join`s + End Func: %A_ThisFunc%: Unexpected return code from command string: + "%p_lpszCommand%" + `n--------- Return code=%l_Return% - %l_MCIErrorString% + ) + } + + Return l_Return +} diff --git a/VA.ahk b/lib/VA.ahk similarity index 97% rename from VA.ahk rename to lib/VA.ahk index 5c2f90c..5533b0d 100644 --- a/VA.ahk +++ b/lib/VA.ahk @@ -1,914 +1,914 @@ -; VA v2.3 - -; -; MASTER CONTROLS -; - -VA_GetMasterVolume(channel="", device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) - return - if channel = - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(aev, vol) - else - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(aev, channel-1, vol) - ObjRelease(aev) - return Round(vol*100,3) -} - -VA_SetMasterVolume(vol, channel="", device_desc="playback") -{ - vol := vol>100 ? 100 : vol<0 ? 0 : vol - if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) - return - if channel = - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(aev, vol/100) - else - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(aev, channel-1, vol/100) - ObjRelease(aev) -} - -VA_GetMasterChannelCount(device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) - return - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelCount(aev, count) - ObjRelease(aev) - return count -} - -VA_SetMasterMute(mute, device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) - return - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMute(aev, mute) - ObjRelease(aev) -} - -VA_GetMasterMute(device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) - return - VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMute(aev, mute) - ObjRelease(aev) - return mute -} - -; -; SUBUNIT CONTROLS -; - -VA_GetVolume(subunit_desc="1", channel="", device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! avl := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC}") - return - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(avl, channel_count) - if channel = - { - vol = 0 - - Loop, %channel_count% - { - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, A_Index-1, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(avl, A_Index-1, this_vol) - this_vol := VA_dB2Scalar(this_vol, min_dB, max_dB) - - ; "Speakers Properties" reports the highest channel as the volume. - if (this_vol > vol) - vol := this_vol - } - } - else if channel between 1 and channel_count - { - channel -= 1 - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, channel, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(avl, channel, vol) - vol := VA_dB2Scalar(vol, min_dB, max_dB) - } - ObjRelease(avl) - return vol -} - -VA_SetVolume(vol, subunit_desc="1", channel="", device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! avl := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC}") - return - - vol := vol<0 ? 0 : vol>100 ? 100 : vol - - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(avl, channel_count) - - if channel = - { - ; Simple method -- resets balance to "center": - ;VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevelUniform(avl, vol) - - vol_max = 0 - - Loop, %channel_count% - { - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, A_Index-1, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(avl, A_Index-1, this_vol) - this_vol := VA_dB2Scalar(this_vol, min_dB, max_dB) - - channel%A_Index%vol := this_vol - channel%A_Index%min := min_dB - channel%A_Index%max := max_dB - - ; Scale all channels relative to the loudest channel. - ; (This is how Vista's "Speakers Properties" dialog seems to work.) - if (this_vol > vol_max) - vol_max := this_vol - } - - Loop, %channel_count% - { - this_vol := vol_max ? channel%A_Index%vol / vol_max * vol : vol - this_vol := VA_Scalar2dB(this_vol/100, channel%A_Index%min, channel%A_Index%max) - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevel(avl, A_Index-1, this_vol) - } - } - else if channel between 1 and %channel_count% - { - channel -= 1 - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, channel, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevel(avl, channel, VA_Scalar2dB(vol/100, min_dB, max_dB)) - } - ObjRelease(avl) -} - -VA_GetChannelCount(subunit_desc="1", device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! avl := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC}") - return - VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(avl, channel_count) - ObjRelease(avl) - return channel_count -} - -VA_SetMute(mute, subunit_desc="1", device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! amute := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{DF45AEEA-B74A-4B6B-AFAD-2366B6AA012E}") - return - VA_IAudioMute_SetMute(amute, mute) - ObjRelease(amute) -} - -VA_GetMute(subunit_desc="1", device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! amute := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{DF45AEEA-B74A-4B6B-AFAD-2366B6AA012E}") - return - VA_IAudioMute_GetMute(amute, muted) - ObjRelease(amute) - return muted -} - -; -; AUDIO METERING -; - -VA_GetAudioMeter(device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) - return 0 - VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{C02216F6-8C67-4B5B-9D00-D008E73E0064}", 7, 0, audioMeter) - ObjRelease(device) - return audioMeter -} - -VA_GetDevicePeriod(device_desc, ByRef default_period, ByRef minimum_period="") -{ - defaultPeriod := minimumPeriod := 0 - if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) - return false - VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{1CB9AD4C-DBFA-4c32-B178-C2F568A703B2}", 7, 0, audioClient) - ObjRelease(device) - ; IAudioClient::GetDevicePeriod - DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(audioClient+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr",audioClient, "int64*",default_period, "int64*",minimum_period) - ; Convert 100-nanosecond units to milliseconds. - default_period /= 10000 - minimum_period /= 10000 - ObjRelease(audioClient) - return true -} - -VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc="playback") -{ - if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) - return 0 - VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{5CDF2C82-841E-4546-9722-0CF74078229A}", 7, 0, endpointVolume) - ObjRelease(device) - return endpointVolume -} - -VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, subunit_iid) -{ - if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) - return 0 - subunit := VA_FindSubunit(device, subunit_desc, subunit_iid) - ObjRelease(device) - return subunit -} - -VA_FindSubunit(device, target_desc, target_iid) -{ - if target_desc is integer - target_index := target_desc - else - RegExMatch(target_desc, "(?<_name>.*?)(?::(?<_index>\d+))?$", target) - ; v2.01: Since target_name is now a regular expression, default to case-insensitive mode if no options are specified. - if !RegExMatch(target_name,"^[^\(]+\)") - target_name := "i)" target_name - r := VA_EnumSubunits(device, "VA_FindSubunitCallback", target_name, target_iid - , Object(0, target_index ? target_index : 1, 1, 0)) - return r -} - -VA_FindSubunitCallback(part, interface, index) -{ - index[1] := index[1] + 1 ; current += 1 - if (index[0] == index[1]) ; target == current ? - { - ObjAddRef(interface) - return interface - } -} - -VA_EnumSubunits(device, callback, target_name="", target_iid="", callback_param="") -{ - VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{2A07407E-6497-4A18-9787-32F79BD0D98F}", 7, 0, deviceTopology) - VA_IDeviceTopology_GetConnector(deviceTopology, 0, conn) - ObjRelease(deviceTopology) - VA_IConnector_GetConnectedTo(conn, conn_to) - VA_IConnector_GetDataFlow(conn, data_flow) - ObjRelease(conn) - if !conn_to - return ; blank to indicate error - part := ComObjQuery(conn_to, "{AE2DE0E4-5BCA-4F2D-AA46-5D13F8FDB3A9}") ; IID_IPart - ObjRelease(conn_to) - if !part - return - r := VA_EnumSubunitsEx(part, data_flow, callback, target_name, target_iid, callback_param) - ObjRelease(part) - return r ; value returned by callback, or zero. -} - -VA_EnumSubunitsEx(part, data_flow, callback, target_name="", target_iid="", callback_param="") -{ - r := 0 - - VA_IPart_GetPartType(part, type) - - if type = 1 ; Subunit - { - VA_IPart_GetName(part, name) - - ; v2.01: target_name is now a regular expression. - if RegExMatch(name, target_name) - { - if target_iid = - r := %callback%(part, 0, callback_param) - else - if VA_IPart_Activate(part, 7, target_iid, interface) = 0 - { - r := %callback%(part, interface, callback_param) - ; The callback is responsible for calling ObjAddRef() - ; if it intends to keep the interface pointer. - ObjRelease(interface) - } - - if r - return r ; early termination - } - } - - if data_flow = 0 - VA_IPart_EnumPartsIncoming(part, parts) - else - VA_IPart_EnumPartsOutgoing(part, parts) - - VA_IPartsList_GetCount(parts, count) - Loop %count% - { - VA_IPartsList_GetPart(parts, A_Index-1, subpart) - r := VA_EnumSubunitsEx(subpart, data_flow, callback, target_name, target_iid, callback_param) - ObjRelease(subpart) - if r - break ; early termination - } - ObjRelease(parts) - return r ; continue/finished enumeration -} - -; device_desc = device_id -; | ( friendly_name | 'playback' | 'capture' ) [ ':' index ] -VA_GetDevice(device_desc="playback") -{ - static CLSID_MMDeviceEnumerator := "{BCDE0395-E52F-467C-8E3D-C4579291692E}" - , IID_IMMDeviceEnumerator := "{A95664D2-9614-4F35-A746-DE8DB63617E6}" - if !(deviceEnumerator := ComObjCreate(CLSID_MMDeviceEnumerator, IID_IMMDeviceEnumerator)) - return 0 - - device := 0 - - if VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDevice(deviceEnumerator, device_desc, device) = 0 - goto VA_GetDevice_Return - - if device_desc is integer - { - m2 := device_desc - if m2 >= 4096 ; Probably a device pointer, passed here indirectly via VA_GetAudioMeter or such. - { - ObjAddRef(device := m2) - goto VA_GetDevice_Return - } - } - else - RegExMatch(device_desc, "(.*?)\s*(?::(\d+))?$", m) - - if m1 in playback,p - m1 := "", flow := 0 ; eRender - else if m1 in capture,c - m1 := "", flow := 1 ; eCapture - else if (m1 . m2) = "" ; no name or number specified - m1 := "", flow := 0 ; eRender (default) - else - flow := 2 ; eAll - - if (m1 . m2) = "" ; no name or number (maybe "playback" or "capture") - { - VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(deviceEnumerator, flow, 0, device) - goto VA_GetDevice_Return - } - - VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_EnumAudioEndpoints(deviceEnumerator, flow, 1, devices) - - if m1 = - { - VA_IMMDeviceCollection_Item(devices, m2-1, device) - goto VA_GetDevice_Return - } - - VA_IMMDeviceCollection_GetCount(devices, count) - index := 0 - Loop % count - if VA_IMMDeviceCollection_Item(devices, A_Index-1, device) = 0 - if InStr(VA_GetDeviceName(device), m1) && (m2 = "" || ++index = m2) - goto VA_GetDevice_Return - else - ObjRelease(device), device:=0 - -VA_GetDevice_Return: - ObjRelease(deviceEnumerator) - if devices - ObjRelease(devices) - - return device ; may be 0 -} - -VA_GetDeviceName(device) -{ - static PKEY_Device_FriendlyName - if !VarSetCapacity(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName) - VarSetCapacity(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, 20) - ,VA_GUID(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName :="{A45C254E-DF1C-4EFD-8020-67D146A850E0}") - ,NumPut(14, PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, 16) - VarSetCapacity(prop, 16) - VA_IMMDevice_OpenPropertyStore(device, 0, store) - ; store->GetValue(.., [out] prop) - DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(store+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", store, "ptr", &PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, "ptr", &prop) - ObjRelease(store) - VA_WStrOut(deviceName := NumGet(prop,8)) - return deviceName -} - -VA_SetDefaultEndpoint(device_desc, role) -{ - /* Roles: - eConsole = 0 ; Default Device - eMultimedia = 1 - eCommunications = 2 ; Default Communications Device - */ - if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) - return 0 - if VA_IMMDevice_GetId(device, id) = 0 - { - cfg := ComObjCreate("{294935CE-F637-4E7C-A41B-AB255460B862}" - , "{568b9108-44bf-40b4-9006-86afe5b5a620}") - hr := VA_xIPolicyConfigVista_SetDefaultEndpoint(cfg, id, role) - ObjRelease(cfg) - } - ObjRelease(device) - return hr = 0 -} - - -; -; HELPERS -; - -; Convert string to binary GUID structure. -VA_GUID(ByRef guid_out, guid_in="%guid_out%") { - if (guid_in == "%guid_out%") - guid_in := guid_out - if guid_in is integer - return guid_in - VarSetCapacity(guid_out, 16, 0) - DllCall("ole32\CLSIDFromString", "wstr", guid_in, "ptr", &guid_out) - return &guid_out -} - -; Convert binary GUID structure to string. -VA_GUIDOut(ByRef guid) { - VarSetCapacity(buf, 78) - DllCall("ole32\StringFromGUID2", "ptr", &guid, "ptr", &buf, "int", 39) - guid := StrGet(&buf, "UTF-16") -} - -; Convert COM-allocated wide char string pointer to usable string. -VA_WStrOut(ByRef str) { - str := StrGet(ptr := str, "UTF-16") - DllCall("ole32\CoTaskMemFree", "ptr", ptr) ; FREES THE STRING. -} - -VA_dB2Scalar(dB, min_dB, max_dB) { - min_s := 10**(min_dB/20), max_s := 10**(max_dB/20) - return ((10**(dB/20))-min_s)/(max_s-min_s)*100 -} - -VA_Scalar2dB(s, min_dB, max_dB) { - min_s := 10**(min_dB/20), max_s := 10**(max_dB/20) - return log((max_s-min_s)*s+min_s)*20 -} - - -; -; INTERFACE WRAPPERS -; Reference: Core Audio APIs in Windows Vista -- Programming Reference -; http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679156(VS.85).aspx -; - -; -; IMMDevice : {D666063F-1587-4E43-81F1-B948E807363F} -; -VA_IMMDevice_Activate(this, iid, ClsCtx, ActivationParams, ByRef Interface) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "uint", ClsCtx, "uint", ActivationParams, "ptr*", Interface) -} -VA_IMMDevice_OpenPropertyStore(this, Access, ByRef Properties) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Access, "ptr*", Properties) -} -VA_IMMDevice_GetId(this, ByRef Id) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Id) - VA_WStrOut(Id) - return hr -} -VA_IMMDevice_GetState(this, ByRef State) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", State) -} - -; -; IDeviceTopology : {2A07407E-6497-4A18-9787-32F79BD0D98F} -; -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetConnectorCount(this, ByRef Count) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) -} -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetConnector(this, Index, ByRef Connector) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Connector) -} -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetSubunitCount(this, ByRef Count) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) -} -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetSubunit(this, Index, ByRef Subunit) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Subunit) -} -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetPartById(this, Id, ByRef Part) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Id, "ptr*", Part) -} -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetDeviceId(this, ByRef DeviceId) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", DeviceId) - VA_WStrOut(DeviceId) - return hr -} -VA_IDeviceTopology_GetSignalPath(this, PartFrom, PartTo, RejectMixedPaths, ByRef Parts) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", PartFrom, "ptr", PartTo, "int", RejectMixedPaths, "ptr*", Parts) -} - -; -; IConnector : {9c2c4058-23f5-41de-877a-df3af236a09e} -; -VA_IConnector_GetType(this, ByRef Type) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Type) -} -VA_IConnector_GetDataFlow(this, ByRef Flow) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Flow) -} -VA_IConnector_ConnectTo(this, ConnectTo) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", ConnectTo) -} -VA_IConnector_Disconnect(this) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) -} -VA_IConnector_IsConnected(this, ByRef Connected) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Connected) -} -VA_IConnector_GetConnectedTo(this, ByRef ConTo) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", ConTo) -} -VA_IConnector_GetConnectorIdConnectedTo(this, ByRef ConnectorId) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", ConnectorId) - VA_WStrOut(ConnectorId) - return hr -} -VA_IConnector_GetDeviceIdConnectedTo(this, ByRef DeviceId) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", DeviceId) - VA_WStrOut(DeviceId) - return hr -} - -; -; IPart : {AE2DE0E4-5BCA-4F2D-AA46-5D13F8FDB3A9} -; -VA_IPart_GetName(this, ByRef Name) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Name) - VA_WStrOut(Name) - return hr -} -VA_IPart_GetLocalId(this, ByRef Id) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Id) -} -VA_IPart_GetGlobalId(this, ByRef GlobalId) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", GlobalId) - VA_WStrOut(GlobalId) - return hr -} -VA_IPart_GetPartType(this, ByRef PartType) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", PartType) -} -VA_IPart_GetSubType(this, ByRef SubType) { - VarSetCapacity(SubType,16,0) - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", &SubType) - VA_GUIDOut(SubType) - return hr -} -VA_IPart_GetControlInterfaceCount(this, ByRef Count) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) -} -VA_IPart_GetControlInterface(this, Index, ByRef InterfaceDesc) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", InterfaceDesc) -} -VA_IPart_EnumPartsIncoming(this, ByRef Parts) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Parts) -} -VA_IPart_EnumPartsOutgoing(this, ByRef Parts) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Parts) -} -VA_IPart_GetTopologyObject(this, ByRef Topology) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Topology) -} -VA_IPart_Activate(this, ClsContext, iid, ByRef Object) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", ClsContext, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "ptr*", Object) -} -VA_IPart_RegisterControlChangeCallback(this, iid, Notify) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "ptr", Notify) -} -VA_IPart_UnregisterControlChangeCallback(this, Notify) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+15*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Notify) -} - -; -; IPartsList : {6DAA848C-5EB0-45CC-AEA5-998A2CDA1FFB} -; -VA_IPartsList_GetCount(this, ByRef Count) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) -} -VA_IPartsList_GetPart(this, INdex, ByRef Part) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Part) -} - -; -; IAudioEndpointVolume : {5CDF2C82-841E-4546-9722-0CF74078229A} -; -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_RegisterControlChangeNotify(this, Notify) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Notify) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_UnregisterControlChangeNotify(this, Notify) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Notify) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelCount(this, ByRef ChannelCount) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", ChannelCount) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMasterVolumeLevel(this, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(this, Level, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float", Level, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMasterVolumeLevel(this, ByRef LevelDB) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", LevelDB) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(this, ByRef Level) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", Level) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetChannelVolumeLevel(this, Channel, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(this, Channel, Level, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float", Level, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelVolumeLevel(this, Channel, ByRef LevelDB) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", LevelDB) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(this, Channel, ByRef Level) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", Level) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMute(this, Mute, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", Mute, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMute(this, ByRef Mute) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+15*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Mute) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetVolumeStepInfo(this, ByRef Step, ByRef StepCount) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+16*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Step, "uint*", StepCount) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_VolumeStepUp(this, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+17*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_VolumeStepDown(this, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+18*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_QueryHardwareSupport(this, ByRef HardwareSupportMask) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+19*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", HardwareSupportMask) -} -VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetVolumeRange(this, ByRef MinDB, ByRef MaxDB, ByRef IncrementDB) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+20*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", MinDB, "float*", MaxDB, "float*", IncrementDB) -} - -; -; IPerChannelDbLevel : {C2F8E001-F205-4BC9-99BC-C13B1E048CCB} -; IAudioVolumeLevel : {7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC} -; IAudioBass : {A2B1A1D9-4DB3-425D-A2B2-BD335CB3E2E5} -; IAudioMidrange : {5E54B6D7-B44B-40D9-9A9E-E691D9CE6EDF} -; IAudioTreble : {0A717812-694E-4907-B74B-BAFA5CFDCA7B} -; -VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(this, ByRef Channels) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Channels) -} -VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(this, Channel, ByRef MinLevelDB, ByRef MaxLevelDB, ByRef Stepping) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", MinLevelDB, "float*", MaxLevelDB, "float*", Stepping) -} -VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(this, Channel, ByRef LevelDB) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", LevelDB) -} -VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevel(this, Channel, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevelUniform(this, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevelAllChannels(this, LevelsDB, ChannelCount, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", LevelsDB, "uint", ChannelCount, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} - -; -; IAudioMute : {DF45AEEA-B74A-4B6B-AFAD-2366B6AA012E} -; -VA_IAudioMute_SetMute(this, Muted, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", Muted, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioMute_GetMute(this, ByRef Muted) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Muted) -} - -; -; IAudioAutoGainControl : {85401FD4-6DE4-4b9d-9869-2D6753A82F3C} -; -VA_IAudioAutoGainControl_GetEnabled(this, ByRef Enabled) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Enabled) -} -VA_IAudioAutoGainControl_SetEnabled(this, Enable, GuidEventContext="") { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", Enable, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) -} - -; -; IAudioMeterInformation : {C02216F6-8C67-4B5B-9D00-D008E73E0064} -; -VA_IAudioMeterInformation_GetPeakValue(this, ByRef Peak) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", Peak) -} -VA_IAudioMeterInformation_GetMeteringChannelCount(this, ByRef ChannelCount) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", ChannelCount) -} -VA_IAudioMeterInformation_GetChannelsPeakValues(this, ChannelCount, PeakValues) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", ChannelCount, "ptr", PeakValues) -} -VA_IAudioMeterInformation_QueryHardwareSupport(this, ByRef HardwareSupportMask) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", HardwareSupportMask) -} - -; -; IAudioClient : {1CB9AD4C-DBFA-4c32-B178-C2F568A703B2} -; -VA_IAudioClient_Initialize(this, ShareMode, StreamFlags, BufferDuration, Periodicity, Format, AudioSessionGuid) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", ShareMode, "uint", StreamFlags, "int64", BufferDuration, "int64", Periodicity, "ptr", Format, "ptr", VA_GUID(AudioSessionGuid)) -} -VA_IAudioClient_GetBufferSize(this, ByRef NumBufferFrames) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", NumBufferFrames) -} -VA_IAudioClient_GetStreamLatency(this, ByRef Latency) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int64*", Latency) -} -VA_IAudioClient_GetCurrentPadding(this, ByRef NumPaddingFrames) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", NumPaddingFrames) -} -VA_IAudioClient_IsFormatSupported(this, ShareMode, Format, ByRef ClosestMatch) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", ShareMode, "ptr", Format, "ptr*", ClosestMatch) -} -VA_IAudioClient_GetMixFormat(this, ByRef Format) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Format) -} -VA_IAudioClient_GetDevicePeriod(this, ByRef DefaultDevicePeriod, ByRef MinimumDevicePeriod) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int64*", DefaultDevicePeriod, "int64*", MinimumDevicePeriod) -} -VA_IAudioClient_Start(this) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) -} -VA_IAudioClient_Stop(this) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) -} -VA_IAudioClient_Reset(this) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) -} -VA_IAudioClient_SetEventHandle(this, eventHandle) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", eventHandle) -} -VA_IAudioClient_GetService(this, iid, ByRef Service) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "ptr*", Service) -} - -; -; IAudioSessionControl : {F4B1A599-7266-4319-A8CA-E70ACB11E8CD} -; -/* -AudioSessionStateInactive = 0 -AudioSessionStateActive = 1 -AudioSessionStateExpired = 2 -*/ -VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetState(this, ByRef State) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", State) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetDisplayName(this, ByRef DisplayName) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", DisplayName) - VA_WStrOut(DisplayName) - return hr -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_SetDisplayName(this, DisplayName, EventContext) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", DisplayName, "ptr", VA_GUID(EventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetIconPath(this, ByRef IconPath) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", IconPath) - VA_WStrOut(IconPath) - return hr -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_SetIconPath(this, IconPath) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", IconPath) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetGroupingParam(this, ByRef Param) { - VarSetCapacity(Param,16,0) - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", &Param) - VA_GUIDOut(Param) - return hr -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_SetGroupingParam(this, Param, EventContext) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(Param), "ptr", VA_GUID(EventContext)) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_RegisterAudioSessionNotification(this, NewNotifications) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", NewNotifications) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl_UnregisterAudioSessionNotification(this, NewNotifications) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", NewNotifications) -} - -; -; IAudioSessionManager : {BFA971F1-4D5E-40BB-935E-967039BFBEE4} -; -VA_IAudioSessionManager_GetAudioSessionControl(this, AudioSessionGuid) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(AudioSessionGuid)) -} -VA_IAudioSessionManager_GetSimpleAudioVolume(this, AudioSessionGuid, StreamFlags, ByRef AudioVolume) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(AudioSessionGuid), "uint", StreamFlags, "uint*", AudioVolume) -} - -; -; IMMDeviceEnumerator -; -VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_EnumAudioEndpoints(this, DataFlow, StateMask, ByRef Devices) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", DataFlow, "uint", StateMask, "ptr*", Devices) -} -VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(this, DataFlow, Role, ByRef Endpoint) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", DataFlow, "int", Role, "ptr*", Endpoint) -} -VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDevice(this, id, ByRef Device) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", id, "ptr*", Device) -} -VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_RegisterEndpointNotificationCallback(this, Client) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Client) -} -VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_UnregisterEndpointNotificationCallback(this, Client) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Client) -} - -; -; IMMDeviceCollection -; -VA_IMMDeviceCollection_GetCount(this, ByRef Count) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) -} -VA_IMMDeviceCollection_Item(this, Index, ByRef Device) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Device) -} - -; -; IControlInterface -; -VA_IControlInterface_GetName(this, ByRef Name) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Name) - VA_WStrOut(Name) - return hr -} -VA_IControlInterface_GetIID(this, ByRef IID) { - VarSetCapacity(IID,16,0) - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", &IID) - VA_GUIDOut(IID) - return hr -} - - -/* - INTERFACES REQUIRING WINDOWS 7 / SERVER 2008 R2 -*/ - -; -; IAudioSessionControl2 : {bfb7ff88-7239-4fc9-8fa2-07c950be9c6d} -; extends IAudioSessionControl -; -VA_IAudioSessionControl2_GetSessionIdentifier(this, ByRef id) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", id) - VA_WStrOut(id) - return hr -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl2_GetSessionInstanceIdentifier(this, ByRef id) { - hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", id) - VA_WStrOut(id) - return hr -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl2_GetProcessId(this, ByRef pid) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", pid) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl2_IsSystemSoundsSession(this) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+15*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) -} -VA_IAudioSessionControl2_SetDuckingPreference(this, OptOut) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+16*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", OptOut) -} - -; -; IAudioSessionManager2 : {77AA99A0-1BD6-484F-8BC7-2C654C9A9B6F} -; extends IAudioSessionManager -; -VA_IAudioSessionManager2_GetSessionEnumerator(this, ByRef SessionEnum) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", SessionEnum) -} -VA_IAudioSessionManager2_RegisterSessionNotification(this, SessionNotification) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) -} -VA_IAudioSessionManager2_UnregisterSessionNotification(this, SessionNotification) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) -} -VA_IAudioSessionManager2_RegisterDuckNotification(this, SessionNotification) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) -} -VA_IAudioSessionManager2_UnregisterDuckNotification(this, SessionNotification) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) -} - -; -; IAudioSessionEnumerator : {E2F5BB11-0570-40CA-ACDD-3AA01277DEE8} -; -VA_IAudioSessionEnumerator_GetCount(this, ByRef SessionCount) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", SessionCount) -} -VA_IAudioSessionEnumerator_GetSession(this, SessionCount, ByRef Session) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", SessionCount, "ptr*", Session) -} - - -/* - UNDOCUMENTED INTERFACES -*/ - -; Thanks to Dave Amenta for publishing this interface - http://goo.gl/6L93L -; IID := "{568b9108-44bf-40b4-9006-86afe5b5a620}" -; CLSID := "{294935CE-F637-4E7C-A41B-AB255460B862}" -VA_xIPolicyConfigVista_SetDefaultEndpoint(this, DeviceId, Role) { - return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", DeviceId, "int", Role) -} +; VA v2.3 + +; +; MASTER CONTROLS +; + +VA_GetMasterVolume(channel="", device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) + return + if channel = + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(aev, vol) + else + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(aev, channel-1, vol) + ObjRelease(aev) + return Round(vol*100,3) +} + +VA_SetMasterVolume(vol, channel="", device_desc="playback") +{ + vol := vol>100 ? 100 : vol<0 ? 0 : vol + if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) + return + if channel = + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(aev, vol/100) + else + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(aev, channel-1, vol/100) + ObjRelease(aev) +} + +VA_GetMasterChannelCount(device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) + return + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelCount(aev, count) + ObjRelease(aev) + return count +} + +VA_SetMasterMute(mute, device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) + return + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMute(aev, mute) + ObjRelease(aev) +} + +VA_GetMasterMute(device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! aev := VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc) + return + VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMute(aev, mute) + ObjRelease(aev) + return mute +} + +; +; SUBUNIT CONTROLS +; + +VA_GetVolume(subunit_desc="1", channel="", device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! avl := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC}") + return + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(avl, channel_count) + if channel = + { + vol = 0 + + Loop, %channel_count% + { + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, A_Index-1, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(avl, A_Index-1, this_vol) + this_vol := VA_dB2Scalar(this_vol, min_dB, max_dB) + + ; "Speakers Properties" reports the highest channel as the volume. + if (this_vol > vol) + vol := this_vol + } + } + else if channel between 1 and channel_count + { + channel -= 1 + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, channel, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(avl, channel, vol) + vol := VA_dB2Scalar(vol, min_dB, max_dB) + } + ObjRelease(avl) + return vol +} + +VA_SetVolume(vol, subunit_desc="1", channel="", device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! avl := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC}") + return + + vol := vol<0 ? 0 : vol>100 ? 100 : vol + + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(avl, channel_count) + + if channel = + { + ; Simple method -- resets balance to "center": + ;VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevelUniform(avl, vol) + + vol_max = 0 + + Loop, %channel_count% + { + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, A_Index-1, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(avl, A_Index-1, this_vol) + this_vol := VA_dB2Scalar(this_vol, min_dB, max_dB) + + channel%A_Index%vol := this_vol + channel%A_Index%min := min_dB + channel%A_Index%max := max_dB + + ; Scale all channels relative to the loudest channel. + ; (This is how Vista's "Speakers Properties" dialog seems to work.) + if (this_vol > vol_max) + vol_max := this_vol + } + + Loop, %channel_count% + { + this_vol := vol_max ? channel%A_Index%vol / vol_max * vol : vol + this_vol := VA_Scalar2dB(this_vol/100, channel%A_Index%min, channel%A_Index%max) + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevel(avl, A_Index-1, this_vol) + } + } + else if channel between 1 and %channel_count% + { + channel -= 1 + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(avl, channel, min_dB, max_dB, step_dB) + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevel(avl, channel, VA_Scalar2dB(vol/100, min_dB, max_dB)) + } + ObjRelease(avl) +} + +VA_GetChannelCount(subunit_desc="1", device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! avl := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC}") + return + VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(avl, channel_count) + ObjRelease(avl) + return channel_count +} + +VA_SetMute(mute, subunit_desc="1", device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! amute := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{DF45AEEA-B74A-4B6B-AFAD-2366B6AA012E}") + return + VA_IAudioMute_SetMute(amute, mute) + ObjRelease(amute) +} + +VA_GetMute(subunit_desc="1", device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! amute := VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, "{DF45AEEA-B74A-4B6B-AFAD-2366B6AA012E}") + return + VA_IAudioMute_GetMute(amute, muted) + ObjRelease(amute) + return muted +} + +; +; AUDIO METERING +; + +VA_GetAudioMeter(device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) + return 0 + VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{C02216F6-8C67-4B5B-9D00-D008E73E0064}", 7, 0, audioMeter) + ObjRelease(device) + return audioMeter +} + +VA_GetDevicePeriod(device_desc, ByRef default_period, ByRef minimum_period="") +{ + defaultPeriod := minimumPeriod := 0 + if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) + return false + VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{1CB9AD4C-DBFA-4c32-B178-C2F568A703B2}", 7, 0, audioClient) + ObjRelease(device) + ; IAudioClient::GetDevicePeriod + DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(audioClient+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr",audioClient, "int64*",default_period, "int64*",minimum_period) + ; Convert 100-nanosecond units to milliseconds. + default_period /= 10000 + minimum_period /= 10000 + ObjRelease(audioClient) + return true +} + +VA_GetAudioEndpointVolume(device_desc="playback") +{ + if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) + return 0 + VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{5CDF2C82-841E-4546-9722-0CF74078229A}", 7, 0, endpointVolume) + ObjRelease(device) + return endpointVolume +} + +VA_GetDeviceSubunit(device_desc, subunit_desc, subunit_iid) +{ + if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) + return 0 + subunit := VA_FindSubunit(device, subunit_desc, subunit_iid) + ObjRelease(device) + return subunit +} + +VA_FindSubunit(device, target_desc, target_iid) +{ + if target_desc is integer + target_index := target_desc + else + RegExMatch(target_desc, "(?<_name>.*?)(?::(?<_index>\d+))?$", target) + ; v2.01: Since target_name is now a regular expression, default to case-insensitive mode if no options are specified. + if !RegExMatch(target_name,"^[^\(]+\)") + target_name := "i)" target_name + r := VA_EnumSubunits(device, "VA_FindSubunitCallback", target_name, target_iid + , Object(0, target_index ? target_index : 1, 1, 0)) + return r +} + +VA_FindSubunitCallback(part, interface, index) +{ + index[1] := index[1] + 1 ; current += 1 + if (index[0] == index[1]) ; target == current ? + { + ObjAddRef(interface) + return interface + } +} + +VA_EnumSubunits(device, callback, target_name="", target_iid="", callback_param="") +{ + VA_IMMDevice_Activate(device, "{2A07407E-6497-4A18-9787-32F79BD0D98F}", 7, 0, deviceTopology) + VA_IDeviceTopology_GetConnector(deviceTopology, 0, conn) + ObjRelease(deviceTopology) + VA_IConnector_GetConnectedTo(conn, conn_to) + VA_IConnector_GetDataFlow(conn, data_flow) + ObjRelease(conn) + if !conn_to + return ; blank to indicate error + part := ComObjQuery(conn_to, "{AE2DE0E4-5BCA-4F2D-AA46-5D13F8FDB3A9}") ; IID_IPart + ObjRelease(conn_to) + if !part + return + r := VA_EnumSubunitsEx(part, data_flow, callback, target_name, target_iid, callback_param) + ObjRelease(part) + return r ; value returned by callback, or zero. +} + +VA_EnumSubunitsEx(part, data_flow, callback, target_name="", target_iid="", callback_param="") +{ + r := 0 + + VA_IPart_GetPartType(part, type) + + if type = 1 ; Subunit + { + VA_IPart_GetName(part, name) + + ; v2.01: target_name is now a regular expression. + if RegExMatch(name, target_name) + { + if target_iid = + r := %callback%(part, 0, callback_param) + else + if VA_IPart_Activate(part, 7, target_iid, interface) = 0 + { + r := %callback%(part, interface, callback_param) + ; The callback is responsible for calling ObjAddRef() + ; if it intends to keep the interface pointer. + ObjRelease(interface) + } + + if r + return r ; early termination + } + } + + if data_flow = 0 + VA_IPart_EnumPartsIncoming(part, parts) + else + VA_IPart_EnumPartsOutgoing(part, parts) + + VA_IPartsList_GetCount(parts, count) + Loop %count% + { + VA_IPartsList_GetPart(parts, A_Index-1, subpart) + r := VA_EnumSubunitsEx(subpart, data_flow, callback, target_name, target_iid, callback_param) + ObjRelease(subpart) + if r + break ; early termination + } + ObjRelease(parts) + return r ; continue/finished enumeration +} + +; device_desc = device_id +; | ( friendly_name | 'playback' | 'capture' ) [ ':' index ] +VA_GetDevice(device_desc="playback") +{ + static CLSID_MMDeviceEnumerator := "{BCDE0395-E52F-467C-8E3D-C4579291692E}" + , IID_IMMDeviceEnumerator := "{A95664D2-9614-4F35-A746-DE8DB63617E6}" + if !(deviceEnumerator := ComObjCreate(CLSID_MMDeviceEnumerator, IID_IMMDeviceEnumerator)) + return 0 + + device := 0 + + if VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDevice(deviceEnumerator, device_desc, device) = 0 + goto VA_GetDevice_Return + + if device_desc is integer + { + m2 := device_desc + if m2 >= 4096 ; Probably a device pointer, passed here indirectly via VA_GetAudioMeter or such. + { + ObjAddRef(device := m2) + goto VA_GetDevice_Return + } + } + else + RegExMatch(device_desc, "(.*?)\s*(?::(\d+))?$", m) + + if m1 in playback,p + m1 := "", flow := 0 ; eRender + else if m1 in capture,c + m1 := "", flow := 1 ; eCapture + else if (m1 . m2) = "" ; no name or number specified + m1 := "", flow := 0 ; eRender (default) + else + flow := 2 ; eAll + + if (m1 . m2) = "" ; no name or number (maybe "playback" or "capture") + { + VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(deviceEnumerator, flow, 0, device) + goto VA_GetDevice_Return + } + + VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_EnumAudioEndpoints(deviceEnumerator, flow, 1, devices) + + if m1 = + { + VA_IMMDeviceCollection_Item(devices, m2-1, device) + goto VA_GetDevice_Return + } + + VA_IMMDeviceCollection_GetCount(devices, count) + index := 0 + Loop % count + if VA_IMMDeviceCollection_Item(devices, A_Index-1, device) = 0 + if InStr(VA_GetDeviceName(device), m1) && (m2 = "" || ++index = m2) + goto VA_GetDevice_Return + else + ObjRelease(device), device:=0 + +VA_GetDevice_Return: + ObjRelease(deviceEnumerator) + if devices + ObjRelease(devices) + + return device ; may be 0 +} + +VA_GetDeviceName(device) +{ + static PKEY_Device_FriendlyName + if !VarSetCapacity(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName) + VarSetCapacity(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, 20) + ,VA_GUID(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName :="{A45C254E-DF1C-4EFD-8020-67D146A850E0}") + ,NumPut(14, PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, 16) + VarSetCapacity(prop, 16) + VA_IMMDevice_OpenPropertyStore(device, 0, store) + ; store->GetValue(.., [out] prop) + DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(store+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", store, "ptr", &PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, "ptr", &prop) + ObjRelease(store) + VA_WStrOut(deviceName := NumGet(prop,8)) + return deviceName +} + +VA_SetDefaultEndpoint(device_desc, role) +{ + /* Roles: + eConsole = 0 ; Default Device + eMultimedia = 1 + eCommunications = 2 ; Default Communications Device + */ + if ! device := VA_GetDevice(device_desc) + return 0 + if VA_IMMDevice_GetId(device, id) = 0 + { + cfg := ComObjCreate("{294935CE-F637-4E7C-A41B-AB255460B862}" + , "{568b9108-44bf-40b4-9006-86afe5b5a620}") + hr := VA_xIPolicyConfigVista_SetDefaultEndpoint(cfg, id, role) + ObjRelease(cfg) + } + ObjRelease(device) + return hr = 0 +} + + +; +; HELPERS +; + +; Convert string to binary GUID structure. +VA_GUID(ByRef guid_out, guid_in="%guid_out%") { + if (guid_in == "%guid_out%") + guid_in := guid_out + if guid_in is integer + return guid_in + VarSetCapacity(guid_out, 16, 0) + DllCall("ole32\CLSIDFromString", "wstr", guid_in, "ptr", &guid_out) + return &guid_out +} + +; Convert binary GUID structure to string. +VA_GUIDOut(ByRef guid) { + VarSetCapacity(buf, 78) + DllCall("ole32\StringFromGUID2", "ptr", &guid, "ptr", &buf, "int", 39) + guid := StrGet(&buf, "UTF-16") +} + +; Convert COM-allocated wide char string pointer to usable string. +VA_WStrOut(ByRef str) { + str := StrGet(ptr := str, "UTF-16") + DllCall("ole32\CoTaskMemFree", "ptr", ptr) ; FREES THE STRING. +} + +VA_dB2Scalar(dB, min_dB, max_dB) { + min_s := 10**(min_dB/20), max_s := 10**(max_dB/20) + return ((10**(dB/20))-min_s)/(max_s-min_s)*100 +} + +VA_Scalar2dB(s, min_dB, max_dB) { + min_s := 10**(min_dB/20), max_s := 10**(max_dB/20) + return log((max_s-min_s)*s+min_s)*20 +} + + +; +; INTERFACE WRAPPERS +; Reference: Core Audio APIs in Windows Vista -- Programming Reference +; http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679156(VS.85).aspx +; + +; +; IMMDevice : {D666063F-1587-4E43-81F1-B948E807363F} +; +VA_IMMDevice_Activate(this, iid, ClsCtx, ActivationParams, ByRef Interface) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "uint", ClsCtx, "uint", ActivationParams, "ptr*", Interface) +} +VA_IMMDevice_OpenPropertyStore(this, Access, ByRef Properties) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Access, "ptr*", Properties) +} +VA_IMMDevice_GetId(this, ByRef Id) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Id) + VA_WStrOut(Id) + return hr +} +VA_IMMDevice_GetState(this, ByRef State) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", State) +} + +; +; IDeviceTopology : {2A07407E-6497-4A18-9787-32F79BD0D98F} +; +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetConnectorCount(this, ByRef Count) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) +} +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetConnector(this, Index, ByRef Connector) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Connector) +} +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetSubunitCount(this, ByRef Count) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) +} +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetSubunit(this, Index, ByRef Subunit) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Subunit) +} +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetPartById(this, Id, ByRef Part) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Id, "ptr*", Part) +} +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetDeviceId(this, ByRef DeviceId) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", DeviceId) + VA_WStrOut(DeviceId) + return hr +} +VA_IDeviceTopology_GetSignalPath(this, PartFrom, PartTo, RejectMixedPaths, ByRef Parts) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", PartFrom, "ptr", PartTo, "int", RejectMixedPaths, "ptr*", Parts) +} + +; +; IConnector : {9c2c4058-23f5-41de-877a-df3af236a09e} +; +VA_IConnector_GetType(this, ByRef Type) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Type) +} +VA_IConnector_GetDataFlow(this, ByRef Flow) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Flow) +} +VA_IConnector_ConnectTo(this, ConnectTo) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", ConnectTo) +} +VA_IConnector_Disconnect(this) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) +} +VA_IConnector_IsConnected(this, ByRef Connected) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Connected) +} +VA_IConnector_GetConnectedTo(this, ByRef ConTo) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", ConTo) +} +VA_IConnector_GetConnectorIdConnectedTo(this, ByRef ConnectorId) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", ConnectorId) + VA_WStrOut(ConnectorId) + return hr +} +VA_IConnector_GetDeviceIdConnectedTo(this, ByRef DeviceId) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", DeviceId) + VA_WStrOut(DeviceId) + return hr +} + +; +; IPart : {AE2DE0E4-5BCA-4F2D-AA46-5D13F8FDB3A9} +; +VA_IPart_GetName(this, ByRef Name) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Name) + VA_WStrOut(Name) + return hr +} +VA_IPart_GetLocalId(this, ByRef Id) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Id) +} +VA_IPart_GetGlobalId(this, ByRef GlobalId) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", GlobalId) + VA_WStrOut(GlobalId) + return hr +} +VA_IPart_GetPartType(this, ByRef PartType) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", PartType) +} +VA_IPart_GetSubType(this, ByRef SubType) { + VarSetCapacity(SubType,16,0) + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", &SubType) + VA_GUIDOut(SubType) + return hr +} +VA_IPart_GetControlInterfaceCount(this, ByRef Count) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) +} +VA_IPart_GetControlInterface(this, Index, ByRef InterfaceDesc) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", InterfaceDesc) +} +VA_IPart_EnumPartsIncoming(this, ByRef Parts) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Parts) +} +VA_IPart_EnumPartsOutgoing(this, ByRef Parts) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Parts) +} +VA_IPart_GetTopologyObject(this, ByRef Topology) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Topology) +} +VA_IPart_Activate(this, ClsContext, iid, ByRef Object) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", ClsContext, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "ptr*", Object) +} +VA_IPart_RegisterControlChangeCallback(this, iid, Notify) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "ptr", Notify) +} +VA_IPart_UnregisterControlChangeCallback(this, Notify) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+15*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Notify) +} + +; +; IPartsList : {6DAA848C-5EB0-45CC-AEA5-998A2CDA1FFB} +; +VA_IPartsList_GetCount(this, ByRef Count) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) +} +VA_IPartsList_GetPart(this, INdex, ByRef Part) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Part) +} + +; +; IAudioEndpointVolume : {5CDF2C82-841E-4546-9722-0CF74078229A} +; +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_RegisterControlChangeNotify(this, Notify) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Notify) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_UnregisterControlChangeNotify(this, Notify) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Notify) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelCount(this, ByRef ChannelCount) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", ChannelCount) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMasterVolumeLevel(this, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(this, Level, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float", Level, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMasterVolumeLevel(this, ByRef LevelDB) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", LevelDB) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMasterVolumeLevelScalar(this, ByRef Level) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", Level) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetChannelVolumeLevel(this, Channel, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(this, Channel, Level, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float", Level, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelVolumeLevel(this, Channel, ByRef LevelDB) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", LevelDB) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetChannelVolumeLevelScalar(this, Channel, ByRef Level) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", Level) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_SetMute(this, Mute, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", Mute, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetMute(this, ByRef Mute) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+15*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Mute) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetVolumeStepInfo(this, ByRef Step, ByRef StepCount) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+16*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Step, "uint*", StepCount) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_VolumeStepUp(this, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+17*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_VolumeStepDown(this, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+18*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_QueryHardwareSupport(this, ByRef HardwareSupportMask) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+19*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", HardwareSupportMask) +} +VA_IAudioEndpointVolume_GetVolumeRange(this, ByRef MinDB, ByRef MaxDB, ByRef IncrementDB) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+20*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", MinDB, "float*", MaxDB, "float*", IncrementDB) +} + +; +; IPerChannelDbLevel : {C2F8E001-F205-4BC9-99BC-C13B1E048CCB} +; IAudioVolumeLevel : {7FB7B48F-531D-44A2-BCB3-5AD5A134B3DC} +; IAudioBass : {A2B1A1D9-4DB3-425D-A2B2-BD335CB3E2E5} +; IAudioMidrange : {5E54B6D7-B44B-40D9-9A9E-E691D9CE6EDF} +; IAudioTreble : {0A717812-694E-4907-B74B-BAFA5CFDCA7B} +; +VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetChannelCount(this, ByRef Channels) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Channels) +} +VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevelRange(this, Channel, ByRef MinLevelDB, ByRef MaxLevelDB, ByRef Stepping) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", MinLevelDB, "float*", MaxLevelDB, "float*", Stepping) +} +VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_GetLevel(this, Channel, ByRef LevelDB) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float*", LevelDB) +} +VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevel(this, Channel, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Channel, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevelUniform(this, LevelDB, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float", LevelDB, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IPerChannelDbLevel_SetLevelAllChannels(this, LevelsDB, ChannelCount, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", LevelsDB, "uint", ChannelCount, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} + +; +; IAudioMute : {DF45AEEA-B74A-4B6B-AFAD-2366B6AA012E} +; +VA_IAudioMute_SetMute(this, Muted, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", Muted, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioMute_GetMute(this, ByRef Muted) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Muted) +} + +; +; IAudioAutoGainControl : {85401FD4-6DE4-4b9d-9869-2D6753A82F3C} +; +VA_IAudioAutoGainControl_GetEnabled(this, ByRef Enabled) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", Enabled) +} +VA_IAudioAutoGainControl_SetEnabled(this, Enable, GuidEventContext="") { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", Enable, "ptr", VA_GUID(GuidEventContext)) +} + +; +; IAudioMeterInformation : {C02216F6-8C67-4B5B-9D00-D008E73E0064} +; +VA_IAudioMeterInformation_GetPeakValue(this, ByRef Peak) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "float*", Peak) +} +VA_IAudioMeterInformation_GetMeteringChannelCount(this, ByRef ChannelCount) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", ChannelCount) +} +VA_IAudioMeterInformation_GetChannelsPeakValues(this, ChannelCount, PeakValues) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", ChannelCount, "ptr", PeakValues) +} +VA_IAudioMeterInformation_QueryHardwareSupport(this, ByRef HardwareSupportMask) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", HardwareSupportMask) +} + +; +; IAudioClient : {1CB9AD4C-DBFA-4c32-B178-C2F568A703B2} +; +VA_IAudioClient_Initialize(this, ShareMode, StreamFlags, BufferDuration, Periodicity, Format, AudioSessionGuid) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", ShareMode, "uint", StreamFlags, "int64", BufferDuration, "int64", Periodicity, "ptr", Format, "ptr", VA_GUID(AudioSessionGuid)) +} +VA_IAudioClient_GetBufferSize(this, ByRef NumBufferFrames) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", NumBufferFrames) +} +VA_IAudioClient_GetStreamLatency(this, ByRef Latency) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int64*", Latency) +} +VA_IAudioClient_GetCurrentPadding(this, ByRef NumPaddingFrames) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", NumPaddingFrames) +} +VA_IAudioClient_IsFormatSupported(this, ShareMode, Format, ByRef ClosestMatch) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", ShareMode, "ptr", Format, "ptr*", ClosestMatch) +} +VA_IAudioClient_GetMixFormat(this, ByRef Format) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Format) +} +VA_IAudioClient_GetDevicePeriod(this, ByRef DefaultDevicePeriod, ByRef MinimumDevicePeriod) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int64*", DefaultDevicePeriod, "int64*", MinimumDevicePeriod) +} +VA_IAudioClient_Start(this) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) +} +VA_IAudioClient_Stop(this) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) +} +VA_IAudioClient_Reset(this) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) +} +VA_IAudioClient_SetEventHandle(this, eventHandle) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", eventHandle) +} +VA_IAudioClient_GetService(this, iid, ByRef Service) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(iid), "ptr*", Service) +} + +; +; IAudioSessionControl : {F4B1A599-7266-4319-A8CA-E70ACB11E8CD} +; +/* +AudioSessionStateInactive = 0 +AudioSessionStateActive = 1 +AudioSessionStateExpired = 2 +*/ +VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetState(this, ByRef State) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", State) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetDisplayName(this, ByRef DisplayName) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", DisplayName) + VA_WStrOut(DisplayName) + return hr +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_SetDisplayName(this, DisplayName, EventContext) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", DisplayName, "ptr", VA_GUID(EventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetIconPath(this, ByRef IconPath) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", IconPath) + VA_WStrOut(IconPath) + return hr +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_SetIconPath(this, IconPath) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", IconPath) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_GetGroupingParam(this, ByRef Param) { + VarSetCapacity(Param,16,0) + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", &Param) + VA_GUIDOut(Param) + return hr +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_SetGroupingParam(this, Param, EventContext) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(Param), "ptr", VA_GUID(EventContext)) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_RegisterAudioSessionNotification(this, NewNotifications) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+10*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", NewNotifications) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl_UnregisterAudioSessionNotification(this, NewNotifications) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+11*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", NewNotifications) +} + +; +; IAudioSessionManager : {BFA971F1-4D5E-40BB-935E-967039BFBEE4} +; +VA_IAudioSessionManager_GetAudioSessionControl(this, AudioSessionGuid) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(AudioSessionGuid)) +} +VA_IAudioSessionManager_GetSimpleAudioVolume(this, AudioSessionGuid, StreamFlags, ByRef AudioVolume) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", VA_GUID(AudioSessionGuid), "uint", StreamFlags, "uint*", AudioVolume) +} + +; +; IMMDeviceEnumerator +; +VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_EnumAudioEndpoints(this, DataFlow, StateMask, ByRef Devices) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", DataFlow, "uint", StateMask, "ptr*", Devices) +} +VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(this, DataFlow, Role, ByRef Endpoint) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", DataFlow, "int", Role, "ptr*", Endpoint) +} +VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_GetDevice(this, id, ByRef Device) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", id, "ptr*", Device) +} +VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_RegisterEndpointNotificationCallback(this, Client) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Client) +} +VA_IMMDeviceEnumerator_UnregisterEndpointNotificationCallback(this, Client) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", Client) +} + +; +; IMMDeviceCollection +; +VA_IMMDeviceCollection_GetCount(this, ByRef Count) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", Count) +} +VA_IMMDeviceCollection_Item(this, Index, ByRef Device) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint", Index, "ptr*", Device) +} + +; +; IControlInterface +; +VA_IControlInterface_GetName(this, ByRef Name) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", Name) + VA_WStrOut(Name) + return hr +} +VA_IControlInterface_GetIID(this, ByRef IID) { + VarSetCapacity(IID,16,0) + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", &IID) + VA_GUIDOut(IID) + return hr +} + + +/* + INTERFACES REQUIRING WINDOWS 7 / SERVER 2008 R2 +*/ + +; +; IAudioSessionControl2 : {bfb7ff88-7239-4fc9-8fa2-07c950be9c6d} +; extends IAudioSessionControl +; +VA_IAudioSessionControl2_GetSessionIdentifier(this, ByRef id) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", id) + VA_WStrOut(id) + return hr +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl2_GetSessionInstanceIdentifier(this, ByRef id) { + hr := DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+13*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", id) + VA_WStrOut(id) + return hr +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl2_GetProcessId(this, ByRef pid) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+14*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "uint*", pid) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl2_IsSystemSoundsSession(this) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+15*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this) +} +VA_IAudioSessionControl2_SetDuckingPreference(this, OptOut) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+16*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", OptOut) +} + +; +; IAudioSessionManager2 : {77AA99A0-1BD6-484F-8BC7-2C654C9A9B6F} +; extends IAudioSessionManager +; +VA_IAudioSessionManager2_GetSessionEnumerator(this, ByRef SessionEnum) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+5*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr*", SessionEnum) +} +VA_IAudioSessionManager2_RegisterSessionNotification(this, SessionNotification) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+6*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) +} +VA_IAudioSessionManager2_UnregisterSessionNotification(this, SessionNotification) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+7*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) +} +VA_IAudioSessionManager2_RegisterDuckNotification(this, SessionNotification) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+8*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) +} +VA_IAudioSessionManager2_UnregisterDuckNotification(this, SessionNotification) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+9*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "ptr", SessionNotification) +} + +; +; IAudioSessionEnumerator : {E2F5BB11-0570-40CA-ACDD-3AA01277DEE8} +; +VA_IAudioSessionEnumerator_GetCount(this, ByRef SessionCount) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+3*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int*", SessionCount) +} +VA_IAudioSessionEnumerator_GetSession(this, SessionCount, ByRef Session) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+4*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "int", SessionCount, "ptr*", Session) +} + + +/* + UNDOCUMENTED INTERFACES +*/ + +; Thanks to Dave Amenta for publishing this interface - http://goo.gl/6L93L +; IID := "{568b9108-44bf-40b4-9006-86afe5b5a620}" +; CLSID := "{294935CE-F637-4E7C-A41B-AB255460B862}" +VA_xIPolicyConfigVista_SetDefaultEndpoint(this, DeviceId, Role) { + return DllCall(NumGet(NumGet(this+0)+12*A_PtrSize), "ptr", this, "wstr", DeviceId, "int", Role) +} diff --git a/lib/analog-clock-display.ahk b/lib/analog-clock-display.ahk new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c034b81 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/analog-clock-display.ahk @@ -0,0 +1,412 @@ +; from https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/34692-examplesminituts-the-gdi-examplecodes-thread/#entry219089 +; GDI+ ahk analogue clock example written by derRaphael +; posted on 17 November 2008 - 06:15 PM. +; extensively modified by Marius Șucan in January 2019 +; Parts based on examples from Tic's GDI+ Tutorials and of course on his GDIP.ahk + +; This code has been licensed under the terms of EUPL 1.0 + +InitClockFace() { + Critical, on + If (!pToken := Gdip_Startup()) + { + constantAnalogClock := analogDisplay := 0 + SoundBeep , 300, 900 + Return + } + + faceElements := OSDbgrColor + faceBgrColor := OSDtextColor + If (moduleAnalogClockInit!=1 || PrefOpen=1) + { + If (constantAnalogClock=1 && PrefOpen=0) + { + INIaction(0, "ClockGuiX", "OSDprefs") + INIaction(0, "ClockGuiY", "OSDprefs") + } + ; ToolTip, % ClockGuiX "==" ClockGuiY , , , 2 + ClockPosX := (constantAnalogClock=1 && PrefOpen=0) ? ClockGuiX : GuiX + ClockPosY := (constantAnalogClock=1 && PrefOpen=0) ? ClockGuiY : GuiY + } + + ClockDiameter := Round(FontSize * 4 * analogDisplayScale) + ClockWinSize := ClockDiameter + Round((OSDmarginBottom//2 + OSDmarginTop//2 + OSDmarginSides//2) * analogDisplayScale) + roundsize := Round(roundedCsize * (analogDisplayScale/1.5)) + If (ClockDiameter<=80) + { + ClockDiameter := 80 + ClockWinSize := 90 + roundsize := 20 + } + + ClockCenter := Round(ClockWinSize/2) + If (OSDroundCorners!=1) + roundsize := 1 + + SetFormat, Integer, H + faceOpacity+=0 + faceOpacityBgr+=0 + SetFormat, Integer, D + + Width := Height := ClockWinSize + 2 ; make width and height slightly bigger to avoid cut away edges + Gui, ClockGui: Destroy + Sleep, 25 + Gui, ClockGui: -DPIScale -Caption -Border +E0x80000 +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow +hwndHfaceClock + Gui, ClockGui: Show, NoActivate x%ClockPosX% y%ClockPosY% w%Width% h%height% + Gui, ClockGui: Hide + ; WinSet, Region, 0-0 R%roundedCsize%-%roundedCsize% w%Width% h%Height%, ahk_id %hFaceClock% + CenterX := CenterY := ClockCenter + +; Prepare our pGraphic so we have a 'canvas' to work upon + globalhbm := CreateDIBSection(Width, Height), globalhdc := CreateCompatibleDC() + globalobm := SelectObject(globalhdc, globalhbm), globalG := Gdip_GraphicsFromHDC(globalhdc) + Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(globalG, 4) + Gdip_SetInterpolationMode(globalG, 7) + +; Draw outer circle + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter * 1.35) + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacityBgr faceElements) ; clock face background + Gdip_FillRectangle(globalG, pBrush, 0, 0, Ceil(ClockWinSize), Ceil(ClockWinSize)) + Gdip_FillRoundedRectangle(globalG, pBrush, 0, 0, Ceil(ClockWinSize), Ceil(ClockWinSize), Ceil(roundsize)) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + Diameter := ClockDiameter - 2*Floor((ClockDiameter//100)*1.2) + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xaa" faceElements, floor((ClockDiameter/100)*1.2)) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(globalG, pPen, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + +; Draw inner circle + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.04, 2) + Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.2, 2) ; white border + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacity faceBgrColor) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + +; Draw Second Marks + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.08, 2) ; inner circle is 8 % smaller than clock's diameter + R1 := Diameter/2-1 ; outer position + R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.08, 2) ; inner position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xaa" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*1.2) ; 1.2 % of total diameter is our pen width + If (ClockDiameter>=100) + DrawClockMarks(60, R1, R2, globalG, pPen) ; we have 60 seconds + Else If (ClockDiameter>=50) + DrawClockMarks(24, R1, R2+0.1, globalG, pPen) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + + R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.04, 2) ; inner position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x88" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*0.7) ; 1.2 % of total diameter is our pen width + If (ClockDiameter>250) + DrawClockMarks(120, R1, R2, globalG, pPen) ; we have 60 seconds + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + +; Draw Hour Marks + R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.2, 2) ; inner position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xff" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*2.3) ; 2.3 % of total diameter is our pen width + DrawClockMarks(12, R1, R2, globalG, pPen) ; we have 12 hours + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.17, 2) ; inner circle is 17 % smaller than clock's diameter + R1 := Diameter/2-1 ; outer position + R2 := Round(Diameter/2 - 1 - Diameter/2*0.2, 2) ; inner position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xff" faceElements, (ClockDiameter/100)*4) ; 4 % of total diameter is our pen width + If (ClockDiameter>250) + DrawClockMarks(4, R1, R2, globalG, pPen) ; we have 4 quarters + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + + UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, globalhdc, , , , , mainOSDopacity) + moduleAnalogClockInit := 1 + Return +} + +animateAnalogClockAppeareance() { + Loop, + { + alphaLevel := A_Index*15 + If (alphaLevel>mainOSDopacity) + Break + + UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, globalhdc, , , , , alphaLevel) + Sleep, 1 + } +} + +animateAnalogClockHiding() { + Loop, + { + alphaLevel := mainOSDopacity - A_Index*15 + If (alphaLevel<5) + Break + + UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, globalhdc, , , , , alphaLevel) + Sleep, 1 + } +} + +UpdateEverySecond() { + CenterX := CenterY := ClockCenter + +; prepare to empty previously drawn stuff + Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(globalG, 1) ; turn off aliasing + Gdip_SetCompositingMode(globalG, 1) ; set to overdraw + +; delete previous graphic and redraw background + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter - ClockDiameter*0.22, 2) ; 18 % less than clock's outer diameter + + ; delete whatever has been drawn here + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(0x00000000) ; fully transparent brush 'eraser' + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + Gdip_SetCompositingMode(globalG, 0) ; switch off overdraw + + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacityBgr faceElements) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(faceOpacity faceBgrColor) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.08, 2) + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid("0x66" faceElements) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.04, 2) + pBrush := Gdip_BrushCreateSolid("0x95" faceElements) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY-(Diameter//2),Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + +; draw moon phase + If (analogMoonPhases=1) + { + moonPhase := MoonPhaseCalculator(A_Year, A_Mon, A_MDay) + moonPhaseF := Round(moonPhase[2]) + darkFace := mixARGB("0xFF" faceElements, "0xFF" faceBgrColor, 0.4) + brightFace := "0xEE" faceBgrColor + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.18, 2) + If (moonPhaseF=0 || moonPhaseF=4) + { + pBrush := (moonPhaseF=0) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.19, 2) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY + diameter//2, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + } Else If (moonPhaseF=2 || moonPhaseF=6) + { + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.2, 2) + pBrush := (moonPhaseF=2) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY + diameter//2.1, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + + offsetuC := Diameter + Gdip_SetClipRect(globalG, CenterX - Diameter//2 + offsetuC*0.5, CenterY + diameter//2.1, Diameter, Diameter) + pBrush := (moonPhaseF=6) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrush, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY + diameter//2.1, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrush) + Gdip_ResetClip(globalG) + } Else If (moonPhaseF=1 || moonPhaseF=5) + { + pBrushA := (moonPhaseF=5) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + pBrushB := (moonPhaseF=1) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + offsetuC := Diameter + DiameterZ := Round(ClockDiameter*0.20, 2) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrushB, CenterX - (DiameterZ/2), CenterY + DiameterZ/2.08, DiameterZ, DiameterZ) + Gdip_SetClipRect(globalG, CenterX - Diameter/2 + offsetuC*0.5, CenterY + diameter/2.58, Diameter, Diameter*1.25) + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.20, 2) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrushA, CenterX-(Diameter/2), CenterY + diameter/2.08, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrushA) + + ; Gdip_SetClipRect(globalG, CenterX - Diameter//2 + offsetuC*0.3, CenterY + diameter//1.81, Diameter, Diameter, 1) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrushB, CenterX - (Diameter/1.4), CenterY + diameter/2.18, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrushB) + Gdip_ResetClip(globalG) + } Else If (moonPhaseF=3 || moonPhaseF=7) + { + pBrushA := (moonPhaseF=3) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + pBrushB := (moonPhaseF=7) ? Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(darkFace) : Gdip_BrushCreateSolid(brightFace) + offsetuC := Diameter + DiameterZ := Round(ClockDiameter*0.20, 2) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrushB, CenterX - (DiameterZ/2), CenterY + DiameterZ/2.08, DiameterZ, DiameterZ) + Gdip_SetClipRect(globalG, CenterX - Diameter, CenterY + diameter/2.58, Diameter, Diameter*1.25) + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.20, 2) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrushA, CenterX-(Diameter/2), CenterY + diameter/2.08, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrushA) + + ; Gdip_SetClipRect(globalG, CenterX - Diameter//2 + offsetuC*0.3, CenterY + diameter//1.81, Diameter, Diameter, 1) + Gdip_FillEllipse(globalG, pBrushB, CenterX - (Diameter/3.4), CenterY + diameter/2.18, Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeleteBrush(pBrushB) + Gdip_ResetClip(globalG) + } + + Diameter := Round(ClockDiameter*0.20, 2) + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xFF" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.3, 2)) + Gdip_DrawEllipse(globalG, pPen, CenterX-(Diameter//2), CenterY + diameter//2.25,Diameter, Diameter) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + } + +; Draw HoursPointer + Gdip_SetSmoothingMode(globalG, 4) ; turn on antialiasing + t := (A_Hour*360//12) + ((A_Min//15*15)*360//60)//12 + 90 + R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.50, 2) ; outer position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xaa" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*3.3, 2)) + Gdip_DrawLine(globalG, pPen, CenterX, CenterY + , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) + , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + + R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.45, 2) ; outer position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0xcc" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.6, 2)) + Gdip_DrawLine(globalG, pPen, CenterX, CenterY + , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) + , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + +; Draw MinutesPointer + t := Round(A_Min*360/60+90, 2) + R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.35, 2) ; outer position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x55" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*2.8, 2)) + Gdip_DrawLine(globalG, pPen, CenterX, CenterY + , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) + , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + +; Draw SecondsPointer + t := Round(A_Sec*360/60+90, 2) + R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.25, 2) ; outer position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x99" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.3, 2)) + Gdip_DrawLine(globalG, pPen, CenterX, CenterY + , Round(CenterX - (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) + , Round(CenterY - (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + +; Draw SecondsPointer end stick + R1 := Round(ClockDiameter/2 - (ClockDiameter/2)*0.75, 2) ; outer position + pPen := Gdip_CreatePen("0x99" faceElements, Round((ClockDiameter/100)*1.3, 2)) + Gdip_DrawLine(globalG, pPen, CenterX, CenterY + , Round(CenterX + (R1 * Cos(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2) + , Round(CenterY + (R1 * Sin(t * Atan(1) * 4 / 180)), 2)) + Gdip_DeletePen(pPen) + + UpdateLayeredWindow(hFaceClock, globalhdc, , , , , mainOSDopacity) + Return +} + +DrawClockMarks(items, R1, R2, G, pPen) { + CenterX := CenterY := ClockCenter + Loop, %items% + { + Gdip_DrawLine(G, pPen + , CenterX - Round(R1 * Cos(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2) + , CenterY - Round(R1 * Sin(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2) + , CenterX - Round(R2 * Cos(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2) + , CenterY - Round(R2 * Sin(((a_index-1)*360/Items) * Atan(1) * 4 / 180), 2)) + } +} + +hideAnalogClock() { + If (ClockVisibility!=1) + Return + + If (PrefOpen=0) + animateAnalogClockHiding() + + Gui, ClockGui: Hide + SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, Off + ClockVisibility := 0 + Return +} + +showAnalogClock() { + If (ClockVisibility!=0) + Return + + lastShowTime := A_TickCount + Gui, ClockGui: Show, NoActivate + UpdateEverySecond() + SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, 1000 + If (PrefOpen=0) + animateAnalogClockAppeareance() + + ClockVisibility := 1 + delayu := Ceil(DisplayTime * 1.25) + 2500 + If (analogDisplay=1 && constantAnalogClock=0 && PrefOpen=0) + SetTimer, hideAnalogClock, % -delayu + + lastShowTime := A_TickCount + Return +} + +exitAnalogClock() { + If (PrefOpen=0) + animateAnalogClockHiding() + SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, Off + Gui, ClockGui: Destroy + ClockVisibility := 0 + moduleAnalogClockInit := 0 + SelectObject(globalhdc, globalobm) + DeleteObject(globalhbm) + DeleteDC(globalhdc) + Gdip_DeleteGraphics(globalG) + Gdip_Shutdown(pToken) +} + +ClockGuiGuiContextMenu(GuiHwnd, CtrlHwnd, EventInfo, IsRightClick, X, Y) { + Static menuGenerated, lastInvoked := 1 + If (CtrlHwnd && IsRightClick=1) + || ((A_TickCount-lastInvoked>250) && IsRightClick=0) + { + lastInvoked := A_TickCount + Return + } + + Menu, ContextMenu, UseErrorLevel + Menu, ContextMenu, Delete + Sleep, 25 + If (menuGenerated!=1) + { + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 0.25x, ChangeMenuClockSize + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 0.50x, ChangeMenuClockSize + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 1.00x, ChangeMenuClockSize + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 1.50x, ChangeMenuClockSize + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 2.00x, ChangeMenuClockSize + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 3.00x, ChangeMenuClockSize + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Add, 4.00x, ChangeMenuClockSize + menuGenerated := 1 + } + + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Check, %analogDisplayScale%x + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Sc&ale, :ClockSizesMenu + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Hide the clock, toggleAnalogClock + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Show &moon phases, toggleMoonPhasesAnalog + If (analogMoonPhases=1) + Menu, ContextMenu, Check, Show &moon phases + + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, + If (PrefOpen=0) + { + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Tick/tock sounds, ToggleTickTock + If (tickTockNoise=1) + Menu, ContextMenu, Check, &Tick/tock sounds + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &Settings, ShowSettings + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, &About, AboutWindow + } + + Menu, ContextMenu, Add + Menu, ContextMenu, Add, Close menu, dummy + Menu, ContextMenu, Show + lastInvoked := A_TickCount + Return +} + +SynchSecTimer() { + SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, Off + SetTimer, UpdateEverySecond, 1000 +} + +ChangeMenuClockSize() { + saveAnalogClockPosition() + Menu, ClockSizesMenu, Uncheck, %analogDisplayScale%x + StringLeft, newSize, A_ThisMenuItem, 4 + ChangeClockSize(newSize) +} +